…funding is where things get interesting. It allows economic rewards that are otherwise unthinkable. Remember, if Ether holders believed an upgrade (ex: sharding) would make the price go up by >10%, they’d be happy to pay close to 10% of their tokens for it. That means Ethereum could crowdfund a $3bn feature bounty by inflating the number of ETH by 10% and…Funding the Evolution of Blockchains7.2K45Fred EhrsamT.H. KimFollowAug 24, 2017 · 1 min readWhat would be a more rigorous way of assessing the value of an upgrade?