Announcing: the launch of the Nervos Community Catalyst!

Announcing: the launch of the Nervos Community Catalyst!


The Nervos Community Catalyst is a new entity aimed at empowering CKB supporters and enthusiasts to participate in spearheading the growth of our community and ecosystem.

Supported by the Nervos Foundation, the Nervos Community Catalyst will establish a series of initiatives to this end. If you follow CKB, now’s your chance to play a productive role and be rewarded for it.

Why?

Decentralized blockchains are fundamentally people-driven networks. It’s people that give a network its vitality, that transform ideas on a whitepaper to a tangible web of miners, developers, content creators, entrepreneurs, advocates, users and leaders. The future of this ecosystem lies in the hands of its supporters and participants.

The Nervos Foundation will eventually disband. The Nervos Community Catalyst will play its part to prepare for that reality and ensure the community is more autonomous and able to grow the ecosystem with more sense of independence.

About

The Nervos Community Catalyst has been established by myself (Neon). I founded the Nervos Nation community group which is one of the main platforms for daily CKB-related discussion. Over the years I have been involved in content creation (Nervos Nation explainer videos), social media activity (All Things CKB Spaces and general X activism), as well as various community outreach and ecosystem growth initiatives.

As the founder and sole team member of Nervos Community Catalyst, it will be my responsibility to ensure the community is well-positioned to follow on from the Nervos Foundation, by creating roles for the community as listed below.

Initiatives

There will be three key initiatives that form the main focus of the Nervos Community Catalyst. Over the coming weeks and months these initiatives will have their own threads and announcements, which will provide detailed information about activities and how to apply. It is planned that these initiatives will eventually be overseen and funded by the CKB Community DAO v2. Together, these initiatives provide “something for everyone” - an opportunity to participate suited to your desired level of commitment.

1. Community Keeps Building

An initiative with structured tracks for community members to contribute their efforts and be rewarded with microgrants. This is for community members who are interested in the following:

  • Content creation
  • CKB activism
  • Building on CKB
  • Creating a new community branch
  • Leadership

Each category will have its own progress pathway and will have structured activities that a) meet a direct need of the community; or b) advance personal growth in a way that benefits the community.

In addition to a set progress pathway, there will be “bounty boards” that contain specific bounties for participants to claim. Importantly, this initiative is designed such that each category will produce graduates who collectively shape the direction and management of that pathway.

2. CKB Off-Chain

An initiative focusing on creating local CKB chapters across regions where community members are aggregated. This will fund and empower community members to set up their own meetings and events, potentially timed around local blockchain events conferences, with the following purposes:

  • Foster stronger offline social connections within the CKB community of a specific region
  • Onboard more local people into the CKB community, create social connections with people outside of the community and in other nearby crypto communities
  • Increase “IRL” presence for CKB

Each chapter will have its own leader and its own budget depending on the size of the meetup. I am already talking to potential regional leads - if you are interested in setting something up in your region, feel free to reach out.

3. CKBoost

This initiative focuses on setting up structures whereby the community can be rewarded for participating in more trivial tasks such as sharing content, posting comments, participating in campaigns under a “proof of participation” quest platform. Tasks can form part of specific campaigns aimed at addressing a specific time-sensitive need (e.g. raiding an X post) or addressing an area of low activity (e.g. reply to DAO proposals). Other such campaigns may include rewards for on-chain or chain-related activity (e.g. deposit liquidity to DEX, mint iCKB or RUSD, run a CKB node).

A leaderboard will aggregate points from campaigns and daily activities with top participants earning CKB rewards and small rewards issued randomly to any participant.

A cross-platform tipping bot is also considered here: if a user makes a valuable contribution, the community can reward them by initiating a CKB tip. Example rules, must be initiated by a user on the allowlist (e.g. leadership pathway member) and supported (thumbs-up’ed) by 3 other community members, upon which the bot automatically tips the desired recipient. Max 3 tips per month.

Conclusion

These initiatives give you - the community - the freedom to play a greater role in the destiny of CKB; empowering you to create your own stories and achievements, and become the future pioneers of the network. The future is in your hands!

More information on all of the above initiatives will be released in due course. In the meantime, LFG CKB!

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Definitely a great idea love to see this pass and grow!

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Sounds fantastic! Looking forward to it Neon!

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I like circling back to this idea, because it should never have left the system to begin with. Too many words get exchanged and not enough action for my liking on this site.

Although saying that, we need reach, and characters with great ideas to engage technically to other communities and bigwigs like entering developer circles. The accounts chosen should meet certain credentials. Blue ticks, certain amount of followers etc.

