MetaNews #18 - April 2024
April updates, Champion’s check in, and more.
Here we go!
… but wait!
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 👀
New champions check-in 🏆
April was Omka’s first full month as Innkeeping Champion. As well as upgrades to some of the MG internal processes and forms we saw a full schedule of Town Halls and calls, plus regular Innkeeping Guild check-ins, work securing grants and funding.
April was also fearless’s first full month as Shilling Champ. After getting set up with access to all the socials the promo poasting began.
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
A busy month for Town Halls and Community Calls!
April 5
Trigs of Kleomedes came in to chat about Beating the System with Positive Sum Collaboration
Clara from dOrg talked about Regen Architecture with a focus on housing communities and Web3
April 19
Gabriel from Armitage shared their vision for the future usage of Sourcecred
April 23
fearless hosted a Twitter Space with James of Octant, covering public goods and win-win.
April 26
Graven from GeoWeb gave an intro to Streaming Quadratic Funding in the Metaverse
Mekail & Jade from GreenPill Network shared information on regenerative systems
Town Hall bookings, promo, hosting, and ops by Omka, fearless, joseacabrerav, koH. (And check below in the Content section to find links to view replays of calls)
Also
We kept the community clean for you by blocking scam bots (joseacabrerav, Polimyl)
And welcome welcome to newly-active Octo Nature Boy (Basil). Ric Flair voice: woo!
📱 Technology
Announcement: we have New Versions of Stuff, with our database getting 4 versions newer on its way to a new home at Supabase, our Ceramic node is now nearly twice as awesome as before (was v2.9, now v5.9), and we’re now on
ethers v6. Thanks to tech wizards dysbulic and Polimyl for the updatesMetaLinks now has Ethereum Address Service and Werk NFTs, and it’s getting closer to be ready for release (Sero, Udit Takkar)
We’ve switched to Optimism chain for MetaGame profiles (Sero, Udit Takkar)
We’re adding in Ethereum Attestations (Sero, dysbulic)
🍰 Content
The MetaMedia Content Factory was red-hot.
The March MetaAlliance list got made into MetaNews #1, an audio-visual experience featuring commentary and chat from peth and METADREAMER, laboriously produced by eowulia
Week later, they were already on to record MetaNews #2! So looks like this will be a weekly thing for METADREAMER & peth 👀
A whole playlist of clips and short videos was added to MetaMedia by eowulia
We’ve got recordings of selected Town Halls available for replay, thanks to koH, Omka, and eowulia. Check Clara’s presentation on Regen Architecture, Trigs’s talk on Positive Sum Collaboration and others on MetaMedia.
🌱 Growth
MetaGame needs funding to keep building and we were busy working on that, staying active on Gitcoin rounds and Giveth and Octant grants (Omka, fearless)
We started migrating to Charmverse for docs management (Omka, dysbulic)
⚔️ MetaAlliance
What’s up with the MetaAlliance?
MetaCartel teases MCON 😱
Token Engineering Commons has a grant round going, with matching by GitCoin
See an interview on Self Sovereignty with Ceramic’s co-founder, and catch them at ETH Boston
See who was pitching what on RnDAO’s Pitch Day, and published their latest newsletter
Agartha shared an article on off-grid communities in the US and Europe, and published their own post on infrastructure that supports a Village as a Living Being
MetaGame OG Anna from RefiDao went on a Twitter Space with Giveth
Opolis dropped some tips to help freelancers keep their schedule full and choosing the right business entity to unlock tax advantages and protect personal assets
Giveth’s $GIV is now listed on the LBANK CEX, here’s how to buy some
“The Blobs Got Congested”—BuidlGuidl explains that for you (hopefully the DankShards were unaffected)
dOrg’s Clara Gromaches dropped in on our Town Hall to chat about Regen Architecture, and you can replay their talk on MetaMedia Youtube
Breadchain Cooperative member Crypto Commons Association is up for funding in GG20, and you can fund Breadchain itself via Token Engineering and/or Hackathon Alumni
… Bloom Network’s Ogallala Life is also in GG20
Used Limitless Exchange to bet on Farcaster reaching 100k WAUs by the end of Farcon? You bet wrong 😢 What’s Limitless all about?
Token Engineering Academy’s Study Season kicked off
🔭 Meta™
We read all these, you can too.
DSO or DAO: Bayer moving to Dynamic Shared Ownership?
Freeing the Chatbot—other ways to interact with AI.
There ya go!
Til next month,
HHH