May be an unpopular opinion?
Crypto-economics (and more generally capitalism) alone can solve only a limited set of mostly boring problems. We need some degree of social trust and community dynamics to solve the more interesting and pressing ones.
Relevant app finally has the full prediction market curation flow!
The design is very similar to this proposal by
@VitalikButerin
from a few years ago:
Prediction: In the future most utility tokens will be stablecoins. Biggest price-stable protocol tokens will be preferable to general stablecoins because their stability will be backed by the utility of the protocol.
Great blog post from
@VitalikButerin
about using prediction-curation market for content curation. Its the same mechanism we've been developing at
@relevantfeed
. Similar to Proofed Curation Markets concept by
@trentmc0
and to ideas by
@simondlr
We hit a big milestone today, but the Relevant Token is only a minor step of a much bigger mission.
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Federated & P2P network is up next!
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Good summary of issues faced by TCR designs — generally these kinds of mechanisms don't work 'out of the box' and are context-dependent. They require extra consideration of external incentives, and integrations with social structure, identity, reputation, etc.
In cryptocurrency, objective truth can barely get a word in edgewise over incentivized, rabid mobs of bagholders.
I am incredibly skeptical of the ability of any token-based market to accurately value objectivity, especially when controversial.
Excited to present our on-chain reputation design at crypto-nyc next Tuesday! Will also talk about why current TCR designs don't work and what it will take to make them work.
Very much the expected outcome - economic incentives should be decoupled from curation. Plutocracy is not a great trad-off for sibyl resistance. Personalized page-rank type reputation system is a much better option in this case.
@relevantfeed
I'm not a designer, but kinda proud of this slide that captures the essence of what we are building at
@relevantfeed
(even though you have to read it bottom -> up).
If you want to hear about the details this link is for you:
Want to learn about:
- Prediction markets based on sybil-resistant reputation?
- A staking-only 'dumb plasma' chain security model?
- How to get that
@relevantfeed
coin?
Come by this talk hosted by
@coinfund_io
:
Our 2nd
#TokenEngineering
NYC is happening in a week! We got topics covering game design thinking, curation markets & consensus protocols. If you're in NYC area and working on a crypto tech product, this is for you! Make sure to grab your tix soon!
The first Relevant curation rewards were distributed this weekend! In the near future users will be able to take custody of their tokens by transferring them to their Metamask wallet.
@relevantfeed
Doing a presentation at 1EST today at a Curation Markets Online Workshop about how a sybil-resistant reputation system can be used to resolve subjective curation markets and how we are doing this at
@relevantfeed
. Sign up to join here:
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→ from
@elpizoch
our Head of Engineering
This is a direct consequence of clickbait-based popularity metrics of social media and it will only get worse. The solution is simple: implement a metric that measures trust and value. The hard part is the business model and existing platforms won’t solve that one.
The paradox of our meme based culture now is if you end up getting viral you end up incentivized to hit that same theme over and over again.
You could build a huge following just saying a dozen unique concepts over and over again.
Idea - a security token with a half-life. As time passes your ownership stake slowly deteriorates. New security tokens are continuously minted and distributed to active users.
Chatting about
@relevantfeed
with
@tankmagazine
"Right now we have an overabundance of populist metrics online and not enough hierarchical structures that can help us navigate the digital world. That’s the void that Relevant is trying to fill."
I've been really into the Economics community on Relevant. I consider myself to be pretty good at math and science, but still find it challenging to get a firm understanding of economics and economic policy. The content here has definitely helped.
Very important thread about how Wikipedia works for anyone working on DAOs!
In fact, A LOT of our mechanism designs for
@relevantfeed
were influenced by Wikipedia.
0. What the decentralized web can learn from Wikipedia 🤓
Many people in the blockchain community consider
@Wikipedia
irrelevant for their work as it doesn't employ economic incentives.
We disagree and share our research findings below📒👇
If
@MolochDAO
has 100 members and has to vote on 100 proposals, what does the deliberation process look like? Who does due diligence? Are these processes transparent? What are the tools and structures required for members to make the optimal decisions?
