Topic: [ABCS] Airdrop and Bounty Campaign Standards (Read 394 times)

The introduction of certain standards for each company bounty is of course a good step towards eliminating fraudulent projects, but I think that it is very difficult and almost unreal since these are just recommendations and nothing more.

good article, thanks

Nah, these little ignorant shits are goin' wild. Even an announcement of airdrop and bounty campaign standards is considered as a 'good project' thing.
yu no wat i mean nah?

a good new step, this will be a potential long-term project. still waiting for the next step.

Airdrop is like traditional marketing strategy, easy task low rewards unless you can bring 1000 new users using your ref link. I do agree that airdrop is not profitable, but some projects in the past, like REBL or EQUAL only do an airdrop and they don't do any bounty too. But projects like these are scarce now, maybe because the market is bad.

Really good idea. As cryptocurrency needs regulations, airdrop and bounties should also have these kind of standards.
It will be really helpful to know about genuine project, specifically projects only posts airdrop.
Truely speaking, I don't like the idea of Airdrop, as following/completing all the mentioned tasks, gets rewarded only few cents. Also projects delay most of the time distribution, so that half the participants leave it.
This is my personal opinion, no offense. 

No escrow mentioned? I believe airdrop/bounty ideally should use an escrow to prevent conflict of interest. Some bounties that I know don't use escrow, and they delay the payment up to months/year, which is a pain in the ass. I think they should respect bounty hunters by not delaying and giving an exact date of distribution, but sadly they seem don't care about it at all. The magic "soon" word is always used to answer when bounty will get paid.

I agree with you, as both being a bounty hunter and also creating a crypto project on the begin of year.
I'd hear that a good ICO needs to have an maximum of 5% for airdrop and bounty, so the minimum of 2% from total supply dedicated to bounty, seems reasonable. Also, need to pay participants within 15 days after the end of ICO is good as signal against scam.


No need for an agreement. But if regulations would like to use ABCS as a model, ok.
The thing is just airdrops and bounty campaigns show that they want to comply with ABCS' standards, and receive a seal to show their commitment to be fair on their campaigns.


Regulation for airdrops and bounty campaigns? I don't know if it will come soon, as the regulators' focus are the ICOs.


Like ICO benchmarks, it is beneficial for both users and projects.
Users want to see that not only they follows rules, but also the project is doing so, and haves scores from a ICO listing. And because it gives more traction and trustability to the project, its also beneficial for the projects.


The thing is that airdrop/bounty platforms receives a part from the campaigns (some or most receives 15%), which could be also to prize the effort of the campaign participants.
And most of them doesn't haves a rule set.

it's good for the solution, there are already many special website platforms that handle the gift of prizes or airdrop, including: platfrom.io, bountyhive.io there are also kingairdrop and bountysuite and many more

i like the idea, but it will not be easy to implement. the question is, will ico and airdrop projects take this as a standart or not in the future and will people pay attention to this seal or value it. nevertheless, i support this idea and hope to see such a quality seal at icos in the future.

Wow! That is a good idea. I support this because it will help bounty hunters a lot. Everything should be included in the regulations.

Like your standards and the proposals how to make the airdrop and bounty market transparent. It would be nice to have some global agreement as it will be beneficial for both sides, the ICPs and the hunters.

Please add another rule that minimum bounty reward will be minimum 2% of the total supply and the reward will be sent to the participants within 15 days after the end of the ico. This point is in perfect interest of crypto community and bounty hunters.

I was already thinking about creating this, then when participating on a bounty, they wasn't respectful with bounty hunters, so I had sure those standards are a need: for both hunters and bounty campaigns.


I need to release a new version of ABCS, but it will have lots of things, so I can't launch it now.
ABCS is open to receive suggestions.


Its up to us to ask airdrops and bounty campaigns if they want to comply with ABCS.


The problem is not only scam; and any standard can't prevent 100% against scam, as there is not 100% security on everything but a satisfy limit and layers. There is also the possibility that the project doesn't succeed, what doesn't means that is a scam. How to guess it?
ABCS isn't created to solve airdrops' and bounty campaigns' problems, but to do a big help on pointing how they can be better and to protect both campaign/manager and participants.
If a project haves an official seal of ABCS (verified by the URL), that doesn't means the project is secure and we need to be blind investors, but that the project is using an additional layer for security


Your point is very good, about organic engagement on advertising. It really makes us ask: Personally I think the majority of bounty hunters receives their tokens and wants to sell immediately after the coin gets a increase on value; and not to really support a project. So, the part of bounty can be sold on the ICO, openning the crowdsale to receive more investors. And organic advertising is better than bounty.
But there yet will come lots of good projects that haves airdrops and bounty campaigns, and for that reason I'd created ABCS.


But it isn't created to act as a anti-spam/KYC system, but a guideline for airdrops and bounty campaigns.
So, not only their participants follow rules, but also the managers of campaigns.


Thanks. You could also recommend to airdrops and bounty campaigns you like.
Soon it will have a new version.

This one is better but you cannot prevent most of the abuses from the users here. They can create thousand of accounts to apply in the bounty.

in my opinion this is very cool, with this project we can see which projects are better. I want to see it again in the last few days. is it feasible to be made a recommendation to my friends.

no offense
Is the bounty the most important element in an ICO event?
the success of an ICO is from investors, how many investors are interested in the project, and also how much money is earned when ICO is held
bounty hunters only do publications and also the formation of communities,
ICO without investors will not succeed, but ICOs who are qualified even without a bounty hunter, will definitely succeed
for issues of publication, teams and developers can use the Google Ads feature, or Fb Ads, so that organic communities will be formed and not paid communities

If airdrop campaigns are made by this type of standard, maybe everyone would trust the project and nobody got scammed i think. Because scam projects doesn't do a whole lot of things will make their project looks better. So thanks for this type of thread. It's kind of beneficial to us.

I love your standards and i would wish in 2019 if these can be made and utilized by present upcoming and existing projects.
It protects both the interest of the participants and also the project owners.

But who knows what will happen to airdrop ? lets see if bounty managers take advantages of this post.

This is good parameter for bounty and airdrop program and can be use to take the right choice. I'll wait the next step and see what happen and how good the progress. I believe we already have experience but none of us can take the real choice, scam and paused program still become the biggest risk we have. Keep going and good luck to you.