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- DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization There are many separate and overlapping DAOs.
- DGF - DAO Governance Framework A software development framework for creating governance systems for DAOs.
- REP - reputation token REP represents the results of validation pools within a given expertise. In Ethereum this may be a fungible or non-fungible token (NFT) or a list of members with their respective weighted power in the DAO. To achieve an NFT instantiation, we extend the ERC 721 token contract to introduce a scalar value for each address of a REP token instance. The value of this scalar is set and modified by the effects of citations in the Forum as enacted by Validation Pool instances.
- Member - an account which holds REP tokens
- Worker - a member of the DAO who has been selected for work by a Work Smart Contract (see below) In the initial DGF instantiation, a worker is a Matrix user with a Casper Wallet. May stake and earn REP and CSPR.
- Customer - a Matrix user with a Casper Wallet. Pays to engage a work contract. Typically, a customer is a non-member of the DAO who pays the DAO a $ fee for work through the WSC.
- Work Smart Contract (WSC) - A contract that takes REP stakes from workers and CSPR from customers, and puts them toward a validation pool (VP) targeting work evidence (WEV).
- Work Evidence (WEV) - A forum post representing work that fulfills some work request(s)
- Validation Pool (VP) - Takes CSPR and author stakes as input. Requires REP-weighted consensus. Mints and distributes REP; distributes CSPR.
- Forum - collection of official contributions (Posts) to the DAO Its mathematical structure is a weighted directed acyclic graph (WDAG).
- Forum Post (Post) - A signed contribution with weighted citations
- Forum reference mechanisms - citation tools for implementing the Forum's WDAG structure
- Ethereum - a block chain supporting contracts and native fungible currency
- ETH - the native fungible currency of the Ethereum block chain
- Casper - a block chain supporting contracts and native fungible currency
- CSPR - the native fungible currency of the Casper block chain
- Matrix - a federated communications platform
- Synapse - the reference Matrix server implementation, including support for federation
- Element-web - the reference Matrix front-end implementation
- Homeserver - a Matrix homeserver running Synapse or equivalent. Also should provide a Casper backend for queries.
- Client - an Element-web widget that will use Casper Wallet and can be added to any Matrix room.