Ep.34 Scott Moore[EN]:Gitcoin's DAO and the Web3 ecosystem

【Guest】
Scott Moore - Co-Founder of Gitcoin
【Host】
Frances - Contributor of 0x499 DAO
【Timeline】
1) Personal stories of Scott, Gitcoin’s history, transfer from platform model to protocol model
Grants program - quadratic funding shown to be signal to distribute capital, in 2019 projects tend to be ETH, Uniswap, infrastructure
Conway’s law - organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
Why protocol model? Making sure protocol maintains to be neutral; Find funding; Promote alignment
2) What are the things he is most proud of? Not satisfied? Challenges？
Scale - naturally harder to get aligned when bigger
Kevin returning - alignment work
What’s missing now - too few general open source projects, such as python, rust
3) Recent endeavor - Public Works Capital
Public Works Capital - self-sustainable, monetize interesting projects, such as intents, ZK proofs, QR code, wallet, etc
Reason - benefits your ecosystem, Build a better ecosystem to distinguish which one should be core infra, which one should be money making
Model - mutually aligned, better model to exit to community, cross-subsidize
Flow of value
Key components to solve the problems, eth world
How to start - easier than give out capital for free, now return, not substrate, we like this projects
Can this be sustainable without being exclusive?
4) General discussion of public goods
Public goods def - Paul Samuelson
Terminology - help to facilitate
Nuanced - subway system charge? What are the benefit positive externalities? Initial community, mixture of private and public goods, core piece of infra
5) Other topics involving Zuzalu / network state economies / AI
Network state scale of ambitions
AI chatgpt exists for decade, he took lessons in 2009 or so had a class with Jeff R, Google research, perception analysis
Language models
Evolution art
6) Last words and advice
Audacious and build fast