avatarSimon de la Rouviere

Summary

The provided content is an update on the development and applications of Curation Markets, a protocol designed to reduce information asymmetry through tokenized signals and bonding curves, with various projects and partnerships adopting this model as of January 28, 2018.

Abstract

Curation Markets, a protocol aimed at mitigating information asymmetry, is gaining traction with its innovative use of tokenized signals and bonding curves. The update, dated January 28, 2018, outlines the protocol's dual approach: curating information via tokenized incentives and exploring token creation methods like continuous models and bonding curves. The concept is broadly envisioned to empower global communities to collaborate and benefit from co-created value. The update includes an apology for a missed monthly report due to holidays, a discussion on combining curation markets with prediction markets, and details on various talks and presentations given by the author. It also highlights partnerships and applications of Curation Markets within projects such as SingularityNet, Ixo Protocol, and Zap Store, emphasizing the use of bonding curves for AI discovery, impact data measurement, and usage data feeds. The author calls for collaboration on a standard Solidity implementation of bonding curves, suggests potential bounties for development contributions, and invites more engagement from the growing community of 116 members on the Curation Markets Gitter channel.

Opinions

  • The author expresses gratitude for community interest and participation in the Curation Markets project.
  • The author acknowledges the importance of regular updates to keep the community informed and engaged.
  • There is an optimistic view on the potential of combining curation markets with prediction markets, termed "Memetic Singularity Economics."
  • The author is enthusiastic about the practical applications of Curation Markets in various projects and the potential for these markets to transform AI discovery, impact data measurement, and data feeds.
  • The author values community input and collaboration, as evidenced by the call for a standard bonding curve implementation and the suggestion of bounties to facilitate development.
  • The author recognizes the need for a more scalable approach to updates as the number of teams experimenting with Curation Markets increases.
  • The author celebrates the growth of the Curation Markets community and encourages further participation and discussion on the Gitter channel.

Curation Markets Update: 28 January 2018

Curation Markets is a protocol that reduces information asymmetry through:

  1. using tokenized signals to curate information &
  2. exploring ways to mint/spawn these tokenized, curatorial markets (eg continuous token models & bonding curves).

Curation Markets is a broad concept that will ultimately allow more groups to coordinate globally around shared goals.

Many of you want to help, and I’m incredibly thankful for that! Curation Markets *is* about enabling many more communities to work together and earn from the value they co-create. I will thus be doing an update every ~4 weeks on what’s happening, what’s transpiring, and what’s next!

Skipped A Month! Sorry.

Whoops. Just realised that with the holidays, I accidentally skipped a month on updates. Will get back to monthly updates.

Memetic Singularity Economics.

I wrote a post on combing curation markets with prediction markets.

Talks!

I gave a talk on technical challenges around dapp development with Ujo Music at the local Cape Town Ethereum meetup and fitted in a quick explanation on Curation Markets at the end after I mentioned potential token models in the space. Was a really fun talk, given that I had to talk technical things, with standing room-only, at the end of the day, after everyone had wine.

https://twitter.com/paulkhls/status/956572628495544321

Project Updates:

SingularityNet

SingularityNet is a decentralized, open market and inter-network for AIs. Curation Markets will be used to help discover AI agents.

Notable, they are partnering with Ocean Protocol that will also use Curation Markets for surfacing novel datasets.

Ben Goertzel, co-creator of Sophia.

Ixo Protocol

The Ixo team will use curation markets to measure impact data.

Zap Store

The Zap Store team has continued development on their usage of bonding curves in the usage data feeds.

You can see an example of potential UX that bonding curves could take on!

Cryptoeconomic Primives Call #1

Thanks to Rhys Lindmark for organising the 1st Cryptoeconomic Primitives call. Loved his lean coffee approach in helping organise this community.

Watch the call here:

District0x Digest

Thanks Brady for having me on the District Digest. I talk all things Ujo Music & Curation Markets.

Help Needed: Let’s Converge on a Bonding Curve Implementation.

As we are going to see teams start implementing bonding curves in earnest, it would be useful to converge on a specific Solidity implementation.

https://github.com/consensys/curationmarkets

I wrote some code 8–10 months ago that contains a Bonding Curve. Abstracting this out into a well-tested component would be awesome & useful.

There’s some interesting issues/questions on it too, like whether it would be useful to implement order statistic trees on-chain for ranking.

If any of the first teams are doing this, please let me know.

I might consider doing bounties to help facilitate this.

More Updates?

These updates are starting to get longer. There’s many more teams starting to experiment. Something might start falling through the cracks. Please let me know if I’m missing something!

Gitter!

The Curation Markets gitter is now running to 116 people! Woohoo. We constantly talk all things Curation Markets & Token-Curated Registries. Come say hi!

Till next time.

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