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An OSS ETF

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
blockchain
Domain
blockchain

Research direction

The issue is a high-level proposal and names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the DIPs repository and existing Dev Protocol context; narrow the ETF concept into a concrete scope with acceptance criteria before implementation.

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Description

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Open source software is eating the world. Dev Protocol offers a streamlined service for Github's OSS projects to receive sustainable funding. If Dev Protocol could capture a percentage of each creator token created using Dev Protocol then it would become a backdoor ETF for OSS. DEV holders would receive creator staking rewards + governance power. This would become extremely lucrative for enterprises with dependencies on OSS to vote on the direction of OSS projects. Dev Protocol DAO would hold creator tokens and give voting power proportional to DEV held. This creates a new sink for DEV. The world's first ETF for OSS.

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