#61 Probably Nothing

Who needs banks anyways?

This Week

Guided Onboarding

If you haven’t had a D_D onboarding before and would like to learn about the different ways your membership can benefit you in a small group with 2-3 other members, please fill out the form under #announcements in Discord. @Alex1237 and @wiseTy will follow up to arrange a time to speak with you.

Upcoming Workshop this Wednesday

Send and Receive Real-time Data via Streamr’s Decentralized P2P Network – Wed, Mar 15, 4:30pm UTC, with @megabyte0x and @nicoburkart. Sign up here. 

D_D Jobs of the Week

Technical Lead at Sesire

Backend Engineer at Daostruct

Senior Frontend Engineer at JokeDAO

Developer Relations at Fuel

Sponsor: QuickPitch

Building something in web3? QuickNode is organizing a QuickPitch competition with over $80,000 worth of prizes. This competition will showcase the best startups in the web3 space competing for an opportunity to win substantial rewards! Sign up for the competition and join our Twitter Spaces on March 28th.

Community Highlights

D_D DevNTell: Metacrafters with @MrScottMeyer and @metacratersio [article]

Why Is Chain Interoperability Required in web3??? by member @megabyte0x

Account Abstraction by member @Rahatcodes

Building User-Friendly DApps: Tips for Founders by member @omobukola_

How to Build Your First DApp Using QuickNode’s API by member @omobukola_

Web3 Serverless Infrastructure by the godfather @dabit3

The Ultimate Guide to Debugging Smart Contracts: Tips and Tools for Web3 Developers by member @olanetsoft

Pitch QuickNode for $80k and more in prizes!

Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao

Builders, it's time to pitch @QuickNode! 💰 $80,000 up for grab 🧧 Win substantial rewards Join QuickPitch now → go.quicknode.com/quickpitch

Ecosystem

Coinbase starts a “wallet as a service” business

Crypto payments specialist Stellar bridges fiat and stablecoins to Polkadot

Euler DeFi Protocol Exploited for nearly $200m

Circle will no longer mint USDC through Signature Bank after its shutdown on Sunday

New York Attorney General alleges Ether is a security in KuCoin lawsuit

Initiative Updates

Community

• Town Hall was held on March 10, 2023; moving forward, please fill out this feedback form to help community managers know what to focus on this season.

• The new D_D Guided Onboarding system just launched; please sign up if you've never had the chance to be onboarded into D_D before. This new Re-Onboarding exercise is custom-tailored to make you learn about the different ways your D_D membership can be of benefit to you.

Academy 

• The Academy is establishing goals for Season 2 and narrowing down priorities to the following: gaining clarity on the user journey, determining user interaction with the platform, improving user experience, defining the content architecture, balancing home-grown content and sponsor content, registering users, and finalizing Academy team compensation.

• Work on connecting the Academy and the Peeranha forum continues. The team is evaluating Blockenberg as a content management system.

• The meeting note for the Academy sync of March 9, 2023, can be found here.

WAGMI 

In other News…

Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao

no shade.