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Carl Cervone

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Ecosystem Impact Vectors

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Carl Cervone
November 28
An experimental approach for rewarding OSS projects retroactively for their contributions to developer and user growth on Optimism.
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Analysis on the 300+ OSS projects applying for RetroPGF 3

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Carl Cervone
November 21
A shallow dive -- with lots of dataviz -- on the open source software projects participating in the latest round of retroactive public goods funding.
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The past, present and future of public goods funding

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Carl Cervone
November 17
Scoring the state of crypto vs legacy public goods funding and my personal views on what it might take to grow the former to nation state scale
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Reflections from my first days working on hypercerts

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Carl Cervone
November 17
A note I wrote in October 2022 shortly after starting work on hypercerts. I share it as an artifact to help other early stage protocol building protocols.
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The most interesting economic experiment you’ve never heard of

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Carl Cervone
November 17
An emerging economy hopes its biggest export will be a new model for funding public infrastructure and services.
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Maximizing the impact of RetroPGF: a review of RPGF2 and ideas for how data can improve future iterations

A review of RPGF2 and ideas for how data can improve future iterations
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A Call for More Programmable Retro-Funding for Digital Public Goods

We need to speedrun legacy grantmaking and develop digitally-native mechanisms for raising, distributing, and measuring the impact of funds.
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How I chose among the 649 projects in Gitcoin's Beta Round

The combination of a more challenging evaluation task with less time to complete it is my weak excuse for not having something more comprehensive than a set of heuristics and some pretty data viz.
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The Ethereal Placemat Co

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Carl Cervone
March 15
What if there were an opportunity to turn placemats into something both kids and parents wanted to collect and trade? What if, in doing so, we could also onboard the next million Ethereum users?