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# Join to the DAO

In order to have catalog content, a developer has to code it first.

Ricardian Fabric pays token rewards for successful contribution.

To Participate, you must sign the DAO terms.

### Staking

After this, you need to approve spend and stake. You need to stake 3000 RIC to join the DAO. This will unlock some functionalities in the DAO.

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Staking is for sybill resistance
{% endhint %}

### RANK

If you want to contribute, you need RANK. To earn RANK , create a RANK proposal

![Click this button to create proposals](/files/K2XRqszoyFWJ2g38mtHL)

![Your rank proposals show up under new Rank](/files/VWcTgCjX6uA0fMO4UQj9)

### Discussion links

For creating the discussion links, you can use the github discussion on the project's page:

{% embed url="<https://github.com/Ricardian-Fabric/Ricardian-Fabric/discussions>" %}

### Closing proposals

![you can find all your proposals here](/files/eC1mSx8cyK7vRKJNuBgD)

All the proposals submitted by you are available under the My Proposals tab.

After the voting period has concluded, you can close your proposals here