Talent Protocol
Supporter Onboarding Document
Welcome On Board 🚀
Congratulations! You're officially part of Talent Protocol's ! The main benefits for users this season are:
Access to a closed and safe environment to experiment with social tokens; Earn a higher amount of in $TAL; Talent accounts receive $200 worth of their own talent tokens when they launch; Access to $TAL token at a discounted price. This guide will help you create a Talent Protocol account, explore the platform and buy your first Talent Tokens. We tried to make it as simple as possible, even for web3 newbies 😊
<aside> ⏱️ The onboarding process should take around 15 to 20 minutes to complete.
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What to Expect 🔮
Talent Protocol is still invite-only and in early beta, but already live on the Celo blockchain. We are distributing invites very gradually, prioritizing early supporters and community members. Insider tip: when you buy Talent Tokens this Season, you're getting $TAL at a discounted price ($0.02), while also earning an high amount of . <aside> 📞 If you wish, you can book a personal onboarding video call with a team member. Please reach out to to book one. Otherwise follow the steps below. </aside>
Getting Started With Talent Protocol 💜
Participate on ‣ to win up to $825 in prizes! <aside> 🐞 Please let us know if you encounter any bugs, get stuck in the process or have suggestions. Use this or reach out to us on . </aside>
Quick Walkthrough🚶
Product Demo 📹
Users can: discover new talent, browse talent profiles, invest in talent by buying their tokens, send DMs, unlock perks, and earn daily network rewards just for holding tokens. Users can also apply to become a talent, create a profile, and launch a token (receiving up to $200).
Talent Protocol's Growth:
Registered Users: 142,889 Last updated on 06.Jun. You can find detailed growth metrics . Talent Onboarding Document
Congratulations! 🥳 You're officially part of the trailblazers launching a token on Talent Protocol's ! The main benefits for users this season are:
Access to a closed and safe environment to experiment with social tokens; Earn a higher amount of in $TAL; Talent accounts receive $200 worth of their own talent tokens when they launch; Access to $TAL token at a discounted price. This guide will help you create an account, explore the platform and launch your token. We tried to make it as simple as possible, even for web3 newbies 😊
<aside> ⏱️ The onboarding process should take around 30 minutes to complete.
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What to Expect 🔮
If you're new to Talent Protocol, start with the Talent Protocol is still invite-only and in early beta, but already live on the Celo blockchain. We are distributing invites very gradually, prioritizing early supporters and community members. Insider tip: when you buy Talent Tokens this Season, you're getting $TAL at a discounted price ($0.02), while also earning an high amount of . Talent Protocol's Growth:
Registered Users: 142,889 Last updated on 06.Jun. You can find detailed growth metrics . Getting Started With Talent Protocol 💜
A talent can also be a supporter. Learn how to:
Quick Walkthrough🚶
Product Demo 📹
Users can: discover new talent, browse talent profiles, invest in talent by buying their tokens, send DMs, unlock perks, and earn daily network rewards just for holding tokens. Users can also apply to become a talent, create a profile, and launch a token (receiving up to $200).
<aside> 🐞 Please let us know if you encounter any bugs, get stuck in the process or have suggestions. Use this or reach out to us on . </aside>
Knowledge Base
Community Structure
How we work?
We're working as a semi-centralized organization with a Core Team, backed up by an extended (that includes our investors, advisors and contractors) and our Community members. Please see below how we are restructuring our community according to different levels of commitment and responsibility. Quick links:
What is the Talent Protocol community membership?
The community membership is reserved for people who want to help grow Talent Protocol. When we say “community” we mean Talent Protocol registered users that not only want to use the platform, but also want to help build and improve it.
There are different levels of commitment within the community. When members contribute to the network, they level-up to unlock perks, gain access to new channels, and get special privileges at each level.
