# Road to Effective Public Goods Funding through Quantitative Cross-Comparative Analys... | Devcon SEA

- Channel: [Devcon](https://streameth.org/devcon)
- Date: 2025-10-09
- Duration: 08:09
- Topics: Science & Technology
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-YyoQSc4iDPk
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyoQSc4iDPk

## Description

I aim to achieve effective public goods funding by comparing grants models. Grants programs are key in the crypto ecosystem, but comparative studies are rare. Our study compares Uniswap, dYdX, Optimism, Gitcoin, and more, categorizing them into "top-down," "bottom-up," and "QF (algorithmic)" types. Findings suggest bottom-up and QF types distribute funds more evenly with smaller variability and grant amounts, while top-down types show greater variability with larger grants for fewer grantees.

Speaker(s): Shinya Mori
Skill level: Intermediate
Track: Coordination
Keywords: Coordination, DAO, Governance, Regenative Ethereum, Public good, funding, public, goods

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## Transcript

[Music] hi everyone so and today's I'd like to talk about my latest my latest research so for so effective Public Funding anyone who is gaining some grants from communities or dos anyone great and then who is managing Grant programs it's great you are definitely public Builders public contributors and then so my talk is useful for um who grants so to to manage grants program in future introductions so the purpose of so my research is to achieve better Grant programs I mean better grants program is a more effective more fair programs and um I'd like to discover the difference um among various gr programs by cross comparing so so like I know so gr program leader so you know and then especially so we are we are focusing on so different type of decision making bodies yeah here is the um so our Target grant program so and then today so there are many projects contributing to Public Funding or Grant programs we can we can categorize Grant programs into three types Foundation type Democratic type and quadratic funding type I mean Foundation type is uh so F types member are arbitr selected or um yeah or sorry excuse me and then so arbitrary selected or accepted by token holders toen Bing I mean Democratic type members are basically so toen holders including delegates or so elected by token holders token voting quadratic funding type is using basically quadratic funding so results of our research and Analysis yeah here is a um grants normaliz normalized Grant amount data so over each round in Grant in various programs you can see so Foundation type so has a so larger larger gr amount and larger variations I mean so variation is a so difference so difference between So Max Grant amount and minimum Grant amount so on the other hand Democratic type and quadratic funding type has a smaller variation and then smaller gr amount yeah clearly you can see the so Foundation type has a so larger larger variation and then so Democratic type and quadratic funing type has a smaller variation so as our hypothesis Grant amount depends on uh the grant operation types so Democratic type and qualic funding type tend to distribute funds so more evenly and with a small gr M Small variation and then larer Gres on the other hand Foundation type um Foundation type tends to distribute funds so with so larger larger gr amount and then larger variation and fewer Gres so I think Foundation type has a so a kind of bias I mean yeah I mean bias is a so so different values in gr programs you think so you think the this bias is a negative factor in term of fairness or palities however I think this bias is so useful or effective Public Funding so you you think so my saying is there so a kind of a paradox so this bias by Foundation type so can I think uh can complement Democratic approaches so I mean Democratic approach is a democratic type and quartic funding type I think so so this so um a lot of a lot of different biases so uh generating more more different values more different values can distribute distribute funds to more different public GS I think okay and in the past whole clima and adour so set a so rationality rationality is uh so rational originally so rationality is improving improving Society systems but so um this rationality is a so leading to Lost Humanities I think uh so this is a so a kind of paradox I think so Democratic Democratic approach is a a kind of so rationalities I think so we should have a so different approach who effective Public Funding so not only quic funding or so so using DS so you can see the so my using database scan here and scan it and then yeah please join us thank you thank you so much yeah we received many great questions during your talk so let's start with the most upvoted one did you have any findings on cost of running grants for example internal hit count Partnerships tooling by type of Grants yeah so actually so so this so in this so yeah so like running running GRS internal head count so yeah and then so so actually so I I don't focusing on so so these topics so my so especially so I'm focusing on so decision making bodies yeah and then so from now on so we have to analyze more deeply so including so these topics yeah okay thank you so much Shenia unfortunately we are out of time so I see many questions on the Mia Cat app so if you would like to speak with with him after this please feel free to look for him nearby the stage and I'll let's put our hands together for Shenia [Applause]