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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. “Magic Marko” 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": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "19", "hidden": true, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are exploring the impact of community-driven decision-making in Retro Funding Round 4 using the Pairwise ranking mechanism. Retro Funding rewards projects based on their actual contributions, fostering an entrepreneurial environment in the Optimism Superchain ecosystem. Pairwise simplifies voting by allowing participants to rank projects within categories of their expertise. This approach helps uncover lesser-known projects and encourages collaboration. The use of pseudonymous voting enhances voter privacy, allowing for genuine expression. The process is designed to be engaging and rewarding, promoting broader participation in Retro Funding rounds. We continue to refine Pairwise based on community feedback, aiming to improve user experience and the overall governance process.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our project supports the mission of DeSci (Decentralized Science) by using Pairwise, a decentralized and community-driven decision-making tool, to transparently and fairly allocate resources for public goods. By rewarding impactful contributions retrospectively, we align with DeSci's goals of promoting open, collaborative, and merit-based scientific research and development. Our approach reduces bureaucracy and encourages innovation, fostering a more efficient and inclusive ecosystem that benefits from diverse expertise and community involvement.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "\nThe funds from the grants program will be used to document all our work related to the Pairwise project. This includes detailed records of our development process, the implementation of the Pairwise voting mechanism, the results and impacts of Retro Funding rounds, and the feedback received from the community. Proper documentation will ensure transparency, provide valuable insights for future improvements, and serve as a resource for others interested in decentralized governance and public goods funding.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since the last update, we've made significant progress, including the addition of pseudonymous voting through zk Bandada integration and account abstraction login. We've also revamped the user interface and have many more exciting updates in the pipeline. Check out the latest at pairwise.vote!", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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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’t 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’s be real, it won’t 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 “decentralized suggestion algorithm”. 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 “hot or not” 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) \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). \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. \n\n\nThe zk tech, to be specific, “the semaphore group” of users’ 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"}}