It was fun to work on a
@foamspace
&
@relevantfeed
integration. Very excited to be further developing the use of on-chain data as inputs to reputation and content curation!
Web3 is Sustained — Announcing the FOAM Hackathon Winners 🏆
The
@gitcoin
Hackathon results are in and the FOAM team is blown away by all of the high quality submissions. Blog post and thread below. ⛓️
The Foamspace team is excited to announce the date and details of the FOAM Token Sale and MainNet Launch of the FOAM protocol.
#foamspace
#blockchain
#geospatial
Great article on the challenges of crowd-resourced fact-checking and credibility scores.
@relevantfeed
we are working on computing local reputations within a small community and then looking at how that community is perceived in a broader context.
@simondlr
@balajis
Yep, this is exactly what we do
@relevantfeed
!
You can see this at work in the beta app:
More so, we use personalized pagerank within each community, with community admins as the trusted seed. This makes the metric sybil resistant.
@RhysLindmark
@eriktorenberg
@jessewldn
On-chain governance systems are very, very rudimentary compared to most other systems of governance in human history, which were integrated with trust relationships, not avoidant of them. It hasn't been a fair test yet. Lots to learn from what has come before.
@VitalikButerin
Any thoughts on personalizes pagerank-based reputation systems? We have a design where post rankings are based on reputation and a prediction market on top of those rankings. Close to your "content DAO" where DAO is a community with reputation:
A bonding curve/automatic market maker smart contract operating along side an open market can be thought of as a price-stabilizing mechanism. The closer the reserve ratio is to 1 the more price-stability it will provide.
The art world is making blockchain moves — by
@taylore_moon
Seems inevitable since art is already an asset class. Although entrenched players seem weary of being 'disrupted'.
We are experiencing a crisis of trust in online media.
This is because the business models of social media platforms are driven by engagement, not trust.
This article by
@thedanigrant
and
@nickgrossman
is spot on.
When raising funds for
@UnlockProtocol
some investors told me that it was "infrastructure" phase and that they were not looking for higher layers yet. This felt wrong, like "design my committee"
@balajis
@VitalikButerin
has a cool description of this type of model:
we use a similar design at
@relevantfeed
with ability to bet on post rankings computed using a personalized pagerank algo within a topic-based community (like a subreddit).
Here’s another (perhaps already in use) model for ranking within social networks. Suppose we applied a Pagerank/Hive.one style model to individual accounts. An upvote from a highly upvoted account would count more than an upvote from an account with no history. Like backlinks.
Glad other people thinking about the commons and the work of Elinor Ostrom in relation to blockchain tech. But I wouldn't expect crypto-economics alone to solve the tragedy of the commons...
If you are at
#Ethereal
on Friday, stop by the
@tokenfoundry
booth. Relevant will be there from 2pm-3pm to chat and answer any questions about our protocol and dapp
@ameensol
@elonmusk
@jennineak
Any token/money-based feed will prioritize:
1. Rich tippers - wealth distribution is highly skewed
2. Promoted content (ads)
3. Extreme / polarizing opinions - people getting really worked up about something
Most likely this will be worse than a feed based on likes
Thank you
@cjremus
for starting this thread!
It's so exciting to see our vision of Relevant materializing.
Thoughtful design CAN make a difference in the way we engage with technology.
Great lecture from creator of BitTorrent that includes a critique of Proof of Stake and general discussion about blockchain tech. If it gets too technical, skip towards the end for the question and answer part.
This is pretty cool — a market maker-based price oracle. I've been thinking about bonding curve-based price oracles for a while and would have probably ended up working on something like this if not for Relevant. Not sure the oracle token is really necessary but maybe helps?
@pfrazee
This is a great point. I think the answer is local community governance. P2p alone doesn’t have enough communal tools for this, but coupled with a BFT chain for governance and ranking (ideally via reputation and not coins) could accomplish this.
@ameensol
@elonmusk
@jennineak
Any token/money-based feed will prioritize:
1. Rich tippers - wealth distribution is highly skewed
2. Promoted content (ads)
3. Extreme / polarizing opinions - people getting really worked up about something
Most likely this will be worse than a feed based on likes