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Mantle Journey Season Alpha 🏞️ | Citizens of Mantle NFT Whitelist GA 🎁
Recorded: Aug. 31, 2023 Duration: 1:08:19Space Recording
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Hey, yeah, I hear you.
Cool.
Thanks, everybody, for joining.
We're just a few minutes away from getting started.
We're going to take a few minutes.
We're going to take a few minutes to let the rest of the audience roll in at the designated
start time, which is in about three minutes.
So we'll talk to you all here in about three minutes.
Thanks, everyone.
We're going to go,
Ryan, I've been involved in the Mantle community, originally started out in the BitDAO community
as an independent contributor and have made my way all the way here to working on community
with the rest of these amazing folks over at Mantle.
Yeah, so how about we kick it over to Derek, do you want to give us a quick intro, where
you come from, what you do at Mantle?
Yeah, for sure.
Thanks, Brian.
Hey guys, I'm Derek and really excited to see so many people turn up for this space, actually.
Really excited to get talking about, you know, Mantle journey, which is a huge milestone for
Yeah, so a bit about my background.
I started off as a crypto journalist, working in Asia, moved to Bybit, then Spartan, and
finally I'm now in Mantle, leading the ecosystem research team together with Edmund.
And yeah, very excited once again to talk to you guys today.
Edmund, how about we kick it over to you?
Uh-oh, it looks like he's...
Yeah, I think he disconnected.
I think he'll be joining really, really soon.
Okay, no problem.
In the meantime, I'm just going to mention for everybody here, so we are doing a giveaway
during this AMA, so at a certain point in the AMA, I'm not going to tell you exactly
when, but we're going to list out a secret word, and you can take that secret word over
to our Zeely and put it into the quest, and we will be giving away three citizens of Mantle
NFTs to three lucky winners.
So, you know, stay tuned, listen for that word.
And if you have any questions about how to enter that word, shoot us a message over
on Discord, and we can help out.
All right, Edmund, looks like you're back.
Do you want to give us an intro?
Oh, hi.
Sorry, I had some technical difficulties there.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Edmund.
I'm currently working with Derek on ecosystem research and mental.
Yeah, I'm here today to talk about our mental journey.
And yeah, happy to be here today.
Amazing.
Amazing.
And for everybody else who's joining, again, if you have questions, we've collected a ton
of questions from the community.
Thanks to everybody who dropped those questions into the forum we posted.
We also collected some FAQs from our channels.
I've spoken to quite a few of you over the last two days as everybody's getting started with
Journey.
So yeah, thanks for all the questions.
If you have any more, feel free to drop them here in the comments in the space.
All right.
Without further ado, let's just get started.
So let's start with just an intro about Mantle.
Can you guys just, for those who aren't initiated yet, can you just give us an intro on Mantle?
What is it?
What's the sort of unique value or innovation that it offers within the Ethereum ecosystem
as a layer two?
Okay.
I'll take this one because there's a secret agreement between me and Edmund for all the panels
we're on.
If it's a question about Mantle this way, I'll do the introduction.
I'll do a quick nutshell introduction to Mantle.
Mantle is an ETH L2.
And whilst we don't believe in this space is a zero-sum game, what I'd like to do is
introduce Mantle in comparison with other players in the space, how we distinguish ourselves
and set ourselves apart from the rest.
So we have a distinctive three-layer modular blockchain structure, wherein Ethereum handle
the settlement consensus layer.
Agen DA, a huge partner for us, will ensure DA, whilst Mantle Network itself will serve
as the execution layer.
So we really are trying to solve two huge things in the space, the centralized sequencer
and also, yeah, the problem of modularity.
So we just launched mainnet not long ago.
Mantle journey is obviously a huge milestone for us.
So very excited to be sharing more about that later.
Yeah, I think that will do as a quick recap of Mantle.
Cool, and for those who aren't initiated on the sort of transition as well, I think it's
a few months back at this point.
It's hard to keep track of time sometimes, but Mantle came out of BitDAO, which, and
as BitDAO has since been absorbed into Mantle.
So the BitToken transitioned to the MNT token, and the BitDAO treasury, which is one of the
largest, previously one of the largest DAO treasuries, has now turned into
one of the largest Layer 2 ecosystem treasuries.
Cool.
So, all right, let's jump straight into the Mantle journey intro then.
Can you guys just give us the TLDR on Mantle journey, just to get us started?
What is Mantle journey, and why should everybody here listening care about what Mantle journey
Maybe I'll take this one.
Okay, so Mantle journey is basically an on-chain aggregator that allows users to actually use
their on-chain transactions to actually gain points, and the same goes for protocols as
well.
So, Mantle journey is basically aggregate all the on-chain transactions, and then they put
the data into a platform whereby this data will be used to actually provide both a gamified
experience for users who is using the Mantle ecosystem.
And so, it also serves as a bridge for protocols to actually do the outreach towards users.
So, I think the current phase of Mantle journeys is in the alpha stage, whereby we are actually
launching it in a sort of a bare skin and bones version, whereby we will be starting to start
to roll up new features for Mantle journeys.
And these new features will include stuff such as like quests that protocols can actually
launch to actually use, to offer to users incentives, and also to allow users to actually interact
with the protocol quest to actually familiarize themselves with the protocols, as well as
we have a few other features that we have planned that we will be rolling out soon after
that.
So, you can keep a lookout for that.
And yeah, I think that's basically a summary of what Mantle journeys really is, and also
how users can actually interact with it.
