Vitalik: Gitcoin Grants' deep funding mechanism needs to adapt to the needs of "chaotic times".

PANews reported on March 11 that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that Gitcoin Grants' "deep funding" continues, and a major funding round was recently completed. Vitalik advised developer Devansh Mehta to continue refining the model (including its prediction market version), but to ensure that design details and funding sources are adapted to the needs of "chaotic times."

He points out that the deep funding model currently possesses two advantages: it reflects the principle of meritocracy, avoiding excessive egalitarianism; and it can benefit from artificial intelligence while maintaining human dominance. However, in terms of adapting to the needs of a "chaotic era," the mechanism still bears a distinct "stable era" character—that is, attempting to build a large-scale instrument embodying principles of justice and gain unanimous societal consensus in funding it. Vitalik believes it is necessary to consider how to make this mechanism function in a world that no longer operates in this way.