#123 - Calm Before The Storm 👀
Is Nova about to wake up from her summer sleep? Yessir!
I just woke up from an 18h sleep after coming back from a 3+ week trip to Burning Man + MCON + Regens Unite with a bunch of cities in-between.
This means I broke my record from my 2019 trip to MetaCartel Demo Day & ETHBerlin - where MetaGame was born. Some of you may remember:
All I will say for now is that I am as pumped about MetaGame as I was on that day and this time - MetaGame 1.0 is right around the corner 👀
Wait, WTF is MetaGame?
Hey, welcome new subscribers! There’s quite a few of you, thank you! 🙏
For the fresh; MetaGame is a massive online coordination game with the goal of building an interface for new kinds of socioeconomic systems & finding the most optimal ways to play life on a personal as well as the collective level.
That’s a mouthful, I know. Just consider it a real-life MMO-RPG & know we’re currently building an operating system for composable communities, a modular front-end for web3 legos as well as producing educational & other media, organizing events & well, who knows what all the other guilds of MetaGame are doing.
Wow, there’s really no simple way of putting it; MetaGame is weird as shit.
But its fun 🤷♂️
Cya in there?
8th Seasoning & MetaGame 1.0 Launch
As some of you may be aware, season 7 is about to close & season 8 about to open.
As you may know, season 8 brings about the launch of 1.0.
If you want to know more, either read the previous newsletter about MetaGame 1.0 or wait for the next one.
‼️ You should know 👇
Season 8 opening ceremony is this Friday at 4pm UTC
(yes, this means Community Gatherings are continuing)MetaGame 1.0 is set to launch on 8th of October at 8pm UTC.
Btw, all MetaFest 2 videos are (re)up
Yeah, all 100+ sessions - you can find the full playlist here:
Btw #2, MetaFest 3 will happen IRL 👀
Yep, you’ve heard it.
There will be a special newsletter dedicated to it so all I’ll say for now is that you should prepare for a festival & a vacation in Croatia - starting on a 200 years old fortress including all kinds of activities the surrounding area & communities offer.
In case you’re impatient, here’s this early draft 👈
DM @peth if you want a 20%-off early bird sponsor pack 👀
Also consider 👇
🗞️ This newsletter…
You may secure yourself a shill space in this newsletter & help it become self-sustainable for cheap.
Now at >7.4k subs, up ~35% since the announcement of this ad space opening. Which means its currently going up at 23%/month (almost 2x our projection in the announcement post 👀)
So, an update:
>5.5k subs, growing at ~12%/month with ~26% open rate>7.4k subs, growing at ~23%/month & heading into a big MetaGame 1.0 announcement, just sayin’ 🤷♂️
Reserve this spot for as low as $420/issue
Or a total of $4.2k for the next ~6 months (12 issues) as it grows
toover 10k subs 👀
Interested? DM @peth on discord, telegram or twitter.
Securing your spot in the queue 🌱
MetaGamers have approved selling pSeeds to patrons directly from the multisig.
This makes it a shitton easier to patron as well as removes the slippage & the 4% fee.
The only downside: we only have ~$20k in the multisig.
Why does this matter?
In the spirit of MetaGame, our next fundraise will again focus on raising $5-10-20k from a wide network of individuals & DAOs rather than VCs.
Having only ~$20k to sell from the multisig means there will be a whole lot of recycling & the queue to raise $1-3m may be looong.
Current plan is to launch MetaGame 1.0, reignite the community & the platform, polish things & start another fundraise, which should coincide with the spending of the remaining $50k worth of ETH in the Seed Fund DAO.
I have already written up a solid list of interested people at Burning Man & MCON but I figured it would be fair to offer you, our dear subscribers, dibs on being the first in queue to buy your share of the Seed plantation directly from MetaFam 😇
The sooner you join, the better 🤷♂️
Interested? DM @peth on discord, telegram or twitter
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
Sometimes, a community can get together to do great things. And sometimes, it’s the small things that add up to make a great thing. People/robots/pseudonyms/anons of the MetaGame Discord—we must come together now (or if not now, maybe in the next week, if that’s okay?) to prevent Villager-NPC from dominating the Discord.
In non-Villager-NPC news …
joseacabrerav and Vanessa Gil teamed up to bring you three more episodes of Bard’s Night, with guests Stick Up Boys, Guido Corleone, and Darren from nft_tunz
Polimyl now has multisig powers ⚡
Community activity has been very low with less than 10 people quietly but actively pushing towards MetaGame 1.0 release & the reignition 🔥
📱 Technology
The Onboarding game has become fully operational.
peth wrote the words and made the map
luxumbra took peth’s words and map and built it out into an interactive game, with matrix-y sprinkles and an NFT easter egg
dysbulic and dan13ram reviewed luxumbra’s work
Next step: you will be able to try it out
Quest Chains
dan13ram wrote an SDK for Questchains, which was immediately used by vid to pull a sample quest chain into MetaOS
peth & vid are coordinating with PageDAO to craft up a batch of onboarding quests which will be used for the first integration of Quest Chains into MyMeta
Dave revamped designs for the quests review flow, which will enable bundling multiple reviews into a single transaction. This should make the dApp usable on a much grander scale!
Gitcoin grant for Quest Chains got approved!
