Looking for feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can best use its RPGF to discover, incubate, and fund four new projects building on Optimism
TLDR
Hedgey received 50 k OP from the last round of RPGF. I want to use the OP to kick start 4 early stage projects building natively on Optimism. Using Backdrop and Hedgey, I want to run a program where solo builders and early stage projects can get rapid feedback on early ideas over a four week period, and the Optimism community can then select the top four projects to receive enough runway (using Hedgey’s 50 k OP) to turn kickstart their product/app/protocol.
Background
Hedgey is a token vesting platform that gives teams access to onchain token vesting and token lockups as a free public good. Over the last two years we’ve been used by teams like Celo, Gitcoin, Shapeshift, CollabLand, and more recently been used to distribute over $ 100 m in grants for the Arbitrum STIP. In the last round of RPGF we were allocated 50 k OP and I discussed that whatever we received would be put back into the Optimism community to help kickstart four OP native projects. With the funding coming in, I want to begin the experiment by sharing the idea here and getting feedback from the community.
The idea (open to feedback)
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live. The program would start by encouraging any amount of builders to apply to the upcoming season of Backdrop (starting February 26 th), where they have will have four weeks to iterate on an idea and create a plan for how they will execute on the idea to create an MVP of the project/protocol/app over a 3 month period following the season end.
At the end of the season, the top 10 - 20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Over the 3 months, the goal would be to provide the builders as much community feedback and support as possible with some metric of accountability/performance applied to each team to continue receiving their funding streams. By the end of the four month period (one month on Backdrop + 3 months building), the goal would be to launch four new projects that continue building their project on Optimism full time.
How I want to use Backdrop
Applicants apply to the upcoming Backdrop season
Teams are unfunded during this 4 week phase (low risk and less time commitment)
Teams provide weekly updates on what they are working on (format tbd) to get feedback
At the end of the season, teams will share a final deliverable of what they have built and how they will build over the next 3 months (with milestones)
How I want to use Farcaster / JokeRace / TBD
I’m into Farcaster and a big fan of JokeRace. I want to find some type of social, token gated (tbd) voting system to get the Optimism community hyped about the program and dogfood cool products to execute the vote.
How I want to use Hedgey token streams
Create four streams for the final projects using Hedgey
Make the streams distribute on a bi-weekly basis
Make the streams revocable
Give the streams front-loaded voting rights to let the recipients get involved in Optimism governance on day one.
Use the streams as an accountability measure and define clear terms on how/if streams can be stopped. (TBD)
Set up a public dashboard for the DAO to track and manage.
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Thoughts on the types of projects I am not looking for (for this idea)
This isn’t a “build on Hedgey” thing. Projects don’t have to use Hedgey
Overly saturated spaces
Teams that have already deployed on other networks (should get grants but out of scope for this program)
Established projects that already have a place in the market ( need grants for these types of products but out of scope for this program)
Timeline
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application)
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Teams will work through Backdrop from February 26 th - March 24 th. Updates are shared every seven days.
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
A final group of 10 - 20 projects are selected when the season ends on March 24 th
April 1 st a vote begins to select the top four projects (need to define where and how)
April 7 th streams begin for the four teams selected (backdated to April 1 st start)
(Recipients must either delegate or self delegate the full amount of tokens in their stream)
Streams continue until the end of June (unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part)
What I am looking for from the community
Any and all feedback.
Is this a good idea?
What would you change?
What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward?
What kind of projects would you like to see apply?
Have an idea for a project you want to work on?
The post is seeking feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can utilize its RPGF to support and fund four new projects that build on Optimism. Hedgey aims to use the 50k OP grant received to kickstart these early-stage projects and engage the Optimism community in selecting the top ideas. The proposed program involves using Backdrop to provide rapid feedback to solo builders and projects, followed by a voting process involving Farcaster or JokeRace. Additionally, Hedgey plans to create token streams for funded projects to incentivize progress and accountability. The post also outlines the timeline for project submissions and selection, and seeks input from the community regarding the criteria for projects and overall feedback on the initiative.
Gonna.eth: Lindsey:
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Hello, do you mind posting on this same thread? I just set notifications of this post as “watching” curious to know how this develops.
Sixty: Lindsey:
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application)
Hey @Lindsey, it looks like the applications on BackDrop close much earlier than stated in your post (February 19th instead of February 24th).
b0ggs: Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
FractalVisions: Curious about order of operations here.
Finding it a bit odd that winners are announced prior to the final update on the forums. In retrospect it may have been better to get this information in before the announcement as we were unsure if it was still mandatory to complete after finding out we didn’t make the cut.
Also it was highly confusing coming from the governance post as our initial introduction to backdrop build that the program was announced here for builders on the Superchain but then saw a lot of ai related entries that were chosen at the end as winners for the contest that seemingly had nothing to do with blockchain technology at all.
Lindsey:
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live.
Here again it states how the project should relate to the Optimism network so it was very confusing when we saw ai projects being chosen for the winners.
Was there some sort of announcement that there would also be other projects that didn’t use blockchain technology or are related to Optimism ?
Lindsey:
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Is there something we are missing here?
Is the 50,000 OP separate from the same prize pool that all the other folks got awards from?
Or is there a separate prize pool for those on Backdrop Build who didn’t post in the forum here ?
We are trying to get some clarification on the changes that occurred after the beginning of the program.
It was not obvious that folks here in the forum would be competing against others who did not participate in the reporting process here as well.
Also again here it states 10-20 projects would be selected. How many total were on the ending event ?
From our recollection there were around 40 chosen. Many of which never participated in posting once here in the governance forums.
Lindsey:
At the end of the season, the top 10-20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Just to let you know it was never clear that the other folks who were not participating in the governance forums here would also have a chance at winning the 50,000 OP and we are not quite sure why it was an extra requirement to make posts here every Monday and Friday on top of the updates on Backdrop build.
Looking for feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can best use its RPGF to discover, incubate, and…
Looking for feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can best use its RPGF to discover, incubate, and fund four new projects building on Optimism
TLDR
Hedgey 34 received 50 k OP from the last round of RPGF. I want to use the OP to kick start 4 early stage projects building natively on Optimism. Using Backdrop 28 and Hedgey, I want to run a program where solo builders and early stage projects can get rapid feedback on early ideas over a four week period, and the Optimism community can then select the top four projects to receive enough runway (using Hedgey’s 50 k OP) to turn kickstart their product/app/protocol.
Background
Hedgey is a token vesting platform that gives teams access to onchain token vesting and token lockups as a free public good. Over the last two years we’ve been used by teams like Celo, Gitcoin, Shapeshift, CollabLand, and more recently been used to distribute over $ 100 m in grants for the Arbitrum STIP. In the last round of RPGF we were allocated 50 k OP and I discussed that whatever we received would be put back into the Optimism community to help kickstart four OP native projects. With the funding coming in, I want to begin the experiment by sharing the idea here and getting feedback from the community.
The idea (open to feedback)
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live. The program would start by encouraging any amount of builders to apply to the upcoming season of Backdrop (starting February 26 th), where they have will have four weeks to iterate on an idea and create a plan for how they will execute on the idea to create an MVP of the project/protocol/app over a 3 month period following the season end.
At the end of the season, the top 10 - 20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Over the 3 months, the goal would be to provide the builders as much community feedback and support as possible with some metric of accountability/performance applied to each team to continue receiving their funding streams. By the end of the four month period (one month on Backdrop + 3 months building), the goal would be to launch four new projects that continue building their project on Optimism full time.
How I want to use Backdrop
Applicants apply to the upcoming Backdrop season 27
Teams are unfunded during this 4 week phase (low risk and less time commitment)
Teams provide weekly updates on what they are working on (format tbd) to get feedback
At the end of the season, teams will share a final deliverable of what they have built and how they will build over the next 3 months (with milestones)
How I want to use Farcaster / JokeRace / TBD
I’m into Farcaster and a big fan of JokeRace. I want to find some type of social, token gated (tbd) voting system to get the Optimism community hyped about the program and dogfood cool products to execute the vote.
How I want to use Hedgey token streams
Create four streams for the final projects using Hedgey
Make the streams distribute on a bi-weekly basis
Make the streams revocable
Give the streams front-loaded voting rights to let the recipients get involved in Optimism governance on day one.
Use the streams as an accountability measure and define clear terms on how/if streams can be stopped. (TBD)
Set up a public dashboard for the DAO to track and manage.
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Thoughts on the types of projects I am not looking for (for this idea)
This isn’t a “build on Hedgey” thing. Projects don’t have to use Hedgey
Overly saturated spaces
Teams that have already deployed on other networks (should get grants but out of scope for this program)
Established projects that already have a place in the market ( need grants for these types of products but out of scope for this program)
Timeline
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com 27 (mention this program in your application)
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Teams will work through Backdrop from February 26 th - March 24 th. Updates are shared every seven days.
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
A final group of 10 - 20 projects are selected when the season ends on March 24 th
April 1 st a vote begins to select the top four projects (need to define where and how)
April 7 th streams begin for the four teams selected (backdated to April 1 st start)
(Recipients must either delegate or self delegate the full amount of tokens in their stream)
Streams continue until the end of June (unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part)
What I am looking for from the community
Any and all feedback.
Is this a good idea?
What would you change?
What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward?
What kind of projects would you like to see apply?
Have an idea for a project you want to work on?
Gonna.eth: Lindsey:
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Hello, do you mind posting on this same thread? I just set notifications of this post as “watching” curious to know how this develops.
Sixty: Lindsey:
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application)
Hey @Lindsey, it looks like the applications on BackDrop close much earlier than stated in your post (February 19th instead of February 24th).
b0ggs: Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
FractalVisions: Curious about order of operations here.
Finding it a bit odd that winners are announced prior to the final update on the forums. In retrospect it may have been better to get this information in before the announcement as we were unsure if it was still mandatory to complete after finding out we didn’t make the cut.
Also it was highly confusing coming from the governance post as our initial introduction to backdrop build that the program was announced here for builders on the Superchain but then saw a lot of ai related entries that were chosen at the end as winners for the contest that seemingly had nothing to do with blockchain technology at all.
Lindsey:
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live.
Here again it states how the project should relate to the Optimism network so it was very confusing when we saw ai projects being chosen for the winners.
Was there some sort of announcement that there would also be other projects that didn’t use blockchain technology or are related to Optimism ?