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Community are attributed and validated via standard ERC-1155 NFTs. This NFT badges will need to be renewed every to make sure all members are active and engaged. is a place mostly for community members (level 2 and up). There is an announcements channel visible to everyone, but most of the server is for members only. For people that just want to follow Talent Protocol from an investor’s perspective, is the right channel to engage with the team. Community Levels
Level 0 - Subscriber
Join with a Discord invite Access to Level 0 Discord Channels: Intro channel; Newbie questions channel (for all questions concerning TP when user has NOT signed up; Read-only access to remaining channels Level 1 - User
Hold a “Talent Protocol User” NFT Discord role of: Talent (if you have a token) or User Access to Level 1 Discord Channels Level 2 - Member
OR hold a “Talent Protocol User” NFT AND attend at least one community call (validated via POAP) Access to Level 2 Discord Channels: Contributors chat + Bounties chat(s) Access to and start earning $TAL and NFTs Apply to profile review sessions (for Talent only) Access to community events like Product Office Hours Level 3 - Contributor
OR hold an “Ambassador” NFT Discord role of: Contributor Access to Level 3 Discord Channels Apply to career coaching and grants (talent only) Level 4 - Extended Team
Be part of the team (contractor, advisor or investor) Hold a “Team” or “Investor” NFT from ‣ Access to Level 4 Discord Channels Exclusive events with the core team Web3 educational opportunities and courses that otherwise cost $ to help uplevel blockchain specific skills (Rust, Solidity, creating NFTs). Level 5 - Core Team
Access to Level 5 Discord Channels NFT Badges explained...
User (NFT automatically sent to the user after ‣ is complete) Member (registered users that have attended at least one community call) Contributor (members that have completed a bounty) Ambassador (successfully invite 5 users; if they invite 10 they get 2 NFTs) Scout (successfully recommended 2 talent) Discover more about the Community NFTs here 👇
Season 1 Explainer
TL;DR
For (November 2021 to Feb 2022) we built a simple tool where talent can launch a token and where supporters can back them. We are looking for ambitious knowledge workers and digital builders to join as talent and crypto natives to join as supporters. Season 1 is for early believers and beta testers.
The main benefits for users this season are:
Access to a closed and safe environment to experiment with social tokens; Earn a higher amount of in $TAL; Talent accounts receive $200 worth of their own talent tokens when they launch; Access to $TAL token at a discounted price. Season 1
Goals
Get real feedback, from real users, using real money to support talent. Build a community committed to the long-term success of the project. Awareness as a web3 talent launchpad and a "web3 for good" brand. Target
There's two types of users at Talent Protocol:
Talent is any user that has launched his token through the protocol. They are individuals with a growth mindset that are looking for support to achieve big goals. Supporters are people looking to back a talent early on and become an active part of their journey. A talent can also simultaneously be a supporter. In we are looking for ambitious knowledge workers and digital builders that believe web3 is the future to join as talent. This includes people like founders, engineers, designers, economists, product managers, community builders. Artists, creators or other types of careers will only be included in future seasons, but are welcome to . Product
"The difference between a talented person and a successful one is their support network."
We're building a platform where users can launch tokens, buy tokens and earn rewards.
Supporters can browse talent profiles, send them DMs and buy talent tokens.
A talent can do everything a supporter can, and also has a personal profile and the ability to launch a talent token.
Talent Protocol is still invite-only and in early beta, but already live on the blockchain, which means tokens and money are real. Features
Create and publish a profile (exclusive for talent accounts) Launch a new Talent Token and receive $200 worth of tokens for free (exclusive for talent accounts) Buy Talent Tokens to support a talent (we cover gas fees during this seson) Earn high rewards just for holding tokens Season 1 is about staking, not trading or crowdfunding.
Talent Protocol is optimized for long-term relationships and strong network effects.
In Season 1 we wanted to create a safe environment for talent to launch their token (the platform is invite-only and the smart contracts were audited by Hacken).
The staking model is almost like a private sale, where everyone is able to buy talent tokens at the same fixed (and discounted) price. Buying at this stage acts more like vouching for a talent than investing.
The incentives to buy come from 1) the rewards in $TAL distributed by Talent Protocol and 2) the possibility of making a profit when the token price stops being fixed on future seasons.
When can I join?
Season 1 started in November 2021 and will be invite-only until the end, early next year.
We are distributing invites very gradually to investors, early supporters, and people on the waitlist (click to join). This season we want to launch 100 talent tokens and onboard 300 supporters.
Why Celo?
Launching Talent Tokens on Ethereum mainnet is unthinkable at this point, due to the extremely high gas fees (and environmental impact). That's why we were initially planning to launch Talent Protocol on Polygon (a L2 scaling solution for Ethereum), but we decided to launch first on Celo. Here's why 👇
What are Seasons?
Talent Protocol works in seasons.
A season is a defined period of time with a clear goal and theme. Example: the goal of Season 1 is creating a real but low-risk environment for beta testing.
This methodology allows us to improve the product faster, by doing structured experiments and iterations. Coming seasons will take into account the learnings from previous seasons. With each season we want to push the boundaries of social tokens, building on top of what is working and fixing what isn’t working.
