This December marks a significant milestone for CARV building towards its mission of putting users in the driver’s seat to aggregate, own, manage, and monetize their identity and data in a consent-based, privacy-preserving manner. Following the launch of CARV ID minting and account system deployment, the Era of Data-to-Earn (D2E) unveils its veil.
We’re cooking up the $SOUL Drop Campaign — the airdrop campaign to celebrate entering into this exciting new Era.

What is Data to Earn?

There are two ways to monetize your personal data: passive and active. When you opt in and share your preferences, ownership, social relations, and past experiences directly with brands (games), you receive passive income and personalized service based on historical data. By authorizing and linking more accounts and actively engaging in brand-user (game-player) interactions, like completing surveys or participating in events so that brands (games) can know you more, you can significantly boost your earning potential, in CARV token, USDT, and SATS in the future.
We are thrilled to announce today the launch of the $SOUL Drop Campaign — the airdrop campaign to celebrate entering into the Data-to-Earn (D2E) Era. Based on the personal data users authorize to bind to their CARV ID, and opt in for sharing, users are able to claim $SOUL rewards on a daily basis. The $SOUL token is an eligibility token, in addition to users’ holding of .play name service and crucial SBTs, redeemable and convertible to CARV’s governance token, $ARC, upon Token Generation Event (TGE).

Preparation — Mint your CARV ID and .Play Name Services

Data-to-Earn (D2E) is only made possible with CARV’s fusional design of CARV protocol, self-sovereign identity oracle and decentralized data sharing infrastructure, and user-facing products of CARV ID and CARV Account. With CARV ID and account system, you’re able to bind Web2 accounts, DIDs, and Web3 multichain multi-wallets all in one place, and manage your identity and personal data, and your earnings from there. Mint your CARV ID to enter the Data-to-Earn (D2E) Era today: https://protocol.carv.io/identity
The .Play Name Service is not just any name service NFT; it’s your permanent, personalized, and human-readable alias for various blockchain addresses that point to your unique gamer profile through reading meta data from your ID NFT when placed in the same wallet. Meanwhile, .Play Name Service also grants you for exclusive benefits. By holding a .Play Name Service, you become eligible for airdrops when CARV launches its token. The shorter the name service, the more airdrop is expected. Moreover, during the $SOUL Drop Campaign, the shortest (rarest) .Play Name Service you hold powers up your daily $SOUL claims.
Follow this guidance to mint your CARV ID and .Play Name Service: https://carv-official.notion.site/carv-official/How-to-Mint-CARV-ID-and-Play-Name-Service-509cfdc0fe0f4bf4a40dedfeaacf82ea

4 Ways to Earn $SOUL

1. [Daily Mining] Bind Accounts to Mine $SOUL from Different Chains

After you bind accounts, you can mine $SOUL from different chains, starting with Ronin, opBNB, and zkSync, on a daily basis. It’s important to note that you can claim only once per day on each chain, so at max 3 times of claiming per day. The Ronin chain offers gasless mining. opBNB and zkSync cost gas, but bring additional $SOUL rewards from each mine.
The more accounts you bind and the greater the value of these accounts, the more $SOUL/day you will be able to mine. Enhance your mine in $SOUL Daily by binding more accounts.
Here’s a table that refers to your $SOUL rewards/day from different account types. For example, the $SOUL generated from your Steam account is related to the number of games you have on Steam, total playtime, total value of Steam games, playtime, etc. The $SOUL generated by MetaMask wallets is related to initial on-chain interaction time, highest value of specified token balance, balance quantity of specified NFT on Opensea, total historical interactions, etc.
The $SOUL generated from your CARV Play account is related to total quantity of CARV Events Badge (SBT) holdings, ownership of Dragon Treasure NFT, ownership of Pass NFT, time since registration, etc.

2. [Additional Data Rewards] $SOUL Generation from Your Historical Data

The SOUL Drop campaign recognizes your historical on-chain and off-chain data, generating passive income for you. These include but not limited to:

1. Participation in CARV Play’s events from before, including .Play Name Services, CARV Pass, CARV SBT Events, and more. Your continuous active engagement in these events is valued and contributes to your $SOUL mine.
2. Participation in Web3 games. We also include contracts from games to provide historical data rewards. If the contract of a game you’ve played is not yet included, please visit this link https://tally.so/r/w2Kzyg to submit the game contract address. By doing so, you help expand our game contract collections and ensure your historical data is rightfully rewarded.

3. [SOUL Challenge] Complete $SOUL Challenges

By actively engaging in brand-user (game-player) interactions, like completing surveys or participating in events, you can further boost your income potential. This section will be updated frequently.

4. [Referral Bonus] Invite Friends to Earn 10% Commission from Their Daily Mining

Invite friends to the $SOUL Drop Campaign and earn extra rewards! An invitee minting a CARV ID would be considered a successful invitation. For each friend you invited successfully, you’ll get a 10% commission bonus from their daily $SOUL mining.
Moreover, as an inviter, you can also compete for more $SOUL rewards on Referral leaderboards. The more friends you invite who mint a CARV ID and earn $SOUL, the bigger chance you have of winning from the reward pool. So invite your friends to enter the Data-to-Earn Era together!

What’s Next

Mining $SOUL is the beginning of Data-to-Earn (D2E), it will followed by USDT, SAT, etc. It holds significant value as $SOUL can be converted into CARV governance token, $ARC. With the launch of Data to Earn (D2E): SOUL Drop Campaign, we are ushering in a new era where your data can generate both passive and active income. This is a major leap forward in the realms of data sovereignty and data monetization, poised to make a lasting impact on the industry. This initiative represents a transformative approach to how personal data is valued and utilized, marking a significant milestone in the digital economy.

Appendix

SOUL Drop Historical Data Supported Contract

About CARV

CARV’s mission is to empower users with data self-sovereignty and to share value captured from the utility of data in a consent-based, privacy-preserving mechanism.
CARV Protocol
https://protocol.carv.io/
An intent-centric, composable self-sovereign identity (SSI) oracle and incentivized data-sharing platform.
CARV Play
https://carv.io/
An AI-powered super app, starting with social, credentialing, and publishing in gaming.