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We are also exploring liquid democracy for future plans.", "hidden": false, "question": "Vision Statement and Impact: Describe the long-term vision of your project and its intended impact on the Optimism and broader Superchain ecosystem, including both qualitative and quantitative benefits", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are mostly working with the Optimism ecosystem, shaping their retroactive rounds and improving our product with each iteration!", "hidden": false, "question": "Initial Strategy: Outline a high-level strategy for how you will achieve your intended impact and key goals for the next 3-6 months", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have created a voting mechanism for budgeting Retro Funding rounds on Optimism.", "hidden": false, "question": "Integration Approach: Explain how the project applies token engineering within OP", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Tooling", "hidden": false, "question": "Project category ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "MVP", "hidden": false, "question": "Project stage: What stage do you consider your project is currently in? (F.e.: Plan, Proof of Concept (PoC), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Fully integrated project)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "* [@thegrifft](https://twitter.com/thegrifft) - Product Owner. Co-founder of Giveth, Commons Stack, General Magic, Dappnode, and more. Been DAOing in Ethereum since 2015.\n* [@moe_nick ](https://twitter.com/moe_nick)- Product Manager. Products & Fintech Enthusiast.[ http://giveth.io](https://t.co/Jl3jzZY0e7) Product Manager, ex-MyDigipay, ex-Tadbirpardaz, ex- Finnotech\n* [@ZeptimusQ](https://twitter.com/zeptimusQ) - Marketing - Transparency and accountability advocate. A passionate representative focused on decentralized governance.\n* [@markoprljic](https://twitter.com/markoprljic) - Design lead - Head of Design and Business Developer at General Magic. \u201cMagic Marko\u201d is a top notch designer and has been practicing his art on web2 and web3 projects for over a decade.\n* [@krati.eth](https://github.com/jainkrati) - CTO at General Magic. With over a decade of tech experience, Krati expertly leads as CTO, blending her vast knowledge in Solidity, Rust, and mobile technologies.\n* [@Mahdi](https://github.com/mmahdigh) - Mahdi was crucial in developing Pairwise for Optimism, expertly handling both the algorithm and backend, and contributing significantly to frontend enhancements.\n* [@FreshelleT ](https://twitter.com/FreshelleT)- Treasury and contract engagement\n* [@mathsguy ](https://twitter.com/mathsguy)- Advisor - Maths PhD (Category Theory, String Topology / CUNY), then worked on Ethereum, EthSwarm & Colony. Now playing around with math animations using Manim and learning theoretical CS. Wrote the original paper Pairwise is based on.\n* [@kronosapiens](https://twitter.com/kronosapiens) - Advisor - Programmer-at-arms [@joinColony](https://twitter.com/joinColony), prev. ML [@Foursquare](https://twitter.com/Foursquare) Pilgrim. Closet anti-positivist. Arts & sciences. More info: [Github](https://github.com/kronosapiens) Created the initial implementation of Pairwise\n* [@gichiba ](https://twitter.com/gichiba)- Advisor - Technical Writer at the Ethereum Foundation More info: [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffin-hotchkiss/)", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Expertise: Provide a brief summary on the team\u2019s background and relevant expertise in token engineering and/or OP", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "pairwise.vote", "hidden": false, "question": "Existing Work: Provide evidence of any existing work, such as prototypes, research papers, or previous projects. If you have already done work within OP/ Superchain, please include that here too", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "\nWe have developed a fully functional product at pairwise.vote. By the time you are reading this, you might be able to check the results of the last round at pairwise.vote/results!", "hidden": false, "question": "Returning grantees: If your project has received prior funding from the Token Engineering Grants Program, please describe the impact that funding has had on the project", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I agree"], "hidden": false, "question": "Agreement checkbox: By checking this box, grantee commits to participating in the two milestones outlined below (exact dates will be communicated after your admission to the round): September: Milestone 1 requires completion of a grant profile in Grantee Accountability Protocol (GAP). The profile outlines the specific outcomes to be achieved by Milestone 2.  October: Milestone 2 requires a progress report on the grantee's progress towards achieving the outcomes agreed to in Milestone 1. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes! Retro Funding 6 is coming!!", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you applied or are planning to apply for additional funding rounds within the Optimism ecosystem? https://sovs.notion.site/d24bc00e3ed14139beb44b82a5e145c5?v=50ae5a8b531641e0b78f39a710f3ffa6", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Friends", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you hear about the Token Engineering Grants Program?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Pairwise is an open-source, off-chain voting dapp (like Snapshot) that streamlines community signaling by letting users select between just two options and then aggregating their choices into a quantifiable result.