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Through research and development to accelerate innovation in:
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Photrek Challenges (1)
Challenge: Prototype Diversified Voting Method
<p>Can we implement a prototype demonstration of diversified voting and flexible funding for one challenge fund?</p>
Photrek Proposals (20)
Design & Sim of Voting Influence
<p>Blockchain DAOs, including Catalyst, are governed by one coin - one vote policy which is susceptible to oligarchic control.</p>
Cardano Risk Profile Audit
<p>Cardano stakepool operators face a variety of cybersecurity risks that they have not adequately prepared to defend against.</p>
Improving Integrity of CA Processes
Solution: Identify the community's best improvements on reputation and ranking and integrate these into the parallel effort on CA digital identity.
Ruggedized DeFi
Solution: Tools to assist developers in the verification of DeFi design and agent-based simulation of DeFi prototypes will stress-test proposed apps.
Diversify Voting Influence
Solution: Design and evaluate a variety of voting saturation and aggregation algorithms that balances the influence of small and large stakeholders.
Learning Dynamic Models
Solution: Photrek will upgrade the Coupled VAE (CVAE) algorithm it is developing for the SingularityNETs (SNET) AI Marketplace to incorporate a dynamic model. CVAE is a risk-aware learning method.
Risk Monitor for SPOs
Solution: A Risk Monitor tool suite empowers SPOs with decentralized means to detect whether network-wide block production aligns with expectations from protocol so that reward distribution remains honest.
Evaluating Democratic Pluralism Security via Catalyst Testnet Quick Pitch
Solution: Complete Catalyst testnet experiments evaluating the security of a range of voting methods from corporate, pluralism, and democracy. Communicate results with scientific presentations and publications.
Prediction Markets: A Futures Model Demo
Solution: Photrek will develop decentralized, open-source risk characterization tools to improve trading strategy effectiveness & customizability.
Governance Hackathon: Cardano DRep Teams
Solution: A hackathon platform for development of governance capabilities. Utilize plural voting with payment & rewards to facilitate the community in deciding the winning awards. Run a DRep team hackathon.
SPO Health Monitor
Solution: A SPO Health Monitor suite of tools is needed to strengthen the decentralized integrity of the SPO network. Photrek will develop a utility comparing the forecasted & actual probabilities of selection.
Sociocratic DReps : A representation framework for Democratic Pluralism
Solution: Provide the community with a framework for DReps which will enable exceptional representation. Including a 3 person DRep team with subcircle expertise in governance, blockchain development, & DeFi.
Ouroboros Stress Test and Early Warning System
Solution: Photrek has developed unique robustness metrics for information systems. Dr. Aman will use these probabilistic methods to design early warning detectors that we’ll evaluate on protocol testnets.
AI Assistant for Governance: Empowering Team-Based dReps
Solution: Photrek will develop an AI Assistant that empowers Team-Based dReps, analyzes proposals, assesses their impact across Cardano, and guides decisions aligned with the community & the constitution.
dRepWatch - A Sustainable Platform for Informed Voters
Solution: Leverage existing dRepWatch, and bring it up a notch to create a user friendly interface that offers transparency and facilitates communication between voters and dReps on various governance issues.
Reputation-Driven Influence for Cardano DAOs and Projects
Influence in decentralized governance, like Catalyst, is dominated by token holdings, undervaluing community engagement and contributions, leading to imbalanced decisions and reduced fairness.