Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
There’s so many “grant” and “bounty” programs these days in cryptoland I have to wonder if they’re all administered well. I found administering the summer of protocols program quite challenging and did just about ok I think. B+ perhaps. Which makes me think a lot of programs must be doing C/D/F grade admin
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
There is literally grant/ funding wars akin to Curve wars both among the builders/ enablers of these systems, and the receiving end. I am usually sceptic of funding processes but "cluster mapping/ matching", & "cradle-to-unicorn" stuff are on my to-read list these days:
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
what are Curve wars?
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🍤 Lammer
@lammer
Curve emissions act as “grants” for various protocols that do stuff with Curve liquidity - the war element is various competing groups who are at war to secure more CRV voting power to bribe Curve to send the emissions rewards to them. Convex Finance is probably the most famous Curve war combatant.
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
Basically a war to be the king of liquidity across DeFi since Curve pools are literally the ocean of decentralized liquidity. This one is old but to the point: https://every.to/almanack/curve-wars
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