TERMS OF USE
I have read and understand the CONFLUX ECOSYSTEM GRANTS OVERVIEW, and determined that my proposal is best for the Growth Grants stream (YES).
I understand that the Conflux Growth Grants are subject to a No Sale Rule, and I have read the terms of this rule (YES).
I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Conflux Foundation to receive this grant (YES).
I understand that I will be required to follow public grant reporting requirements (YES).
APPLICATION INTRODUCTION
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Name - INSIGHTS
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Are you an incorporated startup? - YES
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Website: https://www.web3insights.news/
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Architecture plan and the mock-ups
https://pixso.cn/app/editor/H_nxo8lss1HkyVnvf12Yug?icon_type=1&page-id=0%3A1 Password: 4obz -
Conflux eSpace wallet address: 0xf57582E0442171A64812cbAd5A9c4c29e27b404A
TEAM
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Name: Bicheng
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Roles and responsibilities: Team Lead, Market Strategy
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Twitter:https://x.com/bc_insights
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Relevant experience: Former BD head at multiple blockchain projects, and has over 10 years of experience in marketing area.
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Name: Siya.eth
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Roles and responsibilities: Tech Lead, Platform Development
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Twitter: https://x.com/Siyadoteth
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Relevant experience: Background in AI integration and 3years experience in smart contract development.
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Name: Mr.Pan
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Roles and responsibilities: Advisor, User Engagement
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Relevant experience: Formerly worked for well-known web3 media, with extensive experience in community building and user engagement strategies.
TOTAL BUDGET AND FUNDING TIER
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Grant Tier: INTEGRATION GRANT
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Grant Size: $30,000
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Justification: The grant will cover platform development, user acquisition, and community engagement initiatives. Insights requires substantial resources to ensure seamless platform operation and attract a critical mass of users to kickstart the Predict to Earn model.
PROJECT INFORMATION
Overview:
- Insights is an information aggregator DAO focused on financial advice. It offers a platform where users can view price predictions from KOLs/analysts, reposts of tweets from top analysts, and real-time aggregated news. The main feature is Predict to Earn, which allows users to make predictions and earn tokens based on their accuracy.
User Base:
- Our current user base includes early adopters from the blockchain community, financial analysts, and crypto enthusiasts. We have over 1,000 active analysts covered in our early access program.
User Growth:
- Main value proposition: Accurate financial predictions, aggregated insights, and real-time news.
- Targeting plan: Leverage partnerships with key opinion leaders, targeted social media campaigns, and community engagement events.
Market:
- Competitive advantage: Unlike competitors, Insights provides a comprehensive platform that combines prediction markets, real-time news aggregation, and a community-driven approach to financial advice.
Insights vs. KOLRadar vs. TweetScout
Insights Advantages:
- Data-Driven Insights: Unlike KOLRadar and TweetScout, Insights focuses purely on historical data and win rates, eliminating noise and subjective metrics.
- Automated Tools: Provides users with automated predictive analytics and ROI calculations to aid in investment decisions.
- User Focused: Designed to meet the needs of individual investors, offering direct and actionable insights rather than broad qualitative ratings.
- Predict to Earn Model: Engages users by allowing them to earn rewards based on accurate predictions, enhancing user retention and attracting high-quality KOLs.
Conclusion: Insights stands out by offering a product that is essential for individual investors who need reliable, data-driven insights to make informed investment decisions. By focusing solely on historical KOL performance and providing advanced automated tools, Insights eliminates noise and subjective metrics, ensuring users receive accurate and valuable investment advice.
Target Social Media Platforms and Crypto Forums:
- Platforms: Twitter, Telegram, and Discord. We aim to attract KOLs&users from these platforms.
- Content Production (content about predictions & exposure on public website and channels): Engaging posts, infographics, video tutorials, and market analysis articles.
User Referral Incentives:
- Incentives: Referral bonuses in the form of Platform Points or exclusive access to premium features.
- Tracking and Rewards: We will use referral codes and track metrics through the platform’s backend to ensure accurate reward distribution.