You mentioned Season Alpha.
Can you just talk a little bit more about the seasonal approach and what users can expect
for Season Alpha?
This is stemming from a question from MIJZ, who asks, can you tell me more about the pilot
phase?
Like, what kind of features we can expect?
Maybe we can get into this later, but how to earn miles?
And then also, what kind of rewards that users can expect as well?
Okay.
So, Season Alpha basically is the first season of like ecosystem incentives, and also the
first season that we have to actually launch a Mantle journey.
So, Season Alpha is more of, I would say like a test bit for us to actually see what actually
works and what sort of incentive actually works, how to actually design the incentive to actually
bring actually fun to users to actually interact on Mantle.
And I think some of the features that you have for that are coming up will be the leaderboard.
That is the users can actually see where they actually stand based on their miles that they
generate.
And also, they can also be expecting to have quests being integrated with the platform soon.
And also, I think, oh, sorry, let me jump back to Season Alpha.
So, sorry about that.
Season Alpha basically has a total price pool of about 20 million Mantle tokens that will
be given out throughout this whole season.
And then in subsequent seasons that will be coming after this, there will be similar sort
of incentives that will help to actually generate some sort of activity and allow users to have
fun while also having some sort of rewards that they can actually look forward to while
interacting with Mantle.
Cool.
Yeah.
And for everybody who's been kind of keeping track, there's multiple sort of incentives here
as we kick off Journey.
But as Edmund mentioned, you know, this Season Alpha does have a 20 million M&T reward pool
as the rewards for this particular season and for the rewards will roll out across each season.
Derek, maybe you want to take this one so maybe we can dive into the origins of Journey.
Crypto number 1675 asked, what inspired the creation of Mantle Journey Season Alpha and what
unique features or experiences can we expect from this season?
We kind of got into that, but maybe we can jump into specifically sort of what inspired this
journey specifically.
Yeah, sure.
I think for this one, I'll let Ed take it because it was his brainchild.
But what I'll add on later will be, you know, the vision of Mantle Journey and how that ties
into the long-term vision of Mantle as a network as well.
Yeah, Ed, do you want to take this one?
Since it was born from your answers, ideas, please, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Sorry, can I repeat the previous question again?
I didn't catch that as well.
Yeah, no problem.
So, what inspired the creation of Mantle Journey?
Ah, okay.
Yeah, so I think Mantle Journey was actually born out of like one of the brainstorming sessions,
one of these that I had with Derek inside the office.
So, I think basically we were at pretty early stages in Mantle, whereby we were actually evaluating
other ecosystems and also seeing what actually works and what actually didn't work in all
the various different L1s and L2s inside the ecosystems.
And we actually found that there was generally a lack of fun and assignment.
And we felt that the community was a core component for most of the ecosystems that actually did well.
So, we wanted to actually build something that we can use to actually bring fun to the users,
while also helping the ecosystem also get more activities that can help the ecosystem be more healthy in a way.
So, we actually thought of certain past protocols that actually was pretty fun to use in the past.
So, I think the DGN index on, sorry, the Ethereum DGN score that was on Ethereum that actually basically ranks users
based on their on-chain activity and then give them like sort of a DGN scoring that they can share on social media.
And I thought that was a cool idea.
And from there, we actually brainstormed that how else we could improve from this
and what were the features that could actually help to make users have more interest inside the ecosystem
and what are features we could actually add to actually allow protocols to be part of this fun as well
and to allow protocols to actually use this platform to actually form a closer bond with their communities
and with the users that they have on-chain.
And eventually, we end up with like designing the Mental Journey platform.
And yeah, I guess this is how it actually all started.
And I'm really excited to see where it will actually develop from here
and how well-received it will be when the full version of it is released to the public.
Absolutely. Yeah. From the community perspective too, it's just, I mean, that element of fun
on ongoing sort of engagement activity, it really matters.
Derek, I think you were going to say something there. Feel free to jump in.
Yeah. Apologies, yeah.
So I wanted to build on what, you know, Ed mentioned, which is, you know, really true,
you know, when we first discussed the whole concept of Mental Journey.
But, you know, as the discussion went along and we brought, you know, partners like Click right on board
to build the social identity stack for us, right?
We realized, you know, certain things as well that is way more powerful, right,
above and beyond just Mental Network itself.
So what I mean by that is this, right, our space in general, I would dare say, right,
is perhaps plagued by the issue of protocols unable to find PMF, right?
You actually have many people trying to solve problems that may not really exist
or the likes of that, right?
And it's difficult actually to find true PMF within this space at a protocol level.
So something very interesting is having an ecosystem level indexer or social identity layer
where you get social attestations, you know, together with on-chain index data, right?
Something very powerful that we get is information on how to fine-tune, right,
protocols and also user campaigns or the likes of that, right,
to really achieve true PMF, right?
So this is something that I think Web3 is really good for.
Web3 elements are really good for, I mean, blockchain itself as a database is really good for this, right?
It's a USP that I think we haven't leveraged on or harnessed truly properly, you know,
for the last few cycles.
And I'm really excited to see how this, you know, identity stack on top of our ecosystem
can actually, you know, do for the future cycles.
Because right now I think we're at a, I wouldn't say fork in the road,
but we're in a very pivotal moment, right?
A lot of resources have been poured into this space and we want to reach mass adoption, right?
I think the road towards that would be more protocols and users finding that great balance of PMF, right?
