The whole reason OpenReview was created was to innovate and improve on the peer review process. If you have ideas, reach out to the program chairs of the conference you're submitting to. Many of them are open to running experiments.
This is why we're building OpenReview. We provide the algorithms and UI to match papers with qualified reviewers for peer review, host the discussion forums, and archive the data after the conference/journal is over. Many of the top ML conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR have already switched to OpenReview.
Many DAOs have massive (>$1B) treasuries that are used to fund development and marketing. Developers propose OSS projects and these orgs give out grants based on community votes. See https://gitcoin.co or the Uniswap Grants program for examples.