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+# Research of Progressive Decentralized Organizations with multi-token system
+
+- **Team Name:** Peeramid Labs  
+- **Payment Address:** 1pwYDaaTbpr3LRuiG8vytga1zSmAXTuEbqeTQGkK8GEEDLo  
+- [**Level**](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/tree/master#level_slider-levels)**:** 1
+
+## Project Overview :page\_facing\_up:
+
+[Anti-collusion infrastructure RFP](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/RFPs/anti-collusion_infrastructure.md)
+
+### Overview
+
+- **Tagline:** Tokenomics research on novel ways to decouple speculative investment from governance power and foster more effective, collusion-resistant, decentralized organizations.  
+- **Description**: This project aims to refine our research on a novel, decentralized protocol for identifying and ranking competence within DAOs. We will explore token engineering and how today's privacy-preserving techniques can address challenges and opportunities within the DAO and Polkadot ecosystem.  
+- **Integration with Substrate/Polkadot/Kusama**: This research will benefit the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems by providing a deeper understanding of DAO governance challenges and proposing solutions for Substrate-based chains. While not directly implementing a Substrate pallet in this grant, the findings will prepare the way for future integrations.  
+- **Interest:** We are passionate about advancing decentralized governance and empowering communities through robust and transparent decision-making mechanisms. This research aligns with our commitment to building a more equitable and efficient Web3 ecosystem.  
+- **Research Type**: This project will result in a refined and expanded research paper, potentially leading to publications in peer-reviewed venues and presentations at relevant conferences.
+
+### Project Details
+
+**Problems to Investigate**:
+
+- **Limitations of current DAO governance:** Many face challenges with low participation, centralization risks, and the need for more nuanced competence assessment.  
+- **Interoperability in DAOs:** Ability to create autonomous working groups in decentralized manner and analyze trust assumptions for their interactions.  
+- **Challenges and opportunities in the Polkadot ecosystem:** Understanding the governance landscape of Substrate-based chains and identifying areas for improvement.
+
+**Research Questions/Hypothesis**:
+
+- **Hypothesis 1:** *Governance can be decoupled from speculative component (Sub-linear governance power dependency from capital input)*  
+- **Hypothesis 2:** *Existing cryptography and privacy-preserving features may improve governance processes.*  
+- **Hypothesis 3:** *The current governance state is susceptible to speculations and has low participation rates and quorum thresholds.*  
+- **Hypothesis 4:** *Designing merit-oriented protocols can improve participation rates.*
+
+**Methodology**:
+
+- Review literature and research on novel voting systems.  
+- Propose a system to decouple token utility from governance without affecting established structures.  
+- Run a community survey for feedback on the likelihood of using the technology.  
+- Publish results as a paper & dataset for any analytics.
+
+**Data Collection and Analysis Procedures**:
+
+- Analyze existing research on decentralized governance.  
+- Gather and analyze data from the Polkadot community, including opinions of stakeholders, vendors, DOT holders, and builders. This will involve surveys on the Polkadot forum, Telegram groups, and Twitter polls, as well as outreach to key stakeholders and vendors.  
+- Create financial models and run game theoretic analysis. Game theoretic models will assess collusion potential and identify strategies to mitigate risks.
+
+**Expected Results:**
+
+- A refined research paper refining our findings into a token mechanics model.  
+- A deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities for applying competence identification and ranking protocols in Substrate-based chains.  
+- Potential contributions to the Web3 community through publications, presentations, and open-source tools.
+
+**Related Work:**
+
+- [Autonomous competence identification protocol: A dynamic ranking ladder system for blockchain applications](https://github.com/peersky/papers/blob/main/src/acid/whitepaper.pdf)  
+- [Continuous Voting Proposing Protocol for ordering group intents](https://github.com/peersky/papers/blob/main/src/cvpp/whitepaper.pdf)  
+- [Achieving Unbiased Decision-Making in DAOs: A Privacy-Preserving Approach](https://mirror.xyz/peersky.eth/c0nrRVoKdbeenAlKVOn5gGfir06Wy-wrSuCONMZUO30)
+
+**Intended Venue for Publication:**
+
+- Pre-print server (e.g., arXiv)  
+- Potential publication in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., IEEE Security & Privacy, ACM CCS).  
