Funding
Money is an essential resource that helps people coordinate actions and grow communities. The Eden community is considering funding options to empower community members and help people cooperate.
Please Note
Please note that this page is a work in progress in an early stage of development and will be updated in the future. The majority of this page was written in November and December of 2022 so some of it is quite outdated. Much of this page is also focused on Eden ƒractal and more will be added to provide more information about the Eden community as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Funding
- Please Note
- How to Fund Eden
- Jorge’s Messages
- Show How Eden Creates Value
- Show How Eden Would Create Additional Value with More Funding
- ENF Investments
- Business Case for ENF
- Comparables
- 0rigin IBC
- Quarterly Expenses
- Hypha
- Fun Case for Funding Eden
- The Moral Case for Funding Eden
- The Breakdown of Trust with Balaji Srinivasan & Glenn Greenwald
- Layer 0 and Moral Stack
- Retroactive Public Goods Funding
- Eden Fractal on Pomelo
- How To Distribute Funding to Eden
- Self- Sovereign Respect
- Rewarding fractal contributors without issuing a token
- Fractal blockchains
- Fungibility out of Non-Fungible Tokens
- Investments So Far
- Related Posts
- Pomelo
- Eden ƒractal
- Collaborating with more community members for funding
- Opportunity
How to Fund Eden
To raise funding from the ENF or other organizations, Eden may want to take the following steps:
1) Show how Eden creates value
- Create exciting, informative, and inspiring content to show the benefits of Eden
- Show how funding Eden is a good business decision for the EOS Network
- Show how Eden compares and relates to other investments from network
- Show how funding Eden is a moral good for everyone in the world
- Show how funding Eden creates more fun, enjoyable, and fulfilling experiences for all
2) Choose a distribution model to fund Eden
3) Request Funding
Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Jorge’s Messages
- I didn’t read everything bc lost track
Show How Eden Creates Value
a) Create exciting, informative, and inspiring content to show the benefits of Eden
We are creating articles and videos to show how Eden creates value and why funding Eden builders can be so helpful. You can read some of these articles here. You can watch videos for more!
It’s difficult to summarize this section concisely because there are so many ways to show how Eden creates value. Soon we will update this page and organize the content to better show how Eden creates value.
Here are some other articles that we’re writing to show how Eden creates value:
VideosWe’re also creating EdenBuilders.org to help the community show their work more effectively with the power of Eden+Fractal. Please note that many of these articles are in an early stage of development. Much more coming soon!
Show How Eden Would Create Additional Value with More Funding
Timestamps, curation, tooling, etc…
ENF Investments
b) Show how funding Eden is a good business decision for the EOS Network
c) Show how Eden compares and relates to other investments from network
Business Case for ENF
Comparables
0rigin IBC
_ EOS is x% of payment to 0rigin (link)
Eden fractal ibc and everything else
Quarterly Expenses
_ EOS is x% of Q2 Budget according to Quarterly Report (link)
Hypha
Learn more at
https://github.com/eosnetworkfoundation/ENF-Health-Reports
ENF Quarterly reports
ENF Grant Framework repo
Fun Case for Funding Eden
Everyone loves a good story. Funding Eden can make amazing stories, content, videos, etc… enjoyable experiences for all. More and better comedy, art, music, heroism, tools, etc
Most fun and best memes
Especially considering dams + Cagendas- dozens or hundreds of great videos created during every weekly meeting. Stories from so many great builders collaborating. Video diary etc
Imagine millions of creators coopeting in dams, etc. imagine the stories and entertianment and experiences. Imagine empowered communities of musicians , gamers, etc doing all the cool things that they fathom
Tim Ferriss cock punch https://castro.fm/episode/pTJnZJ
The Moral Case for Funding Eden
even More importantly than the business case…. In addition to the compelling business case for funding Eden developers, Funding Eden developers is morally good.
Eden provides a true moral innovation that is in the best interest of everyone in the world.
Curating MEA is an example.
Essence of public good. Empowering communities. Empowering communities to create public goods, reward each other’s work, and cooperate with grace, efficiency, peace, respect.
Exponential increase in productivity etc. Cooperation on far larger scale than ever before, upgrade in human cooperational capacity
Morally right thing to do
By funding Eden developers, you are supporting and fostering the growth of true democracy for all. You are fostering the growth of empowered individuals to do what each person loves. Making adjacent possibilities for countless amazing experiences and serendipity. By funding Eden developers, you’re funding a better world for all with extremely high ROI
Eden creates Social Good and Public Goods
as Balaji Srinivasan , moral stack
Maybe moral high ground Larimer privacy?
Balaji Srinivasan shared ideas about the moral stack in the following podcasts:
17 minute breakpoint
Also earlier like 5 minutes
Balaji speaks about the moral stack with Ryan Selkis at 1:53 in Balaji Selkis 2020
The Breakdown of Trust with Balaji Srinivasan & Glenn Greenwald
What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack
Layer 0 and Moral Stack
We should make it clear that supporting Eden is the morally right thing to do to create abundance, independence, and joy and make the best experiences possible for everyone in the world.
https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/does-freedom-require-radical-transparency-or-radical-privacy
Retroactive Public Goods Funding
What is retroactive public goods funding
Why is retroactive goods funding important/ so helpful?
Vitalik speaks about retroactive public goods funding at 28:45.
Pomelo, Eden, Fractally, and Eden ƒractal provide excellent tools for retroactive public goods funding!
Eden Fractal on Pomelo
The following conversation provides an overview of Eden ƒractal’s interactions with Pomelo. There is also much more information about how the Eden community has raised funds from Pomelo and more details will be added soon.
How To Distribute Funding to Eden
There are many ways to fund Eden and help people cooperate, but there are also significant regulatory barriers that constrain Eden’s ability to raise funding.
Originally we were planning to create liquidity for respect because this enables communities to cooperate with independence, enjoyment, efficiency to benefit all. However, misguided changes in the regulatory environment have caused us to change our plans and find other ways to fund prosocial work for the benefit for humanity. We’re writing about these in draft articles about risks and solutions.
Below are some innovative solutions that may help Eden raise funding while complying with regulations and minimizing liabilities for participants.
Self- Sovereign Respect
Article from Andrew Ware
Rewarding fractal contributors without issuing a token
Article by Tadas
Fractal blockchains
Article by Tadas
Fungibility out of Non-Fungible Tokens
Article by Tadas
Similar to this idea from Igor?
Investments So Far
Show Successful Investments So Far
Show ENF investment in Clarion and Eden
Investment from delegates to pay Edenia
There are so many helpful resources to curate here and it’s very important to properly incentivize curation
Show fruits of Eden: like EOS Bees, EOS Support, Eden Creators, Helios, Etc.
Related Posts
Pomelo
Pomelo is an open-source crowdfunding platform that multiplies contributions and helps support exciting projects that you love!
Eden ƒractal
A community that helps people cooperate ƒractally with the power of EOS!
Collaborating with more community members for funding
Add Jorge to the funding pitch plan page and reach out sometime soon. Jorge mentioned he needed funds for developers and he’s committed to fractal democracy. I can advocate for Jorge in a similar way to advocating for Tadas and Vlad. I can also advocate for Eric, Matthias, Douglas, and anyone else who is hosting a fractal.
Opportunity
Paste writing from Eden Fractal chat about Pomelo pitch and in other places promoting how much benefit funding can create
Also review ETH 42, ETH 41, EF 41, and EF 40 about this. Some of these have more pitches about why funding is so helpful