Webinars and AMAs:
- Topics: Platform features, market trends, KOL insights.
- Frequency: Monthly webinars and AMAs.
- Promotional Strategies: Announcements on social media, email newsletters, and collaboration with KOLs to promote events.
High-Level Campaign Plans: - Pre-Launch: Build anticipation through teaser content, KOL endorsements, and early access invites.
- Launch Phase: Intensive social media campaigns, referral program activation, and high-profile webinars.
- Post-Launch: Continuous content production (prediction on website & exposure on open website&channels), community engagement activities, and feedback integration for platform improvements.
Technology:
- Core technology: Decentralized prediction market integrated with real-time data aggregation, AI analysis and community engagement tools.
Stage of the project: Pre-revenue, focusing on user growth and community engagement.
Security: We plan to conduct a full code audit before the official launch of Phase II.
ECOSYSTEM FIT
Benefit to Conflux Ecosystem:
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By integrating with Conflux, Insights will increase on-chain activities through prediction markets and token transactions. The platform will also drive meaningful user interactions, as users participate in predictions and engage with financial content.
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The platform will continuously attract users through the functional capabilities of its prediction product and leverage user data to onboard KOLs and project partners. Subsequently, by increasing the incentive weighting for Conflux-related content in both the prediction and news sections, the platform aims to boost exposure, enhance recognition, and positively impact the token price within the Conflux ecosystem.
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Predict2Earn Details: The platform will extract price prediction tweets from KOLs on Twitter, capturing the cryptocurrency and price at the time of the tweet. KOLs can manually stop the prediction once the price reaches their target, displaying the ROI. The platform scores the overall ROI of KOLs, rewarding them with tokens, and providing value to users through these insights.
Economic Benefit:
- This grant will facilitate the launch of our platform leading to increased asset transactions and user activities on the Conflux chain through our onchain trading bots.
- Long-term Engagement: Initially, Insights will operate as an off-chain community-driven product. In later stages, the platform will introduce trading bots and other derivative tools to facilitate more on-chain transactions and increase TVL on the Conflux network.
GROWTH PROPOSAL
Grant Plan:
- Platform Enhancement: Develop and refine the Insights platform.
- User Acquisition: Target crypto communities and financial analysts through marketing campaigns and partnerships.
- Community Engagement: Host events, webinars, and AMAs to drive user interaction and engagement.
Users Acquisition:
- Focus on crypto enthusiasts, financial analysts, and KOLs who can provide valuable insights and predictions.
Identifying and Engaging with KOLs:
- Identification: We will identify KOLs through social media analysis, looking for individuals with significant followings and engagement in the crypto and financial sectors.
- Engagement: We will engage KOLs by offering exclusive access to platform features, higher visibility for their predictions, and token-based incentives.
- KOLs choose our platform because it is a unique, product-based traffic hub developed from the everyday needs we experience as individual investors. However, there has been a lack of such products in the market. Our Predict to Earn model provides users with valuable insights into the performance of KOLs, aiding in their investment decisions. This not only helps attract and retain users but also gives KOLs a strong incentive to collaborate with us.
- Incentives: Benefits include enhanced profile visibility, performance-based rewards, and opportunities for sponsored news/posts.
Proposal OKRs:
Objective 1: Achieve 10,000 active users by the end of Q4 2024.
- Target Date: Q3 2024
- Key Result 1: Onboard 500 new KOLs/analysts.
- Key Result 2: Reach 7,000 predictions made.
*(For a user to be considered active, they need to perform at least one of the following actions on a weekly basis:- Making a prediction.
- Engaging with KOL content (likes, comments, shares).
- Participating in community discussions.
- Reading and sharing news content.
This frequency ensures that users are regularly interacting with the platform and contributing to its dynamic ecosystem.)
Objective 2: Enhance platform functionality and user experience on Conflux.
- Target Date: Q3 2024
- Key Result 1: Implement advanced prediction analytics by September 2024. This includes features such as automatic extraction of maximum price increase or decrease for predicted cryptocurrencies, and calculation of unrealized returns for ongoing predictions.
