Integrate "future salaries" into GitCoin

vporton commented 3 years ago

User Story

People receive salaries based on their already published and having become popular works. That's wrong, because it does not take future expectations into account.

Moreover, some working people receive no salary at all or salaries are spread in an arbitrarily unfair way.

Authors and publishers are not rewarded for publishing open access / open source.

Also need an interface to donate for funding retired carbon offsets.

Why Is this Needed

We need a way to collect donations and pay salaries to scientists, free software developers, as well as to open access publishers that are calculated based on their predicted future performance.

The predictions should be done in a decentralized way.

We should also be able to make traders "bid" on future donations, because donations grow over time and become more international and more inclusive.

Summary:

Description

Type: Feature

Here is a demo.

Lock donated/bequested funds for an extended amount of time (for climate it probably would be 50 years, for science and free software - 100 years (certainly, we can set it shorter), however shorter locking period should be considered). Please comment how exactly many years the lock periods should be. Should we have choice for multiple locking periods?
Allocate conditional tokens (for climate a single carbon token) to anybody who registers (be it a human or a corporation).
(In the future) pay collateral to holders after the set point in the future to holders of conditional tokens to stimulate their acquisition by traders in the amount proportional to the "score" (such as the future citations count of a scientist) of a person.

It works as a money transfer from the future: Provided certain assumptions about the market (including the assumption that we can predict future scores of registered users with precision enough for our purposes), we can take in present a sum equal (relative to the market size) to a sum of collaterals donated in the future. So we get future donations! See the scientific article referred below for the details.

For more information including the mathematical details see:

(temporary) project homepage
the idea in details
more about the calculation algorithm of the collateral
the scientific article I have sent to The Journal of International Development (because it is a closed access publication, I can't publish it here, I will send it to you on request).

Expected Behavior

Integrate this code into GitCoin. The project could be maintained independently of GitCoin but:

It aligns very well with GitCoin mission.
The project needs support from GitCoin community in both coding/auditing and in publicity.

Definition of Done

The project is finished, all FIXME and TODO comments as well as all items in the TODO file are done.
The project is fully integrated into GitCoin and has a noticeable link to it in GitCoin UI.
The system is well-documented.

Data Requirements

How will we measure the success of this feature?

Number of page users/sessions/views.
Total amount of collaterals donated and the total market price of conditionals minted.
Number of users registered for a salary.

Additional Information

I did my demo app a single page react app. Is it OK to leave it such a React app, or should it be rewritten with another HTML technology before we release it in GitCoin?

If the GitCoin governance will say to me that you are going to publish my article on GitCoin in a noticeable enough way, I am going to withdraw my scientific article from The Journal of International Development in order to publish it open access.

A huge part of the work is already done by me! The most complicated of not yet done things:

extensive testing and audit of the smart contracts (publish them on mainnet as soon as this is done)
support "bequesting" all funds on a GnosisSafe wallet because people like to bequest more than to donate

See also the carbon and social good accounting project to be integrated with (also needs smart contracts audit).

vporton commented 3 years ago

I tried to accomplish this by inserting my React component into a GitCoin page, but that failed (among other reasons because chainId variable is present both in GitCoin and my component and the browser refused to accept it being defined twice).

I see no other choice (except to improve React packaging software) is to rewrite my component without use of React. That's a sad truth that GitCoin and React are not compatible.

vporton commented 3 years ago

The "Carbon" part was removed, because I realized that the "science" part can manage carbon accounting (and all other social goods), too.

vporton commented 3 years ago

@owocki My "core" smart contracts are nearly finished. I a going to pay $3000 for an audit of the contracts. I am not a millionaire. Please help. It may become a part of GitCoin, so it's quite reasonable if GitCoin pays for it.

owocki commented 3 years ago

cool - let me checkout the contracts. where are they?

re paying - sorry, but thats not what we do. have you had any luck raising $$ via grants for your projects?

vporton commented 3 years ago

cool - let me checkout the contracts. where are they?

re paying - sorry, but thats not what we do. have you had any luck raising $$ via grants for your projects?

