Kickback new features: Governance badges, Ethereum life feed, and Token gated event page
From the heated debate of $SHIBA among $GTC holders to the success story of PleaserDAO winning high profile auction bids, the DAOs and their governance activities are in the full swing.
Many people now live and breeze in Ethereum through DAOs. They vote for protocols, collectively buy NFT, and earn POAP badges through online events.
We are happy to introduce a series of new features to keep up with their lifestyle.
1. Governance badges
As a governance token holder, one of the first things you can do is to participate in community voting via snapshot, a popular off-chain governance tool hosting over 1000 communities. Are you curious to know which community other event attendees participate in? We now display small “badges” underneath each attendee if they have voted in any of the snapshot spaces.
2. Ethereum life feed(ENS, Snapshot votes, POAP, and NFTs)
Our profile page shows not only Kickback events you attended but also POAP badges, the snapshot voting, and NFTs you own. It contains a little bit of your Ethereum life.
Never used Kickback? That’s not a problem. With the integration with ENS, you can also search your profile page via /user/yourname.eth
3. Token gated event page (across different chains)
If you are an event organiser, you may want to host an event for your token holders.
Kickback’s staking mechanism was a natural fit for the token gated access page.
When Kickback was still hosted on Ethereum L1, we have organised a couple of events that require users to commit ERC20 tokens of the community. That was a cool way to bring additional utilities to their tokens. However, that became increasingly difficult once we move to xDAI where these community tokens have to pay a high gas fee to cross bridges.
To solve the “Your token is not on this chain” issue, we created an additional feature to check token balances on L1.
In the above example, the participant required at least 1 $FF token (ForeFront token is a social token news site) to be able to RSVP on the event page (You still need the chain’s native token for the actual staking).
The restriction is on the frontend only, so anyone can bypass our frontend by forking it or calling smart contract functions directly. If you do that, however, event organisers can see how much $FF each participant hold and can simply not check in the person.
You can watch the full tutorial video about how this feature works.
Call for DAO events!
All features are currently available at http://xdai.kickback.events and we are looking for a handful of DAO event organisers to try out. If you are interested in using Kickback and these new governance features. Please reach out to @makoto_inoue
If you are not event organisers but would like to support Kickback, we welcome your Gitcoin donation as well!
