While previously, tokens were the primary means of co-ordination in our industry - providing ownership, membership, granting access to communities, voting rights, and more rewards - there are now other non-tokenized ways to co-ordinate communities.

Co-ordinating, the Guild way

By realizing the broader array of methods communities could have beyond tokenization, Guild has moved from simple token-gating to a more flexible approach: to setting up roles for any community functions including co-ordinating and governance.

Guild’s modular access management model of Requirements, Roles and Rewards, allows tokenized and non-tokenized communities to build role structures around a set of requirements to utilize for access. These requirements include onchain actions, interests, internet history, held assets and allowlists.

In this piece, we'll expand on the utility and diversity of allowlists and ideas for specific use-cases and tools to make the most out of them.

Utility of allowlists

In the onchain world many functionalities of apps work around allowlists, including reward distribution, access management, browsing explorers and more. While this hasn’t changed, it has expanded with further automations and features.

Allowlists can be used to identify early adopters, create smaller workgroups in a larger community, build onchain governance without tokens and to plan future airdrops.

Set up any combination of requirements in your Guild for members to pass and get on allowlists automatically. This way we reached a new level of automated permissioning for allowlists. Depending on your goals, allowlists are the ultimate function for multiple reasons.

Allowlists are handy at different stages of a community. Fully customizable allowlists allow greater control over the composition of membership tiers and sub-groups. Guild, in combination with other tools and apps, can help achieve it all.

With Guild, allowlists can be:

• uploaded as requirements to get rewards,

• created as outputs after a completed behavior,

• and exported for further use in more roles on Guild or in other applications.

By combining requirements like onchain assets, social data, and participation, we can grant access to deeper community functions and enable members to get on allowlists automatically.

How to make allowlists

To get your hands on an allowlist, there are two ways to proceed: either by gathering addresses from blockchain explorers or through Guild.

The blockchain is an open database, we can call at any information on it and export it in some form. With Guild, we can combine this with cross- and off-chain data as well.

Blockchain Explorers

Blockchain explorers allow you to collect wallet addresses based on asset holdings and onchain actions on different networks. Some examples include Etherscan, PolygonScan, and Arbiscan. These provide a more manual, less granular but fairly quick solution.

Balancy & Guild Member Exporter

Guild offers a more modular approach to exporting addresses based on requirement combinations within its ecosystem of supported chains and platform integrations.

• Guild’s query engine, Balancy is an alternative tool to gather addresses on multiple chains without already having a Guild yourself. Once requirements are set, you can download or copy eligible addresses in the form of allowlists for future use.

• The Member Exporter on Guild creates allowlists of your members' addresses based on the roles they hold within your Guild. It's an exportable snapshot of your current members in space and time that you can use to build strategies and initiatives on top of. This enables you to set any requirements for members to complete in order to get in a role, therefore an allowlist.

Balancy creates allowlists based on requirements, regardless of Guild memberships, while the Member Exporter creates allowlists based on members' roles.

Modularity at your fingertips

When exporting members’ addresses, Guild's modularity also allows for the ability to mix and match roles to export to a single allowlist.

We can go even further…

Combined with the visibility feature, allowlists become more useful for a variety of goals. It enables admins to create secret and hidden Guild elements - requirements, roles, and rewards -, visible only to them or to role holders.

Since these elements are “invisible” to the public, they are great for operational or strategic moves, even when creating allowlists. Regardless of the requirements you use to qualify members, secret and hidden roles allow Guilds to identify and target sub-groups and gather member insights.

Think of secret and hidden requirements and roles as filters or labels for your team to use, rather than “tasks to be completed” for the community itself.

Use-cases:

Allowlists can be powerful tools for online communities to manage their members and include in strategies. Here are some potential ways to use allowlists, leading to next-level membership management:

1. Early adopters: export a list of your members at any given time, and create a designated allowlisted Guild role to recognize those who’s been there early.

2. Closed roles: prevent new members from obtaining a certain role by exporting the current role holders’ addresses and changing the requirement to an allowlist.

3. Planning rewards: target specific sub-groups within the community, like your biggest advocates or long-time members, and plan future drops with exportable allowlists.

4. Teams: smooth out your operations with Guild by adding core team members and contributors to allowlists, automatically granting them access to all necessary groups, channels and docs.

