Creators Program

The Creators program incentivizes the growth of the COTI community through high-impact content creation.

Both individuals and entities can apply for grants consisting of COTI tokens to fund your content creation activities.

You can find more details on the allocated COTI tokens per content type on this page here.

The type of content we’re looking for to be created consists of, but is not limited to:

• Explainer Videos: Create whiteboard videos, educational videos, tutorial videos of how to build on top of the COTI V2 developer network, and more.

• Short-form Videos: Create short videos about COTI to be shared on YouTube, X, TikTok and other social media platforms.

• Newsletters: Create and distribute an unofficial COTI newsletter covering the latest developments in the COTI ecosystem.

• Articles: Write articles about industry comparisons, tutorials, use cases, deep dives into privacy in Web3, and COTI’s role in Web3 privacy, etc.

• Infographics: Design infographics to visually explain COTI’s tech stack, ecosystem, use-cases or any other initiative or idea you may have.

• COTI Content Aggregator — Manage and promote a dedicated platform or account that aggregates and highlights existing content about COTI.

• Discord and Telegram Bots: Create and deploy bots useful to the COTI community, such as bots dedicated to share data and information about COTI, or to increase engagement in the COTI community.

• Podcast: Host a podcast series discussing blockchain privacy trends, featuring interviews with experts and COTI team members.

• Translation and Localization: Translate COTI’s materials (such as white paper, decks, etc) into languages such as Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and more. Produce non-English explainer videos, provide voice overs for existing videos, and more.

• Research: Conduct academic and non-academic research on COTI’s technology and use cases.

We highly encourage those with a high follower count and access to large distribution channels to apply. We’re also allocating a bonus to creators whose content becomes popular and receives high engagement as described here. You’ll easily spot these special tasks on Notion with a distinctive marking.

These are just a couple examples, your creativity is the limit! You can see more examples on this page.

How to participate in the COTI Creators program

To participate in the Creators program, please fill in this form, where you will be asked for:

• Your email address

• Telegram handle and / or X handle

• Content category (Video, infographic, article, translation, etc.)

• What goal does your content achieve? (awareness, educational, simplifying explanations, art, etc)

• Amount requested and justification (costs, time, software etc)

• Timeline — by when you expect it to be ready

• How do you expect to amplify your content? (follower count, distribution channels)

Criteria of the COTI Creators Program

To judge each application, there will be a committee composed of team and community members.

At a high level we’ll be judging each submission according to accuracy and creativity. But as is the case with content, a lot will be subjective, specific to the content type, and judged on a case by case basis.

But here are a couple tips when making COTI content you should take into account:

• Be creative and original

• Be accurate and informative

• Don’t speculate on COTI token price

• Always use high visual and audio quality

• Respect intellectual property and copyright

• Don’t create polarizing or offensive content