Please describe your proposed solution.
Evangelist mode will help project owners and social media managers incentivize their community to engage with targeted social media posts. Whether that's coming from the main account, following specific hashtags or keywords, or when another account posts.
The beautiful thing is that Mainline is able to track all the engagement and automatically give points to Evangelists when they engage. Which means you won't have to keep a spreadsheet of posts and cross reference all the evangelists who are supposed to be engaging.
As you do your normal research with Mainline you can add those streams to the Evangelist list and they'll automatically update for your users to engage with. This also helps make sure posts don't get lost in a TG or Discord chat because someone was sleeping or being a real person. There will be an announcement section as well that allows you to prioritize certain posts and keep them pinned to the top. We plan to offer desktop notifications for announcements too.
The project would stake their own native token and/or ADA if they haven't launched yet. Current thoughts are to make it like a campaign– project stakes x tokens for t period, y participants can claim a piece of pool based on performance/results set by the community admin in the campaign setup.
The front end for the dApp would be a campaign creator wizard. Where they stake their tokens, set up the criteria for activity/rewards, invite participants, and set the community as public or private. Private is invite only, for evangelist communities that are handpicked already. Public allows anyone to come in and start participating for rewards (this will be a v2 feature).
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
- Single source of truth for evangelists to promote for communities and for community admins
- Easy trackability for community admins to know who’s pulling their weight and who needs to be cut
- Auto rewards to make it easy for everyone to agree a priori then have everything– awards, distros, etc – happen automatically
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Very few. The underlying platform has been in development for a year, our product is usable and in open alpha now. The platform was designed to modular, with many different modes in our backlog over the next year. Evangelist mode is what we're prioritizing now to enable high quality projects on Cardano to stand out amidst the noise in this down market.
The primary concern is finding a trustworthy expert to help us build a Cardano-native staking and rewards mechanism so projects can use their native tokens to reward their community.