5. Governance without tokens: gather allowlists and use them for tools like jokerace to handle governance and decision-making with allowlist-based voting.

6. Analytics tools: collect actionable insights on your community and know your members better using curated dashboards with tools like Bello.

7. Keys to access: any social app directed at a crypto-native userbase is able to be gated or used by uploading an allowlist. In Guilds, they grant access to Discord roles, Telegram groups, Github repositories, Google drive files, and blockchain assets.

Allowlists are a vital part in the toolkit of communities. Whether recognizing the pioneers, streamlining operations, or enabling governance, they offer versatile means to enhance community management.

Guild's modular access management model helps leaders to have more insight into who their members are and more agency over community functions. As communities continue to grow and evolve, allowlists serve as the renewed keys to efficient and secure co-ordination and governance.

Guild.xyz is automated access and membership management for your community. Create portable groups, social structures around off- and onchain requirements across applications!

There are more resources and guides here. Join Our Guild to know about new features before anyone else and get the best ideas on maximizing the possibilities in your community!

This piece was co-authored by Reka + Hanna of the Guild team <3

We e-sat down with Tjark, community lead at PoolTogether, to discuss their community engagement strategies and tactics. In this issue of Guild It, we'll explore how Tjark uses Guild to continually engage and re-engage specific member groups around high-value initiatives.

What’s PoolTogether? The TLDR

The protocol

“PoolTogether is a protocol on the blockchain that helps people access wealth through prize savings. It is a financial primitive taken from the fiat world but it works better on the blockchain. We want to be the infrastructure for anyone in the world to save.”

- Tjark, Community Lead at PoolTogether

The community and member personas

Knowing who you are building for is the first step to a better community structure and experience for all. Member identities are the true building blocks of a healthy community. In the case of PoolTogether, there are three main personas:

• Users

• Fans

• Contributors

“Alongside the protocol is a community. Some are users, some are fans, some are contributors. The goal of this community is to help everyone in the world become more wealthy. The mission creates a special kind of vibe!”

Challenge: Connecting opportunities with community members’ aspirations = needs + wants

Each of these member groups can be segmented into sub-groups. For example, some members simply attend community calls while others participate in governance and test new PoolTogether product releases.

This brings up two main challenges for Tjark and his team:

1. mapping high-value sub-groups and

2. engage them efficiently around initiatives.

Challenge 1: guide members towards high-value initiatives

With all the noise that exists in Discord, Twitter and mailboxes, it is important that communities have a single place where their members can get up to speed about ongoing initiatives and how to engage with them meaningfully. Moreover, it is good to reward members thoughtfully for their engagement to signal the importance of key community initiatives.

Challenge 2: segmenting members into the right subgroups

Not all initiatives are suitable for everyone. The community team needs to be able to form sub-groups of members who meet specific, sometimes advanced requirements. In addition, there needs to be a way to communicate with these sub-groups in a targeted way.

Solutions: signaling, segmenting and engaging members with Guild

“We use Guild on a daily basis as it can be used by anyone who wants to get further involved with our project, just by looking at the Guild Dashboard one can get context even when they don’t want to ask questions in the Discord.”

Solution 1: Signaling

Goal: signal the value of community calls by rewarding call attendance with Guild’s POAP module to facilitate conversations with members.

In this case, POAP badges are used by Tjark and his team as rewards to signal the importance of community calls to the extended PoolTogether community.

Community calls in PoolTogether are open to all Discord members and attendance tends to be the highest among all community events. During Community calls, Tjark announces new initiatives and gives updates on products, partnerships, governance, and so on.

PoolTogether uses Guild’s POAP integration to smoothly distribute unique POAPs after each community call. These have proved extremely popular as members love to collect fun badges and feel motivated to show up on the call consistently.

In order to minimize farming, Guild’s attendance verification feature makes sure that a given member has attended for a minimum amount of time in order to be able to claim a POAP.

Results

• 6000 POAPS were distributed across 20 community calls through the POAP minting tool with the supply fully being minted out 19 out of 20 times

• Farming is minimized thanks to Guild’s attendance verification tool

Solution 2: Segmenting

Goal: form a user testing sub-group to test PoolTogether’s upcoming release.

