Create a Contributor Track Record and Reward System

[Guinch_Roze]

The Cosmos Hub is a thriving community where every participant whether validators, developers, or active governance members plays a vital role in building the future of our ecosystem. However, it’s often challenging to quantify and recognize these contributions beyond the blockchain itself.

To address this, I propose integrating Cosmos wallets (Keplr and compatible ones) with the Cosmos Hub forum. This initiative would establish a clear and transparent track record of contributions by introducing a point-based system to reward and highlight active participants, especially those who are constructive and make governance decisions that shape the future of the Cosmos Hub.

Goals of the Proposal.

1. Create a Contribution Track Record:

By linking their wallets to the forum, users could accumulate points based on their activity, such as:

• engaging in meaningful discussions.

• creating constructive content.

• promoting best practices in on-chain governance.

2. Reward Active Contributors:

The most involved users could be incentivized through rewards like badges, official recognition, or even on-chain rewards such as token distributions or delegations.

A public leaderboard could showcase the most influential contributors to further encourage participation.

3. Align On-Chain and Off-Chain Contributions:

This system would highlight individuals who not only participate actively on the forum but also make sound decisions in on-chain governance processes (voting, submitting proposals, etc.).

Benefits for the Community.

Transparency and Engagement:

A track record will help distinguish genuine contributors from passive participants or mere speculators.

Recognition of Efforts:

Active members will receive tangible acknowledgment, motivating deeper engagement within the community.

Stronger Governance:

By rewarding constructive behavior, we can foster more robust and meaningful on-chain decision-making for the future of the Cosmos Hub.

Next Steps

1. Define the technical framework to enable wallet integration with the forum.

2. Design the points system and its mechanics (e.g., which actions are rewarded and the rules for point allocation).

3. Discuss potential incentives (badges, delegations, rewards, etc.).

I invite all forum members to share their thoughts and feedback on this proposal. Together, let’s make the Cosmos Hub a model of effective and fair collaboration within the blockchain ecosystem.

Your CosmoGuinch,
xo

[Tagu]

I agree with the general idea. I’ve been thinking about similar ways for quite some time now. This goes hand in hand with some discussions and opinions shared here and there recently. This message was initially intended for the ongoing conversation on the Ark Protocol post and its NFT bridge, which I finally split into two. So I’m putting some quotes from my answer on the other post

I see [… ] NFT bridge, community owned Dao, NFT as a badge, web3 citizen-ship a good way for ATOM to bring something new and big. I’m not talking about flooding atom with low quality random inscriptions but rather creating the first ATOM NFT badge, funded and owned by the community, could have its node or owned Dao and gatekeeping/whitelisting other NFTs from other chains that also act as a badge (i’m already thinking of a few) to be trade or stored on the Hub. This way ATOM stay a center piece of the interchain web3 citizenship narrative without really competing with existing services.

I think the hub should find and fund a team to create and manage our first OG ATOM NFT as official badge for the community. All mint and royalties could be send to a community owned DAO.

You’re talking about a “badge” showing your devotion to the Hub, which could be NFTs. (ex Mad Scientists nft acting like a badge to show your support to Osmosis). Obviously here it’s not about just launching thousands of useless inscription. The badge could be use on the forum if it’s connected to keplr like you’re proposing.

I fully support the hub’s ideology of staying as minimalist as possible and focusing on core infrastructure, yet after all its struggling years, I realize that what ATOM is missing is a unified and dedicated community.

We also had interesting conversations on X with Syed, WestInPeace, Curious__J and others the other night : x.com

[Syed]

Recommend checking out these 2x threads too:

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[StunZeed]

If it makes validators get their asses up - great.

The ranking of validators based on amounts of tokens is wrong for many reasons. This proposals could fix this.

[DavidLoyal]

It may a while collaborate with this team. On Social and Private regulator work frame. Very busy to Make sure I shared the Information with Republican and all these Administration Countries. Yes welcome back to the Private Cosmos Hub Forum. Community Members. Actually interesting your Proposal.