Earlier this month the official Degen account on X put out an open call for community members to submit artwork via poidh. Submitted designs would have a chance of being used as the POAP commemorating Degen's January Community Call:

Degen 🎩

@degentokenbase

GM Degens!

We’ve dropped a bounty on @poidhxyz to design POAP artwork for our upcoming Degen Community Call on Jan 15th.

Submissions are open until EOD UTC Sunday, and the winner will be picked on Monday. Show us your skills! @poapxyz

poidh.xyz

Design POAP Artwork for Degen Community Call

We need unique artwork for a POAP to commemorate our next Degen community call happening on January 15th via X Spaces. The design should be 500x500px, round in shape, and under 200KB in size (PNG,...

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7:55 AM • Jan 9, 2025

The bounty was posted via Degen Chain poidh with a reward of 10,000 DEGEN:

The community response was fantastic! Members of the DEGEN community uploaded over 50 design options:

In the end, the claim that was selected to represent the January call was this gorgeous submission from artist Oscar Civit:

Following the call on January 15th, the POAP was in the wallet of attendees!

The POAP was named Degen Community Call - January. You can view the official page and browse the 1000+ collectors here: https://poap.gallery/drops/183537

Here at poidh, we were honored to host this contest. We've always been supporters of Degen and love that our tooling can showcase the many talented community members.

It also made us think about poidh as a POAP tool in general. Since so many projects use POAPs to commemorate group activities, but may not always have time to organize artwork contests, we wanted to outline how you can use poidh to get your POAP competition running seamlessly.

poidh x POAP - crowdsource art, fully onchain

If you're new to poidh and want a comprehensive breakdown, we recommend reading our beginner's guide. But, as a quick summary, here's what you need to know:

• poidh lets you quickly create a "bounty" for anything by depositing ETH (on Arbitrum or Base) or DEGEN (on Degen Chain)

• Once your bounty is created it will have a dedicated bounty URL

• You can share this URL and anyone with a crypto wallet and ETH/DEGEN for gas can submit a "claim" to try to fulfill the bounty

• Claims consist of a visual, a name, and a description

• Each claim is minted as an NFT which is held in escrow by the poidh smart contract

• Bounty creators have the power to "accept" any claim at any time

• Doing so automatically releases their escrowed bounty funds to the wallet address of the users who submitted the claim NFT (minus a 2.5% fee collected by poidh)

• The winning claim NFT is transferred to the bounty creator

Here are a few reasons why we think the poidh bounty process outlined above is ideal for communities that want to run POAP competitions!

poidh is a visual-focused platform

According to POAP, "quality art and well-written copy are frequently the make-or-break factors" when it comes to launching a successful drop. While poidh can't help your copywriting, our bounty pages are designed to focus on visuals so you can easily browse artwork as it comes in.

Not only is this helpful for you when running the bounty and choosing a winner, but it also helps maintain a level of transparency amongst contestants and community members. Everyone can monitor claims in real-time and see the wallet address for each submission.

you can crowdfund your contest

Let your fellow community members chip in to your POAP contest with poidh open bounties. Open bounties allow anyone with a crypto wallet to add additional funds on top of your initial deposit:

Want to keep things simple by funding the bounty independently? No problem, just use the "solo bounty" option when creating your contest.

poidh NFTs are digital artifacts (just like POAPs!)

When a bounty creator completes the process of finalizing a poidh open bounty, the NFT representing the submission they selected is transferred to their wallet. For example, here's the NFT page for the DEGEN community call that now lives in lead-DEGEN Jacek's wallet:

We think these NFTs are special because they represent unique collectibles tied to the provenance of real-life actions. Similar to the way that the POAP process "turns precious moments into collectibles", we think these unique "proof of work" poidh NFTs can become important, lasting, onchain memories for your community in their own right.

it's simple

poidh is designed from the ground up to be the fastest way to incentivize activity with crypto. Our bounty creation form requires only 3 fields to get up and running:

No wallet signature to login, no confusing array of customizable options, just a form and a transaction to generate your bounty page.

Yes, using a crypto wallet in general still has some obvious friction, but we firmly believe...

life is better onchain

There are other methods to run a simple photo contest. Have people upload pics via a Discord channel, have people upload a pic as a reply on Twitter, have people fax you their submission, etc. etc. But what are we doing in crypto if we aren't using crypto tools?

poidh is a dapp for people who appreciate onchain life. Every submission is tied to a wallet, every submission is an NFT with fully onchain metadata, and the visuals are stored forever on IPFS via Pinata.

If running a contest that's provably decentralized and immutable is important to you, there's no reason that poidh shouldn't be in your toolbox.

and more secure

It's also worth mentioning that this commitment to crypto-first design helps cut down on contest fraud. Anyone who has run a public contest in crypto via Twitter or Discord has dealt with scammers who try to impersonate a contest winner after the announcement is done. This is because submissions aren't always tied to a wallet address, so they will DM a wallet address for payout trying to intercept the funds.

This isn't possible with poidh. Bounty funds are strictly controlled by your wallet (poidh has no admin control over the contract) and will only be paid to the wallet address for the claim that you select as the winner.

Security, convenience, and decentralization all in one 🤝.

Ready to get started? Visit the app at https://poidh.xyz and use https://drops.poap.xyz to mint your POAP. Have more questions? Reach out on Twitter @poidhxyz or Warpcast @kenny.