Transparency for everyone and reasons why you should've have taken the applications seriously. We have a four-step filtering system for applications. > 1st layer: the code who filters right after the application gets submitted -- It automatically deletes and denies flagged alts and bots > 2nd layer: Needs review -- It we manually check the ones who have finished the requirements and are real accounts. > 3rd layer: Passed checks -- It filters those who filled up the applications seriously and check if the accounts are notable (notable for us means it doesn't have to be an influencer, has 1k above followers or high volume of likes and engagements what we check here is the genuinity of their content) so we would know if they are going to contribute on the community that we are building. >4th layer: Final layer -- Where founders review applicants for approval, those are the ones that have been recommended and endorsed by the staff. The system is efficient but it is not perfect because we believe that human touch is more valuable than just doing everything via code. Applications will close on Monday 2PM UTC. Approval is not be rushed. We are doing our best to fairly distribute the spots. We cannot answer all DMs. We do not do collabs. Mint will be next week. More details soon.