Overview

To celebrate the completion of the first iteration of Flight Academy, the Goldfinch community is creating 3 different ways of recognizing participation:

  1. Awards - these include the Golden Backer Award, the Meme Master Awards, the Culture Keeper Awards and the Credit Expert Awards. Criteria for the awards were outlined at the beginning of the Flight Academy. Recipients of these awards received roles on Discord. The Credit Practitioner and Credit Apprentice roles have been removed because they did not directly align with quality of work (full explanation here). As a reminder: even if you have not been given an award or role in Discord, you still may be eligible for GFI rewards!
  2. NFTs - these will go to general participants (~10,000) and to community management. More details about the NFTs and instructions for claiming your NFT are outlined below. Anyone able to claim an NFT should also be eligible for GFI rewards.
  3. GFI rewards - Up to 3% of GFI tokens will be allocated across all iterations of the program. Due to the high volume of participation, a lot of the 3% will be allocated for this first cohort. More details on how rewards were calculated and your rewards tier are available below.

NFTs

The Goldfinch community has created NFTs that early participants will be able to claim. Two types of NFTs will be awarded - one for general participation and one for current contributors and community management. Participants can claim and then view their NFTs by following the instructions outlined below.

A big thanks to shrk#2280 & mustachi#0184 for designing the NFTs and a big thanks to Kostya#3379 & IgorB#7301 for building the smart contracts to mint the NFTs and for setting up the claims website. Please feel free to give them a shout out on Discord!

If you are having trouble minting your NFT, please ask the community for help in the #academy-questions channel.

How to claim your NFTs

  1. Open your MetaMask account from a laptop or a desktop device and switch to your KYCed Goldfinch account;
  2. Choose the Polygon Network (https://polygon.technology/).
  1. Make sure that you have some MATIC to Mint NFT. The gas fee on Polygon is usually low
  1. Go to https://gfa-1.com/.
  2. Connect your KYCed GoldFinch account and approve an automatic switch to Polygon Network on MetaMask side
  3. Choose your category for the NFT minting. Note that if you do not have a Contributor, Community Manager or Community Admin role on Discord, then you are not eligible to claim a GF Contributor NFT.
  4. Press “MINT NFT” button. If you see an error about whitelist, unfortunately, you were not entitled for the gift. Otherwise, approve the transaction on MetaMask.
  5. Once the NFT is minted, you can find it in your collection on opensea.io.