Quadratic Funding

Created on 2020-11-05T21:17:26-06:00

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tl;dr using a quadratic curve allows paying more to win but applies a harsh curve to make extreme spending less desirable.

also crowd funding public works by whales using a sponsor pool that pays to projects based on area of a triangle instead of straight 1:1 matching.

the quadratic sponsorship part is inferred by doing an n-pairwise analysis of how much each actor benefits from a good even if they opt not to pay for it.

Your n'th unit of influence costs $n.

Quadratic elections

Vitalik also suggests making an entire ballot of propositions as the candidates.

Also a warning against currencies held between ballots; someone can keep re-posting the same petition to exhaust people's tokens on vetoing the measure.

Quadratic subsidies

To find out the amount of money a sponsor contributes:

Quadratic ads

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