Overview
Cardano XP is a prototype Cardano app that lets contributors give feedback on projects (apps, courses, Catalyst proposals) and earn reputation on-chain in return. It is aimed at the part of the Cardano community that contributes by reviewing, writing, testing, and facilitating rather than by writing code1. What makes this one different is that the reputation token is fixed at 100,000 total, cannot be bought, and is non-tradeable. The only way to get it is to do a feedback task and have it accepted2.
The project is built by James Dunseith, a co-founder of Andamio and the community-education project Gimbalabs3. It runs on the Andamio credential system, where each contributor holds a personal Cardano NFT (an "access token") that records what they have earned. The app is openly labeled a prototype, and reviewing the app itself is one of the available feedback tasks3.
Key Features
- Reputation you earn, not buy. The XP token has a fixed supply of 100,000 and is only released when a human reviewer accepts your feedback. There is no exchange listing and no presale2.
- Permanent contribution record. Each contributor's access token is a Cardano NFT that records everything they have earned, even after they have given XP away to others. This stays readable by other Cardano apps3.
- Give XP to others. Once you hold XP, you can pass some of it to other contributors whose work you appreciate. Reputation flows through the network rather than from a central authority2.
- Readable by other Cardano apps. Other Cardano projects can read your XP balance and gate their own features on it (for example, "only contributors above a certain XP threshold can submit"). The protocol enforces this without anyone needing to approve you personally3.
- Open source under MIT. The full source code is published on GitHub in TypeScript, with an MIT license and a public commit history4.
What to Expect
The site itself is small and deliberately rough: the homepage, a Tokenomics page, and a live Activity page that shows current contributor counts, completed tasks, XP released, and the most recent accepted submissions5. You connect a Cardano wallet, pick up a feedback task, and submit a review of whatever the task points at, which has included the app itself. Once accepted, XP is minted into your wallet as an Andamio Access Token.
The project is early-stage. The 100,000 XP supply is fixed, and most of it is still unreleased pending accepted feedback5. There is no formal documentation site, no security audit, and no project-owned Discord or Telegram. The maintainer reviews submissions personally and lists his email (james@andamio.io) on the activity page for direct contact5.
For readers comparing it to other Cardano projects: this is not a DeFi product, not a learn-to-earn game, and not a governance token. It is closer in spirit to a contribution log: the Andamio credential system applied to a single feedback experiment, with a published plan to let v1 contributors decide what v2 looks like2.
