MetaNews #12 - September 2023
MetaGame news, updates from the MetaAlliance, and a selection of interesting & panic-inducing links
Hi frens, it’s OCTOber!🐙
September was another big month for the tech team, and you’ll read about that—and much more—in this issue of MetaNews.
👀 First time reader? Check out our video intro to MetaGame for a quick catch up 👀
Giveth Optimism matching round! 😱
Giveth Optimism matching round is on, we’d massively appreciate you supporting this massive online coordination game in the making!
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
A quick welcome to all the newly-arrived Octos (what’s up Neutron), and thanks to joseacabrerav and Peth for hanging out in #metasquare to welcome curious visitors.
Stay tuned for the return of community calls, and remember to check in on Thursdays for Bard’s Night gatherings with joseacabrerav, vanessagil, and special guests.
📱 Technology
September was another UX Squad takeover in the MetaGame technology sector. Looking forward to seeing it all on the live site!
Dave did designs for a unified roles and playbooks page, a combined Player/Patron/Guild section, an expanded Guild membership form, and started work on streamlining the landing page
nitegeist already almost finished building it
Sero sped up the onboarding text crawl, making it faster to get through, worked with dysbulic on the accuracy of the leaderboard rankings, worked with Alec and dysbulic to find the cause of a bug in the leaderboard list, worked with Nitegeist on consistency in the Player and Guild links, and added the ability for players to link in their Dework profile page
Udit Takkar had the long-awaited search functionality for players and guilds merged, working with dysbulic and Sero to get it finished
Alec queued up multisig transactions, made steps towards finishing the last part of Ceramic-funded work, and worked with Dave on improving DAO data pulled into member and Guild MyMeta profiles
dysbulic worked with Sero to tidy up Coordinape distributions, worked on PR reviews and merges, helped joseacabrerav get set up with an ENS profile, worked on gasless minting for MG NFTs, and beat into shape our Hasura set up for staging
HHH made slow progress on the Quest UX improvements 🥳
SUPER MEGA props to Sero, champion of the UX Squad, and 💯 to Peth for providing the vision that’s shaping the site improvements.
🍰 Content
Peth and eowulia published a new episode of the MetaView podcast, with Hugi (Borderlands, Cobudget, Swedish Pirate Party) in to talk about the crossovers between DAOs and co-ops. Thanks to vanessagil for the Twitter promo.
And stay checking out the MetaGame Twitter for clips from MetaFest—eowulia has been making and posting video highlights
🌱 Growth
After grabbing an Optimism grant, Peth started working on getting MetaGame into the Octant program as well
Also check out Peth’s plans for MetaGame’s next steps: What’s Next; Community Gatherings
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Builders have merged the past ~3 months of updates. The website is now 2x faster & includes a plethora - from minor bug fixes to the huge ComposeDB update. Go test & report back pls!
We’re ON for matching - maybe donate on Giveth? 🙃
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Giveth’s GIVbacks are now on Optimism, too. Read about that and more in their latest newsletter - tl;dr the round is already live! Consider donating 🙏
DAOhaus Demo Day happened! Showcased a bunch of cool projects
Opolis dropped tips on taxes
dOrg updated their case studies section—Stark Ware, Tezos, DoinGud, and more
Check out the Safary Web3 Growth Canon, and take in their debate on Quests as a web3 growth channel
Details for devs on Ceramic’s new Query Filtering and Ordering in ComposeDB
MetaAlliance team-up: Bloom Network in dOrg’s newsletter
rnDAO is cooking up a new product, has to do with AI 👀
Token Engineering Commons has a 25K grant pool available for ‘empirical explorers of the Web3 realm’
Check a Commons Stack guide to using Aragon OS to create an OP-based DAO
Giveth posted on how to support aid relief efforts for Morocco and Libya
MetaFactory is raising funds for Tornado Cash devs—buy a t-shirt, or donate directly
🔭 Meta™
Week in Ethereum News: September 2; September 9; September 16; September 23; September 30
Week in DAOs: September 7; September 14; September 21; September 28
Week in Web3: September 1; September 8; September 15; September 22; September 29
A guide to personal privacy and security
On the incoming Polygon upgrade
Forks are good (Nouns Project)
Crypto is like a casino on Mars
GPT can do web search again? (If you’re a subscriber)
New Vitalik interview on Zuzalu
Feÿtopia—a 40+ person seasonal community in a French castle (h/t Agartha)
Liberalism and capitalism have hollowed out society – so where do we turn now?
Last Week in Collapse: September 3; September 10; September 17; September 24
Daniel Schmachtenberger l An introduction to the Metacrisis l Stockholm Impact/Week 2023
Tasting the Pickle: Ten flavours of meta-crisis and the appetite for a new civilisation
Timelines full of bad war takes
🐙 Onwards!
As the UX/UI squad starts wrapping up its raid, we’ll be continuing the community calls. Interested in being a guest - DM @petheth! More soon!™️
You might’ve noticed this is MetaNews #12 - which means its been a full year of MetaGame news in this format - standalone Chainlog & MetaAlliance + Meta.
What do you want next?
Felicitations,
HHH