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, please see our Community Member Help section and our Galxe Starboard Guide for Community Users.

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., X activity for a specific topic, 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 and breadth of content and 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. Additionally, Aura evaluates content quality as part of its calculation, assigning higher Aura to posts that are original, insightful, well-structured, and lacking in spam-like qualities.

Unlike traditional engagement metrics, Aura 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, promotion scale, and content quality. The system is designed to provide a fair and consistent measure of contributor influence and effort across the network.

Fair opportunities for small accounts: To ensure all accounts, regardless of size, are recognized for contributions on Starboard, Aura includes content quality as a factor in its computation. Content which is original, well-organized, deeply insightful, and lacking in spam-like qualities will result in the highest possible Aura.

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.

Contributor Leaderboard

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

Aura Score - Reflects how far a user’s posts spread and how valuable they are, based on who engages with them and the quality of the content.
Aura Change - The difference in Aura Score gained or lost during the current period.
Percentage change (+/- %) in Aura Score compared to the previous period
Insight Score - Measures how opinionated or insightful an account’s posts are. Powered by AI, each post is evaluated for personalization, originality, clarity, and depth of analysis, then scored from 0 to 100. The Insight Score also serves as a content weight that directly influences the Aura Score.

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

Navigate to app.galxe.com
Go to 'My Spaces'
Select the relevant space
Select "Manage" once in the space homepage
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: Create a Starboard

1. Go to the "Home" section of the Starboard page

2. Click the "Create" button

3. Include the necessary information, such as the Starboard name and the tracking start and end dates.

This is the section where you add keywords that define your Starboard, such as the project name, X handle (account username), and X name (account display name).

Note: These keywords will be used to help track posts related to your project. Please review them carefully before submitting. Once submitted, keywords cannot be edited, only added.

4. Set the Reward of the Starboard

This section is optional. You can specify rewards such as points, OATs, or other incentives. If you choose not to set a reward, the Starboard will still function normally without affecting post tracking or display.

5. Release the Starboard.

Note: Once a Starboard is created, eligible post data won’t appear right away. It usually takes 1–2 days for the indexer to fetch the posts and update both the Starboard and the Aura score. After the indexing is complete, you will be able to review your Starboard's contents before finally releasing it.

Step 3: 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 4: Use the Customize Period Filter

Click on the Customize Period dropdown (calendar icon in the top right)
Select your preferred start and end dates
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 5: Export Data (If Needed)

Click the Export button (CSV icon) at the top of the Leaderboard panel
Select the format: e.g., Top 100 contributors, Aura filters, etc.
Use the exported list for reward distribution, whitelisting, or further segmentation

Step 6: 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.

User Management

This section allows spaces to blacklist specific users, removing them from appearing on Starboard. It helps maintain the integrity of the rankings by preventing unwanted or ineligible participants from influencing results.

How to blacklist an account on the Starboard:

Go to the dashboard page and head to the Starboard section.
Click the 'User Management' icon.
Enter the X handle/username of the account.

Alternatively, an account can also be blacklisted by going to the Starboard section and clicking the 'Add to blacklist' icon.

Notes:

The ranking data will be updated the following day after blacklisting.
The rankings of blacklisted users will be temporarily removed, which is the expected system behavior.

Starboard Preview

While on the page to create a new space (https://dashboard.galxe.com/onboard), you can use the "Search" function to find and view the Starboard of various projects.

This includes projects with an active Galxe space as well as other major crypto projects.

This functionality provides a valuable preview of the Starboard's capabilities, allowing you to explore the key metrics for different projects. By examining these dashboards, you can better understand how Starboard provides insights into community engagement and contributor activity before you proceed with creating and setting up your own space.

Galxe Starboard is available to Business+ subscribers. To learn more about Galxe Business+, please check this Business+ Overview Guide.

FAQs

How can I activate Starboard for my Galxe Space?

Galxe Starboard is available exclusively to Galxe Business+ users. For more information about Business+, including how to sign up, you can check our Galxe Business+ Overview article.

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.

What if I find a suspicious account ranked on my Starboard?

While Galxe constantly refines its suspicious and bot account flagging system to quickly close vulnerabilities, the lack of public like/view count data from the X API still leaves some room for data manipulation.

If you discover a suspicious account on a Starboard where you are an admin, you may manually blacklist them from the Galxe dashboard.

Here are two ways to blacklist a user:

Through the User Management button on the dashboard.
Through the Contributor Leaderboard section on the dashboard.

Notes:
- The ranking data will be updated the following day after blacklisting.
- The rankings of blacklisted users will be temporarily removed, which is the expected system behavior.

Galxe Starboard: Overview & Setup