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This Week
D_D Jobs
This year, we’re investing more in our job board and talent collective, an initiative known as D_D Jobs and spearheaded by @manny. In more detail:
– the D_D Talent Collective is free to join – sign up here!
– all new jobs now show up in #d-d-jobs in Discord
– a free tier is available for the job board – if you have an opportunity to share, please do
– a paid tier gives you a Twitter Space about your position and company, as well as priority real estate on the job board, and a mention in the newsletter
– if the job board is not suitable for your opportunity, please head to #find-collaborators in Discord
D_D Jobs of the Week
Frontend / FullStack Engineer at SteelPerlot
Head of Developer Relations at Eigenlayer
Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems (Rust) at LitProtocol
Open Proposals
P-21: Simplifying the D_D Improvement Proposal Process – allows us to be more agile and iterative in our Governance process, which is currently slow. Please vote – we’ve already reached the required 100 votes for the proposal to pass but it’s not too late to have your say!
Sponsor: QuickNode
Our first ever sponsor, QuickNode is back! And this time we are proud to announce them as our first Season 2 sponsor DAO-wide! What’s better? They have an NFT webinar coming up with Coindesk.
Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have become the most discussed - and perhaps most controversial - assets in the crypto space this year. But beyond the punditry and market turbulence lies NFTs’ potential to transform retail, gaming, sports, and even government. Join this discussion to hear, Auston Bunsen (Co-Founder, QuickNode), Hari Masoor (Senior Blockchain Solution Architect, QuickNode), & Quentin Crépy (Co-Founder/CEO, Solanart) discuss where NFT adoption has shined despite the down-market, adoption by F500 companies, top use cases we see going mainstream in the near future, and how you can quickly and easily get involved in NFTs and Web3 development. Register here!
Fundraising Update
D_D founders get their first D_D grants
After a little over a month of the Fundraising Operators working with founders, we’re happy to announce that the first one got funded! The TalentLayer team was awarded a $7,500 grant from Lens Protocol last week.
Also big bravo to the following folks who got their grants from Algovera, a D_D member project:
@cuddleofdeath | Kristen - DailyLook - AI-generated makeup
@ImpactMS - Leisure AI - AI personalized calendar
@pfedprog - Automated prediction market
@ImpactMS also got support from Fundraising Operators in her application
Community Highlights
Woop Pay, a project to come out of D_D Agency, a D_D venture builder
D_D Workshop: Build Scalable Web3 Applications on Hedera with @ridley___
D_D DevNTell: @codewithcorgis gives an updated overview of Corgis.xyz
Fundraising Workshop #5 with @mr_cgc and @Wikist: Practice Your Elevator Pitch
Fundraising Workshop #4 with @mr_cgc and @Wikist: Present a Budget for a Web3 Grant
Fundraising Workshop #3 with @mr_cgc and @Wikist: Present Your Path to Sustainability and Scale
Recontextualizing DAOs: The Case for Developer DAO by member @boyluan
Upskilling Devs through the NounsDAO x D_D via Explorer Grants
Technical Writing 101: 360 Guide on How to Start Your Technical Writing Journey by member @Victorfawole0
Social Login and Account Abstraction with Biconomy and Next.js by member @dabit3
The Difference Between Alchemy API and thirdweb SDK? by member @PeterPanYes
Create NFT Smart Contracts with thirdweb and Chainlink by member @Aayush_gupta_ji
Ecosystem
China reverses course on NFTs with platform launch
Federal judge rules $4.2bn of customer assets are part of Celsius’ bankruptcy estate
SEC objects to Binance’s $1bn deal for Voyager assets
SBF pleads not guilty on all counts in federal court
Cameron Winklevoss pens an open letter to Barry Silbert of DCG about Gemini’s blocked funds
WAGMI
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