Introduction

1UP is an open-source hivemind curation system for communities with equal votes. It directs upvotes to the highest voted posts and optimizes community trailing for higher curation rewards. 1UP will use its own Smart Media Token (SMT) entirely vor voting and distribute that to a large degree via airdrops and bounties to the Steem community. 1UP is aiming to become a decentralized managed platform without any company ownership.

The founder of 1UP is @flauwy, creator of the animated Steemy videos and the @smartbee. The main developer is @stoodkev, witness and creator of the popular @steem-plus browser extension.

What Solves 1UP?

Problem 1: Votes Are Not Equal

The Steem blockchain is designed to give larger Steem Power holders equally larger upvote power. This leads to the majority of upvotes being basically worthless and without any further effect to help the upvoted author.

Problem 2: Low Curation Rewards

Communities and curation services often use trails to upvote with a big community account and then send the trailers afterwards. This creates unfavorable curation rewards for the trailers and makes trailing often a bad decision in terms of returns.

Problem 3: Finding Good Content Is Hard

Steemit is not making it easy to find good content. Promotion services boost any post to the hot and trending page while quality content has often no chance to be discovered if the author is new and unexperienced.

Problem 4: Problematic Steem Distribution

The distribution of Steem is skewed and finding support for a project or community is more and more difficult as the demand is rising and much of the Steem Power in the hand of a few. Supporting a community or project is also often traded by users for selling their votes for better returns which lowers the available Steem Power for quality content.

Solution: The 1UP Smart Media Token (UP Token)

Users will find the filtered content from all participating communities sorted by their 1UPs which creates a totally new way to discover quality content via hivemind curation. Every user has ten daily 1UPs to give to any post in any community the like. All upvotes done via 1UP will be equal and split among different communities. The daily ten highest upvoted posts in each eligible community will be upvoted by a smart community trail that puts the biggest votes to the end and frontruns the final @steem-1UP account upvote. This will increase the curation rewards for the community supporters and makes it more profitable to curate in general.

The Smart Media Token distribution will favor the Steem community by using the new User Authority (UA) for our planned airdrop. This will put much more UP tokens in the hands of the average Steemians compared to a 1:1 Steem Power airdrop. The large community bounty system will allow community accounts to acquire substantial amounts of 1UP to continuously support their best members with large 1UP-votes. And individual users can also earn out of the large user bounty system by delegating, promoting and supporting. As the entire 1UP system will be only used for curating and not create any content of its own, the entire reward pool of the SMT will be controlled by the 1UP application and directed by the 1UP-voters.

Functionality

Communities & Trailing

Communities are usually connected with a tag from the Steem blockchain. They can also be made entirely via black and whitelists of users. And when the hivemind protocol from Steemit will be implemented on the blockchain we will potentially base the 1UP communities on that foundation.

All users can select one or several communities for the smart 1UP frontrunning with their own voting power. They can select how much of the daily available power shall be used and let 1UP do the rest. This will be one of the most important features of 1UP and supported by features like statistics for curation hunters. We want to make 1UP a great tool for improving curation rewards.

Each community gets its own community page with the current 1UP ranking list and a timer that counts down every 2.4 hours. At the end of the timer the highest post will be upvoted by the smart 1UP community trail and finally by an upvote from the @steem-1up account itself. Posts will be sortable by other filters as well. The best recent and all-time-high posts will also be easy to find to further improve their visibility.

Each new community will begin on level zero without any upvotes from the @steem-1up account. They can level up through upvotes within their community with 1UPs. More about this functionality in our planned Utopian/Fundition blog series soon. To be able to upvote communities right from the start we will upgrade ten pre-selected communities right from the start.

1UP-Voters

To find out who is eligible for giving 1UPs to other people’s post we will implement the API from User Authority (UA) that is also being used for the @steem-ua upvoter. With that new alternative reputation score we can counter the abuse of a 1-account-1-vote systems and via a hivemind algorithm of trust. We will use a certain minimum threshold of UA to define the entry level for 1UP users.

Each user gets exactly ten 1UPs every day. They can spend them in any community on any post of their choice. It is up to them to decide whether they split their 1UPs upon several communities or put them all into one (not more than one per author though). If they find posts that others like as well and even win a 1UP round then all upvoters get a certain Quality Score. The highest Quality Scores of the day will be rewarded with extra upvotes from 1UP (bounties during the Pre-SMT phase), giving an incentive to curate and find new quality content.

The 1UP Token

For a perfect control over the curation we will create the UP token to have a Steem-based economy in which we will control to reward pool entirely through proof-of-hivemind. The UP economy will be entirely based on upvoting content on Steem and SMT projects and not feature any own content. To become a fully functional voting platform we will start the pre-SMT phase with an attractive bounty system to keep the interest and support high.

The goal of 1UP is to create something like a staking coin for Steemians that constantly grows their stake while supporting the Steem communities of your choice. The entire distribution will aim to empower Steemians and communities which is why there will be no ICO and only the development costs needs to be funded. We will create 280 Million UP tokens, which mirrors the current Steem supply. Out of this pool we will distribute 195M UPs to the Steem community in various ways. Below you can see the planned distribution for which we don't plan any ERC-20 token prior to the actual release of UP:

65M Airdrop For Steemians Based On UA

The 65M airdrop for Steemians will be based on their UA score mentioned above. That way we will be able to distribute voting power to everyone who has made Steem great and create a new power balance for the UP token from the root up. This will enable the majority of users to get more UP tokens than they hold in Steem Power, increasing their future influence on the Steem blockchain.

65M Bounty System For User

With the start of the 1UP app in October we will release our bounty system for delegators, promotors and users. You will be able to earn daily UP tokens for many different forms of supporting and participating in 1UP. The idea is to create a working system and strong community by making everyone earning a fair share.

65M Bounty System For Communities

1UP is all about communities and therefore we will airdrop 65M tokens on the communities run via 1UP. All 1UPs given to any community will count towards their 1UP score. At the end of the Pre-SMT phase, at somepoint in March 2019, we will distribute these tokens to all communities according to their 1UP score. How that excatly will take place will be decided by the 1UP community to find the best approach together.

15M For The 1UP Team And 40M For 1UP

55M goes to 1UP from which 15M will go to the inner circle of 1UP. And 40M will be locked in the @steem-1UP account for making it a constant super-whale (Megalodon?).

30M For Private Investors

Out of this pool we will pay our private investors who helped to finance the development. This is also the pool that we use to reward all backers of the Fundition campaign.

Fundition Rewards

Among all donaters of this Fundition campaign we will distribute 6 Million UP tokens out of the private investor pool. The campaign will continue until we have reached our two goals but if more donations come we will accept them gladly. The 6M UP tokens will be paid to the donaters 1UP wallets after the app is released. This means you can donate any amount that feels right to you without worrying about different rewards.

Discplaimer: the UP token is no security and this is no ICO. 1UP cannot and will not guarantee anything. We will base our Smart Media Token on the protocol from Steemit, which is expected for March 24th, 2019. We cannot create the UP token without that protocol, With your donations you simply finance the development of the app which is functional even without the SMT. The reward is merely a way to make it more interesting for you and give back to our supporters.

Community

We are building a strong community to manage 1UP as decentralized as possible. Please join our Discord channel and become part of 1UP one way or another. Collaborators are also welcome to post their ideas, concerns, suggestions and general thoughts about 1UP, using that special Fundition functionality.