Hey there and happy Fund 9 :)

In this proposal we will introduce the Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board Experiment. We believe that Bounty Boards provide some massive opportunities to emerging DAOs & Community Projects which are building on Cardano.

And there we go 

What is a Bounty Board

A Bounty Board is a public Board with open tasks. Tasks can be open to specific individual roles ( like discord roles ) or open to everyone. The Tasks are mostly related to rewards which are distributed once a task is done. The Tasks themself can represent various activities. Bounties are mostly small tasks which can be done in just a few hours, however, with adding multiple sub-tasks, a bounty can become a whole project on its own, the use of bounties often finds its limit in the Bounty creator's creativity only. 

Why it is important

Community engagement & interaction is key for the heatly growth of DAOs & Communities, however there is a lack of tools, systems and processes to incentivize and reward project contributors in an easy and auditable way. Bounty Boards allow a wider participation and an easy trackable contribution on which rewarding systems can be built upon. Bounty Boards help to outsource work, to increase participation and to   

Dework

The Catalyst Swarm currently uses the Dework Platform for project management & Bounty Boards. Dework is a platform on w3, currently bridged to the Ethereum Blockchain. However, Dework allows us to have first hands-on experience & practice which can be used to develop Bounty Boards on the Cardano Blockchain

Our Goal

Explore and establish a Catalyst Bounty Board linked to a treasury & accounting system 

Gathering experience & best practises for DAO Tooling & usecases

Knowledge sharing amongst catalyst community projects

Improve and evolve bounty board, DAO tools and platforms

Provide high quality insights and experience to projects in the Cardano Ecosystem building DAOs & DAO Tools

DAOs rely heavily on its contributors and the quality of their work. Yet, there is a lack of tools and platforms which allow to engage and reward community members outside of core teams in a fast, safe and motivating manner for their contributions.

Bounty Boards have the potential to unlock next levels for DAOs & Communities and to create new incentivisation models to increase the performance of project developments, social dynamics & community engagement

Here some examples how Swarm experiments & explores Bounties

Events:

Bounties can be used to motivate & recognize community members to participate in workshops, events and sessions. The Bounties are set up as a “multiple submission” which allows several people to participate in one single bounty

Examples:

Swarm Sessions ( Event )

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=0504be6e-c0ba-4fbb-9e2d-58c0f390cacb 

InsightFest ( Event )

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=81d642f1-9f7f-4741-b763-151ff96e0647

After Town Hall ( Event )

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=53a22193-6344-4831-a18d-e19a58f8d6a4 

Roles & Processes

Bounty Board can help to experiment & improve processes. In our case a first example on a serie of bounties which aims to increase the experience & education of important Catalyst Roles

Example:

Bounties also can be used to design whole processes and support the Catalyst funding rounds at its phases and roles

Proposer Support 

Co Write Proposals

Experimenting with bounties to effectively & collaborative Co- write Proposals for Project Catalyst.

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=dbdc4f37-2b1b-420d-8bc5-bb1011ee36d6

Assessment & feedback support

Pre Assess Proposals

Setting Bounties and to incentivize the Community to review finalized proposals before submission phase to allow proposals stronger feedback & input for their Proposals

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=3d516add-1b9e-407d-bd6c-1469350c6a7c

Review Pre Assessments

Allow experienced Community members to review pre assessments and to give constructive feedback to assessors 

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=68eac59a-a52b-4498-bcfd-c8b7288e5e29

Example

Using Bounties to engage community contributors by offering easy tasks with great outcome

Timestamping Community Event Recordings

Example:

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=a049895e-ae4a-4421-920d-8bc376fcb02b 

An additional feature we explore is to support and to collaborate with other projects via Bounties. 

Swarm Bounties for SingularityNet

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=b9bfa30a-5c95-4152-8b0a-678e995507c2 

Swarm Bounties for NFT Guild

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount?taskId=c9828c98-1309-41bf-834d-f970c6602428 

Contributions & Contributors ( & reputation ? )

Linked to a token, in our example with the Gimbalabs gimbal token, a bounty board provides also an effective opportunity to track & document contributions on chain. Based on the contributions, a contributors board is emerging which displays & proofs contributions from the engaged community.

Reputation & meritocratic systems

As our system tracks contributions via recognizing community engagement via token, we are able to design first rails of achievement & proof of engagement. 

