Wait, MyMeta Launched?!
But also, fundraise, MetaOS etc.
MyMeta Profiles Launch 👀
Since MyMeta Profiles have long been in production & our mailing list has at least quadrupled since introducing MyMeta in the original WTF is MetaGame, we figured it would make sense to properly reintroduce MyMeta for launch.
Besides the basic economic infrastructure, we figured the first big piece needed for decentralized societies is an identity system. Since our friends over at 3Box have already built a decentralized identity system, we figured its only logical we start integrating this fundamental building block into MetaGame.
It’s been a bumpy road building on shaky foundations of this cutting edge technology & retaining people who have the know-how to work with it AND are willing to work for considerably lower than their market rate in a market where builders are the scarcest resource…
But we’re here! MyMeta v1 launched ✅
Wait, WTF is MyMeta & Why Build it?
Historically owned by centralized entities such as Facebook, LinkedIn & your local nation state, it's about time the representation of your identity is owned entirely by you. Historically fragmented across platforms, it’s about time your identity is unified.
MyMeta - your meta - is an index of fragments of your identity, or at least the ones you want publicly displayed. To show who you are & make it easy to “find the others”.
Personality Type is based on Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel
Starting with basic stuff like your name, bio, skills, roles & links to other profiles, going over things like your personality type NFTs, DAO or guild memberships & time availability, the goal is to make the profiles as customizable & modular as possible - as if verifiable roles, reputation, stake & social graph aren’t enough…
It is already allowing everyone to customize their profile with the use of blocks that can contain various types of content and can be rearranged like a mosaic - but this is only the beginning.
We’ll be building more block templates but also getting other projects to build their own templates & integrations. These custom “new blocks” could be as simple as adding your education or work history, pulling data from other platforms or reputation systems to integrating protocols & micro dApps.
In fact, Dan13, tenfinney & crisleash have already been working on one cool extension - MetaCollab - allowing you to set disputable peer-to-peer contracts with escrow between yourself & other players, allowing people to do business & hire people directly through their profile 👀
Want to add your own cool integration? Why not jump into discord?
While limited in functionality, MyMeta already resurfaces the creative spark of the early internet & it's only going to get better by allowing people to set their own custom backgrounds & color schemas as well as build more custom “new block” templates & integrations.
You may wish to be lowkey and minimalistic and display only your basic info, or you may choose to go full-on whacko-mode and add blocks everywhere - it’s up to you!
With your data under threat due to the shift of web2 towards extractive data practices, decentralized identities are what is needed to truly mark the evolution from web2 to web3.
Besides allowing people to actually own their profiles and making it easier to find, vet & collaborate, the goal of having decentralized profiles based on Ceramic (a decentralized data network that brings unlimited data composability to Web3 applications) is having all of these profiles interoperable across platforms.
Other projects can build their own front-ends but the underlying data is available across platforms. In web3, there will be no need to create a new profile everywhere you go or leave your identity in the grubby hands of Facebook or Google for the convenience of not having to register.
Customized MyMeta profile for xyzDAO
Depending on project’s needs, MyMeta can either be customised inside MetaGame, outside MetaGame by them forking & deploying on their own, or them building a whole new front-end, only accessing the same data through our or their own Ceramic node.
This is especially useful for highly collaborative communities. Platform Cooperatives such as Bloom have already jumped in and others have already voiced their need for such systems to be in place.
MyMeta looks cool to you? Why not go test it out 🤷♂️
Looks like it could be useful to your project? Let us know.
All in all, MyMeta & MetaGame are here for the long haul with the aim of building more public goods & supporting the fledgling DAO ecosystem. We’ve been doing this for 2 years now with a total of $20k in funding & have already come a long way.
Having achieved that much with such limited resources is an impressive feat in & of itself, but to bring MyMeta & MetaGame to their full potential, more hands & funding are needed.
They are open to full-time contributors but want to make sure that everybody will get compensated fairly. For this reason, they have launched various fundraising initiatives with Giveth and Gitcoin for smaller contributions or buying Seeds and Yeeting for big-time contributions (comes with patronship, governance, voting rights & various other perks depending on the size of contribution).
