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Game Theory Writeup for Protocol Incentives in Secure Messaging #121

Open kgrgpg opened 2 years ago

kgrgpg commented 2 years ago

For spam protected secure messaging, it is essential to incentivise all the stakeholders of the system so that the services are reliable and of high quality. For example in Waku, all the relayer nodes, specifically: Store, Filter and Lightpush need to be paid for providing services like storage and bandwidth.

A proper analysis needs to be documented where the game played between these system stakeholders is broken down. Some questions investigated for this write-up will include:

  1. Prioritisation analysis of the most important stake holders in the system.
  2. Most efficient mechanisms to enable payments between service providers and en users.
  3. How to anonymise the payments between the parties? Investigate the use of Tornado Cash, Tornado Cash Nova for the same.
  4. How to ensure a long standing collaboration between stake holders so they act in benefit of each other?
  5. Possible attack surfaces
  6. How to ensure quality of service?

This write-up is a produced artefact in itself. This also paves the way for other artefacts like: