district0x Network Incentives

An update on community programs and rewards

Recently we’ve introduced several new community initiatives and have been finding the best home for their documentation. The recent revamp of the stream on dAppstream, as well as last week’s announcement of the Verified Artist Program, and the arrival of the District Registry, we’re in a nice place to completely overhaul our reward structures and onboarding flow for new users across our dApps and community.

We’ve always utilized reward structures where possible to build incentives around new network behavior or bootstrap marketplace features. Some examples include:

Name Bazaar Launch Contest to get ENS domains listed before launch

Meme Factory Design Contest to seed user-made content for launch day

Meme Factory Community Polls to leverage Aragon and reward early DNT stakers while also distributing DANK

Cent.co Meme theme contests designed to get new community members submitting to Meme Factory with no ETH (Our next will be announced SOON!)

Meme Factory’s DANK Faucet to give all first time users more than enough tokens to play with

Level-based Community participation rewards for both our Discord server and Livestream, with rewards ranging from DNT to swag

Various giveaways for Meme Factory and our livestreams, including some completely unique digital collectibles

Many of these existed as ad-hoc solutions to solve acute problems, like accelerating traffic or populating a new dApp, but through the experiences we’ve had over the years of community building, we’ve persistently brainstormed and tested the waters for more perpetual systems to reward both new and veteran community members.

As of April 2020, and until further notice, the following community and rewards programs are in place on the district0x network unless stated otherwise. The remainder of the post will touch on each.

District Proposal Rewards

District Proposals were one of the core participation mechanics we used to crowdsource marketplace ideas early in the district0x Network’s existence. Along with the now retired district0x voting dApp, we were able to leverage community participation to not only field ideas, but also rate and improve upon them. This process found a winning proposal that led directly to suggestions surrounding bonding curves that inspired the District Registry.

With the Registry now live, we have a completely new pathway for these ideas to be shared and voted upon. As such, as of this post going live, we are going to sunset the old github-based proposal rewards in favor of a set of new, more generous DNT rewards for participating on the registry itself.

Starting today, there will be a 12000 DNT bounty available for any user who made a proposal on Github in the past who migrates that proposal onto the District Registry. This is enough DNT to cover all submission costs to the registry as well as extra to stake once the submission is complete.

Additionally, users with new district proposals that were not submitted under the previous guidelines will be eligible for a similar DNT bounty. To redeem your migration rewards or discuss new submissions further, please reach out to Brady in Discord.

Verified Artist Program

The Verified Artist Program is a recently announced addition to our community. For more than a year we tried more light-handed approaches to community building, offering level-based chat rewards and stream rewards that ultimately led to little needle movement for our applications themselves. With the Verified Artist Program, we’re taking a more directed approach by reaching out privately to power users of our applications (like artists on Meme Factory) and offering them all kinds of heightened access and resources in order to showcase both their work while amplifying the signal behind ours. You can read more on last week’s blog post

dAppStream Points

Our livestream has served as the most immediate way to get complex or detailed feedback on our live applications and initiatives. Throughout it’s existence we’ve tried to reward both passive viewers while also rewarding active participants in chat and community games.

We just recently built a new website to host all of our streaming content — http://dappstream.live/

On this new site, you can very easily and simply browse our new stream points store where you can redeem points for anything from DNT and DANK tokens to rare memes, swag, and other collectibles. This now constitutes the sole source of our community rewards program, with one small exception.

We still have an active bounty campaign on the bounties network for livestream clips. Simply follow the instructions provided on the bounty page to create and share a video clip of our stream on social media and get a reward of DNT.

Future

Although all of these programs have been introduced indefinitely, without an end date in mind, we of course expect them to change in the future. Moreover, as an organization, we’ve planned many different integrations relying on our newest incarnation of Ethlance and the bounties it can host. In the future we will host more Meme Factory campaigns, and will be able to do so not only on Cent, but also on Ethlance. We will continue to expand the perks offered by the verified artist program, and will keep ingesting feedbacks from the participants across the spectrum of community members and dApp users in order to keep these evolving and improving over time.