That doesn’t mean people should be singled out.

Interested to see the plans and hopefully not including bots lol after all…you cannot buy a bot a pint at the local pub and talk about CKB.:slight_smile:

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For example, every Like in posts here in the forum could be rewarded with 100 ckb. Anyone who has accumulated 1000 ckb rewards would be eligible for a payout.
On other platforms like X or Reddit, I would be cautious, as being inundated with non-genuine interactions like Python scrips would be more likely than not.
At best, most points would be awarded if Joy.id wallet integration has already been verified with already collected badges such as CLN Lightning test participation.

Furthermore, we do not want to reward participation in such platforms, which themselves pursue commercial interests and evaluate the interactions of users and sell them on to advertisers.

At best, there is a separate ecosystem or platform that is neutral. Nervape is a Metaverse. Being associated with monkeys is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea either, so the presentation should be variable, like switching from night mode to day mode, but the reward would be neutral.

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fantastic

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Hi Neon, the Nervos Community Catalyst is an excellent initiative. And there’s quite a bit of overlap with what Eco Fund has been doing recently, like the Spark mini-grants program and offline meetups.

So, what’s the first initiative you plan to launch for Catalyst? I wonder if there might be opportunities for us to collaborate?

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Hi @zz_tovarishch

Thanks for your kind words. I am currently prioritising Community Keeps Building and CKB Off-Chain. I will share more information over the coming weeks, but as a rough guide I would like to have the former starting by July, and for the latter I am aiming for 2-3 regional meetups by EOY.

Yes, I think it would be highly beneficial to collaborate. I know a number of developers in the community who have web2 experience, but are not incentivised to put in the time needed to learn the building blocks of CKB. One of the goals of the “Build on CKB” progress pathway will be to encourage them to build their skills (e.g. complete CKB Academy courses) and funnel them towards the Spark initiative. I’ll reach out on TG to discuss further

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Following on from the initial post, I am now sharing additional information specific to the Community Keeps Building programme.

Community Keeps Building

As mentioned earlier:

Introduction

An initiative with structured tracks for community members to contribute their efforts and be rewarded with microgrants. This is for community members who are interested in the following:

  • Content creation
  • CKB activism
  • Building on CKB
  • Creating a new community branch
  • Leadership

Each category will have its own progress pathway and will have structured activities that a) meet a direct need of the community; or b) advance personal growth in a way that benefits the community.

In addition to a set progress pathway, there will be “bounty boards” that contain specific bounties for participants to claim. Importantly, this initiative is designed such that each category will produce graduates who collectively shape the direction and management of that pathway.

Important to note: each track is designed for people with skills or evidence of performance in that area. The tracks will help them to improve their output and impact, and help them build a plan towards a subsequent Community DAO grant.

Bounty Board

A bounty board will contain in-demand activities or roles for which a need has been identified. These can be completed by anyone, even outside of the tracks. Completing multiple bounties for a certain track may qualify a person to formally enlist on that track if they don’t meet native requirements.

The CKB Bounty Board v0 is the first iteration of this, and is now live on www.ckbrewards.org.

Tracks

Tracks are progress pathways with set output and expectations, in return for a monthly remuneration.

The average time for a track is 6 months - in that time, a participant will have done enough work (“community proof of work”) to build up a resume of their activities, as well as build experience with relevant KPIs. They are then forwarded to the Community Fund DAO to expand on their activities with a larger grant request.

By being time-limited, the track is optimised towards encouraging progression, stimulating growth and avoiding stagnation.

Role: Content creation (informational articles, infographics, videos)

Types of activity related to CKB

  • Written content: informational articles, how-to’s, explainers
  • Infographic content: explainers, diagrams
  • Video content: explainers, livestream, market sentiment

Track levels

Level 1 (Content creation only)

Suited to skilled content creators who do not have social reach. They will create content at regular intervals (e.g. twice a month) in line with scope and requirements set upon entry to the track. Proliferation of this content will be assigned to Activists.

Level 2 (Content creation and delivery)

Suited to content creators who already have a moderate following. Must have a minimum 5K followers on the relevant delivery platform. There is a bonus for creators on platforms where CKB is under-represented (e.g. Tiktok, Instagram, RedNote).

Level 3 (Content creation and delivery)

Suited to content creators who already have an established following. Must have a minimum 15K followers on the relevant delivery platform. There is a bonus for creators on platforms where CKB is under-represented (e.g. Tiktok, Instagram, RedNote).

NB: The minimum follower requirements are a guideline and may vary dependent on platform.