Lindsey:
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Is there something we are missing here?
Is the 50,000 OP separate from the same prize pool that all the other folks got awards from?
Or is there a separate prize pool for those on Backdrop Build who didn’t post in the forum here ?
We are trying to get some clarification on the changes that occurred after the beginning of the program.
It was not obvious that folks here in the forum would be competing against others who did not participate in the reporting process here as well.
Also again here it states 10-20 projects would be selected. How many total were on the ending event ?
From our recollection there were around 40 chosen. Many of which never participated in posting once here in the governance forums.
Lindsey:
At the end of the season, the top 10-20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Just to let you know it was never clear that the other folks who were not participating in the governance forums here would also have a chance at winning the 50,000 OP and we are not quite sure why it was an extra requirement to make posts here every Monday and Friday on top of the updates on Backdrop build.
Looking for feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can best use its RPGF to discover, incubate, and…
Looking for feedback and suggestions on how Hedgey can best use its RPGF to discover, incubate, and fund four new projects building on Optimism TLDR Hedgey 28 received 50 k OP from the last round of RPGF. I want to use the OP to kick start 4 early stage projects building natively on Optimism. Using Backdrop 23 and Hedgey, I want to run a program where solo builders and early stage projects can get rapid feedback on early ideas over a four week period, and the Optimism community can then select the top four projects to receive enough runway (using Hedgey’s 50 k OP) to turn kickstart their product/app/protocol. Background Hedgey is a token vesting platform that gives teams access to onchain token vesting and token lockups as a free public good. Over the last two years we’ve been used by teams like Celo, Gitcoin, Shapeshift, CollabLand, and more recently been used to distribute over $ 100 m in grants for the Arbitrum STIP. In the last round of RPGF we were allocated 50 k OP and I discussed that whatever we received would be put back into the Optimism community to help kickstart four OP native projects. With the funding coming in, I want to begin the experiment by sharing the idea here and getting feedback from the community. The idea (open to feedback) The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live. The program would start by encouraging any amount of builders to apply to the upcoming season of Backdrop (starting February 26 th), where they have will have four weeks to iterate on an idea and create a plan for how they will execute on the idea to create an MVP of the project/protocol/app over a 3 month period following the season end. At the end of the season, the top 10 - 20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.) Over the 3 months, the goal would be to provide the builders as much community feedback and support as possible with some metric of accountability/performance applied to each team to continue receiving their funding streams. By the end of the four month period (one month on Backdrop + 3 months building), the goal would be to launch four new projects that continue building their project on Optimism full time. How I want to use Backdrop Applicants apply to the upcoming Backdrop season 22 Teams are unfunded during this 4 week phase (low risk and less time commitment) Teams provide weekly updates on what they are working on (format tbd) to get feedback At the end of the season, teams will share a final deliverable of what they have built and how they will build over the next 3 months (with milestones) How I want to use Farcaster / JokeRace / TBD I’m into Farcaster and a big fan of JokeRace. I want to find some type of social, token gated (tbd) voting system to get the Optimism community hyped about the program and dogfood cool products to execute the vote. How I want to use Hedgey token streams Create four streams for the final projects using Hedgey Make the streams distribute on a bi-weekly basis Make the streams revocable Give the streams front-loaded voting rights to let the recipients get involved in Optimism governance on day one. Use the streams as an accountability measure and define clear terms on how/if streams can be stopped. (TBD) Set up a public dashboard for the DAO to track and manage. Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important) Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds) New and novel ideas Farcaster frames are cool Products that can become category defining are cool People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way Thoughts on the types of projects I am not looking for (for this idea) This isn’t a “build on Hedgey” thing. Projects don’t have to use Hedgey Overly saturated spaces Teams that have already deployed on other networks (should get grants but out of scope for this program) Established projects that already have a place in the market ( need grants for these types of products but out of scope for this program) Timeline Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com 25 (mention this program in your application) All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February Teams will work through Backdrop from February 26 th - March 24 th. Updates are shared every seven days. A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared) A final group of 10 - 20 projects are selected when the season ends on March 24 th April 1 st a vote begins to select the top four projects (need to define where and how) April 7 th streams begin for the four teams selected (backdated to April 1 st start) (Recipients must either delegate or self delegate the full amount of tokens in their stream) Streams continue until the end of June (unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part) What I am looking for from the community Any and all feedback. Is this a good idea? What would you change? What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward? What kind of projects would you like to see apply? Have an idea for a project you want to work on?
Gonna.eth: Lindsey:
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Hello, do you mind posting on this same thread? I just set notifications of this post as “watching” curious to know how this develops.
Sixty: Lindsey:
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application)
Hey @Lindsey, it looks like the applications on BackDrop close much earlier than stated in your post (February 19th instead of February 24th).
b0ggs: Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
Lindsey:
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Hello, do …
Lindsey:
All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February
Hello, do you mind posting on this same thread? I just set notifications of this post as “watching” curious to know how this develops.
Lindsey: All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February Hello, do …
Lindsey: All teams that are accepted will be shared on a new thread late February Hello, do you mind posting on this same thread? I just set notifications of this post as “watching” curious to know how this develops.
This it really interesting and I personally think it’s a great idea, really altruistic way of using…
This it really interesting and I personally think it’s a great idea, really altruistic way of using RPGF in a way that stimulates the ecosystem.
Cheers @Zer 8 and thanks for the feedback! Forwarding on the RPGF to drive forward new ideas launc…
Cheers @Zer 8 and thanks for the feedback! Forwarding on the RPGF to drive forward new ideas launching on Optimism is exactly what I want to explore here. To really see the potential of the idea I think we’re going to have to find a way to reach builders thinking about launching a new idea and get them involved. There’s a short timeline (just under two weeks) for teams to apply for the first phase, so I think the first hurdle will be to find a good amount of builders before then. Let see what we can do!
michaellawal.eth: @Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked markets to gain access through public goods funding. I will be looking into this myself for Geld.Network
This it really interesting and I personally think it’s a great idea, really altruistic way of using…
This it really interesting and I personally think it’s a great idea, really altruistic way of using RPGF in a way that stimulates the ecosystem.
Cheers @Zer 8 and thanks for the feedback! Forwarding on the RPGF to drive forward new ideas launc…
Cheers @Zer 8 and thanks for the feedback! Forwarding on the RPGF to drive forward new ideas launching on Optimism is exactly what I want to explore here. To really see the potential of the idea I think we’re going to have to find a way to reach builders thinking about launching a new idea and get them involved. There’s a short timeline (just under two weeks) for teams to apply for the first phase, so I think the first hurdle will be to find a good amount of builders before then. Let see what we can do!
michaellawal.eth: @Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked markets to gain access through public goods funding. I will be looking into this myself for Geld.Network
Hey @Lindsey , I absolutely love this initiative and the fact that Hedgey is looking to promote and…
Hey @Lindsey , I absolutely love this initiative and the fact that Hedgey is looking to promote and support early-stage projects on Optimism. However, I am curious if there are any plans to support the teams beyond the 3 months that have been planned?
Hey @Lindsey , I absolutely love this initiative and the fact that Hedgey is looking to promote and…
Hey @Lindsey , I absolutely love this initiative and the fact that Hedgey is looking to promote and support early-stage projects on Optimism. However, I am curious if there are any plans to support the teams beyond the 3 months that have been planned?
It’s a good question. I think for this program the idea is to help at the zero to one stage and hop…
It’s a good question. I think for this program the idea is to help at the zero to one stage and hopefully get teams at a point where they can launch to other funding sources whether it be their own RPGF, or possibly taking the incubator/accelerator/raising venture capital route. At current numbers it would be ~ 50 k USD per project so hopefully enough to test out an early idea and get some traction.
It’s a good question. I think for this program the idea is to help at the zero to one stage and hop…
It’s a good question. I think for this program the idea is to help at the zero to one stage and hopefully get teams at a point where they can launch to other funding sources whether it be their own RPGF, or possibly taking the incubator/accelerator/raising venture capital route. At current numbers it would be ~ 50 k USD per project so hopefully enough to test out an early idea and get some traction.
This is a great proposal!
As a builder in the space I would be very interested in submitting for th…
This is a great proposal!
As a builder in the space I would be very interested in submitting for this and collaborating with Hedgey/OP community.
I have spent the last several years working on a range of crypto applications including amms, stablecoins and custody. I have deep expertise in defi protocol design and believe we need new mechanisms and new sources of capital / off-ramps in order to move defi/crypto forward.
We have been working on prototypes in commerce, start-up investing, and lending; this grant would be a great way to build something and put it in the real world. On top of that, I think this grant could encourage builders that want to test out new things in crypto social.
That’s awesome to hear @Andy- 4 - definitely apply to Backdrop and looking forward to see what you…
That’s awesome to hear @Andy- 4 - definitely apply to Backdrop and looking forward to see what you build!
Lindsey:
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild…
Lindsey:
Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application)
Hey @Lindsey, it looks like the applications on BackDrop close much earlier than stated in your post (February 19 th instead of February 24 th).
This is a great proposal! As a builder in the space I would be very interested in submitting for th…
This is a great proposal! As a builder in the space I would be very interested in submitting for this and collaborating with Hedgey/OP community. I have spent the last several years working on a range of crypto applications including amms, stablecoins and custody. I have deep expertise in defi protocol design and believe we need new mechanisms and new sources of capital / off-ramps in order to move defi/crypto forward. We have been working on prototypes in commerce, start-up investing, and lending; this grant would be a great way to build something and put it in the real world. On top of that, I think this grant could encourage builders that want to test out new things in crypto social.
That’s awesome to hear @Andy- 4 - definitely apply to Backdrop and looking forward to see what you…
That’s awesome to hear @Andy- 4 - definitely apply to Backdrop and looking forward to see what you build!
Lindsey: Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild…
Lindsey: Apply to Backdrop this week (deadline February 24 th). Apply at http://backdropbuild.com (mention this program in your application) Hey @Lindsey, it looks like the applications on BackDrop close much earlier than stated in your post (February 19 th instead of February 24 th).
Thanks for the note on that @Sixty . Just checked with Joey from Backdrop and they’ll be taking in …
Thanks for the note on that @Sixty . Just checked with Joey from Backdrop and they’ll be taking in / reviewing applications up to the end of the 23 rd. More time but still need to push to get everyone in! If you or anyone runs into roadblocks when submitting feel free to dm me @ goforlindsey on Telegram and can make sure I get things sorted - cheers!
