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Introduction
The energy, excitement, and enthusiasm was palpable in the photos, tweets, and chats shared from ETHDenver. For all we talk about how awesome the metaverse will be, nothing beats getting together IRL; meeting and collaborating with other devs building the future of Web3...
Those of us who didn’t make it out to ETHDenver will have plenty of other opportunities to connect on and offline. So try not to FOMO too hard! The Web3 conference circuit is just ramping up and there will be plenty more opportunities to meet your DAO colleagues in the flesh. Speaking of conferences… D_D’s very own web3con is only a week away! It’s a virtual conference but will still provide many opportunities to meet and work together. So there’s lots to look forward to – but then again, it’s probably nothing ;)
This Week
ETH Denver meetup
A bunch of D_D members had the chance to meet IRL at the D_D Social during ETHDenver last Friday. We hope those of you who made it had fun spending time with your fellow buildoooors. Proof that your D_D colleagues are, in fact, real live humans below:
Special thanks to the event’s sponsors, Alchemy, MakerDAO, Radicle, Livepeer, and Skynet, as well as all the D_D contributors who organized the event!
Pixel Devs Launch
Pixel Devs, a project that lets current D_D DAO members mint a derivative NFT of their genesis token on the Polygon network, has just launched! Only current DAO members holding their genesis token can participate in the mint. Holding a Pixel Dev NFT will not confer DAO membership. Learn more about the project here!
Get your web3con/hackathon tickets
If you haven’t yet, make sure to register for the inaugural web3con and its hackathon. Anyone can register for either or both events, but D_D members will have special access to member-only events.
Guild News
Governance
Project Updates / Announcements
The snapshot votes for formalizing the Operations Team (P-7) and approving the Genesis NFT to still allow DAO access (P-8) have both passed! Thanks to all who voted.
If you voted on any of the previous D_D snapshot votes, you can now claim those sweet, sweet POAPs! Check out the list here and add the missing POAPs to our collection.
Help Needed
More feedback on Season 0 is requested! If you would like to share your experience so far or have any thoughts on how some important challenges should be handled, hop in the #❓-season-zero-questions channel and check out the thread topics.
Member Highlights
Thanks to all members who participated in the Coordinape demo! You can provide feedback on your experience in the “👷♂️ Coordinape Test Feedback'' thread under the #tokenomics channel.
Designers
Project Updates / Announcements
The Design Guild is hosting a guild town hall meeting this week to discuss future rewards, leadership positions, and organization of the guild. The meeting will take place Wednesday Feb 23rd 2:00pm UTC in the #design-voice channel.
The Pixel Devs NFT project has an official launch date! Holders of the Genesis “Devs for Revolution” NFT will be able to mint their corresponding Pixel Dev on the Polygon Network for 12 MATIC on Tuesday: 22-2-22 2:22:2 UTC. Checkout the project wiki page for a guide on how to get MATIC. You can also read more about the project in this Developer DAO blog post.
Help Needed
The $CODE claim site is making great progress. If you would like to help polish the design, check out the #code-claim-site channel.
Member Highlights
Thanks this week to the $CODE claim site team, and
Congrats to the Derivatives Team for making it to launch for their Pixel Devs project!
Community
Project Updates / Announcements
A new Chinese version of the D_D wiki is in the works. Currently, the contents include token topics, brief introductions to the guilds, information on snapshot votes, forum discussions, and the dao-polls. Still to come are vote contents, a thorough intro to using the discord server, and how to make contributions to the DAO.
Help Needed
With the DAO opening back up, the Community Guild is looking for ideas around helping fund people to join. If you would like to help define processes for the #👫-membership-committee or have ideas to share, stop by and say hello!
Member Highlights
Huge thanks this week to Alex1237 for his amazing work translating for, and moderating the Chinese speaking community in the DAO!
Writers
Project Updates / Announcements
Two new articles have been posted on the Developer DAO Blog! Checkout A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs by Dhaiwat Pandya, and Launching Pixel Devs NFT on Polygon by Rasmus Christoffer Nielsen.
Help Needed
Anyone is welcome to write for the D_D Blog. Your article does not have to be original content for the DAO, it can be cross-posted from your own blog. Stop by the #👾-hashnode-blog channel for more information.
Member Highlights
Thanks this week to dhaiwat and rasmuscnielsen for their contributions to the DAO blog!
Marketing + BizDev
Project Updates / Announcements
The ETHDenver Developer DAO meetup was a huge success! Big thanks to everyone that came out and a special thank you to the sponsors that made the meetup possible.
Help Needed
Anyone is welcome to attend the upcoming MBD Guild town hall meeting happening this Wednesday. You can RSVP in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel.
Member Highlights
Huge thanks to everyone who made the ETHDenver meetup possible!
Development
Project Updates / Announcements
A new RFC proposing the Dev Guild start weekly “dogfooding” sessions is now up for discusison on the forum. This RFC highlights the need for accountability and quality user feedback on guild projects. The sessions will be hosted by Dhaiwat, with an aim to help narrow the focus on areas for improvement.
Help Needed
Stop by the Dev Guild weekly sync this Tuesday. A reminder that two meetings are held weekly, one for Eastern timezones, and one for Western timezones. RSVP in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel for the one that best suits your availability.
Member Highlights
Thanks goes out this week to Dhaiwat for being a champion of the Dev Guild and submitting the new RFC.
Community Highlights
How to Code an NFT Explorer Blockchain Dapp using an Alchemy NFT API, by member Albert
Comprehensive Collection of Commmonly used words in Web3 and their Meanings, by Afoma
How to add Ethereum and Binance payments to a React website using Metamask and Ethers.js, by member Tomiwa
How Is the ERC-1155 Standard Better Than the ERC-20 and ERC-721 Standard Combined, by member Bobby
Let’s mint an on-chain NFT, by member Abdul
Ecosystem
The backers of The Graph launched a $205m fund that will provide grants to teams building decentralized applications using The Graph’s querying technology. Developers use The Graph to retrieve blockchain data which powers a wide array of dapps, making the protocol a key component of web3 infrastructure.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands announced it would allow DAOs to register as legal entities, which would allow DAOs to be recognized by the international legal system. The country has already established a domestic organization, MIDAO, to help DAOs with the registration process.
Canada ordered all regulated financial firms to cease facilitating any transactions from 34 crypto wallets tied to funding the trucker protests in Ontario. The protests were deemed illegal under the Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
NFT marketplace OpenSea suffered a phishing attack over the weekend which resulted in 32 users having NFTs stolen from their wallets. For a technical run-down of the attack, see this thread from OpenSea’s CTO Nadav Hollander.
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