Badgeholders play a critical role in the FIL-RetroPGF mechanism. They sense and evaluate the impact signal and decide the level of extra profit needed to make that up. Thus, proper badgeholder selection is critical to ensure that the vision of RetroPGF is actualized.

This document describes the process by which badgeholders were selected to participate in FIL-RetroPGF-1.

Selection Process

For FIL-RetroPGF-1, badgeholders were hand selected by the organizing team based on prior contributions and knowledge of the Filecoin ecosystem. We began by considering the various stakeholders in the Filecoin ecosystem. These are shown in the pentagram below:

The rationale is to have sufficient representation from each group, which provides two benefits:

1. Expertise - the combined expertise of these groups should allow for proper vetting of applications as they impact Filecoin
2. Diversity - while stakeholders interact with each other, they may have more knowledge of one area than the other. This diversity of thought is desired when assessing the impact a particular project may have had on Filecoin.

Members of the Filecoin ecosystem were proposed in each category outlined. By nature, some selected badgeholders may fall into mutliple categories.

Selected Badgeholders

This will be populated once the badgeholder list is finalized.