This was made possible by creating a Guild group with requirements filtering for highly involved members:

1. POAP holders of one of the past 6 community calls

2. Poolycon POAP holders

3. Code contributors to PoolTogether holding a GitPOAP

4. Holders of any NFTs created by Churck Bergeron, PoolTogether’s cofounder and artist

Thanks to this new role Tjark was able to onboard a couple hundred, highly engaged members to the new initiative and give them access to a gated document introducing their new protocol.

“Guild also helps connect all the different credentialing tools which is useful in segmenting groups of members.”

Results

• In a matter of a few days, close to 200 members got their Alpha Leak role to access and test the new protocol!

Solution 3: Engaging

Goal: engage a sub-group of governance-savvy members to involve them in Pooltogether’s governance activities.

It is possible to use custom queries for role requirements on Guild. It means using any smart contract's ‘read function' as the source for a requirement. The PoolTogether team has used this feature in order to form a group of $OP holders among their members. They then used a gated Google document to coordinate with them. PoolTogether successfully became a major delegate on the Optimism blockchain.

“What this means is that all PT people who have delegated their OP voting power to our multisig get access to a specific Google Document and this helps communicate with them better.”

Besides coordination, Guild requirements and roles are also a great way to spotlight community sub-groups. Roles are like titles and direct status for those who contribute to the community and project.

“It looks like people find it super rewarding to be recognized. If these people are delegates and get a role for it they tend to really appreciate it. The roles that you get through Guild feel like badges that you collect. Sometimes you click on a profile and you’re like “wow this person here has done a lot”.

Results:

• Delegate sub-group successfully engaged and took action. Guild was used as the coordination and incentive tool to grow PoolCollective -PoolTogether’s delegate- as a top 25 delegate on OP Token House governance, totaling 0.85% of the votable supply.

We covered how to signal, segment and engage sub-groups in a community through PoolTogether and their methods and strategies.

Last but not least, a tip from Tjark to make the most out of Guild:

“To be fair, not a lot of tools make things easier in web3. Guild however takes away a lot of friction as it connects everything, multiple platforms and multiple tools, together.”

Big thanks to Tjark and the PoolTogether team for their time. Excited to keep working together on the future of the PT community!

Guild.xyz is automated membership management for the platforms your community already uses. Create portable groups, social structures around on- & off-chain requirements and build unique user journeys across apps!

There are more resources and guides here. Join Our Guild to know about new features before anyone else and get the best ideas on maximizing the possibilities in your community!

Your wallet is not just a wallet; it's a core part of your identity on the internet. And with Guild Pins, you can easily show other web3 citizens which community you belong to and support, an onchain memory of your experience.

Guild Pins are non-transferable NFTs on Polygon, Arbitrum and Binance Smart Chain (later other chains as well). They are a “proof of join”, showing belonging right from member'’ wallets across applications.

Imagine logging in to an app and seeing all the friends you could have based on the Guilds you have in common, kinda like Telegram's shared group or Twitter's shared following features. Your interests and history can greatly affect your potential new connections very wholesomely!

WHY

The purpose of a Guild Pin is to provide a claimable badge to transparently show your support and belonging to the communities you are in. Representing as an on-chain memory in time of your experience. Serving as a stable point onchain for further community efforts.

As a community builder, you know how important it is to build a sense of belonging among your members. That's where Guild Pins come in!

WHAT ARE PINS GOOD FOR

Guild Pins aren't just a way to show off community spirit. They also serve as a building block for your community strategy. Use them as requirements for roles, or as keys to access your community in any other token-gated platform. And with every Pin being numbered or “ranked”, you can see who has supported you since day 1 and reward them with privileges accordingly.

Pins also work as a constant source of onchain marketing and brand awareness since we bring our wallets and with them our Pins everywhere as part of our wallet-based identity, representing the community in other wallets, NFT applications, and marketplaces. Minting of the Pins costs 1 Matic to facilitate our operating costs. To get a Pin you need to join the community of your choice and you'll see the Pin among the rewards.

Since pins are non-transferable, they are not a means for financial speculation, but for early support, pride and prestige!!!

HOW TO USE PINS IN COMMUNITY STRATEGIES

So how do Pins come into the Guild Model of requirements, roles and rewards? I’m glad you asked.

