There are a lot of things that made me even more excited about Dragonchain after hearing about all the announcements. For me personally the most exciting thing I will use often is probably Dragon Den.

Early version of Dragon Den. Crypto aware social forum will launch in the coming months. Airdrop based on DDSS for all Dragonchain holders. More details soon.

Dragonchain CMO Jonel Cordero: ''Surprise fully operational crypto aware social forum. Dragonchain knowledge base will migrate to Dragon Den. A social blockchain app. Airdrop By DDSS details coming soon. #dragonchain #EndOfFakeNews #blockchaintechtoday''

''Current social media is broken. There is FUD, there are trolls, spam, scams, fake news and all the mess. This wasn't something that was on the roadmap for Dragonchain. This was very much something that we saw and needed to do. And started to do. We already started to use this. We're going to move all the academy materials on to this. Putting together a lot of different systems, including our support through Dragon Den'', Joe Roets explained. Facebook has issues with privacy, fake news and who owns what data. Joe talked about different issues with social media like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit and others. Issues DragonDen is hoping to fix.

Dragonchain CEO Joe Roets during the Dragon Den presentation. Together with Hemlock, who works on Dragon Den.

Users will be rewarded for quality content. And the fact that everything is tokenized makes it very expensive to keep posting inapropiate content without any value. The incentive is not to attract advertisers, but to attract quality content. They want to bring in the best content creators possible by rewarding them well. In fact, it could be so valuable that you could earn rewards with it 10 years later.

A lair is a community on it's own with their own community guidelines. And it can be owned by a person or a company. You can even manage lairs together with others from the community. ''If you're not succesful, you've got to let somebody else do it'', Joe explained.

Comments or replies are similar to Reddit because they are threaded. The difference though is the crossposting. You can crosspost on Reddit, but it won't have the same comments in other subreddits. It won't have the same upvotes. And nobody on Reddit gets rewarded for posting quality content. And nobody there loses value for trolling.

There is a lot more to tell about Dragon Den. For example mechanisms to determine whether something is valuable or not. Some of those details still need to be figured out exactly. So I'll just stop here and show a flag. A flag we soon all hopefully have, except everyone's flag is different of course. :)

Tommy Cooksey: ''Dragon Den Flags (DragonFlag) is a global identifier accross Dragon Den and are generated by taking a SHA256 hash of your Ethereum address, splitting this hash into 32 separate hexademical pairs, and assigning a color, symbol, stripe count, and orientation to each hexadecimal pair. This allows for the creation of a unique flag using your Ethereum address without having to expose your Ethereum Address publicly''.

Basically Dragon Den users will be able to create, grow and monetize their own lairs. Or find useful information they need. I can’t wait myself to get one or two lairs going. And just grow awesome content communities with lots of active threads. Dragon Den is a great way to get info organized I think. And to interact and make sure the most useful content will get the most visibility.

The whole upvote and reward system and crossposting is great. Everyone can get rewarded for crossposting valuable content in to their own lair. But at the same time all the comments in all the seperate lairs will be the same everywhere. So you can have conversations in many lairs about the same topic. But without being obligated to be subsribed to each seperate lair in order to comment there. Hope that still makes sense. That will save a lot of head ache. And obviously I’ll set up my own unofficial Dragonchain lair and keep crossposting many updates from the team there. Unless there is no value in that anymore with Dragon Den. :-)

I won’t leave Twitter anytime soon, but it looks like Telegram won’t be needed anymore for Dragonchain. Unless you need to stay in touch with your (dragonchain) friends outside of Dragon Den. I am not sure if Dragon Den will have an option to send private messages right away. That could make me leave Telegram completely, assuming everyone joins DragonDen. We’ll see how it turns out!

There are other reasons why we as a Dragonchain community need Dragon Den. Or any other crypto community out there. One quick example; for having easy access to the correct information linked to the corresponding question(s). Right now Joe and Jonel often reply to questions from the community on Telegram. And after a few hours it just gets lost between all the other conversations. A day later they get the same questions and have to reply with the same answers all over again…

On Dragon Den, the upvote system makes it easier to see valuable information and answers. And it is expensive for trolls to troll… Or to have offtopic conversations in the wrong threads. Those users won't have a good time on Dragon Den for long. Although saying this probably triggers one or two trolls to try it anyway. I'm curious to see how this works out once it is launched!

Will you try out Dragon Den?