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Stacks Turkey Chapter Application #64

Closed OmurCataltepe closed 1 year ago

OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago

The Stacks Foundation is thrilled to facilitate the Stacks Chapters Program. Our goal is to give Chapters the resources and support that they need to run thriving, self-sustainable communities. What that means:

Help us understand your vision for your Stacks Chapter by answering the following questions:

1. What about Stacks are you most excited about? Please be specific. (For example, you could be excited about “recruiting more Stackers” or “bringing DeFi to Bitcoin”.) Stacks should rank higher in DefiPulse as it is the project that builds Defi with the security of the Bitcoin blockchain. Our point is helping Stacks to the getting top of this list by getting more Stackers from Turkey. We’ll create our own Stacking pool and we’re aiming to getting stack 3 million Stacks. We want to reach the most creative and qualified Turkish developers to create decentralized useful applications on dApps, DEx, NFTs, and more DeFi derivatives as well. We started a communication for Stacks to be listed on Turkish cryptocurrency exchanges. We believe more listing provides more liquidity and awareness.

  1. Why are you so excited about this? How do you think it can help your community? Turkey leads cryptocurrency ownership in Europe at 1 and about one out of every five people in Turkey has invested in cryptocurrency, according to research by the Paris-based statistics firm Ipsos for the Netherlands-based ING Group. We believe that the recognition of Stacks by a nation that is such an admirer of cryptocurrencies will increase the demand of Stacks wildly. The inflation rate of Turkish Lira higher than 15% every year. That's the main reason why Turkey is leading cryptocurrency ownership in Europe. There is a great opportunity to leading this financial freedom movement for Stacks in Turkey!

  2. What do you think is the single most effective thing you can do to bring Stacks to your community? First step is to raise awareness for user-owned internet. Explaining the necessity of the user-owned internet is key. For this, we take care to advertise by using educational contents. We will have representatives in all major cities of Turkey. We will make sure that Stacks are promoted on the field through our representatives. Localization is key in our second step. We will also get the attention of our community by promoting with major influencers (Kripto Sozluk, Kripto Emre, Binance Turkey). We will realize this strategy by introducing Stacks by people that Turkish people trust and love.

  3. What are your goals for your Stacks Chapter for the next 3 months? 6 months? 1 year?

  1. How do you plan to achieve those goals? (You can share broad strategies here.) Influencers, creating guides and resources for understanding Stacks and the Stacks Technology are at the heart of our growth strategy.
  1. If you have growth goals (e.g. “grow the Telegram community by X%), is there a place where the Stacks community can see and track your progress?

Stacks Turkey is the biggest and most active community in Stacks Ecosystem. We aim to be the biggest cryptocurrency community in Turkey with tens of thousands of real members. We aim to increase the total value of Stacked Stacks by Turkish investors to tens of millions dollars.

  1. Increase Telegram community’s member count to ten thousand in the next 6 months

  2. Increase Twitter followers by %100 in the next 3 months

  3. Increase the number of our newsletter readers on Medium.com by %100 in the next 6 months

  4. Increase Stacker count (Can be followed through our Stacking pool)

  5. Creating a Discord Community and for Turkish Stacking Pool and Turkish PoX Miners

  6. (Optional) Share examples of any community growth or progress so far. This can be in the form of metrics (e.g. Twitter or Telegram growth), press/good news, or community stories. We have a growth document in dropbox : https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Stacks-Turkey-Community-Growth-Planning-Doc--BGECIIJYoxohRTaYO5pvjIcYAQ-gHaZzSIAzQaAGsv6n3DKP

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  1. Briefly summarize your operating costs for one quarter (3 months).

Summary for January <-> March (1st Quarter) - $4,000 paid before in first grant

Head | Amount Team | $3,000 Marketing & PR | $2,650 Miscellaneous | $1,000 Total | $6,650

Marketing & PR:

Summary (For next quarters)

Head | Monthly | Budget/Quarter Team | $3,000 | $9,000 Marketing & PR | $1,000 | $3,000 Miscellaneous |   | $1,000 Total: | $4,000 / with misc $5,000 | $13,000

Team: Web Developer, Community Manager, Graphic Designer, Marketing Associate, Translators Marketing & PR: Raising awareness of blockchain with Turkish Blockchain associations by showing Stacks as an example. Translating Stacks documents for Turkish developers and investors, Organizing AMA events, Town Hall Sessions, promotional videos and live broadcasts with big influencers as well.

I attached the PDF version of the application.

Stacks Turkey Application.pdf

RaffiSapire commented 3 years ago

Hi there, reviewing the Summary, this is confusing in terms of what amount is paid out total and in what milestones. @OmurCataltepe @jennymith moving forward, can you please create a format here that is consistent across all grantees as it relates to payment cadence and format.

