# Simple thinking about Web3 cursor By [luck](https://paragraph.com/@luck-3) ยท 2022-03-26 --- According to Wikipedia, a curator is an independent worker who arranges artists and local exhibitions for art galleries, museums, libraries or other commercial units, or determines the presentation of cultural relics. In the information age, the concept of digital curation has been extended. Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and increases the value of digital data repositories for current and future use. In the context of Web3, the meaning of cursor tends to digital curation. Recently, there have been some discussions about Web3 cursor on Chinese twitter. This article will talk about the practice of kuratedao, the cursor project, and put forward some superficial thoughts. KurateDAO According to the official description, kuratedao is a Web3 application database based on blockchain and community curation. It proposed the concept of "cure to earn", and announced on March 8 this year that it had obtained a seed round financing of US $6.85 million led by polychain capital. Kuratedao was founded by Michael Fischer in 2022 to manage the world's information using encrypted economic games. Michael is a doctor of computer science from Stanford University and his research field is artificial intelligence. There are four types of roles in kuratedao: Initially, cursor creates the database and puts forward the content access rules. Cursor can be an individual or Dao; Scout contributes content that conforms to the rules in the database, and the income obtained depends on the browsing volume of the content; Viewer needs to pay token or watch advertisement when viewing database content, and these expenses will be saved to the state treasury; Verifier can filter the contents of the database, which is further explained in the following process. 70% of the Treasury revenue is allocated to scout, 20% to cursor and the remaining 10% as network expenses. The process of adding content to the database is complex: Add 1 token to the payment database; If other users disagree with this part of the content (considering factors such as quality or relevance), they can pay double tokens. For example, B pays two tokens and removes the content added by a; C can pay 4 tokens, keep the content added by a, and so on until it times out or no one continues to bet. The token bet by the loser will be allocated to the winner; In another case, if the token in the betting pool exceeds a preset threshold set by the cursor, the content will be sent to the cursor for adjudication. The winner still gets the token allocation, but needs to pay part of the token to the cursor and pay the network fee. In any exhibition planning system, the number of curators is often small, and there are thousands of data. The unequal volume makes the curator lack energy and resources to maintain, which often becomes the bottleneck of the system. The purpose of introducing this gambling mechanism is to introduce other participants in the links of operation and maintenance, and show the optimal results to the cursor. After the cursor defines the rules of a database, scout will determine whether the added content meets the rules, that is, bet on "whether the cursor will accept this part of the content". This is a mechanism to encourage contributors to submit "correct" content and punish them for submitting "wrong" content. Personally, I think the mechanism of kuratedao is slightly complex, and there are two issues to be considered temporarily: The gambling mechanism presupposes that there will always be people involved in gambling. Just like the defect of the early makerdao's collateral clearing mechanism, the starting price is 0 Dai, and it is preset that there is always a liquidator to participate in the auction. However, when extreme market leads to congestion in the chain, the liquidator is often unable to bid. If no one takes part in the bet, the pressure on the cutter cannot be alleviated. Readers need to pay for content, and payment is also a threshold for many people. For example, for the "salt selection members" and the paid reading of WeChat official account, some people think that they will pay for them without paying attention. The introduction of incentive mechanism is good, but where the wool comes out and whether it is sustainable may need further consideration. It remains to be seen whether such a mechanism will work in practice, but kuratedao at least provides an idea: expand the scope of participation, reduce the maintenance burden of curators, and provide an incentive mechanism. Closing Thoughts Accessibility of quality information In the era of information flooding, high-quality information is buried, resulting in low accessibility or high cost. For example, if you want to learn blockchain, some irrelevant contents are often presented in search engines, coupled with the interference of miscellaneous information. For newcomers, screening and judging high-quality information requires not only better information retrieval ability, but also understanding of blockchain, which obviously has a certain threshold. If there are authorities or industry insiders as curators, the threshold of obtaining high-quality information can be relatively reduced. \*Good and sustainable incentive mechanism In fact, there are already many spontaneous and unpaid high-quality content contributors in the field of Web3. But in the long run, "power generation with love" is unsustainable after all, and long-term operation needs incentive mechanism as guidance. Contributors screen and sort out high-quality content, and readers benefit from it and pay for it, so as to encourage contributors to provide better content and form a cycle of positive feedback, which is similar to creator incentive. \*Some forms of curator Personally, the "weekend recommended reading" and "selected articles" of chain news are actually the early forms of article creator; On twitter, mirror cursor Dao has also made a lot of accumulation. The article Weekly has been updated to issue 21 and received a donation of $6556 on gitcoin. In addition to the article selection as the carrier, the content platforms involving information extraction, maintenance and archiving can refer to the model of cursor, such as sorting job board, news bulletins, research topics, weekly investment and financing reports, etc. Further imagine that in the future, curator may even be derived to replace Web3 media. --- *Originally published on [luck](https://paragraph.com/@luck-3/simple-thinking-about-web3-cursor)*