+- Presentation at relevant conferences and workshops (e.g., Web3 Summit, Polkadot Decoded).
+
+**Limitations**:
+
+- This project focuses on research and analysis, not on developing a production-ready protocol implementation.  
+- This grant does not encompass direct integration with Substrate, but the research will inform future development within the Polkadot ecosystem.
+
+### Ecosystem Fit
+
+**Fit into the Ecosystem:**
+
+- The project enhances governance mechanisms in Substrate-based blockchains, providing a robust competence identification system for DAOs. **Target Audience:**  
+
+- Parachain developers, app developers, governance researchers, and DAO participants.  
+
+- **Needs Met:**  
+
+  - Reliable Frameworks for improved participation rates, reduced centralization, and enhanced security in DAO governance.
+
+**Similar Projects:**
+
+There are no similar projects in the Substrate/Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem. However, related ones in other ecosystems focus on decentralized governance and cryptographic voting systems. [Conviction voting](https://blog.giveth.io/conviction-voting-a-novel-continuous-decision-making-alternative-to-governance-aa746cfb9475) is a similar concept, which we elaborate to state of *conviction election.*
+
+## Team :busts\_in\_silhouette:
+
+### Team members
+
+Team Leader: Tim Pechersky
+
+Team Members:
+
+- Aivars Smirnovs  
+- Alesya Soboleva
+
+### Contact
+
+- **Contact Name:** Tim Pechersky  
+- **Contact Email:** tim at [peeramid.xyz](http://peeramid.xyz)  
+- **Website:** [https://peeramid.xyz](https://peeramid.xyz)
+
+### Legal Structure
+
+- **Registered Address:** Unit 2A, 17/F, Glenealy Tower, No. 1 Glenealy, Central, Hong Kong.  
+- **Registered Legal Entity:** Tri Ratna Technologies Limited
+
+### Team's experience
+
+Experience: The team has extensive experience in decentralized governance, cryptographic protocols, and blockchain development.
+
+Project lead Tim Pechersky, worked with Security Architecture at OpenZeppelin and is an active blockchain contributor. He holds a Master’s in Electronics Engineering, where he studied Systems Theory relevant to this work.
+
+Aivars Smirnovs and Alesya Soboleva have Computer Science degrees.
+
+### Team Code Repos
+
+- [https://github.com/peeramid\_labs](https://github.com/peeramid_labs)
+
+Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects hosted elsewhere or live are also fine.
+
+- [https://github.com/peersky](https://github.com/peersky)
+
+### Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)
+
+- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/peersky/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peersky/)  
+- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aivars-smirnovs-b9943645](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aivars-smirnovs-b9943645)
+
+### Google Scholar Profiles (or other research indexer profiles, ex. ResearchGate)
+
+## Development Status :open\_book:
+
+**Current Status:** The project is in the initial research phase. Preliminary literature review and data collection have been conducted. **Relevant Work:**
+
+- [Autonomous competence identification protocol: A dynamic ranking ladder system for blockchain applications](https://github.com/peersky/papers/blob/main/src/acid/whitepaper.pdf)  
+- [Continuous Voting Proposing Protocol for ordering group intents](https://github.com/peersky/papers/blob/main/src/cvpp/whitepaper.pdf)  
+- [Medium post](https://medium.com/@peeramid-labs/achieving-unbiased-decision-making-in-daos-a-privacy-preserving-approach-64e5683235db)  
+- [early drafts for organization progressive decentralization](https://peersky.xyz/drafts/dao-spawn/)
+
+## Development Roadmap :nut\_and\_bolt:
+
+**Overview**
+
+- **Total Estimated Duration**: 3 months  
+- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)**:  1 FTE (adjust based on your team's capacity)  
+- **Total Costs**: 10,000 USD  
+- **DOT%**: 50%
+
+### Milestone 1 — Introduction: Review literature and research on novel voting systems.
