Introduction to JokeRace
How JokeRace enables communities and chains to run, grow, and monetize contests
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JokeRace is the contest protocol for communities to run, grow, and monetize by deploying a contest on any EVM chain. Contests enable communities to earn by submitting and voting on entries.
It’s free for you to create a contest, and you can customize who can vote—or let anyone vote by paying per vote. We split charges from entering and voting 90/10 (you keep 90%) so you’ll make money. You can keep it, put them back into the rewards pool to enable self-funded contests, or send to a smart contract that can perform actions on behalf of players.
Use cases include hackathons, game shows, grants, awards ceremonies, “best tweet/meme/essay” competitions, bounties, persuasion games, feature requests, group decisions, elections, amendments, etc. JokeRace has been used by major companies like Polygon, Arbitrum, The Ethereum Foundation, EigenLayer, EthDenver, MegaEth, Boys Club, Celestia, Lens, and Lido by communities that have launched and built natively through the site like Rehash and Crypto Data Bytes, and protocols that have built their own products on top of JokeRace, including Bello, Coinvise, and Stack. All of these have directly or indirectly enabled onchain-native, user-generated marketing onchain projects to run, grow, and monetize.
Some sample use cases:
Mercle made over $22,000 from one contest: the finale for a tournament for best L2.
The applympics created a web3 Product Hunt to block bots and let winners monetize.
Bankless made thousands from users voting who won a debate: Anatoly or Justin Drake
EthDenver let its community nominate and vote on who spoke at the conference
Celestia put together a conference event by letting anyone vote on speakers.
EigenLayer got LSTs to engage over 12,000 voters in deciding which LSTs to support.
Polygon and Arbitrum DAO used JokeRace for grants.
Crowdmuse ran a design contest that generated state-of-the-art fashion
Lens ran a $50k hackathon and demo day where builders earned visibility and reputation
MegaEth ran a hackathon for creators to build reality TV shows on JokeRace
Rehash created a listener-run podcast that leverages onchain data for sponsorships
Crypto Data Bytes created a talent community of top analysts through weekly votes
Lido, Irys, Nim, Jumper, and Cyber made thousands on meme and mascot contests
Thrive let anyone vote to pick Polygon grant recipients—and made ~$5500
Turtle Club held a meme tweet contest to incentivize community to market them on X
Eco distributed 17,000 $ECO in rewards for a feature request contest.
Skate monetized by letting communities buy up votes on which apps to support.
ShapeShift’s Wallet Wars shared charges with winners over 15 bracket competitions.