Sharing the Growth of Personal Social Media Accounts: Comprehensive User Guide & Deep Dive to Taki App

10 min readJul 11, 2022

For centuries, people tend to share their opinion with others. By doing so, the term ‘’civilization’’ has evolved and improved cumulatively. Until the early 2000s, we used several tools to reach one another: telephone, radio, telegram, and many more. When the time came to the Millenium, the idea of sharing expanded more and more. The words are not enough to transfer the real meaning of one’s mind. During such time, we faced the first example of social media: Facebook!

Facebook was first introduced to Harvard University students to be the main communication tool for information transfer. In almost 2 decades, it evolved into an application that no one can disintegrate from daily living. It’s easy to use application for every single person on the Earth and lets anyone share anything with little to no restrictions. At some point in 2012, total registered account numbers crossed 1 billion, 14.3% of all population that year.

There are tons of reasons to explain Facebook’s success but today’s article is not related to Facebook. I’ll introduce you to the Taki App, a social network platform that lets anyone realize ‘’Engage-to-Earn’’ mechanics. In this article, I will talk about the general mechanics behind Taki App, the main reason to found a platform that is based on Engage-to-Earn, the founders, native token $TAKI & governance structure of Taki App. After all the information, you’ll be full of Taki info. So, any reader will become a potential future user of it. After all, I show you the details of using Taki, reaching high engagement counts, and the main steps to building your social media empire! Please be aware that this article is created in the format of an interview. Don’t forget that you are the ones who asked and I’m the answerer.

PART 1. Understanding the Taki App

1. What Is Taki App? Can You Introduce It Briefly?

Taki is an example of a social media networking platform that lets anyone build a personal social media empire with some clicks. All the previous social media platforms used the methodology of growing with users but not monetizing them with some shares. Taki is here to destroy this view and start to incentivize users of the Taki platform with real-world assets. By doing so, the main aim is to reach a sustainable platform for both content creators and regular users. In regular social media, only a small portion of users are rewarded directly with money. For Taki users, there is no discrimination! Anyone has the right to receive & send tips to their favorite creator.

(Taken from the article published on Taki Medium account)

Another difference of the Taki App is the privilege of constructing a social media account like a company. You will specify the income and expense, structure a yearly plan, and follow that plan to reach financial independence with clicks, only. For companies, it’s determined based on the US Dollar, for Taki users, the main currency will be the $TAKI token on the balance sheet. If you consider the primary money-making tool for a company is exporting goods, it will be exporting your idea in Taki App. And lastly, some company shares will pay you dividends. On Taki App, users receive the dividends just after getting any kind of engagement like a comment or follow. User Coins are like a company share on Taki App. The more you have the coins the more you receive the dividends. The more famous user the higher possibility of getting paid over and frequent.

2. What are the ‘User Coins’? How User Coins are Valued?

All Taki users have their coins at the beginning. Those are not minted, sold, or bought by anyone else outside the platform. Only the registered and verified users can have coins. If you consider the Taki platform as a cryptocurrency exchange, those user coins are all the assets that are tradeable but not withdrawable. You can trade in favor and/or against any of the user coins. It only requires you to have some $TAKI, the native token of the platform, for both using it as the payment method and paying the relevant fees.

Now, I’m a registered and verified user of the Taki App. It means that I’ve my coin: insidetrader. In the beginning, the total supply of insidetrader coins was 0, of course. Then, I realize that the number of circulating coins is increasing. When I searched it, I found out that, you may follow the user by simply buying its native coin or insidetrader coin in my example. For early birds, the price against $TAKI was as low as 0.01 $TAKI/ 1 insidetrader but now, it crossed 10x already. The latest price is 0.14 $TAKI/1 insidetrader.

On the other hand, I can buy any user coin I want. For example, as you can see from the wallet section, 8 different cryptocurrencies within the Taki App, including my own. The price is mostly determined by the activity difference between buyers and sellers. But there is an advantage for early adopters: There is a restriction for sellers until the coin reaches 50 circulating supply.

3. How to Find the Best Content Creator for Your Timeline?

This is hard to answer. There is a section called ‘’Top’’ for beginners on the homepage of the app. You can surf to find the most appropriate user through the list. Those are like-minded people & many community members love their content.

Like any other social media platform, there are no limits/restrictions about what you post. Some are showing their drawing skills, some are sharing the photos they already took, and some others posting analyses regarding the stock, crypto markets, or any kind of tradeable assets. Shortly, all of you welcomed! Come and join the waitlist, refer many users, and reach the maximal chance of being an early user today.

4. What is ‘Gold Taki’? What are the Differences Between $TAKI and Gold Taki?

As I previously stated, $TAKI is the native token of the platform. You can use those TAKI tokens for buying others’ coins, following someone you loved the content, participating in the DAO, or rewarding the creator by giving them a like or in other words ‘Gold Taki’.

