Hi friends, welcome to issue #11 of our Bonfire product updates!

First off, we know we've been slacking recently on getting these updates out - we're not ghosting you, we've just been swamped with some really exciting stuff that we're justtt about ready to share. We'll start to share some sneak peeks in our Discord this week, but if you're reading this you're in the right place for a big reveal soon 👀. And going forward we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming. Appreciate you bearing with us!

And if you're just joining, this newsletter goes out weekly (as long as we have something important to say) and highlights new product features, cool use cases we're seeing from around the community, and the occasional drop or giveaway. You can find our past issues here.

Product Updates

💅 Visual Refresh

We've recently partnered with a 🔥 design studio to help us out with look and feel, so you'll be seeing visual improvements throughout the product experience, starting with a brand new design for items in the Store. If you currently have items listed in your store, check it out to make things looks good, and let us know what you think!

What's Next

Given we've been relatively quiet recently, we wanted to use this issue to preview and start sharing more on a few of the exciting things we have coming up over the next few months!

💰 Bounties v2 & Engage-to-Earn

We see Engage-to-Earn as a critical part of unlocking the full potential of social tokens, and helping onboard the next wave to web3. Since launching the Bounty Board feature, we've seen some promising hints at the potential of bounties to incentivize valuable community contributions, and engage members through offering ways to earn tokens in addition to purchasing them. However, we know there's still a ton more to do here, so we'll be focusing on a variety of improvements and new features related to bounties:

• Visual & performance improvements throughout the feature

• The ability to make bounties public or private, as well as the ability to token-gate bounties

• And, maybe most excitingly... a 🐦 Twitter Integration to enable you to offer bounties on retweets and engagement on Twitter! This will be our 1st test towards integrating with 3rd party platforms to enable more powerful bounty options, so expect us to iterate on this feature and use it as a proof-of-concept for other bounty integrations in the future

🎥 Token-Gated Content

We've started building out Token-Gated Content! This will enable you to build multimedia content libraries/feeds accessible only to your token-holders. This is a huge project and one we expect to be core to Bonfire over the long-term, so we'll be building and shipping it in phases. The MVP, launching around the end of the year, will focus on musicians and audio content, enabling musicians to create a token-gated music library.

If you'd like to be part of this pilot and help us design this first use case, respond to this email and let us know!

⛲️ White-labeling

Since launch, one of the most commonly requested features is to have more options around white-labeling the product (e.g. hosting your Bonfire page at a custom domain) or integrating it into an existing website. Both are coming 🥳

Cool Use Cases

($KLD and $MONTY Bounties)

This week we're highlighting a couple of cool bounties we came across, by $KLD and $MONTY! Kloud's rewarding members who help crowdsource his Wikipedia article, while Scott's rewarding members contributing to the discussion around his newsletter. Engage🤝Earn

As always, don't hesitate to respond to this email with any questions, feedback, or requests!

Until next time,

Bonfire Team