When developing on-chain applications, many people have this experience: the indexing scripts they work hard on are only useful within their own team, and become useless elsewhere. Chainbase's Manuscript mechanism essentially provides a channel for 'script monetization'.
The scripts you write can be uploaded as manuscripts, allowing others to call them directly, and you can receive token rewards. Moreover, the rewards are tied to actual usage; the more practical and stable your script is, the more you earn.
This design is quite clever, as it enhances reusability and encourages developers to produce higher quality work. Over time, Chainbase evolves into not just a data API platform, but a living 'data application market'.
These manuscripts can still be combined. If you take someone else's event extraction script and overlay your own address image script, you can quickly create a new feature. For developers, this is akin to having 'Lego blocks', making it much faster than working solo.
Manuscript turns 'code that was originally worth just the price of a takeout meal' into an asset that can repeatedly generate income. This is quite enticing for developers.
