How is SatDrop different from other Points Programs?

Tl;dr: More Transparency of Rewards and Managing Participants’ Expectations accordingly

Background

Traditionally, points programs are brilliant ways to bootstrap on-chain and off-chain activity for a newly launched protocol. In exchange for the points, participants typically would swap their accumulated points for the new token following the token generation event (TGE).

Considering the facts that the $PSTAKE token’s TGE was in 2021, it trades on leading CEXs and DEXs like OKX, Bybit, Kraken, KuCoin, Bitget, Uniswap, Aerodrome, etc., and is ~95% unlocked, SatDrop significantly differs from other points programs in crypto in terms of rewards and transparency.

SatDrop Rewards

The pSTAKE protocol governance will allocate a certain % of the $PSTAKE supply as rewards to distribute to SatDrop participants. The total rewards pool ($PSTAKE tokens) will be visible to everyone from the beginning of the SatDrop.

The pSTAKE Team will reveal the exact mechanism for converting pSats to $PSTAKE tokens during a particular Season for complete transparency. This will depend on the total BTC staked with pSTAKE during the season.

User Research

While deciding the rewards mechanism for SatDrop, we’ve done extensive research by speaking to our existing users, Bitcoin community members, participants of other points programs, KOLs in the space, and more to better understand pain points.

We gathered that the most crucial aspect of any points program is not the gamification element or how it looks. Instead, the most essential aspect relies heavily on the expectation of ‘Efforts:Rewards’ ratio.

The general feedback we received was that this ratio was extremely high. Due to a lack of transparency, people needed to do more work to receive less-than-expected rewards.

With SatDrop, we’re committed to transparency. It provides all participants with a clear understanding of what to expect and the various ways to get rewards.