New validator of LikeCoin chain — guanyun

LikeCoin Weekly Progress Update 2020.10.12

Liquid democracy gaining momentum: Proposal #4 passed and #5 on the way; a new validator joined; 2 others setting up.

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Edmond (Operations & Marketing)

Statistics‌ and Insights

  • New app download: 303 (-28.5%), app WAU: 1,001 (-18.8%), Likers who liked in app: 77 (-18.9%), number of Content Jockeys: 221(+8.6%)
  • Civic Liker total: 1841; 27 new registration last week.

Last week

  • To maintain test data at minimal budget level, had cut 2/3 of Google Ad budget (now HKD 100 daily) and 4/5 Apple ad budget (now HKD 160 daily)
  • Adjusted the promotion direction from app download/Super Like to Civic Liker acquisition in Q4
  • Published an article for Liker Land features and for a default article on app
  • Designed a community campaign for Content Jockey introduction
  • Worked on Civic Liker retention
  • Social media (executed by community helper Daisy): Facebook engagement rate was 3% and reach was 499. Super Like mini game resulted in 15 valid participants and the result was not very satisfactory, already discussed with Edmond about it.

This week

  • Civic Liker retention
  • Research for potential partners for new Civic Liker scheme
  • Plan for new promotion post for Civic Likers with vendor
  • Article for “Save to Liker Land” feature
  • Review Social Media strategy

Chung (Blockchain developer)

LikeCoin chain statistics‌

(Difference from 2020.10.05)

Last week

  • Keep working on LikeCoin chain code migration referring to Cosmos Stargate testnet

This week‌

  • Continue LikeCoin chain code migration

William (Full Stack Developer)‌

Last week

  • Deployed UTM related changes to liker.land
  • Worked on Liker Land app feature that inject introduction articles into daily feed for new users to improve onboard experience

This week

  • Plan on how to work on new Civic Liker design and maintaining existing plans
  • Perform test and PoC on new technical features needed for Civic Liker revamp

​​​David Ng (Frontend Developer)‌

Last Week

  • Finished development of archive feature and released for internal test

This Week

  • Continue to test and fix bugs, for the release of Liker Land app v0.20.0
  • Will develop the user portfolio page in liker.land

JoshKIU (UX Designer)

Last week

  • Discussed and organized the design and action point of Civic Liker revamp
  • Designing the user portfolio and payment page

This week‌

  • Will continue on the portfolio design
  • Will design an ad for Civic Liker renew

Phoebe (Community & Business Development)‌

  • IPFS research team published their case study with us. Thank you for having us!
  • Failed on the Q3 ICF Grant application but received positive feedback on our product direction. Consolidated comments and re-draft the proposal for Q4 submission.

‌ckxpress (Civic Liker)

On Governance

  • Proposal #4, which targets to enable direct democracy, has been passed. It will be realized in the next update of validator software.
  • Proposal #5, which increases inflation rate from 1% to 2%, gained basic consensus during community call and will be raised officially.
  • A new validator, guanyun, was on board. Two others are preparing for their servers.

On evangelism and others

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kin ko | ckxpress
LikeCoin — Decentralize Publishing

Earthling. Founder of @likecoin & DHK dao. Writer at ckxpress.com . Published “The Sociology of Blockchain, reimagining money, media and democracy.”.