Reward useful activity.
Research recommendation · Not an active campaign.
The recommended model
Use a fixed-budget season with separate tracks for returning traders, productive integrations, and verified contributions. Publish the rules before earning begins. Avoid a raw-volume race that rewards repeated self-directed trades.
Season 0: prove the experience
Recognize verified bug reports, completed onboarding feedback, useful documentation, and reproducible integration tests. Testnet volume earns no economic rewards: faucet-funded transactions are too cheap to manufacture.
Mainnet season: measure before paying
Begin only after settlement, transaction attribution, pricing, and abuse checks work. Count each final swap once by chain and transaction identity. Score the user input once, not every hop. Exclude approvals, failed transactions, team test wallets, and duplicate index records.
Use capped eligible volume and capped active-week credit. Value trades only when a reliable contemporaneous price exists. Low-risk stable loops need separate economics; do not blindly apply the same reward rate to every pair.
Proposed budget discipline
For an initial funded pilot, allocate a candidate budget of 60% to retained traders, 25% to partner integrations, and 15% to verified contributions. These weights are a starting hypothesis, not published campaign terms.
Before launch, model whether a participant can recover fees, gas, and execution costs through cycling trades or splitting wallets. Concave scores alone can reward wallet splitting. Cap the total subsidy, combine abuse signals, and validate allocations in a non-paying trial first.
Referrals and bots
Pay referral rewards from an explicit share of eligible net fee revenue after settlement and a review period. Disallow self-referral. Trading automation is not automatically abuse: legitimate bots belong in an integration track, while circular farming should not earn retail rewards.
Fair review
Show pending, eligible, and excluded activity with understandable reasons and an appeal path. A shared funding source alone is not proof of common ownership. Keep public rules stable within a season; publish changes prospectively.
What success means
Measure four-week retention, returning funded traders, successful attributable volume, net revenue after incentives, execution quality, and partner reuse. Wallet count and headline volume alone are insufficient.
Research behind this proposal
Jupiter’s historical Jupuary 2025 explanation combines activity duration, swap scoring, circular-trade filtering, and appeals. It demonstrates useful safeguards, not proof that its exact thresholds suit Arc. Its Dominion campaign illustrates a bounded sponsored budget, though a volume leaderboard would need stronger controls for our goals.
No single points system is proven best for this product. The recommendation prioritizes durable usage and bounded costs over temporary token speculation.