⛓ Chainlog
Season V ends & Season VI opens 👀
We had another great Seasonal Ceremony where we talked about what what was great, what sucked, what we are looking forward to & what are we afraid of. Feelings were shared & bonds were strengthened - you should have been there 🙃
Big up to vid, Player of Season V! 🎉
🤝🏽 Community
🌮 DAOist CDMX wraps 🌮
Anna, Web Three Prophet, and tommy repped MetaGame at the DAOist conference in Mexico—a lot of work that paid off in fresh connections and links for MetaGame
Meetup master tommy linked with local communities for workshops and intros to MyMeta and MetaFest
Anna expanded her network and shilled MetaGame; look out for talks and workshops coming out of that
Web Three Prophet presented at the conference, including an intro to MetaGame and mentions crypto jobs in MetaGame and the MetaAlliance; check out the presentation on Youtube (in Spanish)
MetaFest 2022 shapes up
Misanth made an outline of the fest preps
tommy booked more guests
Also
peth brought in Matt of WGMI and jkey of SafaryDAO for community calls, hosted the monthly MetaAlliance calls, did the final Season 5 roadmap check in call and two Champions Ring Calls
Misanth brought through a new cohort of Engaged Octopi 🐙 Hello to luffysk, Maxwe11, TYMED, LB Cole, and ignacio.gonzalez6
PiedraDeMar and joseacabrerav introduced Bards Night and continued the Fractal Yoga streak
Web Three Prophet presented the job fair to the MetaAlliance
📱 Technology
Gearing up for MyMeta launch, vid & dan13 cleared up a whole lot of issues
Dave made a customized MyMeta profile example to pitch prospective clients and help with the fundraise, also jumped in with nice new MyMeta opening & closing screens
tenfinney and dysbulic worked on post-launch bugfixes and improvements
Questing system 🐎
vid hosted the weekly meet for the Questing system raid. (Meeting notes)
Quest data was migrated to the MetaOS backend courtesy of vid, tenfinney, and dan13ram
dan13ram and vid worked on Proof of Completion for quests
There’s more …
Misanth upgraded Dynobot (type .mgcmd in a MetaGame server channel and see what happens) and Hydra (now with volume control!)
Michiel worked on minting and kept Zenhub and GitHub issues up to date
luxumbra and dysbulic worked on the MetaFactory wearables UI and contracts
Michiel & Alec successfully troubleshoot the minting problems with Thena of Sourcecred. Thena wrote a patch & Luxumbra proceeded with the calculation
Luxumbra found three.js people to build the 3D version of the landing page 👀
peth’s text, biux’s graphics & Luxumbra’s computer whispering words took the landing page to a whole new level
🍰 Content
MetaRadio 📻
eowulia, peth & rosie kept MetaRadio going
“DAOifying Gitcon and Greenpillin’ the World” with Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki.
Jordan Hall on “Gameb and Incentive Landscapes”
Xavier and Leen from DAO Brussels on “Active Citizenship and DAOs”
Dave did mock-ups and wireframes for the MyMeta signup flow and the Quests UI, making sure the builders weren’t held up
beti finished animations and soundtracks for seven 3D badges to go with Player & Patron rank achievements
Did you see the new MetaGame icon for the Discord server? That was beti, too
Unipuff is responsible for an effective and ever-increasing wordcount—upgraded Playbook strategy! Writers Guild Organizational Map! Upcoming MyMeta blogposts for Ceramic and Decrypt! Quest Categories and Initiation Quests!
Rainmaking Content
peth recorded MyMeta v1 & MetaOS Alpha Walkthrough For Patrons
peth recorded & eowulia edited Tokens & Phases of MetaGame
peth updated the Path to Sustainability post on the forums
peth did a bunch of research & wrote the new version of Patron Perks, then integrated it in Polimyl’s crazy Patron ranked league requirements sheet
Are you interested in playbooks? Have a look at the MetaGame Playbooks Guide and find Playbooks Champion UniPuff in the Discord.
🌱 Growth
Join in to make rain that will grow the MetaGame seeds:
Anna Wrote the strategy for shilling the fundraise
Retweet the Seed Fund DAO Yeeter launch tweet; check the Yeeter proposal
luxumbra got MetaGame set up on Giveth; dysbulic and Musashi13 were the first to donate. Will you add your name to the list of donors?