\n\nPairwise is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, allowing users to make many simple choices and then the algorithm behind the scenes pumps out a final ranking for them to adjust or approve. The algorithm is very similar to the [Elo rating system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system) which is the dominant way of doing this work in the default world (chess, video games, professional and college sports, etc.) Pairwise converts these simple subjective inputs into objective, measurable outputs, minimizing the cost and cognitive burden of voting.]\n\n![|349x197](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/44p2AloPfLFcWKo5W4lPo9qqBQxf9uSlGgQlTXTY1XE3ETo9u64F_sdrN4GMa_pWVsmOFEB1D_0h1IEve5uO_auyazXfKLz_wbdp2bKd1mKFqwmiaBvslYRXtPgzEL8z7R9_t6Y7mveJmyt7kUqIOsk)\n\n# **Practical Use Cases**\n\n**1. Retroactive funding:** Pairwise, combined with categories, is what we are having more fun with to potentiate RetroPGF. Categories help make Pairwise voting easier and faster. By grouping similar projects, voters get to compare apples to apples and can get accurate rankings with fewer clicks. This approach also enables three benefits that would otherwise not be possible.\n\n* Enabling Expertise to Shine: Our approach allows voters to focus on their areas of expertise and interest. With this categorization, voters will rank projects in the domains where their expertise and interests lie, ensuring that the ranking of projects is informed by knowledgeable insights, without imposing on voters the need to review all the projects to participate. This approach allows us to maximize the value derived from voters' time and contributions, and for a more effective ranking of projects, as each voter brings their specialized knowledge to the table, aiding in Project Discovery to Build Ecosystem Network Effects.\n\n* Making DAOing Fun: Voting in a DAO shouldn\u2019t have to feel like work. It should be fun and rewarding! DAOs to get excited about every round of Retro round!. It will feel like a tournament-esque competition where participants discover their own preferences and a lot of cool projects. Voters will talk about their opinions on Twitter and in real life (IRL) while anticipating the voting results. The voting process is simple and fun; it can be done in one solid hack session or, since your voting progress will be saved, it can be done in many parts during boring calls and while you have free moments throughout the week. The voting experience will feel less like voting and more like scrolling on social media or swiping on a dating app. Let\u2019s be real, it won\u2019t be that amazing, but still much better than the normal voting process ;-)\n\n**2. Decentralized Curation and Ranking:** Pairwise can be used to compare, rank and curate projects, content, products, or services, and can serve as a \u201cdecentralized suggestion algorithm\u201d. One use case being explored is with Giveth, where users can vote on projects that they are passionate about, which would then feed into the website ranking. This not only allows the community to vote on what projects are important for them, but it also opens the door for new projects to surface that otherwise would have not received the same exposure.\n\n**3. User research:** A fun use case is user research, where the community can be polled on what their subjective preferences are. For example, this can be used within any DAO to decide on features as kind of a \u201chot or not\u201d game, where users can vote on specific designs or traits, to determine which ones are most valued by the community.\n\n# **Latest development**\n\n* Experimenting with Retro Funding 4:  We created an experiment for Retro Funding 4 where all stakeholders were welcome to signal their preferences. Retro Funding is not only an opportunity to retroactively fund projects that incentivize free market initiatives, much like startups, but also a way to gain exposure to these projects. Public goods are meant to be utilized, and marketing plays an important role in this process.\n\n* Pseudonymous Voting:  Our goal for this new iteration of Pairwise was to do on-chain voting, allow voters to be anonymous, and make a fun user experience. True anonymity was not possible while maintaining on-chain voting, so we made it pseudonymous instead.\n\n\nHere is how we did it:\n1. Voters log in with traditional web2 login methods to create an AA wallet (via Thirdweb)\u00a0\n\n2. The voters then can connect this new AA wallet to their existing OP mainnet address which holds their Superchain reputation using a zk proof (via Semaphore group managed by Bandada).\u00a0\n\n3. The OP mainnet address is never used again and the voter uses their AA wallet to create votes as attestations (via EAS), and to maintain anonymity, we sponsor the transactions.\u00a0\n\n\nThe zk tech, to be specific, \u201cthe semaphore group\u201d of users\u2019 anonymous identities is what makes the Pairwise experience anonymous and the AA wallet experience is what makes the voting experience so magical.\n\n * Tinder Filtering: One of the feedback points we received during the Optimism RetroPGF round was that many projects a badgeholder didn't want to support kept reappearing. And we developed this flow, and people love it. In the future, we will also include direct feedback for projects so that we can collectively shape any ecosystem!\n\n[website](https://www.pairwise.vote/)\n\n[Twitter](https://x.com/Pairwisevote)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "GeneralMagicio", "projectTwitter": "pairwisevote"}, "recipient": "0xd1b8db70ded72db850713b2ce7e1a4ffafad95d1"}}