Nervos Community Catalyst: Quarterly Reports

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This thread will be used to provide quarterly updates for the activities for the Nervos Community Catalyst, documenting current progress, spotlighted contributions, and areas to address moving forwards.

Q2 2025 report

Executive summary

In May 2025 we officially launched the Nervos Community Catalyst initiative. Since then, throughout the remainder of Q2, we’ve focused on laying a solid foundation, recruiting community members onto the various tracks, and piloting community-driven bounties. This report highlights our key achievements to date and outlines the roadmap for Q3.

Achievements

  • Established the Nervos Community Catalyst May 15 2025, setting out the framework for the various sub-initiatives including Community Keeps Building, CKB Off-Chain, and CKBoost.

Communty Keeps Building

  • Onboarding: At the current time of writing, we have a total of 14 participants on the programme, around half of whom started last month (Q2), and the remaining have started this month (Q3). The breakdown is as follows: 8 Builders, 4 Content Creators, 2 Advocates
  • Builders’ track: We have had an influx of people with a basic programming background wanting to learn CKB.
    • The curriculum involves CKB Academy courses and associated on-chain tasks, and, in addition to CKB docs, perusing the CCC documentation and CCC playground.
    • Track participants have been submitting weekly reports as to their activities and reflections. Examples are as follows: Methemeticz, Wadie
    • We have been kindly assisted by @Alive24 and @Hanssen to ensure any queries from the cohort can be addressed.
    • Discussions are underway to ensure that participants are working towards creating a basic application by month 3 to put their study into practice
  • Content Creators track: Content output has commenced over the past few weeks with content creators publishing videos related to Fiber network, CKB and Quantum resistance, and more (example). This content has been well received in the community and more content can be expected in the near future as newly-onboarded creators commence their output.
  • Advocates track: The newly onboarded advocates have started this past week (so technically Q3). Further updates will be provided in the Q3 report.

CKB Bounty Board

In Q2 we launched the CKB Bounty Board, a platform for community members to complete tasks and earn CKB. So far there have been 3 bounties paid out, 3 bounties claimed or in-progress, 1 available “one-time” bounty, and 4 permanent bounties. You can see the bounty board at: Welcome to the CKB Bounty Board!

Completed bounties include:

  • Article: “How CKB achieves Quantum Resistance in the Age of Quantum Computing” – Draft complete; pending publication on a suitable platform. (Completed by Femi)
  • CKB Rewards Bot – A bot to automate bounty notifications and submissions on Telegram.(Completed by Phill)
  • Refer a friend and Meme factory bounties have also been completed, and are still open to any community members wanting to benefit.

Bounties in progress:

  • Article analysing the aims and benefits of iCKB
  • iCKB explainer infographic
  • CKB community meme update

CKB Off-Chain

Regional leads have been identified and discussions are underway to organise community meetups in areas where the community is concentrated (e.g. France, London, NYC). The aim is to have at least a couple community meetups before EOY.

CKBoost

Preparations are underway to create an open-source gamified quest platform to synergise community efforts in a fun and interactive way, with rewards as points, xUDT or CKB. @Alive24 has commenced a draft and will submit a Community DAO proposal to work over the course of Q3 on bringing this vision to life. Personally I’m excited for how this could boost community engagement.

You can view a draft front-end for this here:
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Plans for Q3

  • Ensure all track participants are working towards a personal development plan. There are ongoing discussions about ideas for DAO proposals as participants continue their progress towards specific goals. More information about this will come out in Q3.
  • Address areas for further growth for Community Keeps Building. Interest from Builders and Content Creators has been good. Over time it would be good to see more Advocates and Pioneers on the programme. Further steps will be taken to explore this.
  • Finalise CKB Off-Chain meetups for this year
  • Commence building of CKBoost, aiming for MVP within Q3

Thanks to all who have participated and supported so far, I look forward to sharing more updates in future.

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Q3 2025 report

Executive summary

Over the course of Q3, significant progress has been made on all core initiatives (Community Keeps Building, CKB Off-Chain, CKBoost), with concrete steps taken towards community empowerment and growth. Individual personal development plans have commenced and some project ideas conceived under the Nervos Community Catalyst have started to take shape. The plan for Q4 will be to continue supporting community members’ personal development plans, increasing awareness of the schemes we are running, and to continue growing the core initiatives.

Community Keeps Building

Onboarding

Since the last update, a further 5 builders have been recruited onto the programme. These have varying backgrounds in software development in terms of protocols and experience levels. Some new entrants have a basic webdev background, others have built in the Ethereum ecosystem, and another has worked on other UTXO chains such as Alephium. On the content side, we have added 1 more content creator. This brings the total number of people on the Community Keeps Building programme to 20 (13 Builders, 5 Content Creators, 2 Advocates ).

I have considered adding more advocates. Given various factors, I believe it is more prudent to focus resources on strengthening our builders’ roster and ensuring the seeds are sown for new ideas, new projects, and new people speardheading them. That said I have been talking to prospective advocates and will focus more on this in due course.

Builders’ Track

Support for new Builders: In order to improve the onboarding and introduction to CKB process, I have created the CKBuilders’ Handbook. This is a handy resource that links to everything a new developer needs to get started on the programme, as well as a structured progression pathway as they start to build their knowledge.

