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Workshop #1

Building a Reputation Community

What are the Use Cases they’re exploring?

Reputation to Auto-Approve Bounties

Integrate existing reputation system on-chain to confirm bounties and access rewards, display reputation scores and contributions in one NFT

Solution: dynamic membership NFT to capture reputation and bring Airtable data on-chain, saving administrator time, using webhooks, membership NFTs, and Zapier.

Use Reputation to Reward individuals that Refer others

Capture who referred current members, allocate points to create a user Reputation Score, and map an on-chain social graph

Solution: Native application that’s connected to Airtable to capture onboardee/er information, allocate points for referrals, and send NFT

Capture Creator Engagement

Consumer startup wants to integrate web3 into app to capture user engagement through NFT

Solution is to create reputation NFT that updates with reputation score based on user engagement, creation, and activity.

What is on-chain reputation?

Reputation is the collective opinion that others have of you based on your past actions.

Reputation allows others to easily identify valuable and trustworthy individuals.

Reputation is important for facilitating trust among peer-to-peer interactions.

How do communities solve this?

Reputation is tracked via on-chain credentials, discord roles/ channels, and bounties.

Many communities track reputation using off-chain tools like Airtable or Google Sheets which is both centralized and inefficient.

What does integrating on-chain reputation unlock?

Investment allocation

Access to bounties

Access to specific social channels

Grants for Funding

How do I create my Reputation System for my Community?

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This is an activity that will take time and should be done collaboratively with your community or executive team in order to ensure the completion and accuracy of your stack.

We think about Reputation as a stack. There’s a bottom of the stack (the left side), the Underdog API, and the top of the stack (right side). We believe a lot of reputation is living off-chain (and some on-chain), and needs to be bridged on-chain.

The Bottom of the stack are ‘inputs’ where Reputation is captured this can be tools such as:

GitHub

Discord

Twitter

Airtable

Dispatch

When you’ve identified your tools or inputs that are key to your to your community, your next process is to identify key metrics, contributions, & teams internally. We have another variable that we are currently working on - role of member but that is not important now for majority of communities .

Once you’ve done that you need to answer one question - What benefits do you want to offer to your community members and users for being loyal? This will allow you to create the Top of the Stack of your Reputation System.

Why?

This is because we’ve noticed that a lot of the best communities in the ecosystem are run like lean start-ups that prioritize: accountability, process, and ownership. By running like startups, they are able to understand their members and reward them in ways that truly motivate them.

What are some example teams and contributions?

Teams

Communities will have different contributions or tools but will more than likely operate around a similar team structure. Here are some common teams and their responsibilities:

Strategy: long term planning and optimizing community activities

Operations : ensuring that the community is running smoothly and things get done

Research : deep dive into the ecosystem and optimize ways to run the community

Development: hack on internal or external projects

Social: Gaining distribution across the ecosystem by posting on social media

Community: engaging with others in your community, this is simply the community

Metrics & Contributions ( a non-exhaustive t emplatethat may be different for all)

Strategy:

Planning Roadmap

Partnerships

Organizing Community Initiatives

Closing Partnerships

Operations:

Running a meeting

Administrative Tasks

Organizing Meetings

Research:

Creating Research Topics

Writing Deep Dives

Development:

Hacking on Internal Projects

Fixing bugs on internal projects

Hacking on External Projects

Social:

Creating Content on Social Media

Tagging Community on Social Media

Community:

Engaging within Group Chat

Reacting to messages/announcements in Group Chat

Like I mentioned, this is non-exhausting, can be copied, but I implore you to make your own with your team.

How do I assign points to each contribution and metric?

This is an exercise that you should do with your team and communtiy. Our general framework is as follows:

Low effort, Low impact - 2-5 points

Medium effort, Medium impact - 10 - 15 points

High effort, High Impact - 15- 20 points

This is something that will be constant iterations and we’re happy to assist on

What Underdog Protocol tools do I use?

Reputation NFTs

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Updating NFT attributes

Once you create your NFT, you’ll be able to update your attributes with your actions and points within the UI and API:

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Webhooks

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You’ll be able to

Create NFTs

Create Collections

Update NFTs

How to get started?

Read our guides @

docs.underdogprotocol.com⁠

Visit

app.underdogprotocol.com⁠

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