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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.
- involve members contributing and verifying data.
- Each transaction such as issuance, retirement, or trading of offsets, would require verification.
- As members verify transactions they earn more reputation tokens.
- If they provided or verified incorrect information, they will lose reputation tokens.
- Different levels of reputation tokens are required for different transactions on the network. 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 for contributions similar to the Multiple Listing Service for residential real estate would be based on:
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