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{{ExpertIntro|Need-Driven Funding is currently proposed as the mechanism that aligns WikiDeal's funding with the Ynternet.org Foundation's declared needs. The Foundation would publish a need gauge (an initial requirement, for example CHF 100,000, plus a variable functioning cost, for example CHF 12,000 per month (the base hypothesis currently retained, intended to evolve), adjustable); the effective Reward multiplier of the bonding curve would follow that declared need. There is one single type of [[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Rewards|Reward]] (1 Reward = CHF 1 when cashed out, without guarantee), and at donation time each donor freely chooses how many of the generated Rewards they keep and how much they leave to the project as pure support. Subscription revenue would then be distributed following the [[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Revenue-Structure|25/25/50 rule]]. Non-speculative, donation-based, transparent.}}

* '''The need gauge.''' The Ynternet.org Foundation would declare its real need publicly: an initial requirement (for example CHF 100,000 invested before the call for funding) plus a variable functioning cost (for example CHF 12,000 per month of operating costs, set at launch and adjustable). While this declared need is not covered, donations would carry the full multiplier of the [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Bonding Curve|bonding curve]]; once the need is covered and a provision builds up (typically a few months of costs), the effective multiplier would descend continuously — no fixed cap, no sudden thresholds, no arbitrary percentages — and the difference would feed a provision fund intended to be managed by the Ynternet.org Foundation for the maintenance and development of WikiDeal.

* About CHF 100,000 invested before the call for funding (the initial requirement), plus a functioning variable of about CHF 12,000 per month of operating costs (salaries, servers, steering committee meetings).

* After 6 months: CHF 100,000 + 6 x 12,000 = '''CHF 172,000''' raised would bring the declared need below 100 percent.

* After 12 months: '''CHF 244,000''' raised would mean the initial requirement covered and 12 months of costs covered.

* The variables are the monthly amount (here 12,000) and the number of months of provision wanted (typically 3): a provision target of 3 x 12,000 = '''CHF 36,000'''. The criteria themselves (what counts as the real need, which costs are incompressible and which are reducible, such as Open Call budgets) are proposed for study in a draft [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Need-Driven-Funding-Criteria|wave 2 Open Call]].