# \[Mission Request\] Research and develop a framework to measure potential capture of the Token House **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance Fund Missions\ **Tags:** season-6\ **Created:** [July 8, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/mission-request-research-and-develop-a-framework-to-measure-potential-capture-of-the-token-house/8549 "2024-07-08T18:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![optimistic\_emily](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/bc41dd/user_avatar/gov.optimism.io/optimistic_emily/32/11525_2.png) [@optimistic\_emily](https://gov.optimism.io/u/optimistic_emily)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/mission-request-research-and-develop-a-framework-to-measure-potential-capture-of-the-token-house/8549/2 "2024-07-10T17:09:32Z")
Measuring the capture or risk of capture of the Token House is really important and I’m generally supportive of work towards this end. I wanted to share a few points of feedback on the specifics of this mission request: There is a Foundation Mission currently underway to develop a metric of concentration of power of the Collective. Two teams of data scientists are currently working on this: [Optimism Ecosystem Contributions 🔴✨ · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/ethereum-optimism/projects/31/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=61734705) There is considerable overlap in the outcomes of these mission requests - both are seeking a way to measure the signals that the Token House or governance system as a whole are prone to capture. The primary difference is that the Foundation Mission Request specifies a data-driven approach. There are certainly other valuable methodologies for tackling this problem and I don’t think the existence of a similar Foundation mission is necessarily a reason to not incentivise other research in this space. However, I do think that there are some things that would make this Mission Request stronger. I think that the suggested OP amount is very high (3x that of the existing Mission Request). It may also be helpful to outline some suggested approaches/methodologies and some ideas for how this framework might be used in practice by the Citizen’s House. One risk I see is that the framework developed under this mission is impractical, too abstract or doesn’t lead to meaningful impact because it isn’t used. Disclaimer: I work for the Optimism Foundation but comments are my own --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.optimism.io/t/mission-request-research-and-develop-a-framework-to-measure-potential-capture-of-the-token-house/8549)._