Since BotChain doesn’t have mining, the way you earn tokens by protecting the integrity of the registry is through curation. Starting today, we are accepting applications for the BotChain Curation Council. Let me explain a bit about how that works — and why this work is so important to our network.

BotChain does three things for developers of AI software, like bots.

Registration. The BotChain network has a token curated registry for all kinds of bots. Just like websites have SSL certificates to verify that they are that brand / entity’s site. Bots require the same.

Identity validation. So that end users can verify “who” they are talking to before providing information, like credit card details, to a bot or AI.

Hashing of digital certificates of the state of a bot at a given time, to enable transparency and an audit trail of bot activities.

In order to run the network in an effective decentralized manner, approving entries to the ledger has to be done by someone with the incentive to do it properly. For BotChain, this is the curation council.

The curation council works like a digital certificate authority. A curation council member will verify certain information about the bot and its owner. That information will require a minimum level that will be set by the BotChain governance board, but there can be higher levels of approval as well for use cases that require more stringent standards.

Who Can Be on the Curation Council:

You do not need to be technical to be a curator. In fact, we’ll share what the UX of curating looks like soon, but, it is even a user-friendly experience.

Curators are paid in BotCoin for their contributions.

Early curators will be paid from the token vault, which has a declining logarithmic curve so, early curation pays much more aggressively than when the network is at scale.

Therefore, if you have an interest in curating, please apply sooner rather than later.

Examples of curation work:

Verify a company’s articles of incorporation against a public database. Validate KYC on bot creators. Verify bot code through special command responses.

You can read more about the BotChain network in our whitepaper.

And, you can apply for the BotChain Curation Council on our Developer Site.