I like to think of this using @pet3rpan model of microservice DAOs.
Take something like contributing data to the hyperstructure or staking on models for sybil detection. Either one of these are low value without the other pieces of the structure which aggregates the component value into something worthwhile. This is similar to how your post on facebook isn’t that valuable, but millions of peoples posts organized in a particular way are valueable, and you are a part of it.
How might the smaller systems be rewarded for their contribution to the whole?
I think this is where the microservice idea comes into play. A continually evolving sybil detection algorithm would require multiple inputs. Each of these inputs can be incentivized by an issuance curve rewarding the useful contributions in very narrow scope. The value created by the system as a whole can then be adjusted to balance the system inputs using a Shapley Value.
Let me put that in a more concrete example.
If you contribute data to the sybil defense DAO, you get SDDdata rewards.
If you contribute code to the sybil defense DAO, you get SDDcode rewards.
If you contribute models to the sybil defense DAO, you get SDDmodel rewards.
If you give your opinion on flagged sybils as an evaluator, you get SDDeval rewards.
Each of these has an issuance curve of its own. In the first few months or years, people might be earning millions of SDDrewards for their contributions, but few $$$ (only what GitcoinDAO and others are willing to pay to subsidize the risk they are taking)
These are the “microservice DAOs” that provide the inputs to the bigger “Sybil Detection DAO”
Now Sybil Detection DAO is only one of the inputs to the FDD system, and FDD is only one workstream in GitcoinDAO.
If we want to build a hyperstructure, we must first build all the microservice components and then allow the hyperstructure’s sustainable value flow emerge.
Consider this a strong opinion held loosely, but throwing this out there to stimulate the conversation.
Another cool side effect of this is it builds modular Hyperstructure Legos. Imagine the microservice DAO that finds models that are excellent at detecting sybil accounts is forked to be used to fight a pandemic or to organize debt unions in a way that proves the collective can win.
Building microservice DAOs is something we can become very good at. It can be in our playbook. Figuring out how to build “can’t do wrong” cheaper to defend than attack services that are great at one thing is a huge value to the world. I also don’t see how we think we can build the hyperstructure that will provide sustainable fair capital allocation if we can’t build a microservice DAO that sustainably incentivizes one action to be done well.
I love the impact of Gitcoin always being exponential. Let’s build some microservices, with massive upside potential as the digital public infrastructure of the future.