Guild Pins that are minted after joining a community can be used as requirements in community strategies to set up conditions for further deepening the relationship between members. To segment the community based on time, involvement and interests. For example:

Holding the Pin can grant members a “Pin Holder” role, which grants access to chatgroups and special events as a reward.

And to make up a “verified member” role it could be used in combination with other requirements such as: following on socials, being regular at community events and having other roles in the community.

There is one more twist: Pins are ranked in the order of members claiming them. Meaning, that every single token is numbered so it's an awesome tool to show a rough time of Joining, how long have holders been members of a community.

To segment based on timeliness:

You can also set up a range of ranks for Pins as requirements for roles:

• The holders of the first 500 Pins who were here and claimed the "joined Guild Pin” can have the early role, and enjoy special privileges

• The first 2000 Pin holders can have the semi-early role, etc etc

We want members to be vouching for communities early, and having something to show for it.

This was a short intro to Pins, here is a video about the feature:

Guild.xyz is automated membership management for the platforms your community already uses. Create portable groups, social structures around on- & off-chain requirements and build unique user journeys across apps!

There are more resources and guides here. Join Our Guild to know about new features before anyone else and get the best ideas on maximizing the possibilities in your community!

Start building new connections and belonging today!

Sat down with Luan de Souza who is the former Head of the Community, Onboarding and Server Architecture teams at DD Labs/Developer DAO. We unpacked everything about their brand new ‘Guided Onboarding’ process, and how Luan and his team (also comprised of Aakansha and Alex at the time) leveraged Guild to create a smooth and customized experience for new members.

DeveloperDAO: the place to be for web3 developers

DeveloperDAO is a vibrant web3 community that helps onboard developers into blockchain technology. It offers various activities and opportunities, such as demo events, a developer academy, and access to a collective of web3 venture builders called ‘Agency’.

Initially, DeveloperDAO aimed to attract Contributors who actively built the community by hosting events, moderating Discord, and creating products. However, as the community grew, a more casual Member persona emerged, seeking collaboration, project feedback, learning, career opportunities, and membership perks without getting involved in the community's inner workings the way a contributor would.

Acknowledging this shift was crucial, but with this DeveloperDAO's community team faced significant challenges to address.

Challenges: Overhauling onboarding and Discord server architecture

Challenge 1: smooth, gradual onboarding

For new members, DeveloperDAO felt too big and complex. The community had grown quickly and new members got onboarded into too many channels and interest groups right off the bat, without any gradual onboarding or customization to their experience.

Challenge 2: dedicated experiences for Contributors and Members

Contributors and more casual Members were all sharing the same digital spaces, adding friction. Only a tiny subset of Members wanted to get involved with DeveloperDAO’s operations, the rest wanted to enjoy the many opportunities available.

As a result, DeveloperDAO needed to adjust the entire onboarding and community experience taking this into account. The Discord Server Architecture team lead, Luan, decided to partner with the Guild team for this ambitious, multi-layered project.

Solutions: Re-architecting Member onboarding using Guild as the permission layer

I like the fact that with Guild everybody goes to the same location. The Guild Page is the permission layer and the entry point into the Discord community. The flow felt really intuitive compared to other tools I had tried in the past.

- Luan, former Head of Server Architecture at Developer DAO

Since Guild has been introduced to the community over 6 thousand members went through this onboarding process and roughly a thousand continue to do so monthly.

The community team leveraged Guild as a way to sort newcomers and members onto different paths and customized experiences, and do that in a scalable way. The whole system has been created through a combination of an Otterspace badge system and Guild as the memberships management tool. Interoperability for the win!

According to Luan this design automatically unlocks 3 things:

1. Distinguish between old and new members

2. Create customized onboarding paths for different member personas

3. Bring much more clarity to the Discord by abstracting unnecessary channels from each member’s experience

Below is the visualization of the recently rolled-out onboarding flow as designed by Luan and the Discord Server Architect Team. Let’s go through the new member experience together.

Step 1: sorting old vs. new members

The first step consists in sorting members between old and new in order to adapt their respective experiences, by setting up Guild roles and corresponding server permissions.

Coming into Discord: If members do not hold the “Here Before Season 2” Otterspace badge, then they are assigned either the “721” role (if they hold a Genesis NFT), or the “20” role.

The “20” role requires them to hold 400 $CODE tokens — which they can conveniently purchase through the Guild UI.