A season can have multiple tracks, where each track addresses a specific niche/use case with specific features and a custom token model. Example: Season 2 can have a track for Founders, a track for Digital Artists, and a track sponsored by a partner organization.
Season 2 Explainer
TL;DR
brings NFTs, public profiles and more user rewards to Talent Protocol. It will still be invite-only but the last chance to be an OG and access the $TAL token at a discounted price. Read more about it here 👇 What happened in Season 1?
In we built a platform where talented professionals could create a token for their careers and where supporters could invest in their careers, send DMs and unlock perks. From Nov. 2021 until Feb. 2022 we launched +170 tokens, have a +10k user base and more than $220,000 invested in talent.
We’re slowly building a strong community on Discord and Twitter (+6,000 each) that is helping us build Talent Protocol everyday.
Read the full wrap-up here 👇
What’s new in Season 2
Main Benefits
Last chance to access the $TAL token at a discounted price before token launch. Earn more rewards in $TAL for scouting talent and inviting users. Talent can receive up to $200 in tokens. New Features
💻 Product: On-chain Career Goals, Perks as NFTs, Public Profiles, and Discover Page 💰 More Rewards: Talent Scouting, Referral Rewards, and Improved Platform Rewards 👯 Talent Application: new process where community votes on tokens to be launched Official Partnerships: team up with other talent-driven organizations to scale the network Community: Levels, NFT Badges, and Bounties Tokenomics
Changes to be announced soon.
Who should join
Talent Protocol is a global community of ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals who believe web3 is the future. This includes founders, engineers, designers, artists, researchers, podcasters, content creators or community builders.
What are Seasons?
Talent Protocol works in . A season is a defined period of time with a clear product goal and theme. Example: the goal of Season 1 was creating a real but low-risk environment for beta testing. This methodology allows us to improve the product faster, by doing structured experiments and iterations. Future seasons will take into account the learnings from previous seasons. With each season we want to push the technological boundaries, building on top of what is working and fixing what isn’t working.
Invitation Structure
<aside> 📤 Every Talent can invite up to 5 supporters to register at Talent Protocol, after launching their token. They'll receive one invite link that can be used up to 5 times.
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<aside> 👉 Step 1: You can find you personal invite link through the user menu, on the top right of the screen. Click it and it will automatically copy the link.
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<aside> 👉 Step 2: Follow to export customized design assets that you can share on social media to invite your contacts to invest in your career. Feel free to use them as you see fit → </aside>
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<aside> 👉 Step 3: Don't forget to also share the with your friends to help them sign up. Bear in mind that this is still a difficult process for non web3 natives, so we suggest inviting them first. </aside>
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<aside> 🎁 If you're able to successfully register 5 supporters in Talent Protocol, reach out to the team on the channel on Discord. We might have a surprise for you. </aside>
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Official Partnerships Document for Outbound
Current Partners
Aya - African Talent Marketplace
Segments - Accelerators/Labs, DAO, Talent Marketplaces
💎 is the web3 professional network where high-potential individuals can build an on-chain resume and launch a talent token, allowing anyone to easily invest in their careers. Help Spot And Support Talent 💫
TL;DR: Be one of the first official Talent Protocol partners and earn crypto for every talent you recommend to our private beta. So far we launched almost 300 talent tokens, have a +20K user base, more than $440K have been invested in talent, and we’re one of the fastest growing protocols on Celo. We’re now looking for strategic partners to be part of our . The Partnership 💍
Who is our ideal partner
You are an organisation or community committed to support talented professionals. This includes people like founders, engineers, designers, artists or content creators. You believe web3, crypto and blockchain have the potential for positive change. You are innovative and open to explore new ways of helping your community members. How can you help
Talent Scouting: hand-pick top talent from your community and give them a special invite that allows them to skip the normal talent application process and waiting time. What kind of talent? Ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals who believe web3 is the future. This includes founders, engineers, designers, artists, researchers, podcasters, content creators, community builders and others. What’s in it for you
Added value to your community members by giving them fast-track access to an invite-only platform, that will help onboard them to web3 and where they can start earning daily rewards in crypto. Each person that signs up with your invite code and launches a token will receive 2,000 $TAL (worth $200). If you decide to invest in them, Talent Protocol will match your investment (up to $100) Have a branded curated list of talent on our Discover page (after recommending +5 Talents). See the example from our partner Impact Market 👇 We will also promote your project and organization to our growing user base (+20k). About Talent Protocol
Our mission is to help the next generation of talent achieve success and fulfilment by enabling collective careers.
