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-Yearn started just doing grants or gifts for contributors after they did great work. Some studies have shown that financial incentives can inhibit creativity. Coordinape is based on the gift economy where every month there is a budget and the members receive give tokens which they can give to people and people receive compensation based on those g... See more

Assessing the “value” of contributions is inherently subjective — A key part of this is the ability for “value” to be accrued over time (suggest an improvement, and if the protocol grows significantly from that, collect a portion of the value created). While some economics can be rigidly defined (like how Yearn incentivizes strategists), many other... See more

Coordinape is a peer-based compensation tool built on the premise that contributors of a working group themselves know best who has created the most value. Since contribution comes from the edges, knowledge about the value each contributor adds also lies at the edges.

Tools like Coordinape and SoureCred allow micro-economies to better rank contributions - ultimately building towards organizations in which compensation is tied to value created, rather than time spent.