MetaNews #2 - November & DAOcember

Before getting into the usual flow of Chainlog > MetaAlliance > Meta, I want to highlight the most significant event that is upon us, officially kicking off THIS Monday - don’t miss DAOcember 👀👀👀

❄️ DAOcembrrr

The winter is upon us & you know what they say…

• Winters are for building.

Its not just in crypto winters either. It’s also the case in my sunny part of Croatia where people build over winters then rent over summers. Part of the reason why the cold & dark Nordic countries are so productive? Winter.

• What’re u gonna do but buidl? 🤷‍♂️

Keep in mind they also have some of the highest suicide rates tho 👀

• So know what you’re here for & grind through the winter but don’t forget to take care of yourself, unplug, go touch grass before it freezes etc.

Without further ado!

❄️ 12 Days of DAOcember ❄️

Live Birth of Moloch(v3)👺, December 5th - 16th 🗡

Chill chill! Not THE Moloch.

DAOhaus is launching DAOhaus v3, biggest & best DAOhaus so far - obviously.

Shitton more flexibility, extendability & whatnot. I’m not kidding, DAOhaus v3 is THE shit. The shit for slaying Molochs, that is.

Ironically, based on “Moloch DAO” smart contracts, hence the name 🤷‍♂️

For those who don’t know: DAOhaus is probably the best DAO platform currently out there. They are serious about helping groups coordinate & solve societal coordination failures, they’ve built it as a DAO & pretty much on shoestring budget.

With the launch of v3, its becoming even better 😱

• 👉 Go watch more about DAOhaus v3 here 👈

Marking the occasion, DAOhaus is presenting DAOcember starting on Monday, December 5th & running thru Friday, December 16th!

2 weeks packed with anything & everything involving coordination & governance.

• But also, live launch of DAOhaus v3 👀👀👀

• Don’t sleep on DAOhaus v3!

DAOhaus (👅, 👅) @nowdaoit

The 12 days of DAOcember begin on Dec 5 with our Kickoff Event @ 8AM PST. The first week is for talk and second week is for good-ol' buidl (and talk). Openers include @pet3rpAn @spengrah @isaacpatka @jamesyoung and @ameensol Early sign up:airtable.com/shr6ol8U877kgz… #daocember

Kick-off week

Kick off event is @11am EST, Monday December 5th, followed by our first speaker Pet3rpan at 11:30am.

We will be hosting various sessions throughout the week featuring…

Panels:

• Reputation

• Access/Permissions

• Workstream Management

• Identity

• On/Off-chain DAOs

DAOhaus / Moloch v3 Sessions:

• DAOhaus Front-end stack,

• v3 contract architecture,

• Zodiac & Shamans,

• RADDAD (Rapid Application Development & DAO Application Development)

• Code-Alongs

DAO tools demos:

• MeTokens, Hats Protocol, Hedgey, ESP, Otterspace, Mochi, Juicebox, & more!

Salons:

• #1 Genesis Moloch w/ TW, VenGist, & Kevin Owocki

• #2 Transitional Moloch w/ TW, Ven, Victor, Aaron Soskin, MetaDreamer

• #3 Speculate Moloch w/ TW, Ven, Dekan, Christina

2nd Week: Networking, Hacking, Educating, Raiding ⚔️

Throughout the week, DAOhaus along with members of the community will create space for folks to come together and jam 🎸

We have Epic Speakers Joining throughout the 2-Weeks!

View the calendar over the weekend to get the full download of events!

Looking forward to seeing you all next week! 🥂

Wait, WTF is MetaGame?

Hey, welcome 420 new curious octopi joining us since November 24th! 👋

• This means we are now well over 10k subscribers 😱

For the fresh; MetaGame is a massive online coordination game with the goal of finding the most optimal ways to play life on a personal as well as the collective level.

Just consider it a real-life MMO-RPG & know we’re currently producing educational & other media, organizing events & overall, building the onboarding for the DAO space & a network of DAOs as well as an operating system for composable communities, a modular front-end for web3 legos.

Maybe check out the above interview & and cya in there?

⛓ Chainlog

Actually, some of you already know there’s an even bigger announcement of the same category coming up soon 😶

Here’s a breakdown of what happened inside MetaGame, MetaAlliance, wider web3 & the world at large over the month of November 👀

🤝🏽 Community

Community calls are back big time with more topics, guests & participants than ever!

Not only have we continued with having at least 2 guests/projects per gathering to come & share their experience, but also, the first half now reserved for community topics - checking in, talking about whatever any of us want to talk about or whatever floats up through 🧠-brain-exchange 👀

In November, the calls featured:

• epicdylan from PageDAO on NFT books & collabs

• Daniel from RnDAO, talking on innovation in DAOs

• Louis from twoplus.xyz, with info on mental fitness in web3

• Ada and Ori from Adawell & Katerina from RnDAO, talking about wellbeing

• Rome Ives from MetaGammaDelta, a DAO supporting women-led projects

• SDR from the DoinGud NFT ecosystem

• AL3C from Mochi, a team-based goal setting & accountability game

• Syntonikka from Agartha, talking about regenerative intentional communities

• …with plenty in the pipeline for December 👀

Props to peth, Josea & Anna for getting the Community Gatherings rolling again. Props to tommy for jumping on booking, Musashi for becoming the new host, and dysbulic & B0gie for starting to record them for y’all who can’t come!