RaffiSapire commented 3 years ago

Hi there, I have processed this payment. What I'm planning on doing given this is part of the chapter program managed by @jennymith is to process monthly payment on an ongoing basis. Please continue to post a monthly update here with key metrics of success and any fun community events/photos to share!

OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago

Stacks Turkey March Report

Upcoming:

YouTube AMA with Kripto Sozluk (17.5k+ watched, 137k+ subscribers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcv1ZC-RjY

Second Turkish Townhall Recap: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/second-turkish-townhall

New Educational Turkish Articles: https://omurcataltepe.medium.com/stacks-2-0-genel-sistem-gereksinimleri-5098bd3f9e01 https://omurcataltepe.medium.com/stx-madencili%C4%9Fini-anlayal%C4%B1m-7da4648cd5eb https://medium.com/stacks-turkey/nedir-bu-nft-%C3%A7%C4%B1lg%C4%B1nl%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1-354b5e3313b1 https://ahinalibayar.medium.com/stackingi-anlamak-826f269a06b8 https://ahinalibayar.medium.com/stacks-blockzinciri-api-14d810bf5c3d

Telegram Statistics: 3718 members -> 4,500 members (21% of growth) 94% of our members (4,229) are completely Turkish and organic people. There are no fake bots left in our group. More than 120k+ messages have been sent in total. 245k messages were sent in the global group. Although Stacks Turkey to be created later we reached almost half of it!

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Twitter Statistics:

1515 followers -> 3097 followers (104% of growth)

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Feedback from Activity Competition’s winner:

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OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago
Head Cost
Kripto Solzuk (AMA in their community with 37k+ members) $1.500,00
TFC - Community Partnership with TFC for promoting Stacks $350,00
TFC - Stacks Turkey Chapter Promotions $350,00
Bill.com Exchange Rate Costs (including old costs) $250,00
Combot Premium (yearly) $75,00
Activity Competition $175,00
Meme Competition $50,00
New Sticker Kit $50,00
Educational Articles in Turkish $300,00
Miscellanous $500,00
Team $3000,00
Total $6600,00

TFC costs, Kripto Sozluk costs and Bill.Com costs include the $1,600 payment, which was missed last month.

Thanks for support, we'll keep building.

OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago

Social Media Campaign for Listing STX on BTCTurk

We started a social media campaign to make Stacks listed on BTCTurk, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in Turkey.

How much interaction did you get on Twitter and how much of an influential impact?

Too many tweets were sent for Stacks to be listed on BTCTurk. The limit for analysis sites is 500, but I think we have more than 500 tweets for support. It is our community's biggest activity.

We continue to raise awareness for user-owned internet.

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How many trading volume in BTCTurk?

Last 24 hours trading volume: $716.850.104 | 13.098 BTC

Who/What is BTCTurk?

Launched in 2013, BtcTurk is a centralized exchange based in Istanbul, Turkey. It claims to be the first exchange of its kind in Turkey and the world’s fourth Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange platform. BtcTurk claims to serve more than 3.000.000 registered users and allows Turkish Lira deposits and withdrawals through its integration with five Turkish banks – this service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BtcTurk currently offers Turkish Lira, USDT and BTC pairs. BtcTurk | PRO accepts users globally from 7 continents. Those signed up to BtcTurk | PRO can trade with Turkish users, enjoy lower exchange fees, and withdraw cryptocurrencies without any transfer fees.

Events with Our Marketing Partner Kripto Sozluk

We made our AMA event with Kripto Sozluk community (45k+ members).

Channel link: https://t.me/KriptoSozlukTVPiyasaMuhabbeti AMA: https://t.me/KriptoSozlukTVPiyasaMuhabbeti/1609076

Note: We will make a session on Kripto Sozluk channel. This video will be like before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcv1ZC-RjY

But session date extended to first week of May because of pandemic measures of Government of Turkey.

April 2021

Twitter:

Follower count in March: 3,098

Follower count in April: 3,698

Total growth: 20% image

Telegram:

94% of our members (4,621) are completely Turkish and organic people.

Our member count reached 5,080 in this month but with the leaved members, we host 4,900+ members totally.

Total growth: 8%

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Sticker Kit ❤️

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Meme Competition

https://twitter.com/techno_informa/status/1382054476450762752?s=19 https://twitter.com/JSTCTJMT/status/1380425793478684674/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Burak_Ordu01/status/1380125782534729731/photo/2 https://twitter.com/thehuseyin01/status/1379495380627435521

OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago

As Stacks Turkey chapter, we have completed the listing, one of our most important yearly goals. We are still in touch as a community with the other Turkish exchanges to getting listed Stacks native token STX.

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Bitexen, a local Turkish Exchange just listed STX with 5 new market pairs.

:white_check_mark: STX/TRY :white_check_mark: STX/USDT :white_check_mark: STX/BUSD :white_check_mark: STX/ETH :white_check_mark: STX/BTC

Learn more about the announcement here: https://twitter.com/bitexencom/status/1389530045568458753