Abstract
Talisman is a proposed decentralized platform designed to focus collective human intelligence towards solving humanity's most pressing challenges. Applying blockchain-based incentives and scientific verification, Talisman aims to catalyze our innate collaborative abilities into scalable, real-world solutions.
Introduction
Unprecedented global connectivity has unlocked immense potential for collective problem-solving. Yet existing models lack the incentives and governance to channel mass participation towards pressing challenges. Talisman aims to change this by aligning crowdsourced participation into an optimized engine for developing and scaling impactful solutions.
Talisman combines the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin with focused empirical validation to create a collaborative ecosystem for ideas, solutions, and measurable impact. Participants contribute expertise and effort towards predefined Grand Challenges, receiving reputation-based rewards for valuable contributions. Proposed solutions undergo transparent, peer-reviewed verification against key performance benchmarks.
By incentivizing and verifying participation towards specific goals, Talisman focuses diffuse human mental energy into an exponential problem-solving force. One that gains momentum and intelligence as it…