In traditional social media platforms, there are buttons for you to display if you love the tweet/post. On the Taki App, it’s kinda different. If you want to do more than just follow the guy behind the account, you may reward him/her with a Gold Taki. A Gold Taki costs you 2 $TAKI. Half of it goes directly to the account owner’s wallet, and the remaining half will be divided to coin holders according to their shares. In addition to that coin rewards, the more appreciated content owners will be displayed on the ‘Top’ screen more often. So, it will cause a cascade that feeds itself via a positive feedback mechanism and brings more value & rewards to both account owners and coin shareholders. You can see the total amount of Gold Takis received by the account for the last 7 days. It may help you to choose the right account to follow.

If you want to know more details about the Gold Taki, please see the section on the Wiki page here.

5. How does Taki Participate in the Period of DAOs? What’s the Role of $TAKI Tokens While Governing?

For the last couple of years, the idea of governing the protocols through native tokens has emerged and evolved in positive ways. Nowadays, most of the DeFi platforms integrated voting systems through Snapshot-like organizations to let community members lead the next stop of the platform. The voting power is not equal for individuals, besides that, the voting power is equal for each token you hold. The more tokens you have the more voice you have!

In the beginning, at least, the governance structure is different from the other DeFi platforms. Now, every single user has the same power of choosing the next action regardless of the follower count or tokens in their bags, so the governance scheme depends on the majority’s choice. Please expect that the DAO will evolve into a token-based structure at some point as stated on the wiki documents.

In this early stages, votes take place democratically in the Taki App. Each user is allowed one vote on all proposals. In the future, the DAO will migrate to a $TAKI-based voting mechanism, although the specific mechanism is yet to be determined.

6. Who is the Founding Members? Do They Choose to Stay Anonymous?

One of the most challenging sides of DeFi platforms is the anonymous founders. You can’t even know who built the project, do they have the trust to deposit funds, and did any incident happen before that one… IF you can’t find the appropriate answers even for the 3 basic questions, it results in high barriers for people to deposit funds to operate the network/platform. We’re lucky guys! We have the information about the founding couple: Kevin Chou and Sakina Arsiwala.

Kevin Chou is the founder of SuperLayer and Rally, and he was the CEO of Forte and Kabam. He’s now serving as the Chairman of Gen.G. Those info is taken from his Linkedin profile. Please check his Linkedin profile where you can find valuable information about him and his carrier. Also, he is active on Taki App. With a value of almost 40 $TAKI per user coin, he leads the competition between Taki users.

Sakina has an awesome Linkedin profile for researchers, too. On her page, it’s stated that she worked at Nextdoor, Google, YouTube, and Groupon, previously. And she’s the co-founder of Campfire labs. And she talks about the Taki App: We are re-imagining how content creators can build and own their own personal economies. We want to make onboarding onto Crypto easy, fun, and non-scary!

PART 2. The User Guide

Before diving into the app usage details, I must repeat that you must join the waitlist if you want to use the Taki App to build your own social media empire with no borders. Below is the main screen for waitlisters. Please, fill in the blanks with your email and phone number. That’s all for now. You’re one of the thousands of waiters.

If you’re selected as an alpha-tester, you log in to your account using the phone number and the verification code. After basic verification steps, you’re on the platform. Now, it’s time to structure the personal page & find the right people to follow.

On the right upper corner of the home page, you see the ‘View Profile’ and ‘Settings’ sections. You can modify the profile picture and background, invite friends, and start posting.

Additionally, please be aware that your coin details are located on the same page. You can see who holds your coin, what is the total supply, what’s the pricing against the TAKI token, and many more. If you influence people to invest in your social media account and buy tokens, this will directly affect all those parameters. Please keep an eye on notifications.

After getting familiar with the Profile section, let’s check the homepage. On the page you see in the picture below, there are 3 different parts within the app. The first one is designed for beginners, mostly. It directs you to the pages that have more power compared to others. It means that you may become one of the highlighted accounts. The Top section shows the best content creators. When we talk about the others, ‘My Feed’ and ‘All’, these are more personalized parts of the app. In the ‘All’ section, there is neither limit nor restriction to participation. If you post anything, you’ll be here. It is based on who posts first. The last one, the ‘My Feed’ section includes posts from your following. There are fewer amount of posts but it’s completely for you! You followed them before. Hope you get the right to use the app imminently, so you can test all I stated by yourselves.

What to Expect From Taki App In Coming Years?

The governance structure will change to a token-based model
On-chain User Coins
Launching DEX Liquidity Pools with rewards for broader use on the Solana blockchain
User coins will be tradable for $TAKI via a token bonding curve
Taki subtokens may come in the future: hashtags, profiles, moderators, etc. Any aspect of social media that ought to be tokenized is a possibility.
Extending the referral link amounts and user counts

Make sure you follow the official Twitter account of the Taki App and join the Discord server not to miss any updates.