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Commons as a Service: Programmable Funding for Shared Digital Infrastructure
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Speaker: Dipanshu Singh
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: Deep prior knowledge
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
Public goods funding in crypto still leans on grants, retro funding, and one-off campaigns. Useful, but rarely aligned with the economic flows that already move through products every day. Shared infrastructure (clients, standards, research, legal defense, tooling) stays under-resourced while protocols capture more value upstream.
This talk shares what we learned building Commons as a Service (CAAS): a practical repository of “sources” that route a small, transparent share of onchain value to the commons. We’ll walk through the design dimensions that matter in production, who bears the cost (project, user, or LP), which app surfaces can host a source, opt out defaults, and how programmable routing removes trusted intermediaries. Presenting example like using the Keyring campaign that directed protocol fees to Tornado Cash developer legal defense as a concrete case, we’ll show what worked, what failed, and how teams can evaluate mechanisms.
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