Initial script for explainer video.

[lkngtn]

• Celeste is a decentralized oracle protocol which enables smart contracts developers to construct optimistic games with subjective rules.
• Optimistic games enable smart contract developers to create decentralized applications for a broad range of new use cases including:
  • Content moderation
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• In an optismitic game any user can perform an action by placing a collateral deposit, but they are incentivized to do so according to a set of rules.
• User actions are subject to a delay and may be challenged if another user determines they have broken the rules.
• In the event two users disagree, Celeste may be used resolve the dispute.
• When a dispute occurs, a committee is randomly selected among users who have staked Honey, and a commit-reveal voting process is used to determine if the action should be allowed or blocked.
• Resolutions can be challenged and escalated to larger committees, until all staked users have the opportunity to participate.
• The maximum amount of Honey an individual can stake is limited using BrightId, making Celeste resolutions highly decentralized and democratic.

Inspo: https://twitter.com/aaveaave/status/1351504986698616832?s=21

[willjgriff]

• Celeste is a decentralized oracle which enables the construction of optimistic games with subjective rules.
• Any user can perform an action within these optimistic games by paying a deposit.
• Actions are delayed and may be challenged if another user determines that they break the subjective rules.
• When this occurs, a committee, unknown to each other, is randomly selected among users who have staked Honey, who vote on whether the action should be allowed or blocked.
• The outcome can be challenged and escalated to larger committees, until all staked users have the opportunity to vote.
• Those voting inline with the majority make money, those voting against the majority lose money.
• The maximum amount of Honey an individual can stake to take part in voting is limited using BrightId, making Celeste outcomes highly decentralized and democratic.
• Celeste enables the creation of decentralized applications for new use cases including:
  • Content moderation
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol.

I played with it a bit, removed some phrases here and there, tell me what you think.

[lkngtn]

I like it, I think the simplifications make sense, and I like the use cases at the end a bit better, and it sort of roles into the 1hive use case as well.

[borisblock3007]

I started conceptualising the video based on this script and need your thoughts on this. If we want to make video more engaging for wide range of crypto users, we need to present it in understandable way, currently it all seems like a wall of information. So it would be awesome if we can divide our script in sections like so:

1. Intro. We can start with a problem, why you need Celeste?
2. Solution to that problem is Celeste.
3. How it works? Currently most of the scripts fits here, so maybe we need to simplify it even more?
4. Short summary of what Celeste does (if we can fit it). I took this part, but we can shorten it:

Celeste enables the creation of decentralized applications for new use cases including:

• Content moderation
• Curation
• Escrow
• Reputation
• Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol.

5. Outro (website name, or just a logo, or even call to action like in that aave video outro)

It's okay if we go above 60sec a little.

[willjgriff]

Another stab at it.

• Capturing answers to real world questions in a blockchain is hard.
• The blockchain wants to know the answer to a question which requires some research. For example, has a user completed some work? Or is a particular vote inline with an organisations goals?
• With Celeste we can create optimistic games that can answer these questions.
• Any user can perform an action, for example requesting payment for work or creating a vote, by paying a deposit.
• Actions are delayed and can be challenged if they break the rules for those actions.
• Typically an action will not be challenged and will be processed at the end of the delay.
• If an action is challenged, a committee is randomly selected who vote on whether the action should be allowed or blocked.
• The outcome can be challenged and escalated to larger committees and eventually it will be settled.
• Those voting inline with the majority make money, those voting against the majority lose money.
• Celeste enables the creation of decentralised applications for new use cases including:
  • Content moderation
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol from actors with a high capital.
• Learn more here...

[willjgriff]

• Capturing answers to questions in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know the answer to a question, for example, has a user completed some work? Or is a pending vote malicious?
• With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.
• Any user can perform an action, for example requesting payment for work or creating a vote, by locking a deposit.
• Actions can be challenged.
• Acceptable actions will not be challenged and will be processed at the end of a delay.
• If an action is challenged, a committee is randomly selected who vote on whether the action should be allowed or removed.
• The vote can be escalated to larger committees but eventually it will be finalised.
• Those voting inline with the plurality make money, those voting against the plurality lose money.
• The action can then be processed or it is removed.
• Celeste enables applications for use cases including:
  • Content moderation
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol from whales.
• Learn more here...

[fabriziovigevani]

Acceptable actions will not be challenged and will be processed at the end of a delay.

I think the previous version was more accurate. When reading this i interpret that as long as my action is acceptable (follows 1hive covenant guidelines), the action won't be challenged which is not 100% true I think maybe something like Actions that are not challenged will be processed at the end of a delay.

Also with delay are we referring to the voting period/ conviction estimated time ? If so what do you think of Actions that are not challenged will be processed at the end of their corresponding period duration.

[unixpi]

Suggestions (take from them what you will :)

• Capturing answers to subjective questions in a decentralised way is hard.

...

• Any user can perform an action, for example requesting request payment for work or creating create a vote, by locking a deposit.

• Actions can be challenged for some window of time.

• If an action isn't challenged, it will be executed. Acceptable actions will not be challenged and will be processed at the end of a delay.