In order to help the new builders on their journey, we now have a growing Telegram channel for them to ask questions from more experienced colleagues. We have kindly received help from @Hanssen @jm9k @matt_ckb @Tung_Pham in this regard.

Recording progress: All builders are producing weekly reports reflecting their studies as a condition for reimbursement.

Project development: I can share that various new project ideas have been conceived from this programme.

  • Blackbox - This is a point-of-sale terminal developed by Phill @wyltek that is aimed at accepting fiat and crypto payments as an all-in-one solution. Currently, it can process CKB and BTC payments via invoicing. The longer term vision is to accept a basket of cryptoassets that, where possible, can be routed through Fiber network and other payment channels. More details will be shared over the coming weeks and months. Planning is now underway for prototype testing which will be supported by the Spark programme. This will take Blackbox one step forwards on the road towards transforming into a market-ready product. Video demo.
  • CKB Registry - This is an online land registry and marketplace platform that utilises CKB. This is being developed by CKBuilders Wadie and Mil0, the former is a land surveyor by profession. The progress made so far is impressive; their main challenge will be to ascertain if it can overcome regulatory hurdles that come with platforms of this nature. Video demo
  • Mobile node for Android - This is a CKB node that can be run on Android mobile devices, developed by Jr.bit. It significantly lowers the barrier for supporters to run their own nodes at home. Many people have spare/disused mobile phones: these can be repurposed to support the network and increase the number and distribution of nodes. A CKB light client for Android is almost finalised, after which steps will be taken to full node support. Video demo
  • CKB Credentials portal - This is a platform that enables organisations to issue secure, verifiable digital credentials on CKB. This can apply to use cases such as employment verification, professional certifications, academic qualifications, and similar credentials. This is currently under development by Methemeticz - I will share a demo when it becomes available.

Moving forward: As more CKBuilders come to the end of their 3-month study, they will be encouraged to work on ideas for applications to build on CKB. 3 Builders from the Q2 cohort are inactive due to work and personal reasons but wish to remain amongst their peers with the intention to return to building eventually.

Content Creators Track

We have 5 content creators who are producing regular CKB video content that cover the main focal points of CKB’s future developments. Examples include:

One of the main objectives of Community Keeps Building is not only to support CKB content creators, but to empower them to play a greater long-term role in the CKB community by encouraging personal growth that plays to their strengths. Some planning that is underway is as follows:

  • One of the above content creators, a seasoned ASIC miner (including CKB), is in discussion regarding a US-based mining pool initiative to better distribute hashrate and improve awareness of CKB mining in the US.
  • Another content creator is being trialled to engage in miner-related BD and networking at the upcoming Mining Disrupt conference (more details below). If successful it could form the basis of a community DAO funded role to target this important stakeholder group in the US.

CKB Bounty Board

The bounty board has been active with graphics and meme competitions to win CKB, with winning contributions selected by the community on the Nervos Nation telegram channel. Notably through the bounty board we have had community member Femi write numerous articles:

Other bounties in progress include:

  • Article by Femi sharing the experiences and perspectives of the CKBuilders from the Builders’ Track
  • Ecosystem progress aggregator that compiles all information from various teams developing on CKB, allowing users to track past, present and prospective development on one platform; being worked on by E. Eclipse

All of the above illustrates the opportunities for growth available to anyone in or outside the CKB community who wishes to productively participate and offer their skills.

CKB Off-Chain

Since the last quarterly update I have started the process of establishing regional CKB meetups for supporters to meet and build social links. The first CKB Off-Chain meetup was conducted by CKB India, led by long-time community members Raja and Gyan. Thanks to their proactive approach, they were able to arrange CKB merch, posters, as well as a venue where they presented information about CKB to a group of contacts. We have seen the benefit of their efforts with more interest in the Builder Track from their social group.

The next planned CKB Off-Chain meetup is by CKB USA, confirmed to be at Mining Disrupt (Dallas, TX) on November 11-13. There will be a CKB booth, hosted by the Nervos Foundation, and supported by numerous CKB community members who will be attending. There will be a CKB Off-Chain happy hour meetup at the VIBE rooftop pool and bar (The Westin) at the same location as the conference. As mentioned earlier, community efforts will be directed towards networking with miners to create fresh interest in CKB mining.

In the new year there will be focus on meetups for London and Paris for those respective communities. More details will follow in due course.

CKBoost

Following the successful Community Fund DAO proposal, community member Alive24 @Alive24 has now commenced building the CKBoost platform. This website will allow users to earn rewards for completing quest-style tasks and earn points, UDTs, and CKB, providing an easy entry point for people who have a few minutes to spare. Following recent testing, I can confirm that Milestone 1 has been completed and work on Milestone 2 has started.

For anyone who is interested, they can follow current progress on the github repository and view a testnet version (be sure to follow the published testing guidelines).

Plans for Q4

  • The primary objective will be to follow through on the projects and ideas that commenced in Q3, ensuring progress is made as appropriate.
  • In particular, I would like to see CKBuilders moving towards Spark grant applications or Community DAO proposals where relevant, as well as the new CKBuilders start to experiment with the tooling.
  • Work will continue towards building on the initial growth of the three core initiatives and refining where necessary.
  • Making information about NCC activities more accessible to the community.

Thanks to everyone involved in the various schemes mentioned above for their hard work. For any queries, please feel free to contact me on this forum or on Telegram.

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