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# 4 - Participate in App Mining
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 **Zero to DAPP 4 of 4**

On this page, you learn about application mining as a funding source for your
new DApp efforts. You'll submit your sample Animal Kingdom to App.co, the
Universal DApp store and earn a t-shirt. You'll also learn about other ways
Blockstack helps your development efforts. This page contains the following topics:

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## Understand application mining

{% include intro-appmining.md %}


{% include payout-appmining.md %}


## Add your Animal Kingdom to App.co

App.co accepts applications from all decentralized protocols such as Ethereum,
Blockstack, and many others. When you add an app, it is not automatically
eligible for application mining, you must submit it using an another procedure.
You can also submit an application for app mining but not add it to App.co.

In this section, you add your Animal Kingdom to the **Blockstack Sample
Application** category on App.co.  Adding your Animal Kingdom app to this
category earns you a limited edition a Zero to DApp t-shirt. Only submit your
sample application if you have deployed the application on the internet. This
allows us to confirm you completed the tutorial. You can submit more than one
example, only your first submission receives a t-shirt.

To add an app, do the following:

1. In your browser, navigate to <a href="https://app.co/" target="\_blank">the App.co website</a>.
2. Choose **Add your app** option from the menu.

   The system opens the submit your App form.

   <img src="images/submit-app.png" alt="">

3. Complete the following fields.

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        <th><strong>Field</strong></th>
        <th>Description</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Dapp Name</strong></td>
        <td>Name of your sample. Animal Kingdom or, if you renamed it, the name you gave your application.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Short description</strong></td>
        <td>Describe your application.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Website</strong></td>
        <td>The URL of the website where you deployed your application.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Contact Email</strong></td>
        <td>A valid email address. This is the email where we will send you instructions for getting your Zero to Dapp t-shirt.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Image URL</strong></td>
        <td>You can leave this blank for a sample application.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Open Source URL</strong></td>
        <td>You can leave this blank for a sample application.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Twitter Handle</strong></td>
        <td>Optionally enter a Twitter handle if you have one.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Registration is open to all users</strong></td>
        <td>Leave this unchecked.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Category</strong></td>
        <td>Sample Blockstack Apps &amp;mdash; make sure you choose this category.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Blockchain</strong></td>
        <td>Leave this as is.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Storage</strong></td>
        <td>Choose Gaia.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><strong>Authentication</strong></td>
        <td>Choose Blockstack</td>
      </tr>
    </table>    

4. Press the **Submit** button.

   The Blockstack team will email you information about how to obtain your
   limited edition t-shirt at our store.

## Submit a DApp to application mining

Only applications that integrate Blockstack authentication, use GAI storage, and
which are accessible to review can participate in application mining.

To submit an application for app mining, do the follwoing:

1. Go to select <a href="https://app.co/mining" target="\_blank">App Mining</a> from the App.co menu.
2. Select the **Submit your app for qualification** button.


## Marketing your DApp

Blockstack reviews each submission to app mining. Through this contact, Blockstack helps
developers refine business models and facilitating interactions with investors.
Two areas that Blockstack assists are pre-funding and pitching.

* **Pre-funding.** Directed toward developers that have a proof of concept of either a blockchain application or an integration  with Blockstack’s technology. Blockstack helps with sourcing of developers and designers. We can also help with direct access to our core team members that can help you refine or optimize your product.
* **Pitching investors.**  Blockstack can help you with access to an extensive investor community. Prior to arranging meetings we can give you resources to refine and craft your pitch for the blockchain market.

In addition to app mining, Blockstack offers both a community reward program.
Community rewards give users the ability to earn tokens for accomplishing tasks.
For example, some of the latest ways user can earn money include:

- Organize a Blockstack Hackathon
- Message of the founders of `stealthy.im` with feedback and ideas
- Use graphite to write a message about the problems decentralization solves

Learn more about <a href="https://blockstack.org/blog/blockstack-community-rewards-program/" target="\_blank">participating in community rewards</a>.

## Congratulations
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You've completed the Zero to DApp tutorial and have joined the growing
DApp developer community on Blockstack. We hope you've taken the extra
step of submitting your Animal Kingdom application to the App.co site.

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