Solving Alignment with Ethereum
summary
Argues that Ethereum lets teams reconfigure incentives with smart contracts to escape multipolar traps, showing concrete work: Gitcoin grants using quadratic funding, plus plans for retrofunding and deep funding. Claims open source creates $500 billion per year of value yet lacks pay, and Gitcoin deploys roughly $1M every six months to public goods. Notes plural stacked mechanisms, reports a retrospective 100–300x upside if early grantees had been funded as investments, and frames this as an evolving, partially proven coordination toolkit.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Alignment with Ethereum
- 1:23Multipolar traps in systems
- 3:30Governments and alignment problems
- 4:56Ethereum as alignment tool
- 7:03Multipolar traps and Ethereum incentives
- 8:07Ethereum public goods funding
- 10:33Stacking incentive landscapes
- 11:14Gitcoin’s evolution
- 12:37Gitcoin 3.0 and alignment
- 15:08Q&A
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