Now that you know how to set up onchain tasks, let’s look at some strategy considerations for including the tasks into your overall quest design. Scroll down to get started.
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At Galxe, we always encourage our partners to experiment with quest design to see what works best for them in achieving their objectives, and our advice for incorporating onchain tasks into your quest design is no different. Every project and every community is unique, and what works for one may not work for another.
In this way, we don’t believe that there is any one right way to design a quest, but certainly every choice you make will have effects, and every choice you make will have advantages and disadvantages in terms of meeting your objectives. Also, there are some generalized best practice advice that we can offer based on our observations of past quest performance.
In this section we will go over all of the above. Please consider each point carefully as you think about incoporating onchain tasks into your quests.
When onchain tasks are included in a quest, increasing the activity incentivized by the tasks tends to be the main objective of the quest. For this reason, you may think to include the onchain tasks by themselves with no other tasks. While it’s fine to present your onchain tasks in this way, you may also want to consider the experience for any new users who may be exposed to your project for the first time through your quest. For these users, seeing only the list of onchain tasks they must complete may be confusing as they will be unfamiliar with your platform.
With the new user’s experience in mind, it’s a good idea to also have community onboarding tasks active and included in your overall event. To break up the pacing of your quest, you may include these onboarding tasks in a separate quest and have that quest and the onchain task quest together in a quest collection on your Galxe Space. This way you ensure that anyone encountering the quest and your project for the first time will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with your community and project before completing the onchain tasks.
What do we mean by onboarding tasks? Generally what we recommend to onboard new community members and prepare them to do your onchain tasks is:
With such tasks included, you’ll know that all of your participants have a pathway to completing your onchain tasks comfortably.
As one last measure to ease the experience, you may also want to include instructions or links to how-to guides in your onchain task description. That way your participants will have these materials handy when they go to do the tasks.
In addition to having the objective of driving onchain activity through onchain tasks in your quest, you may also have a certain amount of value that you would like to drive. For that reason, you may design your tasks with set minimums in mind, like instead of setting a task to swap any amount of a certain token, you might set a task to swap at least $100 of that token instead.
While setting minimums on your task will result in your quest participants needing to meet those minimums when they verify the task, and therefore motivating some participants to use more funds to complete the quest than the otherwise would have, you must also consider that you are potentially losing participants by setting minimums as well. Simply, some of your potential participants may lack the funds necessary to meet your minimums, or may just be generally turned off by the minimum amounts.
So what’s the solution? When weighing your options in this case, Galxe will generally recommend a balanced approach. What you could do is have both kinds of tasks included in your quest — some with a higher threshold for participation and some with a lower threshold. Those higher threshold tasks could bring with them higher rewards. This way, no one is turned away from the quest for having too little, but for those with the means to commit more funds, they are incentivized to do so. You may also want to consider a combination of both single- and multi-dimensional onchain tasks as another way to reward participants based on to what extent they complete your onchain tasks.
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