Creative Incentives#
xLog recently launched a creator incentive program with a total amount of 10,000U, aiming to increase the motivation of creators and provide simple but effective positive feedback. Fortunately, I was nominated and received a reward of $Mira Token within the first week of the incentive program. This is also the only direct economic income from my blog articles in recent years.
Following the tutorial, I successfully transferred $Mira from crossbell to Polygon through the cross-chain bridge, and exchanged it for USDC at a 1:1 ratio on Uniswap. Along the way, I also submitted an error log that triggered a 100% native error.
If you are a newcomer, you may encounter some problems during this process, such as not being able to find the Token Address, repeating Gas transactions, or pending issues. Fortunately, Polygon is a place with very low trial and error costs, so it won't make you worry about Gas fees. A small suggestion is to track all actions on a blockchain scanner until completion, instead of simply refreshing and clicking on the front-end page. Crossbell's block explorer, https://scan.crossbell.io/, is quite comprehensive and can be used to track on-chain transaction behavior before the $Mira cross-chain transfer. Interactions on Polygon can also be queried on https://polygonscan.com/.
Text Blog#
At this time, there are many problems faced by text creators on public platforms, and the lack of economic income is one of the most important issues, especially in the Chinese Internet. With the same amount of work, writing short videos quickly (just writing is enough, and Kuaishou can generate videos with one click), writing image-text content on Xiaohongshu and Weibo, or even making medium-length videos on Bilibili, can all earn much higher economic benefits and attention than pure text blogs. Business is cruel, and the majority of mobile Internet users do not have the expectation or ability to read long texts, so the lower the cognitive cost of information flow, the higher the acceptance by the masses.
An opposite example is the academic circle: an industry that has been communicating based on long texts for hundreds of years. This is because all participants are assumed to have expert-level knowledge in relevant fields and trained reading and writing abilities. Perhaps in the future, text blogs will also develop in this direction: expert-level creators, audiences trained in reading, and open platforms without operators and publishers profiting from content. The income of creators will come more from industry opportunities brought by better reputation, rather than directly joining the commercialization of text content.
Token#
In addition, this should also be the first public appearance of the $Mira anchor coin on the crossbell chain. In the early stage of the development of an on-chain ecosystem, I believe that anchoring can effectively reduce the speculation of participants, give everyone a stable income expectation, and avoid the influx of a large number of speculative users. Of course, this also makes dreams of hundredfold coins disappear, which may be more in line with the team's philosophy of stable development of infrastructure, rather than finding a suitable time and place to gamble big.
Token xLog seems to be designed for democratic governance of the community, similar to early $Mirror.
It seems a bit early to discuss the possibility of $RSS3 participating in the crossbell ecosystem, but I am looking forward to that day.
Summary#
Regardless, for individuals, organizing ideas into articles and writing them down is helpful for thinking and expression. I hope everyone can freely write on the open Internet and receive rewards that match the value of their articles.