# Crowdfunded Cyber Formation
**Domain:** Cyber organization / Research concept
**Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node
**Maturity:** Hypothetical composition
**Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]]
## Definition
A **crowdfunded cyber formation** is a proposed formation in which outside contributors capitalize a treasury used to support a distributed population performing cyber tasks under an eligibility, adjudication, reputation, and payout regime.
## Significance
Aid For Ukraine proves wartime crowd capitalization; Immunefi and attackathons prove ranked, adjudicated cyber labor; the IT Army proves distributed cyber tasking. Their coexistence does not prove their deliberate integration. This node preserves that evidentiary boundary.
## Sources
- [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]
- [The IT Army of Ukraine: Structure, Tasking, and Ecosystem](https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/Cyber-Reports-2022-06-IT-Army-of-Ukraine.pdf)
## Routes
[[wiki/Crypto Conflict Crowdfunding|Crypto Conflict Crowdfunding]] · [[wiki/Crowdfunded Security Tournament|Crowdfunded Security Tournament]] · [[wiki/Tokenized Cyber Formation|Tokenized Cyber Formation]] · [[wiki/Distributed Cyber Tasking|Distributed Cyber Tasking]]