Strong opinion, loosely held

For an open source protocol that aims to be credibly neutral, paid bounties work for small tasks but something like an open source client is better if organically built (as a labor of love) and then receives a retroactive public goods type funding.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

imo ideal model these days is:
1. protocol provides liquidity (users or tokens) to builders
2. instead of dropping bounties, the org behind the protocol invests in dev and marketing support
3. protocol and builders only win if both are profitable, otherwise it's only gonna work in frothy markets

i know you only hire staff level + us timezone but if you face some problems with 2) while going permissionless id love to help

This is roughly how we're building FC

1. Warpcast to drive liquidity (DAU, casts, etc.)

2. Top priority is to get to 100% permissionless; 2nd priority is continually improve dev ex (improve Hubs, better documentation, etc.)