Why?

1. It’s essentially impossible to accurately predict the “value” of something before it’s built, particularly a public good. Retroactive funding enables alignment between the communities mission and values with the financial remuneration allocated for a given set of deliverables.
2. Value delivered to a community can’t always be measured in financial ROI. Retroactive funding allows a community to evaluate ROI subjectively using a variety of KPIs.

Retroactive Public Goods Funding

How?

Implementation Ideas

1. Coordinape

   1. Coordinape at Bankless DAO Part 1
   2. How to Coordinape in BanklessDAO (5m 30s)

2. Retroactive Funding for Public Goods and Review of Optimism Grants Round #1

   1. Quadratic voting to determine allocations in a given round
   2. Open to anyone who wants to submit completed work for retroactive funding in a proposal
   3. Funding caps to reduce impact of gaming the system
      1. Example of how what this looks like between Gitcoin and OceanDAO
   4. We can fork the token-gated grant submission pipeline and deliverables management front-end (integrates with Discourse and Airtable) + quadratic voting contracts from OceanDAO.
      1. https://github.com/oceanprotocol

3. Other retroactive funding mechanisms?