And I think this identity stack that we want to have, you know, really synergy around mental journey
will be a huge leap forward in terms of that.
So yeah, I just wanted to add that on top of what Ed mentioned just now.
And for anybody who's not initiated, Derek,
can you just explain what PMF is, just for clarity's sake?
Right, I'm so sorry.
I threw out that jacket without thinking.
But yeah, PMF is product market fit, right?
So why I mentioned product market fit is really because I think data and user behavior is everything, right?
When it comes to product market fit, you don't really have a hundred, you know,
the best product on day one, right?
It's really iterative.
It is based on a stepwise process.
And I think if you really use something like mental journey, right?
You see, here it's different from web tool because you're not really signing your personal
data or privacy rights away, right?
It really is about your behavior on chain.
That is a USP of blockchain itself.
And if you index that properly and pack that with social attestations,
like what Click is doing, I think it's something very powerful that protocols can,
you know, harness on positively, leverage on positively.
This will benefit users as well because they'll be getting exactly what they want and need.
And overall for the ecosystem is a win-win, not just for ours, right?
But for the space in general.
And that's what we always want to do, right?
We don't want to, you know, operate in a silo or just in a bubble ourselves.
It's all about furthering the space.
Like I said, it's not a zero-sum game.
Plenty to grow together with.
That's what we want.
And I think that mental journey is a huge step forward for us in that.
Of course, coming back to the point that Ed made, right?
This is just Season Alpha, right?
It is all these that I mentioned are very lofty and some would argue ostensibly,
you know, are idealistic dreams, right?
But if we don't even take that first step, you know, we'll never get there.
I think this, our statement, you know, a huge first step for us, for the space in general,
for mental network and for Web3 in general, where we want to build an ID stack over our
entire ecosystem.
So, yeah.
Kudos to Click Yourself for being amazing partners in that.
Yeah.
I think you went into this a little bit, but we'll just, we'll jump to the next question
here from L. Bennett.
He asks, how does mental journey fit into the broader vision and mission of mental ecosystem?
And what role does it play in achieving those goals?
Like I said, I think we touched on it a little bit, but do you want to add anything else there,
Derek?
I think I more or less covered that in my, I wouldn't say ramble, but yeah, in what I
mentioned just now, it really is about our belief in the power of, I wouldn't say identity
or data, but more of the community, right?
Honestly, in this space, community is always first.
And it's always about empowering community, right?
And defining that great balance between communities and also protocols.
So, as mentioned, I won't go through that again, but as mentioned, mental journey is,
you know, our attempt at that, right?
Season Alpha will have many kings, you know, we need to iron out and we will, right?
We will humbly learn and grow from this experience together with you guys, you know, open to
feedback throughout the whole process, right?
But our dream is what I mentioned just now, right?
To have actually, to really truly properly harness, right?
And leverage on the USPs, right?
Unique selling points that, you know, blockchain tech brings to us and for us, right?
And doing that to further the entire interest of the entire Web3 space as a whole.
So, this is our first step, our, you know, brave first step into that future.
Perfect.
And with that, I guess, you know, let's get into some of the sort of nitty-gritty details
of mental journey season Alpha.
We've got another question from pacman.bnb who asks, could you elaborate on the types
of activities users can participate in to earn miles?
And are these activities related to the mantle ecosystem?
What kind of sort of tasks and engagements would count towards miles specifically?
I think for the accruing of miles on a mental journey platform, I think most of the transactions
that users actually do for interactions on mental actually count towards these miles.
So, just for example, for your interactions on a DEX, let's say like Igni or FusionX or even
Izumi, simple transactions like conducting a swap, adding to liquidity pools, even like I think
claiming of rewards on these platforms will actually accrue miles for yourself.
And this miles will start to accumulate throughout the whole season.
And towards the end of a season, you can actually check where you actually stand because I think
there'll be an ongoing leaderboard whereby users can check in periodically to see how they
actually fare against other users inside the space and what is the overall score that they
have compared to other users.
And in this way, you know that there's a, what is the rough approximation of that in
the terms of, in terms of rewards you'll receive compared to the, your peers.
And this leaderboard will be deployed soon.
And once it's deployed, then users will be, I would guess, having a fun time having a, to,
to being able to compare to their peers in terms of their activity and in terms of their rankings.
And this can be something that is fun for them to actually compare even on social media with
more well-known, that KOLs or influencers that they follow.
And we'll give you a rough indication of where they stand in terms of their overall, I would
say, level of DGEN inside the mental ecosystem.
Yeah, and on to what Edmund mentioned, right?
Actually, if you hit to journey.mental.xyz, we are pretty transparent about, you know,
several REST-specific ways that you can actually earn mental miles, right?
Journey miles, sorry, right?
Execute transactions on mental network, depositing or bridging your tokens to mental, holding
MNT tokens, anticipating governance, even completing social events, right?
The socialized attestations.
Of course, there are other interactions and actions that actually we don't specify, but
these are the clearly specified ones on the website.
So do check it out if you want to.
Yeah, we've actually got a complete guide on how to earn miles with a breakdown for each
sort of category.
If you go to the main journey website, which is journey.mental.xyz, you'll see a sort of a
breakdown on the homepage of how to earn them.
If you click learn more there, you'll get sent to a blog post that gets the full breakdown
about how to earn those miles.
Okay, so maybe just diving in a little bit deeper.
