Proof of Attention is an Open Source Solana program that attempts to solve fair launch rewards and validate users for genuine engagement and interaction with content or real-world activities. The program uses a combination of variables that can be adjusted including cooldown periods, reward pools, and fee collection to achieve this. Aiming to incentivise engagement and making any application more expensive to bot by removing high frequency transactions to line up with real world interaction times. This is all made possible through Solana's Proof of History mechanism which has an inbuilt clock in the block chain so we can validate time.
The ultimate aim of the program is not to completely stop bots from engaging, but rather to level the playing field so applications can be engaged at a human pace.
The Exploding Button app and $CLICK memecoin are the first in a series of experiments to prove the concept of PoA.