Looks like Blender is onboard with moving to Gitea. However:

> To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.

So Gitea wants to create a DAO and "receive benefits based on their participation such as from code" assuming it going to be similar to Gitcoin, which may involve using crypto tokens, NFTs and the like.

Good for them; either way.