Swarm Intelligence Program

Cyborg @SwissBorg
SwissBorg DAO
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6 min readDec 7, 2018

At the core of SwissBorg’s philosophy of meritocracy is the community. Swarm Intelligence is the concept of incorporating each individual’s work or input in a collective effort to improve the results of a project, as a whole, as in Wikipedia for example. In our Swarm Intelligence program, we want to go a step further and actually reward our community members for sharing their input and feedback. These rewards can be extrinsic, in the form of tokens or cryptocurrencies, or intrinsic, in the form of inclusion in our decision-making process. This inclusion of the community is ambitious, revolutionary, and disruptive. It is an attempt to rewrite the way business has been conducted for centuries to include the individual contributors.

The community-centric model has produced successful companies such as Airbnb, Uber and non-profits organisations such as Wikipedia. Yet, we believe that this model can be improved to give the user more stake in the network. Imagine if Uber gives the rating customer or the driver a right to ownership? Imagine how that would change the relationship between a user and a service or product. We want to promote and enhance this model, that has been allowed to evolve largely thanks to new technologies, into one that is not business to business (b2b) nor a business to client (b2c) but rather a business for community (b4c) model.

The importance of community is inherent to the nature of blockchain technology. Collectively, individuals replace the role of a central authority by performing specific actions like verifying transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Such a group of individuals is called a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). An organisation that can only thrive if it acknowledges the vital role that the community plays in replacing central authority (i.e. a Bank) on the blockchain.

In the future, a significant number of companies will be DAOs. None of the innovations of the last centuries has occurred overnight, progress is always embraced by a minority before being adopted by the vast majority. As a path-breaking DAO, SwissBorg has made significant progress by leveraging its community through the concept of Swarm Intelligence. We are obsessed with how to create a better future for our community and inspire others to embrace the same commitment.

Six months ago, our team migrated to Reddit aiming to give community members strategic insights on the recent progress of the network and also, to give them the opportunity to express their opinions and be rewarded for their contribution on the Swarm Intelligence Platform.

We are testing our Swarm Intelligence Platform on SwissBorg´s Reddit page before the launch of our own platform.

Reddit both suits and reflects our vision of a meritocratic community. If you are not familiar with Reddit, read more: the Reddit Manual or watch this video.

Rules:

  • Users must subscribe to this subreddit in order to be eligible for the reward.
  • The maximum total reward pot for one quarter is 3000 CHF which will be transferred in CHSB tokens at the day of the transfer
  • If this amount is reached, the amount earned for every Karma point will decrease accordingly.
  • This rewards might vary in the coming months depending on the results of the SwissBorg´s Swarm Intelligence Program
  • 1 Karma point equals 0.1 CHF which will be transferred in CHSB tokens at the day of the transfer
  • To receive your reward you need to accumulate a minimum of 100 Karma points in 3 months
  • Karma points from previous months cannot be accumulated
  • A list of the total Karma points accumulated by each user will be publicly available at the end of each quarter
  • Posts or comments that are against the rules will be deleted by our moderators and will not be rewarded
  • Suspicious activity and users suspected of trying to game the system without bringing true value to our community will receive no reward and will be banned.
  • Official SwissBorg user accounts or team members are excluded from participating in the Swarm Intelligence Program
  • We reserve the right to change the rules or reward amounts and to even terminate the reward system at any point
  • Rules are subject to change and suggestions are welcome to make the system better
  • Due to Reddit’s caching system, the results might not be completely accurate, but they are the most accurate estimates

How to claim your tokens

  • To claim your tokens, you will be contacted through direct message (DM) on Reddit by our Community Manager, u/Otilia_SwissBorg who will ask you to submit your wallet addresses before the above-mentioned deadlines:
  • Wallet address cannot be changed after it has been submitted and confirmed
  • Rewards will be transferred from now on, on a quarterly basis, which means rewards for November and December will be paid out at the beginning of January 2019 and the rewards for Q1 2019 will be transferred after 15. April 2019
  • If you’d like to accelerate things, please PM u/Otilia_SwissBorg and submit your ETH wallet address.

Deadlines for submitting your wallet addresses:

Q1: 15. April 2019

Q2: 15. July 2019

Q3: 15. October 2019

Q4: 15. January 2020

Come and join our community on Reddit and take part in the growth of a pioneering new wealth management platform. We hope the updated Swarm Intelligence Program motivates you to join the conversation and help us shape the new era of crypto wealth management. We look forward to seeing you there, come and share with us your energy, knowledge, and intelligence.

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Cyborg @SwissBorg
SwissBorg DAO

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