Funding the Commons

Introduction and overview of Funding the Commons Day 1

Juan Benet (Founder, Protocol Labs) hosts an open discussion with Jaan Tallinn

The narratives we choose and the tools we build deeply shape the world around us. In this talk, Scott Moore makes the case that we must collectively chose more regenerative, positive-sum ideals that align more with a Solarpunk future. In turn he argues, we can solve many of the problems we face around how we manage our global commons

Andrew Critch will describe and motivate recent and future improvements to the Simulation Process

The philosophy behind Impetus grants, funding mechanisms in use, and directions funded so far

Glen Weyl introduces the Plurality paradigm for funding network goods and will briefly illustrate applications to a range of network goods funding approaches. Leon will detail the application to Quadratic Funding and Gitcoin

Adam Marblestone will describe how Focused Research Organizations (FROs) promise to unblock research bottlenecks by applying systems engineering to some types of research problem

In this talk, Pooja Shah explores different models and experiments to support the ongoing incentivization of open-source and public goods maintenance, as well as new models we may consider as we enter a more open, protocol-native future

Alex Tabarrok will provide an overview of dominant assurance contracts (DACs) aka refund bonuses and quadratic funding

Closing comments and preview of day 2

Introducing some novel structures for public goods funding vehicles, to make it more sustainable and scalable

Challenges to designing a safe and efficient market for the retroactive funding of public goods using impact certificates

Avenues for interoperability between R&D roadmapping, retrospective impact evaluation, impact certificates, project tokens, and prospective funding schemes as part of an ecosystem for provisioning public goods

Daniel Pike will highlight public goods efforts by the Climate Map, a nonprofit developing open-access methods, data sets, and decision-making tools that shed new light and spur action on climate change response opportunities and priorities

Evan Miyazono (Head of Research, Protocol Labs) hosts an open discussion with Tom Kalil of Schmidt Futures

Learning from prior efforts to create and maintain the public goods of the Internet and the Open Web

Jessy Kate will speak to the challenges and progress in developing lunar colonies and the opportunity they bring for novel coordination and governance

Bio, nano, neuro, computing and space tech goals could benefit from support that’s invisible to external talent and funders. Tech trees can help map undervalued opportunities for progress and DAOs can help incentivize it

Closing comments and upcoming efforts for Funding the Commons & the future of Protocol Labs Public Goods