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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How is this different from social impact bonds?
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Depending on your priors, it might not be very different! Some good back-and-forth in this thread:
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How is this all that different from social impact bonds?