Glossary
Quadratic Voting
A voting rule where the cost of N votes on an option is N² — limiting whales while letting voters express intensity. Used in Gitcoin grants and some DAO experiments.
Quadratic voting (or quadratic funding) tries to fix the plutocracy of one-token-one-vote. The cost of casting N votes scales as N²: doubling your influence costs four times as much. Whales can still spend more, but with sharply diminishing returns.
The rule is most associated with Gitcoin's quadratic-funding rounds for public goods: matching pools amplify many small donors more than a few large ones. The trade-off is Sybil sensitivity — splitting one whale into many accounts defeats the curve unless identities are verified.