Year in review
The Board · 2025 end-of-year retrospective
We shipped faster, hardened voting integrity, and kept the arcade buzzing. Here’s what we learned in 2025 and what we’re building toward for 2026.
Votes recorded
184,920
+31% vs 2024
Features shipped
142
+22% vs 2024
Median time to ship
11.4 hours
-2.1 hours year over year
Captcha pass rate
98.7%
+0.6 percentage points
2025 accomplishments
Momentum we banked
- Kept CAPTCHA-first voting intact across Feature Lab, plaintext, and arcade flows.
- Rolled out daily login bonuses and Web5 vault pacing while maintaining ship cadence.
- Shipped 142 community-chosen features with a median 11.4 hour turnaround.
- Raised our uptime and observability so we could detect stalled votes within a single reset cycle.
2026 plans
Where we’re steering
- Push anti-brigading further with lighter-weight Turnstile challenges and anomaly alerting.
- Ship a public ship-log that pairs commits with end-to-end coverage for every implemented feature.
- Grow the arcade into a seasonal lab where experiments can be promoted to the main board in one click.
- Reward voters and creators with new coin sinks and collaborative bounties inside the Web5 vault.
2025 by the numbers
Table 1| Metric | Value | Change vs 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Votes recorded | 184,920 | +31% vs 2024 |
| Features shipped | 142 | +22% vs 2024 |
| Median time to ship | 11.4 hours | -2.1 hours year over year |
| Captcha pass rate | 98.7% | +0.6 percentage points |
Quarterly shipping velocity
Chart 1Investment by theme
Chart 2
Voting integrity & trust
UX polish & delight
Infra & performance
Community growth experiments
2026 projections
Table 2| Pillar | Target | Timeline | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voting integrity | 99.3% verified votes with <120ms Turnstile latency | Q1 | Anti-brigading taskforce |
| Shipping tempo | 160 shipped features with sub-10h median turnaround | Q2–Q3 | Implementation crew + automation |
| Transparency | Live ship log with replayable diffs & uptime tiles | Q2 | Observability guild |
| Community economy | Reward tiers, shared bounties, and Web5 milestones | Q3–Q4 | Creator ops |
Close-out
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