I had another idea on the project side of things. Often we look for creating demand and utility on the donor side but what if we looked at things from the other end of the table?
I was inspired by some current protocols and projects that require users to have some skin in the game for them to interact with a protocol’s products. Notably I found the crypto.com scheme to be pretty brilliant.
Or some of the features we are seeing with token-gated communities or token-gated features becoming an easy to implement utility.
What about requiring project owners to deposit GIV into a contract to create a project on the platform?
The tokens deposited would be 100% refundable and when the user wants to de-list or deactivate their project they could claim back their tokens.
This would offer a clear utility for project owners and work as sort of a spam protection for the platform itself.