MetaNews #17 - March 2024
DAO Spring, new champions and more!
Welcome, welcome, and welcome to your regular (mostly) update on MetaGame happenings and general news.
(And that is the Octo-tentacled Web3 and DAO-connecting MetaGame, not the “online e-sports MetaGame” who snaked our custom Discord invite link 😠)
We’re about to start our Season 14 journey, and with that, we had proposals for the Championing of various MetaGame IBUs (IBU – Internal Business Unit. That’s a technical term, because we’re professionals).
There were large amounts of discussions on the proposals and voting.
The results …
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Welcome, fearless, your Shilling Champion for Season 14! 🏆
Welcome, Omka FKA tomni, your Innkeeping Champion for Season 14! 🎖
Welcome back Sero, the incumbent and returning Tech Champion for Season 14! 🥇
DAO Spring!!!
First things first - DAO Spring is starting in less than a week!
For those who need to be clued in, DAO Spring is the first DAO acceleration/incubation program. And it‘s about to get started.
Do you have a…
DAO idea?
A struggling DAO?
A DAO that just got started?
A project ready to evolve into a DAO?
Sign up at https://daospring.org
Wait, WTF is MetaGame?
A massive online coordination game in the making - a mash-up of an educational, social and freelancing platform and an MMO-RPG, using Web3 to build a new game of life and stick it to Moloch.
Our first goal is building THE place to learn about DAOs, join the DAO ecosystem & get support for your DAO. If you’re interested, join us or watch this video 👀
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
We held Town Halls on March 15 and March 24.
March 15
Co-own your Onchain Assets with Gmehta of lore.xyz (Replay Co-own your Onchain Assets on MetaMedia Youtube)
Build Your Own Games with Andy Boyan of Infinity Keys (Replay Build Your Own Games on MetaMedia Youtube)
March 24
Accountability and reputation in grants with Mashesh Murthy of KarmaHQ (replay version coming soon)
Update on PageDAO with T. Dylan Daniel (replay version coming soon)
Each Townhall begins with a MetaFam hosted chill session – next time drop in, hang out.
Also in community action …
The Town Halls were recorded and live-streamed by koH, hosted by joseacabrerav and koH, with flyers and promo by joseacabrerav and vanessagil
We hit up ETHDenver to hand out some How to Shill flyers and recruit new members and Guilds (koH)
Bard’s Night, a musical hangout in the Discord server was hosted by joseacabrerav
New Octos were welcomed and initiated by joseacabrerav and peth
We kept the server safe by booting scammy bots that showed up (dysbulic, joseacabrerav)
Props to dysbulic for helping joseacabrerav get that Nitro upgrade for extra bridgebuilding power, and for a quick distro of Seeds to the Coordinape circle
In March the community also enjoyed a “robust discussion” on the evolution of MetaGame that was set off by the MetaNode proposal and various Championing submissions, with several long-inactive MG OGs dropping by to offer advice. It did get a little heated at times, but hey, cheers for chatting to the regulars, OGs, and drive-by drama enthusiasts
Big thanks to new Octos Friday for the issue reports, and Jesuscoins for going through all the playbooks.
📱 Technology
Large amounts of work went into the preps for moving the site login and ID over to Wallet Connect (Sero, dysbulic, Udit Takkar)
More improvements were made on the MetaLinks project, with work on the landing page, search functionality, Donate Tab, and Guild Tab for Meta Links (Udit Takkar)
Other updates and improvements to the website included some minor fixes to the MegaMenu, an update to the link for Player membership subscriptions, the return of the Guild signup form, and updates to the sign-up page (Sero, nitegeist)
Farcaster Frames, so hot right now. dysbulic, Sero, and crew spent a bunch of hacking on a frame to help a Farcaster user claim a MetaLinks profile.
The builder crew put together a Webflow site for DAOSpring (Polimyl, peth)
We’re looking at Charmverse to replace Notion for docs management, with dysbulic, Polimyl, and Sero getting things started
The Quest Chains mint NFT is working again, go forth and mint your quests (dan13ram, vid)
‘Chievments is modernizing, now with Optimism chain support courtesy of dysbulic
🍰 Content
Check MetaMedia on Youtube for playbacks of recent guest features and MetaGame Town Hall action—new content includes Sky’s “Finding Your Sweet Spot in a DAO”, bestape’s “Legal Engineering Q&A”, Oops’s “Community Stewardship”, “DAO Politics and Governance Minimalism” with TokenBrice, and “From DAOs to Coordinations” with Primavera De Filippi. Click here to go find it all.
Did you catch the post on the Easiest Way to Earn in MetaGame?
As always, video versions, edits, transcripts, uploads, interviews, and promo by eowulia, peth, and vanessagil, with extra assistance this month from koH.
🌱 Growth
We set up a survey to help new contributors get more into MetaGame (joseacabrerav, Omka, peth)
We used connections to get early access to YUP for more efficient promo. (Nice work joseacabrerav)
Props to joseacabrerav for all the work on booking guests for Town Halls, and for spreading the word on MetaGame across other servers and guilds
PSA: Applications to join Kernel B9 now open!
Choose your own adventure and “explore your own craftsmanship in web3-adjacent adventures with wonderful peers and mentors at Kernel.”
👉 Applications for the July-September block
VDAO event series
Aaand our friends over at VDAO are regularly organizing regen spaces, go check them out why don‘t ya!
⚔️ MetaAlliance
MetaFactory presents the HPOS10i Genesis Racing Kit, “the first product at the intersection of Physical Goods, Memecoins, and the Metaverse”, and the Choose Rich tee.
RnDAO shared talks from GovHack at ETHDenver and a piece on the Eth Dencun upgrade
Ceramic hit 10 Ms on Mainnet
DAOhaus shared yeet.haus, “unruggable crowdfunding”
Catch a recap of Opolis’s Career Hub event at ETHDenver
Giveth reminds community members that donations can now be accepted via Arbitrum
Bloom Network shared a member project from Sicily and good news from Costa Rica
Token Engineering Academy dropped in for a chat at w3.hub
Breadchain Cooperative is moving over to Gnosis Chain
BuidlGuidl dropped some new Scaffold-ETH 2 demos
Token Engineering Commons got that Gitcoin match, congrats!
Giveth’s $Giv is now available on Solana
Commons Stack shared Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3!?
Some of the dOrg crew snapped up 1st place for Best use of 4337 Account Abstraction at London’s ETHGlobal
Read a RnDAO post on Compensation in early stage teams
🔭 Meta™
Week in Ethereum News: March 2; March 9; March 16; March 23; March 29
This Week in Web3: March 1; March 8; March 15; March 22; March 29
Last Week in Collapse: March 3; March 10; March 17; March 24; March 31
Vision Pro is an over-engineered “devkit”—deep dive on Vision Pro by the former head of Oculus at Meta
Cognition is calling Devin the first AI Software Engineer
Blob scaling and danksharding are actual things
The xz/liblzma backdoor saga—Wired.com “The mystery of Jia Tan” (archive link), “xz-utils Github repository disabled”, “Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor”
I was, as usual,
HHH
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