Setting Up Your Project
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To begin, visit juicebox.money/create. You will need to have an Ethereum wallet and some ETH to pay for gas fees.
- If you need an Ethereum wallet, visit Metamask.io to set one up.
- To experiment before committing to mainnet, you can use the Goerli Testnet juicebox.money.
What to know beforehand:
- You can edit all of your project's rules over time — this allows your project to evolve as your community does.
- When you create a Juicebox project, the project's NFT is minted to your wallet. Only the holder of that NFT (the project owner) can edit the project's rules. Nobody else can edit your project's rules — not even JuiceboxDAO.
- This guide is based on juicebox.money. If you're setting up your project somewhere else, the steps might be different.
Project Settings
Project details
Your project's name, logo, and description. Tell people what your project is about, and why they should support it! You can edit these later. For an animated logo, upload a .gif.
Cycles
With unlocked cycles, you can edit your project's rules at any time.
With locked cycles, you can lock your project's rules for a period of time (like 3 minutes, 2 years, or 14 days), helping you build trust with your supporters.
If you try to edit your rules in the middle of a locked cycle, the edits get queued for the next cycle. In other words: instead of going into effect immediately, they go into effect when your next cycle starts. If your don't queue a new cycle, Juicebox copies your current rules over.
How to choose: If you need the flexibility, you can use unlocked cycles — otherwise, locked cycles are the better option for building confidence with your supporters.
Payouts
The amount of ETH which can be paid out from your project during the cycle. Payouts reset each cycle.
- Having no payouts means you can't pay out any ETH.
- 3 ETH of payouts lets you pay out 3 ETH.
- $4,500 of payouts lets you pay out $4,500 worth of ETH.
- "Unlimited payouts" lets you pay out all of the ETH in the project.
The ETH not needed for a cycle's payouts will:
- Serve as a runway. Your payouts reset every cycle, so leaving ETH in the project gives you a head-start for next cycle.
- Allow your supporters to redeem their tokens to receive some ETH back from the project. You can choose the amount of ETH they receive by setting up a redemption rate.
How to choose: The lower you set your payouts, the more ETH will be available for redemptions, making supporters more likely to trust your project — and if you start with no payouts, you can offer your supporters a full refund. Keep in mind that payouts are the only way for you to access funds. If you need more flexibility, set this to a higher amount.
Payout Recipients
This is where your payouts are sent. By default, payouts go to your wallet (the project owner), but you can set up any number of Ethereum wallets or Juicebox projects to pay ETH to.
You can define payouts by percentage (50% of funds go to vitalik.eth) or by amount (3 ETH goes to the @peel project, or $2,500 worth of ETH goes to jango.eth). You can use these payouts to manage your organization's entire payroll — JuiceboxDAO does.
Payouts to wallets (like vitalik.eth) will incur a 2.5% fee, which is paid to JuiceboxDAO. In exchange, your project will receive JuiceboxDAO's project token ($JBX), allowing you to govern the protocol. You can also redeem these tokens to reclaim some of the fees. Payouts to Juicebox projects don't incur any fees. To learn more, read JBX & Fees.
Edit deadline
Edits must be made before this deadline. This gives token holders time to verify the edits before they take effect, and assures them that you can't edit the cycle at the last second.
For example: with a 3-day edit deadline, edits must be made at least 3 days before a cycle starts. Otherwise, those edits won't take effect until the cycle after the next one.
How to choose: The longer your edit deadline, the easier it will be for supporters to check your edits, but the harder it will be to move quickly. A 3-day deadline is a good starting point for most projects.
Token
Project tokens are not ERC-20 tokens by default. Once you deploy your project, you can issue an ERC-20 for your supporters to claim, making them compatible with tools like Uniswap. This is optional.
Total issuance rate
The total number of tokens issued when this project is paid 1 ETH. Some of these tokens may be reserved by the project, and the rest are sent to the payer.
How to choose: The protocol calculates everything proportionately, so this number doesn't matter too much. 1,000,000 is a good starting point for most projects.
Reserved rate
As tokens are issued, you can set aside a percentage of them for the wallets and Juicebox projects of your choosing. With a reserved rate of 20%, 20% of tokens are redirected towards whoever is on your list.
