Gitcoin (@gitcoin): The most ignored insight in public goods funding?

The most ignored insight in public goods funding? 💡 Trust precedes coordination, and coordination precedes capital allocation. For example: - @protocolguild's allocation mechanism is less complex than quadratic or retroactive funding, but it works because Ethereum core developers built trust through collaborative work over the years. - Or consider the 2021–2022 DAO boom: multisig treasuries deployed for governance by strangers who'd met online weeks earlier, and not uncommon for a DAO to launch, hit a voting snag that required trust to resolve, and fall apart. Trust is crucial for durable coordination. And programs that invest in relational infra up front will outperform those that invest in mechanism design alone. Read more from @owocki 👇 https://gitcoin.co/research/trust-precedes-coordination