WikiDeal Funding Dashboard · Concept

1. Purpose

One dashboard shows the two sides of financial support to WikiDeal:

• Support (donor view): how much I gave, how much I can still give, and what a new donation could bring me according to the bonding curve.
• Cash Rewards: how much I received, and the amount "transferable to your bank account" (direct bank transfer), which starts very low and grows as subscriptions come in.

The dashboard makes the whole mechanism transparent and verifiable (wiki culture and Ethereum culture) and pleasantly engaging: watching subscriptions arrive and your reward grow.

2. Three key words

3. The bonding curve

The bonding curve is a fixed algorithm: it starts at ×100, ends at ×30 and distributes 50 million rewards according to a mathematical formula (sample description, subject to validation). Earlier donations get a higher multiplier. The ×30 floor comes from this curve: the effective multiplier never goes below ×30.

4. The Foundation need

The multiplier alone is not enough: it is balanced by the Foundation need, a percentage, fully automatic, with needs defined by the steering committee.

• A Foundation need of 100% means the money is missing: the multiplier is full.
• At launch, the Foundation need stays at 100% for a long time.
• Later, once the monthly functioning cost is covered (model example: CHF 10'000/month), the Foundation need descends below 100% as the foundation provision fills.
• When the provision reaches 3 months of functioning cost, the Foundation need is 30%: the multiplier is at the ×30 floor.

Proposed formula, to be validated: Foundation need = 100% - 70% × (months of provision covered ÷ 3). The provision is the last figure of the system: it drives the Foundation need.

5. The foundation provision

Half of the incoming money goes to functioning costs, half to the reimbursement of costs already incurred. The foundation provision (target: 3 months of functioning cost) funds maintenance and development. It is not a Cash Reward. The foundation margin, the gap between what the bonding curve promises and the reward actually attributed when the Foundation need is below 100%, feeds this provision.

6. When you donate

1. Your potential Cash Reward appears (sample: CHF 1'000 at ×100 shows CHF 100'000).
2. Then the question: "What percentage do you want to give to the foundation?" Free choice from 0% to 100% (0% is allowed).
3. Two presets: "cashback" (×1: you get back just the amount you donated, the rest goes to the foundation) and "full donation" (100% to the foundation).

Sample free choice: 25% to the foundation on a CHF 100'000 reward = CHF 25'000 to the foundation, CHF 75'000 kept as potential Cash Reward.

7. Cash Rewards

• The Cash Reward is a potential ceiling, paid only from real subscription income, with no guarantee.
• Each paid subscription (CHF 10/year or EUR 1/month) sends a small part to Cash Reward holders, distributed pro-rata among reward holders (proposed, to be validated).
• The amount "transferable to your bank account" starts very low and grows with every subscription paid.

8. Public transparency

• Total raised and number of donors (funding round of CHF 1'000'000, progress bar).
• Last donation: amount and time only, never the identity.
• Foundation margin (percentage shown big, absolute value small) and foundation provision.
• Model: 10% of each Entry Ticket to Early Supporters (fixed), 90% to supporters via the Community / Personal slider (the slider can only increase the community share).

9. Payment flow

10. See the design proposals