How to choose: If you need to offer full refunds, set this to 0%. Reserved rates can vary widely — projects set this anywhere from 0% to 50%.
Issuance reduction rate
This makes your token more expensive over time. With an issuance reduction rate of 5%, your tokens will get 5% more expensive each cycle, even if you don't edit the cycle.
How to choose: The issuance reduction rate can have a dramatic effect: the higher you set it, the more you reward earlier supporters over later ones. Most projects will keep this disabled, or use a rate from 1-3%.
Redemption rate
Supporters can burn their tokens to reclaim some of the ETH not needed for payouts. The amount of ETH they receive depends on the redemption rate.
At 100%, redemptions are 1:1 — somebody redeeming 10% of all project tokens will receive 10% of the overflow. At 0%, redemptions are turned off. Anywhere else, redemptions take place along a bonding curve, meaning earlier redeemers will get less ETH per token redeemed, and later redeemers will get more.
The lower this rate is, the less of an incentive there is to redeem tokens before others.
How to choose: To start, you should keep this rate at 100% (redemptions on) or 0% (redemptions off), and then adjust from there.
Redemptions incur a 2.5% fee while the redemption rate is less than 100%. This fee is paid to JuiceboxDAO. In exchange, your project will receive JuiceboxDAO's project token ($JBX), allowing you to govern the protocol. You can also redeem these tokens to reclaim some of the fees. To learn more, read JBX & Fees.
Owner token minting
If this is enabled, you (the project owner) can issue tokens on demand.
How to choose: This will appear risky to supporters, so keep this off unless you're completely sure you need to enable it.
NFTs
Juicebox also lets you reward your supporters with one or more custom NFT tiers:
- You can use NFTs for redemption instead of using tokens.
- You can set up tiers when creating your project, and can also add or remove tiers over time.
- Each tier can have unique metadata, as well as a unique price, maximum supply, reserved rate, and governance voting power.
You can use NFTs for off-chain governance with a tool like Snapshot, or for on-chain governance with Governor Contracts — Juicebox NFTs adhere to the ERC721Votes standard. Learn more about on-chain governance.
These NFTs are a great way to create an NFT collection for your artwork — some projects use Juicebox for this alone, turning off tokens entirely.
Adding NFTs may increase the gas fee for creating your project.
Tiers
You need to have at least one tier for your project to have NFTs. To add a tier, click Add NFT. Each tier can have:
- A unique image, name, description, and link.
- A price. If this is set to 1 ETH, somebody who pays your project 1 ETH will receive 1 ETH worth of project tokens and an NFT.
- A limited supply — the maximum number of NFTs that can be minted from this tier. You can use this to encourage people to be within the first 50 supporters, or you can make an expensive 1/1 NFT. Each tier can have a different supply.
You can also set advanced options:
- Reserved NFTs. For every
NNFTs minted, mint an extra one to the address of your choosing. This can be a helpful way to reward your collaborators. - Voting weight. Give each tier a custom voting weight, which can be used for off-chain governance (with a tool like Snapshot, or for on-chain governance.
- External link. Link minters to your project's website, Discord, or somewhere else.
Collection Settings
These settings apply to all of your NFTs:
- "Collection Name", "Collection Symbol", and "Collection Description" are each a different piece of collection metadata which will be displayed in wallets and on websites like Zora and OpenSea.
- The Payment Success Pop-up is an optional pop-up shown when people mint an NFT. You can use this to direct contributors to your project's website, Discord, or somewhere else.
On-chain Governance
Snapshot strategies can read each NFT's voting power, even if your project is set to No on-chain governance. See Using Snapshot With Juicebox.
Juicebox NFTs adhere to the ERC721Votes standard, meaning you can use them with on-chain governance tools like Tally.
This works by tracking an NFT's ownership over time as it is minted, burned, traded, or transferred, meaning that you can calculate the voting power of any address at any time (even for times in the past).
juicebox.money lists three on-chain governance options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| No on-chain governance | Your project won't track voting power over time. |
| Standard on-chain governance | Track the total voting power of each address over time. |
| Tier-based on-chain governance | Instead of tracking total voting power, the contract tracks each address' voting power within each NFT tier over time. This can be useful for running multiple voting processes out of one treasury, or for complex on-chain governance. |