Thanks for the note on that @Sixty . Just checked with Joey from Backdrop and they’ll be taking in …
Thanks for the note on that @Sixty . Just checked with Joey from Backdrop and they’ll be taking in / reviewing applications up to the end of the 23 rd. More time but still need to push to get everyone in! If you or anyone runs into roadblocks when submitting feel free to dm me @ goforlindsey on Telegram and can make sure I get things sorted - cheers!
I just applied ! I am a little confused about the process, is the screen I’ve filled in all i neede…
I just applied ! I am a little confused about the process, is the screen I’ve filled in all i needed?
Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 18 at 1 . 01 . 53 PM 1886 × 1086 137 KB
There was no questions around Optimism alignment or that we are applying to the minigrant from hedgey so im a little confused.
Also, this is only for idea stage products or also those with a very rough and early PoC that needs further iteration?
I just applied ! I am a little confused about the process, is the screen I’ve filled in all i neede…
I just applied ! I am a little confused about the process, is the screen I’ve filled in all i needed? Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 18 at 1 . 01 . 53 PM 1886 × 1086 137 KB There was no questions around Optimism alignment or that we are applying to the minigrant from hedgey so im a little confused. Also, this is only for idea stage products or also those with a very rough and early PoC that needs further iteration?
Awesome to see! Should make it more clear there that you can just add in that you’re applying to th…
Awesome to see! Should make it more clear there that you can just add in that you’re applying to the Hedgey RPGF program in your description. I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.
For your last question, having a POC or early build is totally fine. More trying to make sure we find early projects / ideas rather than mature stage projects.
Looking forward to seeing your idea!
thedevanshmehta: Lindsey:
I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.
Thanks for doing this! We have been approved for the cohort
Looking forward to building this month alongside the other builders
Nice to see you! Lindsey, I have already sharing this idea to optimism chinese community, I think i…
Nice to see you! Lindsey, I have already sharing this idea to optimism chinese community, I think it will have a lot of people interested in this idea
Awesome to see! Should make it more clear there that you can just add in that you’re applying to th…
Awesome to see! Should make it more clear there that you can just add in that you’re applying to the Hedgey RPGF program in your description. I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged. For your last question, having a POC or early build is totally fine. More trying to make sure we find early projects / ideas rather than mature stage projects. Looking forward to seeing your idea!
thedevanshmehta: Lindsey:
I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.
Thanks for doing this! We have been approved for the cohort
Looking forward to building this month alongside the other builders
Nice to see you! Lindsey, I have already sharing this idea to optimism chinese community, I think i…
Nice to see you! Lindsey, I have already sharing this idea to optimism chinese community, I think it will have a lot of people interested in this idea
Great to hear it! More the merrier here. make sure they add a Hedgey/Optimism note in their project…
Great to hear it! More the merrier here. make sure they add a Hedgey/Optimism note in their project description and feel free to dm me anyone that does apply. Can make sure they get flagged for Joey at Backdrop.
Great to hear it! More the merrier here. make sure they add a Hedgey/Optimism note in their project…
Great to hear it! More the merrier here. make sure they add a Hedgey/Optimism note in their project description and feel free to dm me anyone that does apply. Can make sure they get flagged for Joey at Backdrop.
Just applied too, added the Hedgey RPGF program into the description.
Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 19 a…
Just applied too, added the Hedgey RPGF program into the description.
Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 19 at 12 . 13 . 26 PM 1612 × 1014 83 . 4 KB
Very cool! I’ve been accepted into Backdrop Build v 3 and have a novel idea I’m building that’s bo…
Very cool! I’ve been accepted into Backdrop Build v 3 and have a novel idea I’m building that’s borne of my work on ground adoption in Latin America from 2018 - 2022 . Should be fun!
Just applied too, added the Hedgey RPGF program into the description. Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 19 a…
Just applied too, added the Hedgey RPGF program into the description. Screenshot 2024 - 02 - 19 at 12 . 13 . 26 PM 1612 × 1014 83 . 4 KB
Very cool! I’ve been accepted into Backdrop Build v 3 and have a novel idea I’m building that’s bo…
Very cool! I’ve been accepted into Backdrop Build v 3 and have a novel idea I’m building that’s borne of my work on ground adoption in Latin America from 2018 - 2022 . Should be fun!
Just applied @Lindsey
We’re working on a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from…
Just applied @Lindsey
We’re working on a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from 100 DAOs at the moment. Users will be able to query any search term and the results will be derived from the 250 k+ forum posts within our database, with all engagement metrics included.
We can use this data to display trending topics across the DAO space, perform deep sentiment analysis, create an algorithm for friend suggestion, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and to apply DAO scores/ratings for individual members as well. Also, a DAO member’s reputation will be portable, and represented in the form of achievement badges, which can be viewed by any DAO the user joins., so they don’t have to build their reputation back up from scratch.
image 1909 × 1013 68 . 6 KB
Just applied @Lindsey We’re working on a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from…
Just applied @Lindsey We’re working on a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from 100 DAOs at the moment. Users will be able to query any search term and the results will be derived from the 250 k+ forum posts within our database, with all engagement metrics included. We can use this data to display trending topics across the DAO space, perform deep sentiment analysis, create an algorithm for friend suggestion, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and to apply DAO scores/ratings for individual members as well. Also, a DAO member’s reputation will be portable, and represented in the form of achievement badges, which can be viewed by any DAO the user joins., so they don’t have to build their reputation back up from scratch. image 1909 × 1013 68 . 6 KB
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here 2
Is this a good idea?
As an applicant…
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here 2
Is this a good idea?
As an applicant whose project has been greatly slowed getting off the ground due to lack of funding, I clearly am biased…but yes. It is a great idea. Thank you for the generosity.
What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward?
Again, biased, but I think the next two years are going to be about actually integrating crypto tech into the world. There’s been a lot of amazing stuff built, now it’s time to put it into practice where it can actually make meaningful impact on society. That means bridging society to the tech which has at least three parts:
Intuitive design to make it easy for people to adapt .
Nourishing tools to incentivize participation in a healthy way (rewarding in a financial/value sense can be good, but also want to include social connectivity, greater life experiences, etc. and avoid addiction based incentive models).
Onboarding strategies to actually create the connections.
(unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part)
This is a difficult problem. Accountability is necessary for the integrity of the value exchange. Milestones achieve this, are created and agreed to by both parties in the negotiation phase and are easily verifiable. The problem I see with them is that they create accountability based on projected orientations, and the map is not the terrain.
Bugs and life and such happen on the one hand, but the more insidious issue in my view is that often times the destination we think we want to go to from one vantage point can be challenged by a vantage point further ahead. And now there is tension because we have made a commitment to something that no longer seems correct, but there’s money and rep on the line, so what to do?
You could have a system that allows for course correction, some mechanism for the coders to submit a proposal to change the milestone that has to be approved of by an authority (presumably the grant givers but maybe a community or badge holders or something). It adds some bureaucracy and extra work but might be a reasonable course of action if this seems like a big enough issue from your end.
Navigation from a present orientation (north star, intention, etc.) generally seems to be more effective in finding the place you want to go because it is more open to pivots, adaptions, and integrating novelty. Building accountability around an intention requires a lot more engagement between builder and authority though so the latter can contextualize progress and determine if the former is still “in bounds”. There could be disagreement on this part which could also result in tension. It’s also not as straightforward to set and follow an intention compared to goals.
In my experience milestones have at least one strong purpose - rapid exploration. If the intention is to discover as much as you can about a relatively unknown area, then moving as quickly as possible from point A to point B is a great way to go. For coding novel apps I think this translates to “don’t worry too much about quality or organization, just grab anything that looks interesting, put it together, and move to the next thing”.
This is what I intend to do for my project over the next few months with or without the grant, so it was nice to see this post and see that it aligns with what I’ve already determined is best for my project’s growth. Once I’ve gathered a bunch of pieces I can step back and look at everything more deeply and decide what’s really worth keeping, where to explore further with more intention, etc.
Lindsey: Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you!
On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work.
Looking forward to seeing what you build.
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here
Is this a good idea?
As an applicant who…
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here
Is this a good idea?
As an applicant whose project has been greatly slowed getting off the ground due to lack of funding, I clearly am biased…but yes. It is a great idea. Thank you for the generosity.
What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward?
Again, biased, but I think the next two years are going to be about actually integrating crypto tech into the world. There’s been a lot of amazing stuff built, now it’s time to put it into practice where it can actually make meaningful impact on society. That means bridging society to the tech which has at least three parts:
Intuitive design to make it easy for people to adapt .
Nourishing tools to incentivize participation in a healthy way (rewarding in a financial/value sense can be good, but also want to include social connectivity, greater life experiences, etc. and avoid addiction based incentive models).
Onboarding strategies to actually create the connections.
(unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part)
This is a difficult problem. Accountability is necessary for the integrity of the value exchange. Milestones achieve this, are created and agreed to by both parties in the negotiation phase and are easily verifiable. The problem I see with them is that they create accountability based on projected orientations, and the map is not the terrain.
Bugs and life and such happen on the one hand, but the more insidious issue in my view is that often times the destination we think we want to go to from one vantage point can be challenged by a vantage point further ahead. And now there is tension because we have made a commitment to something that no longer seems correct, but there’s money and rep on the line, so what to do?
You could have a system that allows for course correction, some mechanism for the coders to submit a proposal to change the milestone that has to be approved of by an authority (presumably the grant givers but maybe a community or badge holders or something). It adds some bureaucracy and extra work but might be a reasonable course of action if this seems like a big enough issue from your end.
Navigation from a present orientation (north star, intention, etc.) generally seems to be more effective in finding the place you want to go because it is more open to pivots, adaptions, and integrating novelty. Building accountability around an intention requires a lot more engagement between builder and authority though so the latter can contextualize progress and determine if the former is still “in bounds”. There could be disagreement on this part which could also result in tension. It’s also not as straightforward to set and follow an intention compared to goals.
In my experience milestones have at least one strong purpose - rapid exploration. If the intention is to discover as much as you can about a relatively unknown area, then moving as quickly as possible from point A to point B is a great way to go. For coding novel apps I think this translates to “don’t worry too much about quality or organization, just grab anything that looks interesting, put it together, and move to the next thing”.
