Do you remember Utopian?
From the beginning of Steem until last 2018, Steem had Utopian, a strong initiative that enabled the continued prosperity and improvement of the ecosystem.
Utopian had have been a platform on the Steem blockchain which rewards various contributions to open-source projects. They do this by giving out high-value upvotes to articles with details of the contributions made to open-source projects. Contributions are curated by moderators and they get a certain score which determines the value of the upvote.
Utopian is currently out of service. See related articles here
Providing a means for open source contributors to earn is something we really need right now.
- Utopian was the first PoC platform on Steem to reward open-source contributors via a blockchain-based reward mechanism
- Utopian had have been facilitated over $1.5M in crypto incentives for open-source initiatives
- Utopian had have been the first PoC platform to incentivize contributions beyond the code, including copywriting, graphic design, data analysis and more
Why Steem needs an SP-based incentive program
Steemit DIP, recently announced by Steemit Inc(@steemitblog), is a new TIPPING POINT to kick off a bright future for the Steem ecosystem, promising developers a reward for their hard work and time.
The Steem community is revitalized again on the news that a total budget of $450,000 per year will be supported for DIP, and many users are expecting to see the upgraded UI/UX of Steemit.com.
Although the budget is relatively small compared to the Grant Program of huge public chain ecosystems such as Ethereum and BSC, this is definitely the most surprising news among recent Steem news.
However, Steemit DIP is focused on the improvement of Steemit.com, and Steem is a social media ecosystem, and as before, a support program for the continuous development of various DApps and 3rd-party front is required.
Steemit DIP can help improve Steemit.com's functionality and build more infrastructure, but it does not apply to the development of new DApps or 3rd-party frontends. (At least when I checked that announcement)
We need another initiative to continue to encourage building open source projects on Steem.
What is an open source project?
A project becomes open source when its codebase is public and editable, usually hosted on Github. Anyone can review, use, modify and distribute the project by following the open source license
- Do you often contribute to open source project?
- Do you have experience using an open source project?
- Have you found bugs or some kind of errors on any open source project and you want to report?
- Or do you want to suggest some features and ideas be implemented in an open source project?
- Do you have any development ideas that you want to share?
- Are you searching for contributors to help you build your open source project?
Have you answered "YES" to any of the above questions? If so, you are the one who can be rewarded for contributing to open source projects.
The categories above have existed on Utopian before, but are a great example of where everyone can participate in a variety of tasks and get rewards.
Rome wasn't built in a day
Utopian had a variety of participants, including sponsors who were willing to lease Steempower, moderators who set up curating standards and read and comment on all relevant posts, and developers who came up with great ideas to launch Steem-based DApps.
Assuming we collect 50k-100k SP each from the @misterdelegation account, which currently holds around 2.5M SP, and from the main witnesses, we can create around 4M SP, which is enough to create a new Utopian platform. (The power will be even stronger if individual sponsors are included here)
Of course, various tasks are required, including developing a new platform, establishing curation rules, and recruiting moderators. But more important than anything else is how many community members agree and support this proposal.
Many of you are well aware that a lot of great projects and developers went through Utopian over the past few years before the tragedy of the Steem and Hive fork. We need to promote the prosperity of the Steem ecosystem through the rebranded Utopian along with the Steemit DIP.
Please leave your opinions in the comments
This post is still just an idea, but it is worth considering seriously. Through this, we may be able to meet various things such as:
- Wrapped Steem(wSTEEM) on Tron network
- Bridge service between Tron and Steem
- Steem-based DeFi protocol
- A service that connects Steemit and other social media
- DApp based on Steem's PoB mechanism
- Splinterlands, a game that can attract large numbers of users
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Yes, utopian was a good project.