MetaNews #7 - April 2023
MetaGame recaps, MetaAlliance and Meta happenings, & more!
Welcome back, MetaNews readers! It's time for your monthly update on what's been happening in MetaGame, with some highlights from the MetaAlliance fam, plus some news and posts curated from the wider world of DAOs and Web3.
First time reader? Check out our video intro to MetaGame and find out what all the fuss is about!
🎉 MetaFest MetaFest MetaFest!
Just a little PSA for you here:
You’ve got tickets for MetaFest, yes?
Have you booked your accommodation, though?
You might want to get that sorted ASAP!
Your last-minute-booking habits are fundamentally incompatible with Croatia during peak season - most accommodations are already gone.
🤑 Mochi Rewards
Remember when we told you you can get $400/month for achieving your goals? It actually turned out to be more like $800! 😱
This month, Mochi needs you to feed it - and it will pay you for it.
🌪Experimentation Zone
Here’s what we’ve been messin’ with recently.
HaloFi 😇
Musashi13 (with an assist from Misanth on the pool setup) has created the MetaFest Player Savings Challenge on HaloFi.
In HaloFi, a savings challenge …
… allow[s] you join other HaloFi users in a collective effort to achieve your personal savings goals. By joining a challenge and making timely deposits according to the challenge's rules, you can earn rewards.
In this challenge, the savings goal is to cover your ticket to MetaFest Croatia, and we’re hoping to use the gainz to invite at least three deserving MetaGame players who might otherwise lack the financial means to join the fun.
Are you in? There might still be time to sign up. See the MetaGame Savings Challenge details on Halofi.
SourceCred RIP 😿
The SourceCred extended experiment has ended with the server and calcs being shut down, after much discussion. We’re now experimenting with not using SourceCred for rewards and comp.
Long Live Praise 🤲
We’re trying out Praise as a replacement for the ol’ SourceCred-linked #did-a-thing and #give-props server channels. It’s kind of the same … but also kind of not? Props to koH for helping with the setup, and to Musashi13, dysbulic, and kristopher for the persuasive intro on the community call.
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
We’ve been doing Twitter Spaces as a complement to our Discord-hosted Community Calls, and here’s who we had in for a chat in April. Tune in every week for fun and informative sessions!
Community Calls: Mo’casso from RAW DAO, Mariana from Coinshift, Ramon from Meet With Wallet, 0xSena and amenek.eth from ThriveCoin, Trislit from TokenSmart, The Blockchain Socialist, Andrew Nox from Quest of Evolution, and Diogo Vaz from Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology & Higher Education (!)
Twitter Spaces: Anna from ReFi DAO, HBesso from Urbanika, Antonio Pagliano, Sebnem from Younergy Crypto, Dr. Nick from Factory DAO, Ori Shimony from dOrg, Gabriel form Mochi & METADREAMER - we also hosted a hangout session that intro’d MetaGame to prospective Octos.
Replay recordings of the calls on the MetaMedia Youtube channel and/or the MetaMedia Lenstube channel.
Community Calls and Twitter Hangouts are brought to you by the Content Crew—props to Musashi13, Rika Goldberg, joseacabrerav, vanessagil, peth, b0gie, and koH for all the setup & organisation, planning & promo, hosting & green-rooming, and all the behind-the-scenes hard work that goes into setting up a smooth call.
Also in the community division
b0gie recorded those community calls and worked with vanessagil to post them all over the place
dysbulic and Musashi13 were active in keeping Mochi teams on track (and scolding Mochi admins)
dysbulic also helped joseacabrerav to get set up with OBS and Bonfire for recording calls
joseacabrerav and vanessagil did another month’s worth of Bard’s Night sessions
peth led community discussions on the Pausing SourceCred Proposal, helped clean out unused server channels, and took charge of a transaction to reimburse vanessagil’s spending on Lens posts
joseacabrerav and Musashi13 did great work with innkeeping and welcoming Discord server newcomers
koH pushed for trying out Praise and helped get it set up on the server
And props to Sero for the server boost!
📱 Technology
Polimyl shut down the SourceCred server & finally reached the end of the Mainnet Seed Pool Swaps adventure (…unless?)
Sero worked on the MyMeta profile edit flow and meTokens integration
vid finished the Quest Chains x Playbooks integration, implenting a new design, updating the SDK library, fixing bugs,and coordinating with Cami and peth on details
dysbulic was extremely busy behind the scenes, fixing an issue with the Coordinape data exports, tracking down obscure Nextjs settings to control CSS, doing big code reviews for Alec and Sero, and continuing work on the Chievmint’s refactor
Alec reviewed work by vid and Sero, and kept working on the ComposeDB switch, getting out of draft status, and getting more grant funding to finish the thing off
peth and Dave helped HHH get going with an update to the Quests section
🍰 Content
More MetaMedia 🎦
In April, we featured:
Brandon Norgaad, on the MetaView podcast, talking about Enlighted Worldview, Game B & Metamoderism, and more
Travis Wyche, on the Frontiers of Coordination podcast, talking about Pluriverse, Moloch, and Regen
Will Ruddick from Grassroots Economics, who guested on the Frontiers of Coordination podcast to chat about mutual aid, community currencies & more
… and keep an eye out for a new Share What You’re Makin’ episode!
