# Tools TL;DR

**Purpose:** Aggregate community signals to decide on resource allocation for work and project proposals

**Voting Type:** Depends on tool

## **Tools**

**🙌 Praise & Impact Hours -** Rewards system used to acknowledge and reward contributions and provides feedback on what work the community values

**🤖 Discord and Telegram Bots -** Programmable; automates tracking of processes, used for the Praise rewards system

**📈 Conviction Voting (Funding) -** Continuous voting aka “Vote Streaming” aka continuous preference signaling via staking tokens

**Signalling Intervals:** Continuous\
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