SCALING HIGH QUALITY HUMAN JUDGEMENT

Driving rewards to open source repos with a market of AIs as the engine and humans as the steering wheel.

Take on the challengejoin the jury

THE THREE COMPONENTS OF DEEP FUNDING

The model(s) best aligning with jury spot checks distribute funds across the dependency graph.

Dependency Graph

A data layer mapping all contributions to an ecosystem

Model Submissions

An open contest to crowdsource the relative value between contributions

Spot Checkers

A jury to express preferences on a randomly selected set of contributions

DEEP DIVE

Existing public goods funding mechanisms favor projects that either publicly campaign to get themselves known or curry favor with a small group of people. They also become operationally burdensome as the number of applicants increases.

Deep funding supports all projects, even those in the background, by assigning weights indicating their relative importance to a cause the funder cares about.

Essentially, it is a mechanism well suited to fund package dependencies maintained by that “random person in Nebraska”. 

A public market of allocator models answer the question, ‘how valuable was project A, B, C......N for achieving  an outcome?’ 

Alongside, a jury makes a few manual comparisons between projects based on which a winning model is selected to distribute funds across the network.

Deep dive with ‘Resources’ & FAQs!

THE DEEP FUNDING CHALLENGE

Give weights to source repos such that their summation to the target repo = 1

End Goal: Submit 15,000 weights to the Ethereum dependency graph

Level 1: Fund the Farm

Seed Node vs Seed Node

Develop an allocator model assigning weights to 34 source repos (seed nodes) with the target repo of Ethereum

Level 2: Farm to Forest

Seed Node vs Child Node

Develop an allocator model determining the portion of funds staying with seed nodes vs passed on to dependencies

Level 3: Fund the Forest

Child Node vs Child Node

Develop an allocator model assigning weights to over 5000 dependencies (child nodes) with the target repo of 34 seed nodes

Submissions: Feb 10 - May 10, 2025

All jury selection is by nomination, invitation or application only. See the list of jurors here.

The task of submitters is to give edge weights such that

A + B + C + D = 1 {Level 1: fund the farm}

B vs {B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6} {Level 2: farm to forest}

B1 + B2 + B3 + B4 + B5 + B6 = 1 {Level 3: fund the forest}

Jurors randomly conduct spot checks to answer
“Has A or B been more valuable to Ethereum's success?” Submissions get a higher score if they are more compatible with spot checks

REWARDS WORTH $220k

$170k

to open source repos based on weights given by winning models

$50k

to winning models and knowledge sharing in the contest such as datasets, open source models & other infra

COLLABORATORS

JURY SELECTION


Level 1: Fund the Farm

Challenge: Seed Node vs Seed Node

Jury Selection: By nomination only

Level 1.5: Farm to Forest

Challenge: Seed Node v Child Node

Jury Selection: By nomination or invtation only

Level 2: Fund the Forest

Challenge: Child Node v Child Node

Jury Selection: By nomination or application

Apply to be a juror here