• If an action is challenged, a committee is randomly selected who to vote on whether it should be allowed or removed.

• Anyone can escalate the dispute to a larger committee, but eventually a final decision will be made. The vote can be escalated to larger committees but eventually it will be finalised.

• Those voting inline with the plurality majority make money, while those voting against the plurality majority lose money.

• After a decision has been made the action is either executed can then be processed or it is or removed.

• Celeste enables applications for use cases including can be used for: ....

• Improving token-based governance

• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol from whales (by allowing anyone to challenge proposals that aren’t in line with the values of the community)

• Learn more here...

[rperez89]

Ah i think that we should remove the wording questions and answers since we change it for disputes in celeste

[willjgriff]

@fabriziovigevani I can see the first point, that's fair.

As for the second point I think it need's to be as concise as possible because the current version isn't very clear when spoken with the video. I think using the term "delay", or perhaps some other word someone can think of instead of 3 words, is better to keep it short and understandable.

[willjgriff]

Ah i think that we should remove the wording questions and answers since we change it for disputes in celeste

@rperez89 Do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for how we can reword these 3 points with the above in mind?

• Capturing answers to questions in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know the answer to a question, for example, has a user completed some work? Or is a pending vote malicious?
• With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.

[rperez89]

Ah i think that we should remove the wording questions and answers since we change it for disputes in celeste

@rperez89 Do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for how we can reword these 3 points with the above in mind?

• Capturing answers to questions in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know the answer to a question, for example, has a user completed some work? Or is a pending vote malicious?
• With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.

mmmhh maybe:

• Resolving disputes in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to let the community members know if someone realizes that some ongoing action might be malicious. (not sure about this one)
• With celeste we can resolve disputes that might araise in communities without a centrilised authority. something around that

[willjgriff]

Next version:

• Capturing answers to subjective questions in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know the answer to a question, for example, has a user completed some work? Or is a pending proposal malicious?
• With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.

OR

• Resolving disputes in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know if an action is malicious, for example, a request for payment for work or the execution of a proposal.
• With Celeste, these actions can be disputed without a centralised authority.

^^^ Please make other suggestions for the first 3 points. I'm struggling to think of something for the dispute narrative. ^^^

• Any user can perform an action, for example request payment for work or create a proposal, by locking a deposit.
• Actions can be challenged within a window of time.
• If an action isn't challenged, it will be executed.
• If an action is challenged, a committee is randomly selected to vote on whether the action should be allowed or removed.
• Anyone can escalate the vote to larger committees but eventually it will be finalised.
• Those voting inline with the plurality make money, those voting against the plurality lose money.
• After a decision has been made the action can be processed or it is removed.
• Celeste enables applications for use cases including:
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol from whales by allowing anyone to challenge proposals that aren’t in line with the values of the community.
• Learn more here...

[unixpi]

I think it reads pretty well :)

Just one minor suggestion to make it even tighter:

With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.

==> With Celeste we can provide an answer without a central authority.

After a decision has been made the action can be processed or it is removed.

I still think this is awkward..

Regarding the disputes vs questions debate, it’s not so much resolving a dispute that’s hard, but correctly answering subjective questions (disputes are a consequence of this really). So I’m not in favour of changing the narrative unless we somehow get this point across.

[rperez89]

I think it reads pretty well :)

Just one minor suggestion to make it even tighter:

With Celeste we can answer these questions without a centralised authority.

==> With Celeste we can provide an answer without a central authority.

After a decision has been made the action can be processed or it is removed.

I still think this is awkward..

Regarding the disputes vs questions debate, it’s not so much resolving a dispute that’s hard, but correctly answering subjective questions (disputes are a consequence of this really). So I’m not in favour of changing the narrative unless we somehow get this point across.

The thing is that all is named as disputes in celeste, so what is kind of awkward is to call them in a different way in the presentation video i think.

[unixpi]

@rperez89 right. But the disputes arise over the answer to a subjective question, do they not? If so, i don't think it's inconsistent.

[willjgriff]

In the interest of time lets stick with questions for the first bit. Final draft below. Feel free to make suggestions but we should get someone reading this and get it synced up with the video.

• Answering subjective questions in a decentralised way is hard.
• Our application wants to know the answer to a question, for example, has a user completed some work? Or is a pending proposal unreasonable?
• With Celeste we can answer these questions without a central authority.
• Any user can perform an action, for example request payment for work or create a proposal, by locking a deposit.
• Actions can be challenged within a window of time.
• If an action isn't challenged, it will be executed.
• If an action is challenged, a committee is randomly selected to vote on whether the action should be allowed or removed.
• Anyone can escalate the vote to larger committees but eventually it will be finalised.
• Those voting inline with the plurality make money, those voting against the plurality lose money.
• Depending on the decision, the action can be processed or it will be removed.
• Celeste can be used for:
  • Curation
  • Escrow
  • Reputation
  • Prediction Markets
• And it will be used to secure the 1Hive Protocol from rich participants by allowing anyone to challenge proposals that aren’t in line with the values of the community.
• Learn more at celeste.1hive.org