SourceCred Protocol

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Related tread that explains more how Cred will flow through the SourceCred protocol

Edge Tranches: Fixing an Incentive Misalignment

This post describes an incentive incompatibility in SourceCred today, along with a concrete plan to fix it. Let’s suppose we’re interested in nodes that have two types of edges: AUTHORS edges and REFERENCES edges. You’re the author of one of these nodes. Having written it, you know there are 9 relevant citations it could reference. Let’s suppose that we’re in the current iteration of SourceCred, and AUTHORS and REFERENCES both have 1x weight. Your options: Hide all the references, and only …