Effective shilling
UniPuff put MyMeta and MetaSys in front of RnDAO
Anna did promo, planning, and tweets for community calls and gatherings
Web Three Prophet linked with PrimeDAO and TEC for community calls
vid and Web Three Prophet wrote a proposal to get funding from NEAR for the Questing System raid, with assistance from UniPuff and a strong showing from vid and tenfinney on the pitch (Hit up Web Three Prophet if you want to work on funding proposals for your own MetaGame raid)
tommy found potential adoptees of MyMeta
ApeironCreations sent the fundraising shill into all the embassies
peth spoke at MetaFactory’s community call
🧙♂️ Special mention of Polimyl, rogue extraordinaire
For urgent and complicated smart contract wizardry to diagnose and fix mainnet seed transfers.
For making a fully dynamic Patron’s league leaderboard that pulls in and prices Polygon pSeeds, mainnet pSeeds, and yeeted eth. See what it takes to keep your place and perks in the Patron’s league.
🔥🔥🔥
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Read the 1Hive February 2022 Recap. Use 1Hive’s Honeyswap to swap tokens; help 1Hive contributors build dapps and more
MetaFactory collabs with Bankless on a crocheted bucket hat crafted by a Shanghainese inter-generational crochet collective
CRE8R DAO launched a Meet Your CRE8R series. First up, Ceazor7
The Commons Stack was also at the DAOist CDMX – Griff Green presented on the Tragedy of the Commons – see a short clip from his talk
Check out a video of CRE8R DAO highlights
Bloom Network has a wiki with sections on natural building, regenerative fashion, peer-to-peer currency, and more. Dive in and learn
DAOhaus and MetaFactory team up on some limited edition swag 👀
Giveth recaps their ETHDenver 2022 experience
Meta Gamma Delta Grants applications for female founders are go for Women’s History Month
CRE8R DAO talked with FieryDev on the fBOMB project on Fantom
TokenEngineering doing a series of study group sessions in preparation for TE Fundamentals - come prepared
Hero DAO does a Moon Rocks airdrop - all MetaGamers eligible!
Giveth round 6 rewards out - if you donated, go claim your rewards
Honeyswap on Gnosis becomes a multi-chain DEX aggregator
2 new proposals in CRE8R - Burning $CRE8R & Burn per Client
Opolis, d0rg & others get mentioned in TIME’s article on DAOs
Commons Stack launches The Commons Prize
Missed the last Token Engineering 360’s session? Don’t worry, they got you! 😉
Giveth introduces new features, better UX, a codebase that’s easier to integrate with and a whole new look 🤩
🎩 Open Roles 🎩
The above made you want to jump in & do shit? 🙃
Here are some of the open roles 👇
🐙 Normal Roles
Normal roles are entry level roles that anyone can take on without committing too much time or taking on too much responsibility.
🛠️ Builder - An evergreen role, always looking for more TypeScript & other kinds of builders. Know someone? Bring them? Its you but you got frustrated with stale PRs & bad PMing - give us another chance 😇
🐙🐙 Deputy roles
Deputy roles are more important, thus come with some responsibility & commitment. You will be working with Champions.
👔 Project Manager - Yes, DAOs need managers too. Interested in helping run the project? Make sure things aren’t blocked & people aren’t duplicating work? Let us know.
🙌 Meetup Master - Help with organizing community events with the focus on workshops - facilitating knowledge exchange by scheduling workshops based on 🧠-brain-exchange
🧚 XP Fairies - This one's for those who get frustrated with the injustices in the XP system. Sourcecred is great but its not a panacea & there are problems that can be fixed, things that can get balanced! Ask 🤗-innkeepers-guild & help.
🐙🐙🐙 Champion roles
Champion roles are of highest importance and highest commitment & responsibility roles. There are requirements that need to be taken seriously.
🧚 XP Fairies - This one's for those who get frustrated with the injustices in the XP system. Sourcecred is great but its not a panacea & there are problems that can be fixed, things that can get balanced! Ask 🤗-innkeepers-guild & help.
🔥 MyMeta Steward - Someone to help manage the product so builders can focus on building - read the full post here
📣 Shiller - Work on the shilling strategy for MyMeta adoption, the fundraise & MetaGame as a whole
Note: Interested in any of the above roles? Just start doing them or ask for more info
✊ Onwards!
With the fundraise nearing its end & not looking great, your help is needed more than ever. Interested in supporting our work? Know some Ethereum whales interested in this weird real-life mmo-rpg & operating system for composable communities we’re building on Ethereum?
Want to support with less? Support us on Giveth
Next up:
All other calls as per usual schedule 🙃
Coming to Amsterdam? Let us know.
Much love,
UniPuff, HHH & peth ❤️