@allmodelsRwrong i wrote up a temp check for a @gitcoin x @breadcoop collab: an artizen-inspired crowdfunding app people can actually trust. we'd keep the fun parts (up to 4x match, leaderboards, fiat ux) and rebuild what sits underneath: - match on-chain + visible before a round opens - match funded only from yield that already accrued - principal locked in a permanent fund - no single person can stop payouts - round rules in the contracts, changeable only for future rounds thousands of ppl just learned what matching feels like, then what losing it feels like. i'd love to catch them while they're still energized. you've lived this harder than i have (bread got caught in it too). where's the design wrong, and what would the mvp need for you to trust it with your own community? gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-…

Gitcoin 3.0 is mapping the Funding Infrastructure of the Next Internet The funding infrastructure of the next internet is being built right now. It is powered by AI, crowdfunding, stablecoins, and open source software. These forces are reshaping how people coordinate, build, and create value online. They are also breaking the legacy systems that fund innovation. Venture capital optimizes for upside, not public goods. Grants are slow, brittle, and local. Governments cannot keep up with global, permissionless networks or open innovation. At the same time, AI is exploding the supply of builders and ideas. The result is a growing gap between what can be built and what will be funded. A new funding stack is emerging. Capital allocation is becoming programmable. Funding decisions are moving on-chain. Evaluation is continuous rather than episodic. AI assists with discovery, review, and signal extraction. Stablecoins enable instant, global payouts. Open source makes outputs composable by default. This is not theoretical. Quadratic funding, retroactive funding, bounties, streaming grants, dependancy funding, and coalition-based funding are already live. But the terrain is fragmented. Builders don’t know where to go. Funders don’t know what works. Signals are noisy, incentives are misaligned, and experiments are isolated. What’s missing is a map. Gitcoin 3.0 is positioning itself as a cartographer of this new funding landscape, and a basecamp for its builders. By embracing the pluralism of onchain crowdfunding providers, Gitcoin 3.0 catalogues real-world funding experiments and turns hard-earned lessons into shared knowledge. It builds a schelling point for builders and funders, where they can discover and evolve open, composable allocation primitives together. And it creates a common social space and mental model so builders, funders, organizations, protocols, and AI agents can coordinate more effectively. The next internet will not be limited by a lack of ideas. It will be limited by how well we fund them. The opportunity is to crowdfund the next internet, together.