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Griff Green! An OG regen crypto veteran and a serial founder. From chemical engineering and being one of the first people ever to get a degree in digital currencies, to whitehat hacking The DAO, founding Giveth, Commons Stack, DappNode, a Burning Man camp called Camp Decentral, etc. etc.

Griff has no lack of projects, but he does have a lack of time - and even still, he found some to come on the NextMeta podcast to talk about Giveth‘s endgame of helping nonprofits bootstrap token economies, their collaboration with Polygon (q/acc) and a few other things he‘s working on.

We go through the evolving landscape of decentralized economies, public goods funding, and the revolutionary potential of crypto to reshape societal structures.

Topics discussed
- Evolution of Giveth and Commons Stack
- Token Engineering Commons
- Grant programs misalignment
- Quadratic Accelerator (q/acc) program
- Bootstrapping token economies
- Unicorn.eth wallet for easy and scamless crypto UX
- Environmental impact round and Givbacks
- Unicorn.eth, DeVouch and Pairwise

Griff Green discussed the value of nonprofits as alternatives to government, emphasizing the role of public goods and the potential for creating systems that recognize their value. Griff explained how bonding curves solve liquidity issues, making them essential for tokenizing smaller economies and value.

"Nonprofits are actually the free market replacement for governments."

In terms of grant programs, we talked about the flawed system where projects receive tokens, which they have to sell to cover costs, creating a negative cycle. Griff introduced the Quadratic Accelerator (q/acc) program as a potential solution.

The q/acc program allows projects to start their own token economies, collateralized by Matic (or other grant program tokens). Projects gain liquidity and earn fees, while donors get liquid tokens. This system incentivizes projects to stay within an ecosystem rather than hopping between grant programs.

"I believe we can create an economic model that can appreciate the value of that clean river."

Griff also shared his new wallet project, Unicorn.eth, aimed at improving UX and safety in Web3, DeVouch, a project using Ethereum Attestation Service for people to vouch of projects, and Pairwise, a voting tool that‘s meant to make voting more fun.

With his ultimate aim of replacing traditional government mechanisms with more efficient, decentralized systems - Griff offers insights into mechanisms that could redefine how we fund and govern nonprofits. From bonding curves to quadratic funding, and from improving crypto UX to launching sustainable token economies.

"If we want to replace governments, we still need to fund public goods."

Links
- Listen elsewhere https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/episodes/NextMeta-3-A-Crypto-Mechanism-Worthy-of-Nobel-Prize-w-Griff-Green-e2lmiig
- Griff‘s Most Important Links https://arc.net/folder/6456C408-9AE4-454E-9A48-3E82EC9D1B5C
- Gnosis Card https://app.gnosispay.com/signup?rcc=f9d04924bc6d