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How Gaming Helped Us 🌱Reinvent Whitelisting

In this section, we explain our second key differentiator. It innovates the whitelisting process for DeFi launchpads, making it more transparent and predictable. Finally, we present how whitelisting works in ScaleSCORE and shade light on its key dimensions (or score calculation criteria).

The big problem with the current DeFi whitelisting is that, together with all the coolness and new opportunities, it inherited all the clumsiness and scams from the “bounty programs” and “airdrops” of the good old ICO days [Vermaak 2]. Most of the existing whitelisting mechanics are based on lottery only. They measure (and reward) customer loyalty only in the number of tokens a user holds or stakes, which directly correlates to the user's wealth. We consider this not a meaningful measurement of loyalty.

Additionally, this approach alienates a thinking person and invites the “chimpanzee effect.” We thought we could improve the way things are. Interestingly, our inspiration came from one of the oldest computer technologies [King].

Since the Dungeon, running on PDP mainframes back in the 1970-s, up until the World of Warcraft, the in-game rating was an essential feature, driving player satisfaction, game mechanics, and the gaming industry forward. It even once got the World of Tanks to the FT frontpage [Cienski] and various other MMOGs to multi-billion dollars valuation [Statista 2]. But let’s start by explaining the whitelisting procedure.