Hello! Interim Ecosystems Lead here:
This week, I had the opportunity to talk to someone who hadn’t been back to check on the SourceCred community for quite a while. The last time he was around, SourceCred had just begun the Credsperiment and there were still only hints of other communities interested in using SourceCred to rewards its contributors.
2020 has seen a flurry of activity within the SourceCred ecosystem:
- the SC community itself has grown, with the creation of dedicated Lead positions happily siphoning responsibilities from our Temporary Benevolent Dictator
- SC has distributed over $700,000 to 40+ contributors with no significant setbacks
- Interest from other open source communities has grown, and several have taken the steps to either “Credsperiment” or go all-in and use SC
I wanted to take the time to share here on Discourse who those other communities are, how they are currently using SourceCred, and any important historical information. Please do add extra context in the comments if I’m missing something. Hopefully we can keep adding to this list together as we grow more!
1Hive (September 2020 - present)
- using Github, Discord, and Discourse plug-ins
- distributing up to between $30,000 and $60,000 a week in Honey
- amount is high due to sudden rise in Honey price, but should be going down
- 1Hive agreed initially to a 5% flow back to SourceCred, and subsequently to a 10% flow back to SourceCred in order to guarantee more SourceCred dev mindshare
- check out the “Pollen” channel on the 1Hive discord to join the conversation
- @befitsandpiper is our keystone community member
Maker (July 2020 - Present)
- the Maker Foundation is trialing the Discourse plug-in to distribute $2500 a week on its forums
- an initial 3 month trial was extended for 3 more months. The next milestone will be a MIP (Maker governance proposal) that will be voted on by MKR token holders formalizing SourceCred’s role in rewarding contributors directly from the Maker protocol, rather than from the Maker Foundation
- this arrangement did not follow our “5% tithing model”, rather the 3 month trial received a $15,000 grant from the Maker Foundation for personnel and engineering costs on SourceCred’s side
- check out the Maker forum for discussions about using SourceCred and weekly updates
- @s_ben is our keystone community member
Metagame (February 2020 - Present)
- our first externally maintained SourceCred instance
- Metagame has started flowing Cred and SEEDs back to SourceCred as of late September 2020. This is retroactive dating back to the first SourceCred/Metagame interactions in February’s CredCon 2020 of lore.
- 5% tithing model
- SourceCred has 490 seeds (worth around $7** atm) and is currently the 5th highest ranked contributor to Metagame
- using Github, Discord, and Discourse plug-ins
- check out the Metagame topic on SourceCred’s Discord, or the Metagame Discord to join the conversation
- @META_DREAMER is our keystone community member
Shenanigan (June 2020 - Present)
- using Github and Discord plug-ins
- week 2 of distributing 20,000 PRTCLE** to its 90+ community members
- @youngkidwarrior is our keystone community member
Please feel free to add details, context, questions, thoughts, love, etc.
**: PRTCLE and SEEDs have liquidity issues making the true value of the tokens flowed back to SourceCred hard to determine
