Curation Markets Update: 1 August 2017
Curation Markets is an experiment in
- using tokens to curate information &
- exploring ways to mint/spawn these tokenized, curatorial markets (eg continuous token models).
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!
Updates!
- Published 2 blog posts related to using Curation Markets in public goods context. One: Tokenizing Wikipedia.
In which, Jimmy Wales, replied saying, it’s word salad.
This was useful, because it again put emphasis on figuring out how to best relay these thoughts/ideas. Thanks to Dmitriy Ryajov for excellent feedback on the whitepaper in this regard.
The other post, inspired by Niran Babalola, is Curation Clubs: using curation markets to curate cashflow for public goods funding.
Really like this idea still.
- On funding: Check out Luke Duncan’s Hive Commons proposal to use Curation Market designs to fund applications. https://medium.com/@lkngtn/district0x-feedback-2-building-a-strong-network-effect-d629da10d5f6.
- Had a really, really fun podcast with Rhys Lindmark talking Curation Markets & the Attention Economy.
- Check out Rhys’ Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark.
- Rhys also set up a Lean Canvas & Trello to help organise parts of Curation Markets work. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1B58tAkfi7H4wjRDUIxO2cK9WPiXV4cBMM_MFm0JH55E/edit & https://trello.com/b/90uNZwHw/curation-markets-backlog. Very useful. I need to figure out how organise this project. Let me know if anyone else has thoughts on this?
- Working on a new iteration of curation markets, that more directly rewards curators. Partly inspired by community discussions opened by Nate Rush on the Curation Markets Repo: https://github.com/ConsenSys/curationmarkets/issues/8.
- Finished a draft of a bounty post on the creation of an autonomous artist using Curation Markets. Doing diligence on this.
- Also doing legal diligence on the basic usage of curatorial token WITHOUT a continuous token issuance component. Since Curation Markets are about curating information with tokens, it will be easier to experiment with this, without worrying about properly finishing/auditing the continuous token issuance portion. Would allow us to more rapidly test the value of it. A proto example of such a market is District0x’s voting system. Found here -> https://vote.district0x.io/
- EtherBay is a District0x proposal to reward contributors for curating filesharing: https://github.com/district0x/district-proposals/issues/19.
- AdChain team wrote up some thoughts on Curation Markets + District0x to help foster AdToken community. https://medium.com/@AdChain/through-the-creation-of-the-district0x-platform-created-by-joe-urgo-and-matus-lestan-we-foresee-e3d93b7f8715.
- The Gitter was created! About 15 people have joined so far. Come say hi. Hopefully this will be the place to share updates/thoughts in the foreseeable future. https://gitter.im/Curation-Markets/Lobby.
Short Term To Do:
- Finish up legal due diligence on bounties + curatorial tokens.
- Finish a new iteration of Curation Markets design that more directly rewards curators.
- Start experimenting.
- Arrange more calls with folks doing interesting tangential work, such as Peerism. http://peerism.org/
Longer Term To do:
- Rewrite Whitepaper. Primarily: More effort in clarifying concepts and ideas. Practically split Curation Markets into 2 components: curating as a design goal & token issuance as a design goal.
- Experiment with growing Curation Markets through Curation Markets itself.
- Organise Curation Markets development with the community.
Feedback?
Is this useful to give updates every 4 weeks? What do you want to see? Cheers!
