Alignment with DF goals (BGI, Platform growth, community)

Deep Funding seeks to enhance governance by ensuring decisions reflect financial contributions, community expertise, and active participation. A Plural Voting system will balance influence, prevent centralization, and boost trust and engagement. This system can integrate quadratic, stake-weighted, and reputation-based mechanisms to promote fairness and transparency. A dedicated portal would streamline implementation, allowing intuitive vote allocation and real-time governance optimization. Controlled experiments and data-driven simulations will validate the system’s impact, ensuring improved decision-making efficiency. Reputation-based voting can align influence with consistent participation quality, while blockchain and decentralized identity (DID) integration will enhance security and prevent sybil attacks. By fostering a more equitable governance model, Plural Voting will empower Deep Funding participants to make informed, impactful decisions that drive the ecosystem forward.

Problem description

Deep Funding’s current voting system uses square-root weighting but faces strategic voting issues like vote splitting and extreme tactics. Influence is concentrated among large stakeholders, reducing representation for active smaller voters. Funding outcomes often misalign with community priorities. Photrek’s research shows quadratic voting improves decision quality. Plural voting could balance influence fairly, but it needs testing and integration to enhance Deep Funding governance.

Proposed Solutions

To enhance Deep Funding governance, we need a Plural Voting system that integrates quadratic, stake-weighted, and equity-based mechanisms. A user-friendly interface should enable intuitive vote allocation. Beta testing will refine fairness and efficiency. Integrating reputation coins can balance financial influence with participation quality. Data-driven simulations can optimize governance, while blockchain and DID integration ensure transparency, security, and resistance to sybil attacks.