I’ve been in crypto for 4 years. I’ve written articles for different protocols, created countless threads and tweets, and spent probably 100+ hours contributing in Discord servers however I can.
You know what I have to show for it?
Absolutely nothing.
Well, that’s not entirely true. I have:
- Some Discord messages that’ll be gone when the server inevitably implodes
- Articles buried in Medium that nobody reads anymore
- Twitter threads that got decent engagement but zero attribution
- Vague memories of helping people who don’t remember me
Every time I join a new community, I’m starting from zero. Again. It’s exhausting.
The Irony That Made Me Write This
Here’s the brutal part: This exact thing happened with Intuition itself.
I created the 10-day Trust University series. Educational content, daily posts, trying to help people understand the protocol. I did a photo challenge where I related a picture I shot every day to Intuition concepts. Creative, consistent, time-consuming.
Months went by. No role upgrades. Meanwhile, I watched people who joined after me get recognized. Newbies getting roles while my contributions just… sat there.
I’m not salty about it (okay, maybe a little). But it perfectly illustrates the problem: Even in communities explicitly about reputation, valuable work goes unseen.
Why? Because there’s no systematic way to track it. Someone has to notice. Someone has to remember. Someone has to advocate for you. And if they don’t, your work might as well not exist.
This is exactly what I’d use Intuition to solve:
Making valuable contributions actually stick to you.
The Real Problem (Without the BS)
Here’s what happens constantly:
You’re in a DAO Discord. Someone asks
“hey, can someone explain this mechanism in simple terms?” You spend 30 minutes writing a clear breakdown, making it accessible for newcomers. Five people react with 
emojis.
Two weeks later, you apply to do content work for another DAO.
They ask: “Do you have experience explaining complex topics?”
Me: “Yeah, I’ve helped several communities”
Them: “Can you show us?”
Me: “…uh, let me find that Discord message from 2 months ago in a server you’re not in?”
This is insane.
I write for a living in this space, but I can’t actually prove half the valuable work I do because it disappears into Discord threads and community channels.
What I’d Actually Build with Intuition
The “I Actually Did This” Feed
Imagine every time you do something valuable, there’s a trace. Not just a receipt, a verifiable claim that others can back up.
Real scenario from my Intuition experience:
I created a 10-day educational series. Daily content about trust, reputation, how the protocol works. I did a creative photo challenge connecting everyday moments to Intuition concepts.
What actually happened:
The posts went up. Some people probably saw them. Maybe a few found them helpful. But there’s no persistent record that I’m “someone who creates educational content” or “someone who thinks creatively about the protocol.”
When role decisions got made, I wasn’t in the room. Nobody was staking their reputation on “this person consistently contributes value.” It just didn’t register.
What should’ve happened with Intuition’s own protocol:
1. Each post I made could be attested to: “This person created educational content about trust mechanics”
2. People who found it helpful could stake on it
3. After 10 days of consistent content, there’d be a verifiable pattern
4. The photo challenge would show “creative thinking about protocol concepts”
5. All of this would compound into a reputation graph anyone could see
No more hoping someone notices. No more work disappearing into the void. Just a growing, verifiable record of contributions.
This is the meta-irony:The protocol designed to solve reputation problems couldn’t track my contributions to itself.
The Use Case Nobody’s Talking About: Micro-Credentials That Actually Matter
Forget fancy degrees and LinkedIn endorsements (sorry, but “endorsed for: Web3 Marketing” from someone you’ve never met is worthless).
Here’s what I want:
A reputation graph that shows ACTUAL WORK.
Not just “Alice writes content” but:
- Alice created educational content that 50 people found helpful (staked attestations)
- 12 people she explained concepts to went on to contribute to other projects (they attest back)
- She’s written articles for 5 different protocols (verifiable, with project attestations)
- Her explanations in 40+ Discord threads were marked helpful (community stakes)
- She consistently shows up and contributes across multiple communities
This compounds. Each attestation makes the next one more valuable. It’s like a portfolio but for everything, everywhere, and actually portable.
The Part That Gets Me Excited: Anti-Ghosting
You know what sucks? Ghosting.
Not dating ghosting (though that sucks too), I mean contribution ghosting.
Examples:
- You write an article that helps a project articulate their vision. It does well. They forget you wrote it.
- You craft a thread that explains a complex topic simply. Gets shared everywhere. Your name falls off.
