Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
What’s the next step after pop-up cities? Wonder if you could have a PopupBnB Participants go to an app and register a group of N which declares certain time/place bounding box, locks funds into an escrow contract (say 1 week’s cost), and appoints a p-of-q governing group by vote Potential host cities also sign up with some basic pre-commits. Convert popup to an RFP Towns bid to host, with a cost and % of constraints satisfied Committee votes to accept bid and issues invite with 1 week window to accept. Sooner you accept, lower the cost. Those who don’t accept lose escrow amount after 1 week. Earnest money released to winning bidder.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The version that I had is: you lock up $N into a box that specifies parameters for a popup that they would join (this could be just a list of specific popup manifest files that specify organizer, location and time slot, or it could be more complex), and the funds can be grabbed once a popup reaches some threshold. The funds then pay for the popup, and also serve as an incentive to actually come. This can be naturally combined with some involvement from the host city, or any other functionality.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
This seems like a more elegant way to do it. More Web3ish pattern. My sketch seems overengineered in a Web2 way.
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Dan Finlay 🦊
@danfinlay
That kind of social constraint solver to overcome a coordination problem could totally be done with gator.metamask.io I was just sketching up a civic bond funding system that works basically the same way with it, probably applies to lots of kinds of crowdfunding. Our red balloon game demonstrated a simple version of this: https://x.com/danfinlay/status/1816856588910756205?s=46
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Pirate King Kiba
@kiba
We just built popup.capital at zuvillage hackathon to aggregate funding mechanism. Could def add this as a UX/UI flow over Foras existing crowdfunding contract.
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