The proposal to integrate Karma passed with majority voting for Option 1: Standard Integration. 

What will be included in the Standard Integration Dashboard for Giveth?

• Contributor activity indexed from Snapshot, Discourse Forum, Discord, Github, Gardens, and Aragon

• Voting history

• API access to all data

Although Giveth has used SourceCred in the past to attempt and solve this problem, the team at Giveth is looking to leverage two things that Karma is able to provide;

1. Flexibility with integration and scoring.

2. A higher number of available integrations to choose from.

There is currently a discussion happening around the parameters and weights to choose https://forum.giveth.io/t/parameterizing-our-karma-integration/982. Giveth also intends to use Karma’s indexed data with the Praise system to issue rewards to the contributors, furthering the usage of Karma’s analytics tool even more.

Contributor dashboards can be overwhelming with the amount of information that is able to be displayed. As a solution, Karma allows DAOs to have multiple dashboards, and the Giveth community is looking to leverage this feature in the future.

As next steps, Karma will be working closely with the Giveth team to build a dashboard that suits community needs. We are looking forward to speaking more with the community and providing community updates.

Karma’s custom Delegation Dashboard for Element Finance displays delegate information including delegate pitch, voting statistics, detailed voting history with reasons and forum activity. The insights displayed on the dashboard can be used by token holders to choose the right candidate to delegate their tokens.

The Dashboard can be hosted on a sub-domain of the Element Finance website and serves as a foundation for a modular and expandable governance hub, e.g. KPI overview on governance health. 

For a simplified review of governance activity and as the basis for follow-up actions (e.g. allocation of permissions), Karma aggregates contribution data and calculates contributor scores. The scoring logic is open source so anyone can audit and verify the scores at all times. The aggregated data is also exposed through APIs and can be freely integrated with other applications as needed, e.g. showing governance stats in the forum.

Karma's reputation system aggregates DAO contributor data from various sources such as Snapshot, on-chain voting contracts, Discord and Discourse forums, and POAPs. DAOs we work with value these metrics for various reasons. For some, voting is all that matters, but others want to better understand contributor activity on Discourse or Discord and assign appropriate weight to those metrics. 

One of the features that differentiates Karma from other systems is our Discourse forum integration, which DAOs and contributors use to understand someone's contribution to the forum. Since contributions can be in the form of proposals created and discussed or just total threads and replies, the first question DAOs rightfully ask us is, “How do we prevent someone from accruing forum reputation by just spamming the forum with inconsequential posts?” 

Over the last six months, we’ve made several enhancements to address this issue of contributors gaming the system. Here’s an explanation of some of our updates and the reasoning behind them:

• DAOs can now assign different weights to different types of posts by contributors. If someone adds a new post in the temp-check or creates a new proposal, they can receive a higher score than a regular reply on a forum thread. This is important because it's much more time-consuming and impactful to create a thoughtful proposal of a new idea than it is to simply reply to a post.

• We recently took our scoring enhancement even further. If any proposal on the forum goes to a vote (on Snapshot), that contributor can receive even more points or weight for their work. Anyone who’s worked in a DAO knows that it takes a lot of work to move a proposal from the idea stage in a forum to a vote. This enhancement recognizes that contributor’s effort.

• Proposals in a forum need to be discussed, debated, and polished to survive, and there are many other contributors who assist in that process. DAOs can assign a different weight to discussions on proposals and distinguish them from other discussions in the forum.

• Lastly, DAOs can assign a very small weight to anyone who posts general comments in the forum and contributes. This is useful for DAOs who are trying to bootstrap their forum community and want to encourage participation.

Karma continually seeks out ways to support DAOs and improve the management of their collective community and their contributor experience. If you’re a DAO interested in learning how our reputation system helps you understand your contributors and gives them an improved way to showcase their work, reach out to us at dao@showkarma.xyz or DM https://twitter.com/showkarma_xyz.

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It is accepted that the top (~30) Delegates have limited time and attention to direct towards building the necessary context to be able to follow threads on proposal discussions. In the ENS forum for example, posts can have in excess of 50 comments. Adding more data/information about forum participants, such as delegated voting weight can help Delegates distinguish sentiment based on token weight, as well as taking forum posts at face value.

Thanks to the grant from ENS DAO, we have built a Discourse forum plugin that will provide the reader additional context about the user who is posting/replying in the threads. This plugin can be installed by any DAO that uses Discourse for their governance forum.

• Total votes delegated to them (One signal to indicate their incentives in the DAO)

• Their snapshot and on-chain voting stats (Shows how active are they really in governance)

• Their Karma reputation score

The reader can decide for themselves how much weight they want to give someone’s comment in the forum.

The plugin is already live on ENS Forum!

The code is open source and can be found on Github.

We are already working with a number of DAOs helping them install this plugin. If you are a DAO using Discourse forum for governance, reach out to us at hello@showkarma.xyz and DM on Twitter.

We would like to thank ENS DAO for the grant and Alisha, Nick and Coltron from ENS DAO for their support and feedback in building this plugin.

