By August 2021, Beefy's development team had grown to over 20 active contributors covering a range of functions, including smart contracts, UI/frontend, backend/APIs, data engineering, maintainers, DevOps and security. Many of these functions weren't captured by any of the existing developer incentives, and many devs had contributed months of labour without reward or compensation. To address this, Beefy founder Sirbeefalot considered a range of measures to further support and incentivise development and innovation in a sustainable manner.