# experiment #1: $cbxmTHX

By [cbxmTHX](https://paragraph.com/@thx.exp.cbxm) · 2022-09-06

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> vision
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a suite of tools for a literal “token of appreciation” that begins as a tipping bot and social graph—and grows to issue VCs as context companions for raw transaction data.

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> brief
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*   create a “thank you” token that represents my subjective assessment of how much an individual assisted in my aim towards a specific project.
    
*   a THX token for every major project i’m undertaking.
    
*   tools to “tip” people with my various tokens, so that I can draw a social graph of the people that were helpful to me.
    
*   when a major project ends, do a snapshot of token holders and issue ERC-721’s that record their final stats and commemorate the project.
    
*   be able to tip from Discord, Twitter, and Telegram.
    
*   integrate with Disco to retrieve wallet address from platform usernames.
    
*   create a new VC for specifying a “tip wallet,” which is a preference that the suite of tools would respect.
    
*   issue a VC to accompany every on-chain tip, to provide a mechanism for pairing context and user-specified information with raw ERC-20 transfers.
    

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> wild success
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a trail of VCs will be able to tell the story of how my friends helped me accomplish one of my goals, and acts as a rudimentary scrapbook of a major life event of mine that occurred primarily online.

my friends enjoy giving out their own “thank you” tokens, and cataloging their own projects with VCs and token tipping.

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> final thoughts
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i like the idea of pestering my friends for their wallet addresses so that I can send them something silly on-chain. for that reason alone, this oughta be fun enough to keep me going.

i think the social graph aspect of this will be pretty easy to pull off.

the mvp can probably be done completely no-code.

i’ll want to keep in mind that this is a **_social_** experiment, and the goal is not necessarily to build a product, no matter what the above brief implies. i want to see how people respond to getting a “thank you” token before I try to create a frictionless UI for something nobody enjoys.

oh, and um… i’m pretty much gonna be learning to program again throughout this.

so that should be fun.

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*Originally published on [cbxmTHX](https://paragraph.com/@thx.exp.cbxm/experiment-1-cbxmthx)*