Tomasz Tunguz Blog / Theory Ventures · 2024-02-25 · 830d

Community Source Licenses: Building Vibrant Web3 Open-Source Communities

Arbitrum's Community Source license model represents an evolution in open-source governance, enabling 300k+ community members to vote on technical decisions, manage a $3b treasury, and hold membership tokens. This approach combines open-source principles with community governance, contrasting with traditional closed-source and open-source models while treating all developers equally regardless of project size.

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Metrics in this report

Community Size - Arbitrum

300000members

current

Arbitrum ecosystem

Company Valuation - Confluent

10$b

market cap

Open-source software companies

Company Valuation - Elastic

13$b

market cap

Open-source software companies

Company Valuation - MongoDB

33$b

market cap

Open-source software companies

Market Share - Arbitrum

50%

current

Layer-2 scaling solutions space

Project Valuation - Arbitrum

20$b

current

Web3 open-source projects

Social Following - Arbitrum

1000000followers

Twitter

Arbitrum project

Treasury Assets - Arbitrum

3$b

current

Community-managed treasury