Building Sustainable Open Source: Open Core & Web3 Decentralized Clouds – San Francisco 2025

Building Sustainable Open Source: Open Core & Web3 Decentralized Clouds: Robert Drost outlines how cryptoeconomic primitives and verifiable decentralized infrastructure can regenerate open source development, challenging exploitative Web2 cloud models. He introduces trusted compute, restaking for capital efficiency, and a vision for sustainable, permissionless cloud services built by and for open-source developers. Speaker: Robert Drost (Eigen Foundation) This session was part of the 12th edition of Funding the Commons, held March 15–16, 2025, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io