We had more than 500 channels and everyone was complaining about the server's complexity and noise. Thanks to the negated requirements in our Guild roles and the Otterspace integration, we improved the situation.

On the safety side of things, it also minimizes the number of people who come in the server thanks to the role requirements. Thinking about it Guild is a launchpad to layer in the initial member requirements.

Step 2: onboarding

While old members unlock the full DD experience. New members unlock just 4 channels in order not to overwhelm them right when they join. Here they have access to an optional onboarding call and an onboarding cheat sheet that keeps everything simple. Eventually, they can decide when they feel ready to enter the wider DeveloperDAO community experience.

Step3: gradual customization through opting into interest groups

Finally, members can further customize their experience and unlock packs of channels by selecting one of the following hubs:

Results: personalized onboarding for members, utility for $CODE, and more peace of mind for the community team.

Since they’ve adopted their new onboarding system, members can enjoy a more straightforward experience that is tailored to their interests. Old members also benefit from the overhaul by having more contextual spaces ready for all the convos to happen.

One interesting data point is that we’ve recently created a re-onboarding program for members who have disengaged with Developer DAO in the past. As we were re-onboarding these members, we asked them why they left. The number one answer was that they had difficulty engaging. It is clear that now Discord is much more orderly and that’s in large part thanks to the onboarding setup we designed with the help of Guild. Aside from the tech itself, the Guild UX is really easy and self-explanatory.

A positive externality of the role requirements designed through Guild is the increased utility of DeveloperDAO’s ‘Developer NFTs’ and ‘$CODE’ tokens as newcomers need to hold one or the other in order to access onboarding.

Tips from Luan for making the most out of Guild

When it comes to looking at creative ways of utilizing Guild as a permission layer, it’s best to consider the current list of integrations, as a way to layer on top of role requirements. Rewards can be pretty varied, such as minting an NFT, being assigned a role, gaining access to a document etc… All of which, can be dynamically updated. Everything is iterative, so don’t fall into rigidity. It only harms your community’s member experience. Structured, yes; but still fluid. Ultimately, being thoughtful about how to craft more connections and communication with your community, is where the power lies.

Give this a go on guild.xyz and check out the Developer DAO Guild

Many communities are scattered across various platforms and topics, it can be quite the task to create momentum for organizing successful campaigns and activations around ideas and initiatives. This deeply affects the financial independence, longevity, efforts and output of the group.

Activations are essential to build a thriving community -- and while finding ways to monetize may feel like a daunting task for people building genuine group experiences, Guild makes it easier for organizers to build sustainability into their strategy, without sacrificing shared values.

Some tools used for monetization are only available in a top-down, organizational manner. However, some of the best ideas come from individuals. We want to give them their power back, to fund their efforts with longevity by giving them a permissionless tool to do so. All we need is an idea, and people who believe in it.

Guild's solution: Composable requirements with payments

Enabling the seamless activations of different levels in every member's unique journey, making it possible to be closer on every touchpoint with members. It's fully customizable to what the community actually needs to achieve its goals and sustain itself.

The extended Guild Model offers the most flexible payment method out there, allowing you to combine payments with anything else in our ecosystem, monetizing through memberships, selling content, paid events, enabling crowdfunding and even some security measures. Set payments in any on-chain asset and offer digital collectibles to members.

True to the usual Guild methodology of making something that's very simple, still opening up endless possibilities, this feature can be used in many different ways.

Here are some ideas we could do with this:

• access

  • groups:

    • requirements can be different based on member journeys even towards the same rewards. Those who have shown support early on and hold a rare NFT have a different experience than those who are new, they have different requirements for entry:

• more access:

  • memberships: guests, general members, early supporters, contributors, and interest groups can all have different requirements

  • tickets & events: general admission, reserved seats, early birds, multi-season passes, VIPs for workshops, focused discussions and others

• allowlists: pay to be on the allowlist and get lists of all members with specific roles

• e-commerce: drop pre-ordered merchandise

• crowdfunding: fundraising for communities and charities, activating a community with paid memberships and building a treasury

• derivatives: claim a new derivative with requirements including owning the OG collection, following on Twitter, and payment of a fee

• collectibles: distribute digital collectibles to remember special events by

What would this look like in the context of communities?

1. A creator community can offer exclusive content to their most dedicated members by creating a premium tier that unlocks access to new resources, services, and products.