This is what I intend to do for my project over the next few months with or without the grant, so it was nice to see this post and see that it aligns with what I’ve already determined is best for my project’s growth. Once I’ve gathered a bunch of pieces I can step back and look at everything more deeply and decide what’s really worth keeping, where to explore further with more intention, etc.
Lindsey: Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you!
On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work.
Looking forward to seeing what you build.
Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program…
Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you!
On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work.
Looking forward to seeing what you build.
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here 2 Is this a good idea? As an applicant…
I applied and have submitted to cycle 13 builders here 2 Is this a good idea? As an applicant whose project has been greatly slowed getting off the ground due to lack of funding, I clearly am biased…but yes. It is a great idea. Thank you for the generosity. What kind of north stars should projects be aiming for to drive Optimism forward? Again, biased, but I think the next two years are going to be about actually integrating crypto tech into the world. There’s been a lot of amazing stuff built, now it’s time to put it into practice where it can actually make meaningful impact on society. That means bridging society to the tech which has at least three parts: Intuitive design to make it easy for people to adapt . Nourishing tools to incentivize participation in a healthy way (rewarding in a financial/value sense can be good, but also want to include social connectivity, greater life experiences, etc. and avoid addiction based incentive models). Onboarding strategies to actually create the connections. (unless a team’s stream stopped due to not hitting milestones or some other criteria (really open to ideas on this part) This is a difficult problem. Accountability is necessary for the integrity of the value exchange. Milestones achieve this, are created and agreed to by both parties in the negotiation phase and are easily verifiable. The problem I see with them is that they create accountability based on projected orientations, and the map is not the terrain. Bugs and life and such happen on the one hand, but the more insidious issue in my view is that often times the destination we think we want to go to from one vantage point can be challenged by a vantage point further ahead. And now there is tension because we have made a commitment to something that no longer seems correct, but there’s money and rep on the line, so what to do? You could have a system that allows for course correction, some mechanism for the coders to submit a proposal to change the milestone that has to be approved of by an authority (presumably the grant givers but maybe a community or badge holders or something). It adds some bureaucracy and extra work but might be a reasonable course of action if this seems like a big enough issue from your end. Navigation from a present orientation (north star, intention, etc.) generally seems to be more effective in finding the place you want to go because it is more open to pivots, adaptions, and integrating novelty. Building accountability around an intention requires a lot more engagement between builder and authority though so the latter can contextualize progress and determine if the former is still “in bounds”. There could be disagreement on this part which could also result in tension. It’s also not as straightforward to set and follow an intention compared to goals. In my experience milestones have at least one strong purpose - rapid exploration. If the intention is to discover as much as you can about a relatively unknown area, then moving as quickly as possible from point A to point B is a great way to go. For coding novel apps I think this translates to “don’t worry too much about quality or organization, just grab anything that looks interesting, put it together, and move to the next thing”. This is what I intend to do for my project over the next few months with or without the grant, so it was nice to see this post and see that it aligns with what I’ve already determined is best for my project’s growth. Once I’ve gathered a bunch of pieces I can step back and look at everything more deeply and decide what’s really worth keeping, where to explore further with more intention, etc.
Lindsey: Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you!
On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work.
Looking forward to seeing what you build.
Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program…
Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you! On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work. Looking forward to seeing what you build.
Love seeing this idea @Lindsey, I applied with an idea I’ve been brewing on for a bit and am excite…
Love seeing this idea @Lindsey, I applied with an idea I’ve been brewing on for a bit and am excited to work on it throughout the period and provide value to Optimism!
I have tweeted the announcement
twitter.com
Pavel 2
@pfedprog
Hedgey Allocates 50 k OP to L…
I have tweeted the announcement
twitter.com
Pavel 2
@pfedprog
Hedgey Allocates 50 k OP to Launch 4 Early Stage Projects on Optimism with Backdrop Support
Backdrop Season 16 :
Hedgey received 50 k OP from the last round of RPGF, and plans to use it to kick start 4 early stage projects building natively on Optimism.
The program aims to help… twitter.com/i/web/status/ 1 …
9 : 47 PM - 21 Feb 2024
Very curios if there is a way to organize teams similar to what happens at a hackathon
Love seeing this idea @Lindsey, I applied with an idea I’ve been brewing on for a bit and am excite…
Love seeing this idea @Lindsey, I applied with an idea I’ve been brewing on for a bit and am excited to work on it throughout the period and provide value to Optimism!
I have tweeted the announcement twitter.com Pavel 2 @pfedprog Hedgey Allocates 50 k OP to L…
I have tweeted the announcement twitter.com Pavel 2 @pfedprog Hedgey Allocates 50 k OP to Launch 4 Early Stage Projects on Optimism with Backdrop Support Backdrop Season 16 : Hedgey received 50 k OP from the last round of RPGF, and plans to use it to kick start 4 early stage projects building natively on Optimism. The program aims to help… twitter.com/i/web/status/ 1 … 9 : 47 PM - 21 Feb 2024 Very curios if there is a way to organize teams similar to what happens at a hackathon
Lindsey:
I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.
Thanks for d…
Lindsey:
I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.
Thanks for doing this! We have been approved for the cohort :slight_smile:
Looking forward to building this month alongside the other builders
Lindsey: I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged. Thanks for d…
Lindsey: I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged. Thanks for doing this! We have been approved for the cohort :slight_smile: Looking forward to building this month alongside the other builders
Hey everyone! Absolutely floored by the turnout for this program. Have been chatting with Joey at B…
Hey everyone! Absolutely floored by the turnout for this program. Have been chatting with Joey at Backdrop and it looks like we have a great turnout. Not everyone who joined the program on backdrop (and been accepted) mentioned Hedgey in their application, so if you got in and are in this program, drop a note here. Also, if you applied and did not get a confirmation email, send me a DM at @ goforlindsey on Telegram and I’ll do my best to help get you sorted out today.
Starting Monday, the month long program kicks off. In addition to the programming and updates on Backdrop. I’d like to keep the OP community in the loop over the coming four weeks. Here’s an idea on how we can keep track of who is in the program and your updates over the coming month.
To get started share a note on this thread. (If possible before Monday)
Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it.
Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward.
What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that.
What are you going to ship this month? Go big.
To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.”
(optional) Drop a 1 - 2 minute loom video link to talk through what you’re building or show a demo of any early prototypes.
Once you do that, we should all have a clear idea of who is building in this program, what we need help with, and what each team wants to accomplish this week.
On the Friday this coming week, I’d like everyone in the program to share:
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
How can the OP community help you?
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
(optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video
Every Friday until the program ends we can repeate this.
Hopefully, this gives us a good baseline for what everyone is building and how each project progresses over the coming month. If you all need anything I’ll be here to help you in any way I can (dm me on telegram.) Stoked to see what comes out of this!
FractalVisions: Hello Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is closed alpha/beta. We are here to build an impact initiative platform for creators on the Superchain that reiterates the ethos of public goods funding!
Our project is aimed at onboarding creators who exist both in the web3 space and who are also new to blockchain technology. Fractal Visions’ goal is to attract builders or creators from the regenerative finance and decentralized science sector of the Gitcoin grants community who are also building their projects on the Superchain.
We want to get the most out of this month by utilizing this program to accelerate the launch of our project and provide an ample runway for the beginning of the deployment on Optimism so we can expand to other networks such as base later this year. The more resources that we have at our fingertips the better when it comes to tooling or dependencies that we might need help digging up. Our trip to ETH Denver is the first exposure to the immediate Ethereum developer community where we will be looking for security professionals who offer security audit services & potential team members, or grant participants.
Over the course of this next month we will be touching all bases in the realms of shipping our MVP.
Traveling to our first crypto event in Denver to meet with partner integrations team representatives.
Launching customized frames on Farcaster for physical merchandise.
Finalizing our node setup for front end development.
Beginning of beta testing smart contract functionality with the ui design prototype key features.
This week’s rock is meeting official representatives to help strengthen our relationship with individuals and developers that we have worked together with online over the past few years.
Here is a link to our prototype video from the end of the year.
DEMO VIDEO
We will provide an update to this post upon returning from the event Friday and look forward to the next month of work dedicated to building on Optimism.
b0ggs: Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.
We’re building Base →D[erivatives], pronounced Based Derivatives. It’s a art project / protocol on Base that explores composability, Remix Culture, and provenance. Users can compose NFTs they own and NFTs designed by artists into a new NFT. We are working on using on-chain SVGs in coordination with IPFS, so that once the new NFT is minted, users can go back and edit it (e.g. add, remove, remix, move things) without needing to mint again.
The idea of ‘Remix Culture’ as defined by theorist Lev Manovich, has become one of the key aspects of how people interact and belong in a digital culture. This project is a piece of art in the sense that its intent is to stimulate new ideas for production, distribution, and consumption of web3 art and media. We think this is hugely important and will be very helpful to moving the OP ecosystem forward. It’s literally all about the copying, editing, and proliferation of digital content on Base!
In this month we will have a testnet version up and running. We need testers and feedback (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more). We also need to find more artists and art-based / media-based communities to partner with.
Our BIG goal is to ship the entire project at the end of 4 weeks.
Our goal this week is to get the contracts done (no unit or fuzz tests yet) and connect them to a usable front end.
Jehee: -Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web3 designer .
X - @defiprince_
I want to build ‘wagmiclub- a (web3 linkedin)platform where professionals can build reputation,job testimonials & records onchain , and recruiters can easily hire the best talents and verify their credentials onchain.
-I want to build this product because scouting the best talents for a job fit is a big problem today due to CV&Resume faking,no verifiable job history or testimonial.
Wagmiclub helps users to build career reputation that is tamper proof & verifiable .Also the platform would also have a feature that enables a company to place a staff off for hiring in a job marketplace maybe due to their financial constraints at the moment instead of laying off,this gives enough credibility for other prospect recruiters scouting for talents to hire.
-Each day over 1,000 talents are hired by employers,Building a more transparent&verifiable system for hiring and recruiting,is going to onboard a lot of companies & personal users to create and build a reputable profile onchain (on the OP ecosystem)
— I want to build an MVP of this idea & would be needing to conduct some user surveys and feedback to exploit challenges recruiters or professionals face in building career reputations,verifiable credentials & hiring
-Am going to ship wagmiclub to be a go platform for professional networking,verifiable credentials using Nft medals & badge,a leaderboard which ranks talents based on number of reputation badges&medals the have earned and makes it easy for recruiters to find the best trusted talents ! more could be done
-This week I am going to conduct an extensive user survey to understand the challenges people face with professional networking, hiring &building tamper-proof career testimonials & credibility.
