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Galxe Starboard: Overview & Setup

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This article is for Galxe Space Owners managing Quests and Spaces. If you're looking for information as a community member, such as participating in quests & campaigns, please see our Community Member Help section.

Galxe Starboard is a real-time insights dashboard that enables tracking of on-chain or community activity. It highlights social engagement and on-chain behavior through visual summaries and flexible filters. It helps users identify key contributors, monitor ecosystem dynamics, and uncover opportunities for deeper engagement.

More than a tracker, Galxe Starboard includes a goal-based campaign engine that gamifies growth. Projects can set objectives (e.g., Twitter activity, on-chain actions), rank participants on a transparent leaderboard, and reward top contributors, aligning incentives with measurable results.

Key Metrics at a Glance

The Key Metrics Panel delivers a high-level overview of community performance through five core indicators.

  • Aura Index - Combines all Aura Scores related to a specific topic or project across the network. A higher index indicates greater brand awareness.

  • Sentiment - Tracks the prevailing tone of community conversations, typically derived from replies, reactions, and comments.

  • Smart Posts - Highlights the volume of posts created by high-impact users.

  • All Posts - Total count of social posts mentioning or tagging the project.

  • Active Contributors - Number of unique users currently contributing to the conversation.

Understanding Aura

What is Aura?

Aura is a Web3 social influence credit scoring system that quantifies both the quality (endorsement by whom) and breadth (reach) of content dissemination, providing verifiable market resonance metrics for project teams.

The Aura Score reflects how extensively and credibly a user’s social content (e.g., a Twitter/X post) propagates across networks, including whose recognition it gains (e.g., KOLs, institutional investors). Higher propagation reach and endorsements from high-value community members correlate with a higher Aura Score.

Unlike traditional engagement metrics, Aura innovatively integrates:

  • Precision Influence Assessment: Aura evaluates not only dissemination breadth (reposts/views) but also depth of influence via the Account Value (AV) system (e.g., a KOL’s reshare triggers exponential Aura growth).

    The Account Value (AV) represents the relative influence and activity level of a user.

  • Anti-Manipulation Mechanisms: A dynamic damping factor suppresses fake account inflation, ensuring 1 KOL reshare > 100 low-value user interactions.

Why it matters

Web3 marketing struggles to quantify the true impact of content, with ad spend and airdrop rewards often untraceable to real value. This leads to rampant resource waste.

Industry Pain Points

Aura’s Solutions

Technical Implementation

Fake engagement drains budgets

Value-weighted network filters low-quality users

Automated AV-based downranking of spam accounts

Airdrops miss genuine contributors

Identifies high-Aura core propagators

Propagation path tracing + contribution quantification algorithms

KOL influence remains opaque

Differentiates propagation weight by AV tiers

Markov chain-based network influence ranking

Showcase:

  • Traditional metrics: 100K retweets (80% from bot accounts).

  • Aura: 20K valid engagements (including 15 from AV>500 KOLs).

How it’s computed

Aura is calculated based on a combination of factors, such as who promotes the content and promotion scale, which reflect both reach and quality of engagement. The system is designed to provide a fair and consistent measure of contributor influence across the network.

Difference between Aura Score and Aura Index

The Aura Index aggregates all Aura Scores for a specific topic/project across the network. A higher index signifies stronger brand awareness.

Aura Index Trend Card

The Aura Index aggregates all individual Aura Scores for a specific topic or project across the network. A higher index signifies stronger brand awareness and overall contributor impact.

Displayed as a dynamic graph, the Aura Index Trend Card helps teams track how community influence evolves over time, highlighting spikes in engagement, campaign momentum, or drops that may signal declining visibility.

Community Engagement Highlights

Followers Overview

Understand your reach with the Followers Overview card. It displays:

  • The total follower count on X

  • A breakdown of top contributors within your follower base. Helpful for identifying power users and amplifiers.

Trending Topics & Hot Posts

This section captures what's gaining traction:

  • Trending Topics - Keywords or hashtags on the rise within your community

  • Hot Posts - High-engagement posts that are shaping the conversation

Contributor Leaderboard

See who’s making waves. The Contributor Leaderboard ranks users based on:

  • Aura Score

  • Aura Change

  • Percentage change (+/- %) in Aura Score compared to the previous period

Toggling between timeframes (All-time, 1 Day, 7 Days, 30 Days) allows for monitoring performance trends and quickly identifying emerging contributors.