2. A gaming community can fundraise for new features or expansions by creating a crowdfunding campaign that offers exclusive perks, such as early access to new content or limited-edition in-game items.

3. An event organizer community can monetize their events by offering member tickets that grant access to reserved seats, VIP perks, exclusive access to the community and distributing digital collectibles.

4. A professional community can offer exclusive networking opportunities to its most committed members by creating an allowlist that grants access to a private Discord channel or other focused discussions.

5. A DAO or nonprofit organization can monetize their mission by creating seasonal memberships that offer access to resources such as newsletters, code repositories, project plans, webinars, and other educational content.

How to get started

Find the feature here on the Guild page, when you are setting requirements:

Join our waiting list as we are rolling this feature out gradually to featured communities.

Here is a video about the feature with a short demo included as well.

Guild.xyz is community infrastructure for platformless memberships and rewards. Create portable groups, social structures around on- & off-chain requirements and build unique user journeys across apps!

There are more resources and guides here. Join Our Guild to know about new features before anyone else and get the best ideas on maximizing the possibilities in your community! Have fun earnin!

About Guild

Guild.xyz is the infrastructure for platformless access management. Create portable memberships, social structures around on- & off-chain requirements and build unique user journeys across apps!

Where we came from

We started out as a simple bot for connecting Ethereum with Discord, inspired by our own needs for better token-gating and general access management of internet native groups.

Over time, Guild.xyz evolved to be integrated with multiple platforms like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Google Workspace, GitHub in addition to 17 chains and several web3 protocols such as POAP, Mirror, Lens and Snapshot. Supporting a diverse set of communities like: Arbitrum, Zerion or Lil Nouns.

The problem we solve

Since our launch working with hundreds of online communities, we've witnessed how painful transition costs from and between web2 walled gardens is and how kept them from reaching their true, full potential.

Communities should be able to move fluidly as a collective. Guild is the direct opposite of all-in-one platforms. Our goal is to build full interoperability for communities between all their platforms for sharing, interactions, and collaboration. So community members can automatically access gated areas in any of the connected applications holding a single role. Before, if you set up roles in a platform like Discord you could not use the same membership structure in any other app, with the same requirements, and without members losing access in the converting process.

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essential community building tools today

getting started:
- register an @ensdomains name
- create a discord, tg or twitter
- setup @gnosisSafe multisig
- share your ideas using @viamirror
- create a nft membership via @CoinviseCo
- gate your community via @guildxyz

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Being a core part of Web3 communities today, it is very important that our infrastructure is less and less reliant on centralized service providers and uses a lot more of openly available blockchain data.

Core principles

Guild's membership structure is best described using three primitives: requirements, roles, and rewards. Essentially, you can "lock up” anything with Guild if you have the key, which are the requirements.

• Requirements can be on-chain like tokens, NFTs, allowlists, POAPs, or off-chain like verifiable credentials, already existing roles, social activity on Twitter and many more.

• Roles are the unit, making up your guild's membership structure, which is fully custom to every community. You can port these over for access into any other application

• Rewards are a form of access to something or ability to do something. In the form of access: to exclusive groups, content, tools, or means of communication such as Discord roles, Telegram groups, Github or Google Workspace. In the form of abilities: to be able to claim an NFT, purchase merchandise or vote on a decision.

They are fully custom and free to mix and match across chains and solutions, creating unlimited combinations that make sense for your needs. And to clarify a Guild means the entirety of your community. All the roles, sub-guilds, working groups, pods are within your own Guild, because your Guild is not restricted to one platform but it's relevant across applications.

Members can authenticate once, then get automatically updated access to everything they are eligible for!

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I wish more projects would integrate others as @guildxyz does, so we could progress actual interoperability

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How it works

• Browse our Guild Hall or explorer to see all non-hidden Guilds, and get inspiration on different setups and community layers.

• We have multi-address support so You don't have to worry about which address your NFT or tokens are held in. You can manage your account on the top-right and can see what wallet addresses and social accounts you can connect or disconnect.

• Go to a Guild Page to see details of any guild. At the top of a Guild you can see all rewards you are eligible for, access to specific roles in a Discord Server, exclusive knowledge base in Google Workspace, and a private Github Repository.

