@thedevanshmehta Actually you were 100% on to something here with the Mini Meadows grant.
By itself this doesn’t provide any indication of calc issues or bad behavior. Like I said since the climate round had a low-ish turnout, 13 unique donors giving high amounts can and will give a big match, the QF math is working correctly.
But a glance - yeah seems weird. The match checks out so it could be legit, but the numbers stick out like a sore thumb. Total Received USD is 3-4x higher than all those around it, and contributions is 3-4x lower. So it’s definitely a big outlier.
So I dug into the on-chain data manually a bit and discovered it’s pretty much all one big Sybil ring, potentially including more grants as well, and more donors. I’m frankly disappointed that it slipped through the cracks with how blatant it was.
I’m going to propose (both internally to the DAO and to the community here) that we halt any next steps towards finalizing and paying out the round until we can sit back and focus on a deep dive into Sybils and fraud using robust on-chain data (ideally with more automated tools), leveraging Passport data much more, and using other methods to flag these patterns I’m seeing. It will be a collaborative effort across multiple Gitcoin workstreams, as well as something we’d love to get the community involved in. I’ve been DMing with @epowell101 about what tools created by the ODC can be utilized. So I’m hopeful we’ll learn from this process and can streamline these calculations going forward.