Merge Request - Referral System Support for Condenser (hive.blog)

Gotta a few hours to spare and added support for the Open Standard for a HIVE Account Referral System to the Condenser frontend which is currently used on https://hive.blog as many of you know.

Since these changes are not live yet and the repository owner has to decide if to accept the merge request or not - I would love to give you an overview about the changes.

Link to Merge Request: https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/condenser/-/merge_requests/70

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Default Beneficiaries For Referred Accounts

When a new account, which was referred before creates a post, the suggested beneficiaries will be default settings now. For all other accounts, nothing will change.

In this sample the following json_metadata where set for the new referred account:

{
   "beneficiaries": [
      {
         "name":"roomservice",
         "weight":300,
         "label":"referrer"
      },
      {
         "name":"tipu",
         "weight":100,
         "label":"creator"
      },
      {
         "name":"hiveonboard",
         "weight":100,
         "label":"provider"
      }
   ]
}

These values are now set as default when creating a post.

Abuse Prevention

I've added some additional rules for the beneficiaries in order to be accepted on condenser:

• Maximum weight for referrer = 300
• Maximum weight for creator = 100
• Maximum weight for provider = 100

If anyone creates an account with higher fees than this, it won't be accepted and not set as a beneficiary.

Opt-Out Option

As a requirement of the Open Standard everyone who was referred by this system, has a choice to opt-out.
I've added such an option to the Preferences where it can be changed at any time.

Test Run

In order to test everything out, I've created a new account @referral-tester where you can inspect all the stuff, which has happened on the chain.

Reference User: https://hiveblocks.com/@referral-tester

Post with Referral System enabled:
https://hive.blog/testing/@referral-tester/test-post-for-open-standard-for-a-hive-account-referral-system

Post with Referral System disabled:
http://localhost:8080/testing/@referral-tester/45keom-test-post-for-open-standard-for-a-hive-account-referral-system

200 HIVE Bounty for the first dApp Adoption still available

As mentioned in my last post I put a 200 HIVE bounty up to the first dApp which integrates the Open Standard for a HIVE Account Referral System. Since it makes no sense to send funds to myself, the bounty is still in place, even if this merge request will be accepted.

Looking Forward

If the Merge Request would be accepted it would be a great success for evolving the Referral System and will create incentives for everybody to onboard new people to HIVE!

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