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?

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Vitalik wrote about it but the harsh reality is it won't work.

optimism rpgf has made is clear that when $$ is involved, defination of public goods could be changed just to fulfill your bias.

Years of research and literature clearly defines what public goods are.

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On top of that, a major challenge will be finding consensus on whether the goal was achieved or not, development related proposals are easy to validate while  engagement/onchain is impossible.

Retro and proactive funding are very different. I don't believe prediction markets are very needed in Retro funding unless you're looking to provide debt to the players. In which case, incentives and information assymetries are very different.