retroactive grants are cool but they require builders take on all the risk (build it and you *might* get *some* funding)

an alternative ✨proactive✨ approach:

Interesting 

what about streamed retroactive grants? It seems like one of the things is upfront costs that are difficult, but with streamed retro grants based on agreed upon milestones being hit can perhaps unlock some of those burdens?

lore @optimism | ex: @coinbase | views are my own | what if it all worked out? 

and have more metrics provable/verifiable onchain through attestations being automatically sent from credible sources 

Essentially need more components of the flow to become onchain/provable so the stream can’t be gamed.

💯 streaming grants retroactively based on previously agreed upon and executed milestones is a huge improvement. agreed it doesn't really address upfront costs. an interesting experiment: crowdfund upfront costs then share a portion of future streams with contributors