It's a common practice for on-site teams to be able to celebrate the work they've done together after shipping. We wanted to create a similar experience for distributed, open-source, teams to celebrate their wins and to celebrate each other.

Kudos is a way to celebrate the relationships that have been built. Kudos is meant to bootstrap reputation on Gitcoin.

How very astute of you to notice that.

To mint a new kudos, follow these steps.

1. Post an idea to https://github.com/gitcoinco/kudosbadges/issues/new
2. Get it prioritized with Mladen, our designer
3. We run a script which will create the ERC721

If & once the demand for kudos increases, we would like to create a decentralized marketplace where Artists can make a living by creating new Kudos art. The above minting process is a stopgap.

Great question. Because

1. they're a product wizard
2. they're a hero
3. they've got heart
4. they're a builder of a better world

and they need to know it.

When a new Kudos is created, the ETH sent during that minting process is directly sent to the illustrator who created the Kudos artwork. In some cases, Gitcoin may also take a 10% fee to help keep the lights on.

When you send a kudos, you are making an attestation about an attribute of the person who controls a web3 address.

Technically speaking, the attestation is an Ethereum transaction of a non-fungible token (NFT) being sent from a sender to a receiver

When you send a kudos through the Gitcoin UI, you are sending the NFT to a secure proxy web3 address.

The recipient can decide to accept it or reject it.

For convenience, the recipient may elect to automatically accept Kudos in the future to forego the acceptance process.

We made this kudos just for you!

Kudos is governed by two things:

1. The state & functionality of the smart contract.

2. Social norms.

By virtue of the state & functionality of the smart contract (1), you can absolutely send a Kudos to yourself. Just like you can stand in front of a group of people and publicly compliment yourself.

By virtue of social norms (2), you might think twice.

Kudos is a decentralized smart contract that any dapp can leverage on the same terms as Gitcoin Core. For more information, checkout get in touch over at https://github.com/OpenKudos/ or email founders@gitcoin.co

We are partial to:

1. mad scientist
2. red stapler
3. resilience
4. creative cat

The voice on the Kudos Marketing Video is @coderberry AKA "emceee booming barotone". He loves it if you tweet at him and say hi!

Checkout this Technical FAQ, and also checkout the smart contract.