The third phase of RIVER project points could be claimed a while ago. Interestingly, many well-known community participants chose to continue staking for 3 months after seeing the high scores, and quite a few followed suit later. Now, the fourth phase tasks have been launched, but the points earned are noticeably less than before.

However, the tasks themselves are quite straightforward—register an account, post some content, interact with others, with no complicated thresholds. The project team’s approach is indeed clever, tightly controlling the game of human nature. Especially with the setting that points are settled every hour, basically, those betting on a short position are the ones paying the price. This mechanism may seem simple, but in reality, it manages participants’ expectations very effectively.