Hey everyone,
I’d like to suggest a discussion around how ecosystem projects can build sustainability incentives directly into their on-chain design. A lot of projects talk about long-term impact, but in practice most incentives still revolve around short-term usage metrics like TVL, transactions, or token velocity.
What I’m curious about is whether we can design mechanisms where funding, rewards, or protocol parameters are tied to measurable outcomes rather than just activity. For example, could grants or emissions adjust based on verified real-world impact, public goods contributions, or resource efficiency? This raises obvious challenges around measurement and trust, but it also feels like an area where on-chain logic and oracles could add real value.
Another angle is whether sustainability needs to be explicit at the protocol level, or if it’s better handled through ecosystem programs and social coordination. Embedding these incentives too deeply might add complexity or introduce attack vectors, while keeping them off-chain risks them becoming purely symbolic.
I’d be interested to hear from anyone experimenting with alternative incentive models, whether related to environmental impact, long-term maintenance, or shared infrastructure that benefits the ecosystem as a whole. Even examples of what hasn’t worked would be useful. If UNIT0 wants to support projects that endure rather than just launch successfully, this seems like a conversation worth having early.