The Contributor Program is a way for leaders in the community to step up and help push Connext forward in different ways. Connext’s official announcement gives you a detailed explanation of what the Contributor Program is. Here’s a summary:

The Contributor Program is a community incentive program designed to encourage community members of different backgrounds and skillsets to steward and take ownership of key aspects of our ecosystem. The program consists of 5 Tracks (Community Leadership, Builders, Content & Education, Routers, and Grants), that are operated by Track Operators, experienced leaders within the community that are not part of the core team.

Participants of the program will be given points based on the quality of their contributions to the ecosystem using evaluation criteria developed by Track Operators. When the NEXT token goes live, we plan to submit a proposal to the Connext DAO to retroactively reward participants proportional to points received.

Be sure to join Connext's official Discord server to receive updates about the Content & Education track: https://discord.gg/connext, you can find us in the channel #router-track

Routers are the liquidity and infrastructure providers of the Connext network. Their main purpose is to relay funds and calldata across chains. In exchange, they receive fees for their services.

The application process consists of several steps. You must complete all of these steps to participate:

1. Join our discord.
2. Fill out the Contributor Program application form.
3. After completing the form you will be sent an email with a KYC link and a document to sign.
4. The KYC process can take up to 24 hours to complete - if approved, you will receive an email confirming your acceptance into the program.

Router Track participants will have the possibility to send proposals to build various tools for the Router community, that will improve the Router experience. Head out to "proposals" directory within this repository and create a .md file with your github handle, an example of a file would be: "fmanea.md".

The content of the file should contain the discord handle of the participant (or if it's a group of people working on a big feature, their discord handles). Also, the content of the file should contain any kind of proposal that you would want to build.

Note: We will accept pull requests only if the .md file matches the github handle

Head out to "submissions" directory within this repository and create a .md file with your Github handle, an example of a file would be: "fmanea.md".

The content of the file should contain the discord handle of the participant (or if it's a group of people working on a big feature, their discord handles). Also. all the submissions and work that a Router track participant has made should be written in that file.

Note: We will accept pull requests only if the .md file matches the github handle

Each week there will be some missions for the Router Track participants in which they will be rewarded with some points for delivering that activity.

1. Spinning up a router on the testnet (10-30 points that depends on feedback /improvements proposals)
2. Choose the activity which you intend to work on over the course of the program (5 points)
3. Answer questions and help others to run router in this Discord channel (1-10 points)

Key evaluation criteria are quality (for docs/ guides/mentoring) and impact (for improvement proposals, feedback and tools). Connext should aim to be a self served platform also for routers, and we need to make sure documentations and guides serve this purpose.

1. Video guide with a step-by-step running router in any language (5-100 points)
2. Guides and your experience articles about running router in socials (medium etc.) in any language (5-50 points)
3. Answer questions and help others to run router in this Discord channel (1-10 points)
4. Feedback/improvement proposals/building high impact tools (5-500 points)