- Key Result 2: Launch a leaderboard system, showcasing top KOLs and users based on their prediction accuracy and ROI.
Objective 3: Increase community engagement and activity.
- Target Date: Q4 2024
- Key Result 1: Host 10 community events/webinars focused by December 2024. These events will include interactive sessions with KOLs, tutorials on using the platform, and discussions on Conflux ecosystem developments.
- Key Result 2: Achieve 3,000 active predictions on the platform by December 2024. This will be tracked through the number of predictions made and their engagement levels, ensuring users are actively participating and contributing to the community.
ROADMAP
- Q1 2024: Team Formation
- Assembled core team and initiated concept development.
- Q2 2024: Platform Development
- Developed MVP, established early-stage partnerships, and onboarded initial users.
- Q3 2024: Launch of Phase I - Predict to Earn
- Official launch with key features and initial community engagement.
- Q3 2024: Feature Enhancements
- Implement advanced prediction analytics, expand KOL participation, and launch the leaderboard system.
- Q4 2024: Community Expansion
- Increase user base, improve platform based on feedback, and prepare for Phase II.
- Q1 2025: Phase II Development
- Develop additional features, introduce advanced access options, and expand DAO functionalities.
- Q2 2025: Phase II Launch
- Official launch of Phase II with enhanced features and services.
Milestones:
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Milestone 1: Complete MVP development on eSpace - $15,000 - 5 months (starting Q1 2024, targeting Q3 2024).
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Verification: The MVP will be completed when the platform’s core functionalities, including user registration, prediction making, and basic news aggregation, are operational. Progress will be demonstrated through a functional prototype and user feedback.
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Milestone 1.1 - $6000 - Deploy with functionalities
- Following functionalities are finished:
- Deployment on eSpace mainnet
- Functional user registration process
- Ability to create and manage predictions
- Operational news aggregation feature
- Collecting and analyzing initial user feedback
- Following functionalities are finished:
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Milestone 1.2 - $5000 - Attract initial users & followers
- +2k followers on X
- +1k subscribers on Telegram Channel
- At least 1,000 users onboard
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Milestone 1.3 - $4000 - Content Production
- 200 active predictions made within the first month
- 20 conflux-related predictions made
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Milestone 2: Launch Phase I and onboard user predictions content - $9,000 - 6 months.(targeting Q1 2025)
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Verification: Phase I launch will be verified by the successful deployment of the Predict2Earn feature. User onboarding will be tracked through registration metrics and initial user activity.
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Milestone 2.1 - $5000 -Market expanding to attract more users
- +5k followers on X
- +2k subscribers on Telegram Channel
- At least 5,000 users onboard
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Milestone 2.2 -$4,000 - Content Production
- Achieve 1,000 predictions
- 60 conflux-related predictions made
- Successful operation of the Predict2Earn functionality.
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Milestone 3: Community expansion - $6,000 - 12 months.(targeting Q3 2025)
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Verification: Community expansion will be measured by the increase in active users and engagement metrics, such as the number of predictions made and interactions in community events.
- Increase to 20,000 active users.
- Host at least 15 community events/webinars.
- Achieve 10,000 active predictions on the platform.
- 1,000 conflux-related predictions made
- +30,000 followers on X
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Revenue Model
- Platform revenue:
- Core Focus for 2025: The NEWS section will become a central feature of the platform, attracting projects looking to advertise their projects to targeted audience or collab with KOLs on platform.
- Advertising Revenue: Similar to platforms like Odaily and PAnews, we will offer advertising opportunities to projects and companies in the blockchain space, charging fees like Single Article Fees and Annual Package Deals.
- Plus, this will involve a small percentage of transaction fees and staking rewards, which will contribute to the platform’s revenue.
- Token Allocation:
- Team will get a share from total token supply.
MAINTENANCE CONSIDERATIONS
Post-grant Maintenance:
- We will ensure ongoing community activities and platform updates through continuous engagement and feedback loops.