Example: 

Task is rewarded with ~200 tokens

Contributor earns ~4000 tokens

Earned Tokens unlock x amount of “contributors token”

“Contributor tokens”  are able to mint Contributors NFTs

“Contributor tokens or NFTs”  are able vote on project decisions

Treasury & Accounting

Linked to a treasury system which the Treasury Guild develops in collaboration with the Catalyst Swarm, we are able to track & proof contributions on chain. The now developed systems are still at its very beginning and further development will increase the impact & scalability of the developed treasury & accounting tools and systems.

All transactions are tracked on: 

Github https://github.com/treasuryguild/Catalyst-Swarm 

Gitbook https://treasury-guild.gitbook.io/catalyst-swarm/ 

Discord https://discord.gg/6jk8mVuYqA 

We do not think that Dework is THE Platform to which we will stick for years. However, the currently used Platform allows us to have hands-on experience and the possibility to develop bounty systems in action with real resources & real impact.

Maximizing Insights

As we keep a detailed track & documentation of executed bounties, we are able to get a first impression on emerging categories & patterns and to generate strong experience on Bounty potentials & use cases. By implementing our Bounty Board tools, platforms and services to local communities we are able to sensor authentic needs & use cases for Bounties & emerging systems.

Documentation on sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p9UND-IUIrpsXGXKk4H_dFyKchaKnCTvhMzeE8tLL9g/edit?usp=sharing 

Maximizing Impact 

The experience and knowledge we earn is shared to other projects and swarm invests a serious amount of time to ensure that other communities have a direct & easy access to our experience. The Bounty systems which Swarm explores are introduced to close collaborators such as the Catalyst School, the Eastern Town Hall & the LATAM Town Hall Teams.

Catalyst School Bounties on Swarm Bounty Board

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-school-task 

Introducing Bounty Board & Gimbal token system to the LATAM Town Hall Team

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/main-project-2058?taskId=52385b61-3b3b-43e8-b7a2-00893dd4425b 

https://discord.com/channels/832894680290951179/973497013519925278/990839248078905415  

Introducing Bounty Board & Gimbal token system to the SingularityNET Ambassador program

Introducing & implementing our experience to other communities allows us to create an amazingly effective experience in which very different groups & projects use the same tool sets & platforms. This generates a maximum of diversity, and by keeping strong communications between the groups we are able to provide very effective feedback loops & accelerators.

Based on those insights, we are able to gather valid data and experiences to develop Community Bounty Boards on the Cardano Blockchain. To avoid duplication of effort and to maximize a collective development, we aim to communicate & collaborate closely to projects which already invest time and resources to DAO developments on the Cardano Blockchain. ( Such as Snapbrillia, ADAO & Gimbalabs ) 

Gimbalabs

https://gimbalabs.com/gimbalgrid 

ADAO

https://www.theadao.io/ 

Snapbrillia

https://www.snapbrillia.com/ 

To wrap things up.. We heavily experiment & explore different options on how Bounties could be implemented in Cardano DAOs, Communities & Projects, however, we do not have any real resources to maintain & focus on further development of the bounty board. The current resources for the Bounty rewards are coming from the Catalyst Swarm [SWARM] Stake Pool who generates ~300/~400 ada per epoch. This proposal aims to enable additional resources to improve & boost the experimentation of Bounties and to provide strong insights and real impact to projects which are building DAO structures and tools on the Cardano ECosystem.

The envisioned outcome of this proposal are strong insights & experiences on how to build DAO structures & Tools. Based on those Insights, we are able to generate blueprints and playbooks of best practices and to provide effective support to our DAO Building Cardano Community :)

Bounty Boards and open tasks require a high level of coordination and it might become difficult to moderate & coordinate Bounty Boards while scaling up

Educating Bounty Board Coordinators is our way to mitigate those risks. We will spend all needed time to onboard and educate project & community leaders to dework and to ensure that the platform and related tools can be used to its maximum :)

The Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board is already in action and is further developed and experimented on the Dework Platform. 

