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MY ZUZALU HACKATHON PROJECT. During my recent podcast with , we spoke about how public goods funding in an ecosystem like Ethereum breaks down into 1. Funding Sources = where does the $$ come from? 2. Distribution = how do you allocate capital? Inspired by this comment, and the ETH public goods funding community's philosophy of practical pluralism ( medium.com/@owocki/practi…), I set out to gather information about which mechanisms are out there and what funding sources are out there. To visualize this actually happening in the Ethereum ecosystem in 2023. To see it in action. Not just theory. Here is the result. A visualization showing the funding sources and the mechanisms that deploy them to ETH public goods. I also collected data about what projects eventually receive the funds. Its neat to see projects like and & receiving funding from many mechanisms + funding sources. I took great pains to collect solid data for this project + show my sources. I sourced the data from public sources when available, then slid into the DMs of people in other projects when I couldn't. You can see the data for this here => docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… The data is not perfect. I had to make a few decisions. 1. There was the subjective tradeoff of how to include (or disinclude) projects that primarily fund their ecosystem public goods (not ETH ecosystem public goods) in the visualization and eventually decided to just focus on ETH public goods for now. 2. I also was not able to source data for GG19, RetroPGF 3, or EF Q3/Q4 as those arent available yet. But could update this at EOY 2023. This was a fun hack for me. It was 1/3 vision - seeing the opportunity space 1/3 data sourcing & cleansing1/3 data visualization - trying to visualize it in a legible way. I deeply believe that the public goods funding ecosystem in ETH will be a very valuable infrastructure for ETH. The pluralism of funding sources/mechanisms will create an antifragile capital allocation flywheel that funds what matters at scale. I believe eventually each DAO will adopt a version of this stack into their ecosystem to fund their own ecosystem public goods. They'll do this not out of altruism, but bc its a competitive advantage for their ecosystem (if this is you checkout - it supports QF/QV/retropgf and can do grants for your ecosystem.). One great opportunity here is to fund many small/local projects with many global/large capital sources. The beautiful opportunity here for me is articulating this liminal space where we fund what matters to people. Each project stills maintain the sovereignty/leverage locally and the funding from the global. This will allow a 1000 regen flowers to bloom It was a fun project to visualize this for other people to see as well. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way. You know who you are Public Goods are Good. View the hack here => practicalpluralism.github.io