Update:
We’ve just published a first article with evaluation results.
“Making Optimism Retro Funding Strategyproof”.
- We reviewed all voting rules in Optimism Retro Funding Round 1–4
- We found that none of the voting rules applied in Round 1–4 is strategyproof
- Strategyproofness means that voters can achieve their best outcome only by voting according to their true preferences
This is problematic, because
a) It encourages voters not to vote truthfully, an issue in any voting system.
b) Optimism Retro Funding relies on learnings from analyzing voting data and voter preferences. If this data is skewed, wrong conclusions will be taken - for example insights on expert guest voters in round 5.
c) If the voting rule provides voters with wrong incentives, the results are distorted, and Optimism Retro Funding can’t get any closer to the objective truth in “Impact = Profit”.
Solution:
In the article, we propose two voting rule variants to address this challenge and make Retro Funding strategyproof in Round 5 and onwards.
Read more here,
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