Fenix20 is asking a question here, which is, which sites, DEXs, bridges, NFTs are included
in mental transactions?
I think we touched on this, but maybe we can talk about the verified protocols that are involved
in season alpha.
And what the sort of difference is there in terms of how you can earn miles based on which
protocol or DAP you interact with.
Okay, maybe I'll just shed some light.
So I think there are currently two protocols that are currently verified, which is INGNI and
also FusionX.
So users who actually interact with verified protocols will actually have more points or
bonus miles actually attributed to their actions on these platforms.
So these verified platforms basically are platforms that have already submitted their subgraphs to
us to actually integrate within the journey's platform.
And there will be more protocols that are coming up that will be added to this verified list.
And it will be a rolling process whereby once we have received the information from protocols
and then we have updated it on our platform, and then they will be added to the list of verified
protocols.
And then users who interact with all these protocols will be able to get additional miles from it.
Yeah, that's about it.
Cool.
And it looks like there's a pinned tweet here that was just posted as well.
If you're interested in learning more about how to earn those miles, you can follow the link
directly through that tweet there.
There's also another one pinned up there, which calls out the special giveaway we're doing
for this AMA.
So we haven't mentioned it yet.
If you're waiting for it, the secret word, it's going to come later.
We promise.
So we are giving away three citizens of Mantle NFTs for anybody who finds the secret word and
enters it on our Zilli quest afterwards.
So hang tight and keep listening.
And we will mention that word here in a few.
All right.
So for, you know, the system of rewarding points to users, what impact does having more
or less Mantle tokens kind of, how does that impact your ability to earn points?
This comes from a question from EVM ETH.
The question specifically is, is the system of awarding points for all users in equal amounts
or who has more Mantle tokens is in a more advantageous position?
And yeah, maybe just a broader discussion too about the value of like TVL versus transactions.
You know, how are, how are each of these activities weighted within Mantle?
Yep.
Maybe I can share at a high level first before, you know, adds on if you want to.
But obviously we can't review the granular or specific, you know, kind of weightages that,
you know, are used.
But I think all I can say is that, you know, we will try to make this as fair a process as
possible, right?
And I think one thing that, you know, a parameter that we have would be the seasonal cap.
I think later we'll go into that.
I'm sure there'll be questions about that.
But the seasonal cap will ensure that, you know, this won't be a playground only for those,
you know, have a lot of Mantle tokens, right?
And just on the note of TVL itself, you know, it will not, we are not only judging, right?
Users or protocols or, you know, imbuing MJ miles with value only through TVL and how much
MNT you hold, right?
It's really a whole gamut of other actions and interactions.
So as mentioned, the weightages, we, you know, try to be made as fair as possible.
And that's what Seasonal Alpha is for as well, right?
For us to test and to optimize for, you know, what really would be the mainstays later on.
Okay, maybe I'll add on a bit to what Derek has said.
So I think that, yes, holding Mantle tokens does give you advantage because there's one
Mantle journey mile per 500 Mantle tokens that you hold.
But then you also receive additional miles for doing transactions with this same Mantle token.
So let's say if you've got 500 Mantle tokens and then you use it for transactions,
you're going to get both Mantle tokens score as well as the transaction score.
So what we really want is activity from users and to enjoy the experience on Mantle.
So we are not looking for holders to just hold their assets on chain and not do anything with it.
We want them to have fun, have interactions with protocols in our ecosystem to explore our ecosystem
and also to go and put their funds to good use, I guess, to actually get yield from yield sources
and also to interact with, do swaps and maybe participate in the hot coins.
So, yeah, I think to answer the question is holding Mantle gives you advantages,
but it's even more advantageous if you use the Mantle wisely inside an ecosystem
and then you use it to actually improve your portfolio or to basically have fun
and also interact with the overall ecosystem as a whole.
Yeah, I'm super interested to hear more about people's strategy, community members' strategy
for stacking up their points and learning how they're doing that,
how they're sort of optimizing, like you said, to one, maybe have fun,
maybe another is to just literally stack up points
and the other is to, you know, increase the value of their portfolio.
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how people utilize this across the community
and across the ecosystem community as well as we start to intersect more
now that, you know, sort of miles and journey is connecting users and builders
from across the wider L2, Mantle L2 ecosystem community.
There's an FAQ here.
Maybe I can just quickly answer this one.
We've seen this one in the channels quite a bit and the question is,
is there a daily or weekly limit to collect MJ miles for each action?
So, for the limits, those are all listed.
Again, the resources there are pinned at the top of this Twitter space.
If you look at the blog post under each reward type,
you will see the cap for each reward type that you can earn.
So, they're specific for each action.
And maybe Edmund or Derek, you guys can talk about the sort of seasonal limits
versus the lifetime mile limits as well.
Derek, you want to cut with this part?
Yeah, so I think to answer the question,
because the question is about whether it's a daily or weekly limit, right?
As mentioned just now, it will be a seasonal cap, right?
So, it's a seasonal limit.
That's what J.L. Bryan has mentioned.
I think the website, you can find it on Mantle's website, right?
It really is a Mantle journey miles guide.
You can find that for each action, for example,
mainnet transactions, bridging assets, holding tokens themselves,
interacting with verified protocols,
because there is a season cap per user, right?
But it will not be granular to the point where there's a daily or weekly cap.
It will really be a seasonal cap.
And another FAQ here as well.
So, Chikusu asked, when do miles update?
And the answer to that is in the FAQ on the Journey website.
