Announcing HUNT Token Airdrops for Steemians (Smart Media Token Project)

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

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Hello Steemians,

We are running Steemhunt, a community-generated leaderboard that rewards people for sharing and upvoting cool new products, run on top of the STEEM blockchain.

Today, we are proud to announce our new HUNT platform and airdrop plan - the largest-ever airdrop for Steemit users.

Power of Product Influencers

Can you guess the similarities of the users who contribute to the following communities?

They are people who love to see innovative new products and be the first to discover them. They enjoy reviewing the pros and cons of new products, and most importantly, they never hesitate to purchase or help the makers if they think the products are cool and interesting.

Their word of mouth has far more impact than normal people. Their product reviews always help makers to become more innovative and make great products. Their initial purchase or use of the products become a strong stepping stone for the makers to successfully go through their initial market stage.

We call them PRODUCT INFLUENCERS


Steemhunt is creating a HUNT Token Economy for Product Influencers

Even though the product influencers are the core part of the communities mentioned above, like Product Hunt, most of the benefits go to the platform company itself. Of course this is a common problem of most content-based platforms. The Steem blockchain aims to disrupt this industry.

Steemhunt has initiated a daily ranking community for cool new products on top of the Steem blockchain. There are many people who share innovative products and compete with others on a daily basis. They are called Hunters.

For the first two months of our operation, 1931 products have already been hunted, and $5,024.15 SBD hunter’s rewards were generated. You can see those products here in Steemhunt’s Hall of Fame - https://steemhunt.com/hall-of-fame.

Now, we are trying to step forward. We are going to create a HUNT Token Economy, a decentralised token system to reward product influencers, help them buy innovative products, and help makers reach out to product influencers.

To create this economy, we are going to expand the current Steemhunt into three pillars:

  1. [Steemhunt] - a community where hunters introduce cool new products
  2. [Reviewhunt] - a marketing channel where makers suggest bounty missions for hunters
  3. [Ideahunt] - a Kickstarter-like platform where makers run crowdfunding campaigns for hunters

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(Design Draft - It may be changed in the production stage.)

What is the HUNT platform?

As mentioned above, Steemhunt will expand into three categories - Steemhunt, Reviewhunt, and Ideahunt. HUNT tokens will be the main currency in the HUNT platform issued from the Smart Media Token platform. Here are more details how HUNT tokens will be circulated in the economy:

  1. HUNT tokens will be issued based on the Smart Media Token platform (SMT) as soon as it is ready.
  2. In Steemhunt, hunters get reward HUNT tokens for sharing and upvoting cool new products, which are competing on a daily basis.
  3. In Reviewhunt, makers (or companies) are able to call the bounty missions for hunters by rewarding them with HUNT tokens. For example, makers can ask hunters to write a detailed product review on their blog or leave an app store review.
  4. In Ideahunt, makers (or companies) can run a crowdfunding campaign by accepting HUNT tokens. When they run the campaign, their product can be also featured in Steemhunt.
  5. The HUNT platform will create its own token economy using supply and demand mechanisms. First, hunters can collect HUNT tokens in Steemhunt and Reviewhunt, and use the tokens in Ideahunt by participating in the crowdfunding campaigns. Second, makers (or companies) can buy HUNT tokens to run the bounty marketing for hunters. Of course we have a plan to list HUNT tokens on exchange markets, but we also want to create our own independent token flow.

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Largest-ever airdrop for Steemians by ERC20 tokens, to be swapped with HUNT tokens when SMT is Ready.

The most important KSF (Key Successful Factor) of the HUNT platform is to gather as many product influencers as possible and amplify our community activities RATHER THAN COLLECTING MONEY FROM INVESTORS. So, we won’t run any public token sales. Instead, 50% of the initially issued tokens will be airdropped for Steemians so that the HUNT platform can invite many product influencers.

One issue is that we don’t know when exactly the SMT platform will be ready, so we will create ERC20-based HUNT tokens first, airdrop them to Steemians, and swap with SMT-based HUNT tokens when it is launched later.

