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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. We’d like to recognize such contributions publicly, and include a token of our appreciation in the form of M$!
Examples of community work that may be eligible for a bounty:
- Blog posts, markets, or comments which lead us to significantly change our views
- A track record of creating markets that help people make better decisions
- Promoting Manifold & forecasting to a wider audience
- Identifying serious exploits with our financial infrastructure
Our community is the beating heart of Manifold; your individual contributions are what make this platform valuable at all. Thanks to everyone listed here (as well as countless unnamed others) for your help & support!
Awarded bounties
🥧 Awarded 2022-03-14
Kevin Zielnicki: M$ 10,000
- For identifying issues with our Dynamic Parimutuel Market Maker in an excellent blog post (and associated market), leading us to change to a different mechanism.
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: 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: M$ 5,000
- For developing and publicizing the idea of providing interest-free loans on each market, helping make long-term markets more accurate.
David Glidden: M$ 5,000
- For taking on the mantle of @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: M$ 5,000
- For compiling a comprehensive FAQ that answers a variety of questions that new users commonly face, and also inspiring us to move to this open-source docs platform.
Blazer: M$ 2,500
- For calling out our mistake in retroactively publicizing all market creator’s trades, leading us to revert this feature entirely.
⛑️ Awarded 2022-01-09
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. There’s 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!
