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Exploring Factors Influencing Community Consensus Building of Web3 Decentralized Apps

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Design, User Experience, and Usability (HCII 2023)

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Web3 (third generation of the World Wide Web) applications, such as Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Non-fungible token (NFT), Metaverse, etc., have created a new type of social interaction and agglomerated the Web3 community group members’ consensus to help Web3 projects create opportunities for success. The consensus factors discussed in the real-world community previously cannot be directly applied to the topic of consensus in the Web3 community due to a different composition and structure of the community. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that influence Web3 community consensus. By interviewing five users of the Web3 community, we collect data about their participation, motivation, behavior and interactive experience in the community, and summarize the collected qualitative data with Grounded Theory. The result of this pilot research found that the two factors that can dominate the formation of community consensus are “transparency” and “tangible rewards”.

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    Ming-Hui Wen, Cing-Yu Huang, Ying-Chen Chen & I.-Ching Lin

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Wen, MH., Huang, CY., Chen, YC., Lin, IC. (2023). Exploring Factors Influencing Community Consensus Building of Web3 Decentralized Apps. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14032. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35702-2_29

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