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Osikhena James Oshomah

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Nov 16, 2022

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This Week

A Message from Nader in the wake of the FTX collapse

These past few weeks, and really the past year or so, has been a pretty wild ride in the crypto / blockchain / web3 space. I've personally seen and experienced a lot of ups and downs, and I've seen others experience the same.

One thing I continue to come away with though is that I've noticed the integrity and decency that Developer DAO members exemplify continues to really stand out, especially among the bad actors and negative incidents that are making the headlines.

I'm proud every time I see someone from Developer DAO land a new role, get a promotion, ship a new project, or land a round of funding.

I continue seeing many Developer DAO members not only surviving, but thriving, through all of this. I strongly believe that you can insulate yourself at least somewhat from market turmoil by having a strong, hirable skillset and good network, which is a huge part of what Developer DAO can offer.

I also believe there is no shortcut to success, instead you become successful over time by having strong values and integrity in your dealings with other people and doing so consistently. Everyone will make mistakes, and even misjudge situations, and learn from their mistakes, but as long as they are operating with "doing the right thing" in mind, then it's easy to get back up, learn , make amends, and keep going.

It's hard to know what's going to happen in the next year, but I personally am just as excited as ever about the future of this space. It's still nascent, there will be more crazy things to happen, but the growth and adoption that we've started seeing in the past year is a great indicator that the real-world use cases are being recognized.

For more, check out the #announcements channel.

This week’s Fundraising Operators update & next Fundraising Workshop

Chuck & Wikist are running the second workshop of their fundraising series this week. Fundraising Workshop #2: Write a Compelling Narrative for Your Project will take place here on Wed, Nov 16th at 3pm UTC.

The team made connections with 6 more web3 grant funders, 4 of whom have active grants programs right now: Aztec, HBAR Foundation (Hedera), Origami, and Wally.xyz. Check out the Friendly Funders report for more information. If you are looking for help with obtaining grant funding for your project, join the Fundraising Office Hours every Monday and Friday at 2 pm UTC in #voice-chat-1. You can also DM Chuck & Wikist (chuck25#4313 & wikist#4898) or post in the #fundraising-operators channel.

New D_D workshop drops Nov 21st

Join @codingwithmanny for a D_D workshop on tRPC & Sign-In with Ethereum with Monorepos. The event will take place here on Mon, Nov 21st at 4:30pm UTC.

Community Highlights

Humans of D_D, Ep. 7 with @narb_s

D_D Workshop: How to Create & Deploy a 100% On-Chain SVG with member @velvet_shark

D_D Workshop: Intro to Rainbow Kit and Wagmi Libraries with member @wc49358

D_D DevNTell: @PSkinnerTech presents his project AGAMI

D_D Fundraising Workshop #1: The Components of a Great Grants Application with @mr_cgc and @Wikist_

Archive Forever, a project to archive any wepage on the blockchain, by member @dabit3

A Gentle Introduction to ERC Standards: ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 by member @CryptoShuriken

Building Full Stack Permanent Applications with Arweave, Smartweave, Warp, & Next.js by member @dabit3

How I Became Nomadic and Started My Web3 Career with D_D by member @nicoburkart

35+ GitHub Repositories Every Solidity Developer Should Bookmark by member @frankiefab100

Ecosystem

The big piece of news to sweep the ecosystem this week was the collapse of FTX. The story is still unfolding and all over Crypto Twitter, but if you’re looking to catch up, you can start here

OFAC doubles down on Tornado Cash sanctions

OpenSea announces it will continue to enforce royalties for existing NFT collections

The US DOJ seizes more than 50k BTC stolen from the Silk Road a decade ago