@bitcoinman Hmm that does sound interesting. While I will give it some additional thoughts - my initial response on both is positive.
My sole concern comes from the funding question - if I am correctly interpreting this - it would mean that the current dividends will be lower as the funds will be used to fund the additional income streams. While we need a little more insights in how that will look to know how I feel about it, I would assume it is also risky as that makes the value for current investors lower.
An alternative (which would be my recommendation to also explore) is to reallocate tranches of DUO to projects. That way you can keep the current investors equally happy (which we are :) ). For example the DUO allocated for guest authors (as we only see 2 different) could be used to create an offering (at a attractive price) that would fund the project. (Note: that allocation is just used as an example there might be other / more suitable allocations?)
(Also still hoping we can get the liquidity pool + arbitrage bot combo - which could be funded in this way)