Thanks for sharing this - you can find the details of our foundation laid in P18: Introducing The Developer DAO Foundation and then the articles and bylaws on GitHub here.
The question is legality and if/how they’ve gotten around that. Legally, the foundation cannot provide liquidity directly as in the eyes of the average person, it comes across as selling the token - which we’re not allowed to do under the Cayman VASP legislation.
I think the most straightforward win here is supporting and maybe incentivising liquidity provision. Everything else is super interest and things we should do, but feels like bigger, complex lifts to achieve in time, money and effort.
The GitCoin approach sounded very interesting but I haven’t read this properly yet - I will try to today. I’m also happy to provide some liquidity myself, I just don’t know what I’m doing.