# 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
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### RANK

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

![Click this button to create proposals](https://705057112-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FeIB76FWu0QFd5N508RQo%2Fuploads%2FrAMmKyqxOVmd3SNwu5Pc%2Fpropose.png?alt=media\&token=5055f18c-7ea4-423d-b210-8efa647fdff0)

![Your rank proposals show up under new Rank](https://705057112-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FeIB76FWu0QFd5N508RQo%2Fuploads%2FuxzHtmkk7ookhHrB9Dv4%2Fa%20New%20Rank%20proposal.png?alt=media\&token=992a6dd6-a605-4cfc-a50e-c318546a73ee)

### Discussion links

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

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### Closing proposals

![you can find all your proposals here](https://705057112-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FeIB76FWu0QFd5N508RQo%2Fuploads%2FwhpBnRMucIdfWmakj9Og%2Fmyproposals.png?alt=media\&token=8a242365-bc15-4a3b-ada9-cbbef470d717)

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