Turn economic value flows into durable funding for shared infrastructure.
Browse a library of sourcing mechanisms, each routing a small share of onchain economic value to the commons.
Shared digital infrastructure is often maintained by a handful of voluntary or under-resourced contributors, leaving critical dependencies underfunded and at risk of capture.
Find a mechanism that fits your product
Route value flows to support the commons by adopting a Source built for your product’s app surfaces.
Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs)
High-volume swap protocols that can route a slice of trading fees to the commons.
Lending Protocols
Onchain credit markets that can redirect part of their interest spread or liquidation fees.
Liquid Staking
Staking protocols that issue liquid tokens and can share a cut of validator yield.
Restaking
Networks securing external services (AVSes) that can route a share of AVS rewards.
Risk Curators
Projects that analyze DeFi risks and help users choose strategies, skimming a slice of their management or performance fees.
Stablecoin Issuers
Yield-bearing stablecoin issuers that can drip basis points of reserve yield to the commons.
Crypto Card Issuers
Onchain card programs that can route a slice of interchange or conversion fees.
DEX Aggregators
Routers chasing best execution that can route positive slippage or fee splits.
Bridges
Cross-chain and canonical bridges that can route a slice of transfer fees or idle-collateral yield.
Real World Assets (RWA)
Tokenized off-chain assets that can skim basis points of their yield, minting, or servicing fees.
Staking Pools (Native)
Native validator pools that can redirect a capped share of staking or MEV rewards.
Basis Trading
Delta-neutral yield protocols that can skim funding-rate yield, mint/redeem fees, rebalancing surplus, insurance float, and instant-unstaking fees.
Onchain Capital Allocators
Actively managed onchain pools that can route part of their operator fees or treasury yield.
Derivatives (Perp DEXs & Options)
High-leverage perp and options venues that can route trading fees, liquidation penalties, or buyback flows.
OTC Marketplaces
Peer-to-peer block-trade desks that can split a slice of settlement or RFQ matching fees.
Yield Aggregators
Auto-compounders that can skim a slice of performance fees, keeper bounties, or exit fees.
Domains & Naming Services
Decentralized naming registries that can route a slice of registration or renewal fees.
Liquidity Managers
Automated concentrated-liquidity vaults that can skim a slice of the swap fees they compound.
Routing support to the community’s cause
For a two-month campaign, protocol fees from Keyring’s zkVerified privacy-preserving DeFi vaults on Ethereum Mainnet were programmatically directed to the legal defense funds of Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev. Programmable execution routed support to the community’s cause, with full transparency and no trusted intermediaries, while maintaining market-aligned incentives.
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