I've been in open source for over 20 years now, Apache member, co-founder Jakarta Apache, blah blah.<p>I'm seeing a new era of Open Source reflected in DeFi. These projects are done in the open, with a group of eager young developers, just like I was 20 years ago.<p>The thing that is different is that people actually get paid for their work. These DeFi projects are minting so much money that they can actually afford to attract talent. The tooling is all there for them to use. A lot of projects are just based on existing codebases, re-using legos.<p>Everyone is "anonymous", code is of high standards, it is meritocracy driven and DAO based. Stuff moves <i>fast</i>.<p>Unreal. Never seen anything like it.