And miles update by the end of the following day.
So, you won't see your miles reflected immediately
after you complete a transaction for now.
You'll check back, and you'll find those miles updated.
Okay.
We've dove into this a little bit,
but let's just dive a little deeper.
So, Moro Crypto is asking,
what is the use of miles points?
We've talked about it here today,
but again, maybe we can just mention the reward pool for Season Alpha.
Okay, I'll question this.
So, Season Alpha comes with 20 million MNT worth of rewards.
So, for these users who participate in Season Alpha,
they will accrue mental journey miles.
And these miles at the end of the season
will be used to actually determine
their overall allocations of this $20 million reward.
And as far as that,
I think miles will be used for the upgrades
for seasons of mental NFTs.
And I guess this tool will be the main reasons
why people will be accruing the miles as rewards.
Sorry, miles points throughout this mental journey Season Alpha.
Yeah, let's talk about Citizens of Mantle as well
and how that intersects with journey.
So, I know that Citizens of Mantle,
I think the community is well aware too
that Citizens of Mantle is this kind of standalone,
but it also has an impact on their mantle journey.
So, Blackjin Crypto was asking,
will whitelisted users who become Mantle citizens
get benefits other than NFTs
and can the NFTs be traded in the future?
I can take this.
So, definitely if you are a COM,
Citizen of Mantle holder,
there will be exclusive rewards and benefits for you guys.
You know, of course, we can't specify that once again,
but this is something that we can tell you
that you will have exclusive rewards and perks
that you can enjoy.
And yes, it will be tradable.
We got another one from Sky number 5968
and they're asking,
does every previous test network user
receive a 500 MJ milestone bonus?
Yeah, so, I think that was mentioned,
that there was a website
and the mouse guide actually shares
about testnet user contributions, right?
So, if you see the plus 500 MJ mouse there, right?
That is the maximum that, you know,
testnet contributors can get.
And take note that only testnet transactions
and actions, right?
Before the 7th of July,
2359 PM UTC will be indexed for this, right?
So, obviously, you also have to have,
you know, proposed actions
that count into the MJ mouse
to actually earn the full 500.
So, no, 500 is not a guarantee, right?
It is the maximum that you can get
for testnet users.
Yeah, and just to reference for everybody,
I just posted a comment
with a link to that guide as well
in a picture.
But yeah, the testnet activity
is tracked based on, you know,
cumulative weekly transactions,
and smart contract creations,
bridging and voting on Snapshot.
So, you can find the full breakdown there
if you have any questions about that.
I know that a lot of folks
were asking about that in the channels.
And if you have questions, you know,
as you continue to sort of explore,
feel free to tag me directly
in the channels as well.
And I can help you find
the answer to your question.
All right.
So, let's jump into a related event,
the launch event,
their launch campaign,
which is the 500,000 MNT
and the 20,000 Citizens of Mantle
whitelist round two
season alpha explorer event.
Can you guys give us the breakdown
on what this is?
And just for everybody who's here,
so you heard that right,
there's a 500,000 MNT reward pool
and 20,000 Citizens of Mantle
whitelist award
that is separate from the broader
20 million season alpha reward.
So, this is on top
of that season alpha reward.
Can you guys just give us an intro
on what this is
and how users can earn these points
or earn these MNT
and these whitelist spots?
Okay, I'll share first
about the 500,000 MNT
lucky hash reward
and then move on
to the Citizens of Mantle
NFT whitelist slots.
So, for the 500,000 MNT
lucky hash reward,
for all mental users
who've minted the SBT
during the event period,
the mental team
will be randomly picking
a number from zero to nine
at the end of the event.
The first 5,000 users
whose SBT minting transaction hash
ends with a random number picked
will each receive 100 MNT.
So, I think the winner
will be announced
within 10 working days
of the event's end date.
So, do keep a lookout for that.
For the COM
NFT whitelist slots, right?
So, this NFT whitelist round
is only reserved for explorers
who satisfy really
two requirements, right?
And there are 20,000 slots
actually for the NFT whitelist.
But you have to satisfy
two requirements.
So, the first would be
that you are one of the users
and within the first 20,000 users
to sign up for
and mint the MJ SBT, right?
And also, you have to have
joined the waitlist
from our first round
of our COM NFT release.
I think that was a month ago
or something.
So, yeah, I think you have to hit
both these requirements
for you to be in the whitelist,
the 20,000 whitelist for COM.
Cool, and yeah,
we just pinned a guide again
to the 500,000 MNT reward
and 20,000 whitelist reward
incentive there at the top.
So, you can find more details
on how to qualify for that as well.
SKEY number 5968
was asking how many participants
are there so far?
It really depends how you track it,
but in terms of SBT mints,
I looked earlier this morning,
I think there's over 50,000.
So, yeah, congrats to those
who minted early.
And, you know, that doesn't mean
you've lost your chance
because there are a handful
of criteria you need to meet
to get these rewards.
So, yep, if you haven't
minted your SBT,
feel free to jump in.
There's still a chance.
In numbers, 7,000 are just happy.
Oh, okay.
So, we've got another one, too,
and I'll answer this one
just really quickly.
So, the rule for the 500,000
is asking that we will randomly
pick a number between 0 and 9
at the end of the transaction hash.
So, the good do is asking
if you do not,
basically, if you do,
if you have letters
at the end of your hash,
will you be excluded from the draw?
The answer is yes.