A total of 500M ERC20 HUNT tokens will be issued, and 250M tokens will be airdropped in the following ways:

  1. 100M tokens (20%) will be airdropped to Steemit users with 1:1 ratio to Steem Power until 100M tokens are claimed. This will cover about 50% of the total Steemit account.
  2. 150M tokens (30%) will be used for the bounty rewards for Steemhunt contributors. This airdrop will run for a maximum of 500 days with 300,000 tokens per day (We hope SMT will be ready within 500 days). For more details, check out the next paragraph.

Bounty Rewards for Steemhunt Contributors

30% of the tokens will be distributed for bounty rewards for Steem users who contribute to the current Steemhunt community. Everyday 300K tokens will be airdropped over a maximum of 500 days via the following four categories:

  1. 90K (30%) - Sponsors who delegate SP on @steemhunt
  2. 90K (30%) - Referrals (When a new hunter joins Steemhunt after being referred by a current hunter, both will be rewarded)
  3. 60K (20%) - Voting and Resteem of Steemhunt posts on Steemit
  4. 60K (20%) - Posting hunts and review comments on Steemhunt

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Airdrop Schedules

We are planning to begin the airdrop in the beginning of July, 2018 as soon as the ERC20 tokens, wallets, and token distribution website are ready. However, the airdrop for @steemhunt delegators BEGINS TODAY. We will keep calculating the weekly amount of tokens for sponsors, and add them on our sponsor’s report. Once the wallet interface is ready, the accumulated amount will be given to the sponsors. Please check the next paragraph for more details.

Airdrop for @steemhunt Sponsors - BEGINS TODAY!!!

Steemhunt is running a Steem Power delegation & reward program, and so far @steemhunt has raised 22489.75 Steem Power from 14 delegators. Steemhunt is collecting 5% of hunter’s rewards, and rewarding sponsors in proportion to the amount of SP they have delegated. For more details, please check this post: Introducing Incentives for Steemhunt Sponsors.

From now on, we will reserve HUNT token rewards. As explained above, the accumulated amount of tokens will be distributed to Sponsors when the ERC20 tokens and wallet interface are ready. Here are this week’s STEEM rewards and HUNT tokens reserved for sponsors (the STEEM rewards are already sent to sponsors from @steemhunt.pay). 90,000 HUNT tokens per day are reserved for the sponsors, which amounts to 630,000 tokens per week.

User NameDelegated SPReward ShareSTEEM RewardsHUNT Tokens Reserved
@bramd10017.4580.32%7.013506029
@tabris5009.07Opted out
@project75009.07Opted out
@jsquare1001.748.03%0.70150603
@koyuh8500.884.02%0.35125302
@armdown200.331.61%0.14010120
@hwantag100.180.80%0.0705061
@soosoo100.170.80%0.0705060
@strelka100.170.80%0.0705060
@leesongyi100.170.80%0.0705060
@lcc3108100.170.80%0.0705060
@hakguan100.140.80%0.0705059
@carrotcake100.070.80%0.0705055
@aleister50.140.40%0.0352533
Total22489.758.731630000

(Thanks so much to all our sponsors! Your weekly HUNT tokens are already reserved for the airdrop!)

If you become a Steemhunt sponsor, you will be entitled to gain the reserved HUNT tokens since the week.

How to Delegate

You can delegate your Steem Power to @steemhunt by clicking the delegation button:

100 SP | 200 SP | 300 SP | 500 SP | 1000 SP | 5000 SP | 10000 SP | 15000 SP | 20000 SP | 100000 SP

Or, you can manually input the amount of SP you want to delegate by changing the parameter of the URL.
https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=steemhunt&vesting_shares=1000%20SP

  • Change ’1000’ to the number you want.

