Overview

Although we wrote in the Sybil Defense article that mining in Questfall consists of two main activities, this was done for simplicity, as there are actually three complementary activities that make Quest Mining possible.

• Quest Creation Authors earn weekly and seasonal QFT rewards by creating quests.

• Quest Completion Users earn weekly and seasonal QFT rewards by completing quests.

• Community Moderation Moderators earn Silver that can be used to level up or promote quests.

These activities are open to everyone, so a user can create a quest, complete quests from the feed, and moderate completions all in one day.

Quest completion and quest creation produce different types of value that cannot be compared. These two activities also rely on different core mechanics. While quest completion relies heavily on the individual mining power and mining boost, quest creation relies on author karma (reputation).

For this reason, there are two separate reward pools each week and season: one for users who complete quests and one for authors who create them. These pools are formed using 64% of the weekly QFT issue.

Reward Pool	Week	Season	Total
Quest Creation	10%	2.8%	12.8%
Quest Completion	40%	11.2%	51.2%
Total	50%	14%	64%

The weekly reward pool is distributed immediately upon QFT release, the Seasonal Reward Pool is distributed at the end of the season.

While quest completion and quest creation create two separate groups of competitors for QFT issuance, community moderation allows users to earn Silver, which can be issued in any amount, but cannot be withdrawn and can only be used to improve the mining performance of the first two activities.

As a result, each of the three main mining activities in Questfall offers different rewards and relies on completely different reward distribution mechanics.