MetaNews #5 - February 2023
Another month, another dose of everything that happened inside MetaGame & the MetaAlliance, served with a portion of Meta: news & posts curated from the wider DAO & Web3 space as well as the wider webs of the world beyond!
First-time reader? Watch a video intro on MetaGame and see what it’s all about.
The main news this month:
🍂 Mainnet Seed Pool ngmi
Still got Seeds in the mainnet pool? Time to transfer em out and into our Polygon Seed Pool. I mean you can leave them in there if you want—funds are safu and all that—but swaps are about to get frozen 👀
Props to Rika and Polimyl for getting that raid over the finish line.
💾 Legacy Ceramic on MyMeta ngmi
C-ya legacy Ceramic. We’re switching storage to Ceramic’s new ComposeDB … and just in time for a demo at ETHDenver 🤞
Alec has put in many hours on the upgrade, and would you like to help us test it? Get more details in the MetaGame Discord
🎉 ETHDenver 🎉
What a blast!
Given it was the biggest Ethereum conference, it’s no wonder it was well attended by a lot of players & patrons of MetaGame - including but not limited to: peth, musashi, penguin, vid, wonfiddy, chair, Apeiron, Kyle, t-burd, Bobcat, Defile Zebra, 0xmaker, beyondr, YKW, taekikz, Ven, dekan, Shep, DeFi Dude, Sam Kuhlman, kris, Griff Green, mZ, Drew Harding & James Young.
Was it the biggest MetaFam gathering so far? Probably.
Will it remain so? Only for 5 more months! 👀
The good about ETHDenver was bringing together 20-something thousand people, some more & some less aligned - into a single city. The venue itself was huge & the number of side events was absolutely insane. There were lots of great talks to listen to, tons of great people to meet & connections to make!
The bad was that the main event was a bit too big & felt too commercialized for my (peth) taste. The main floor was a maze of sponsor booths, some of which were of dubious alignment with the ethos & hacking space was tucked away in the basement that had the smell of horse stables for some reason.
Altogether, it was still a great experience! Anyone unhappy with the main event (which was free, keep in mind) could have enjoyed any of the literally hundreds of side events 🤷♂️
Our main goal for the event was meeting as many potential investors & I think we succeeded. Have you met any good investors, cool DAOs or potential sponsors for MetaFest? DM @petheth for instructions on getting some Seeds!
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
Community gathering guests in February featured:
SAMKIM
MVMURTHY from KarmaHQ
Chair from Infinity Keys
Nick from FactoryDAO
Zach from Coordinape
Anna from ReFi Spring
… and cameos and special features from MG regulars josecabrerav and Penguin
MetaGamer 𝕓❍𝕘𝕚𝕖 continued to archive the calls, with assistance this month from koH. Replays are available on Lenstube for February 3 (with joseacabrerav), February 10, February 17, February 24.
For a text-based recap of the community gatherings this season (so far) check out vanessagil’s post about it on Substack.
Stayed tuned to the the MetaGame Discord and Twitter for updates on upcoming community gatherings.
Props to the MG community crew for keeping it rolling, especially to Musashi13 for large amounts of orchestration.
Also in Community
A double, nay, triple portion of props goes to Musashi13 for being absolutely everywhere in February—behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, beside the scenes, and, as the host of the February 3 community call and Lens/Chainjet demo session, in the scenes. Salute.
And …
MetaGamer 𝕓❍𝕘𝕚𝕖 provided some new assets for the community call and video promos, “kept to the agenda” as the host of the February 24 community call, and linked up with Musashi13 and koH on a Lens/Chainjet demo/AMA (replay the demo on Lenstube)
peth booked three of the guests for community calls
smartdigitalpayments, vanessagil, joseacabrerav, and Musashi13 helped keep things cool with friendly innkeeping
joseacabrerav helped with planning and onboarding, helping new Octos get set up with Mochi
vanessagil and joseacabrerav hosted four more Bard’s Nights gatherings
📱 Technology
Alec kept hitting the milestones on the ComposeDB upgrade and migration, standing up a demo environment for 3Box Labs to shill during ETHDenver
… and kept the Dework tasks ticking over by organising bounty-hunting builders
… and fixed failing GitHub actions
… and pulled 0xmaker’s PR into the new ComposeDB branch
dysbulic fixed an extremely well-buried bug in the MyMeta Meet with Wallet integration
… and added new contributors to GitHub
… and investigated options for computer-updated SourceCred scores
… and fixed bugs in the SourceCred and Discord tasks
… and kept a keen eye on the quality of code going into the repo
Plus …
Polimyl took control of the mainnet Seed Pool and got ready to shutdown swaps, with an assist from Rika Goldberg
… and scaled up the K8s cluster with a new Ceramic/ComposeDB testnet node for Alec’s demo environment
… and did a pre-mint review of the XP repo for luxumbra
Sero kept working on adding ENS support for player names in MyMeta
0xmaker finished up adding a profile picture step in the MyMeta profile wizard
And a relatively quiet month for luxumbra saw wiki links in the onboarding game corrected and updated
🍰 Content
peth was all over the content section again in February:
Wrote the Mochi newsletter
Edits and publication of the Community Gatherings post, the rnDAO post, and the Patrick Rawson interview
Did two podcasts, including an epic conversation with Hanzi Freinacht
… reviewed Twitter threads for the Shiller crew
… and made and update the Great Houses NFTs
Content Champ Rika kept things moving in sync, working on calls and meetings and plans, grant applications, content reviews, social strategies, tweet ideas, and playbook plans.
