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Pomelo Season 1 Matching Pool Distribution Analysis

Pomelo Grants
6 min readJan 14, 2022

🌐 中文 | 한국어

The EOS Community raised $132,989 across 75 grants from 1022 contributors during Pomelo Grants Season 1! With a $500,000 matching pool provided by the EOS Network Foundation and 1,000 EOS ($2,880) from the .gems Pomelo NFT series, that’s a total of $635,869 for Public Goods in the EOSIO ecosystem!

The Pomelo team has carefully analysed the results for compliance with the Pomelo Terms and have recommended some minor adjustments to the matching pool distribution. During the donation period, there was one grant disqualified over conclusive evidence of quid pro quo. In addition, two grants were retired by their authors. The matching allocation for these projects has been re-allocated proportionally to qualified grants. Another grant was investigated for reports of quid pro quo, but the evidence was not conclusive enough for the Pomelo team to recommend disqualification.

Based on analysis conducted following the donation period, the Pomelo team has identified several instances of collusion among some of the donors. This doesn’t necessarily mean that affected projects were malicious. The Pomelo team has recommended collapsing the donations of colluding donors so that each group counts as a single donor. As a result, some grants will receive a slightly higher matching allocation, and others will receive reduced matching allocations.

A detailed analysis of the evidence and the proposed distribution is outlined in this report. Qualified grant owners will receive emails with instructions to complete KYC and claim matching allocations.

Quid pro quo

Offering a “quid-pro-quo” type deal involving a benefit to a Grant Donor in exchange for their contribution to a specific project is prohibited in the Pomelo Terms and Conditions.

In the case of an explicit bribe where “smoking gun” evidence is presented, the Pomelo team takes action immediately to remove the grant from the matching pool. In cases where bribes are not as explicit, we present the evidence to the community for feedback to inform our policies for future seasons but do not remove the grant from the matching pool.

Hu-Fi Movement — Disqualified

Hu-Fi Movement was disqualified early during the Pomelo Season 1 donation period after the Pomelo team found conclusive evidence the Grant Owner was participating in quid pro quo by offering 2 EOS in return for every 1 EOS donated to the grant. The grant was banned from receiving further donations and its matching pool allocation was redistributed proportionally to the remaining grants.

Evidence of quid pro quo:

  • The EOS Detective Donation Graph for Hu-Fi Movement shows clear evidence that 32 of the donors were funded by a single account belonging to the Grant Owner, The EOS Microloan team.
  • The EOS Microloan team publicly advertised a promotion to pay 2 EOS for every 1 EOS donated to their grant.
  • The payments made from the EOS Microloan team to accounts that made donations to their grant included memos referencing the Pomelo grant donation.

Immersys — Flagged for community feedback

Immersys was flagged for advertising and distributing NFTs to all accounts donating to the Immersys grant. The NFTs don’t promise any benefit to the holder and have not established any value on the secondary market. The Pomelo team believes this type of behaviour falls into a grey area, but it has the potential to easily move into blatant bribe territory depending on how the market values the NFTs and how the advertisements were perceived by the donors who saw them. Immersys has not been disqualified at this time, but the Pomelo team will consider community feedback and adjustments to our guidelines for future seasons.

Evidence of quid pro quo:

Sybil Attack and Collusion

The Pomelo terms prohibit the creation of multiple Pomelo accounts by the same entity or individual to facilitate multiple donations to one Project (also known as “Sybil attacks”). Similarly, it prohibits the coordination of multiple donations by essentially the same individual or entity to one Project, including but not limited to, having one individual or entity provide funding to several other Pomelo users to then use in providing contributions as Grant Donors to the same Project.

The Pomelo team did not find evidence of blatant participation in sybil or collusion attacks by any Grant Owners, but it did find evidence of collusion among some donors. Donations from multiple donors that were coordinated from shared pools of funds have been identified and collapsed to count as donations from a single donor. Grants that received some of their donations from colluding donors have had their matching allocation reduced, while grants whose donors did not share this behavior had their matching allocation increased.

