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Last Town Hall in S1, Who Is Coming?

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This Week

Community Town Hall on Fri, Nov 25th

This month’s edition of the Town Hall will take place on Fri, Nov 25th at 5pm UTC in the voice chat. We’ll have an interactive Q&A followed by a quiz and a raffle, so make sure to tune in! 

Friendly Funders Weekly Update

This past week, in large part due to @Wikist's incredible work, D_D made connections with grant program managers at Data Union DAO, Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program, Flow, Orange DAO, Protocol Labs, Streamr, and Polygon Village. Most are making smaller ($5-10k) initial grants with the door open for larger support later on. Flow is making up to $50k grants for public goods (especially infrastructure, onboarding, and documentation) projects.

The next Fundraising Workshop will take place on Wed, Nov 30th, and the topic will be Present Your Path to Sustainability and Scale (Workshopping the Business Model Canvas).

Community Highlights

D_D Workshop: @nazeeh21 presents Writing, testing, and deploying a Vyper contract using Foundry 

D_D DevNTell: @yashasvi_yc7 gives an overview of Biconomy

D_D Fundraising Workshop #2: Write a Compelling Narrative for Your Project with @mr_cgc & @Wikist_

Intro to Zero-Knowledge & Building zkApps with Mina Protocol by member @edatweets_

D_D panel at Web3Dubai

Ecosystem

Vitalik publishes Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

FTX hacker converts millions in ETH to renBTC

Grayscale seeks to reassure investors after sister firm Genesis seeks emergency funding

Fall of FTX rocks the Solana ecosystem

MakerDAO launches Maker Teleport to facilitate DAI transfers between mainnet and L2s

Guild News

Designers

Project Updates / Announcements

• The Guild is focused at the moment on three initiatives, hoping to move them forward: supporting D_D Academy's efforts to create an educational platform, helping D_D Agency build a freelancing platform for our members, and assembling a product team that can provide advice to all projects in the DAO. If you are interested in any of these efforts, let us know, and we will provide the context and the step-by-step guidance.

Member Highlights

• Kudos to @Canna (She/they) for all her continual efforts to build an amazing Product Team.

Governance

Project Updates / Announcements

• Gitcoin will receive $CODE, but they will be asked to delay voting until Season 2, when more $CODE will have been distributed, making them less of a voting whale.

• The Delegate Committee is voting on [Social] [EP2.2.5] Selection of an ENS endowment fund manager. See the result of the poll here.

Community

Project Updates / Announcements

• The Server Architecture Team has created a new category called FUNDRAISING HUB. It will be used to learn about raising funds for your projects or ideas💡, as well as to connect with resources and potential opportunities.

• The structure of the FUNDRAISING HUB includes:

1. #️⃣fundraising-overview - a read-only overview of the Fundraising Hub, with resource links.

2. #️⃣points-of-contact - a read-only channel that lists the existing team of Fundraising Operators.

3. #️⃣fundraising-general - an open-to-all channel for team communications, co-ordination, and to allow you to ask questions.

4. #️⃣faqs-guidance - a forum that allows the Fundraising Operators to share answers to recurring questions, provide guidance, and share key resources.

5. #️⃣workshops - a read-only channel that hosts YouTube Videos of the Fundraising Workshops.

• To opt into the Fundraising Hub notifications 🔔 please navigate to the #️⃣project-level channel in the NOTIFICATIONS CENTER.

• The final Town Hall of Season 1 will be held on 25th November 2022 at 5pm UTC. You decide what we talk about, so questions and topics will be crowdsourced via Slido - and you can vote for what you want to be discussed in the Town Hall 🤝. Voting ends at 12PM UTC, 24th November 2022. There will be a quiz, and a raffle where winners will get special prizes 🏆.

• 50 Alchemy University Access 🔑 passes will be distributed this week. 25 positions will be given through Twitter. The other 25 will be distributed to our DAO members in Discord. Details will be released soon.

Member Highlights

• Many thanks to @piablo | utc+1 for constructive advice on onboarding. It was very helpful.

Writers

Project Updates / Announcements

• Discussions are ongoing to determine the future of the Writers Guild. Join the conversation here.

• Nick Tindle's blog post, titled How Lens Protocol Changes Non-Social Networks was published.

Help Needed

• We need scribes across the DAO! There are a ton of meetings happening daily, and most of them need someone to take notes. If interested, please join the writers guild in the DAO#-guild-select channel and then stop by the WRITERS GUILD#📝-scribes channel.

Development

Project Updates / Announcements

• D_D developers in India looking for work can register for the opportunity to attend the Polygon job fair taking place offline on December 1st at Polygon Connect in Bangalore.

• Updates from the Academy weekly sync held on November 15, 2022, can be found here here.

• Peeranha is being considered as a solution for the Academy forum; demos and discussions are currently taking place.

Member Highlights

• Thanks, @ropats16, for crafting the agenda and scribing at the Academy weekly sync.

WAGMI 

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