Public Goods

Thoughts?

What if we experimented on proactive grants with prediction markets? 

Could this help us aggregate better data to make decisions on how to allocate funds to future outcomes for public goods?

Is someone already doing this? If that’s you share your program below! 👇🏽Or send me a dm!📩

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Important note: The outcome over which people should be betting is not whether a team will or won’t get a grant, but whether they will deliver all milestones and outcomes described in their proposal. And yes, the goal would be for people to be able to make money betting on this.

We should chat! 

The commitment market though sounds as is who's putting the money is the potential grantee, is that the case? Or am I getting it wrong? :)

so bullish, been tinkering with this for some time. let's call it the 'commitment market', a special type of prediction market that incentivizes 'commitment' to deliviring certain milestones / KPIs through a set of programmable incentives.

Whether a project will or won't get a grant would be interesting too, but more for projects looking to discern if it's worth the time to go through the whole proposal and campaign process, like if all the *yes they wil* is for software development, then I'd skip applying for community engagement work.

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Hey @cjh is this something /limitless could enable?