In our previous post, we announced the launch of 0xFrens Kudos. Kudos is part story, part gift - a way for someone to express and show appreciation for an act of kindness. In the story portion, the Kudos sender describes why they're sending Kudos - what kind act of kindness did the recipient do that deserves it? In the gift portion, the sender specifies a small number of MATIC tokens to gift the recipient.

At 0xFrens, we're extremely excited to launch Kudos just in time for the holiday seasons. Before we dive into how it works, let me explain our product in the context of 2022 and web3.

We’ve talked to Community Managers across web3 to uncover what makes community building so dificult. Read about what we've learned, and what we're building to help!

...what were previously subscribers, are now stakeholders. Web3 is ushering in a new meaning of the term ‘community’.

In my two previous posts, I introduced and explained the first version of “Make It Snow” - a social giveaway app built on the Avalanche chain. The primary problem we ran into was front running bots: bots that monitors data in the mining pool and pays extra gas fee to “get ahead” of a transaction. To solve this problem, we implemented a “commit and reveal” strategy. By doing this, however, we sacrificed user experience by requiring users to commit two transactions before claiming their giveaway reward.

In my last post, I introduced Make It Snow: a social giveaway dapp enabling social airdrops in chat groups and communities. For each drop or giveaway, the creator commits a certain number of tokens before sharing out to groups. The first X people to “claim” can win a portion of the tokens. In this post, I’m going to share with you the engineering challenges behind the project and the lessons we learned.

On Tuesday February 1st, over a billion people around the world will celebrate Lunar New Year. In the week that follows, “red envelopes” will be exchanged among friends and family as a symbol of good luck and fortunes.