Determine curation dynamics

No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by reviewing the listed curation approaches and linked references, then document a comparison of the options, including how voting, incentives, and popularity bias would be handled; done requires a selected direction or a clearly recorded follow-up decision.

Evaluate ways we could eliminate and/or improve the curation step

IDEAS

Random sampling:

each voting address has ability to vote on a subset of projects, or 10 pairwise comparisons to more closely evaluate.

Pairwise:

would our weighting of how much on-chain points have anything to do with that? - would need a formula
https://pairwise.generalmagic.io/
https://gov.optimism.io/t/final-pairwise-tinder-ux-for-web3-community-signaling/6142/14

Variations

• 2 at a time or 4-5 ranked choice to get more granularity
• Complex mode - pioneer.app (online accelerator) - https://medium.com/pioneerdotapp/pioneer-how-it-works-thoughts-and-takeaways-27b87d483a3e - every week there's a project update - you see 10 binary options, you can see description and what they did this week and plans for next week, and judge which progress is better - they show a leaderboard - and they pair two projects together (ex two in the e-commerce space) - like a tournament - there's a feedback system they've developed
  Continuous DAO Drops - weekly/biweekly/monthly - project logs progress - voting - feedback - gameified - leaderboards top 50, based on stage, country, etc

  • Option - if project/person is at top of leader board, they more power
    dot vote across 10

  • vote on similar projects (compare similar projects)

  • Question: would that still have the popularity contest problem - is there a way to minimize that?

Prediction Market (ties into incentives)

Game around predicting how popular each project will be, get a kickback, can stake money on your prediction

Scouts

Give $50k to these people to give to most impactful projects. After, evaluate how impactfully that was given out, each scout receives more money to give if they do well.

• Recipients in previous round could be scouts in next round.
• vote on projects similar to yours