We have no way to put the contracts into https://github.com/gitcoinco/smart_contracts without a heavy rewrite, because they use Solidity 0.7 and smart_contracts is using a smaller version. What will we do? The easiest thing is just moving several my repositories into gitcoinco organization. I querying you for me to initiate the transfer.

vporton commented 3 years ago

One of the reasons why this project ("future salaries") is needed to be launched is laughable but scary:

I have trouble (for various reasons) to publish my scientific research. I have it on my site and with a minor publisher. If it never goes mainstream, then we have a "security bug":

I may die not publishing it.
Anyone other cannot publish on this topic, because science ethics forbids publishing others' research. Therefore nobody can publish a certain part of the science. It is like leftpad on which all the science depends on, so I broke the entire science just like the leftpad author did with the Internet. This issue is a way to repair it by creating a market of open access scientific publishing.

So "future salaries" project is an absolute must (even if you don't believe that I alone can break the science, there are other reasons anyway).

vporton commented 3 years ago

Dear @owocki I am waiting for your reply to the above comment.

owocki commented 3 years ago

hey victor, consider me a avid fan of what youre trying to do, i just dont have the capital to contribute much (though i'd be happy to fund it via the next QF round)

vporton commented 3 years ago

I've realized that I can reduce gas usage, by the way making my contract shorter. I am starting to rewrite.

vporton commented 3 years ago

I've realized that I can reduce gas usage, by the way making my contract shorter. I am starting to rewrite.

The contract shortened, gas usage reduced. The same functionality (but better) will be provided through other contracts.

vporton commented 3 years ago

I thought my programming of the main contract is finished except of documenting and delivering to auditors.

But during auditing, I found several bugs and misfeatures.

The last bug I found was: An investor may gain if he kills a scientist to stop him from receiving a salary to reduce the circulating supply of his token to increase the price. (I was threatening my own and others' developers life!) Planned solution: Create a new salary token after each outgoing transfer of the salary.

So (it makes sense after I finish documenting), @owocki please announce my project to smart people to further find bugs/misfeatures.

vporton commented 3 years ago

The current state of the project:

I have an "again almost final" version of my contracts. It was rewritten heavily with many API changes. There are a few small (technical and local for a line in the source) FIXME/TODO comments.
With help of a small bounty I funded, I started to rewrite my dApp in Vue, to be able to integrate it with GitCoin.

I want anyone clever to help me to review my contracts but I didn't yet document them well.

vporton commented 3 years ago

@owocki

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owocki commented 3 years ago

Hey Victor, oh this is a fork of Gitcoin (in the Gitcoin codebase) not an independent project? I didnt realize that. Seems like it works from the video you sent me, I'll need to check with Kyle about how it dovetails with our roadmap tho

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vporton commented 3 years ago

Hey Victor, oh this is a fork of Gitcoin (in the Gitcoin codebase) not an independent project? I didnt realize that. Seems like it works from the video you sent me, I'll need to check with Kyle about how it dovetails with our roadmap tho …

Hi Kevin.

It started as this dApp: https://vporton.github.io/future-salary/#/

But afterward I realized that this is best not independent project but an addition to GitCoin:

GitCoin provides user authorization and anti-Sybil, what are much important for my dApp.
GitCoin's mission is funding open source, so my dApp is a perfect fit as a "component" of GitCoin.
GitCoin has already installed DB to store additional data that will help to "score" users to determine their salaries.
GitCoin has big targetted traffic to launch this project.

vporton commented 3 years ago

Hey Victor, oh this is a fork of Gitcoin (in the Gitcoin codebase) not an independent project? I didnt realize that. Seems like it works from the video you sent me, I'll need to check with Kyle about how it dovetails with our roadmap tho …

Dear @owocki Apparently you didn't notice that I made a draft pull request https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/pull/8265 already!

owocki commented 3 years ago

got it; i dont review PRs anymore so thats why i didnt see it

vporton commented 3 years ago

I've added the whitepaper of the system:

Now you can know what I did :-)

@owocki

vporton commented 3 years ago

I've updated

https://github.com/vporton/gitcoin-web/blob/future/app/assets/docs/science-salaries.odt
https://github.com/vporton/gitcoin-web/blob/future/app/assets/docs/science-salaries.pdf The updated version contains the use case and motivation for funding open-access publishers.

P.S. My contracts are to be audited soon. I have already initiated a money transfer to the auditor.

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