LikeCoin Semi-monthly Progress Update 2020.12.14

One new validator; proposal #7 in discussion; new home for community daily discussion

Edmond (Operations & Marketing)

Insight: Creators are more willing to become Civic Liker. Blogging platforms (Matters, Vocus, Timelog, Medium etc.) > WordPress Individual sites > Media (Standnews, Inmedia, HKCNews)
Conversion rate of /civic page dropped to 0.8% in the past two weeks.
New app download (bi-weekly): 511(+21%), app WAU last week: 1341(+46%). The rise in download rate is due to an exploit attack during 11th and 12th Dec.
Number of Content Jockeys last week: 295 (+20%)
Civic Liker total: 1718; 31new registrations in last two weeks.
Social media (executed by community helper Daisy): 1. Facebook engagement rate of the past three weeks was 4% and page reach was 888. The “shark post” got the highest page reach of 2501 and 6% engagement. 2. Updated gitbook with portfolio page and sync the English translations.

(Difference from 2020.11.23)

Historical data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16vCOjhdeSwumnB9YBVLEdG-9KjJMRytwzRf6peaVGKs
Number of addresses: 17,103 (+658)
Number of transactions: 713,244 (+51,523)
Number of delegated LIKE: ~314,120,000 (+45,320,000), 31.08% of total supply
Number of migrated LIKE: ~730,040,000, migration progress: 83.43%

Finished Stripe related integration for new Civic Liker API.
Helped with Civic Liker 2.0 testing. Fixed some price and quantity calculation issue.
Finished email list feature API for Civic Liker 2.0, demonstrated to team. Need to await future feedback from product and design.
Kicked off ISCN update for LikeCoin WordPress plugin. Will start with fixing current behaviour and integrating needed features from Matters first.
Made a WordPress plugin release fixing some confusing UX about session expire. Also support tagging post tags to Matters.
Setup an ISCN testnet for plugin develop environment

Help with Civic Liker 2.0 launch.
Research how to sign ISCN payload via like.co + Authcore.
Continue to work on ISCN update for WordPress plugin, expect to finish before Feb 2020.

Completed the remaining UI of Civic Liker 2.0, launched an internal test, fixed bugs, and improved subscription flow. (likecoin-app#344, #347)
Started to implement the new creator page.

Prepare to release a new app version to address the 0 gas issue during a transaction. (likecoin-app#237)
Prepare to release Civic Liker 2.0 beta and address the remaining issues.
Continue to work on the new creator page.

Completed the creator page revamp, also modified the old version to become a supplementary page
Reviewed Liker Land flow to be compatible with Civic Liker 2.0
Reviewed and tested on Civic Liker 2.0
Revised and simplified the subscription flow
Designed a template for proposals and community call
Follow up the production of the Stand News flyer

Will design the Civic Liker supporting email
Will continue on testing Civic Liker 2.0
Will modify the Civic Liker introduction page to be compatible with Civic Liker 2.0
Will design a banner photo for Dec newsletter

Community call #202012 conducted to discuss optimal inflation rate.
As a follow up, validator Guanyun has drafted a request-for-comments of Proposal #7 in 3 languages and will collect responses for 3 weeks.
The community has also agreed to do day-to-day discussions on Discord, server managed by validator Leafwind.
1 new validator during the period: Staky.io

Conducted a guest lecture to Hong Kong Baptist University students on Liquid Democracy (2020.11.27)
Conducted a sharing to social workers on how blockchain helps social movements, organized by Society for Innovation and Technology in Social Work (2020.11.28))
Shared LikeCoin and #decentralizehk movement at g0v bi-annual summit (2020.12.06)
Conducted a guest lecture to Hong Kong Polytechnic University students on Liquid Democracy (2020.12.12)