Hey evereone,
As more chains and applications emerge within the Units.Network ecosystem, I think it’s worth starting a conversation about public goods—open, non-extractive tools and resources that benefit everyone. Things like developer libraries, security tools, documentation hubs, or analytics dashboards often get taken for granted, but they’re essential to the health and growth of any decentralized network.
The question is, how do we incentivize the creation and maintenance of these kinds of projects? Should there be a dedicated funding stream from the DAO for ecosystem-wide public goods? Could we experiment with models like quadratic funding or retroactive public goods funding to reward contributors based on the value their work provides over time?
Some ecosystems, like Optimism, are already experimenting with these ideas, and it could be useful to study what’s working and what’s not. Units.Network seems like a good environment to test this out, especially as we’re still shaping core infrastructure and governance models. I’d love to hear if anyone is already working on public-good-type projects or has thoughts about how funding mechanisms could be structured to support them. This feels like an area where a small investment now could lead to long-term resilience and network-wide benefits.