Founders

yeah exactly, grants and hackathons don't contribute to long-term participation within networks..

note from @ccarella.eth

Grants can work but they are a bit more like venture capital in my opinion where most things will fail (and thats not how they are approached). But I would point to Aerodrome/Veledrome as something that received grants and now have a huge impact on the Superchain.

What what?

Ps: always felt good l1 (also DeFi) teams should hire more top people and then spin out quality projects instead of giving grants to random teams (that will ultimately go elsewhere)