Also I would make some progress in the UI design of this idea .
daospace: I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and I’m building “daospace”, a web3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from over 100 DAOs, with @Sixty, the Governance Lead for Push Prootocol, and previous Governance Lead for Index Coop. We’re building this platform because DAO coordination is fragmented, and reputation has to be built from scratch, with each new DAO a contributor decides to join. We decided to create a unified platform that contains every forum post for over 100 DAOs, so the reputation built on forum can be represented on a contributor’s profile through onchain achievement badges, and can serve as their portable web3 resume. We’ll also allow for DAOs to create forum posts on our platform. Logging in will be done through a wallet, as opposed to email/password like Discourse, so there will be no need to create a profile for each forum you decide to join. An EVM wallet is all you need to join any DAO forum you desire. We currently have over 250,000 forum posts with all engagement metrics included in our database and will scale considerably, once we move our local scraping operation to a cloud based solution, in order to provide real time data, along with every single metric on forum.
This will move the OP ecosystem forward because onchain achievement badges will live on Optimism; we’re starting with forum posts for creating achievement badges, but will get more granular over time, as we account for Discord posts, and contributions made to the DAO as well. DAO governance will be gamified in a way that’s sybil resistant for OP DAO members to increase high quality forum engagement, since posts has to meet a certain criteria to receive points for. Since we’ll have all OP forum posts, along with over 100 other DAOs within the Ethereum ecosystem stored in our database, we can perform deep sentiment analysis to identify opportunities, and pain points. Information from the OP forum will be easier to discover and sort through as well. Our platform functions as a search engine for DAOs, allowing for users to discover trending posts filtered by time, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and discover the top talent for specific roles.
What we would like to get out of this month is to interview 10 core members of the OP DAO, to get a strong understanding of what type of achievement badges to create for their top contributors.
We are going to ship a sybil resistant point system for DAO contributors this month, and present the overall points and ratings on the UI of our test app.
Our objective for this week is to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation.
2 minute daospace Demo
daospace: gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute points to DAO members, based on high quality forum posts, and we also created a method to make sure it’s sybil resistant as well.
Week 1
1. What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.
We succeeded in creating the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. We also shared two updates on Backdrop this week!
The challenge we would like to address in the DAO space is the cultivation of a portable and authentic reputation system. So we got started by designing the logic for an algorithm that rewards valuable contributions within a DAO forum, to balance the emphasis of quality content, community alignment, and active participation while providing a system that is also resistant to sybil attacks.
2. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We accomplished our big rock goal for the week: to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors.
What went right?
We created the logic for the algorithm that rewards and recognizes contributions that foster productive discussions and contributions that advance discussions while providing critical feedback.
What went wrong?
Full Sybil resistance is very difficult to achieve. There will always be actors who will try to game the system. However, this is just a realization, and not something that actually went wrong.
How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
Now that we have the logic for distributing Points to DAO contributors, we can create the algorithm for our meritocratic-based reputation system.
3. How can the OP community help you?
The OP Community can help us by providing feedback on the logic for our point system. We will get feedback from several contributors from different areas of the DAO.
4. What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Our goal for next week is to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created this week. By next week, we’ll be able to showcase the top contributors from the DAOs within our database.
5. Here’s a short video explaining how the logic for the algorithm works
Here’s a Google Doc that breaks down the logic in greater detail
georgedonnelly: I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers:
I’m George Donnelly. I’m building Yap Bay, which is a Web3 remittance platform that combines TradFi and DeFi to enable faster, cheaper, and more accessible cross-border payments for the world’s unbanked and underbanked population.
My why is that I want (a) to enable people first in high-remittance-fee areas to be able to send small remittances with significantly lower fees. (b) enable people, particularly in the developing world, to break out of TradFi limits (c) use this as a foundation for a lot of other crypto-as-a-daily-currency use cases.
YapBay can bring a lot of new people into OP, people in the developing world who work, people who have to contend today with the worst TradFi systems anywhere in the world. Remittances is a $700 billion industry and we can disrupt it.
I’d like to test the attractiveness of the concept and get funding. Feedback is always amazing.
A basic MVP of transaction-chaining to support fiat-to fiat-remittances using OP as the transport layer and hopefully an AI-enabled algorithm to help build people chained transactions.
This week I am integrating my contracts into my website. Ugh.
About Me: https://georgedonnelly.com/
Personal X: https://x.com/georgedonnelly
About YapBay: https://yapbay.com/
GitHub: GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay: Unstoppable fiat to fiat crypto remittances for the whole world
YapBay X: https://x.com/yapbay_
Here are my updates at Backdrop Build:
backdropbuild.com
Backdrop Build
Together we build - Bring that crazy idea to life alongside hundreds of other amazing builders in just 4 weeks.
· 23 hours
It’s been really challenging drilling down and identifying the unique features that make YapBay a worthwhile project but I might have done a little of that in this blog post.
yapbay.com
The YapBay Unique Value Proposition | YapBay Web3 Remittances Marketplace
A Web3 Remittances marketplace
My contracts are now also quite complex and the documentation is out of date. I’m having trouble getting them compiled,
I’ve create a contract registry contract now to keep track of all of the addresses.
Next I’ll be grinding on integrating it all into the website.
Still not sure if I should put the contracts on Sepolia testnet or on an Optimism testnet. I need to look into that.
· 2 days
I feel like things are going EXTREMELY well.
I have 7 inter-operable Solidity contracts which is really more than I need for the MVP, but I got carried away.
Now I am working on integrating the contracts into the website and building the front end.
GitHub
GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay-contracts: The Solidity contracts for YapBay
The Solidity contracts for YapBay. Contribute to Panmoni/yapbay-contracts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Very exciting stuff and yes I am absolutely still building!
· Mar 8
I’ve got my first contract, the account contract, on-chain and integrated with my Next.js 14 instance. I can put data on-chain and pull it from the chain and display it on the website. I’m using Sepolia testnet. Pretty exciting.
· Mar 6
I’ve got my contracts pretty well defined now, and starting to refine the code.
· Mar 1
I’m wading through a lot of uncertainty to define my contracts and then reduce the schematics down to what I need for the MVP. Fun and challenging!
· Feb 27
I wrote a blog post and have started planning out my contracts. Got set up on Optimism and Sepholia via the wonderful Alchemy!
· Feb 26
I’ve got a website up for the project at https://yapbay.com/. where I did the following:
defined the project focus
defined the project roadmap
create a NextJS instance with basic pages
Question: Do I have to deploy my MVP to a specific chain to be eligible? I’ve got it on Sepolia testnet atm… should I move it to OP Sepolia? @Lindsey
This is an amazing idea and something the entire builders community will find interesting
This is an amazing idea and something the entire builders community will find interesting
Hey everyone! Absolutely floored by the turnout for this program. Have been chatting with Joey at B…
Hey everyone! Absolutely floored by the turnout for this program. Have been chatting with Joey at Backdrop and it looks like we have a great turnout. Not everyone who joined the program on backdrop (and been accepted) mentioned Hedgey in their application, so if you got in and are in this program, drop a note here. Also, if you applied and did not get a confirmation email, send me a DM at @ goforlindsey on Telegram and I’ll do my best to help get you sorted out today. Starting Monday, the month long program kicks off. In addition to the programming and updates on Backdrop. I’d like to keep the OP community in the loop over the coming four weeks. Here’s an idea on how we can keep track of who is in the program and your updates over the coming month. To get started share a note on this thread. (If possible before Monday) Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it. Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward. What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that. What are you going to ship this month? Go big. To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.” (optional) Drop a 1 - 2 minute loom video link to talk through what you’re building or show a demo of any early prototypes. Once you do that, we should all have a clear idea of who is building in this program, what we need help with, and what each team wants to accomplish this week. On the Friday this coming week, I’d like everyone in the program to share: What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week? How can the OP community help you? What are your big rocks for the coming week? (optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video Every Friday until the program ends we can repeate this. Hopefully, this gives us a good baseline for what everyone is building and how each project progresses over the coming month. If you all need anything I’ll be here to help you in any way I can (dm me on telegram.) Stoked to see what comes out of this!
FractalVisions: Hello Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is closed alpha/beta. We are here to build an impact initiative platform for creators on the Superchain that reiterates the ethos of public goods funding!
Our project is aimed at onboarding creators who exist both in the web3 space and who are also new to blockchain technology. Fractal Visions’ goal is to attract builders or creators from the regenerative finance and decentralized science sector of the Gitcoin grants community who are also building their projects on the Superchain.
We want to get the most out of this month by utilizing this program to accelerate the launch of our project and provide an ample runway for the beginning of the deployment on Optimism so we can expand to other networks such as base later this year. The more resources that we have at our fingertips the better when it comes to tooling or dependencies that we might need help digging up. Our trip to ETH Denver is the first exposure to the immediate Ethereum developer community where we will be looking for security professionals who offer security audit services & potential team members, or grant participants.
Over the course of this next month we will be touching all bases in the realms of shipping our MVP.
Traveling to our first crypto event in Denver to meet with partner integrations team representatives.
Launching customized frames on Farcaster for physical merchandise.
Finalizing our node setup for front end development.
Beginning of beta testing smart contract functionality with the ui design prototype key features.
This week’s rock is meeting official representatives to help strengthen our relationship with individuals and developers that we have worked together with online over the past few years.
Here is a link to our prototype video from the end of the year.
DEMO VIDEO
We will provide an update to this post upon returning from the event Friday and look forward to the next month of work dedicated to building on Optimism.
b0ggs: Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.
We’re building Base →D[erivatives], pronounced Based Derivatives. It’s a art project / protocol on Base that explores composability, Remix Culture, and provenance. Users can compose NFTs they own and NFTs designed by artists into a new NFT. We are working on using on-chain SVGs in coordination with IPFS, so that once the new NFT is minted, users can go back and edit it (e.g. add, remove, remix, move things) without needing to mint again.
The idea of ‘Remix Culture’ as defined by theorist Lev Manovich, has become one of the key aspects of how people interact and belong in a digital culture. This project is a piece of art in the sense that its intent is to stimulate new ideas for production, distribution, and consumption of web3 art and media. We think this is hugely important and will be very helpful to moving the OP ecosystem forward. It’s literally all about the copying, editing, and proliferation of digital content on Base!
