Who is Content Gateway Built For?

Content Gateway is for DAOs and protocols who want to create a unified experience for their members. Display off-chain and on-chain data in one place instead of segregated across multiple platforms. Content Gateway can be used by various types of organizations, not just content-rich ones. Because of our growing number of integrations, you can build any kind of mobile app, website, or dashboard that benefits your community. We’ve highlighted a few popular use cases below to get you thinking in the right direction.

The Content-Rich DAO

Content Gateway was built to aggregate content. Organizations that focus on producing content for their members and the greater community have accounts on various platforms that cover videos, podcasts, blogs, newsletters, and more. The current experience requires members to switch between each platform to consume your content. Each platform switch is an opportunity to lose their attention. The alternative is to create a single home for all your content that is dynamic, meaning there is no need to maintain it. If you upload a new video to youtube or a new blog post on Ghost, Content Gateway does the rest. Creating a mobile app is the best way to take full advantage of Content Gateway, but it also works great for websites.

The Powerhouse DAO

Content Gateway does much more than show your videos and blog posts in one place. The real power comes from combining your off-chain content with on-chain data. A strong DAO will likely use many tools for governance, communication, achievements, bounties, and more. This introduces a new problem: it’s hard to keep track of everything happening when it’s spread over multiple platforms. Content Gateway has built integrations with multiple tools, allowing your members to see all this information on one screen. Your organization's latest Snapshots, new bounties, the individuals POAPs, even announcements from Discord channels.

The New DAO

DAOs are the hottest thing right now. New ones are popping up all the time covering all kinds of use cases. Starting a DAO is like starting a new business. There’s is a lot to do, but very limited resources to do it. Community growth and engagement are likely top priorities, and Content Gateway is a great partner to have. Reduce Discord fatigue by highlighting important announcements on your website. This allows your members to stay up to date, but not overwhelmed by the noise on Discord. Bring your content together in one place so new members can quickly get a feel for the type of value you bring. Give your members ways to contribute by showing the latest bounties. Most importantly, Content Gateway significantly reduces the amount of time required to bring these integrations together.

A BanklessDAO Case Study

At genesis, BanklessDAO was built to be a permissionless organization. Anyone could walk in, introduce themselves, and start working on something that interested them. This environment encouraged the entrepreneurs of web3 to test their ideas and built amazing tools and products. It also allowed for the development of content across various subjects like DeFi, NFTs, law, education, and more. By the start of season 3, BanklessDAO had created a successful discord bot (DEGEN), a way to connect contributors with tasks (Bounty Board), an educational platform (Bankless Academy), 4 major newsletters, 4 podcasts and more.

What are you working on, and how can I contribute?

Over a period of just 9 months, BanklessDAO has grown to over 17k members with almost 2k new members joining every week. The biggest question for new members joining the server — what are you working on, and how can I contribute. Well, BanklessDAO is working on A LOT. The problem is everything the community has created lives in own space. Our newsletters live on Substack and in your email inbox, Bounty Board has its own website but is only discoverable if you stumble across the project’s notion page. You have to venture out to find and consume all the amazing content being generated.

Enter Content Gateway

Content Gateway allows you to aggregate your segmented content into a unified, digestible experience for your members. By utilizing this technology, BanklessDAO has created a unified, cohesive, and simple environment for the members to interact with and contribute to the DAO. This is packaged in a beautiful and intuitive mobile application. Users of the mobile app can read the latest newsletter, listen to the latest podcast episode, check their BANK balance, see POAPs, view the latest Discord announcements, claim a bounty, and even take a Bankless Academy course without ever leaving the app. Before Content Gateway, users would be switching between multiple browser tabs, getting lost in Discord messages, and some inevitably bouncing in the process. By combining these various media channels and tools into a mobile app powered by Content Gateway, BanklessDAO has seen an increase in community engagement, member retention, active contributors, and newsletter readers.

Content Gateway for your organization

Creating your own instance of Content Gateway allows you to create the same experience in significantly less time than if you were to build it from scratch. This is possible because of the hundreds of hours we spent building the foundation to support all of your content. Your developers will save time by connecting to a single Content Gateway API which then gives you access to Youtube, Discord, Ghost, ENS, and more. Features like filtering, sorting, and search are also made available out of the box. Your users will be able to view articles by date, videos by length, their wallet balances, etc. We are constantly adding more integrations. With a quick update, you’ll have access to all of it.