DIRT协议融资300万美元，押注代币质押能保持开放数据诚实

做的是什么生意

DIRT Protocol builds a protocol for decentralized data curation: anyone can contribute structured data after depositing tokens, and anyone who proves an entry wrong earns tokens — a Wikipedia-style system with market incentives.

启动资金：US$3M seed round (announced 2018-07-11)

起因

The DIRT Protocol team — self-described engineers and serial entrepreneurs — began from two claims: most structured data sits in expensive private silos that stifle competition, and public information is often biased because companies pay for positive reviews or misrepresent figures in unregulated markets. Crowdsourcing removes the single-source dependency but has no incentives for moderation, so the team set out to make quality a cost structure rather than a volunteer job.

经过

On 2018-07-11 the company announced a US$3M seed round from General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, SV Angel, HustleFund, Village Global and angels including Elad Gil, Fred Ehrsam and Linda Xie. The mechanism: contributors deposit tokens to write data, correct data is shared freely, and anyone can challenge an incorrect entry and earn tokens, which the team said makes it 'economically irrational for misinformation to persist in a data set.' DIRT described itself as a protocol for building token-curated registries rather than a registry itself, and said it was working with partners on the first applications, hiring, and planning a whitepaper 'in the coming weeks.'

可借鉴之处

将不诚实定价进入系统：写入需质押、挑战有奖励，把审核变成市场，但协议仍需首个注册表来使经济模型真正落地。