In this month we will have a testnet version up and running. We need testers and feedback (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more). We also need to find more artists and art-based / media-based communities to partner with.
Our BIG goal is to ship the entire project at the end of 4 weeks.
Our goal this week is to get the contracts done (no unit or fuzz tests yet) and connect them to a usable front end.
Jehee: -Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web3 designer .
X - @defiprince_
I want to build ‘wagmiclub- a (web3 linkedin)platform where professionals can build reputation,job testimonials & records onchain , and recruiters can easily hire the best talents and verify their credentials onchain.
-I want to build this product because scouting the best talents for a job fit is a big problem today due to CV&Resume faking,no verifiable job history or testimonial.
Wagmiclub helps users to build career reputation that is tamper proof & verifiable .Also the platform would also have a feature that enables a company to place a staff off for hiring in a job marketplace maybe due to their financial constraints at the moment instead of laying off,this gives enough credibility for other prospect recruiters scouting for talents to hire.
-Each day over 1,000 talents are hired by employers,Building a more transparent&verifiable system for hiring and recruiting,is going to onboard a lot of companies & personal users to create and build a reputable profile onchain (on the OP ecosystem)
— I want to build an MVP of this idea & would be needing to conduct some user surveys and feedback to exploit challenges recruiters or professionals face in building career reputations,verifiable credentials & hiring
-Am going to ship wagmiclub to be a go platform for professional networking,verifiable credentials using Nft medals & badge,a leaderboard which ranks talents based on number of reputation badges&medals the have earned and makes it easy for recruiters to find the best trusted talents ! more could be done
-This week I am going to conduct an extensive user survey to understand the challenges people face with professional networking, hiring &building tamper-proof career testimonials & credibility.
Also I would make some progress in the UI design of this idea .
jarisjames: I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and I’m building “daospace”, a web3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from over 100 DAOs, with @Sixty, the Governance Lead for Push Prootocol, and previous Governance Lead for Index Coop. We’re building this platform because DAO coordination is fragmented, and reputation has to be built from scratch, with each new DAO a contributor decides to join. We decided to create a unified platform that contains every forum post for over 100 DAOs, so the reputation built on forum can be represented on a contributor’s profile through onchain achievement badges, and can serve as their portable web3 resume. We’ll also allow for DAOs to create forum posts on our platform. Logging in will be done through a wallet, as opposed to email/password like Discourse, so there will be no need to create a profile for each forum you decide to join. An EVM wallet is all you need to join any DAO forum you desire. We currently have over 250,000 forum posts with all engagement metrics included in our database and will scale considerably, once we move our local scraping operation to a cloud based solution, in order to provide real time data, along with every single metric on forum.
This will move the OP ecosystem forward because onchain achievement badges will live on Optimism; we’re starting with forum posts for creating achievement badges, but will get more granular over time, as we account for Discord posts, and contributions made to the DAO as well. DAO governance will be gamified in a way that’s sybil resistant for OP DAO members to increase high quality forum engagement, since posts has to meet a certain criteria to receive points for. Since we’ll have all OP forum posts, along with over 100 other DAOs within the Ethereum ecosystem stored in our database, we can perform deep sentiment analysis to identify opportunities, and pain points. Information from the OP forum will be easier to discover and sort through as well. Our platform functions as a search engine for DAOs, allowing for users to discover trending posts filtered by time, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and discover the top talent for specific roles.
What we would like to get out of this month is to interview 10 core members of the OP DAO, to get a strong understanding of what type of achievement badges to create for their top contributors.
We are going to ship a sybil resistant point system for DAO contributors this month, and present the overall points and ratings on the UI of our test app.
Our objective for this week is to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation.
2 minute daospace Demo
jarisjames: gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute points to DAO members, based on high quality forum posts, and we also created a method to make sure it’s sybil resistant as well.
Week 1
1. What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.
We succeeded in creating the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. We also shared two updates on Backdrop this week!
The challenge we would like to address in the DAO space is the cultivation of a portable and authentic reputation system. So we got started by designing the logic for an algorithm that rewards valuable contributions within a DAO forum, to balance the emphasis of quality content, community alignment, and active participation while providing a system that is also resistant to sybil attacks.
2. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We accomplished our big rock goal for the week: to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors.
What went right?
We created the logic for the algorithm that rewards and recognizes contributions that foster productive discussions and contributions that advance discussions while providing critical feedback.
What went wrong?
Full Sybil resistance is very difficult to achieve. There will always be actors who will try to game the system. However, this is just a realization, and not something that actually went wrong.
How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
Now that we have the logic for distributing Points to DAO contributors, we can create the algorithm for our meritocratic-based reputation system.
3. How can the OP community help you?
The OP Community can help us by providing feedback on the logic for our point system. We will get feedback from several contributors from different areas of the DAO.
4. What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Our goal for next week is to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created this week. By next week, we’ll be able to showcase the top contributors from the DAOs within our database.
5. Here’s a short video explaining how the logic for the algorithm works
Here’s a Google Doc that breaks down the logic in greater detail
georgedonnelly: I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers:
I’m George Donnelly. I’m building Yap Bay, which is a Web3 remittance platform that combines TradFi and DeFi to enable faster, cheaper, and more accessible cross-border payments for the world’s unbanked and underbanked population.
My why is that I want (a) to enable people first in high-remittance-fee areas to be able to send small remittances with significantly lower fees. (b) enable people, particularly in the developing world, to break out of TradFi limits (c) use this as a foundation for a lot of other crypto-as-a-daily-currency use cases.
YapBay can bring a lot of new people into OP, people in the developing world who work, people who have to contend today with the worst TradFi systems anywhere in the world. Remittances is a $700 billion industry and we can disrupt it.
I’d like to test the attractiveness of the concept and get funding. Feedback is always amazing.
A basic MVP of transaction-chaining to support fiat-to fiat-remittances using OP as the transport layer and hopefully an AI-enabled algorithm to help build people chained transactions.
This week I am integrating my contracts into my website. Ugh.
About Me: https://georgedonnelly.com/
Personal X: https://x.com/georgedonnelly
About YapBay: https://yapbay.com/
GitHub: GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay: Unstoppable fiat to fiat crypto remittances for the whole world
YapBay X: https://x.com/yapbay_
Here are my updates at Backdrop Build:
backdropbuild.com
Backdrop Build
Together we build - Bring that crazy idea to life alongside hundreds of other amazing builders in just 4 weeks.
· 23 hours
It’s been really challenging drilling down and identifying the unique features that make YapBay a worthwhile project but I might have done a little of that in this blog post.
yapbay.com
The YapBay Unique Value Proposition | YapBay Web3 Remittances Marketplace
A Web3 Remittances marketplace
My contracts are now also quite complex and the documentation is out of date. I’m having trouble getting them compiled,
I’ve create a contract registry contract now to keep track of all of the addresses.
Next I’ll be grinding on integrating it all into the website.
Still not sure if I should put the contracts on Sepolia testnet or on an Optimism testnet. I need to look into that.
· 2 days
I feel like things are going EXTREMELY well.
I have 7 inter-operable Solidity contracts which is really more than I need for the MVP, but I got carried away.
Now I am working on integrating the contracts into the website and building the front end.
GitHub
GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay-contracts: The Solidity contracts for YapBay
The Solidity contracts for YapBay. Contribute to Panmoni/yapbay-contracts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Very exciting stuff and yes I am absolutely still building!
· Mar 8
I’ve got my first contract, the account contract, on-chain and integrated with my Next.js 14 instance. I can put data on-chain and pull it from the chain and display it on the website. I’m using Sepolia testnet. Pretty exciting.
· Mar 6
I’ve got my contracts pretty well defined now, and starting to refine the code.
· Mar 1
I’m wading through a lot of uncertainty to define my contracts and then reduce the schematics down to what I need for the MVP. Fun and challenging!
· Feb 27
I wrote a blog post and have started planning out my contracts. Got set up on Optimism and Sepholia via the wonderful Alchemy!
· Feb 26
I’ve got a website up for the project at https://yapbay.com/. where I did the following:
defined the project focus
defined the project roadmap
create a NextJS instance with basic pages
Question: Do I have to deploy my MVP to a specific chain to be eligible? I’ve got it on Sepolia testnet atm… should I move it to OP Sepolia? @Lindsey
This is an amazing idea and something the entire builders community will find interesting
This is an amazing idea and something the entire builders community will find interesting
Hello :wave: Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is…
Hello :wave: Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is closed alpha/beta. We are here to build an impact initiative platform for creators on the Superchain that reiterates the ethos of public goods funding!
Our project is aimed at onboarding creators who exist both in the web 3 space and who are also new to blockchain technology. Fractal Visions’ goal is to attract builders or creators from the regenerative finance and decentralized science sector of the Gitcoin grants community who are also building their projects on the Superchain.
We want to get the most out of this month by utilizing this program to accelerate the launch of our project and provide an ample runway for the beginning of the deployment on Optimism so we can expand to other networks such as base later this year. The more resources that we have at our fingertips the better when it comes to tooling or dependencies that we might need help digging up. Our trip to ETH Denver is the first exposure to the immediate Ethereum developer community where we will be looking for security professionals who offer security audit services & potential team members, or grant participants.
Over the course of this next month we will be touching all bases in the realms of shipping our MVP.
Traveling to our first crypto event in Denver to meet with partner integrations team representatives.
Launching customized frames on Farcaster for physical merchandise.
Finalizing our node setup for front end development.
Beginning of beta testing smart contract functionality with the ui design prototype key features.
This week’s rock is meeting official representatives to help strengthen our relationship with individuals and developers that we have worked together with online over the past few years.
Here is a link :link: to our prototype video from the end of the year.
DEMO VIDEO 2
IMG_ 53291125 × 2228 391 KB
We will provide an update to this post upon returning from the event Friday and look forward to the next month of work dedicated to building on Optimism.
FractalVisions: Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build.
One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions has fallen ill over the past week which kept us from attending the ETH Denver event.
The developer schedule has been established for our build this month outlining tasks that need to be accomplished.
We have updated the CTA for the homepage of the platform & made some minor improvements to the ui design to create a better ux.
