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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 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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This is the final page, so please don't skip it. You don't miss your chance to get this cool t-shirt!

Funding your DApp with application mining

App.co accepts submissions from all decentralized protocols such as Ethereum, Blockstack, and many others. Only applications that integrate Blockstack authentication, use GAI storage, and which are accessible to review can participate in application mining.

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You area going to make a practice submission using the Animal Kingdom sample.

Submit your Animal Kingdom to App.co

In this section, you submit your Animal Kingdom to the Blockstack Sample Application on App.co. Apps in this category aren't eligible for app mining, but they do earn 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.

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In your browser, navigate to the App.co website.
Choose Add your app option from the menu.

The system opens the submit your App form.

Complete the following fields.

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

Press the Submit button.

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

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 techology. 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 participating in community rewards.

Congratulations