Two episodes of MetaRadio were edited and published by eowulia, with peth interviewing and vanessagil helping with show notes and promo.
Metamodernism with Hanzi Freinacht (Replay on Anchor FM, read show notes)
DAOs and the global economic order, with Patrick Rawson (Replay on Anchor FM, read the Substack post)
And …
Big thanks to smartdigitalpayments for featuring MetaGame in the “Code your way to freedom” post on the MetaBuilder’s Substack
Alkohlm.eth showed some skills with a video version of the MetaGame and Metamodernism post, plus a podcast with peth, and edits and uploads of FearlessThompson’s Public Goods Warhead clips
dysbulic worked with Misanth on edits to luxumbra’s Player of the Month NFT design
Cami made an awesome Quest Chains demo vid, put 18 MG playbooks into QuestChains, and freestyled the flyer for the Feb 3 community gathering
Big props to vanessagil for putting on the Writer’s hat and publishing the Community Gatherings post in the MetaGame Substack
🌱 Growth
Experimentation Zone 🌪
The Experimentation Zone moved into the Growth section this month, with Musashi13 getting plans set for a MetaGame pool at Good Ghosting, “a DeFi pool which rewards regular saving”.
More Musashi13 action:
Got MetaGame a mention at MeTokens by being an early adopter
Worked with DAO Research on setting up a Quest Chain
… and did an onboarding call for bridgebuilders
Rika got busy
Wrote and put in a grant application at DAO Punks
Pitched DRC on a playbooks project
Helped peth fine-tune the pitch deck and Purplepaper
Started work on a presentation for ETHPorto, and got deep into tokenomics to prep for fundraising
And what’s peth been up to?
Worked on completing the Purplepaper—after several more rounds of writing and editing and feedback, it’s nearing completion
Worked on the Seed Fund—a proposal, then exchanging, bridging, and depositing funds
Hosted four Tokenomics calls
Talked about MetaGame and MetaOS on the dOrg community call and podcast
Worked on finishing the text and visualizations for the pitch deck
Wrote and designed a new version of the Player sign up page
Designed a flyer to promote the ETHDenver raid
Created the Raiding ETHDenver and ETHPorto board, tidied up the Rainmaking board
Wrote a grant proposal for funding from ENS
Wrote a post all about helping people promote MetaGame at IRL events
Plus+
koH helped us link with Bloom Network
Lahcen-KH gave the MG Giveth proposal a boost
DJ_Rostein wrote a tweet thread about MetaGame from the new Octo perspective
vanessagil promoted all the things: Bard’s Nights, Community Gatherings, Substack posts and newsletters, the MetaView podcasts, and more
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Ceramic’s ComposeDB is now live on Mainnet
Token Engineering’s Feb 24 #TEWeeklyReads covered Quantitative Token Models, Graduated Dutch Auctions, and more
Mochi has been rockin’ this month, in the MetaGame Discord and all over the place
MGD DAO community members—tweet at them if you’re going to ETHDenver
MetaCartel shared a talk on Web3 Backend Automation & Relay
Raid Guild is crossing swords with Collab.Land for ETHDenver
Opolis tweeted on techniques to showcase your skills as an indie worker
Agartha shared a calendarized collection of ‘unique mystical, regenerative, subversive cutting-edge festival experiences’ taking place this year in Europe
The EthicHub crew presented at Block World Tour, and dropped in on the CryptoAltruism podcast
Check out the Opolis Ambassador Program—a sales-y sort of opportunity where you can get loot for delivering leads to their stewards.
Sign up for the Atlantis World Atlantean Characters pre-mint list and read their latest product update
New features on Quest Chains! See an overview, and have a watch of Cami’s explainer on creating and reviewing quests for your community
DAOhaus got an extremely sharp new website, and released a recording of the Feb 9 HausParty, covering ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’, Linux and open source, Uniswap and a16z, whale influence in token voting ecosystems, and more
TokenEngineering review/thread of Does your product need a token?
wgmi is all involved with community efforts for the Doritos Award Winning Flavour™ metaverse experience
Catch up on dOrg newsletters for ETHDenver and DAO Drops and tune in to their dev community Spotify playlist
New(ish) Deep Work Studio newsletter
Join the Giveth ETHDenver roll call, and take a look at their new homepage
🔭 Meta™
How Haier’s Workbench tool was used for organisation based on algorithms and smart contracts 🐙
Forefront’s Tokenized Communities year in review
Yak Collective’s Online governance primer 🐙
The Dapp List ‘This week in Web3’: Feb 6, Feb 10, Feb 17, Feb 24
Genetically modified trees capture carbon (Smithsonian)
The Dubious Rise of Impostor Syndrome (New Yorker)
Your crypto is not as safe as you think (Bankless)
Balkan Cosmology, a new (and free) short story by sci-fi idoru Bruce Sterling
Don’t be a doomer, by Noah Smith
Blockchain Gamer Types along a player motivation spectrum 🐙
The Zad, an off-grid occupation of 4000 acres of wetlands, fields and forests where 250 people in 80 different collectives live together without the state
Silicon Valley Bank goes to shit & so do centralized stablecoins (temporarily)
Links marked with the 🐙 were sourced from the member-only #learning-whatever and #brain-exchange channels in the MetaGame Discord. Unlock Octo-only channels by becoming a MetaGame Player.
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