DARSAN: A Decentralized Review System Suitable for NFT Marketplaces
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Tamoghna Sarkar, Jared Coleman, Anusha, Avyukt, Hugo Embrechts, Dimitri Torfs, Michele Minelli, Bhaskar, Krishnamachari

TL;DR
DARSAN is a decentralized review system tailored for NFT marketplaces that incentivizes honest reviews and improves expert quality over time through a two-phase process and performance-based selection.
Contribution
The paper introduces DARSAN, a novel decentralized review framework for NFTs that enhances review reliability and expert selection without external oversight.
Findings
DARSAN favors honest reviewers in simulations.
The system improves expert pool quality over time.
DARSAN operates effectively even with malicious participants.
Abstract
We introduce DARSAN, a decentralized review system designed for Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplaces, to address the challenge of verifying the quality of highly resalable products with few verified buyers by incentivizing unbiased reviews. DARSAN works by iteratively selecting a group of reviewers (called ``experts'') who are likely to both accurately predict the objective popularity and assess some subjective quality of the assets uniquely associated with NFTs. The system consists of a two-phased review process: a ``pre-listing'' phase where only experts can review the product, and a ``pre-sale'' phase where any reviewer on the system can review the product. Upon completion of the sale, DARSAN distributes incentives to the participants and selects the next generation of experts based on the performance of both experts and non-expert reviewers. We evaluate DARSAN through simulation…
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TopicsMobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing · Auction Theory and Applications · Spam and Phishing Detection