Coming Up Next

At the end of July, we will officially begin the HUNT Token Airdrop as soon as the following items are developed:

[Backend]

  1. Token contract (Solidity)
  2. Airdrop distribution with users' SP
  3. Sponsor token distribution
  4. Referral tracking
  5. Voting bot - HUNT token integration
  6. Token distribution after payout period

[Frontend]

  1. Token website & white paper
  2. Wallet: transfer (offchain -> onchain)
  3. Wallet: transaction history
  4. Relevant changes on steemhunt.com

To be updated, you can check our Github Issues here - https://github.com/Steemhunt/web/issues

Also, please follow @steemhunt account and join our chat channels:





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Very cool idea! I love to see innovations like this happening on STEEM.

Being on the eosDAC launch team, I saw the the eosDAC airdrop first-hand and suggest you have plenty of ETH ready to pay for gas and give yourself quite a bit of time (it could take weeks to complete, if you want to have valid logs showing each transaction completed).

Is there a minimum amount of SP someone has to have in order to participate? Our airdrop was on EOS holders and we created a manual process for those with less than 100 EOS. How do you plan to collect ETH addresses and verify that the owner of the ETH address also owns the Steem Power? When does that process begin?

I might have to do some delegations just to support this cool idea and to have some HUNT tokens to play around with. Cool stuff. :)

should've used bitshares...

I agree 100% bitshares is a much better paltform.

That would definitely save them some money on fees. However, lots of people prefer to have "all" their tokens and coins in a single wallet, and I feel like it's pretty nice to have it in my Meta Mask wallet until they release it as an SMT.

spot on

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You can follow me as well to get updates on I.C.O's and airdrops. Lets grow together.

Great point @lukestokes

The fixed cost in gas to run an airdrop is often an afterthought. How much ETH exactly do you think someone needs to have to do an airdrop of 100,000,000 tokens or more?

We appreciate you guys open sourcing the eosDAC airdrop code. It has been useful in understanding the mechanics of how you can automate certain aspects of an airdrop.

Oh wow you're from eosDAC! Yeah it was eosDAC success encouraged us to make this decision.

We're going to add an interface on Steemhunt so Steemit users put their ETH address to claim their HUNT tokens. Airdrop happens on everyone who applied before we ran out of 100M tokens (there're about 187M SP atm on Steemit, maybe less than 100M if Steemit Inc does not participate. Left over tokens will be burned), no minimum cap. In that sense, it's little bit different from traditional airdrops.

Like we mentioned on the post, the process begins on July once we finish all the required back-end and interface developments. Reserving tokens for delegators begin today, but actual token transactions on ETH network will be made on July as well (reserving amount will be accumulated till then).

Thanks heaps for your advice and support :)
Hope to see you around on Steemhunt community as well!

We are planning to begin the airdrop in the beginning of July, 2018

Ah, thank you. I missed that part. :)

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Very cool idea. Specially referral reward will make it worth. It will enhance the on-boarding process.

exactly!

Nice ..
Great work from you, well done
Thank you for sharing these words with us..

Not gonna delegate just yet, but will keep an eye on the project. Keep it up guys!

Testing out a delegation of 20k SP to @steemhunt. Please use it wisely.

Good luck with the project.

Oh wow you became the biggest sponsor for Steemhunt now!

Yeah we’ll do our best making everything right!
Thanks heaps for your support 👍🏻

Thanks to support netuoso, i got emotional..

Wow❤️

thanks a lot @netuoso
I also support it...

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This airdrop will once again benefit the usual whale structure instead of distributing the "power" more evenly among users. I'm hence a huge fan of the approach @socialwallet takes, which they call "reverse airdrop". That way they distribute a certain %age of tokens to the smaller users on the platform.

I love your idea but would rather see a distribution that's more evenly divided among users without only considering their big wallets. The more tokens you distribute to smaller users the more people will be encouraged to use your platform, that's at least just my opinion ;)

I totally agree with you @steembusiness.

That was the reason we only assigned 20% of airdrop tokens for SP holders (They still need to sign in to Steemhunt to register their ETH wallet to claim HUNT tokens), and bigger portion (30%) goes to the community early contributors as a bounty.