Until now careers have mostly been a single-player game where only a privileged few can win. With web3, careers are becoming multiplayer journeys where early support is rewarded and success is shared.
The web3 professional network for high-potential talent. 🏆
Where top talent can create a web3-native professional profile built for the future of work: composable, more reliable, and fully owned by the user. Easily launch a talent token, let people invest in your career, and start building your personal community without having to be an expert in crypto. A carbon-negative, open-source and decentralized social network that values quality of connections more than quantity of followers. Growth Plan 1
Marketing Strategy
The core use case for Talent Protocol’s Season 2: for Talent we are their web3 professional identity (with economic features) and for Supporters we are the place to discover new talent. Make the talent profile public, visually appealing and easily shareable on other platforms Persuade them to add their personal ticker to Twitter, LinkedIn, Behance, Dribble, Polywork, etc... Help talent improve their profiles and invite their network to Talent Protocol. Example: the initial use case of Instagram was taking great photos without photography skills, and they grew because people shared those photos on Facebook and Twitter. Growth Plan
☝ Growth should be about the entire journey, not just acquisition. Engagement matters more than scale in the beginning.
🚀 Main Goals:
Season 1 (Jan, Fev): 20k subscribers, 5k users, 250 talent tokens, 500 active supporters, $200k TVL Season 2 (Mar-Jun): 50k subscribers, 10k users, 500 talent tokens, 1000 active supporters, $500k TVL Acquisition (audience)
Now: organic growth only (including CoinList bump) Next: actively grow our audience with more people interested in using the product now, not just buying the token KPI: Subscribers (users + waitlist + talent applications + newsletter signups) → Mailerlite discord members (active + total) website visitors (Mon-Sun) More educational content about web3/social tokens on Twitter and LinkedIn, not just Medium Activation (users)
Now: onboarding guide on Notion and a lot of 1-on-1 user support Next: gamify the onboarding experience and make it more visible/integrated into the product KPIs: Total Users + Activation Rate (percentage of users that complete the onboarding process) Total Active Supporters (users that hold talent tokens) Total Active Talent (users who successfully launched their talent token) Active Talent/Supporter Ratio Referral (invites)
Now: Most users came from team’s personal network and some user referrals (invites in the dropdown menu and quests via typeform) Next: make invites the main acquisition channel (both for talent and supporters) KPI: Viral Rate (average number of invites sent and used per registered user) : recommendation system for talent Retention (engaged users)
Next: keep users engaged with the platform (DMs, repeat buy, use perks, updated profile) KPIs: Monthly Engaged Users (talent + supporters) User Engagement Rate (engaged users / total users) Community Calls (biweekly)
Growth Plan 2
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Increase our understanding of builders, and start solving their career problems manually/in a non-scalable way. Focus on builders and on social features; forget the traders and reduce communication about financial incentives. Stop focusing so heavily on user acquisition and work to improve engagement and conversion rates. No more distinction between talent and supporters. Everyone can have a talent profile, but you need to be verified to access premium features (verified checkmark, launch token) and be included in curated collections. </aside> <aside> 🎯 SEASON 2 - TEAM KPIs
Community: increase Discord to 30% and total roles claimed to 1,000. Moderation: highly engaged moderators that respond in less than 24h on Discord and Telegram. Bounties: publish >5 bounties until end of June and 3 bounties completed until end of S2. Activation: improve to >5% Twitter: reach >10k followers on Twitter during S2 Polygon: 50+ talent tokens by end of S2 Onboarding: >150 calls (entire team) until end of S2 Verification: >200 verified talent (L2) until end of S2 Opportunities: Identify >5 opportunities per week </aside> older version ⤵️
Tasks & KPIs
Isabella
(1-day sprint with Filipe) ‣: define a role/goal for Isabella Increase Discord Communicators Rate to 30% until end of Season 2 Increase total Roles Claimed to 1,000 until end of Season 2 5 bounties published until end of June and 3 bounties completed until end of Season 2 Highly engaged moderators that respond in less than 24h on Discord and Telegram 100 buddies or matches by the end of Season 2 +100 Community Call live viewers July and August Customer support / helpscout DE&I Action Plan (1-day sprint) Sara
Improve activation rate to >5% (by reviewing onboarding flow) +10k followers on Twitter during season 2 (+20k until EOY) Reach a total of 50 Polygon tokens by end of season 2 Launch Polygon officially in June with at least 10 polygon tokens. Talent News: curation of new people, new goals, and new perks on the platform Filipe
100 onboarding calls (team) until end of season 2 200 verified talent until end of season 2 Identify >5 opportunities per week Partnership Guidelines
We’re excited to kick off this collaboration! This page is a guide to help you make the most out of this partnership.
