# What areas of the ecosystem are currently lacking good funding mechanisms?

#### **Reading Resources**

* [Retroactive Public Goods Funding](https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/retroactive-public-goods-funding-33c9b7d00f0c) by Optimism‌
* [Vitalik Buterin at EthCC 2021 : Things that matter outside of defi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLsb7clrXMQ)

**Themes from Vitalik's EthCC 2021 talk.** These indicate areas of the ecosystem that are currently underfunded.

1. Variety of utility
2. Higher quality social media
3. Ethereum login (similar to log in with Google) - example [Eauth](https://mobile.twitter.com/pingchentw/status/1404766855961755648)
4. Building the attestation ecosystem (proof of humanity, POAP, participation NFT's, Open Certs)
5. Retroactive public goods funding\
   \--DAO results oracle that judges what projects were valuable to a community's goals, after the fact. (Tannr Allard has done some work in this direction.)

   \--quote from this talk "Decentralized decision making is much better at retrospective decisions than at prospective ones"
6. DeFi --> DeGov
7. Diversify power holders from a handful of de-fi whales
8. Safeguards against corrupt gov systems (example de-fi where 5 central people own half of the governance). Resistant to attack. Speed limit on innovations. More diverse sets of stakeholders making decisions. Safeguard against people with low technical knowledge and a narrow-minded profit motive driving the ecosystem's evolution.

**Two themes from the EF's mission:**

* Educational 
* Public adoption / use-cases

#### Interview questions to assist research: 

* What are the top three funding gaps in the Ethereum ecosystem?
* Would you want some guide rails if you were dropped into a DAO like this?