{
  "id": 13009532,
  "title": "Why We Stopped Paying Per Like: Building a Bot-Farm-Resistant Reward System for a Meme Feed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/why-we-stopped-paying-per-like-building-a-bot-farm-resistant-reward",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-09T02:40:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/meteor_network/why-we-stopped-paying-per-like-building-a-bot-farm-resistant-reward-system-for-a-meme-feed-18ip"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [
    "AuraBay stops per-like reward system",
    "Implements daily pools, human verification, escrow, signed on-chain mints",
    "Plans to reintroduce Spark reward as small bonus later"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}