• Know any cool DAOs we should host on our community call or onboard into MetaGame? Comment below! 🙃😱

Other than that…

• joseacabrerav and VanessaGil put together another 4 sessions of Bards’ Night. Check it out next Thursday on Discord!

• tommy reactivated and got busy with planning gatherings & workshops, cleaning up & updating things around the wiki, forums & Dework

• peth reviewed quests and Quest Chains completions

• Josea had a bridgebuilding call with CRE8R DAO, Giveth, PageDAO & TokenEngineering and peth had one with 1Hive, Mochi, Agartha, Atlantis World & Ethernaut DAO to talk about more ways to plug in

• peth did the first Coordinape distribution, set up more Coordinape circles & explained how it works on every Align call over the week

• Luxumbra did the second Coordinape distribution & started championing it

• peth hosted the first “Community & Content Align”, which is about to be split into “Community” & “Content” Align, along with corresponding Coordinape circles

🍰 Content

• Frontiers Of Coordination #8 - Govrn, Governance & Autonomy w/ Aaron Soskin & Stefen Delev - recorded by peth, published and edited by eowulia with show notes by VanessaGil & promo by Anna

• peth refreshed the WTF is MetaGame post—go read it if you haven’t already

• luxumbra provided a step-by-step guide to Install a Web3 Wallet & get gas

• peth wrote an issue for turning The Great Houses into Quest Chains inside MetaOS, turned House of DAOs & House of Ethereum into questlines 👀

• Maxwe11 delved into the mysteries of MetaGame’s XP system & wrote a post

• peth wrote the Bridgebuilding template for onboarding & checking in with guilds

• You can get a replay of the November 18 community call on Lenstube, recorded by dysbulic, and posted by b0gie

• peth filled an extensive form about the token & wrote a request to Coingecko to update pretty much all info there is on the Seeds page

Welcome, Space Octo!

• peth wrote this nice welcome screen for the new players and patrons.

• Also wrote the guidance screen mentioned below as well as the Championing template, then greatly simplified How to Champion

• peth wrote MetaGame DAO 2.0 - Governance, Rings & Rewards and 4 Domains & The Octagon

📱 Technology

Some big things from the Builder crew this month!

• dysbulic did the upgrade-the-whole-codebase mission worth over 60 hours in total. You want details? Now with ESM compatible libraries, Next 12, React 18, non-wonky Ceramic - ready for the big Ceramic upgrade

  

  + infinite conflicts

• dysbulic also did more pair-programming with tenfinney, code reviews for vid and crew, setup assists to get Beyondr and Nitegeist running

• Alec came back from holidays just in time to catch up with a bunch of PRs and fix SourceCred so the calculation can run for the mint

• Polimyl backed up & redeployed MetaGame forums on the latest version of discourse, now freed up from the unknown host & open for addons 👀

  

• peth designed & Nitegeist implemented the guidance screen for new players 👆

• luxumbra reviewed and approved PRs, provided VPN support for joseacabrerav, and persisted with the preps for a particularly difficult mint.

• Based on peth’s design, vid did a complete overhaul of the menus in MetaOS, taking the whole thing to another level by replacing the current player, patron, guild & quest cards with the animated new card design 🔥🔥🔥

• Vid then created a brand new Raids page also based on peth’s design

• Meanwhile, Beyondr made quest images

🌱 Growth

• peth submitted a funding proposal to Ethereum Foundation, CultDAO & Ceramic

• New compensation proposal went forward with the integration of Coordinape

• peth reached out to TokenEngineering, got connected with a bunch of token engineers & hosted the first call to discuss finalizing MetaGame’s tokenomics 👀

• peth had a call with Dekan & Ven from DAOhaus to discuss how MetaGame DAO 2.0 will be utilizing DAOhaus v3

• Quest Chains sends a $1.2k payment to MetaFam, being the first DAO that spun out and the first to pay some back to the Seed economy.

• The newsletter subscribers hit 10k subscribers!!! 🎉

• Welcome new players: 0xmaker, Katerina, maxwe11, Beyondr and Nitegeist 🤗

🌞 Player Highlights

• dysbulic for completing the massive upgrade-the-whole-codebase

• vid for taking MetaOS to another level with pretty new cards & animations

• joseacabrerav for becoming the MVP bridgebuilder

• tommy for reactivating & instantly improving things all over the place

• peth for extreme amounts of everything

💰 Paycheck

With news & distribution cycles now in sync - we’ll be adding distribution amounts at the end of each monthly Chainlog update.

