I don't understand the negativity. 

We're giving the top 100 casters $5 in USDC every day. No other conditions or gotchas. Just a small thank you for contributing something valuable. 

We also tried to make the algorithm more friendly to smaller accounts (by normalizing followers).

(He has claimed he muted me, yet...)

For me, $5/day is enough to pay my phone/internet bill each month, which means I can keep creating content, which makes it a fun extra bit of flow cuz it all adds up.  Just like on other platforms, it's not the only way to get a bit of flow flowing, but it *is* really nice to have recognition from the platform itself that you're doing good work.  Incentives don't have to be huge to be rational motivators.