# SourceCred Protocol

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-protocol/500>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Tags:** 📦artifact\
**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-protocol/500 "2019-12-27T21:53:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-protocol/500/6 "2020-01-11T19:23:03Z")

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

> [@Edge Tranches: Fixing an Incentive Misalignment](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/edge-tranches-fixing-an-incentive-misalignment/418):
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> 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 …

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