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DARSAN: A Decentralized Review System Suitable for NFT Marketplaces

DARSAN: A Decentralized Review System Suitable for NFT Marketplaces

  • distributed-computing
  • decentralized-computing
  • distributed-ledger-technology
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Tamoghna Sarkar, Jared Coleman, Anusha Avyukt, Hugo Embrechts, Dimitri Torfs, Michele Minelli, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
ICBC 2023 - International Conference on Blockchain
January 1, 2023
10.1007/978-3-031-44920-8_1
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Abstract

We introduce DARSAN, a decentralized review system designed for Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplaces, to address the challenge of verifying the quality of highly resalable products with few verified buyers by incentivizing unbiased reviews. DARSAN works by iteratively selecting a group of reviewers (called "experts") who are likely to both accurately predict the objective popularity and assess some subjective quality of the assets uniquely associated with NFTs. The system consists of a two-phased review process: a "pre-listing" phase where only experts can review the product, and a "pre-sale" phase where any reviewer on the system can review the product. Upon completion of the sale, DARSAN distributes incentives to the participants and selects the next generation of experts based on the performance of both experts and non-expert reviewers. We evaluate DARSAN through simulation and show that, once bootstrapped with an initial set of appropriately chosen experts, DARSAN favors honest reviewers and improves the quality of the expert pool over time without any external intervention even in the presence of potentially malicious participants.


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