Starting today (March 11th), Discord will be the Kyber Network team’s official community discussion platform. Our current Telegram groups will remain, but all official announcements and discussions will happen on our Kyber Network Official Discord server. Kyber community ambassadors DeFi Dude and Mark will be helping to moderate our current English Telegram group.

Building an informed, engaged, and empowered community has always been of paramount importance to us. Telegram has so far been a great platform for fun, engaging, and sometimes heated discussions about all things Kyber and we have established a strong Telegram community of over 15,000 users, including over 1100 developers!

However, we realised that for contentious topics that attract a wide variety of opposing perspectives, important conversations may come fast and furious yet it is very challenging to track and record them on Telegram. Given Kyber’s rapid growth and the upcoming launch of the KyberDAO, Telegram can no longer support our evolving needs. As such, we have made the decision to use Discord as our official community platform.

What will happen to the current Telegram groups?

Current Kyber Telegram groups will remain to help ensure a smooth transition, but take note that official Kyber announcements, discussions, and community polls will be in our Discord server. Our WeChat groups and private Telegram chats with various partners, reserve managers, and projects will continue as usual. For questions on KyberSwap, head to KyberSwapOfficial.

Why Discord?

Discord is designed for very large communities and allows for separate channels catered to the specific needs of different community groups — whether you are a KNC holder, developer, staking pool, trader, or reserve manager. As we prepare for the launch of Katalyst and the KyberDAO, we foresee this #channel feature being absolutely essential for discussions and achieving rough consensus regarding protocol and DAO-related topics. Discord will be a very important part of our governance process and host key discussions and polls around Kyber protocol parameters.

For example, prior to on-chain voting on the KyberDAO, the Kyber community will need a specific channel to discuss about the total network fee and the corresponding % fee distribution to staking rewards, reserve rebates, or burning of KNC. To keep discussions focused, another channel can be created to discuss topics and activities related to growing our network of DApps. These different channels can be navigated easily within the same Discord platform. Moreover, Discord has other useful features for online collaboration such as better moderation tools, convenient file uploads, easy search for past messages, group voice chats, video streaming, emojis😊and many others.

We have successfully utilised Discord for our #KyberDeFi Hackathon operations last year, and many of the top crypto projects in the space today are already using Discord, including Chainlink, Synthetix, Aave etc. After much research, and given Discord’s distinct benefits over Telegram in facilitating varied discussion topics, we have decided to make Discord our official community platform moving forward.

Discord will house our new Kyber #💻developers chat, and we will also have Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and other language channels. Admins are labeled as ‘Kyber Team’ or ‘Community Admins’, and they include Shane | Kyber Network#0042 and BBY (Bo) l Kyber Network#5991. We look forward to having an even more informed, engaged, and empowered community contributing to the success of Kyber Network.

We welcome the entire Kyber and DeFi community to join us in our new Discord server!

Discord Launch Contest! Win up to 1500 KNC (~$1000)!

We understand that this transition to Discord might take some getting used to. To kickstart our brand new Kyber Discord server, we will have a 1500 KNC (~$1,200) Discord Launch Contest from 11th March — 12th April 2020.

Let your creativity run wild! Join our new discord server and post ANY original article, infographic, meme, or suggestion that helps educate more people about Kyber, Katalyst upgrade, KyberDAO, or new KNC model. The Kyber team will pick the highest quality submissions to share rewards from a prize pool worth up to 1500 KNC! Winning submissions will be selected based on quality, creativity, and impact. Make sure to add #Katalyst2020 in your submission.

General prize guide based on categories (not guaranteed; up to Kyber to select the winners) #Katalyst2020

General guide only. Add #Katalyst2020 in your submission

Eligibility T&Cs

Must join the Kyber Network Official Discord Server: https://discord.gg/NfFMVz6

Submissions must be related to Katalyst, the KyberDAO, or the new KNC model and posted on our Kyber discord server. No price talk.

Submissions can take any form: article, infographic, meme, GIF, song, video, tweet, podcast, feedback etc.

Add a #Katalyst2020 tag on discord when you share your link, file, or comment

tag on discord when you share your link, file, or comment One user can win from multiple submissions and categories, but being the only submission for a category does not automatically make you a winner

Plagiarism is not allowed and affected submissions will be disqualified

Kyber team has full discretion in selecting the winners and our decision is final

The full 1500 KNC may not be awarded if there are insufficient quality submissions

Join Discord and participate now!

Contest Period: 11th March — 12th April, 2020 23:59 GMT+8

Let’s embark on this new Discord journey together!