Since we accepted the first member into the Experimental Community a few months ago, we started getting two questions very frequently:

How’s the community composed at the moment? What kind of profiles are you looking for?

Being a data-driven and metric-loving team, we wish we had the time to give you a much more detailed picture on all the information we have. One of our early members suggested having a specific site to dissect our community in real time: How many members? what are their backgrounds? how are they exactly adding value to others and to the company itself? — but we love data as much as we love progress and lean practices, so we prioritize the development of CryptoWars, and decided to write a blogpost, which is less time-consuming than developing a site, to give an answer to these questions.

So, how’s the community composed at the moment? (May, 2018)

We are so proud of how diverse our community grew to be. The two predominant groups are startup founders (mainly in the game and blockchain space) and dApp developers, followed by blockchain gamers and individual investors.

Why do we let some individual investors and VC funds in? well, because they demonstrated to be engaged and tech-savvy enough to help us plan and test the product and business model. We love technical people, but we also realize we’ll need funds to make Experimental grow to the company we want it to be — these folks will help us with fund-raising.

Why do we reject most of the applications we get? (per 100)

Speculator alert: this is the profile that we get the most, it’s no coincidence, a high percentage of crypto holders just want to buy low and sell high. Just to make it clear, we don’t judge, trading is completely fine, but in the stage we are at, we don’t need traders, we need makers. All speculators have been and will be rejected.

2. Didn’t provide enough info: We receive many applications on a daily basis, we try to follow up when a profile seems interesting even if there’s not enough info on the form, but things would be a lot easier for you and for our team if you added as much data as possible when signing up. Social profiles like Linkedin and Twitter are really useful! Github too if you’re a developer. There’s a free-text box, make sure to add a personal touch and explain why you’d like to join this group of amazing people backing Experimental.

3. ETH amount: This does not require a lot of explanation. Our pre-sale smart contract allows investments from 1 ETH to 10 ETH.

4. Legal requirements: The person applying is not older than 18.

Who are we looking for?

Being a member of our community does not require technical knowledge, it requires an attitude, a mind-set. We want you to be proactive, to think of new ideas, to test our products, to share with your friends, to make intros, to help us succeed. In return, you get to be part of a community of 300 like-minded people, a great amount of knowledge and fun, and a 100% bonus on e11 tokens.

Developers (blockchain or not, gaming or not): Devs are great at finding other devs’ flaws. Quality check assured. Economists: Balancing CryptoWars’ economy will not be easy. We need great minds behind this process. Token economy experts have a plus. Blockchain gamers: These will find all the bugs and will push the product to the limit, always. It helps that they already have experience with crypto as they will have to use MetaMask to interact with our games. Startup founders: Entrepreneurs are good to find innovative solutions to problems every company has, we want an army of crazy minds to help us find new paths. Blockchain enthusiasts: you think the blockchain is a great tool that will change many industries for good? you are not technical but have many ideas on how the world should evolve? apply, we want you.

If you’d like to join us, apply here.