A selection from their subreddit linked off their homepage should be enough to warn you about how they can get funding for open source projects where the regular market can't.

- One day you will look back at these prices and think "I cant believe it was so cheap"

- These prices are a dream. Already bought a big bag on discount. See you guys in 2 years.

- When will Gitcoin reach 500$

Much like crypto praying on people in desperate financial situations, I really hope hard working open source developers are not left holding the bag if this coin goes under.

... Has it though? The problem here isn't that the tech doesn't exist to support open source. It's that companies don't care to. There's no budget because there's no clear business benefit. Using advertising adds some level of business benefit for the funder, but probably represents an untenable decline in user experience for the fundee.

Gitcoin seems to actually make the problem worse through quadratic matching, so if I have a specific thing I want to fund well because my business relies on it, Gitcoin is the worst possible way for me to do that because my cash will flow through to a bunch of stuff lots of other people care about (but idgaf).