Q2 2022 - done

Setup Dework space for the Catalyst Swarm

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm 

Introduce Project Manager, Admins & Contributors

Setup Project Management on Dework

Experiment first Bounties on dework

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount 

Q3 2022

In q3 2022 we focused on Introducing & implementing the Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board Concept to our partners & collaborators. This will allow us to install a diverse & wide use & experimentation on the Bounty Board through different communities and use cases. Main goal is to roll out a diverse use of the same tools and to identify best practices.

implement the Bounty Board to the global Town Halls to increase global outreach & engagement

• Latam Town Hall Bounty Board implementation - In Progress

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/main-project-2058?taskId=52385b61-3b3b-43e8-b7a2-00893dd4425b 

• SingularityNET Bounty Board implementation - in Progress

• Eastern Town Hall Bounty Board implementation
• Africa Town Hall Bounty Board implementation

implement the Bounty Board to the Guilds

• NFT Guild Bounty Board implementation
• Treasury Guild Bounty Board implementation
• Governance Guild Bounty Board implementation - in progress

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-admi 

• Cardano Ambassadors Guild Bounty Board implementation

Q4 2022

Further development, exploration & maintenance of the Bounty Board System + Treasury & Accounting systems 

Development of a first general Project Catalyst Bounty Board on Dework to allow any projects and individuals from the Cardano & Catalyst Ecosystem to submit & take tasks

Setting up Communications & Collaborations to projects which are building DAO Tools for the Cardano Ecosystem

Generating a play book on best practises & use cases of the developed Bounty Board system.

Project Management 

Management of Swarm Bounties & systems, establish effective data structures to easily manage bounties & transactions

= 12.800 usd in Ada

Knowledge Coordination

Sharing knowledge & implementing discoveries & identified best practices across different projects & communities. 

Organizing Workshops & Community Toolmaker events

2 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 12.800 usd in Ada

Treasury & Accounting 

Maintaining & developing the Treasury & Accounting system & tailor made solutions to the Bounty Board Projects

2 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 12.800 usd in Ada

Dev Team

Developing improvements and features to the Bounty Board system with special focus on contribution, achievement & reputation systems

3 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 19.200 usd in Ada

Bounty Treasury

This Budget will be fully allocated to public Bounties and to public tasks which directly supports the Swarm Bounty Board

4000 usd in ada per month for 4 months to engage & reward high quality contributions via rewarded Bounties

= 16.000 usd in Ada

The Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board Project is a collaboration of several highly experienced & engaged groups from the Catalyst Community, so we will have a bunch of contributors. We will list the responsible people for each participating project which engage to ensure a further development of the Bounty Board

Catalyst Swarm

https://catalystswarm.com/swarmlabs/ 

Felix Weber

https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-weber-339590209/ 

Tevo Saks

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tevosaks/ 

Treasury Guild

https://www.treasuryguild.io/ 

André Diamond

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-diamond-45871242/ 

Miroslav Rajh

https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslav-rajh-94566845/ 

AIM

https://cardanocataly.st/tools/ 

Phil K

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/profile/3057724/activity 

Fluid7

https://fluid7.co.uk/ 

Jonathan Adjei

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanadjei/ 

We definitely envision developing sustainable models to run and maintain bounty boards, however it might require time & made experience before getting to a sustainable point, therefore, if the bount board projects keep a success we will most likely return to a future Catalyst Funding Round.

All actions & development are tracked on the Catalyst Swarm Dework

https://app.dework.xyz/i/5Y3dQ6OHmh59zCZ0gseEbN 

and on the Swarm Bounty Category

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount 

The Project Management & development will be tracked via Dework & Discord Integration on the Catalyst Swarm Discord & Dework Server

Dework: https://app.dework.xyz/i/0m6XgGE7wrVTyzZcV2Q6oR 

All transactions & payments are fully tracked and documented via the Treasury Guilds Treasury & accounting system on Discord, Github and Gitbook.

Discord: https://discord.com/channels/832894680290951179/973497013519925278

Github: https://github.com/treasuryguild 

Gitbook: https://treasury-guild.gitbook.io/catalyst-swarm/

https://treasuryguild.github.io/Gitbook/

A successful introduced & developed bounty system across a diverse range of Projects and Communities.

Successful bootstrapped & pioneered Bounty Boards across different communities

A rich pool of different use cases to identify best practices and processes

Communities actively use, develop & evolve bounty boards

Large community participation in open tasks & projects

Gathering strong Insights to generate Blueprints & playbooks and to support projects building DAOs & DAO tools for the Cardano Ecosystem

This is a whole new proposal from the Swarm Community :)