• In the background Guild is running on a powerful real-time query engine we built to be able to interact with the blockchain. We can use this feature to check, which wallet addresses hold what. This is useful for:

  • downloading allowlists about holding any single or combination of assets,

  • doing market research about community cross-sections based on holdings,

  • making sure members in your community didn't sell and still satisfy your requirements. All of this in real-time.

• Creating a Guild starts with selecting the first reward type, then setting up roles with specific requirements.

• After members joined your guild, you can also export connected addresses by role, for rewarding, allowlists, creating further roles, essentially an allowlist maker at your service.

• Start using your Guild'd role system in different applications. Transfer already existing roles to your Guild, or add different rewards to your group.

Since Guild is a very horizontal tool, the use cases are endless between having a very small group of your friends with a single role, and big DAO-y structures with many different roles and complex social systems.

There is another major use of Guild that is highly important in a community setting:

You can set requirements for adjacent community supporters, and owners of specific assets of another project. This allows you to curate groups in a way that you recognize common interests and form deeper connections within the community becomes easy-peasy. As a moderator, you get more context of individuals and their internet journeys within the group so you can better communicate with them or find ways to better provide value for each other.

Continue exploring Guild

You can create your first Guild here, browse existing guilds for inspiration here, explore more about our vision and what platform-agnostic memberships can give here, or discover how to manage access with Guild without having your own token or NFT read this and join our community to stay up to date here.

We build the tool, bring your dream community set up!

Written by: @reka.eth

“We are a game before anything else.” (Whaledrop - Founder, Anomura)

This simply means that they're doubling down on user experience. The goal is to create a game that is actually fun to play.

Wildlife preservation has always been important to the team, so they grew to be something bigger than the playground of Web3. The Anomura team is currently supporting initiatives for offsetting their carbon footprint, planting mangrove trees in Indonesia, and more, becoming the world’s 1st Ocean Positive NFT game.

Built on the Unity game engine, Anomura is launching a free-to-play concept demo soon where everyone will be able to dive into the world of Anomura.

The DeepSea Challenger: a great example of how to build a mission board and engage your community

The Challenger is all about earning $SHELLs! After connecting your wallet, you get to complete a bunch of different tasks and quests, while gathering more and more $SHELLs. The tasks are off-chain and vary from a simple "follow Anomura on Twitter" to more complex tasks in their Discord server.

The Challenger is super fun to interact with and the added bonus is it helps keep the community continuously incentivized to participate. It's a win-win situation because Anomura is increasing its social media presence, while the community is earning $SHELLs that can be redeemed for rewards like a mintlist spot, 1:1 time with a team member, or a charitable donation.

How is guild.xyz contributing to their goal?

Guild.xyz is here to help you build your dream community as easily as possible. We are ready to hold your hand while you are creating a quest similar to the DeepSea challenger or simply manage access to groups, roles, and content. Aside from being power users of our API, with Guild’s allow list functionality the Anomura team controls who gets access to their mintlist. 

“We have been using the Guild API for a while now, everything was so seamless, and we hope to integrate it to the game and the Challenger as well.” (Whaledrop - Founder, Anomura)

According to the team they receive a significant amount of new members from discovery on guild.xyz's explorer page as well.

If you are craving to hear more about Anomura, your wish is our command! They were our guests at our second Community Stand up where the team jammed with us and gave a little sneak peek of their game and strategy. Listen to the whole conversation here. Wanna dig even deeper? Join to their Discord server here, they have a free entry role to welcome you on board.

Anomura is a great example of how to keep a community engaged with unique quests and rewards. We recently launched platformless memberships; it is now possible to build movable social structures around specific user journeys and on- and off-chain requirements. With this you can recreate a similar quest experience, your creativity is the limit there. Join our Guild Quest starting with this video and read more about our new integrations here.

Inspired?

If Anomura inspires you on how to manage your community with guild.xyz join 3000+ Guilds who are using this free and permissionless tool to provide the best experience to your community. Explore what platformless memberships can give, and remember that guild.xyz is evolving with you so tell us if you have a new feature on your mind! Join our community and also stay up to date here.
We build the tool, you just have to bring your ideas to build your dream community!

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What is guild.xyz?

Guild started as a "token gating" tool and evolved into an infrastructure to build platformless memberships online. It enables anyone to create portable social structures around on- & off-chain requirements and build custom user journeys.

