(2021-11-24) OtherInternet Announces $1M Grant From Uniswap Grants Program

Other Internet Announces $1M Grant from Uniswap Grants Program. The Uniswap community has shown itself to be resilient and progressive beyond the immediate purview of being a funding body.

Although we’ve already surpassed early notions of on-chain governance, we can still go further, questioning the holistic governance process itself.

UGP is excited to announce a $1M grant to Other Internet to perform research and various governance experiments over the next year.

Other Internet is an applied research organization. In the summer of 2021 we completed an analysis of Uniswap’s off-chain governance and Discord community. Now with this grant from Uniswap Grants Program, we are excited to extend our inquiry into what more effective governance practices for Uniswap and the Web3 ecosystem might look like.

Cryptocurrency protocols are fundamentally political technologies In a recently published essay, we argued that crypto protocols and communities must look beyond their immediate horizons to develop a definition of public that includes those who are impacted beyond the protocol layer.

Uniswap’s stakeholders include developers, traders, liquidity providers, mechanism designers, open source projects, Ethereum validators, MEV researchers, academics, and even blockchain climate researchers.

As a group of people, we are motivated by a future that is more free, fun, peaceful, and equitable. We imagine an other internet that that radiates these qualities. By no means is this future promised, but it is an option.

There is no doubt that Web3 will be the site of governance innovation in years to come. But in order to truly innovate, we also need to take stock of what has come before.