Komodo Submission Guidelines

We publish articles that focus on explaining Komodo’s technology, community activity, achievements and innovations.

Posts that we publish on Medium are shared across all our social media channels. These articles reach thousands of the smartest readers in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Our social followers are over 100K and growing, and we publish a weekly ‘Monday AMA’ on Reddit and a ‘Five Bullet Friday’ in our newsletter that reaches 12K subscribers.

We strive to publish as many longform posts as possible. We want to publish posts that are knowledgeable, accurate and easy for people to understand. We receive a large number of inquiries and submissions, and will only consider those that fit the criteria below and demonstrate a good understanding of the subject matter.

Align With Our Themes

Each story must relate to the Komodo Platform or align with one or more of our themes. Our themes include: decentralization, atomic swaps, independent chains, delayed proof of work, decentralized exchanges, scalability and how to build a better future with blockchain and lower the barriers for entrepreneurs to build on it.

Tell a Story

Each submission should include a story, no matter how brief, to draw the readers into your story and understand how the tech works in real life. We’re looking to publish stories between 750–3,000 words that paint a picture. The types and format of stories we publish include: op-ed’s, in depth how-to pieces, interesting musings, high quality listicles, journalistic works of fintech, tech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, tech, influencers and events. We do not post price predictions, speculation or technical analysis.

Here are some of examples of the type of articles we’re looking for:

If your article performs well we’ll reward you with a bounty.

The bounties are discretionary and to be awarded for continued contributions. On occasion we may reward a specific post.

Things to Remember

Please Only Submit Unpublished Drafts

In the spirit of trying to get your article the most exposure possible, we prefer unpublished drafts over published stories. Medium’s algorithm favors fresh stories, and our homepage is sorted by date of when the article was published (not when it was accepted into the publication). The longer it’s been since a story’s original publish date, the poorer it will usually perform.

We Reserve the Right to Alter and Edit Your Story

Our team can edit the content of your story if grammatical errors are found, along with adding logos, bylines, ads, images, etc. to your story. If you remove this content after your story is published, it will be removed from our Medium publication, and you will be removed from our list of writers.

We’re Looking For Long-Term Relationships

Once we’ve published your story on Komodo, we ask that it remain in our publication. We will not be accepting articles from writers who publish with us and then publish the same stories elsewhere on Medium. We will only publish author bylines that are 1–2 sentences long. These shorter bylines and a single sentence CTA to recommend and share will help increase the amount of people your story reaches.

Response Time

Our response time varies, but we’re usually pretty quick. If you haven’t heard back about a submission within 48 hours, please assume it won’t be published.