Badges can be solved via UI. Of course, they are attractive because they bring gamification,fun, comparison and friendly rivalry to the system.
Grants are a bigger deal in my opinion. They bring good to grantees and their beneficiaries, after all.
I was seriously considering of making a charity campaign on Steemit for the H.O.P.E. Foundation. But when the Steem price started sinking and rewards rules changed ... it would be a waste of time.
With a purposely built grants platform and with soon to be effective changes collecting funds for charities and grants becomes viable again.
Excellent thinking, let's keep talk more about this later, maybe we can collaborate to make this happen.
Certainly. It's a deal :)