Related to Rich’s topic and thinking about R&D and ways to fund it. I would like to hear some opinions about using the approach I mentioned of having a formal agreement between the two networks where Polkadot acknowledges Kusama(or one of its parachains) as the innovation and R&D hub of the ecosystem and proceeds to pay regularly an “R&D tax” to compensate the limited funds the canary has to sustain the massive amount of innovation that we should aim for.
The experimental nature of Kusama serves well to attract experts across many domains to develop all kinds of creative initiatives, we need lots of daring teams and individuals who might not have clear plans on how to shoot to the moon but will try their best to do so. Most will fail but the few that succeed will completely change Polkadot for the best, perhaps the entire blockchain industry or dare I say, the whole world socioeconomic and political landscape.
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