Proposal: EverSteem - Write Once Earn Forever
Project Overview
EverSteem aims to be a true Web3 application that addresses critical issues within the Steem blockchain. Our goal is straightforward:
"Write once, earn forever."
Currently, Steem limits rewards to a strict 7-day window. Valuable content quickly becomes forgotten, while self-voting services significantly distort popular content rankings. EverSteem removes this limitation, allowing lifelong rewards based solely on genuine community voting.
Steem urgently needs to evolve to attract new users and retain existing creators. EverSteem is precisely the solution Steem needs to remain relevant and recognized in the blockchain community.
Existing Problems
- Short reward period: Discourages long-term quality content creation.
- Distorted content feeds: Self-voting services dominate and distort genuine popularity.
- Weak user retention: New users rarely join, and valuable content is not rewarded adequately.
- Lack of motivation: Users have little incentive for meaningful participation.
Our Solutions
Lifelong Rewards
EverSteem utilizes Steem’s built-in beneficiary feature to provide seamless, lifelong rewards. Authors continuously benefit from valuable content, regardless of the original publishing date.
Everlisting for Content Discovery
Users who discover valuable but overlooked content (called "Everlists") receive direct incentives. Everlists specify their reward share when registering discovered posts, encouraging active discovery and organic content promotion.
Everminting NFTs
Everlisted content generates NFTs through "Everminting," clearly specifying the reward-sharing agreement. NFT holders share ongoing rewards from the content, driving active trading and further discovery.
Integrating External Content
With authors' permission, EverSteem integrates valuable external content, encouraging external creators to join Steem as the platform's value increases.
Key Features
- User-friendly content creation and management
- Voting UI providing seamless lifelong rewards
- Instant support and tipping for creators
- Everlisting: Register valuable content from any platform
- Everminting: Create reward-sharing NFTs via custom_json
- NFT marketplace for trading Everminted content
- Organic popular feed created purely by user votes
- Leaderboards for top creators, Everlists, and supporters
- Leveling system for creators and Everlists
Funding
- Daily Funding: 100 SBD (Single Full-stack developer)
- Total Funding: 18,000 SBD (100 SBD/day × 6 months)
Conclusion
EverSteem is not merely a concept—it's a fully prototyped solution:
- Eliminates the restrictive 7-day reward window
- Incentivizes users for discovering and promoting quality content
- Uses NFTs to transparently validate content value
- Satisfies creators, curators, and Everlists alike
EverSteem is essential for Steem to regain its recognition as a respected blockchain. Support EverSteem and help secure Steem’s future.
Please Support this Proposal
Make Amazing Steem Again (MASA)
Let's make this happen.
You can view and vote for proposals by following this link...
https://steemworld.org/sps-proposals
Feel free to leave a comment below if you have questions or options.
I agree that the short rewards window is a problem and it's worthwhile to try to find solutions for it. I don't really understand why there's an NFT component -- it's my impression that most normies view anything NFT-related with suspicion given the overhype/crash cycle they've been through. It's also not clear to me that a proprietary NFT market is a good way to solve an ecosystem-wide problem. Why not just architect a software convention that any frontend could support?
Thank you for your kind opinions.
Regarding the NFT, NFTs will be included for a strategic game. Each NFT has different beneficiary wight of an article. If someone sells a NFT, it means the owner guess the article of the NFT would give enough reward in the future. You know the reward of an article on EverSteem is perpetual. An article might have a lot of large votes someday then the owner of the NFT of the article will share the reward.
This game will trigger these:
There might be more interesting scenarios. What do you think?
I think the odds of finding a particular article that will someday get large perpetual rewards are low (1 out of N to find the article, the odds that your new platform for is popular in the long term), so buyers would only want them if the price was very low. So why would creators want to sell their potential future rewards for a very low price? I don't think there will be a market that makes sense in terms of supply and demand. It's also not clear to me why you'd want it to be NFT-based, don't most prediction markets work on fungible shares?
The idea of minting an NFT to capture someone else's article's rewards also seems kind of sketchy to me. And I think if people aren't confident that rewards are going to the original creator then they might be less likely to vote on a post.
Through EverSteem, I want to collect posts worth reading. But how?
That's why I consider NFTs that have a right to get rewarded. This right should not be manipulated by app developers or any other authorities.
But you have a point that users would not vote on a post that shares rewards with the NFT owner.
Creators will have minimum percentage of reward (more than 50% of total reward). I will let a user decide how much the user will get by minting a NFT.
My app seems not a straight-forward app. Initially I considered only the removing the voting window but the app could not get attentions from creators and users. That's why I came up with the idea to provide strong incentive for finding high quality posts.
Thank you for your opinions. Let's see how the users and creator react.
Excellent Idea!
Thanks!