Why We Stopped Paying Per Like: Building a Bot-Farm-Resistant Reward System for a Meme Feed
How AuraBay will replace pay-per-like with daily pools, human verification, escrow and signed on-chain mints on Avalanche. The first reward rule we shipped for AuraBay fit in one line: when a post gets a like, pay its author 1 Spark. Any developer who has watched a "like-to-earn" app die already knows how that goes. If a like has a fixed price and nothing else stands in the way, a bot farm makes…
AuraBay has abandoned its per-like reward system and is implementing a new reward structure that includes daily pools, human verification, escrow and signed on-chain mints on Avalanche. The previous per-like Spark reward has been removed, but plans are in place to reintroduce it as a small bonus later, subject to the same anti-farming rules.
The new system relies on daily pools, weighted actions, verified human tiers, a reputation multiplier, escrow with clawbacks, and an on-chain mint gated by a server signature. The core idea is to first establish daily pools, and then determine the rewards based on the activity within those pools.
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