Overview
Astar is a community-driven project, and we need you to help grow our ecosystem. We have created an open community program where every community member can join and support the Astar ecosystem. You can collect points and receive rewards through dApp staking if your contributions are valid. Joining the community program as a community member is also the perfect way to show us that you are the Ambassador we need for the Astar ecosystem. It’s also the ideal way to educate yourself about Astar and the Polkadot ecosystem.
The community program consists out of two tracks:
- Community rewards: help the growth of the Astar ecosystem and get rewarded for your contributions.
- Ambassador program: become an official Ambassador for the Astar ecosystem.
We have a proposal ready where we will use block rewards for the first test phase of this program. These rewards come from the dApp staking pool already in place through the rewards pallet. Shiden has been successfully running for a month now and we activated its block reward (inflation) on August 19th. The block reward is distributed to collators, treasury, and dApp staking addresses. Since we didn’t support dApp staking just yet (we will support this system at phase2–9), the reward is stored in this address. The idea is to provide people who contribute to Shiden with the stored SDN tokens. Once the dApp staking is fully implemented, we use dApp staking for sending rewards to the community. (read more)
From September 1st, we will start with using these block rewards for our community members to help grow the ecosystem. Read more about this program in the following article and how to submit your contributions.
Community rewards
The Astar Growth team has created a smart contract to be used for dApp staking to reward our community members who help with the growth of our ecosystem.
How it works
Transparency is built strongly in Astar’s vision and culture. That’s why this program is based on Github because it’s fully transparent for everyone to see. Everything will be logged on Github.
Submit your contributions
Github
How to Log a Completed Task
- Go to https://github.com/PlasmNetwork/growth-program/issues
- Create an issue with Campaign ID or Task ID. We only accept contributions linked to a campaign or task.
- Add your details or links in the issue description. NOTE: do not forget to mention your Shiden wallet address and Telegram or Discord handle with your first submission.
We will evaluate all the issues logged there, and the council assigns points. After evaluation, we will use a label, so you know that your submission is reviewed. You can follow the progress in this spreadsheet.
Campaigns
C1 | Builders program — promote Astar with projects, developers. Create a Telegram group with you, projects leaders, Maarten, and Sota. Bonus can be applied if the project officially launches in the ecosystem.
C2 | Community Management — only for official Ambassadors (please share your stats every month)
Tasks
A1 | Write blog posts about Astar/Shiden. Use your own words and share our uniqueness. Translations are also part of this task!
A2 | Creating interesting memes. Creating interesting memes about Astar/Shiden. You can tweet it and tag @AstarNetwork
A3 | Create a video about Astar/Shiden Network.
A4 | Organize a meetup about Astar/Shiden. e.g., Zoom meeting, AMA.
A5 | Social engagement. Invite people to follow our Twitter, Telegram, Discord, or LinkedIn. Log your work with the following details on Github:
1. Share the post link or message link of your invitation.
2. Describe the community and its reachable audience size.
*Please do not SPAM people. Be informative, friendly, and helpful.
A6 | Tutorial / Step-by-step guides to help developers or the community.
A7 | Coding, development work for the Astar ecosystem.
A8 | Freestyle, be creative and show your skills.
Note: please do not spam others’ communities. We believe the magnet is to build a healthy community with a great product. Be positive, insightful, but not controversial.
Reward/point system
Rewards
Every month the pool of rewards will be different because of the use of dApp staking. The amount of rewards for that month will be used to distribute amongst our Ambassadors and community members based on their contributions on Github. The amount of SDN will be posted at the end of each month.
Points
We have created X categories and each category has a point range. Based on different parameters you receive points. Your rewards and how it’s calculated will be shared in your contribution on Github.
Categories and point range:
#ID | Point range
C1 | 20–50
C2 | 20–50
A1 | 1–10
A2 | 1–5
A3 | 1–30
A4 | 1–25
A5 | 1–50
A6 | 1–30
A7 | 10 — no limit
A8 | 1 — no limit
About Astar Network
Astar Network is a dApp hub on Polkadot that supports Ethereum, WebAssembly, and layer 2 solutions like ZK Rollups. Astar aims to be a multi-chain smart contract platform that will support multiple blockchains and virtual machines.
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