Originally Published - September 18, 2020. Upshot One is a question & answer protocol built on Ethereum. It leverages a field of mechanism design called peer prediction to incentivize honest answers to questions.The Problem When we ask a question, we naturally expect a “correct” answer in return. For general queries on the Internet, and especially on blockchains, this has obviously proven to be a presumptuous expectation. A number of services have arisen to make this expectation realistic, bu...

Originally Published - September 18, 2020. Upshot One is a question & answer protocol built on Ethereum. It leverages a field of mechanism design called peer prediction to incentivize honest answers to questions.The Problem When we ask a question, we naturally expect a “correct” answer in return. For general queries on the Internet, and especially on blockchains, this has obviously proven to be a presumptuous expectation. A number of services have arisen to make this expectation realistic, bu...

Originally Published - October 1, 2020 Peer Prediction is an under-appreciated field that offers novel approaches to eliciting honest answers.Can we build a classroom without a teacher?We can take for granted an ample supply of eager students, communication tools for them to coordinate with each other, and plenty of engaging material online. There are also plenty of readily-available exercises and exams to quiz oneself, topics to write about, and real-world problems to solve. Many of these re...

Originally Published - October 1, 2020 Peer Prediction is an under-appreciated field that offers novel approaches to eliciting honest answers.Can we build a classroom without a teacher?We can take for granted an ample supply of eager students, communication tools for them to coordinate with each other, and plenty of engaging material online. There are also plenty of readily-available exercises and exams to quiz oneself, topics to write about, and real-world problems to solve. Many of these re...

Originally Published - September 25, 2020 There does not exist an efficient price discovery mechanism for NFTs. This inhibits the development of many useful products (e.g. underwriting debt with NFTs, NFT indices). Upshot One can be used to appraise the value of NFTs much more efficiently than normal market transactions.Low-Velocity AssetsThe expansion of the financial sector has made many useful financial tools widely accessible. For example, derivatives allow one to buy financial stability ...

Originally Published - September 25, 2020 There does not exist an efficient price discovery mechanism for NFTs. This inhibits the development of many useful products (e.g. underwriting debt with NFTs, NFT indices). Upshot One can be used to appraise the value of NFTs much more efficiently than normal market transactions.Low-Velocity AssetsThe expansion of the financial sector has made many useful financial tools widely accessible. For example, derivatives allow one to buy financial stability ...

Originally Published - September 23, 2020 Upshot One is a question & answer protocol built on Ethereum. On it, randomly selected agents are incentivized to answer questions correctly via peer prediction. Series of questions and answers can be forked to reflect varying subjective preferences.A question & answer protocol is simply a service where questions are met with answers. Upshot One is a question & answer protocol that makes it prohibitively expensive for questions to be matched with inco...

Originally Published - September 23, 2020 Upshot One is a question & answer protocol built on Ethereum. On it, randomly selected agents are incentivized to answer questions correctly via peer prediction. Series of questions and answers can be forked to reflect varying subjective preferences.A question & answer protocol is simply a service where questions are met with answers. Upshot One is a question & answer protocol that makes it prohibitively expensive for questions to be matched with inco...

Originally Published - December 23, 2020 NFTs lack an efficient price discovery mechanism, so we built an NFT appraisal product powered by peer prediction.New Product whodis?It’s no secret that NFTs are notoriously difficult assets to price. NFTs define an asset class that is both non-fungible and low-velocity (they don’t change hands very often). This makes it very difficult to find the price of NFTs. If an NFT only changes hands once every six months, how do you know how much you should pay...

Originally Published - December 23, 2020 NFTs lack an efficient price discovery mechanism, so we built an NFT appraisal product powered by peer prediction.New Product whodis?It’s no secret that NFTs are notoriously difficult assets to price. NFTs define an asset class that is both non-fungible and low-velocity (they don’t change hands very often). This makes it very difficult to find the price of NFTs. If an NFT only changes hands once every six months, how do you know how much you should pay...

Originally Published - March 4, 2021 NFTs are an incredibly powerful standard for representing almost anything in the decentralized world. A new space is emerging at the intersection of DeFi and NFTs, enabling a range of powerful new DeFi primitives.NFTs are an incredibly powerful standard for representing almost anything in the decentralized world. Today, NFTs most commonly represent things like digital art, digital land, and collectibles. Much of the narrative currently centers around the a...

Originally Published - March 4, 2021 NFTs are an incredibly powerful standard for representing almost anything in the decentralized world. A new space is emerging at the intersection of DeFi and NFTs, enabling a range of powerful new DeFi primitives.NFTs are an incredibly powerful standard for representing almost anything in the decentralized world. Today, NFTs most commonly represent things like digital art, digital land, and collectibles. Much of the narrative currently centers around the a...