Doge Hack Voting Guide

DoraHacks
7 min readOct 29, 2021
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The World’s First Doge Hack is coming! Dorahacks is launching the first DOGE quadratic funding grant by donating 50,000 Dogecoins to the quadratic funding matching pool. Vote today to help incentivize your favourite projects with the most allocated prize and support multi-chain development at HackerLink!

Click here to learn more about Doge Hack

Join us and become a voter @HackerLink today: https://t.me/hackerlinkvoter

Preparation

  • Voting period: Jul 28th to Nov 11th, 2021
  • Vote via HackerLink: https://hackerlink.io/grant/Doge%20Hack/1
  • Owns an account with Metamask, Ledger Live, Infinity Wallet, or Encrypted Wallet.
  • Make sure you have a sufficient DOGE balance in your wallet (check “How to Switch to BSC Mainnet on MetaMask (e.g.)?” for tutorial).
  • Please vote on PC (better via Metamask on Chrome). Voting via mobile may fail.

How to Switch to BSC Mainnet on MetaMask (e.g.)?

  • Add Custom RPC in MetaMask
  • Enter in the BSC Mainnet settings as follows:
  • Network Name: Binance Smart Chain
  • New RPC URL: https://bsc-dataseed.binance.org/ (click here if the URL doesn’t work)
  • Chain ID: 0x38, 56 in decimal (if 56 doesn’t work, try 0x38)
  • Currency Symbol: BNB
  • Block Explorer URL: https://bscscan.com/
View here if you need more guidance

How to Vote?

Tutorial Video Available

1. ClickGrant BUIDLsto view the participating projects.

Left: Doge Hack page & Right: Grant BUIDLs page

2. Click “Vote” to support and choose your wallet. A pop-up notification will appear on your wallet and ask for authorization. Click “Connect” and “Switch network” (If the initialization process is stuck, refresh and reconnect).

3. Once the wallet is connected (the wallet address should appear in the voting interface), key the amount you want to vote and click “Confirm”. The Nth vote will cost N*1 DOGE, so if you’re going to give 3 votes, you need to pay 1+2+3=6 DOGE.

4. Click “Confirm” to finish.

5. After voting, you can check the current project ranking via the leaderboard.

6. Feel free to join the Telegram group: https://t.me/hackerlinkvoter to interact and network with other voters!

Why should YOU become a voter?

  • Contribute to the multi-chain HackerLink ecosystem
  • Incentivize blockchain builders & support entrepreneurship
  • Express the relative strength of personal preferences via the Quadratic Funding mechanism
  • Impact the allocation of 50,000 Dogecoins prize pool

Meet other multi-chain contributors @HackerLink today:https://t.me/hackerlinkvoter

What’s next?

  1. Join us on Telegram for future updates.
  2. Follow Dorahacks on Twitter and Youtube to receive HackerLink news, new video uploads, premieres, and live streams on Hackathon workshops and project demo sessions.

Build ecosystem for the space currency!

What is Quadratic Funding? How does it work?

Quadratic Voting is a voting scheme introduced and often discussed in the Radical Markets community. It is often considered an innovative improvement of the traditional 1-person-1-vote or 1-dollar-1-vote voting schemes. The simplified formula on how quadratic voting functions is:

Cost to the voter = 1+2+3+…+ number of votes DOGE

With such a mechanism, community contributors can vote for their favourite projects and emphasize their preferences through multiple votes. Along with the increased contribution each round, of course.

How would this affect project incentives? Popularity, which is embedded in this mechanism and is comprised of the total number of votes driving the top project with the most allocated prize. Plus, the accumulated DOGE will go directly to the respective project after each round.

Interested to know more about quadratic funding? You can check the Quadratic Funding Algorithm by Vitalik Buterin, or the Quadratic Funding V2 Protocol by Eric Zhang.

For the Chinese version, please view it here.

Frequently Asked Question

0. What if I encounter problems during the voting process?

HackerLink provides voter support in Telegram, join us here.

1. Can I see my voting history?

Voting history is unavailable for voters at the moment. But builders are able to view your address at the end of the hackathon.

