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Welcome to the General Magic Monthly Newsletter! 🎊

General Magic Helps Scale Deep Funding on Optimism: Advancing Governance & Resource Allocation with …
Ever since Vitalik Buterin introduced the concept, Deep Funding has been gaining traction as a new way to support public goods and developer tools. Now, Optimism is joining the movement, launching its own Deep Funding initiative to experiment with more effective and scalable funding mechanisms.As part of Optimism’s Retro Funding: Dev Tooling Mission, the Collective is exploring ways to improve the evaluation algorithm for developer tools. While there’s solid data on how Dev Tools are used, th...

General Magic Monthly Newsletter
GM, frens! 🌞It’s been a rollercoaster out there (what else is new?), but through all the noise, builders are still shipping, creating, and making an impact. Here’s a look at what’s been happening this month in General Magic and across the Giveth Galaxy.👇Public Goods Project of the Month: Predicate 🌟Predicate is a network that enables developers to define programmable, on-chain transaction policies using modular components known as Predicate Functions. These functions are immutable code seg...

Welcome to the General Magic Monthly Newsletter! 🎊

General Magic Helps Scale Deep Funding on Optimism: Advancing Governance & Resource Allocation with …
Ever since Vitalik Buterin introduced the concept, Deep Funding has been gaining traction as a new way to support public goods and developer tools. Now, Optimism is joining the movement, launching its own Deep Funding initiative to experiment with more effective and scalable funding mechanisms.As part of Optimism’s Retro Funding: Dev Tooling Mission, the Collective is exploring ways to improve the evaluation algorithm for developer tools. While there’s solid data on how Dev Tools are used, th...

General Magic Monthly Newsletter
GM, frens! 🌞It’s been a rollercoaster out there (what else is new?), but through all the noise, builders are still shipping, creating, and making an impact. Here’s a look at what’s been happening this month in General Magic and across the Giveth Galaxy.👇Public Goods Project of the Month: Predicate 🌟Predicate is a network that enables developers to define programmable, on-chain transaction policies using modular components known as Predicate Functions. These functions are immutable code seg...
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In the first part of this article, we reviewed the challenges in creating and sustaining public goods. In this follow-up, we would like to showcase how coordination mechanisms can create public goods, reward contributors, and empower communities with tools for sustainable shared management of resources.

The General Magic team that came out of the Giveth Galaxy believes that communities with a strong purpose who are close to the issue at hand are in the best place to competently manage shared resources.
For centuries, we have been designing our social, industrial, and political institutions with a "control-first" mindset. This leads to disenfranchisement at the edges where there is the most potential to deliver the greatest impact. The fundamental change to empower those who can solve problems on the spot needs to start with the dissipation of power from the center to these edges.
The decentralized structures designed with careful deliberation can unlock this by dissipating the power to decide how to extract value and where relevant, automating the ability to extract it, thus drastically reducing historically prevalent sources of information asymmetry, corruption, and ineffectiveness.
We believe we are on the brink of a new period of large-scale human collaboration that can bring about a range of novel organizational frameworks, each with its own purpose-made governance and financial sustainability solutions.
Web3 allows the ability to program our values into our money. Blockchain can codify incentive design that encourages action towards socially beneficial outcomes at scale. These incentives drive collective action to overcome common failures of coordination. The atomic unit of this transformation is an Impact DAO - a collective action that has a net positive impact on building and sustaining public goods. Related Impact DAOs stack over each other to replace existing centers of power and build transparent systems of tomorrow.
These structures focus on outcomes that:
cultivate regenerative versus extractive economy
drive sustainable longitudinal transformation versus short-term wins
are designed for shock resilience
To illustrate how Impact DAOs take advantage of blockchain as the "trust anchor" and programmable money to play economic games that benefit everyone, here's a quick overview of how Giveth is revolutionizing the way we finance public goods.

At a minimum, an Impact DAO will need to crack the trifecta of:
building a sustainable community invested for reasons beyond economics
using a harmonious blend of culture, organizational design, and decentralized tech
to create a regenerative micro-economy
Founded by a couple of folks from Giveth in 2020, General Magic supports the design, development, parameterization & communications efforts of Impact DAO's ranging from Giveth, Commons Stack, the Token Engineering Commons, and more so that those orgs can focus on their collective missions together. General Magic was born out of the Giveth Galaxy, immersed in a culture of Blockchain Philanthropy, we have the knowledge and insights to build a better future for the Decentralized Web. To explore who we are and our work, visit us at https://www.generalmagic.io
In the first part of this article, we reviewed the challenges in creating and sustaining public goods. In this follow-up, we would like to showcase how coordination mechanisms can create public goods, reward contributors, and empower communities with tools for sustainable shared management of resources.

The General Magic team that came out of the Giveth Galaxy believes that communities with a strong purpose who are close to the issue at hand are in the best place to competently manage shared resources.
For centuries, we have been designing our social, industrial, and political institutions with a "control-first" mindset. This leads to disenfranchisement at the edges where there is the most potential to deliver the greatest impact. The fundamental change to empower those who can solve problems on the spot needs to start with the dissipation of power from the center to these edges.
The decentralized structures designed with careful deliberation can unlock this by dissipating the power to decide how to extract value and where relevant, automating the ability to extract it, thus drastically reducing historically prevalent sources of information asymmetry, corruption, and ineffectiveness.
We believe we are on the brink of a new period of large-scale human collaboration that can bring about a range of novel organizational frameworks, each with its own purpose-made governance and financial sustainability solutions.
Web3 allows the ability to program our values into our money. Blockchain can codify incentive design that encourages action towards socially beneficial outcomes at scale. These incentives drive collective action to overcome common failures of coordination. The atomic unit of this transformation is an Impact DAO - a collective action that has a net positive impact on building and sustaining public goods. Related Impact DAOs stack over each other to replace existing centers of power and build transparent systems of tomorrow.
These structures focus on outcomes that:
cultivate regenerative versus extractive economy
drive sustainable longitudinal transformation versus short-term wins
are designed for shock resilience
To illustrate how Impact DAOs take advantage of blockchain as the "trust anchor" and programmable money to play economic games that benefit everyone, here's a quick overview of how Giveth is revolutionizing the way we finance public goods.

At a minimum, an Impact DAO will need to crack the trifecta of:
building a sustainable community invested for reasons beyond economics
using a harmonious blend of culture, organizational design, and decentralized tech
to create a regenerative micro-economy
Founded by a couple of folks from Giveth in 2020, General Magic supports the design, development, parameterization & communications efforts of Impact DAO's ranging from Giveth, Commons Stack, the Token Engineering Commons, and more so that those orgs can focus on their collective missions together. General Magic was born out of the Giveth Galaxy, immersed in a culture of Blockchain Philanthropy, we have the knowledge and insights to build a better future for the Decentralized Web. To explore who we are and our work, visit us at https://www.generalmagic.io
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