Is the "direct gas" model used anywhere?

Ahh…in that case there may be. See this thread…if what you are think will break the assumptions made in this discussion, please let us know because we are building a system around the fact that sending cycles is both atomic and “free”: Cycle cost to pass cycles

You also have things like this: * ICDevs.org - Bounty #17 - A DAO for Cycles - $10,000 - ht: cycle_daoJobs
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Mar 10 - …ecial Note: Thanks to @Arthur and cycle_dao for accelerating this bounty. I’ve called it “A DAO for cycles” to avoid confusion, but this is a cycle dao, and THE https://cycledao.xyz/ cycle_dao has collabora…