As I mentioned in my response to Joel’s comment, DeCartography serves as an oracle providing a social graph, and it is loosely coupled with the QF formula itself. Therefore, in answer to your question, I believe it depends on when Gitcoin (or QF) decides to perform the calculation.
In my previous post, I mentioned that what DeCartography intends to do in its initial experiment is:
- Analyze the data from GR15, where project funding has already been distributed (precisely, only the unique wallet addresses of participants are needed to generate a social graph by DeCartography)
- After that, DeCartography will return the analyzed data to Gitcoin, and we plan to calculate the results of GR15 using regular QF and the results of GR15 as Plural QF simulated by combining the social layer
- We then plan to report these results in the forum and hope to adjust various coefficients accordingly.
So, in this case, all agents as participants in the GR Round would not be able to know their social position or plurality “score” in advance.
I had a call about this with @erich yesterday. In his presentation on “Plural Funding at Funding the Commons”, he mentioned using EAS, etc., for Plural QF.
However, I personally feel that the number of attestations/certification as attendees / POAP distributed in the first place is STILL small.
Therefore, DeCartography intentionally does not “analyze data” but generates a social graph based on intuitive classification (Schelling Point) by crowd workers. Hence, DeCartography holds a unique position among Relational Oracles, and even if EAS grows or decides to acquire off-chain data, I think it is possible to integrate them and locate them in the social identity layer of Plural QF.
at last, I really appreciate your feedback to build.
more info (almost still WIP) is here