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# Bounties
## What are Manifold bounties?
From time to time, a member of our community goes above and beyond in helping Manifold make prediction markets accessible & ubiquitous. Wed like to recognize such contributions publicly, and include a token of our appreciation in the form of M$!
Examples of community work that may be eligible for a bounty:
- Blog posts, markets, or comments which lead us to significantly change our views
- A track record of creating markets that help people make better decisions
- Promoting Manifold & forecasting to a wider audience
- Identifying serious exploits with our financial infrastructure
Our community is the beating heart of Manifold; your individual contributions are what make this platform valuable at all. Thanks to everyone listed here (as well as countless unnamed others) for your help & support!
## Awarded bounties
🥧 *Awarded 2022-03-14*
**[Kevin Zielnicki](https://manifold.markets/kjz): M$ 10,000**
- For identifying issues with our Dynamic Parimutuel Market Maker in an [excellent blog post](https://kevin.zielnicki.com/2022/02/17/manifold/) (and [associated market](https://manifold.markets/kjz/will-manifolds-developers-agree-wit)), leading us to change to a different mechanism.
**[Pepe](https://manifold.markets/Pepe): M$ 10,000**
- For developing the function used in our Constant Function Market Maker and working with us to polish it on Discord, making it easier for us to provision liquidity compared to a CPMM.
**[Gurkenglas](https://manifold.markets/Gurkenglas): M$ 5,000**
- For concrete suggestions on Discord around improving our market maker algorithms, and creating useful graphs to make our different market makers more legible.
**[Scott Alexander](https://manifold.markets/ScottAlexander): M$ 5,000**
- For [developing and publicizing the idea of providing interest-free loans on each market](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/play-money-and-reputation-systems), helping make long-term markets more accurate.
**[David Glidden](https://manifold.markets/dglid): M$ 5,000**
- For taking on the mantle of [@MetaculusBot](https://manifold.markets/MetaculusBot), which allows traders access to a wider spread of topics, and permits head-to-head comparisons between our prediction markets and other forecasting platforms.
**[Isaac King](https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing): M$ 5,000**
- For [compiling a comprehensive FAQ](https://outsidetheasylum.blog/manifold-markets-faq/) that answers a variety of questions that new users commonly face, and also inspiring us to move to [this open-source docs platform](http://docs.manifold.markets/).
**[Blazer](https://manifold.markets/BlazingDarkness): M$ 2,500**
- For [calling out our mistake](https://manifold.markets/BlazingDarkness/was-it-an-unpleasant-surprise-when) in retroactively publicizing all market creators trades, leading us to revert this feature entirely.
⛑️ _Awarded 2022-01-09_
**[Duncan](https://manifold.markets/Duncan): USD $50**
- For identifying and confidentially reporting an exploit where entering negative numbers into the trade box would allow the trade to go through.
- _Note: this was denominated in USD, as it predated the creation of our bounty program._
## Final note
If a particular contribution isn't listed here, that doesn't mean we didn't really appreciate it. Theres so much great work by our community; we aren't always able to catch them all!
If you feel that someone's exceptional contribution has fallen through the cracks (including your own!), please consider creating a market for “Will <X\> be recognized for a Manifold bounty?” and posting it on our Discord. Thanks!
## See also
- [Will Manifold implement retroactive public goods funding by June 1?](https://manifold.markets/Austin/will-manifold-implement-retroactive)
- [Bounties as described on LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/bounties-active)
- Mistakes pages we admire: [Scott Alexander](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mistakes), [Nintil](https://nintil.com/mistakes), [80K Hours](https://80000hours.org/about/credibility/evaluations/mistakes/)
- [Donald Knuths reward checks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check)
![https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/applied_math.png](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/applied_math.png)