Hello! thank you for putting up a proposal and signalling your support and intent to grow the Gitcoin ecosystem!
- Iām curious how was the response with mintkudos.xyz thus far;
- how does a āGitcoinā kudo look like compared to other kudos minted in terms of what it might lend in terms of legitimacy; and
- if you think this will be a one-off āincubationā period for the team while seeking additional sources of funding (as mentioned in a reply here 1)
Hello!! These are great questions!
Weāve learned a lot from shipping MintKudos and working with our wonderful partners. Weāve observed many use cases of Kudos, which further solidified our thought that people really need easy ways to mint & capture context related to online identities. Weāve put together a simple graphic detailing some of the observed use cases:
As far as comparing a Gitcoin Kudos from a MintKudos Kudos in terms of legitimacy, I think thatās generally up to how the viewer / consumer of the Kudos perceives it. For example, if the consumer of the Kudos is part of the Gitcoin ecosystem and see a Gitcoin Kudos related to one of the internal initiatives, then that Kudos is worth way more than an unrelated MintKudos Kudos.
We do have some plans in the future to use some sort of endorsements to indicate people who endorse a certain Kudos, and using some relative weighting of how endorsed they are by the wider network, we can calculate some āscoreā. If anyone has any further ideas on how we may quantify reputation scores, we would love to chat.
As far as funding is concerned, please take a look at my previous response.