[WIP] Democratic Chess - pays players to play. Critique my tokenomics?

[Bray_marcelo]

So that's exactly what I'm putting together now - a polished OP plus the campaign to keep it active, rather than letting it stall on page two.
This is about getting the pieces in place, not waiting on Google; the public launch and the ANN will land together, with real weight behind them.

Moving to Base was definitely the right call for the gas mechanics.
One thing I'd keep an eye on before launching the bounty campaign is infrastructure. Bounties tend to bring a large spike in traffic, along with plenty of automated activity trying to game the system.
Since your chess mechanics mint tokens based on in-game actions, RPC performance could become a bottleneck during peak periods. Public endpoints often struggle once activity starts ramping up, so it's worth stress-testing everything ahead of launch.
We've seen similar issues with gaming and dApp projects before, which is why at Crouton Digital we usually recommend dedicated RPC capacity for launches expected to attract a large user wave.
Hopefully you've already accounted for that, but it's something many projects underestimate. Looking forward to seeing the ANN thread when it goes live.

[democratic_chess]

Thanks, Bray_marcelo - fair point on peak load. It's something I've accounted for: most in-app actions run off-chain in a closed-loop currency, with on-chain settlement only at withdrawal, so the RPC surface under load is narrower than a fully on-chain design. For the initial campaign, the expected concurrency is modest, but stress-testing ahead of the public launch is solid advice, and it's on the list. Appreciate you flagging it.

[coupable]

And on that note - since several of you here clearly know this space well: who would you recommend as a campaign manager for a project like this? I'm open to names of managers who've run solid, well-organized campaigns, and happy to do my own due diligence from there.
Recommendations from people whose judgment I already trust in this thread carry a lot of weight.
Keep the feedback coming - this momentum is exactly what makes a launch land.

Thank you so much for trusting us. Personally speaking, I am so enthusiastic about this project because I am an active chess player playing daily in both chess.com and Lichess and want to see chess games and cryptocurrencies both merged in one great application.

About the campaign manager, I can recommend this list[1] of most trusted and active campaign managerial services. All of them are trusted forum users with excellent background knowledge about how things work in Bitcointalk, but I can't tell about their understanding of chess or if they are interested in managing campaigns for newly launched altcoins. You will have to negotiate everything before moving forward.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5575671.0

[democratic_chess]

Thank you, coupable, for both the list and the kind words.
It means a lot that you're this invested, and honestly, your motivation (an active player who wants chess and crypto merged properly) is exactly the kind of person this is built for.
The list is genuinely useful - I'll go through it carefully. I've already opened a conversation with one experienced manager from an earlier part of the thread, so I'm comparing options and, as you said, negotiating everything before committing.
Your point about most managers not necessarily knowing chess is well taken - that's part of why I'm taking it slow and getting the groundwork right first.
Appreciate you continuing to back this. More soon.
Daniel