Rigorous quantitative models and governance frameworks designed to secure open-source maintainers.
Public software valuation
Maintainer economics
Systemic risk analysis
Measuring uncaptured economic output and systemic dependencies across foundational open repositories.
Analyzing burnout thresholds, volunteer attrition rates, and capital allocation inefficiencies.
Mapping vulnerability propagation through single-maintainer dependencies in global codebases.
Frameworks for institutional funders
Our working papers synthesize economic theory with empirical data from distributed code ecosystems, offering actionable models for philanthropic and public capital allocation.
By treating open digital codebases as core infrastructure rather than disposable utilities, these publications establish new baselines for sustainable fiscal sponsorship and long-term endowment structures.
Active research cohorts
The Fiscal Architecture Working Group
Scholar Grant Program
Direct funding and computational resources for academic researchers studying digital governance.
A six-month residency for graduate researchers and economists prototyping non-dilutive capital structures for core protocol maintainers.
Review our complete archive of working papers, datasets, and policy proposals.