Also,
luxumbra and Alec sent through another Mint, and switched in Polimyl for multisig ops ☝
tenfinney and dysbulic kept up the work on ‘Chievmints—redeployments, integrations, and a token for testers of the Onboarding game
fiyin worked on new designs for MyMeta’s Patrons, Players, and Guild Pages
dysbulic started making preps for his version of a pair-programming sprint, with plans to make a context forest version of a filesystem. You’ve heard of an all-nighter, yes. But what about tag-team pair-programming for three whole days, 24/7?
🍰 Content
peth interviewed Ven Gist, touching on frontiers of coordination in DAOs, pioneering in DAOs, growth vs. sustainability, and more. Production by eowulia, show notes by Vanessa Gil, promo by Anna. Check it out: Pioneers & Settlers; Going Fast & Far
🌱 Growth
peth put in a funding proposal at MolochDAO and got on a call with ebunayo and the builder team at Web3bridge
peth & eowulia came back from a crusade of shilling MetaGame and finding new guilds & patrons at MCON & beyond
Newsletter subscriptions kept on peaking, up 23% over previous month besides only 1 new issue & almost no community activity
⚔️ MetaAlliance
It’s been a while since we caught up with the MetaAlliance happenings. For this issue of the newsletter, we scrolled so much Twitter that our browser did a go-slow protest. Apologies in advance if we missed something!
Bloom Network’s social network Bloom Platform will be viewable soon! See a demo on Youtube
Donate at least 100 DAI/xDAI/wxDAI to the Giveth project, get on the PFP pre-mint list, and get some $nice, too. Find out how
MetaFactory dropped a Merge Checklist tee
DAOhaus’ Jord recorded a code sesh at MCON that shows how to make an app using DAOhaus v3 libraries. Watch on Youtube
Opolis is in Cohort #2 of the DAO Experts program
Want to dump your post-Merge PoW ETH? Go via Giveth and DumpPoWEth to send a cut to climate-friendly recipients.
Commons Stack shared a blog on Commons Market Makers and how they can help purpose-driven communities.
ProjectArk hosted Vivienne Tam on a Twitter space to talk about the NFT Fashion Show – replay it here
Head to the Diamante Bridge Collective with Bloom Network for a month of full immersion in Embodied Permaculture concepts
What’s up at Deep Work Studio? Read all about it on their Substack, including an video interview that covers finding work in web3
See a short video about how Safary is using their Discord server to help their members
Raid Guild’s latest State of the Raid is out. Read all about it
For the French-language fam, dOrg’s phil_h did a TEDx talk on DAOs, regarder la vidéo sur Youtube
Aspiring ETH dev? Hit up BuidlGuidl and Austin Griffith
Commons Stack’s rewards system Praise is live on the Gnosis Chain Discord server. What’s that all about?
Thinking about summoning a DAO? Read a thread on RnDAO’s DAO Blocks framework
MetaFactory’s “Probably Nothing” polo sweatshirt is back in stock.
What if your DAO could send tokens inside a time-locked NFT? That’s Hedgey NFTs, by DAOhaus and Hedgey Finance
Meta Gamma Delta DAO is a grants-giving DAO that supports women-led initiatives. They’re launching grant-giving Seasons and Educational Fellowships – read more here
Join the Complexity Weekend!
Also! A bunch of the MetaAlliance fam are in the Gitcoin GR15 round. Like what they’re doing? Help out with a donation.
Help the Commons Stack core crew deploy more features
Help Bloom Network do tech updates and onboard new Bloomers
Help dOrg’s Leo Marlo create a standard for on-chain voting frameworks
Support RnDAO’s community health project
Atlantis World wants to keep it independent
Support Token Engineering Commons
Also maybe support this whole list 🤷♂️
Don’t forget about your pals at MetaGame! Help us power up to get MyMeta and MetaOS moving more quickly.
🔭 Meta
Happy merge! Ethereum goes green, deflecting all climate activist’ criticism!
🎩 Open Roles 🎩
Here are some of the open roles 👇
🛠️ Builder - Are you a TypeScript wiz, a React.js virtuoso or maybe a data structures nerd? Frontend or backend, devs and coders are the life-blood of this space and the doors are always open if you are one. Come and introduce yourself in 🛠️-builders-guild or get right into the action😇
📣 Shiller - Promote MetaGame and its products in any adjacent DAO or the crypto community and keep the social media audience engaged.
💩 Shitposter - Come up with dank memes & witty tweets to post on Twitter, drop in 🐤-tweet-arena
🧙 Adoption Wizard - With MyMeta ready & the rest of the platform almost ready, its time to go out & talk to more communities that might be interested in joining MetaGame or using MetaOS.
‼️ Note: Got any questions about any of the roles? Don’t hesitate to ask!
🐙 Onwards!
As mentioned already:
Season 8 opening ceremony is this Friday at 4pm UTC
(yes, this means Community Gatherings are continuing)MetaGame 1.0 is set to launch on 8th of October at 8pm UTC
Want to get involved? You may start today by jumping through the onboarding game or joining tomorrow’s Champions Ring at 4pm UTC - yes, open to all members now!
Too soon? Join us this Friday for The 8th Seasoning & the continuation of Community Gatherings!
Still too early? Wait for the massive 1.0 launch newsletter & see all the ways to get involved, laid out better than ever 🙃
Much love ❤️,
Hhh & peth