Re: Haptic - Plagiarizing Medium Article (essentially their WP)... with slight adjus
Hello,
We appreciate the investigative work done by the community and we think it's very important to maintain a clean ecosystem. Our Medium launch article is a shortened version of our upcoming whitepaper, which is heavily influenced by the academic literature and references it properly. Some phrasing might be directly inspired by the influential "the Homogenous Properties of Automated Market Makers". Our presence on Telegram, as we only have an announcement channel. Our main focus is on Discord. General lack of information is due to the fact that the project is in its early phase. We are available to clarify any misunderstanding.
We appreciate the investigative work done by the community and we think it's very important to maintain a clean ecosystem. Our Medium launch article is a shortened version of our upcoming whitepaper, which is heavily influenced by the academic literature and references it properly. Some phrasing might be directly inspired by the influential "the Homogenous Properties of Automated Market Makers". Our presence on Telegram, as we only have an announcement channel. Our main focus is on Discord. General lack of information is due to the fact that the project is in its early phase. We are available to clarify any misunderstanding.
At least you admitted and acknowledge that the article is written by yourself and you have ful awareness of the content, it's not the work of a freelancer who copy and paste articles without your knowledge etc. etc.
With that established, that you deliberately copied the content, two things that I think we can all agree. One, it's a --probably written somewhere-- rule that plagiarizing content is heavily frowned upon on this forum. The scam accusation board filled with these cases and most of them didn't ends well as most project who plagiarized contents from others would ends up as scam. It breaks down to the fact that if you really serious wit your project, you'll put efforts on it. Tl;dr: you won't plagiarize.
Two, i think anyone that ever had the privilege to get a higher education would know there is a difference(s) on "heavily influenced" and "intentionally copying". A project that's heavily influenced by older project could have the same theme or same features, but it doesn't mean they'll have the same wording. Your project, however, seemingly to deliberately change wordings, delete and remove a section or two --read: extremely poorly paraphrasing-- to make it rather difficult for plagiarism checker to find the similarities.
As for your claim that your project is in early phase, allow me to bring "exhibit F", a screenshot fromy our twitter page showing your account has been created since almost one year ago and publishes tweets in November. Were you saying that after one year, not only you're failed to make a significant milestone worth announcing and a website with adequate info, you also could only publish a paper which steal, oops... i mean "influenced by" content from a published article without even giving the authors credits? How is this showing credibility?
Like we mentioned, the Medium article is only a surrogate of the original publication, which hasn't been shared publicly yet. We are big fans of the paper mentioned and references will be clear (and due) on the final publication. We never meant to elude plagiarization detectors by employing the writing style you see throughout the Medium article. Again, we acknowledge that some parts are very similar to the document you mention as a reference, the scope of which is to describe the mathematical properties of various existing AMM algorithms. Haptic is about reducing the impact of impermanent loss, and we produced plenty of original content and smart contract code. Our Twitter account exists since a while, but the project was conceived last summer and we started developing it under the #L222 mentorship program, starting in January 2022.