Recap the terms of the partnership
1. Invite Your Community 📤
O próximo passo é partilharem este com a vossa comunidade. Podes sugerir alterações ao doc através dos comentários, ou se tiveres conta no Notion dou-te acesso para editares à vontade. Announcing the partnership tag @talentprotocol on Twitter and Linkedin <aside> 📁 Talent Protocol brand assets...
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2. Partnership Announcement 📢
When 5+ people have used your invite to launch a token we will create your custom page/list on our app’s homepage and publish a blog post about the partnership (see an example ). Your logo in vector or png ~200 words about your community and why you’re partnering with Talent Protocol Title for your custom talent list on our app (see example below) To start, we ask for the partnership announcement to be broadcast via tweet on your handle for RT support on our end from the @0xPolygonToday Twitter handle.
You can draft a tweet here for us to check copy before it goes out on your handle.
Tag us here or on Telegram for RT support: This project is also able to make a blog post on your end using our assets, and I will include the boilerplate as well. Here is our official partnership template: 3. Other Partnership Possibilities 🤝
AMA about Social Tokens with your community Be a Guest Speaker on our Community Call Talk about a topic of your choice to our fellows. Participate in as a Mentor Host a workshop where you can teach StatesDAO members a specific Web3 skill. Knowing that StatesDAO Members are strong and ambitious developers, after a partnership the partner could access our job pool and hire from it. Provide access to Hacker Houses for StatesDAO Members A joint grant to support underprivileged talent Media Promotion (This one has to include other parts to the partnership as well.) Promote StatesDAO on your social media platforms. Write a blog post showing your support for StatesDAO and what you think it might be able to accomplish. Let’s do this! 💫
User Segment
User Profile
Supporters
Target: crypto natives and web3 early adopters.
Biggest pain point(s):
very hard to find/bring talent to web3 looking for productive ways to give back Solution: a mentor with benefits, nurture talent and benefit from their growth.
Talent
Target: ambitious digital natives, bullish about web3 and community-owned platforms.
Biggest pain point(s):
undervalued by the old world of work, where background matters more than merit, and only some can win. Solution: a support network, powered by a social token, to help them accelerate their career
Talent Segments
Underprivileged: talented but with no network or fancy credentials; from underprivileged backgrounds, usually recommended by partner organizations like Girl Move. Builders: founders and digital knowledge workers like designers, engineers, economists, product or community managers. Creators (music, illustration, digital art, writer, podcaster, youtuber) Explorers (researching or experimenting in groundbreaking areas) Season 01: Builders & Beta Testers
In we are looking for ambitious knowledge workers and digital builders that believe web3 is the future to join as talent. This includes people like founders, engineers, designers, economists, product managers, community builders. Artists, creators or other types of careers will only be included in future seasons, but are welcome to . We will launch 100 Talent Tokens on . This diverse group of individuals should have:
a WOW factor (super inspiring career goal, or interesting life story, or novelty of the sector, or previous noteworthy career achievements); a small group of very committed early believers (10-100 true fans) or be recommended/backed by a credible organization (ex.: ); a vision for the role a token economy would play in their professional life and ongoing projects, and have clear use cases for holding, earning, and spending tokens; a beta tester mindset to help us improve Talent Protocol. Season 02: High-Potential Professionals
In we are looking for high-potential knowledge workers that believe web3 is the future. This includes people like This diverse group of individuals should have:
a WOW factor: a super inspiring career goal, and interesting life story, or previous noteworthy career achievements; ideally a small group of very committed early believers (10-100 true fans) or be recommended/backed by a credible organization; a vision for the role a token economy would play in their professional life and ongoing projects, and have clear use cases for holding, earning, and spending tokens; a beta tester mindset to help us improve Talent Protocol. Talent Sources
Where new talent comes from:
Open Applications for the Web3 curious (voted by the community) → struggling artists, dissatisfied engineers, disappointed managers, bored designers ... Inspiring talent from underprivileged backgrounds, usually recommended by Partner Organizations (Girl Move, …) Direct invites to Web3 established talent and influencers (important as anchors to attract new users, they will be helping undervalued talent, less barriers to adoption, easier onboarding) buying story
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