#89 Probably Nothing
🤩 Zerion x D_D partnership, Phala Hackathon winners, D_D scholarships, and much more 👀
📅 This Week
Upcoming Events
Talking Wallets with Zerion — Wed, Oct 4, 1pm UTC. Join an all-star team for a discussion on Zerion Wallets and Zerion’s partnership with D_D. Register here.
DevNTell: Eden — Fri, Oct 6, 3:30pm UTC. In this week's episode, BluePanda, founder and CTO, will give us an overview of Eden, a D_D-grown project that is transforming the web3 job search with AI. Register here.
Zerion Wallet x D_D Partnership
D_D is joining forces with @zerion to bring the best possible wallet UX to the community.
Why this partnership? @zerion is a wallet provider committed to solving important UX and safety challenges with web3 wallets, which resonates with our DAO’s values to safely onboard users to web3.
To get things rolling, all D_D members are allow-listed for Beta access to Zerion’s browser extension — sign up here.
For more on the partnership, check out this post.
D_D Member Scholarships
Do you love what we do and would like to become a D_D member? We’re looking for individuals who want to vibe and dive into all the fun at D_D — hackathons, games, education, events, jobs, and more.
Apply here for a chance to win a D_D scholarship!
Phala x D_D Hackathon Winners
We have the winners of the recently concluded @PhalaNetwork Hack series! 🎉🥁
A total of 50 hackers battled it out for a prize pool of $13,000 in PHA and $CODE — see the Initiative Updates section of this newsletter for the full list of winning submissions.
Congrats to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!
🤝 Community Highlights
Uploading Files to Arweave via The Bundler Network by @jamiescript
Unraveling the Magic of Language Models: A Beginner’s Guide to LLMs by @shrirajpawar04
Serverless Functions with Molecular Execution Machine by @pbillingsby_
📰 Ecosystem News
FTX bankruptcy claims soar in value in over-the-counter markets as estate recovers $7.3bn
Europe’s crypto industry wants staking clarity as regulations loom
🎖️ Initiative Updates
Phala x D_D Hackathon Winners
🥇🥇Winners of the "Phattest" subs and $3,000:
@umangpatel31 & @somewhatsahil with SafeShift — SafeShift is a content-sharing platform built with the @LensProtocol social graph that puts user safety and UX first, blocking NSFW content.
@PeterAnyaogu for his project Phat OTP (One-time Password) — an on-chain OTP verification project that sends OTPs via @xmtp_.
🥈🥈Winners of the "Phatter" subs and $2,000:
@skeshav25 with their project Phala Flex — Phala Flex is a novel approach to integrating off-chain (think @Authy @Google) time-based OTP verification on-chain.
@aeyshubh and their project Lens Phite2 — an on-chain game where you can battle it out based on your @LensProtocol stats.
🥉🥉Winners of the "Phat" subs and $300:
@MaryChao21 with PhatStrategy
@Envoy_1084 with skybet
@nazeeh21 with an On-chain Passport
🥉🥉Winners of the Top Blog subs and $250:
🥉🥉Winners of the Top Video subs and $250:
Once again, congrats to all the winners and participants 🚀 🙏
Governance
Academy Sub-DAO Budget for 2023 Q3-Q4 — elevated to Snapshot, closing on Sat, Oct 7, 12pm UTC. Please exercise your governance right via Snapshot here.
All voters will be issued the below NFT as an attestation of their contribution to the DAO.
D_D Handbook
Please have a look at and share your feedback on the DAO Handbook we’ve been working on.
We welcome your thoughts and comments under this Forum post.
D_D Praise System
Praise is a peer-to-peer way for D_D members to give kudos to other members via bot commands.
5,000 $CODE will be shared every month amongst praised folks.
For more information on the Praise Bot System, see this short video.
ETHIndia Hackathon Channel in Discord
Heading to ETHIndia? @devommore has opened a hackathon channel under BUILD/join-hackathons/ETHIndia in D_D Discord where members can sync up in preparation for the event.
😎 WAGMI
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