Community-centric Fundraising V3

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Architecture and Language
For Campaign-Based Token Incentives on Common Ground

Overview

Our goal is to replace one-off airdrops and discretionary grants with a repeatable mechanism that rewards measurable contributions while preserving the non-monetary social fabric that makes thriving communities and ecosystems so successful.

At the same time we want to harness the popularity of “coining” things at no cost in a social context, that’s currently emerging from various playersFriend Tech who started the most recent wave of tokenizing ephemeral attention
Pump Fun who perfected it
Flaunch - some Etherean’s attempt at doing PF better but seems not to work
Coinbase (incl. Base, Zora etc.) who are trying to salvage this now for a half-baked creator vision 
Believe - which just launched and was advised by Nikita Bier and is focused on serious projects creating an investable story at their earliest stages

What follows is a consolidated description of the actors, the onchain and offchain infrastructure, and the developer tooling that power this mechanism.

Mermaid diagram of this consolidated description

Cause

A Campaign on Common Ground begins when a Campaigner—this may be a protocol foundation, a mission-focused DAO, a venture fund, or an individual community member—locks funds in escrow and publishes a public mission statement. 

The Campaigner is motivated by the additional activity, goodwill, and network effects the campaign is expected to unlock. As the campaign progresses, the Campaigner’s upside is realized in the form of higher asset velocity, increased user retention, or direct appreciation of the tokens still held on their treasury balance sheet.

Contributions

Work is carried out by Contributors, a deliberately broad term that covers builders shipping code, curators surfacing relevant content, creators producing media, wallets routing liquidity, and autonomous agents that automate repetitive flows.

Contributors do not apply for grants or wait for committee approval; they satisfy the objective criteria of the campaign - which is translated onchain via an oracle maintained e.g. by Stakers (if available) or a general-purpose trusted community oracle. Once proof of work is attested, the Contributor’s share of the budget is streamed automatically—an experience closer to a multiplayer quest than to a traditional bounty board.

Stakers

Campaign-level integrity is maintained by Stakers (optional). These actors bond tokens that can be slashed if they ratify fraudulent contributions or collude in bad faith. In practice, a Staker is often a long-term community member, a service provider running the indexing infrastructure, or a validator already operating nodes on the target chain. By aligning their staking yield with the campaign’s health, they create a native check-and-balance that does not rely on the goodwill of any single party.

Common Ground serves as the coordination nucleus that ties together every pledge, proof, and payout while emitting social signals that bubble up into users’ activity feeds in real time.

Playbooks

Campaign logic is expressed in Playbooks, a declarative recipe format (e.g. JSON) that stitches together the various onchain and offchain features available on Common Ground to express a rich  set of contributory logics and shared ownership trajectories for all stakeholders involved.

From off-chain artefacts like GitHub commits, Farcaster casts, Lens posts, to onchain events like token mints, swaps, or governance actions.

Apps, APIs and Extensibility 

Every App that a Community installs from the CG App Store, can provide a set of APIs which can be referenced in Playbooks, thus making Campaigns infinitely customizable.

Community-centric Fundraising V3

💡

Architecture and Language
For Campaign-Based Token Incentives on Common Ground

Overview

Our goal is to replace one-off airdrops and discretionary grants with a repeatable mechanism that rewards measurable contributions while preserving the non-monetary social fabric that makes thriving communities and ecosystems so successful.

At the same time we want to harness the popularity of “coining” things at no cost in a social context, that’s currently emerging from various playersFriend Tech who started the most recent wave of tokenizing ephemeral attention
Pump Fun who perfected it
Flaunch - some Etherean’s attempt at doing PF better but seems not to work
Coinbase (incl. Base, Zora etc.) who are trying to salvage this now for a half-baked creator vision 
Believe - which just launched and was advised by Nikita Bier and is focused on serious projects creating an investable story at their earliest stages

What follows is a consolidated description of the actors, the onchain and offchain infrastructure, and the developer tooling that power this mechanism.

Mermaid diagram of this consolidated description

Cause

A Campaign on Common Ground begins when a Campaigner—this may be a protocol foundation, a mission-focused DAO, a venture fund, or an individual community member—locks funds in escrow and publishes a public mission statement. 

The Campaigner is motivated by the additional activity, goodwill, and network effects the campaign is expected to unlock. As the campaign progresses, the Campaigner’s upside is realized in the form of higher asset velocity, increased user retention, or direct appreciation of the tokens still held on their treasury balance sheet.

Contributions

Work is carried out by Contributors, a deliberately broad term that covers builders shipping code, curators surfacing relevant content, creators producing media, wallets routing liquidity, and autonomous agents that automate repetitive flows.

Contributors do not apply for grants or wait for committee approval; they satisfy the objective criteria of the campaign - which is translated onchain via an oracle maintained e.g. by Stakers (if available) or a general-purpose trusted community oracle. Once proof of work is attested, the Contributor’s share of the budget is streamed automatically—an experience closer to a multiplayer quest than to a traditional bounty board.

Stakers

Campaign-level integrity is maintained by Stakers (optional). These actors bond tokens that can be slashed if they ratify fraudulent contributions or collude in bad faith. In practice, a Staker is often a long-term community member, a service provider running the indexing infrastructure, or a validator already operating nodes on the target chain. By aligning their staking yield with the campaign’s health, they create a native check-and-balance that does not rely on the goodwill of any single party.

Common Ground serves as the coordination nucleus that ties together every pledge, proof, and payout while emitting social signals that bubble up into users’ activity feeds in real time.

Playbooks

Campaign logic is expressed in Playbooks, a declarative recipe format (e.g. JSON) that stitches together the various onchain and offchain features available on Common Ground to express a rich  set of contributory logics and shared ownership trajectories for all stakeholders involved.

From off-chain artefacts like GitHub commits, Farcaster casts, Lens posts, to onchain events like token mints, swaps, or governance actions.

Apps, APIs and Extensibility 

Every App that a Community installs from the CG App Store, can provide a set of APIs which can be referenced in Playbooks, thus making Campaigns infinitely customizable.