- You spend hours in Discord helping community members understand concepts. No record you were the one teaching.
With Intuition, those people can attest to your contribution LATER, even years later, and it retroactively builds your reputation graph.
A project I wrote for in 2022 could attest in 2025: “This person helped us explain our protocol and it was crucial to our early growth.” That attestation is now part of my verifiable history.
This fixes the attribution problem that makes so much valuable work invisible.
Real Talk: The Awkward Stuff
Here’s what I’d actually use this for that sounds kind of mercenary but we’re all trying to make a living:
1. Getting paid what I’m worth
Right now when someone asks about my rates for content work, there’s this dance. With a robust Intuition profile, I just send a link. They can see 50 people have staked that I explain things clearly, 30 people confirm I’m reliable and meet deadlines, 15 projects I’ve worked with attest to quality work.
No more “let me send you my portfolio”. Just verifiable proof.
2. Filtering opportunities
When someone reaches out, I can check their Intuition profile too. Have they actually worked with other writers? Do people attest to them paying on time and being good to work with? Or is this another “we’ll pay you in tokens bro” situation?
It goes both ways. Reputation becomes two-sided.
3. Building in public, for real
Every article, every helpful Discord message, every thread that resonates, it can become part of a persistent reputation. “Building in public” stops being performative Twitter posts and becomes an actual verifiable record of consistent contribution.
The Messy Middle: How This Actually Works
I’m not going to pretend I’ve figured out all the game theory. But here’s roughly how I imagine using this:
When I help someone:
“Hey, if this was useful, would you attest to it on Intuition? You can stake like $20 on it.”
Most people in crypto would say yes. It costs them basically nothing, and if I helped them, they want to help back.
Over time:
These stack up. 50 small attestations become a pattern. The stakes add up. New people can see “oh, 30 different people across 5 different communities were willing to bet money this person consistently creates valuable content.”
When I need to prove something:
Instead of explaining my background for the 100th time, I just share my Intuition profile. “Here’s a graph of everything I’ve done, verified by people who were actually there.”
Why This Matters More Than It Sounds
I stopped contributing to Intuition’s community for a while. Not out of anger—just exhaustion.
Why put in the work if nobody sees it? Why create another educational series if it doesn’t move the needle on your standing in the community?
And here’s the thing: this happens everywhere, in every community, constantly.
Right now, reputation in crypto is:
- Who’s loudest in the Discord
- Who’s friends with the mods
- Who has the most followers
- Pure vibes and visibility politics
Intuition could make reputation:
- Based on actual, verifiable contributions
- Tracked systematically, not by human memory
- Cumulative, not dependent on who’s watching
- Portable across every community
The biggest impact? It makes valuable contributions visible even when nobody’s paying attention.
Right now, so much good work disappears because there’s no record. The person who wrote that helpful explanation. The community member who always shows up to answer questions. The writer who made complex things accessible. The contributor doing unglamorous work in Discord.
All that value just evaporates if you’re not in the right channels at the right time with the right people noticing.
With Intuition, it sticks. It compounds. It becomes provable.
Even if I’d stopped contributing after day 3 of Trust University, those 3 days would still be verifiable. The work would still count.
What I’d Ship Tomorrow If I Could
If Intuition were live today, here’s what I’d build:
A browser extension that lets you attest to anything, anywhere.
See a helpful tweet? Attest: “This person explained [topic] clearly.”
Someone helps you in Discord? Attest: “Helped me understand [concept].”
Read a great article? Attest: “This person writes clearly about [subject].”
Each attestation is small. But 100 small attestations paint a picture. 1000 paint a career.
And here’s the key: you’d stake a little on each one. Not life-changing money—maybe $10-50. Enough that you wouldn’t do it unless you actually meant it.
That’s the reputation system I want to live in.
One where the helpful explanation I wrote, the thread I crafted, the Discord answer I gave, all of it actually counts for something beyond a fleeting “thanks!”
The Bottom Line
I’m tired of being professionally invisible despite doing visible work.
I’m tired of rebuilding trust from scratch every time I switch contexts.
I’m tired of valuable contributions evaporating into the void.
Intuition could fix this. Not with fancy AI or complex mechanisms, just with simple, stakeable attestations that persist and compound.
That’s the use case: Making good work count.
Everything else is just implementation details.
If you found this interesting, that itself is a signal. In an Intuition world, you could attest to it. And that would be worth something to both of us.
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