One of the challenges Idle encountered with this initiative is tracking contributor activity across their various tools (Snapshot, Forum, Discord) so the most active contributors are compensated. Karma is well positioned to solve this problem for Idle because our reputation engine aggregates contributor activity across all the tools and calculates the reputation score. We aggregate user activity on a daily basis, so rolling up the activity by different time frames is trivial.

Idle will be using our data on a monthly basis to reward the most active contributors. You can find more details about the initiative on the idle forum here.

If you are a DAO interested in using Karma’s reputation system for use cases like these, contact us info@showkarma.xyz

Secureum’s mission is to further improve Ethereum security by catalyzing a community-focused effort on education & evaluation. Secureum organizes an always-running free online Ethereum security bootcamp where participants learn about smart contract security pitfalls & best-practices. They assess themselves in RACEs which are smart contract security quizzes. Top RACE participants are invited to participate in CAREs — Comprehensive Audit Readiness Evaluation — which are smart contract security reviews of security-minded protocols & CARE-Xs — CARE Extra — which are customized CAREs with collaborating Ethereum security partners.

Secureum has issued over 1000 badges so far using Karma’s NFT badge minting infrastructure for RACE, CARE & CARE-X participants. All the NFT badges were issued on Polygon Mainnet. Participants can view all their badges issued by Secureum in their Karma profile. Here is an example profile of a user showing all their badges. We are working on building a reputation leaderboard of all the participants based on the badges they have earned. Secureum will continue to issue more badges using our infrastructure.

One important thing to note is that these badges are not just jpegs but the metadata has evaluation scores in it. You can look at an example metadata here which contains details about the performance of the participant in the RACE, CARE or CARE-X and other relevant fields that will help anyone evaluate this participant in the context of their Secureum engagement. This helps aspiring Ethereum security auditors or security-minded developers build on-chain credentials that can be used to showcase their skills and expertise to potential clients or collaborators.

Any organization can use our platform to deploy a custom NFT (custom name and symbol) contract with one click and issue NFT badges. Issuing badges is as simple as uploading a list of addresses along with info to be included in metadata and minting hundreds of badges in one single transaction! This NFT contract is owned by the organization and are free to use any other frontend service to issue badges.

We are already working with a number of DAOs and other organizations to help them issue credentials as NFT badges. If you are interested in using our infrastructure in your organization, you can reach out to us on Twitter or email info@showkarma.xyz

We made some major enhancements to our reputation system to aggregate and curate contributor activity at a more granular level. Some of the data points we curate include

• Snapshot voting stats

• On-chain voting stats

• Proposals created and discussed by Stewards on the forum

• Posts created and discussed by Stewards on the forum

Stewards and other token holders can now look at the recent 30 day activity and the lifetime activity. Some of the benefits of these stats include helping token holders (re)delegate their tokens to most active stewards and stewards stay more engaged and maintain a good reputation.

This was a huge engineering effort and we are excited to announce these features are now available for all the DAOs we have integrated and will integrate in the future!

One of the benefits of using Karma’s reputation system is that DAOs can choose to customize the contributor reputation logic for their DAO. Gitcoin’s steward health card utilizes this feature by consuming Karma’s aggregated contributor data and calculating a health score unique to their DAO. You can see the custom health score calculation here. You can find all the stewards on both Karma leaderboard and Gitcoin health cards.

We are honored to be able to collaborate with one of the largest DAOs in the ecosystem and help them solve this problem. We are excited to continue our collaboration and release more exciting features in the coming weeks, stay tuned!

If you are a DAO core team or a contributor interested in reputation for your DAO, please reach out to us hello@showkarma.xyz or DM on Twitter.

Our goal is to build a reputation system to solve these problems. We do this by aggregating all the contributor activity and quantifying it to generate a Karma (reputation) score that can be used by DAOs and contributors. Also, when you put this activity and score on-chain for anyone to consume, we believe it will open up a number of use cases we haven’t even considered.

We are already working with a number of DAOs to help them design a customized reputation system taking into consideration their unique needs and nuances of how they operate. The DAO contributors can trust their reputation scores knowing that the DAOs themselves were involved in it and not an unknown third party organization. We believe reputation is a basic primitive that is sorely needed in the web3 ecosystem. It is a hard problem and there are a number of challenges. With the DAO community support, we believe we can solve this problem and this can become an important lego block in the web3 ecosystem.

To realize this vision, we have raised $1.2M from a very supportive group of investors and angels who believe in our vision and understand the importance of reputation - a core primitive in the web3 ecosystem. We would like to thank Seed Club Ventures, DXdao, Boost VC, Defi Dad (4RC), Evan Van Ness (Starbloom Ventures), Coingecko, IOSG Ventures, Dean Thomas (StealthCap) and a number of angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Sean Adams (Bankless), Ben Lakoff (SCV and Charged Particles), Rajeev (Secureum), Harsh (EPNS), Andrew Beal (Forta), Dave Rodman, Shawn Dimantha, Christopher Kong, Biao Boey, Guled Yousuf and others for their support.

We are looking for a backend engineer to join our team. If you are a dev or know someone who might be interested, please send them our way. If you are passionate about reputation systems, we would like to hear from you. You can reach us at hello@showkarma.xyz or DM https://twitter.com/showkarma_xyz

Let’s #build!