Note:

Galxe Starboard is currently in beta and available to a limited number of Galxe Spaces. If you have any questions or would like to know more, please fill out this form: https://tally.so/r/n0AM7y

Starboard Credentials

Beyond real-time tracking, Galxe Starboard allows projects to turn insights into actionable quest tasks. Using this data, projects can create goal-based tasks that drive participation and reward meaningful community contributions.

Projects can start with the following sample credentials when setting up tasks:

1. Aura Count – Users who meet a specific Aura threshold on the Starboard.

Example: Have more than 10 Aura

2. Social Contributor Ranking - Users who meet the required ranking on the Social Starboard.

Example: Belong to the Top 100 of Social Contributors

Note:

Starboard credentials are not available when using Quick Quest Creation.

Self-Served Dashboard

The Galxe Starboard Self-Serve Dashboard is a powerful interface designed to give space owners direct access to detailed analytics, contributor leaderboards, and customizable insights all without needing to rely on manual support or internal configuration.

With this tool, you can:

  • Monitor top contributors based on Aura

  • Customize the analytics timeframe with the Customize Period feature

  • Export contributor lists for rewards or campaign planning

  • Create and track Starboard Credential-based tasks more intuitively

Key Features

Self-Serve Dashboard Functionality

  • Access live metrics and leaderboard data directly from your Space dashboard

  • Filter and segment contributor data by custom date ranges

  • View rankings by Aura Score, Aura Change %, and other Starboard indicators

  • Enable fast tracking and exporting of top participants

Customize Period

The Customize Period selector allows you to choose a flexible date range for analyzing performance metrics. You’re no longer limited to fixed periods like “Last 7 Days” or “Last 30 Days” instead, tailor the timeframe to match your campaign or Quest duration.


How to Use the Self-Serve Starboard Dashboard

Step 1: Access Your Space Dashboard

  1. Navigate to app.galxe.com

  2. Go to 'My Spaces'

  3. Select the relevant space

  4. From the left-hand menu, click on Starboard

Note: If you don’t see the Starboard tab, your Space may not have access yet. Please contact the Galxe team for early access.


Step 2: Explore Leaderboard Metrics

You’ll land on the Starboard Leaderboard View, where you can see a ranked list of contributors based on their Aura Score within your selected time range.

Here you can:

  • Switch timeframe views: 'All Time, 1D, 7D, 30D, or use the Customize Period calendar to select a custom date range for leaderboard data

  • View contributor wallets and Aura Scores to identify top participants

  • Click Create to start building a Quest based on leaderboard insights

  • Click Manage to review or update existing Starboard-based Quests


Step 3: Use the Customize Period Filter

  1. Click on the Customize Period dropdown (calendar icon in the top right)

  2. Select your preferred start and end dates

  3. Click Apply

The leaderboard and all visual metrics will refresh to reflect data from this specific range. Ideal for evaluating contributor performance during specific campaign windows or testing time-bound engagement.


Step 4: Export Data (If Needed)

  1. Click the Export button (CSV icon) at the top of the Leaderboard panel

  2. Select the format: e.g., Top 100 contributors, Aura filters, etc.

  3. Use the exported list for reward distribution, whitelisting, or further segmentation


Step 5: Create Quests with Starboard Credentials

Use the leaderboard data to define Starboard Credentials as Quest requirements:

  • Aura Threshold

    Example: "User must have more than 10 Aura"

  • Ranking Requirement

    Example: "User must be in Top 100 contributors this week"

Note: Starboard Credentials are not available when using Quick Quest Creation. Use the full Quest creation form.

FAQs

Will the Starboard dashboard update in real-time?

Yes, data refreshes continuously to reflect the most recent contributor activity and Aura propagation.

Can I filter contributors by wallet address or specific actions?

Not at this stage. Filtering is primarily based on Aura metrics and timeframes, but more granular filters are planned in future releases.

How is Aura Score calculated?

Aura measures both breadth and quality of content propagation. It factors in who shares your content and how influential those accounts are. Learn more here.

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