In March of this year, the DEP announced the “IRL Champs” initiative, rewarding active traders and community members with sponsorships to attend premier industry conferences. As promised, we are now excited to unveil phase 2 of the Champs program—an expansion designed to reward the community on multiple levels and establish new community roles outside of just IRL events.
With this initiative we aim to appeal to every dYdX contributor, trader, and community member letting no great contribution go unnoticed!
dYdX Champions Tiers:
Events
Role: Event Champions will travel to industry-leading conferences, representing the dYdX community while creating content about their experiences.
Responsibilities: Attend events, network with industry leaders, and produce content such as event summaries, interviews, and live updates.
Content
Role: Content Champions will create unique and engaging content that highlights the activities and developments within the dYdX ecosystem.
Responsibilities: Develop tutorials, memes, examples, and other forms of content to educate and entertain the community.
Community
Role: Community Champions will focus on geographically specific areas, cultivating community engagement and growth.
Responsibilities: Conduct market research, create and translate content in local languages, form partnerships, and host community events.
Requirements
Background: A strong foundation in web3 and visible body of work.
Share experiences and learnings from events on our community platform.
Publish 2-4 UGC videos and threads tagging dYdX Grants and dYdX from the event, pre, during, and post.
Publish 2-4 LinkedIn posts tagging dYdX + dYdX Foundation from the event, pre, during, and post.
Funding
Funding: $250 - $3,000 per champion based on the tier and impact of their contributions.
Rewards
Coverage: Flight, lodging, and food expenses for event-related travel.
Additional Perks: Access to exclusive events, workshops, or meet-and-greets during the conferences.
Tiny grants for content and smaller initiatives ($250 - 750).
Retroactive Impact based pay for work completed.
dYdX Merch “Champs Package”
Selection Criteria
Community Contribution: Active and notable community members who contribute significantly to forums, social media, or community projects.
Peer Nomination: Members nominated by their peers for contributions to the community.
Application: For those who are newer to the community and eager to show off their skills or would like to increase their engagement.
NOTE: This initiative is subject to change, especially because of suggestions by you! We encourage the community to share ideas and nominate champions in the thread below .
hey @mgg , there must be some results already, it’s interesting to see the content of those community members who have already participated in this program
I think it’s fair to say no one has contributed more to the forums and community over the years than @RealVovochka. Love him or hate him he has been here contributing almost daily for the past three or four years I have been participating. Send the man $3k for his efforts I say @mgg. No one is more deserving than him.
thanks for kind words @CipherLabs.
Disclaimer: I have never applied for dydx champions initiative.
I dont think engament farming at linkedin is a community building.
@RealVovochka definitely deserves a retroactive grant for his contributions over the years. The note in the proposal indicates: ’ This initiative is subject to change, especially because of suggestions by you!', I think it’s a great chance and more than appropriate to knight @RealVovochka as a champion and reward him accordingly
I’m not begging for money here; I’m genuinely interested in the development of the protocol and just sharing my opinion on issues where I believe I have some expertise.
Unfortunately, community development has never been a priority, which is why the forum looks dead. The community grant manager @mgg on payroll doesn’t even bother to read anything here for a few weeks.
And that is exactly where grants go wrong.
A grant should never ever be given up front before any work is done, you need to pay people afterwards.
I am always flabbergasted why people don’t learn from the real world where such lessons have been drawn a looooong time ago. If you go to work somewhere, do you get paid at the beginning or at the end of the month?
Learn from that and copy it. People get paid at the end of the month for a reason, because it is an incentive to actually do something for their money instead of sitting back and doing nothing because they are already paid without having to do any work for it.
@Nascor@nguyenhd2107@Lorony@CipherLabs (temporary banned for no reason)
I took your advice and applied for the retro. Here is the response from the grants team.
Anyone who wants to make meaningful contributions to the dydx community should keep this in mind. My public history on the forum is visible to everyone. Don’t make my mistakes and spend your time where it is respected and valued.
From this moment on, I will not be posting anything here.
My DMs here, on Discord, or Twitter are open if anyone wants to chat.
While I don’t know the context of the original suspension, I did receive a reply from one of these users on a recent post I made yesterday.
I thought it was a forum response, but it seems you can respond directly to users even if you’re suspended and it won’t post it on the forum.
While I appreciated their viewpoint, it was not appropriate content to distribute to random users that come and go (namely me ). If they kept making the assertions on a public forum, I could see why they received temporary suspension.
Grants Application
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). If they kept making the assertions on a public forum, I could see why they received temporary suspension.