DAOs and the Missing Link: Reputation Protocols

[burrrata]

Description

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Explore new frontiers of human coordination (DAO)s and how reputation protocols (SourceCred) can help.

Status

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Completed

Champion

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@s_ben

Benefits

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Highlights an open problem that SourceCred solves. This will help people with this problem find a solution (SourceCred). It will also help inform SourceCred’s outreach, pilot programs, and go to market strategies.

Implementation Plan

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Do research.

Write post.

Publish post.

Deliverables

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A Medium post.

Dependencies

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The SourceCred Medium blog itself:

Medium Blog

Description A place to post interesting content about SourceCred and SourceCred related things. This will make it easier for people to learn about SourceCred. Contributions Medium exists and is working. @decentralion created the SourceCred Medium blog. @burrrata Created this Artifact for the SourceCred Medium blog and then all the Initiatives that contributed to it. References

References

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SourceCred as Store-of-Community Value (SoCV)

Someone similar to this is the idea of SourceCred as a proof of contribution (PoC) that @s_ben outlined a while back too: “Similar to how Proof-of-Work (PoW) provides public blockchains like Bitcoin a sibyl-resistant way for miners to vote on the validity of transactions, SourceCred provides “Proof-of-Contribution” (PoC), a sibyl-resistant way to allocate governance power. Due to the richness of the SourceCred contribution graph, and the open, plugin structure that allows filtering and valuatio…

Artistic rendering of SourceCred contribution graph

Was reading through @s_ben’s post on DAOs and SourceCred and came across @Brutalfluffy’s artistic interpretation of SourceCred. This is really cool, but I hadn’t seen it on the forum anywhere. Adding it here so that @Brutalfluffy can get some Cred for it [sc-branch-drawing]

Contributions

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https://medium.com/sourcecred/the-dao-missing-link-reputation-protocols-8e141355cef2