AMA about @ponder!

We’ve been shipping a lot of new stuff (more coming today) and figured there may be some questions on things like:

- How do we stop collusion?
- Is there a Dune dashboard?
- Should clouds have monocles?

Drop yours below 👇

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How can someone be confident that predictions and polls aren't beeing manipulated? Is there a way to see a list of all participants? Curious to hear how you typically respond to this question.

I love Ponder btw, have been having fun with it from day 1!

That's interesting - I didn’t know about your CollusionGuard ML algorithm. Does it also apply to predictions where people stake money? I always assumed each person's vote carried the same weight.

I know this is one of the toughest challenges in a permissionless environment, which is why I’m always curious to hear how different teams are approaching it.

The most important element is our CollusionGuard ML algo.

It gives everyone a score based upon their voting history. If they have no history, their vote weight is very low. If they have a history of colluding (consistent votes with the same group of people), their vote weight stays very low. If they have a normal distribution of votes, their weight is very high.

Weve seen collusion groups join the app, attempt to collude, fail, and then leave. It’s been super effective.

The trade off is you have to trust Ponder’s algo. I think long term we can make this all happen with zk proofs on chain, but not today while we find PMF.