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This week while I was mainly afk the /ponder team shipped:
- anti-collusion rollout on votes and leaderboard
- new in-frame navigation bar
- SIWF + onboarding flow performance improvements
- major bug fixes across the app

Last week we noticed an influx of users all voting for the same answer repeatedly, leading to statistically impossible outcomes (e.g., 100% accuracy over 30 votes). 

So today we launched CollusionGuard 9000 🛡️ 

It uses ML to identify statistically anomalous clusters and adjust vote weights accordingly. For example, if you voted alongside 50 other people on all of the right answers for ten questions, your vote diminishes in value until your responses normalize.

People who fall into those clusters can still participate in boosted pools and win an equal amount by selecting the right answer. No banning required (for now). 

There’s risk in this approach. We expect a drop off in numbers from colluders - and some won’t consider this decentralized - but the overall integrity of the game should increase.

We officially rolled out our new anti-collusion algo, which uses some basic ML + vote weighting to prevent users from gaming ponder predictions

The cool part of this approach is anyone who is trying to take advantage isn’t banned from voting, they’re just adding to the total pool like everyone else

s/o @etash for all the work getting this live

geography guy // writing software @ponder @survey

Late update - this week the /ponder team shipped:
- SIWF + a brand new onboarding flow
- anti-collusion / anti-spam guard (releasing in the next few days)
- simplified prediction creation
- major frame performance improvements
- tons of bug fixes

FarCon NYC

teddit

wait do you brush your teeth before or after coffee

Some shocking results here

I thought this would be very close to a 50/50 split

rip my weekly accuracy

coinbasewallet

Let's talk about the future of Coinbase Wallet. ↓

This may be one of those pivotal moments where frames go mainstream for the first time

Crazy bullish as a builder in this space right now

This week the /ponder team shipped:
- frame design improvements
- share button now opens the cast composer
- daily notification cap to avoid spam
- refreshed leaderboard design w/ personal stats
- image thumbnails in predictions list
- ML algo for segment analysis
- major smart contract upgrade

New smart contract is now live, making predictions wayy more powerful in the coming weeks 💭

h/t @benbassler.eth who led the upgrade and is already crushing it in his second week with us!

PS there's some hidden alpha in the code on what's yet to come, can you can spot it?
https://basescan.org/address/0x439bc1890b1619b72ae7c3adb8743ae7fb3762a9

New smart contract is now live, making predictions wayy more powerful in the coming weeks 💭

h/t @benbassler.eth who led the upgrade and is already crushing it in his second week with us!

PS there's some hidden alpha in the code on what's yet to come, can you can spot it?

engineer /ponder, obsessed with user experience. benbassler.com

testchannel

Expecting ~15 mins of downtime as we upgrade our smart contracts

Then we'll release some more banger predictions you can midcurve

Looks like we blew through the funds in our transaction wallet that powers our backend transactions which resulted in some downtime

Should be back up and running as normal and backfilling any missing rewards over the next hour or so

Everything is stable once again and missing transactions have been backfilled

Happy predicting 💭

Looks like we're getting rate limited by Alchemy so some users may not be able to see their balances in our frame

Should be fixed shortly

Looks like balances are stable once again

We'll continue to monitor in case any other issues pop up

This week the /ponder team shipped:
- fully refactored miniapp (unlocks tons of new upcoming features)
- most pfps in the miniapp now clickable
- in-feed frame improvements
- notification reliability improvements
- lots of cleanup and bug fixes

co-founder @ponder @survey // benadamsky.com

Ben Adamsky 💭

@ba