The MetaMedia podcasts are recorded, edited, and published by eowulia, the interviews are (usually) done by peth, with show notes and promo by vanessagil.
Rika, Musashi13, ApeironCreations, vid, and crew worked on the DRC playbook Quest Chain, part of the recent weekly Build In Public sessions on the server
peth did a lot of writing and hosting, including playbooks on Holacracy for Meetings and Using Coordinape in MetaGame, MetaFest Croatia newsletters and promo, plus podcast chats with Simona Pop, Travis Wyche, and Will Ruddick
Appreciation to Rika Goldberg for a substantial amount of work in the Content division—in addition to the DRC Playbook sessions, she led all of the Content Align meetings and shared notes, hosted the WTF is MetaGame Twitter Space, worked with vid to write Quest Chains grant applications, coordinated with the Ethereum Foundation Grants Team on playbooks, and got started on a promo post for cross-marketing with the Ceramic team.
🌱 Growth
Musashi13 has started to set up a promo web—a Decentralized Media Outlet that can include all the MetaGame guilds—helped get MetaGame some attention at TokenSmart, Game7, Aavegotchi, HaloFi, and Arweave, and did plentiful promo for MetaFest
joseacabrerav got peth a booking to talk to the EZinCrypto fam
vanessagil updated the MetaGame Giveth page, tweeted and posted (and whatever-you-call-it for the things on Lens) all the things as usual, and there’s now a fancy automation that cross-posts Lens content to the MetaGame Discord
Rika Goldberg restarted the Patrons Align calls, worked on getting the MetaGame treasury into Coinshift, helped set up Praise in the MetaGame Discord, started discussions with the Ceramic team about real-world applications of Web3 shareable data models, including our MyMeta profiles, and shared notes from the Growth Align calls
peth was busy, as usual!
Posts and widespread promo for the officially announcement of MetaFest Croatia
pushed the MetaGame pitch deck to a pair or two of people
“talked to legal” about the fundraise and how to take care of all that without getting on the SEC radar
Guested on podcasts and Twitter spaces to talk about MetaGame and MetaFest
Put in applications for grants from Gitcoin
Put forward and executed proposals for the Seed Fund and DAO Drops funds
Attemped to revitalize the Rainmakers Guild, with outreach and Growth Ring calls.
And wrote a Yearly Progress Report
Props to peth!
Plus props to smartdigitalpayments for rogue-ish promo, shills, and general Good Ideas for MetaGame 💡
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Ceramic presented at ETHBoston
Safary shared tips for creators in web3
dOrg’s April newsletter shared case studies from recent projects, and more
Bloom Network shared 10 ways to start a more regenerative lifestyle
Get the latest BuidlGuidl updates for April
Opolis shared some legal considerations that you might want to … consider … as a freelancer
DAOhaus’s HAUS token can now be bridged to Optimism, and check out a bunch of DAOhaus case studies from EthDenver
Coordinape posted on best practices—bounties vs. circles, large circles vs. small circles, good notes vs. great notes (and yo Coordinape crew, you have a large typo in the “messy middle”)
Andrei from dOrg recorded a 49-minute workshop on adding AI tools into your workflow, now available for replay on Youtube
dOrg had Snapshot Labs on the Hot Seat to discuss governance in the web3 space
dOrg also had peth on the Hot Seat to “answer spicy tech questions from their builders”
Safary did a thread on growing reach with content marketing and another on growth tactics
MetaFactory Buyer/Designer $ROBOT rewards are claimable at https://my.metafactory.ai/rewards
Bloom Network put their spotlight on Lala Gardens, a community-owned garden, residence, and learning center
Token Engineering Commons announced their first grants rounds, running from April 25-May 9
Giveth launched a very generous referral program. Details here
Do you have to pay taxes on Degen income? Opolis has the answers
dOrg and MetaCartel will be at MetaFest Croatia. Anon, how about you?
Did you revoke your SushiSwap approvals in April? Thanks for the heads up, Giveth
The Quest Chains featured quests section got some updates
MetaFactory “Seize the Memes” tee
New updates at Deep Work Studio
Coordinape shared an example of how KrauseHouse tracks contributions and allocates tokens
🔭 Meta™
Last month we were doing Mochi journeys and getting paid to stick to personal goals—check out their “But Make it Kawaii” campaign
Malleable software in the age of LLMs—How LLMs will enable more malleable software and end-user programming
Mapping the fan journey in music and Web3—How music fans discover, engage, and invest in Web3 projects
Entertainment is a Killer Feature—How entertainment can boost user engagement for Web3 products
Navigating the Murky Waters of DAOs—A guide to power, trust, and governance in decentralized organizations
How to design Web3 products that foster psychological ownership and loyalty
Bootleggers: A Manifesto—How Bootleggers DAO creates and distributes unauthorized NFTs of popular culture
Beyond Tokenomics: Tokenology—How to design tokens beyond economics and leverage their full potential
Intelligence Superabundance—How AI will create more demand for intelligence and change work
Exploration of MEV Latencies—How latencies impact MEV extraction and how to optimize them
I am, as usual, etc, etc,
HHH
p.s. Riddle me this:
Twitter—tweets
Mastodon—toots
Discord—posts
Lens—????