A fascinating idea: "retroactive public goods funding." Rather than focusing on advance fund-raising for public goods (a la Kickstarter, quadratic funding), make a mechanism which rewards projects which create a lot of value, e.g. thru a "results oracle."
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Shallowly read, this is "just prizes." But if you know in advance that there is some results oracle which may plausibly reward you, you could, say, create secondary markets around the future value of that reward, then raise capital by selling some of those shares.
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If the public good itself generates use fees (e.g. protocol taxes), those can be directed back into the oracle's prize pool.
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Once upon a time governments did reward those who invented things for the public good.
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I love the idea of a philanthropic secondary market. And I think that would create new actors in the system: public good angel investors who actually seek riskier ventures.
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I also think that NFTs as "certificates of impact" force this possibility.
