Bounty smart contract

[czechdave]

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[shortcut-integration]

This pull request has been linked to Shortcut Story #18776: Question/Answer smart contract.

[ezpuzz]

we can get this cost lower by using an l2 chain?

[czechdave]

That could be a way to get it down. At current prices for this function on mainnet ETH is ~$30.

[ezpuzz]

may not be a requirement, each question contract can handle its own business

[czechdave]

That's what's happening now. The open question is how will a user get the open questions without any central book keeping. We could provide some off chain index from solidity Events.

[ezpuzz]

generating an event and then index them off-chain sounds good.

i think over time the question contract will need to be upgradeable somehow too, but it could be just deploying a protocolv2 contract...

[czechdave]

Another way is to have the Question contract pull threshold values or even functions from the Master that could have a governance contract to change those thresholds/functions in order to "upgrade" the question contracts.

For example the consensus function can be on the Master and the Question just supplies it with it's state to check if it reached consensus or not.

That way you wouldn't need to spend potentially infinite gas on upgrading all existing Question contracts one by one. Instead just'd upgrade the Master contract once.

[ezpuzz]

hmm yeah, i just think the computation complexity of a good consensus algorithm almost necessitates it being off-chain. elvis is working on a proof of concept for performing the actual calculation of consensus (settlement?) off-chain but in a provable way.

I think there is value in this "query contract" approach for connecting demand directly, staking per-submission and per-vote.

Payout is likely a single contract that we pass the "query contract" address to and it reads the state and has token transfer abilities if the state is settled? I don't know, a lot of moving parts.

If we want to continue on this query contract approach you should pivot towards the blockchain infrastructure for polygon edge so we can gauge the costs more accurately. You can one-click a polygon edge without "supernets" (built in validator network) using https://www.kaleido.io/polygon-edge

[ezpuzz]

• support PO or SP tuples for query
• support multiples answers that can be paid out
• implement sharing of the query bounty to the answerers and voters
• check NFT contract for entity being eligible as an answer

• support "is this entity unique and self consistent and meets MDT?" use case
• add bounty to existing question as a second asker