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Airdrops increasingly weight provable contributions: proposal creation, voting frequency, delegated voting power, committee service, forum discussion quality, and working-group deliverables. Participation scores may consider streaks, quorum impact, and on-chain execution roles (e.g., multisig signers). DAOs also leverage reputation frameworks and attestations so non-token efforts—documentation, translations, community moderation, tooling—earn credit. Delegation systems can reward both delegates and their constituents. To prevent mercenary governance, some programs include lockups or vesting for governance-based allocations, aligning recipients with long-term stewardship. Practically, consistent, high-signal contributions over time outperform sporadic voting, and sybil-resistant identity increases credit attribution. Tracking contributions in public CRMs, Git repos, and governance dashboards ensures your work is captured at snapshot time.