Guild's membership structure is best described using three primitives: requirements, roles, and rewards. Each guild has one or more roles which are the membership tiers.

Communities should be unbounded and able to move fluidly as a collective. Our goal is to build full interoperability for communities between all their platforms for sharing, interactions, and collaboration.

Over 10,000 web3 curious people have created or joined 600 guilds and our developer team has merged 1929 commits on Github, in response to hundreds of feature requests or bug reports.

These numbers show how our space is rapidly moving, and also prove to us that Guild is a community-driven tool. All these incredible groups have supported us, just as we supported them since day 1. Every essential feature, you helped us define and dream up, is implemented and battle-tested. Without these the project would not be in the shape and form it is now.

During this time we made the backend structure robust so these features can be scaled, allowing communities to grow and bloom with Guild. For example: The whitelist option is now extended to 50k addresses and we increased the speed at which we check if you are eligible to join a guild as well. (This feature turned out to be super valuable for Lens Protocol)

Our mission continues to be building DAO tools with the best possible UX, and our roadmap is open for all to contribute: roadmap.guild.xyz

We’re having a Twitter Spaces with Gaby and Mene tomorrow to celebrate the Launch We’ll talk more about what’s in store for Guild and there will be small surprises for attendees.

Thank you for your trust and feedback during alpha, the real fun begins now!

..one more thing:

Since we are on Mirror.xyz, we can’t resist to drop a super limited edition OG hoodie as digital merchandise. (Will be delivered on demand.)

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If you’re new to Guild, allow us to get you up to speed. Guilds allow DAOs to token gate their communication channels via NFT, ERC-20, Mirror edition, POAP, whitelisted addresses, or any combination of the above. A guildhall also provides a single point of entry for your community members, replacing regular Discord links.

Oh, and did we mention we’re chain agnostic? Below are the chains we support so far:

Guild

@guildxyz

multichain

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9:49 AM • Nov 19, 2021

To date users of the Guild alpha have created a total of 309 Guildhalls, and our Medusa bot is live in 137 Discord servers. Telegram functionality is in the works and will come next.

Last week, Guildhalls went live

Guildhalls enable DAOs to create multiple tiers of token-gated access, or allow DAOs to assign members roles relevant to their place in the DAO. Sismo was one of the first DAOs to set up a Guildhall.

Guild

@guildxyz

The fine folks at @Sismo_eth created this beautiful guild for the Zikies in Discord.

Guild is becoming the gatekeeper for a multitude of DAOs who need user-friendly onboarding and sophisticated access control.

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11:45 AM • Nov 16, 2021

“Zikies” (DAO members) gained roles in the guild depending on when they joined Sismo.

We also saw an epic collaboration between BLVCKHVND and Krause House

After contributing 10 ETH to Krause House’s Mirror crowdfund, BLVCKHVND created a guild to form a cross-DAO communication channel.

BLVKHVND

@BLVKHVND

Over the next few days, we’ll be building a DAO2DAO bridge for HVND members to join Krause House and vice versa using @guildxyz. We are excited to welcome a dynamic group of sports enthusiasts into the fold.

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3:03 PM • Nov 19, 2021

They also opened the guild up to friendly communities with significant overlap, including Friends with Benefits, the Parallel Alpha community, and Forefront.

To join BLVCKHVND’s guild, one must hold either 100 $HVND, 75 $FWB, $100 $KRAUSE, a Parallel Alpha NFT, or 1000 $FF in their wallet. You can join the guild here: https://alpha.guild.xyz/blvkhvnd

Finally, ecodao has formed a guild

ecodao

@ecodao_

the ecodao stack:

— @viamirror is our gallery
— @guildxyz is our gateway
— @gnosisPM is our wallet
— @discord is, alas, our playground

and that's... it. so far.

what are we missing?

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3:34 PM • Nov 19, 2021

…but what if a guild was formed for all of the impact DAOs to collaborate? 🤔

Guild

@guildxyz

I've created a list of impact daos: x.com/i/lists/143847…

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8:36 AM • Nov 22, 2021

We’re still in alpha but we love to see DAOs begin to utilize our tooling and experiment with cross-DAO channels. If you form a guild for your DAO, tag us on Twitter so we can mention you in the next round-up.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/guildxyz