+
+- **Estimated duration:** 1 month  
+- **FTE:** 0.3  
+- **Costs:** 3,000 USD
+
+| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
+| ----: | :---- | :---- |
+| **0a.** | Copyright and Licenses | CC BY 4.0 |
+| **0b.** | Documentation | We’ll provide a list of literature and latest developments |
+| **0c.** | Methodology | Literature review |
+| **0d.** | Infrastructure | We’ll provide a list of infrastructure requirements (text editors with proper versions, software packages, data packages, etc) to verify the milestone deliveries. |
+| **0e.** | Article | We’ll send an article part (with source code) explaining our findings on the DAO landscape. |
+| **1\.** | Literature | We’ll search the literature on increasing participation rates and progressive decentralization and deliver a list of papers with web links. |
+| **2\.** | Introduction part for paper | A comprehensive report on the state of the industry. |
+| **3\.** | Data to be extracted from the papers | We will extract participation rates, turnover, centralization, and inequality metrics from papers and general sentiment about DAOs. |
+
+### Milestone 2 — Propose a multi-token governance system
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month  
+- **FTE:** 0.4  
+- **Costs:** 4,000 USD
+
+| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
+| ----: | :---- | :---- |
+| **0a.** | Copyright and Licenses | CC BY 4.0 |
+| **0b.** | Documentation | Updated documentation for the refined research paper, including financial token models & analyzed trust flow. |
+| **0c.** | Methodology | Game theoretic and financial analysis. |
+| **0d.** | Infrastructure | We’ll provide the list of infrastructure requirements (text editors with proper versions, software packages, data packages, etc) to verify the deliveries with this milestone. |
+| **0e.** | Article | We’ll send an article part (with source code) explaining our proposed approach for multi-token system progressive decentralization in DAOs and its impact on participation rates. |
+| **1\.** | Literature | We’ll systematically search the literature on increasing participation rates and progressive decentralization. Then, we will deliver a list of papers to read with web links. |
+| **2\.** | Introduction part for paper | A comprehensive report on the state of the industry. |
+| **3\.** | Data to be extracted from the papers | Participation rates, turnover, centralization and inequality metrics will be extracted from papers, as well as general sentiment about DAOs. |
+
+### Milestone 3 — Polkadot community survey
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month  
+- **FTE:** 0.3  
+- **Costs:** 3,000 USD
+
+| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
+| ----: | :---- | :---- |
+| **0a.** | Copyright and Licenses | CC BY 4.0 |
+| **0b.** | Documentation | Documentation of the data sources, analysis methods, and key findings from the Polkadot community survey. |
+| **0c.** | Methodology | Surveys. |
+| **0d.** | Infrastructure | We’ll provide the list of infrastructure requirements (text editors with proper versions, software packages, data packages, etc) to verify the milestone deliveries. |
+| **0e.** | Article | We’ll send an article part (with source code) explaining our findings on Polkadot community opinions about proposed token mechanisms. |
+| **1\.** | Survey Dataset | A comprehensive report analyzing the Polkadot DAO & Investor community, including DOT holders, active governance participants, DAO members, and vendor companies. This will involve Polkadot forum, Telegram groups, Twitter polls, and direct outreach to vendors and key opinion leaders. |
+
+## Future Plans
+
+- **Short-term:**  
+
+  - We plan to share our research findings through publications, conference presentations, and community engagement in the Polkadot ecosystem. We’ll seek feedback and collaborations to refine our work.  
+  - We’ll use this data to prepare the next step, the Polkadot DAO landscape metrics analysis, conducted separately to outline improvement metrics.
+
+
+- **Long-term:**  
+
+  - We aim to leverage this research to enhance DAO governance. We potentially developing open-source libraries or Substrate pallets that integrate our competence identification and ranking protocol. We envision contributing to a more secure, efficient, and participatory Web3 governance landscape.  
+  - We’ll propose implementation for the Polkadot ecosystem based on feedback and improvement metrics.
+
+## Referral Program (optional) :moneybag:
+
+You can find more information about the program [here](http://../README.md#moneybag-referral-program).
+
+- **Referrer:** @serayaken from W3F
+
+## Additional Information :heavy\_plus\_sign:
+
+**How did you hear about the Grants Program?** Web3 Foundation Website / Medium / Twitter / Element / Announcement by another team / personal recommendation / etc.
+
+From @serayaken