Dear Particl community,

We have come a long way since we launched our blockchain in July 2017. Through the dedicated and meticulous work of our development team, we have achieved a lot in a relatively short period of time. Technical prowesses include being the first project to natively implement Segwit, first to bring CT & RingCT (testnet) to the Bitcoin codebase, first to implement cold staking, constantly keeping our codebase updated to the latest Bitcoin version (currently 0.16), and much more.

However, it does seem that the cryptocurrency world has drastically changed in the last year or so — putting more focus on marketing, community and word-of-mouth than ever before. Over are the times where simply building good tech was a guarantee to a better exposure within the crypto sphere. That much has admittedly not been our strongest point, and getting better on that end has been a constant request made by you, our Particl community, for quite some time now.

We are very pleased to finally be able to announce that we have heard and listened to you and today we wish to present to you one of the solutions we’ve identified!

The Partaker Hub

We believe that even though voluntarism allows the most dedicated contributors to shine, it is not scalable and simply not enough to build and retain a pro-active army of contributors. Like every cryptocurrency project, we have passionate communities of believers constantly talking and sharing about Particl. In our search to better retain and grow this enthusiasm, we think we found the perfect platform to reward our army of advocates in a fun way.

Following in the steps of our good friends over at the PIVX community, we have decided to partner with the Fancorps group to offer our community a platform where many bounties, giveaways, airdrops, and targeted contests can be executed within a gamified environment. Starting in early June, Particl users will be able to register to our brand new community marketing platform, The Partaker Hub, and complete a very wide range of tasks, big or small, and be rewarded accordingly. Because we value every single contribution, we believe The Partaker Hub will be the ideal platform to focus our community marketing efforts.

As a matter of fact, each completed task will award users (Partakers) with a variable amount of credits and points.

Credits are virtual rewards within the Fancorps platform that can be accumulated and then exchanged for many different prizes including, but not limited to, PART coins, swag and merchandise. Making use of credits allow us to reward any task, big or small, thus making sure any type of contribution can be rewarding for our Partakers. This will essentially replace our current bounty system which was underused and more difficult to effectively stimulate contributions.

Points are also distributed upon any task completion but are used to determine a partaker’s rank within the Particl Fancorps community. Why is ranking important? We will use ranks to segment our Partaker community and run targeted contests, giveaways and possibly even airdrops.

To quickly illustrate the concept, we could announce a month in advance that we will run a contest where only “Level 4” members will be able to qualify. Not only does it allow us to reward dedicated contributors, but it also encourages people to complete as many tasks as possible in order to qualify for the aforementioned contest. This is but one example of what can be done with ranks, but expect us to get creative with that feature!

What are typical tasks on the Partaker platform?

The reason why we opted to go for the Fancorps platform is that it basically allows us to set up an infinite number and variety of daily, weekly or monthly tasks that contributors can tackle. This ensures that anyone can PARTicipate in this initiative by only completing tasks they want to complete. For example, a partaker could not be willing to create a Twitter account because it usually asks for a phone number. Before The Partaker Hub, our contests were exclusively run on Twitter, leaving a huge portion of our community out of it. Now, that same user could simply ignore the Twitter tasks, and instead focus on Reddit tasks, for example. That contributor would still be rewarded with credits and points, allowing him to qualify for contests and giveaways as well as benefiting from the platform’s gamification mechanism. In other words, we intend to leave no one behind!

Typical Partaker tasks include, but are of course not limited to:

Twitter campaigns (RTs, likes, replies, and etc)

Blog writing (Steemit, Medium, and etc)

Reddit (New original content, upvotes, and etc)

Youtube (upvotes, comments, original content, tutorials, and etc)

The Partaker Hub (tasks that can be completed within The Particl Hub platform, such as proposing new tasks ideas, participating in discussions, referring a friend, and etc)

Reaching out (go to other communities and discuss PART, send exchange listing requests, and etc)

and much more! Possibilities are endless, the sky is the limit as the platform has no limitation as to what type of task can be posted

As you can see, tasks on The Partaker Hub are focused on results. Every single one of them has the ultimate goal of getting the Particl project more exposure and increase the effectiveness and reach of word-of-mouth marketing. These tasks can be completed by anyone such as a Particl fan, a member from another coin community or even a friend not necessarily big into crypto. As tasks are both rewarding for contributors and focused on getting results, the important point here is that the more people complete these tasks, the more “out there” Particl will be!

What other features does The Partaker Hub offer?

The Partaker Hub offers many more features besides tasks that we intend on using. We believe that the wide array of what the platform has to offer will help the community get that spark we have all been waiting for. Additional features include, but are not limited to:

Discussion forums

The forums will allow partakers to communicate and mobilize directly from within the platform. No need to juggle between chatrooms and the platform, everything can be organized from within and with the good old forums format! The thread-style format will also hopefully be helpful to help spawn many Particl-related discussions in a more organized fashion than in a chatroom.

User groups

These groups allow admins to classify Partakers in an unlimited amount of groups, each allowing their own message boards, set of tasks, missions, and even targeted contests/giveaways. Once again, the only limit here is our collective creativity!

Leaderboards

See how other partakers are doing against you! The Partaker Hub has one main leaderboard, and each group can also have its own. This is very useful, and can again be used for anything including contests, giveaways and any crazy idea we collectively come up with! It is also a fun way to go above and beyond to spread the Particl message.

News/Update

The platform can be used to push updates and news about both the Particl project and the Partaker platform. Just one more way for Particl fans to stay updated with the latest developments!

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With this initiative, we hope to build a solid community of go-getters and reward our dedicated contributors for their hard and passionate work. We also believe that this will greatly help the community organize and mobilize in such a way to make our voices will finally be heard.

#BePART of the Particl movement and join The Partaker Hub in early June 2018!