Legitimacy Doesn’t Grow in a Blackbox

We’re building a platform to see-through crypto projects to improve the coordination of information providing the community with clearer, digestible context to discover accountable projects.

Web 3 needs legitimacy to reach critical mass.

ECF aims to solve certain coordination problems, focusing on legitimacy theory through original solutions and the integration of robust web3 technologies that allow for decentralized collaborative editing, curation and governance of a community-owned knowledge base.

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The Mechanics

The Pensieve Mechanism

Credible sources of information are hard to find, and the tendency to rely on authoritative institutions has seen its own pitfalls. ECF proposes a decentralized mechanism for collaborative editing and dispute resolution to achieve content sovereignty.

  • Community Ownership

  • Content Sovereignty & Immutable History

  • Decentralised Collaborative Editing

  • Dispute Resolution

  • Merit-based Governance

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The Platform

ECF platform uses Pensieve Mechanism to promote accountable and legitimate Web3 projects through efficient coordination and collective intelligence from the community.

Below is a small preview of how we apply these ideas that we are currently building.

Project Proposals

Create proposals for new projects, including essential items, and submit them for community voting. Once a proposal reaches max support, it becomes the official project page on ECF.

Community Verification

Each item has a weight that must be exceeded and a minimum of unique votes per item (quorum) in order to pass. Once a proposal has exceeded all item weights and achieved quorum, it wins and the proposed project becomes published in the main project index.

Gain Rewards

Both the creator of a proposed project and the winning proposal are rewarded. If the proposer of the project in addition has their 1st proposal therein wins, they get both the Bounty and the Zero-to-one Rewards.

Project Pages

Projects have profile views with community-contributed data linked to open data sources, improving credibility and ranking. The goal is transparent, open, credible, community-verified, and community-owned information.

Propose Items & Edits

Project pages also contain a contribution view wherein users can, as when proposing new projects, then propose new items to be added to a project page or update existing items by submitting their own entries. Proposed item additions and update submissions are all subject to dynamic voting by the community.

The Roadmap

PHASE 1

Validation (Partially-closed Alpha) (v0.1)

Core Mechanics Implemented in Web2.

  • Collective Editing of Pages

    • Pensieve Mechanism/Content Governance v0.3

    • ECF Web3 Project Blueprints v0.1

  • The Open Contribution to Project Index:

    • Evaluation Framework v0.1

    • Community Curation v0.3

PHASE 2

Open Alpha (-web3) (v0.3)

Core Mechanics implemented into a Web3 tech stack

  • Collective Editing of Project Pages:

    • Pensieve Mechanism/Content Governance v0.6

    • ECF Web3 Project Blueprints v0.5

  • The Open Contribution to Project Index:

    • Evaluation Framework v0.5

    • Community Curation v0.5

PHASE 3

Testnet Beta (web3-) (v0.5)

Core Mechanics fully implemented to web3 on testnet

Collective Editing of Project Pages:

  • Pensieve Mechanism/Content Governance v0.6

  • ECF Web3 Project Blueprints v0.5

  • Dispute Resolution (CDR) v0.2

  • The Open Contribution to Project Index:

    • Evaluation Framework v0.5

    • Community Curation v0.5

  • Tech Stack Implementations:

  • Decentralised Storage

  • Implementation of DID method

  • Web2 Data Migration

PHASE 4

Mainnet Prep (v0.9)

On-chain Test with Tech Stack & System Improvements

Collective Editing of Project Pages:

  • Pensieve Mechanism/Content Governance v0.6

  • ECF Web3 Project Blueprints v0.5

  • The Open Contribution to Project Index:

    • Evaluation Framework v0.9

    • Community Curation v0.8

  • Social Stream v0.5

  • Tech Stack Implementation:

    • Privacy Layer: InvisibilityCloak v0.5

PHASE 5

Mainnet Launch (v1.0)

Open Contribution to Project Index & Collective Editing of Project Pages.

Collective Editing of Project Pages:

  • Pensieve Mechanism/Content Governance v1 with Dispute Resolution (CDR) v0.5

  • ECF Web3-Project Blueprints v1

  • The Open Contribution to Project Index:

    • Evaluation Framework v1

    • Community Curation v1

  • Coordination Feature Pack 1:

    • Simple Grant and Grant Integration

    • Solution Tender & Bounty

  • Governance v1:

    • Pensieve Protocol

  • Social Streams v1

PHASE N

Oh, it only just begins...

We have a lot in store for the next 5 to 10 years.

Here are some of the things in a bigger roadmap to non-stoppable:

  • Governance:

    • ECF Platform Full-on Community

    • Full-on Operation Governance

  • Coordination Tools:

    • Resource-allocation Tools

    • Expanded Support Scope

  • DAO Tools:

    • Expanded Voting Mechanisms


...and more to come. 

Want to get involved?

This platform is for you to own and take it further! If you believe our values align with your own, join us to take back the web together! Here are some paths where you can contribute:

Alpha Tester

You can start earning contributor points since you'll get early access to be one of the first to use the ECF.network Platform's Alpha. Join our Discord to learn more!

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Tech Collaborator

Help integrate Decentralised Storage, Data Streaming, Blockchain Data Detection, Smart Contract Security, etc. Use email encryption:

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Funding Supporter

The platform is built by volunteers around the world who work to further its development and integration with the ecosystem. Your donations make it possible!

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Core Contributor

Work with a team of some of the most experienced people in the crypto space and some of the best minds in the ecosystem. We're always in need of new people & ideas!

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About ECF

Since 2018 the ECF team have been supporting and funding the development of real web3 infrastructure, today we are building the frameworks for everyone to coordinate their support for the technologies they find to be legitimate and necessary for the space.

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