People who participate in Steemhunt by posting, commenting, resteem, referrals will get those bounties regardless of their Steem Power. (People who contribute by votings and delegation will get some as well, but they benefit those participant)

I hope this explained your concerns.

Your distribution is definitely split in a very nice way already. I'm just in general against giving whales even more and more tokens but rather a fan of an even split. Why should someone get more tokens just due to the fact that he or she owns more? I might be a bit idealistic on that but it's similar to me like carrying water down a river.

Because they have invested more and took more risk. That is why they should get more. Isn't that obvious?

I do agree with that, especially when you take in mind wealth distribution

When will non-delegators be able to participate? How can we find out?

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thanks for the info

Nice project. I've delegated 25k SP and will consider another 25k SP depending on how things progress.

Speaking of which, why use ERC-20 when you could more easily use Bitshares and avoid all those ETH gas fees? Keep in mind Block.one had to use Ethereum for EOS because they needed massive liquidity. And EOSdac had to use Ethereum because EOS used it.

But it seems Ethereum doesn't make a lot of sense for this project. Indeed it should be much easier and advantageous for your devs to work with another Graphene blockchain. Not to mention, Bitshares offers a much better experience for users than Ethereum does. Hope you'll consider these factors.

@tombstone
Oh thanks so much for your delegation! as well as your valuable advice :)

We'll have our offchain wallet with HUNT token balances and keeping all the transactions, so creating a temporary token is not really a crucial part (we can just swap our offchain balance to SMT token directly). However, we thought it would be more tangible(?) if users can withdraw their tokens to their private wallets as a actual crypto token.

We decided to use ERC20 even though it'll cost us some gas fees because

  1. ERC20 is probably most familiar with people and many have ETH wallets already like MEW or Metamamsk.
  2. Easier to get listed on exchanges because every exchange support ERC20 already.
  3. Private sales - Crypto funds normally hold ETH for their investments, so it would be easier for them to buy ERC20
  4. Gas fee - is a problem, but as we distribute the tokens to users' offchain wallet first, we'll have to pay the gas fee only if a user wants to withdraw their balance to their ETH wallet (and there'll be a minimum withdraw limit for sure)

TBH, I didn't even know we can create custom token on Bitshare (I haven't really looked at Bitshare closely).

Creating a token would be the last step once we finishes all the necessary development, so we still have time to re-consider what token we use.

Could you tell us more about benefits of using Bitshare tokens other than the transaction fee?
Do you think it's still better to use Bitshare token considering all the factors I explained above?

I'm not a dev but I know that BTS can handle several hundred times more Tx than ETH. Look at http://www.blocktivity.info ETH is already congested while BTS is begging to be used. You guys could even make BTS break the record for highest amount of daily Tx currently held by STEEM.

Best of luck with the project!

Awesome SP delegation! Glad you have recognized the quality and potential of the project and supported it accordingly.

I do like where this is going. Are you on discord ( nevermind I see the link now ) ? Like to invite your team to @platforms and see if we can't help build your community out. Let me know for sure.

Hi @steemitqa
Yes we're on discord (@project7#0294 and @tabris#5953).
Thanks for invitation! Feel free to ping us on Discord :)

Sounds good. When will your snapshot of the chain be taken for the SP issue of tokens?

It’ll be around July. We’ll announce the detail before that :)

That’s great. If you hold SP but it is delegated to another account, will you still qualify for the airdrop or will the account itscdelegated to get it?

Good question. I'd say delegation will not affect on airdrops.

So even if you delegated all your SPs to someone else, you'll still get the HUNT token airdrop with the full amount.
On the other hand, accounts with delegated SPs will not be accounted as SP holding.

Good answer. I think that's the best way to do it, when you delegate you delegate voting power. If projects like yours don't assign airdropped tokens to the real holder of the Steem Power you would actually discourage people from delegating. If the person holding the steem power prefers that the tokens go to the account they are delegating to, they can always send them on.

That’s good to know. Thanks for the confirmation!