# Merit Hunters

The Engain Protocol aims to fight against complexity, high risks, and boredom.

**Guardians**

Everything starts in the very early stages, initially with the Engain launch itself. From onboarding advisors, influencers, and investors to the Guardians collection, a well-chosen marketing strategy of pushing Protocol with the best experts in the industry will take place. **It’s a limited number of NFTs** that stand as a certificate of the Guardians’ participation. All the Guardians will have tremendous influence and benefit, as early birds who believed in the project, such as:

* Token allocations;
* NFT AKA certificate, that has utility and can be sold on the market
* Voting rule and DAO participation
* Locked tokens on the platform from logging by using these unique NFT
* The best 1st queue referral system, which gives the % from all attracted liquidity
* Access to the beta version of Engain Platform, where they can stake NFTs with incredibly high % APY
* Profits from the protocol
* The best insurance proposals

As a result, Engain will be able to attract powerful KOLs (reaching for the project), experienced advisors (huge experience behind the scenes and idea validation + network), and investors (only able to bring money to the project).

This release will take place in the first quarter of the 2023 year, and after this, the project will have these powerful Guardians at Engi’s back.

After completion of this stage, the team will start the next chapter and liquidity of the project, providing investment in marketing and development.&#x20;

**Merit Hunters**

It is a must to have a wide core of people in the community who have a reason and way to be active and contribute their time and efforts. It is understandable that, usually, NFT is not about activity but more about holding value and utility. The case can be related to that, but by providing the benefit and some utility functions, it is important to engage NFT holders constantly in the development and actions. That’s why the holders of these NFTs are "merit hunters."

2999 red pandas NFT will be the limit for such a role, and it will be possible to buy from a holder. This way, the value will be enough, and the benefit of holding and being active will always be rewarded.

* Access to the platform with a limited amount of tokens to be staked
* Early reward program activation
* Smaller allocation
* Regular activities with bounties and rewards

One of the main objectives in marketing revolves around the ability to provide sustainable engagement with the product. Engain needs to provide a healthy way for supporters to engage with it and receive rewards via the token. There is a plan to make it with gamification techniques and many activities, and every further step opens up the grand plan further.

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Furthermore, the marketing will be based on fundamentally engaging mechanics to provide the best user experience, similar to fairy tales or comic books, rather than a hard film drama. The best strategy for acquiring liquidity on the platform is to move it to another level.

Also, Engain can offer various options for other Web3 projects with the aim of partnership and cooperation. Mainly, it is about listing tokens on the Engain platform and various co-marketing activities for the communities of Engain and partners, providing additional value for both.
