BSP-1: Fund Layer3 Bounties (Round 2)

Proposed by: mistermanifold

Stats: 14 bounties, 36 individual winners

Budget: 7,900 beans for winners + 1100 beans for gas fees = 9,000 beans

This assumes each limited-winner bounty will be completed to its fullest, and each “unlimited” bounty is completed at least once.

The proposed time frame is 3 weeks (21 total days)

Below are the 14 bounties

1. Beanstalk in Layman’s Terms:

• Explain Beanstalk and its terminology (sowing, silo, weather, etc) in common market terminology (equity, debt, bond, options, interest rate, etc.)
• Get creative - can be a written explainer, infographic, medium post, or some other format that you think effectively explains the protocol
• Mission: Content creation
• Submission: Link
• How winners are chosen: Top 3 submissions will be chosen by Beanstalk DAO
• Amount awarded: 250 beans per winner

2. Make introduction to a podcast

• Introduce the Beanstalk team to crypto-related podcasts
• Mission: Increase Beanstalk awareness
• Submission: Send email to BeanFarmerDan@protonmail.com
• How winners are chosen / amount awarded: 500 Beans per winner, paid out upon podcast’s recording

3. Make introduction to high quality crypto newsletter/media outlet

• Introduce the Beanstalk team to a crypto news/newsletter team (Bankless or another similar publication)
• Mission: Increase Beanstalk distribution
• Submission: Send email to BeanFarmerDan@protonmail.com
• How winners are chosen / Amount awarded: 500 Beans per winner, paid out upon publication of approved post/newsletter

4. Create Beanstalk Informational Quiz

• Create entry-level learning course and quiz questions at the end to test understanding (similar in style to Coinbase Earn quizzes)
• Mission: Content creation
• Submission: Link to completed quiz
• How winner is chosen: Best submission, to be chosen by Beanstalk DAO
• Amount awarded: 500 Beans

--Sidenote: Could eventually award beans (perhaps a plot raffle to minimize gas) for completion of quiz.)

5. Beans in Paris:

• Take a picture of your BeaNFT around town! Whether it’s at your favorite bean-named establishment, on vacation, or just around your neighborhood. Printed NFT or digital beans are permitted, but the picture must be your own.
• Mission: Community-building
• Submission: Twitter link
• How winners are chosen: Top 5 submissions by number of likes/retweets
• Amount awarded: 100 Beans per winner

6. Put “🌱 💵” in your Twitter name:

• Simply add the Bean.money emojis (🌱 💵) in your Twitter name
• Mission: Community-building
• Submission: Twitter link
• How winners are chosen: 2 winners will be chosen at random every week for 4 weeks
• Amount awarded: 250 Beans per winner each week

7. Join Beanstalk AMA, A&T University Class, or DAO Meeting

• Come check us out on Discord by joining one of our weekly meetings!
• Mission: Community-building
• Submission: Screenshot of your PFP in a meeting
• How winners are chosen: 2 winners chosen at random
• Amount awarded: 100 Beans per winner

8. Create an informational Twitter thread

• Write a Twitter thread about Beanstalk, focusing on a topic of your choice (i.e. comparing Beanstalk to other stablecoins, an instructional guide for using Beanstalk, etc.)
• Mission: Increase Beanstalk distribution
• Submission: Twitter Link
• How winner is chosen: Top thread by interactions, subject to DAO review for quality-assurance
• Amount awarded: 500 Beans

9. Retweet the launch of Bean x Layer3 Bounties

• Retweet the Beanstalk x Layer3 Bounty announcement (add hyperlink to “announcement:)
• Mission: Increase Beanstalk distribution
• Submission: Twitter link
• How winners are chosen: 2 random winners
• Amount awarded: 125 Beans per winner

10. Create a Beanstalk Meme

• Create a meme that incorporates Beanstalk either educationally, comedically, other in some other way
• Mission: Content creation
• Submission: Twitter link
• How winners are chosen: Top 3 memes, as decided by Farmer Dan
• Amount awarded: 100 Beans per winner

11. Bean Transaction Infographic

• Create an ELI5 story of a Bean farmer completing a transaction on the Farm. Explain visually how Sowing, Siloing, Seeds and Stalk, and/or purchasing Beans works
• Mission: Content creation
• Submission: Infographic
• How winners are chosen: Top submission for each category (Field, Silo/LP, Buying Beans), as decided by Beanstalk DAO
• Amount awarded: 300 Beans per winner

12. Bean merch design contest

• Design a piece of Beanstalk merchandise
• Two categories for submission:
  • Apparel
  • Other (accessories)
• Maximum of two submissions per category per wallet
• Mission: Create some more merch for our store!
• Submission: Design item file
• How winners are chosen: Top 2 designs for each category, as voted on by the Beanstalk Discord community
• Amount awarded: 100 Beans for the winner of each category

13. Beanstalk Youtube Video

• Create informational videographic Beanstalk content
  • Ex: An FAQ video with audio clips from AMA and class meetings
• Mission: Content creation
• Submission: Video file
• How winners are chosen: Any submissions used on Beanstalk’s Youtube page
• Amount awarded: 500 Beans

14. Connect with Beanstalk with a Video Content Creator

• Introduce the Beanstalk team to a talented video content creator
• Submission: Send email to BeanFarmerDan@protonmail.com
• How winners are chosen: Rewarded upon uploading of video to Beanstalk’s Youtube page
• Amount awarded: 100 Beans