Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.
In a 3,000-person Discord, Jun answers newbie questions every night and nobody notices. Each quarter Thank You Ledger lets members nominate with short stories, a small jury reviews, and the pot pays Jun with a public thank-you he keeps forever.
Make sure the people who quietly hold a community together are seen, thanked and supported, in a way they keep.
Online communities run on a few people who answer questions at night, fix the docs and welcome newcomers. Sponsor money and recognition usually go to the loudest members. The quiet helpers burn out or leave without anyone noticing.
Thank You Ledger lets your community nominate the quiet helpers, a small jury reviews, and a shared pot pays them with a public thank-you they keep forever. Running it on someone else's tool means their rules and their branding; owning it means your community, your cadence, your jury and a hall of helpers that stays yours. It turns invisible care into recognised reputation.
Your first round paid out and 10 other communities paying to run rounds.
Two applications submitted with real round data.
A verified contract from your wallet, a builder profile, and a completed round onchain.
One submission to a public goods or community track with a new feature.
Quarterly recognition running with under one hour of your time per round.
Nominations double between your first and third round.
One sponsor funding a pot in your or a partner's community.
A case study of two rounds linked on your CV.
Three paying clients running rounds you set up.
Start small: a sponsor, a slice of your community treasury, or members chipping in. Even $200 a quarter split among three helpers says more than a thousand likes. Grow the pot only once people see it working.
Nominations need a short story of what the person actually did, and a small jury reviews them. Publish the jury's reasons. Rotate jurors each round so no clique holds it.
You set the cadence and jury size, share the nomination form and press payout. DEPLOYR ships it configured.
Yes. The pot contract and thank-you attestations are deployed from your wallet. Helpers keep their attestations even if you stop running rounds.
Possibly for recipients, depending on where they live and how much they get. Keep amounts modest, describe payouts as community awards, and tell recipients to check local rules.
Everyone stakes a conviction, encrypted. The chain tallies it without ever seeing a single take. FHE on Base.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
Crowdfunding where backers get refunded by contract if the goal or the milestones are missed.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
Lend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
A rotating savings circle (ajo, susu, chama) with payouts enforced by contract and trust scores for members.
A neighbourhood treasury where proposals unlock only after enough real neighbours physically show up.