Selected RFP:

Intelligent Capital Formation

This RFP invites research into how capital formation is evolving onchain and how Ethereum-based mechanisms can enable more efficient, transparent, and aligned ways to fund projects, organizations, and collective endeavors. Applicants should study how capital is raised, allocated, and governed today across crypto-native and hybrid contexts, and where existing mechanisms succeed or fail in practice. Research should focus on the design and performance of onchain fundraising mechanisms and tooling, including how incentives are structured, how participants behave over time, and how different mechanisms perform under real-world conditions. The objective is to generate empirically grounded insights that inform the design of more robust, context-sensitive capital formation primitives, taking into account both technical constraints and institutional realities.