Affliations / Independence

As Compendium grows, the information creator and validator pool will expand increasingly towards organizations and institutions, as well as prominent individuals who may be associated with these groups.

Biases and special interests will create challenges to ensuring the reliability of information and the veracity of validation and debates. For example, a particular blockchain ecosystem foundation may have a vested interest to validate misleading or even false information for a project that it has invested in, or which is generating significant public interest for the blockchain.

Compendium will rely on both community as well as internal monitoring tools to tag validators and information creators based on their affiliations. Affiliations will be a factor in the validator selection process, categorized by high, medium, or low-nexus affiliations in relation to all information creation initiations. High-nexus affiliations may be excluded from the validation process, or balanced out by additional low-nexus affiliations depending on context.

Metadata affiliation tags therefore form a crucial component of protocol design for the highest degree of credibly neutrality in information.