We (@el4d & I) wrote a post on how to incentivize development & maintenance of third party frontends for Nouns TLDR: the DAO would for usage, which is determined by calls to smart contracts. In the post we go over: - how to mitigate abuse risk - potential options for payout - technical considerations (link below)
Random thoughts: is it an issue if someone makes a browser extension that swaps the client address with their own? (Essentially stealing payments from the client)
Would be great to have total payouts that decay exponentially based on client contributions. This encourages client competition, and fake client won't really be an issue since the payout would be negligible
Have a look at the way https://www.liquity.org/ does it, makes sense to me nouns.wtf shift to a version of this, and pick your poison is next.