Community Campaigns

What Is a Community Campaign?

AquaVaults Community Campaigns are competitions between listed communities. Campaign points belong to communities through AquaVaults' existing attribution systems; they are not individual-wallet competitions.

Every Campaign has its own scoring window and an immutable template that defines the metric, point conversion, competition structure, and reward rules. Only qualifying activity inside that Campaign's scoring window earns Campaign points.

Current Campaign Templates

A Campaign template is the immutable scoring contract for a Campaign. It defines the authoritative activity source, what metric is measured, how that metric converts into points, whether historical placement mechanics apply, and what reward ladder can be used.

Template versions are immutable. If AquaVaults changes a template's competitive meaning, the change is published as a new version rather than silently rewriting an already-announced Campaign.

How a Campaign Moves From Announcement to Final Results

Who Is Eligible?

The exact eligibility class is part of the Campaign rules. Current Campaign templates can be configured for all listed communities, active Partner communities, or Founding communities.

Eligibility is evaluated at the T-7 cutoff. A community added after announcement but before T-7 can still participate when it satisfies the announced class. After T-7, the frozen roster does not rebalance because a community later withdraws or is disqualified.

AquaVaults itself is never a Campaign participant.

Historical Strength, Divisions, and Handicaps

Historical activity is used only to make certain Campaigns more competitively balanced. It never gives a community points in the current Campaign.

For templates that use scale-sensitive placement, AquaVaults looks at full completed UTC calendar months of the relevant historical metric. The structural lookback is six completed months and the handicap lookback is three completed months.

Depending on the frozen eligible roster and the template, a Campaign may run as one field or multiple divisions. Current divided templates use a gap-based handicap from 1.00× to a maximum of 1.50×, with stronger historical communities receiving less adjustment and weaker historical communities receiving more.

Points and Ranking

Each Campaign template defines how its authoritative metric converts into Campaign points. Examples can include platform fees generated, qualifying SOL-equivalent volume, counted swaps, qualifying automated activity, widget activity, or another template-specific source.

Displayed Campaign points are whole numbers, but the ranking engine preserves the exact pre-floor score. That means two communities can display the same whole-number point total while still being ordered correctly by the underlying exact calculation.

When two communities have a true exact tie, the Campaign's published tie rules determine the occupied placements and any pooled reward treatment.

Public Standings and the Eligible Roster

When public standings are enabled for a Campaign, the public leaderboard shows only active communities that currently have a positive score. A legitimate zero remains part of the Campaign record but is not displayed as a public leaderboard result.

The full frozen eligible roster is shown separately from positive-score standings. That roster records who was eligible when placement froze; a later withdrawal or integrity decision does not rewrite the original eligibility record.

Withdrawals and Integrity

An eligible community may withdraw before scoring ends under the applicable Campaign rules. Withdrawal removes it from public standings and reward eligibility, but AquaVaults retains its Campaign activity and continues private shadow scoring for audit and possible approved reinstatement.

Deliberate community-level manipulation can result in disqualification for the Campaign. AquaVaults retains the underlying activity and evidence rather than rewriting history. Objective source failures can block finalization until resolved; suspicious but non-conclusive anomalies require review rather than an arbitrary manual score edit.

Campaign Rewards

Campaign rewards are temporary Growth Program fee-share effects earned from final Campaign placement. They do not permanently rewrite a community's Growth Program tier or guaranteed floor.

Under the current Standard reward model, a single-field Campaign awards +10 percentage points to first place and +5 percentage points to second through fourth. When a Campaign uses two or more divisions, each standard division awards +10 percentage points to first and +5 percentage points to second.

The exact reward rules announced for a Campaign control that Campaign. Reward application is separately validated so a community's effective fee share cannot exceed the applicable program maximum.

Not Every Internal Campaign Is Public

AquaVaults may operate internal, private, test, or validation Campaigns without publishing their public standings. The public Campaign page only displays a Campaign when AquaVaults has enabled its public standings and the applicable public display conditions are met.

A public Learn article, Campaign page, template capability, or dashboard field does not guarantee that a particular Campaign is open, that a community is eligible, or that any reward will be earned.

Campaign-Key Analytics Are Different

Some AquaVaults analytics use a campaign or campaign-key attribution field to record where a deep-link interaction came from. That is source tracking only. It is not the Community Campaign system and does not create Campaign points, eligibility, placement, or rewards.

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