This time:

• Distributed 4464 Seeds for the past 2.5 months, totaling ~$17k

❗❗❗ Quest Chains

Given Quest Chains is a DAO that spun out of MetaGame, it no longer fits into “MetaGame’s Chainlog” - but given its deep involvement with MetaGame, it doesn’t feel right to simply merge it down into MetaAlliance either 🤷‍♂️

• Finalised the roadmap

• Onboarded a new member - Tony, the wordsmith

• App documentation ✅

• Applied for Protocol Labs Accelerator Program 🤞🏼

• Implemented Twitter & Mastodon share buttons throughout the app

• Published the first medium article about Quest Chains

• Started tracking app usage with Plausible, getting some nice numbers! :)

For the unaware, Quest Chains can be used for creating onboarding paths for your DAO & micro-courses with skill attestation NFTs; for all we know, its the future of education 🤷‍♂️

⚔️ MetaAlliance

• Read a DAOhaus explainer on what Moloch DAOs are all about & preregister for workshops, hacks, talks and the release of DAOhaus v3 as part of DAOcember

• Refer a new member to join Opolis, get Panvala Stamps to fund a community of your choice.

• There’s a new dOrg blog with bits on Lambda DAOs on the Tezos chain, links to podcasts featuring various dOrg members, and more. See also their video workshop on programming principles and design patterns – one hour on principles and patterns, followed by 40mins of Q&A.

• Atlantis World preps for Avalanche Month, with a new map and adventures ready to go, and gives an update on the Atlantean Characters Collection.

• Bloom Network is listed on Spirals for Staking Tuesday – yields go to their grassroots climate action network. And check out their fresh new website!

• TokenEngineering TE Academy NFT Certificates are live – account-bound and non-transferable proof of knowledge and skills.

• Read a Deep Work Studio update on organizational design.

• Skim a thread that covers EthicHub founder Jori’s Ethgathering Barcelona talk on financial inclusion, using crypto for impact investment, and more.

• Check an Opolis thread on open enrollment for members who are reviewing their insurance policy. Also, they’re hiring!

• Giveth published their workshop on Project Verification and a Project Owners 101 – see the video here or read more on their Medium blog

• CRE8R DAO’s Fugu interviewed Arka from Chainwhiz, an open-source bounty marketplace.

• “Onboarding women into blockchain in a unique way” - play back MGD DAO’s convo with ConsenSys on the MGD Web3 Fellowship program.

• Safary cohosted SF’s first web3 growth mixer, and shared a recording on Community Building Strategy.

• Project Ark donated a 100-ton CO2 offset as a prize for hackathon winners. 💪

🔭 Meta

And now some news from outside of MetaGame‘s particular 5-dimensional object on the astral plane.

• FTX/SBF/WTF—you’re probably sick of all this already, but (unfortunately) there might be more. Here’s a bit on Curve’s exposure to Tether via their 3pool liquidity pool, and here’s a list of who’s out of the game

• And in case you’re not sick of the FTX drama, here’s FTX Yikes by Rekt News

• This Last Week in DAOS (Nov 17)

• Here are some airdrop guides if you’re up for a bit of hunting

• Actually, Bankless went as far as to acquire earni.fi - upping their airdrops game

• Idk about yours but my feed has been full of AI this month. GPT3 chat gone crazy with generating anything from guides to smart contracts. People generating stories, prompts from stories > prompts to art > art to 2D assets > 2D to 3D, generating UIs & code. The future is insane

• Weekly Dose of Optimism #21—space launch, AI power for Notion, more

• Replit now has AI for your code, with Ghostwriter. (More on arstechnica)

• Verge’s post about how crap Zuck’s metaverse is, inspired by an employee

• Want some ReFi podcast episodes?

• How about you go read the Impact DAOs book by our dear friend deepa

• Enabling the Spiral Economy & Physical Assets on the Blockchain

• The Rent’s Too Damned High - why are the rents so damn high?

• Like capitalism itself, business journalism is broken. Can it be fixed?

• Effective systems change depends on “everyday patterns”, here are some!

• Bonus 🐙 content: Freya is a giant pacific octopus at New England Aquarium: a predator weighing 18 kilos, her arms spanning 4 meters with 2,240 suction cups

🐙 Onwards!

DAOcember is not the only December thing happening. First day of winter also marks the beginning of Season 9 - Winter 2022.

There’s lots happening inside MetaGame to prepare for Season 9!

• The whole “MetaGame DAO 2.0” restructure/relaunch of all of the processes, team structures, compensation mechanics, the DAO itself & more.

• Making incremental but significant improvements on the platform itself,

• Then finalize the tokenomics & the purplepaper, create a deck & venture out!

Other than that…

• Yep you’ve guessed it, more great Community Gatherings! 🙃

• Join us for The 9th Seasoning? 👀

Much love ❤️,
Bau, Hhh & peth