This is a pretty experimental release.

boost changes

1. the highest boost in a territory over the last 30 days is pinned to the top of it
2. the highest boost across all territories is pinned to the top of the homepage and rewards page
3. all items can be boosted indefinitely
   • your own posts and comments now have a flipped bolt (distinguishing them from other posts), allowing you to boost them beyond the edit window
4. the job board is now ranked by boost
   • territories with an "auction" ranking system (only ~jobs can do this currently), use boost to rank posts in hot

The hope in general is this serves as a significant revenue source for territory founders.

70% of fees go to territory founders

Previously, founders got 50% of fees in their territories with the other 50% going to the rewards pool. Now, they get 70% of the fees (posts, comments, boost, zap sybil fees) and 30% goes to the rewards pool.

30% sybil fee is taken on zaps

Previously, we took 10% of zaps for ranking sybil resistance. This is insufficient for real sybil resistance. People still sybil zap their own subpar content at 10% so we've increased this to 30%. 10% isn't a whole lot for the outbound route for p2p zaps either.

As always, that sybil fee that's left over from the territory founders revenue goes to rewards.

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