Hey Builders 👋👋

Your favourite team of digital tinkerers are back with another edition of Happy Hacking! Grab a cuppa, and let's dive into the latest shenanigans at Open Format.

We’ve been talking about AI Agents a lot over the past few months, Dan and Andy went deep over the christmas break. Maybe a little too deep considering it was supposed to be a 'break'.

The result?
Steve...

Steve is the first version of our Rewards AI Agent and for now he has one mission. To listen and learn. Don't worry though he has plans to do A LOT more, and soon...

We've unleashed Steve into three communities so far: one's a top 50 blockchain, another is one of the most talked about AI x web3 projects, and then of course we let him into our Discord. (Join us!)

Why is Steve eavesdropping? He's gathering intel to help community builders be smarter with their community rewards. By understanding all the valuable contributions users are making across all the communities channels, he will allow community builders to reward in a much quicker and more automated way. More on that next time!

Why is he called Steve? If you know, you know.

To give you a tiny glimpse into our vision for Steve, here's a video we whipped up. Spoiler alert: The future isn't as far off as you might think.

In other news, our Rewards Community Hub is now in Closed Beta. It's your one-stop shop to onboard, reward, and monitor your community.

In literally 5 minutes (time yourself... we did...) you should be able to create an onchain community, token and badges, integrate your social channels, start rewarding, customise your community page, add tiers, leaderboards—all without writing a single line of code.

Below is a bit of a teaser, but if you're keen you can start using it now with this link (we're in closed Beta remember so keep it on the hush hush 😉). Please come chat to us about it in Discord!

The team got access this week and started building some hilarious and pretty useful communities:

Sarah's (not) boring points...

For context, Sarah (Open Format's CEO) gets pretty frustrated with us for not doing what we refer to as ‘boring’ tasks, basically anything that is actual work. Tasks like updating basecamp, sharing notes and generally keeping our admin up to speed. So she is now handing out (not) boring points.

Izayah's community for true Bristolians...

If you want to see how we built the Rewards product using the Open Format toolkit you can... we recorded basically the whole process and streamed it to Youtube. You can check out the playlist here.

It goes from us having quite literally nothing all the way to a conversation with Ollie (our UX magician) where we explored all the ways we can improve the user's experience as they build and reward. We'll definitely be doing this for future projects going forward too!

We've expanded our chain integrations. Rewards by Open Format now supports Aurora, TurboChain, Matchain, Base, and Arbitrum, with many more coming soon. If you have any other chains in mind that you would particularly like to use please let us know and we'll see what we can do!

And that's all for now. Keep building, keep innovating, and as always, happy hacking!

Cheers,

Andy, Dan and the Open Format Team

Psst 👋 New to Open Format?

You can now create a token, badge, and reward them in just 3 minutes on our platform. Yes, you read that right. Three minutes. What a time to be alive. Try for yourself here.