However, if you would like to verify the validity of your votes, you are able to view your voting history via block explorer. In this case, you can verify via https://bscscan.com/

2. Can I use bots to mass vote for some project?

Absolutely don’t do this. Botting and other ways of cheating will be detected by our anti-Sybil attack mechanism, which is why a grace period (3–5 days) is being issued for such a purpose. Please keep in mind that botting will NOT grant your supported projects in any stance of superiority nor impact the prize pool distribution in your favour.

3. Can the project with more votes get a bigger share of the prize pool?

According to the Quadratic Funding mechanism, popularity is the basis of the distribution of the prize pool. If a project is supported by more VOTERS (rather than votes), it will receive more prizes by the end.

For e.g, A project with 10 votes from 10 voters will be prized more than a project with 10 votes from fewer voters.

4. Who receives the DOGE I paid?

The votes (or we call “donations”) will go directly to the projects.

5. Why can’t I vote?

Invalid voting may occur for multiple reasons, please ensure that you:

  • Own a sufficient amount of DOGE in your wallet (scroll up to “How to Switch to BSC Mainnet on MetaMask? (e.g.)?” for tutorial).
  • Connected to HackerLink: you should be notified with a pop-up page on your wallet that asks for authorization to connect with HackerLink. Once you authorized the action, your account number should appear in the voting interface.

If the problem still can’t be resolved, please contact Voter Support at Telegram via https://t.me/hackerlinkvoter.

Risk Notifications

Please note that the generated smart contracts from HackerLink will arrange and transfer the donated fund, to conduct quadratic funding algorithms, and distribute contribution funds to the projects of which the voting results in favour. The website cannot guarantee the authenticity, legality and validity of the project, though admins will contact the projects to verify the validity with their best effort. Be aware of the risks and vote rationally. HackerLink or DoraHacks aren’t responsible for any adverse consequences.

If you have any questions, please contact us on Telegram. We would like to hear more from you and let’s keep in touch!

About Doge Hack

Dogecoin and Bitcoin are going to become the space currency — for sure. But there are many pending problems to solve: the blockchain network bandwidth, throughput, speed, security, communication, use cases, inter-planetary consensus algorithms, energy efficiency and sustainability. Other than that, the ecosystem of Dogecoin is critical, therefore, we encourage developers from our communities and beyond to build on Doge, and build its ecosystem.

The market is at another turning point now — we know that DEXes cannot change the world alone. Far from it. If we want to win the long battle, we need to build cryptos into mass adoption.

Making cryptocurrencies widely adopted is critically important. Dogecoin is particularly important because it can become the space currency, which we can spend on Moon, Mars, and even further-away galaxies.

There are a few ideas for your reference, but this hackathon is accepting ALL cool ideas and projects built on Doge.

  1. Doge Infra — build and improve infrastructures for Doge. Wallets, APIs, improvements on the consensus algorithms, throughput, speed, security, etc.
  2. Space Currency — build inter-planetary consensus algorithms, P2P communication technologies, payment technologies, and other infrastructures to allow Dogecoin to be transferred between different planets.
  3. Doge MEMEs — create Doge MEMEs to make Doge even more adorable.
  4. Doge Dapps & Games — build Dapps and games using Doge on Doge blockchain or other bridged blockchains (e.g. Ethereum, BSC, HECO, etc.).
  5. Doge Defi — build Doge Defi solutions for the Doge community. Notably, Dogecoin has the largest community around the world. Doge Swaps, lending protocols, fixed-income protocols and other finance applications can enable the communities do a lot of interesting things.
  6. Doge DAOs, Communities and Media — Build Doge communities, DAOs, and media protocols.

“ In the long run, the real battle is between fiat & crypto.”

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world’s most active developer communities. HackerLink (https://hackerlink.io/en) is DoraHacks’ open-source developer platform and open source curation market. It provides unique on-chain tools to incentivize open-source developments around the world. The platform offers a variety of features including hacker profile, BUIDL, quadratic funding grants, bonding curve, bounties, hackathons to more than 100,000 users around the world.

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