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- This decentralized network would be governed like an open source project.
- The initial members serve as the maintainers/committers who could add new members.
- Only members are able to read and write directly to the network.
- The maintainers will host the basic web UI as a publicly available resource.
- Members could use their access rights to create their own UI, apps, or branded research services for their clients or users.
- If members do not actively contribute additional data or contribute incorrect data, they would be removed by the maintainers.
- Initially the governance and validation of the data would be informal, but as the project grows, it could be formalized with a DAO voting scheme.
An incentive structure could link upgraded for contributions would be based on:
- Upgraded usage of data from the directory to the contributions. A verification process would be set up to validate the data from the participants. For example, members could challenge listings and trades. The challenged member would then need to prove them to a neutral DAO panel. If the challenge is successful, the failing party would lose reputation tokens; if the challenge fails, the challenging party would lose reputation tokens. Eventually if party has too few tokens it loses access to the directory.
- Public listing of offsets purchased by end user organizations looking to prove their purchases.
- Published leader boards of top dealers and purchasers, which would help their reputations.
- Listing service for sale of future offsets.
This directory would not directly allow trading between participants. It is for information purposes only. However, even without trading, this directory could greatly enhance the voluntary offsets market place by:
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