You've got to have a number
at the end of your transaction hash.
There's ways you can,
you know, if you're creative,
you can think about getting around this.
I won't mention specifically
because I don't want to encourage anything,
but, yeah, maybe you can be creative
in your approach.
All right.
So, we've got another question here, too,
from K-R-I-D-D.
So, how did the team handle
Sybil attack at the Mantle journey event?
And will the team use a platform like ZKMe,
which is in the Mantle ecosystem,
or a platform similar to Galaxy Passport,
Gitcoin Passport, etc.,
to verify somebody
so that there's not a Sybil attack?
Okay, maybe I'll answer this.
So, I think we have various parameters
in place to actually prevent
our Sybil attacks,
but I think it is in our best interest
that we keep this information
only to the internal mental team
and not reveal it to the public
because exposing this
will actually subject us
to a higher likelihood
of being in Sybil attack.
but we have already engaged
the relevant professionals
in this particular area
to help us with this
scoping down of accounts
with a high likelihood
of being bots.
So, yeah, I think do not worry
about the Sybil attacks.
Leave it to us
and then we will try to do our best
to actually make sure
that the playing field
is level for everyone.
Cool.
And maybe we can just dive
into some of your guys' perspective
on the broader ecosystem.
In your discussions
with teams
within the mantle ecosystem,
what's been the reception
so far of mantle journey
and how are teams
thinking about utilizing miles
to incentivize
their own communities?
I think overall
for protocol-wise,
a lot of the protocols
in the DeFi sector
especially are very excited
because I think
they have been
really waiting
for such opportunity
whereby there is
a particular event
that can actually
bring the community
closer together
on the mantle ecosystem
and also to encourage
the users
to actually participate
in their platforms.
So what most of these
platforms actually
are really looking forward to
is actually the use
of the mantle journey
in some questing platform
to actually conduct quests
for their users.
A lot of them feel
that the quest module
will actually help them
to onboard users
who are actually new
towards the mantle ecosystem
and also to formalize themselves
with the protocols
and their designs
and what's the key differences
between their protocol
and other protocols
on other chains.
So overall,
the reception has been
really good
and I wouldn't
specify which protocols
but many of the protocols
are actually
designing various
different sort of
campaigns
to actually
utilize this
launch of mantle journeys
to actually help them
increase the engagement
of the campaigns
that they're about to run.
So I think
stuff that you can
expect in the coming
one to two months
will be stuff
like
trading competitions,
you could even expect
stuff like
maybe
gated IDO launches
or you can
also expect
perhaps
like
competitions
on like
transactions
on their chain itself.
So there are many
different ideas
that are actually
going around
and it's always
in flux
because of a number
of protocols
that have yet
to launch as well.
So yeah,
I think overall
it's pretty exciting
to see all the
different ideas
being thrown together
and protocols
even banding together
to actually try to
do collaborations
to conduct
like a joint
campaign
between
two different
protocols.
I really like
what I'm seeing
so far
and hopefully
like
these campaigns
will synergize
well with
the mental journey
program
the whole ecosystem
will benefit
as a whole.
Yeah,
and to add on to that,
right,
I think one huge benefit
of, you know,
having the mental journey
layer atop
our ecosystem
would be that,
you know,
like what Emma mentioned,
right,
you can gamify
so many aspects of this,
right,
especially with the leaderboard
and also the fact
that you can really
identify your power users
really well.
So I think,
you know,
many gigabrains
within our community
right now
that are building
very interesting stuff
like Ed mentioned
to try to gamify
this as best as you can
whilst also trying
to, you know,
reward, you know,
the power users,
right,
and also benefit
the apps themselves.
I think this is something
that, you know,
would be great
for stickiness
and for gamification
and as Emma mentioned
once again,
I think we are very excited
to see what,
you know,
the protocols have in store
for the ecosystem at large
and this really
kind of, you know,
decentralizes the efforts
of user acquisition,
right.
When it comes to
user acquisition
and also user retention
for stickiness,
right,
within ecosystems,
right,
it's not really,
you know,
fully on the ecosystem
itself to actually,
you know,
work tirelessly
to ensure user acquisition
and retention.
It is also,
you know,
it can be decentralized
to the efforts
of the protocols
and the apps
and I think that's
what Mental Journey
does really well.
I'm very excited
to see the upcoming
efforts that,
you know,
protocols will actually
push out.
Yeah,
absolutely
and I think
we've seen that
with some of the
other quest platforms
that exist out there.
It's like,
you know,
obviously kind of heavy
in questing season,
maybe eternally
in questing season
in crypto
and we've seen,
I mean,
I've seen from
the community perspective
those platforms
used for user acquisition.
having a focused
Mantle
sort of specific
ecosystem,
questing platform
that tracks
every on-chain
transaction
and provides
sort of like
shared leaderboards,
shared point tracking,
those sorts of things
so that we can gamify
and as you said,
create center
energies across
projects
and with users,
I think that's
going to be
super powerful
and,
you know,
we're kind of
just at the beginning
in season alpha
and it's been mentioned
a few times
but things like
leaderboards
are rolling out
these new features.
for users
looking to
earn miles,
one question
that we see
and that I think
isn't obvious
to especially
people who are new
to the ecosystem
or new to Web3
more generally
sort of
where is
the ecosystem?
Seg1
specifically asked
like,
where can I see
the ecosystem?
Where is the
Mantle ecosystem?
Where can we find
more about
what dApps exist?