Role: Advocate

Types of activity related to CKB

Activism

  • Social media activism to create awareness or engagement around CKB
  • Participate in live discussions and interviews, speaking engagements
  • Proliferate content produced by Content Creators
  • Curate CKB-related information on major reference/analytics websites

Growth

  • Build or leverage links with other ecosystems for cross-community pollination
  • Build or leverage links with popular platforms (e.g. news) to increase presence of CKB (community marketing)
  • Build or leverage links with suitable projects to facilitate interest in building on CKB (community BD)

Track levels (Activist)

Level 1

Suited to participants with a non-bot follower count (X) between 3K and 10K. Activists are expected to post thoughtful CKB content/analysis 3 times a week and amplify Content Creators as needed.

Level 2

Suited to participants with a non-bot follower count (X) over 10K. Activists are expected to post thoughtful CKB content/analysis 3 times a week and amplify Content Creators as needed.

There may be scope for bespoke arrangements for exceptional activists with follower count over 50K if they have an established and diverse following.

Track levels (Growth)

Growth activities are much more goal-oriented and are best suited to bounties, although there could be the potential for a formal community BD role (credentials based) within the structure of the Community Fund DAO v2.

Role: Builder

Types of activity related to CKB

  • Growing the necessary skills to build on CKB using CKB Academy courses or other beginner level courses. Suited for developers mostly familiar with Web2, or beginner level developers generally.

Track levels

Level 1

The main purpose of this track is to compensate beginner devs for the time commitment of going through the CKB Academy courses or the L1 developer course. Completing the track will enable them to consider working on a proof of concept (Spark programme) or be directed to existing DevRel for more growth support.

Role: Pioneer

Types of activity related to CKB

  • Start new CKB communities (Telegram, Discord, X) to support languages spoken by community members
  • Translation of existing content to new languages

Track levels

Level 1

Starting and/or maintaining a community should come with a minimal remuneration. There could be scaling of that as the size increases but this prone to abuse with bots. Metrics for organic growth can be considered to address this. The incentive should be there for pioneers to want to expand the size and activities for their group with a view to eventually progressing to meetups and eventually seeking DAO support to fund group activity and growth.

Role: Leadership

  • Participants are automatically added to a leadership pool based on one of the following conditions:
    • Complete one of the other tracks (Content, Activism, Builder, Pioneer)
    • Being a regional lead (CKB Off-chain)
    • Existing admin/moderators
  • Some aspects of this will become active after the first 6-12 months of the scheme running
  • All paid leadership roles should be electable on a biannual basis.
  • Members of the leadership pool can be selected for the following paid roles:

Potential roles

  • Governance council. These are leaders responsible for growth initiatives and assessing needs with respect to the existing pathways: encouraging new content creators, activists, and builders; as well as setting new bounties. Their task is ultimately community growth. They contribute to a process of refinement of the programme, amending it to better address community needs. They help to approve/reject bounty requests of their pathway of interest
    • There will be a max cap of 12 slots (3 from each pathway type). There is a small remuneration for occupying a slot. If numbers of eligible leaders exceed numbers of slots, the community will vote to elect the leaders. This will ensure accountability to the community and ensures there is drive from the leaders to be proactive and set the tone for community growth. Community governance can also change other parameters, such as number of slots and remuneration.
  • Community moderator roles. These are responsible for ensuring discord and telegram chats are free from spam and are kept orderly
  • DAO steward roles. These are responsible for the adequate moderation of community DAO proposal forums, as well as liaising with projects to ensure correct presentation of information, appropriate updates on milestones, and communication with the DAO clerk around release of funds.
  • Eligibility to post campaigns on the community engagement platform (e.g. CKBoost) or to initiate a tip.

Payments

Payments for bounties will be set by myself (and then eventually subject to governance), but can range from $25 to $300 based on the nature of the task. Exceptional bounties may be outside this bracket but will be consulted beforehand. Payments are made in the CKB equivalent of the USD amount.

A payment schedule for the tracks detailed above is as follows:

Track Level / Role Monthly payment (USD)
Content 1 (Creation only) 300
2 (Creation and delivery) 800
3 (Creation and delivery+) 1500
Advocate Activist 1 800
Activist 2 1500
Builder 1 TBD (per course completion)
Pioneer 1 250
Leadership Governance 300
Community moderator TBD
DAO steward TBD

Contact

If you wish to be considered for any of these tracks, please contact me either on this platform, on Discord (neon5336), or Telegram.

Conclusion

Whilst some of the details may evolve over time, this is a decisive step in the direction of community empowerment. I will take further steps to increase awareness of these opportunities in the community and strive to produce quarterly progress reports.

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so cool!