Starter’s Guide to Sanctum Research

Welcome to Sanctum Research!

We hope that this forum serves as a high signal and thoughtful space for research and critical analysis about Sanctum initiatives, the future of Sanctum and Solana, and broader decentralised meta ideas.

To help you navigate the forum better, we’ll go through how topics (a.k.a forum posts) are categorised, how you can create a new topic and some guidelines to consider before you begin.

Categories

Sanctum Research is organised into five main categories, each representing a broad area of the Sanctum core pillars:

  1. Sanctum Products (Product updates and feedback)
  2. Sanctum LSTs (For existing Sanctum LST operators or aspiring LST operators to interact with their stakers)
  3. Sanctum DAO (Proposals, discussions and governance)
  4. Community (Integrations and introductions)
  5. Research (Articles and technical deep-dives)
  6. General (Rules, guides and other relevant topics)

Subcategories

To dive deeper into more specific topics, each category expands into the following subcategories:

  1. Sanctum Products: Sanctum LSTs, Creator Coins, LST Swap, Infinity
  2. Sanctum DAO: $CLOUD, Grants, Sanctum Sanctuaries
  3. Community: LST Operator Introductions, Creator Introductions
  4. Research: No subcategories for now
  5. General: No subcategories for now

Tags

Tags are a useful way to locate more specific topics like proposals, updates, and reports from various organisations. Tags allow you to find posts that are directly relevant to your interests.

How to Find Topics

Here are some ways you can find the latest topics on Sanctum Research:

Topics

Clicking on ‘Topics’ on the top left corner of the page shows you the the most recently updated topics across all categories.

Categories, Subcategories & Tags

You can filter topics by categories, subcategories and tags by using the dropdown menus at the top of the page or on the side of the page.

Search

You can directly search for any topic using the search bar. This is especially useful if you know exactly what you’re looking for or if you’re trying to find something quickly.

Creating a new Topic

When creating a new topic, it is recommended to categorise your post appropriately to ensure it reaches the right audience and can be properly managed by the moderators.

For instance, if I wanted to suggest a new LST on Sanctum, I can create a new topic under:

  • Category: Sanctum Products
  • Subcategory: Sanctum LSTs
  • Tags: ‘proposal’

Post Moderation for new users

New users will have their posts go through review before it shows up. The first 5 posts from a new user enters a moderation queue for manual review. After that, your posts should show up automatically.

This manual review process is very important to keep the research and analysis quality of this forum, and encourage thoughtful conversation.

Please save your writing in a separate document before posting – there is no functionality on this site for moderators to comment on a pending post with feedback, there’s only “approve” or “reject” buttons and you will lose your work if it’s rejected.

For example, I will reject marketing posts because they would diminish the experience of being on this forum for serious users. I’ve will also reject some posts that are not making quality conversation, especially when a topic is already flooded with it. For example, if there are already a number of shilly replies in that topic saying “bullish, love it”, then I might dismiss the next one because it adds nothing to the conversation.

Other examples:

  • Randomly throws in a link to their own project on another project’s thread
  • Writes a marketing thread or partnership request about their project that has no relation to anything
  • Spams their wallet address (yes it happened multiple times)
  • A chain of hype posts flood in from new users for the same topic at once, without much explanation or elaboration
  • Posts that are not in English

All meaningful questions and thoughtful comments have and will continue to go through.

We hope this guide has been helpful and we look forward to your first post!

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