Eligibility criteria for our first grants round on Optimism network will be published in preparation for applications to open on March 14th. Allowing creators to apply for small grant funding opportunities who are building on the Superchain. The grant program starts April 1st utilizing the Gitcoin grants stack technology.
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a failure this week and health became a priority over social networking events. It definitely leaves the team feeling a bit low on morale going into this next week.
This Week
Testing our user database with a full node setup for the front end development.
Applied! Backdrop Build - Builder 5
I’m Liang, leading US 3 R Network to tackle crypto’s identit…
Applied! Backdrop Build - Builder 5
I’m Liang, leading US 3 R Network to tackle crypto’s identity fragmentation with a scalable social layer, aiming to unify user identities and enhance the decentralized experience. US 3 R will boost the OP ecosystem by merging user interactions, easing developer integration, and amplifying network effects, promoting a cohesive and innovative space.
Our immediate actions include launching Degencast, a proof of concept for our social interface, and starting RaaS development to showcase our project’s impact and feasibility. We’re building US 3 R’s foundation and need community feedback and user insights to refine our solutions and speed up progress.
This week, our focus is on rolling out Degencast and gathering user feedback through interviews, ensuring our approach meets the community’s needs
Hello :wave: Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is…
Hello :wave: Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is closed alpha/beta. We are here to build an impact initiative platform for creators on the Superchain that reiterates the ethos of public goods funding! Our project is aimed at onboarding creators who exist both in the web 3 space and who are also new to blockchain technology. Fractal Visions’ goal is to attract builders or creators from the regenerative finance and decentralized science sector of the Gitcoin grants community who are also building their projects on the Superchain. We want to get the most out of this month by utilizing this program to accelerate the launch of our project and provide an ample runway for the beginning of the deployment on Optimism so we can expand to other networks such as base later this year. The more resources that we have at our fingertips the better when it comes to tooling or dependencies that we might need help digging up. Our trip to ETH Denver is the first exposure to the immediate Ethereum developer community where we will be looking for security professionals who offer security audit services & potential team members, or grant participants. Over the course of this next month we will be touching all bases in the realms of shipping our MVP. Traveling to our first crypto event in Denver to meet with partner integrations team representatives. Launching customized frames on Farcaster for physical merchandise. Finalizing our node setup for front end development. Beginning of beta testing smart contract functionality with the ui design prototype key features. This week’s rock is meeting official representatives to help strengthen our relationship with individuals and developers that we have worked together with online over the past few years. Here is a link :link: to our prototype video from the end of the year. DEMO VIDEO 2 IMG_ 53291125 × 2228 391 KB We will provide an update to this post upon returning from the event Friday and look forward to the next month of work dedicated to building on Optimism.
FractalVisions: Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build.
One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions has fallen ill over the past week which kept us from attending the ETH Denver event.
The developer schedule has been established for our build this month outlining tasks that need to be accomplished.
We have updated the CTA for the homepage of the platform & made some minor improvements to the ui design to create a better ux.
Eligibility criteria for our first grants round on Optimism network will be published in preparation for applications to open on March 14th. Allowing creators to apply for small grant funding opportunities who are building on the Superchain. The grant program starts April 1st utilizing the Gitcoin grants stack technology.
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a failure this week and health became a priority over social networking events. It definitely leaves the team feeling a bit low on morale going into this next week.
This Week
Testing our user database with a full node setup for the front end development.
Applied! Backdrop Build - Builder 5 I’m Liang, leading US 3 R Network to tackle crypto’s identit…
Applied! Backdrop Build - Builder 5 I’m Liang, leading US 3 R Network to tackle crypto’s identity fragmentation with a scalable social layer, aiming to unify user identities and enhance the decentralized experience. US 3 R will boost the OP ecosystem by merging user interactions, easing developer integration, and amplifying network effects, promoting a cohesive and innovative space. Our immediate actions include launching Degencast, a proof of concept for our social interface, and starting RaaS development to showcase our project’s impact and feasibility. We’re building US 3 R’s foundation and need community feedback and user insights to refine our solutions and speed up progress. This week, our focus is on rolling out Degencast and gathering user feedback through interviews, ensuring our approach meets the community’s needs
Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.…
Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.
We’re building Base →D[erivatives], pronounced Based Derivatives. It’s a art project / protocol on Base that explores composability, Remix Culture, and provenance. Users can compose NFTs they own and NFTs designed by artists into a new NFT. We are working on using on-chain SVGs in coordination with IPFS, so that once the new NFT is minted, users can go back and edit it (e.g. add, remove, remix, move things) without needing to mint again.
The idea of ‘Remix Culture’ as defined by theorist Lev Manovich, has become one of the key aspects of how people interact and belong in a digital culture. This project is a piece of art in the sense that its intent is to stimulate new ideas for production, distribution, and consumption of web 3 art and media. We think this is hugely important and will be very helpful to moving the OP ecosystem forward. It’s literally all about the copying, editing, and proliferation of digital content on Base!
In this month we will have a testnet version up and running. We need testers and feedback (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more). We also need to find more artists and art-based / media-based communities to partner with.
Our BIG goal is to ship the entire project at the end of 4 weeks.
Our goal this week is to get the contracts done (no unit or fuzz tests yet) and connect them to a usable front end.
Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it.
I’m limes.eth, an…
Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it.
I’m limes.eth, an ENS steward and DAO enthusiast. I’m partnering with my brother, ncale.eth, to ship a personalized data insights platform called Onchain Clarity Co. With Onchain Clarity Co., we want to provide helpful insights about Optimism users personalized using identity via ENS and the Farcaster social graph.
Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward.
Onchain Clarity Co. will make OP multiplayer. Blockchains are inherently multiplayer canvases of transactions, however, modern day UX doesn’t reflect this reality. Onchain Clarity Co will use the Farcaster social graph, where every user has at least one connected wallet, to surface onchain data based on who the querying user follows on Farcaster.
What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that.
Deliver an MVP at ETH Denver
Gather feedback from fellow hackers
Survey the OP and Farcaster community to figure out what they care about most
What are you going to ship this month? Go big.
Ship onchainclarity.co 2 , integrating OP mainnet, Farcaster, and ENS
To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.”
Launch onchainclarity.co 2 at ETH Denver
limes.eth: Week 1 Update
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
It has been amazing building at the ETH Denver hackathon this week. We came in to the hackathon with Onchain Clarity Co in mind and knew our guiding goal: Make OP Multiplayer. We had so many ideas that we changed the our approach of a singular site for Onchain Clarity Co to more of a hub of tools that accomplish onchain clarity.
We came to the conclusion that a fundamental piece of a multiplayer experience was missing, a friends list with activity status. So today, we launched our first product as Onchain Clarity Co: basedfriends.xyz
BasedFriends is a site that tells you who is online and onchain, customizing your view to the users you follow using your Farcaster social graph via the Farcaster AuthKit. Additionally, we query the users you follow for their activity on Base via Airstack.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
What went right: We accomplished our big rock by launching a site with a novel product that is helpful
What went wrong: Initially, we were using the wrong tools for what we were trying to accomplish, it wasn’t until we got the right tools in place with Airstack that we were able to effectively accomplish pulling Farcaster and Base data. Going forward, we have the right tools in place to provide a quality user experience.
Next week: Next week will be all about distributing BasedFriends via Farcaster Frames, getting users and feedback to guide how to build from here
How can the OP community help you?
Test out basedfriends.xyz and provide us feedback for what you’d like to see
Follow Onchain Clarity Co on Farcaster
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Adapting the site for mobile
Getting reach and running a marketing campaign
Adapt to user feedback to retain users
(optional) share anything you want in a 1-2 minute loom video
Loom
Great intros so far! Really appreciate the thought being put into this @limes.eth @b 0 ggs @liang @…
Great intros so far! Really appreciate the thought being put into this @limes.eth @b 0 ggs @liang @FractalVisions
b0ggs: @Lindsey
In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going for the grant but not actually using Hedgey tech?
Do you want weekly updates here or on Backdrop or both?
Thanks!
Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.…
Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo. We’re building Base →D[erivatives], pronounced Based Derivatives. It’s a art project / protocol on Base that explores composability, Remix Culture, and provenance. Users can compose NFTs they own and NFTs designed by artists into a new NFT. We are working on using on-chain SVGs in coordination with IPFS, so that once the new NFT is minted, users can go back and edit it (e.g. add, remove, remix, move things) without needing to mint again. The idea of ‘Remix Culture’ as defined by theorist Lev Manovich, has become one of the key aspects of how people interact and belong in a digital culture. This project is a piece of art in the sense that its intent is to stimulate new ideas for production, distribution, and consumption of web 3 art and media. We think this is hugely important and will be very helpful to moving the OP ecosystem forward. It’s literally all about the copying, editing, and proliferation of digital content on Base! In this month we will have a testnet version up and running. We need testers and feedback (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more). We also need to find more artists and art-based / media-based communities to partner with. Our BIG goal is to ship the entire project at the end of 4 weeks. Our goal this week is to get the contracts done (no unit or fuzz tests yet) and connect them to a usable front end.
Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it. I’m limes.eth, an…
Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it. I’m limes.eth, an ENS steward and DAO enthusiast. I’m partnering with my brother, ncale.eth, to ship a personalized data insights platform called Onchain Clarity Co. With Onchain Clarity Co., we want to provide helpful insights about Optimism users personalized using identity via ENS and the Farcaster social graph. Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward. Onchain Clarity Co. will make OP multiplayer. Blockchains are inherently multiplayer canvases of transactions, however, modern day UX doesn’t reflect this reality. Onchain Clarity Co will use the Farcaster social graph, where every user has at least one connected wallet, to surface onchain data based on who the querying user follows on Farcaster. What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that. Deliver an MVP at ETH Denver Gather feedback from fellow hackers Survey the OP and Farcaster community to figure out what they care about most What are you going to ship this month? Go big. Ship onchainclarity.co 2 , integrating OP mainnet, Farcaster, and ENS To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.” Launch onchainclarity.co 2 at ETH Denver
limes.eth: Week 1 Update
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
It has been amazing building at the ETH Denver hackathon this week. We came in to the hackathon with Onchain Clarity Co in mind and knew our guiding goal: Make OP Multiplayer. We had so many ideas that we changed the our approach of a singular site for Onchain Clarity Co to more of a hub of tools that accomplish onchain clarity.
