Last month, Protocol Pill Incepting Lore & Literacy (PILL) grantees presented their work-to-date over the course of two showcase sessions. After the rounds of presentations were finished, members of the SoP community voted for projects to receive follow-on grants.

Voters used a protocol developed by Martin and Rich, two of the recipients of this summer's Protocol Orienteering Grant. The interesting mechanics of this plural voting model got put to the test:

"[The protocol] uses a mechanism known as connection-oriented cluster match (COCM) which aims to prevent groups of voters with pre-existing relationships from colluding to manipulate a vote."

Thirty-four people participated in the voting protocol, allocating 982 hearts across the 20 PILL projects. Based on the results, each project is set to receive additional funding.

"This approach favors voting outcomes where votes are cast by people from various backgrounds, ensuring diverse perspectives are represented and preventing dominance by a single participant or group."

No other major updates this week, so here are some picks from the forum:

• Protocol Debt: The hidden dangers of backward compatibility (featuring the Crowdstrike debacle).

• A paper on applied antifragility was published in Nature and features multiple protocol case studies.

• What's the deal with sovereign citizen license plates?

• A snippet from The Archipelago: An Island Network In Practice

Happy protocol watching!

Last month, Protocol Pill Incepting Lore & Literacy (PILL) grantees presented their work-to-date over the course of two showcase sessions. After the rounds of presentations were finished, members of the SoP community voted for projects to receive follow-on grants.

Voters used a protocol developed by Martin and Rich, two of the recipients of this summer's Protocol Orienteering Grant. The interesting mechanics of this plural voting model got put to the test:

"[The protocol] uses a mechanism known as connection-oriented cluster match (COCM) which aims to prevent groups of voters with pre-existing relationships from colluding to manipulate a vote."

Thirty-four people participated in the voting protocol, allocating 982 hearts across the 20 PILL projects. Based on the results, each project is set to receive additional funding.

"This approach favors voting outcomes where votes are cast by people from various backgrounds, ensuring diverse perspectives are represented and preventing dominance by a single participant or group."

No other major updates this week, so here are some picks from the forum:

• Protocol Debt: The hidden dangers of backward compatibility (featuring the Crowdstrike debacle).

• A paper on applied antifragility was published in Nature and features multiple protocol case studies.

• What's the deal with sovereign citizen license plates?

• A snippet from The Archipelago: An Island Network In Practice

Happy protocol watching!