Read Base Points

Base points are aggregating all the algorithmic points into specific categories of merits, quantified by the innovative Proof-of-Creativity algorithm. These points are pivotal in understanding and leveraging the value each participant brings to the ecosystem.

You can query and apply these points through various interfaces, whether it be within smart contracts, backend infrastructures, client-facing applications, or as sophisticated weights within your machine learning pipelines. This guide provides the tools, techniques, and libraries needed to tap into this rich data source, enhancing the functionality and depth of your applications.

Base points adhere to an interface akin to the ERC-20 standard—sans transferability—ensuring that developers familiar with Ethereum’s token standards can seamlessly adopt this system.

Here’s how you can harness the power of base points:

‍Smart Contracts
Utilize familiar functions, as you would with ERC-20 tokens, to read base point balances from the blockchain. Smart contracts can call these non-transferable base points to inform logic, like access control or rewards systems, drawing on the proven robustness of ERC-20-like interfaces.

‍Backend Systems
Leverage web3 libraries such as Web3.js or Ethers.js to integrate base point queries into your platform's backend. This integration allows you to process and analyze contribution metrics, tailor services to user engagement, and refine your application logic based on verified creativity metrics.

‍Machine Learning Pipelines
Enhance your data models by using base points as algorithmic weights. By favoring input data from users with higher base points, your models can produce more accurate and community-aligned predictions and outcomes.

‍Client Applications
Develop dynamic user interfaces that reflect real-time base points data. Given the ERC-20-like interface, developers can utilize existing components and libraries designed for Ethereum tokens to display base point balances, fostering transparency and user engagement.

The following tools and libraries are most commonly employed in querying smart contract tables for base points:

‍Web3.js / Ethers.js
These JavaScript libraries are the cornerstone of Ethereum blockchain interactions, providing a set of APIs to read data from smart contracts, which now include base points contracts.

‍Truffle / Hardhat
These development environments and testing frameworks provide comprehensive tools for deploying and interacting with smart contracts, which can be used to integrate base points into your testing and development workflows.

‍Infura / Alchemy
As gateway services providing scalable access to the blockchain, they allow for robust backend integrations for platforms needing to query base point data without running a full node.