There's an ecosystem
page on the
Mantle website
whereby we
actually list out
all the dApps
that have
deployed on us
as well as
will be deploying
on us
and also
I think we have
a social media
account
for the
mental ecosystem
as well
whereby we
share a lot
of the updates
from new dApps
that are deploying
and as well as
key messages
that dApps
wants to actually
bring across
to the community.
So I think
follow the
mental ecosystem
page as well
as the main
mental social media
and then
keep up to date
with all these
updates from the
ecosystem
and participate
in the ecosystems
yourself.
I think once you
dive into the
ecosystem yourself
and start to
participate in a
few of the dApps
that learn how
they actually
function,
then you will
actually see that
there's actually
a lot of dApps
within the ecosystem
that are actually
collaborating and
doing collaborative
efforts and
in this way
you can actually
go and start
to branch out
and explore
to partner
dApps of the
dApps that
they are using
and then it will
be easier for you
to keep track
of the overall
ecosystem growth
and what is new
in the ecosystem
itself.
You should also
follow DeFi
Maestro because
I think he shares
quite a bit about
composable loops
that you can have
fun with around
our mental.
So yeah,
shout out to
DeFi Maestro.
Right on.
Yeah,
there's tons of
resources across
both the website
and also on
Twitter,
as was mentioned.
Twitter is kind
of the alpha.
That's where you
can find your
alpha for where
the new apps
are and sort
of what's coming
We got another
question from
Pacman B&B,
which is,
could you explain
in more detail
how the process
of minting the
mental journey,
SBT,
the MJSBT
works?
Specifically,
what are the
steps involved
and how does
the gas fee
payment in M&T
contribute to
the minting
process?
So maybe we
could just walk
through the three
steps there in
profile creation
so that users
can understand
how to get
started.
Okay,
maybe I'll just
walk through the
three simple
steps.
So I think
you can go on
to the mental
journeys on
our website
and then you
can see that
there's three
steps that are
listed there.
First,
you actually
mint your
mental journey
and soulbound
token.
So once you
mint the
mental journey
and soulbound
token,
then next
you've got to
verify and
link one of
your social
media accounts,
which is I
think most
likely your
Twitter account.
And after
that,
you can get
to customize
your user
profile and
link,
put in
information such
as your email
or your display
name that you
want to be
shown on
the platform
itself.
And in
terms of
like gas
costs,
it is
pretty
negligible.
I didn't
even notice
how much it
costs because
it was a
really,
really low
cost.
Basically,
you just
have to pay
very low
transaction
costs to
mint it.
So there's
no real
cost of
minting
this
soulbound
token.
yeah.
We actually
just got a
revision
too of
one of
previous
answers,
which was
about
if for
lucky
hash
drawing for
the 500,000
reward,
the question
was if
your hash
ends in
a letter,
are you
disqualified?
Previously,
we said
yes, but
actually the
answer is
It will
take the
last
number
in your
hash.
So everybody
who mentioned
SBT is
going to
be included
in that
lucky hash
drawing.
And you've
got like
about a
1 in
10 chance
to sort
of win
that.
All right.
or actually,
I'm sorry,
it's a 1.
We're going
to select
a number
between
1 and
for that
number.
All right.
So we're
kind of
coming up
here on
the last
half,
the last
bit of
AMA.
There's
a few
questions
related to
sort of
troubleshooting
that we had
in the
community
that I'm
happy to
go through
just real
quick.
So one
of the
questions
we've
received
is some
of our
early
users
miles
removed
from
their
profile.
This was
due to a
small bug
that we
had.
So if you
had those
removed,
sorry for that
experience there,
but that has
been updated.
And if you have
any questions,
you can always
reach out to
us in
Discord.
some of
the other
ones, we
had some
issues minting
at the
start, but
all of that
has been
resolved.
Again, if
you do have
questions, you
can always
join us
again in
the channels
and we
can dive
deeper to
solve your
issues if
you have
any.
Maybe we
can dive
into a
sort of
broader
topic here
as well,
which is
how will
mantle
cater to
the liquidity
issue in
centralized
decentralized
platforms as
it's becoming
increasingly
difficult for
new projects
in recent
days.
So we've
got this
new MNT
token,
which is
kind of
cornerstone
of the
mantle
ecosystem.
Can you
guys speak
to that
sort of
issue of
liquidity
and how
we can
resolve that
to create
the best
user
experience
holders?
Sorry,
just for
this question,
is this
specifically
mental
liquidity
or is
it for
liquidity
projects
launching
mental
ecosystem
itself?
We can
talk about
both,
actually,
why don't
Okay,
maybe I'll
just touch
on the
liquidity
itself.
So for
mental
token
itself,
I think
we are
aware of
difficulty
for users
to actually
access
MNT.
and I
think
what we're
trying to
do is
we are
trying to
bring on
board more
liquidity
to the
chain
itself
and also
to lower
the barriers
of entry
from other
chains to
our chains
by integrating
with external
bridges.
So by
integrating
external
bridges,
we allow
users to
be able
bridge
across,
let's say,
from
arbitrum or
from
optimism
over to
mental.
bridging
over from
these
will
incur
significantly
lower
fees as
compared to
if you
bridge over
from
external
bridges
being
integrated
with the
mental
chain.
And in
terms of
the overall
liquidity for
mental
ecosystem
wide,
I think
we currently
have a
proposal
that is
being
discussed
in the
forums
whereby we
are actually
discussing
the provision
of liquidity
from the
mental
treasury
towards
ecosystem.
