MetaNews #19 - May 2024
MetaGame in May, plus news from the MetaAlliance crew and links of interest
We weren’t super busy last month, so this news update might go on some tangents.
Before any of that though …
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⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
We did three town halls in May.
May 3
Afolabi from WEFA dropped in to talk about AI, Blockchain, and Spatial Computing. (Replay on Youtube)
Kris from VDAO & Marc Ziade co-CEO of 5thworld gave an intro to regenerative network states and products that are High Tech, High Touch, and High Nature. (Replay on Youtube)
May 10
We heard from Parsley about Kismet Casa, a hacker house in Argentina. (Replay on Youtube)
soul shared a vision of zero-carbon nomadic living through solarpunk nomadism. (Replay on Youtube)
May 24
Nirbhik from The Dapp List came in for a chat. Youtube replay coming soon!
And Udit Takkar gave us an update on their work with Sero on MetaLinks, which is nearing release.
Thanks to Omka and the Innkeeping guild for setting up the town halls, to eowulia for the Youtube replays, and props to koH for helping with recording.
Also in community
The Discord server channels got a clean up
Big thanks to the 141 donors in Gitcoin GG20.
And more big thanks to the 110 folks who contributed to our Giveth Galactiv Giving Round earlier in the month. Want to help us keep going? Donate or sponsor us at Giveth
📱 Technology
MetaLinks coming soon™
The main focus for the Builder crew in May was the MetaLinks app, with work done on the profile creation page, profile search, and fixing saved profile info to fit the OpenSea Metadata Standard.
While we may believe MetaLinks to be the future of MetaGame, we also did some maintenance & bugfixing on the aging old repo, just to keep it functional!
🍰 Content
As well as the community call recordings, we have stacks of videos to watch on your social network of choice. We’re linking to Youtube here, but you’ll find MetaGame on Drakula, Lens (@metafam.lens), Luma, Farcaster, and more.
Some highlights
Get MetaNews in video form with peth and METADREAMER—Episode 2, Episode 3, AI episode
Watch DAOing 101 with peth, part of the DAOSpring series
Check NextMeta #1, on protocolization and composability moats with David Phelps
Massive thanks to eowulia who has edited and published all the videos, produced shorts for preview and promo, and rebranded the previously audio-only podcast series as the new NextMeta.
After getting all the learnings from peth’s DAOing 101 video, why not start your own DAO? Our Starting DAOs 101 playbook takes you through the steps.
The playbooks are part of the Academy section of our website.
With the playbooks, you can:
Read them to learn, complete the tasks and get an NFT to prove it.
Write your own for us, and get paid to do it.
Want some more examples?
Sero’s Embrace the Ticking Clock, on the power of continuous learning
Got some Playbook ideas? See how to submit a playbook
Or want to host a workshop? More on that here
🌱 Growth
peth joined a Giveth space on X to rep MetaGame
We’ve stayed in touch with recent Town Hall guests to discuss workshops and job opps for the fam
Want to get into bridgebuilding with MetaGame? Commissions and rewards are available! Read all about it
30 Days of Playbooks
You can read more about the challenge here, but the tl;dr is - over the next 30 days, we‘ll be running a challenge on completing playbooks!
People who complete the most playbooks:
1st place - $420
2nd place - $210
3rd place - $100
The challenge will be running until July 12th.
Go complete playbooks
Write one!
Why write them:
$50 per accepted playbook, up to $420 for high quality/impact
Distribution to 15k people through newsletter & twitter
Be among the first to issue knowledge attestation NFTs
Submit a Playbook
The Octant
In case you‘re somehow still unaware - The Octant is the cool new public goods funding game in town, rewarding hundreds of ETH sustainably.
Octant has 22 spaces open for its upcoming Epoch Four Allocation Window. With ~30 projects, it will be you who decides who will be joining the upcoming round.
Eligibility: Addresses with GLM locked into Octant have the opportunity to partake in the decision-making process in the form of a weighted vote. You will need to have locked prior to Monday June 10th.
Voting Window: Opens on 17 June (18:00 CET) and closes on 21 June (23:59 CET).
So if you‘ve been staking in The Octant app - it‘s time to vote!
DAO Spring ends - BUT!
This year‘s DAO Spring has ended - yet it‘s far from over!
Over the next few months, we‘ll be waiting for people to make progress on their DAOs & then come gives us demo in September.
In September, we‘ll be organizing DAO Rush Week - a DAO job fair.
Read more about the DAO Summer Challenge here. More overall, soon!
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Breadchain Cooperative was at ETHBerlin
See services offered by Bloom members in the Bloom Network marketplace
Check a 1Hive thread on the various subgraphs they use for dapps
dOrg got a mention in a Praise thread on top impact projects
Safary podcast on how protocols attract liquidity
BuidlGuidl Shipping Log update
Griff from Giveth went on the Green Pill podcast
Token Engineering Academy updated their NFT infrastructure
RnDAO Newsletter May 14, Web3 Community Health paper
Token Engineering Academy shared a talk on demand-side token engineering and more
Breadchain Cooperative explainer thread, and check out their website
Opolis shared a post on ACA marketplace insurance (US-based, obvs), and had a nice tweet on making a Dream Client Wishlist
Check out some of the prediction markets on Limitless
MetaCartel opened applications for MCON3
See about setting up a Superfluid donation stream for your recurring Giveth donations
Agartha/Grid Free Minds ran a retreat
Find out what JournoDAO is all about
Ceramic built a Web3 points library, for projects who want to track participant contributions and participation.
🔭 Meta™
WeekMonth in DAOs and Web3: May 2024On Crypto Twitter, one of the latest wars has been with celebrity coin critics & supporters. Will celebrities forever rug or build value? We‘ll see!
Crypto has also been getting increasing amount of attention from presidential candidates. We‘ve become a significant demographic!
OpenAI onboarded director of the NSA (yes, that NSA) to its board of directors 👀
Ryze Labs report on the stablecoin market—analysis of market trends, adoption, and regulatory environment
Prefer the old style of Google search results? Here’s how to get it back
Exporting public goods funding—insights into DeFi market trends, tokenomics, and decentralised lending platforms. h/t Omka
The Moral Economy of the Shire—examining themes of community, reciprocity, and social justice
Case for the Solar Industrial Revolution as the largest investment opportunity in history, driven by declining costs and demand
Coldest regards,
HHH