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Token Engineering Commons

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tecommons.org

Ethical, safe, resilient and diverse economic systems to benefit the world.

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Contribution

The Token Engineering Commons (TEC) supports the economic development of the field of token engineering. Since its launch in early 2022, the TEC has granted $470K to bringing engineering rigor to the development of crypto-economic systems. These grants build public faith that is critical to the widespread adoption of blockchain technologies. Our support has also directly benefited Optimism, including Inverter’s programmable smart contract workflows, cadCAD’s Ethereum models, Gravity DAO’s dispute resolution, Praise’s peer-based attested reputation, and the Token Engineering Academy’s graduates. Additionally, the TEC attracts token engineering practitioners to the Optimism developer ecosystem by running our Gitcoin Token Engineering Grants Round on Optimism.

Contribution links

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    Latest Gitcoin Token Engineering Grants Round on Optimism

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    Infusing expertise into Quadratic Funding with OP-based NFTs

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    Example simulations for Ether's economic policy done with cadCAD

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    cadCAD website

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    Inverter Network website

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    OSS Grants with NumFOCUS (pandas, numpy...) for scientific computation <> web3

Impact

Optimism is now benefiting from TEC cultural investments in Praise and Gravity. Our $174K in grants to the Token Engineering Academy has helped grow Optimism’s talent pool with graduates like Jonas, who now runs its RetroPGF. Other relevant TEC grants include: - $30K to Inverter, whose programmable smart contract workflows help app developers deploy on Optimism. - $54K to cadCAD, a tool used by the EF and others for Ethereum research (e.g. beacon chain, EIP-1559) Our latest Gitcoin Token Engineering Grants Round generated 2,608 contributions from 1,837 individuals on Optimism. It also uses Optimism-based “knowledge proof” NFTs to give an “expertise boost” to 192 Academy students. These rounds help bring the highly technical token engineering community to the Optimism developer ecosystem.

Impact Metrics

  • Contributors to TE Grants Round on OP
    1.8K
  • $ Value of Grant to CadCAD
    54K
  • $ Value of Grant to Inverter Network
    30K
  • $ Value of Grant to Gravity
    77K
  • $ Value of Grant to NumFocus
    25K
  • $ Value of Total Grants to TE Academy
    170K
  • Funding sources

    Other
    $25000 (of $50K) for a joint ENS Large Grant with the TE Academy
    25,000.00 USD
    Other
    Giveth contributions
    1,400.00 USD
    Other
    Gitcoin contributions and matching grants
    5,140.00 USD