Discover the Future of Content Curation: The Introduction of Content Voting in ReadON App 1.5.0

5 min readJun 19, 2023

After a period of testing and iterating, our app has established the fundamental logics of reading, tasks, NFTs, and account management. We’ve also resolved numerous issues that emerged during practical usage and reading. In the forthcoming iterations, we intend to shift our focus toward progressively implementing the array of features we’ve envisioned, and laying the groundwork for a larger-scale launch and future growth.

As the first step towards our goal, we’ve launched the Content Voting & Point Staking feature in the brand new 1.5.0 version. We aim to empower all users with the ability to influence the popularity of content, fostering content sharing organically. We hope that everyone will enjoy their reading time on ReadON even more.

What is Content Voting & Point Staking?

Users ‘pick’ their favorite content by staking points, expressing their support and recommendation for the content. Staking points enhances the power and weight of the vote. After the voting ends, rewards from the pool are distributed according to the popularity of the content.

In ReadON, ‘Pick’ is a curatorial and voting action on-chain. You will get a ‘Pick’ NFT on-chain, which facilitates more open and transparent curatorial activities. Also, we support you to ‘pick’ content across multiple chains without limitations.

Time Cycle: We use natural days in UTC time zone as a basis and divide each day into one ‘Pick’ event, with a point pool for each event. There are only three events at any given time, which means when an event from three days ago ends, the event for the current day just begins. After each ‘Pick’ event ends, users can start to claim rewards.

Begin Your Voting Journey

☑️ Find Content for Voting

1/ Pick Tab — Pick Ongoing

‘Pick tab’ is a brand new home page section that signifies our emphasis on Content Voting & Point Staking. In the ‘Pick Ongoing’ section, you can see contents for the ongoing voting events.

2/ ‘On Pick’ Tag

While you’re browsing ‘For You’ or ‘Tweets’, if the content can be voted for, it will be given a ‘On Pick’ tag.

☑️ Now Start the Pick Process

1/ Pick

When you enter content that can be ‘Picked’, you’ll see a ‘Pick’ button on the right. Click the ‘Pick’ button to start the content voting (Pick) & point staking process.

2/ Stake

Enter the number of points you wish to stake. Staking points is a prerequisite for the ‘Pick’ action. By staking points, you earn voting rights. Once the ongoing ‘Pick’ event concludes, your staked points will be automatically refunded to you.

Total Reward: The total number of points in the pick pool for this current event.
Pickers: The total number of participants in the pick for this current event.
Boost Factor: To encourage everyone to express their true thoughts, we have designed different boost factors for different stages of each piece of content.

This boost factor signifies that when rewards are distributed, the points you’ve staked will be multiplied by this factor for calculation, effectively implying that your original rewards will be multiplied by the boost factor correspondingly.

We intend to encourage everyone to choose whether to ‘invest’ in it according to their personal preferences when the content has not accumulated enough social data, and contribute to its popularity.

3/ Pay the Gas

After entering the number of points to stake, click ‘Pick Now’ and complete the gas payment to finish the voting process.

☑️ Drawing & Claiming Rewards

Once you have completed the content staking and picking, you can find your staking history and current staking status in the ‘My Pick List’ section of your personal center, and claim your rewards (no time limit).

Distribution Rules

The total point pool for each event is a certain amount of additional points provided by ReadON. After each event ends, we will distribute the total pool linearly based on the engagement score of the top ten.

For each content’s staked users, after the content’s reward is determined, we distribute the pool evenly according to the total points staked by the user and the boost factor when the user staked points. That is, the higher the points staked by the user and the higher the boost factor, the more points rewards they will receive. Points of users who did not stake to the top ten will be returned in full.

Engagement Score: The engagement score represents the popularity of the content, calculated based on the interaction data of the content on ReadON App.

☑️ Closed

When a ‘Pick’ event for a natural day ends, we will display the top ten pieces of content in the ‘Closed’ section and disclose the ‘Engagement Score’ of each article. This is akin to a ‘Daily Selections’. We will record and display the ten most popular pieces of content during this period and provide point rewards for the voters of these contents.