Sentiment Protocol: A Decentralized Protocol Leveraging Crowd Sourced Wisdom
Anton Muehlemann

TL;DR
The paper introduces Sentiment Protocol, a decentralized system that incentivizes crowd-sourced opinions for accurate predictions and governance, combining classical polling benefits with prediction market features.
Contribution
It presents a novel incentivization framework that unites polling and prediction markets, enabling accurate forecasting and decentralized governance.
Findings
Provides a customizable incentivization framework
Unites classical polling and prediction markets
Applicable to forecasting and decentralized governance
Abstract
The wisdom of the crowd is a valuable asset in today's society. It is not only important in predicting elections but also plays an essential role in marketing and the financial industry. Having a trustworthy source of opinion can make forecasts more accurate and markets predictable. Until now, a fundamental problem of surveys is the lack of incentives for participants to provide accurate information. Classical solutions like small monetary rewards or the chance of winning a prize are often not very attractive for participants. More attractive solutions, such as prediction markets, face the issue of illegality and are often unavailable. In this work, we present a solution that unites the advantages from classical polling and prediction markets via a customizable incentivization framework. Apart from predicting events, this framework can also be used to govern decentralized autonomous…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Spam and Phishing Detection
