## [OPEN]: Write Blog Posts for POKT

Our goal is to create high quality blog posts which link back to the pokt.network website, and to publish them on popular blog sites, for example:

- Medium
- Dev.to
- Mirror.xyz
- LinkedIn
- Paragraph
- Ghost

There are **3 categories** of blogs we want written each will focus on a separate audience

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### Regardless for the chosen category for your submission to be accepted you must:
- Be published from a minimum of 3 sites (same blog, published on multiple sites).
- Link to https://pokt.network && https://pokt.network/blog where it makes sense
- Maintain a balance between text and images, well formatted, and grammatically correct.
- Use the one or more of the following terms within the title, description and blog post:
- RPC
- What is RPC
- RPC Server is unavailable
- RPC Server unavailable
- Decentralized RPC (also Decentralised RPC - please assume all instances where the American spelling is used, should also have one with the European spelling!)
- Web3 Infrastructure
- Decentralized Infrastructure
- Decentralized Infra
- DePIN or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
- RPC Protocol
- RPC Endpoints
- <CHAIN> RPC Endpoint / Public Endpoint
- <CHAIN> RPC
- free RPC
- Public RPC
- Blockchain data
- Web3 data

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### 1. Create a Developer focused guide: How to use Nodies OR Grove for your dapp
- Screenshots creating Nodies AND Grove accounts, and generating an API key
- Showcase how the RPC URL is used in React
#### Some notes to hit:
- POKT Network is open source and decentralised
- POKT Network is accessible, and widely available
- Nodies free and paid tier are frequently top performing RPC

Additionally we want to screenshot the **latency** comparison for Nodies:

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### 2. Decentralized vs Centralised RPCs, a guide on Node Running & Gateways:
- Do a comparison on the market for both centralised/decentralised RPC providers
- How does POKT Protocol maintain decentralisation?
- What are Gateways? What are Node runners?
- Either link to or rehash existing informaton on the business of Node/Gateway running
- If possible link to or rehash some guides on setting up a node or gateway

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### 3. POKT Token: History and Future of DePIN tokenomics.
- Discuss the usecases of POKT Token
- Why it exists, what it's for, and where it's going
- Discuss DePIN incentivisation tokenomics
- Link to roadmap, additional information, and chats/guides

### Resources:

https://pokt.network/blog
https://docs.pokt.network
https://x.com/POKTnetwork
https://www.figma.com/design/runrK8ISB7P4p7cpsBbe6S/POKT-Design-Assets?node-id=237%3A888&t=THcwwSj48jaA0AGy-1