And we
are actually
proposing
to provide,
if I recall
correctly,
around
230 million
worth of
mixed
baskets
ecosystem
liquidity
towards
projects
within
ecosystem.
we know
that there
is a lot
difficulty
for newer
projects,
especially
those that
are native
new chain
to actually
attract
liquidity
to their
platform
itself.
And we
hope that
we can
use this
liquidity
provided to
help to
get these
new projects
off the ground
running and
they are able
to attract
users with
basically a
base sum
of liquidity
and get
the protocol
up to
a level
whereby it
can be
self-sufficient
before they
can be
less reliant
on such
liquidity.
So we
are monitoring
the situation
closely and
we expect
the overall
liquidity for
mental to
improve
drastically over
the coming
months once
we actually
lower the
barriers for
entries for
liquidity from
other chains
and also
injecting our
own sources
of liquidity
to the
protocols in
our chain
itself.
Because I
think we
actually take
a very
hands-on
approach in
picking the
protocols that
we want to
support and
also we
do collaborate
with them
pretty closely
and speak to
them on
almost a
daily basis
for many of
these protocols
and try to
check up on
them how
they are doing
and if they
need any help
from the
mental team
itself.
So we
are working
really
tightly with
them and
we are
really
optimistic
that the
liquidity
conditions
in the
mental
system
will
improve
in the
coming
months.
Derek,
do you
have
anything
to add
for this
part?
Not for
this part.
Thanks.
Cool.
So we'll
ask one
more question
from the
comments
here,
which is
when will
season alpha
end and
what are
the benefits
of citizens
of mantle
NFT holders.
We've
touched on
citizens of
mantle NFT
holders,
but maybe
we can
just talk
briefly about
season alpha
and then we
will mention
the secret
word for
everybody who's
been patiently
waiting through
the entire
AMA.
So Derek,
do you want
to touch on
that?
Yep.
So to
reiterate,
if you are
a holder of
the citizen of
mantle NFT,
you will
definitely get
exclusive rewards
and perks.
So that's
for sure.
As for
the question
on where
will season
alpha end,
so once
again,
as mentioned
continuously
throughout
the spaces,
this is
really a test
bit for
what's to
come in
the future.
So in
terms of
duration of
season alpha,
the mantle
team will
access feedback
from the
community
and will
notify everyone
before we
launch the
next phase.
So do
keep a
look out
on that
and do
participate
really actively
in this.
I think
this is a
great segue
into a
quick reiteration
of everything
that we've
mentioned here.
Once again,
this is really
I would say
it's a huge
step forward.
As mentioned,
building an
IT stack over
an entire
ecosystem.
It will not
be easy.
We acknowledge
that humbly.
There will be
bumps and
kinks along
the road.
And I think
the only way
that we can
push this
forward in a
way that will
benefit both
mantle and
the web
tree space
in general
is if we
have to
help the
community
and support
the community.
So I think
all of us
here at
mantle are
really super
open to
actually
collaboratively
work with
the community.
We are very
open to
feedback.
So if you
have some,
please feel
free to let
us know and
then we will
iterate on
this mantle
journey and
also in the
way we do
certain things.
So I think
it will be a
long road
ahead but I
think it will
be a worthwhile
one.
We would
all love to
include all
of you guys
in it.
I think the
great turnout
today has
shown that
this is something
that the
community is
interested in.
So I am
excited for
that and
would love
more participation
from you
guys.
And yeah.
All right.
So now is
the time.
The secret
word for
everybody who's
been waiting.
No surprises
here.
The secret
word is
M-J-S-B-T
which isn't
really a word.
It's an
acronym but
it's again
it's M-J-S-B-T.
So you can
go over to
Zili and
find the
mantle
journey AMA
secret word
quest.
Fill in that
word and
you'll be
entered for
a drawing
for one
of three
citizens of
mantle
NFTs.
Awesome.
By the way
M-J-S-B-T
has to be
in all
caps, all
uppercase
by the way.
Just let it
on here.
Yeah.
Thank you for
that detail.
That will
matter.
Cool.
Thanks everybody
for your
questions.
If you do
continue to
have more
questions,
we're always
available on
the channels.
As Derek
and Ed
have both
said,
season alpha
is about
feedback.
We've got
an open
feedback form
posted in
our general
channel on
Discord.
I'm happy
to share
that with
anybody and
jam with
you on
your ideas
about how
we can
improve as
well.
If you have
specific
questions about
miles or
about the
rewards and
incentives,
including the
500,000
M&T,
the 20,000
citizens of
mantle
whitelist
spots,
or the
broader
20,000,000
seasonal
rewards for
season alpha,
you can
find a ton
of details
about those
things at
mantle.xyz
forward slash
blog or
on the
FAQ on
the journey
website.
Without
further ado,
I want to
encourage you
to go out
and mint
your SBT,
your mantle
journey SBT
today, and
you can start
earning miles
right away
through your
interactions in
the mantle
ecosystem, and
you can start
to unlock
those tiered
rewards for
that 20
million M&T
reward pool.
Awesome.
Thanks,
everybody, for
listening, and
thank you,
Derek, thank
you, Edmund,
for joining
and giving us
so much
context here.
Appreciate
you all.
Yeah.
Thanks for
having us.
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks for
tuning in,
everyone.
I really
appreciate the
support.
Thanks, guys.
