Case study: event badge rollout
Intermediate · 7 min read
How a community program shipped verifiable badges without financial claims.
Goal and scope
A community workshop wanted proof-of-attendance for 120 builders. They rejected any marketplace, price, or “early investor” framing. Success metric: 70%+ of attendees claimed a badge within 48 hours and zero support tickets about wallets losing funds.
Implementation notes
They ran the full flow on testnet first using this hub’s sandbox payload pattern. Metadata used hashed emails, event slug, and a public disclaimer URL. Issuance required checking a checkbox: “I understand this is not money or an investment.”
Copy review removed “mint,” “drop,” and “floor price.” They used “issue attendance record” instead.
Outcome metrics
Claim rate: 78%. Support tickets about keys: 0. Legal review time: half a day because the design was non-transferable and non-financial. Lesson: clear scope beats flashy chain features.