Geyser Pitch

Pitch: Geyser Badges on Nostr📛

Bitcoin funders don't feel properly recognized for their project contributions, and are unable to visibly display their support towards these projects. Nostr Badges fix this.

🔬 Context & User Research

Bitcoiners care a lot about bitcoin projects and initiatives, you can see this based on how much and how often they fund them on Geyser:

Around 15,000 individual donors in 6 months.
500 individuals made more than 2 contributions
400 individuals donated more than $100

We spoke with some of these contributors and we discovered some insights:

Contributors often identify strongly with some of these projects.
They want to visibly showcase that they are backers of the projects.
They want to reshare and re-mediate the projects so that others can discover these initiatives as well

They are looking for ways to "social signal" their interests and their community. This is prevalent on social media with users updating their Profile Pics with laser eyes, Ukrainian flags and hodlnout image, etc.

Example 1: No Good artist received most of his contributions by people who purchased his Nostr badge.

Example 2: Greenpeace PR campaigns backfires and over 1.4M sats of greenskull 'pins' get's sold in 1hour!

❌ The problem

These insights highlighted the following issues that funders experience with Geyser and other crowdfunding platforms.

Recognition: funders don't feel properly recognized for their contributions.
Sharing & remediating: funders would like to visibly showcase and share and promote projects they care about.

📛 Current solutions

Badges and Checkmarks somewhat solve this issue of allowing users to identify. Current solutions like Facebook and GitHub badges and Twitter checkmarks tackle this to some extent. Their limitation is that they are “centralised badges”, which means:

You don't really own them
Not interoperable across platforms
Creators cannot issue their own

🦩Nostr fixes this

As a distributed social layer, Nostr offers the opportunity of recreating a decentralized social symbolic layer. With Nostr Badges:

Creators can issue their own badges
Contributors own their badges using pub-priv keys
Contributors can visibly display their badges across platforms
Platforms can reward contributors and creators for being active

💯 Features

So we build Nostr Badges on Geyser!

To start off we built "Geyser Badges" on Nostr. What this means is:

Login with Nostr on Geyser
Profile page update

Earn Geyser badges for contributions, engagement of activity. Including:
1. Funding 100k, 1m, 10m sats
2. Funding 10, 50, 100 projects
3. Winning a geyser grant
4. Being an early geyser project
5. Being an active community member for example being an open source contributor or a grant board member.
Claim badges as an active Geyser user for previous activity
Accept badges that you earned on Geyser
View the badges page

🚀 Upcoming features

You can view user badges by hovering over profile.
Show favorite badges next to username (like checkmark)
Creators can issue their own project badges on Geyser
Access to exclusive chats to users who have Geyser badges

🌐 Team

Metamick worked on the product management, research, designs, and operations
Auwal worked on the UX/UI design
Salih worked on the badge illustrations
Stelios worked on the backend.
Sajal worked on the frontend and Nostr integrations
Fran worked on the frontend

📺 Output of the hackathon

It's currently live on staging here. We are planning to go live next Friday.