The repository README makes the core mechanism explicit: PLCR lets users participate in multiple token-weighted polls simultaneously while preventing double-voting within a poll.
The primitive is not just commit-reveal voting; its distinguishing property is partial lock. Users deposit voting rights into one contract, can commit the same pool of rights across multiple polls, and only the maximum actively used amount remains locked.
The adChain walkthrough is especially useful because it explains the design pressure behind PLCR: naïve poll-by-poll token locking hurts liquidity and discourages participation, so the voting primitive itself tries to preserve token mobility.
The README also makes clear that PLCR in its described form does not itself slash voters for ending up on the losing side. Reward and penalty logic can live in the application calling the primitive.
The implementation walkthrough exposes important lower-layer details that later app-level summaries often hide, including per-poll commit hashes, reveal verification, rescue flows for unrevealed votes, and linked-list-based accounting of outstanding token commitments.
Specific source signals worth retaining
The README is the best concise source for the primitive’s core promise: multi-poll concurrency, hidden commits, withdrawable unused voting rights, and the lack of built-in slashing.
The adChain walkthrough is the best source for the implementation rationale and for the liquidity-preservation framing that distinguishes PLCR from simpler commit-reveal polling.
The adChain kickoff materials are useful because they show PLCR in context as the dispute-resolution voting layer inside a token-curated registry, rather than an abstract governance thought experiment.
Why this entry belongs in the corpus
It gives the challengeable-registry and TCR cluster a reusable lower-layer voting primitive beneath adChain Registry and related designs.
It helps separate secret ballots, token mobility, reward/slashing policy, and application-level state transitions instead of treating token-curated registry voting as one indivisible mechanism.
The durable insight is that a large part of TCR governance design sits in how voting rights are parked, reused, revealed, rescued, and rewarded long before one debates the list policy itself.