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zeekayandHanzo Dev 6658236499 Credit the organisation on every published surface
Leadership and team cards, board and founding prose, an AI persona modelled on a
named individual, contributor and partner entries, and personal correspondence
addresses all named one person. The organisation carries them now.

Other people keep their names. Where a card, a board list or a founding line
named someone else alongside, they stay exactly as they were; only the one entry
was removed, and prose that listed two names now reads with one.

Sample and fixture data uses the placeholder name these tests already use
elsewhere, so the IAM username defect the notes describe still reads as written.
The zoo/yapp MIT notice names the foundation that publishes it.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 08:58:11 -07:00

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{shared/zoocover}
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\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}
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\newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage{natbib}
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\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,positioning,shapes.geometric,fit}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{abstract}
\usepackage{multirow}
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\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\small Zoo Labs Foundation Research}
\fancyhead[R]{\small Zoo DAO Governance}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
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\title{%
\textbf{Zoo DAO: Decentralized Governance for\\Open Science Research}\\[0.5em]
\large Zoo Labs Foundation Paper ZOO-GOV-2026
}
\author{
Zoo Labs Foundation Research\\
\texttt{[email protected]}\\[0.5em]
\small With contributions from the Zoo Open Science Network
}
\date{September 2022}
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\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}
\newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}}
\newcommand{\QV}{\text{QV}}
\newcommand{\ZOO}{\textsc{ZOO}}
\begin{document}
\zoocoverpage
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\begin{abstract}
\noindent
Traditional scientific funding suffers from well-documented pathologies:
conservative grant allocation favoring established researchers, opaque
peer review processes, multi-year funding cycles misaligned with research
timelines, and geographic concentration in wealthy nations. We present
the \textbf{Zoo DAO}, a decentralized autonomous organization for
governing open science research funding, peer review, and intellectual
property. Zoo DAO employs quadratic voting for research proposal
selection, sybil-resistant reputation tokens for researcher credentialing,
retroactive public goods funding for high-impact discoveries, and
incentivized peer review through reviewer staking. We formalize the
governance mechanism, analyze its game-theoretic properties, and present
simulation results from 18 months of operation on the Zoo Network. The
DAO has funded 143 research projects across 34 countries, with reviewer
response times averaging 8.4 days (compared to 3--6 months for
traditional journals) and a researcher satisfaction score of 4.3/5.0.
We demonstrate that quadratic voting allocates funds more efficiently
than 1-token-1-vote systems, with a 41\% higher correlation between
funded projects and subsequent citation impact. All governance parameters
are managed through Zoo Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) at
\texttt{zips.zoo.ngo}.
\medskip
\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} decentralized governance, quadratic voting,
research funding, peer review, reputation systems, open science, DAO
\end{abstract}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\newpage
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\input{sections/01-introduction}
\input{sections/02-related-work}
\input{sections/03-governance-architecture}
\input{sections/04-quadratic-voting-for-research-funding}
\input{sections/05-incentivized-peer-review}
\input{sections/06-retroactive-public-goods-funding}
\input{sections/07-empirical-results}
\input{sections/08-game-theoretic-analysis}
\input{sections/09-discussion}
\input{sections/10-future-work}
\input{sections/99-conclusion}
\end{document}