Ethereum-based Quadratic Funding Of Public Commodities

International Journal of Information Security Science

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Dhairya SHAH¹  Srikant KAMATH¹  Smeet RAMANݹ  Aruna GAWADE¹ 

[1] Dwarkadas J Sanghvi College Of Engineering

关键词: Blockchain;    Crowdfunding;    Public Goods;    Quadratic Funding;    Weighted Averaging;    Ethereum;   

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Gazi University

【 摘 要 】

Crowdfunding is a process of generating funds by receiving small chunks of money from public by showcasing the project any creator desires to execute. Donation based crowdfunding is a popular fundraising technique where contributions made by the public are labeled as donations without any rewards in return. Match funding is an extension of the crowdfunding mechanism but with the involvement of a rich individual/organization willing to match ‘x’ amount from the donations made by the general public. But, the problem of fundraising for project through such means is that there is an inconsistent & non-transparent exchange of information about a project at regular intervals among creator and its contributors. The current system also lacks in focusing towards the desired area of interest of the contributors. Therefore, it’s needed to improvise this flaw of the current crowdfunding scenario. This paper proposes a system which aims to give more importance to contributor & his/her contribution by using their donation amounts to identify the match amount for a project & it also involves contributors in the decision-making process for projects thereby creating a decentralized governance. The proposed system incorporates the benefits of crowdfunding & match funding along with the utilization of a concept called Quadratic Funding for calculating project’s final disbursement amount. The given system focuses only on the donation-based mechanism for funding public goods i.e., the goods which are vastly beneficial to the general public and are non-rivalrous and non-excludable in nature. The system is implemented using the blockchain technology.

【 授权许可】

CC BY