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:

Does it flip the incentives?

With retroactive goal is to build actual product with usage - that’s the only way you get rewarded

With proactive you get paid regardless the usage - you can be better off getting new grants for new projects vs building

for bad actors with no reputation, yes. for credible builders with real reputational risk, no