# Introducing the CredSperiment

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/introducing-the-credsperiment/183>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/introducing-the-credsperiment/183 "2019-08-27T23:51:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/introducing-the-credsperiment/183/3 "2019-09-12T18:56:31Z")

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An update on the timeline and prioritization:

I’m thinking about the CredSperiment in distinct phases:

# Phase 1: Payments based on Cred

- Every week, we allocate rewards to contributors based on cred. Those contributors can either take the reward in dollars (paid via OpenCollective) or mana (which is tracked and stored)
- The mana and payments may be tracked in an ad-hoc manner (e.g. a Google sheet)

# Phase 2: CredSperiment Infrastructure

- We’ll build the infrastructure needed to track cred, payments, and mana in a more robust way
- This might involve some significant changes to SourceCred (building out server infrastructure and actually having a backend for the website)

# Phase 3: Mana and Boosting

- We’ll use the infrastructure from phase 3 to add the “boosting” mechanic, where participants can use mana to influence cred and “invest in” boosting contributions.
- See ["Cred Historians" and Curators](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/cred-historians-and-curators/194)

My goal is to ship Phase 1 by the end month, i.e. we pay based on cred in the first week of October.

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