Reduced matching allocation ($):

Increased matching allocation ($):

Pomelo Season 1 Data

Pomelo第1季匹配池分配分析

在Pomelo Grants第1季，EOS社区通过75个项目从1022位捐献者处募集了132,989美元！还有500,000美元来自EOS网络基金会提供的匹配资金池，1,000 EOS(2,880美元)来自.gems Pomelo NFT系列。共计635,869 美元将用于第一季帮助EOSIO 生态系统建设的公共产品！

Pomelo团队仔细分析了第一季结果是否符合Pomelo条款，并建议对匹配池分配做一些细微的调整。在第一季捐助期间，有一个项目被取消资格，此决定基于已经掌握的该项目方存在利益交换的确凿证据。此外，有两个项目被其提出者取消。这些项目对应的匹配资金已按比例重新分配给合格的项目。还有一个项目因涉及交换条件而受到调查，但不存在充分的证据可以使 Pomelo 团队取消其资格。

根据捐助期后的分析，Pomelo 团队已经确定了捐助者之间串通的几起事件。这并不一定意味着受影响的项目是恶意的。Pomelo 团队建议将串通的捐助者拆分开来，这样每一个串通小团体都将只算作一个捐助者。因此，一些项目将获得略高的匹配资金，而一些项目将获得较少的匹配资金。

本报告概述了对已有证据和建议分配的详细分析。合格的项目所有者将收到电子邮件通知，其中包含完成KYC验证和申领匹配资金的说明。

交换条件

《Pomelo条款和条件》禁止提供“交换条件”类型的交易，包括向项目捐助者提供利益交换，以换取他们对特定项目的捐款。

如果存在明显的贿赂行为，而且具备“确凿证据”，Pomelo团队会立即采取行动，从匹配资金池中移除该项目。在行贿不确定的情况下，我们会将证据呈现给社区以获得反馈从而为接下来的政策提供帮助，但不会从匹配池中移除该项目。

Hu-Fi Movement — 取消资格

在Pomelo第1季捐助期间，Hu-Fi Movement被取消资格。因为Pomelo团队发现确凿证据表明，该项目每获得1个EOS捐助，项目拥有者就提供2个EOS作为回报给捐助者。该项目被禁止接受进一步的捐助，其相应的匹配资金也按比例重新分配给其余项目。

交换利益证据:

  • Hu-Fi Movement的 EOS Detective捐助图已显示清晰明确的证据，其中 32 名捐助者收到了属于项目所有者EOS Microloan团队的同一个账户返利。
  • EOS Microloan团队公开宣传了一项推广活动 — — 每为项目捐助1个EOS，酬劳为2个EOS。
  • EOS Microloan团队向为其项目捐款的账户进行返利时的支付memo提及 Pomelo 项目捐助。

Immersys — 已标记并等待社区反馈

Immersys 被标记，原因是其向所有捐助给 Immersys项目的账户做广告推销和分发 NFT。 该 NFT 不向持有者承诺任何利益，也没有在二级市场上建立任何价值。 Pomelo 团队认为这种行为属于灰色地带，虽还没有确实的违规，但很容易进入公然贿赂领域，这取决于市场对 NFT 的评价以及看到广告的捐助者对广告的看法。Immersys 目前尚未被取消资格，但 Pomelo 团队将考虑社区反馈并调整我们未来几季的指导方针。

交换证据:

Sybil攻击和串通行为

Pomelo 条款禁止同一实体或个人创建多个 Pomelo 账户以多次捐助一个项目（也称为“Sybil 攻击”）。类似地，禁止本质上由同一个人或实体对一个项目进行多次捐赠的协调，包括但不限于由一个个人或实体向其他几个Pomelo 用户提供资金，然后以项目捐助者的身份向同一项目提供捐款。

Pomelo团队没有发现任何项目所有者公然参与sybil或串通行为攻击的证据，但确实发现了一些捐助者之间共谋的证据。从共享资金池中协调的来自多个捐助者的捐款已被确定，并已拆分然后将小团体按照单个捐助者来计算。从串通捐助者那里获得部分捐助的项目的匹配资金将做减少，而没有这种行为的项目可以获得的匹配资金相应增加。

匹配资金减少的项目($):

匹配资金增加的项目($):

Pomelo第一季数据

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