We came to the conclusion that a fundamental piece of a multiplayer experience was missing, a friends list with activity status. So today, we launched our first product as Onchain Clarity Co: basedfriends.xyz
BasedFriends is a site that tells you who is online and onchain, customizing your view to the users you follow using your Farcaster social graph via the Farcaster AuthKit. Additionally, we query the users you follow for their activity on Base via Airstack.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
What went right: We accomplished our big rock by launching a site with a novel product that is helpful
What went wrong: Initially, we were using the wrong tools for what we were trying to accomplish, it wasn’t until we got the right tools in place with Airstack that we were able to effectively accomplish pulling Farcaster and Base data. Going forward, we have the right tools in place to provide a quality user experience.
Next week: Next week will be all about distributing BasedFriends via Farcaster Frames, getting users and feedback to guide how to build from here
How can the OP community help you?
Test out basedfriends.xyz and provide us feedback for what you’d like to see
Follow Onchain Clarity Co on Farcaster
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Adapting the site for mobile
Getting reach and running a marketing campaign
Adapt to user feedback to retain users
(optional) share anything you want in a 1-2 minute loom video
Loom
Great intros so far! Really appreciate the thought being put into this @limes.eth @b 0 ggs @liang @…
Great intros so far! Really appreciate the thought being put into this @limes.eth @b 0 ggs @liang @FractalVisions
b0ggs: @Lindsey
In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going for the grant but not actually using Hedgey tech?
Do you want weekly updates here or on Backdrop or both?
Thanks!
Who I am, what I want to build, and why
I want to help accelerate the expansion of consciousness.
A…
Who I am, what I want to build, and why
I want to help accelerate the expansion of consciousness.
A single neuron has a handful of resources and methods to communicate with nearby neurons. It has no awareness of what it’s like to be a nervous system, though somehow many neurons together with the same simple features make up what we experience as thought, experience, and perception. If one neuron is a component of a brain, what is the next macro structure where one brain is the component? And what are the handful of resources and communication methods that can unlock it’s potential?
My project is an experiment in social design called Culture Blocks. A Culture Block is a small unit of information generated by gathering, focusing, merging and iterating a variety of perspectives in an equivalent manner. The process to create a Culture Block is called a Swirl. To expand:
Gathering - A Swirl collects text inputs from users through a social interface (currently building a farcaster frame implementation).
Focusing - The creator of a Swirl can add an optional first comment as inspiration for the responses that follow, and all of the existing content is displayed to a user before they can add their own. This way a user is free to add what they like, but they will be responding to the current state (if I say “taco” the first thing you think of is probably not “polar bear”).
Merging - When the set number of responses is reached or when the creator chooses, the collection of responses is fed to AI to generate an output. The creator can add an optional modifier comment at the start to influence what kind of output the AI generates.
Iteration - A simple rating of 1 - 4 can be applied by anyone to a Culture Block. Averages are calculated for participant ratings alone and for everyone together. This simple public feedback allows the group to steer dynamically towards what is more interesting and valuable and away from what is not.
Equivalence - Farcaster frames have a text input limit of 256 characters, and frames are publicly accessible. This is a fairly universal way to contribute and sets an upper limit on how much one person can influence the interaction.
Why this will move OP forward
Decentralization of power, cultural evolution, creative iteration, novel social organization, etc. are cornerstones of web 3 which includes OP. Culture Blocks aims to create novel tools that enhance the overall process, ideally creating a cascade effect on the entire field.
Building CB on OP can also increase adoption.
What I want out of this month and how you can help
I am building a Swirl Frame on Farcaster. You can join a Swirl and/or provide feedback in /culture-blocks 1 , or start one by casting https://cultureblocks.space/swirl
What I’m going to ship this month
I plan to have a complete proof of concept functional by the end of the month.
Big rock of the week
This week I’m going to go deep into the Farcaster code and docs to understand what the foundation to build on is and where to put my focus.
Demo
Swirl Frame - Tacos are tasty
maenswirony: Weekly Updates
This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really enjoying diving into Farcaster and Warpcast. I got a lot further than I was planning to, so super stoked about that.
The Big Rock Review
Read through most Farcaster docs, specs, watched intro vids, frame vids, and last two dev calls.
Rifled through lots of content in David Furlongs Awesome Frames repo and branched out extensively from there to other frame builds.
Created a Warpcast account, played with lots of frames, read discussions, generally explored the new space.
Learned basics of Apache, JS, Node.js, Next, React, and more
Set up a VPS virtual host for the domain cultureblocks.world
Built, validated, and cast my first frame
Help From OP Community
Feedback on my repos to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know I don’t know
Experiment with the discord bot by either joining the CB discord or adding it to your server
CB github - bot and CB server invites are in the cb_discord_bot repo readme.
Next Big Rock
Figure out how to access and work with all the data in Frames
Experiment with different Swirl flow designs
Build an MVP Swirl frame that the community can actually play with
maenswirony: Week 3 Updates
I had some power outages this week (living in the jungle) which slowed me down, but still made pretty good progress.
Big Rock Review
I finished the MVP which is now live on Farcaster. Anyone can test it out by casting \http://cultureblocks.world/swirl (without preceding \)
Also updated my week one post with a more concise explanation of what I’m building and added the redirect link from the frame to it.
Help From OP Community
Cast a swirl frame and let me know what you think! – \https://cultureblocks.space/swirl (without preceding \)
Next Big Rock
Stabilize the MVP as needed
Gather feedback for tweaking any settings/adding customization
Add AI image generator as option for Swirl output
Create a farcaster hub on a VPS
Build a bot to forward Blocks to the /culture-blocks warpcast channel
Automate a mint process for blocks
I don’t plan on getting all of that done necessarily, but that’s basically the order of priorities at this point. It seems like the next phase will be to build a full front end on for Culture Blocks on top of Farcaster, expanding on the micro interaction that is a Swirl into a larger structure for building networks of Culture Blocks in interesting and useful ways. Each of these pieces leads into that.
Who I am, what I want to build, and why I’m a human loving nerd that sees a lot of chaos in the wor…
Who I am, what I want to build, and why I’m a human loving nerd that sees a lot of chaos in the world, and I just want things to work. My project is an experiment in social design called Culture Blocks. In the current form a Culture Block is an AI synthesis of a group conversation structured to gather broad perspectives and merge them into a narrow focus. The conversation is called a Swirl. One valuable use case is to decentralize the initial discovery and formation steps of new projects/organizations. This removes both the need for a centralized actor to generate initial momentum/gather buy in, and the difficulty (if not impossibility) of distributing their influence and power to the greater community during the decentralization process. Example: Headline (the seed/focal point/inspiration for the conversation) - “Discuss problems with or desirable changes for xyz (wallet apps/social networks/funding mechanisms/etc).” Emulsifier (directions for AI synthesis) - “Write a mission and purpose statement for a new organization based on the conversation.” Farcaster Frame text input is limited to 256 characters, the Swirl limits each person to one response with the max number of responses at 20 per Swirl. The latter settings can easily be adjusted. The headline, emulsifier, and messages are saved to a JSON and all of it together is sent to AI when either the max responses is reached or the creator of the Swirl triggers it. A frame is created with the synthesis and participants can rate their satisfaction with it. The ratings provide feedback on group consensus. If ratings are high, the group has found alignment. If ratings are low, the group has found tension. In either case it becomes clearer what actions can be taken. In the example given if everyone rates the output high it could immediately become a project or organization formed in an entirely decentralized way. Further, the same general “headline = discuss a problem, emulsifier = generate a solution” formula can be used by existing groups to discover high impact/high consensus areas to apply attention and effort. Why this will move OP forward Decentralization of power, cultural evolution, creative iteration, novel social organization, etc. are cornerstones of web 3 which includes OP. Culture Blocks aims to create novel tools that enhance the overall process, ideally creating a cascade effect on the entire field. Building CB on OP can also increase adoption, obviously. What I want out of this month and how you can help I am building a Swirl Frame on Farcaster. You can join a Swirl and/or provide feedback in /culture-blocks, or start one by casting http://cultureblocks.world/swirl What I’m going to ship this month I plan to have a complete proof of concept functional by the end of the month. Big rock of the week This week I’m going to go deep into the Farcaster code and docs to understand what the foundation to build on is and where to put my focus. Demo Culture Blocks Discord Bot Demo (loom.com) 1
maenswirony: Weekly Updates
This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really enjoying diving into Farcaster and Warpcast. I got a lot further than I was planning to, so super stoked about that.
The Big Rock Review
Read through most Farcaster docs, specs, watched intro vids, frame vids, and last two dev calls.
Rifled through lots of content in David Furlongs Awesome Frames repo and branched out extensively from there to other frame builds.
Created a Warpcast account, played with lots of frames, read discussions, generally explored the new space.
Learned basics of Apache, JS, Node.js, Next, React, and more
Set up a VPS virtual host for the domain cultureblocks.world
Built, validated, and cast my first frame
Help From OP Community
Feedback on my repos to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know I don’t know
Experiment with the discord bot by either joining the CB discord or adding it to your server
CB github - bot and CB server invites are in the cb_discord_bot repo readme.
Next Big Rock
Figure out how to access and work with all the data in Frames
Experiment with different Swirl flow designs
Build an MVP Swirl frame that the community can actually play with
-Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web 3 designer .
X - @defiprince_
I want to build ‘wagmiclu…
-Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web 3 designer .
X - @defiprince_
I want to build ‘wagmiclub- a (web 3 linkedin)platform where professionals can build reputation,job testimonials & records onchain , and recruiters can easily hire the best talents and verify their credentials onchain.
-I want to build this product because scouting the best talents for a job fit is a big problem today due to CV&Resume faking,no verifiable job history or testimonial.
Wagmiclub helps users to build career reputation that is tamper proof & verifiable .Also the platform would also have a feature that enables a company to place a staff off for hiring in a job marketplace maybe due to their financial constraints at the moment instead of laying off,this gives enough credibility for other prospect recruiters scouting for talents to hire.
-Each day over 1 , 000 talents are hired by employers,Building a more transparent&verifiable system for hiring and recruiting,is going to onboard a lot of companies & personal users to create and build a reputable profile onchain (on the OP ecosystem)
— I want to build an MVP of this idea & would be needing to conduct some user surveys and feedback to exploit challenges recruiters or professionals face in building career reputations,verifiable credentials & hiring
-Am going to ship wagmiclub to be a go platform for professional networking,verifiable credentials using Nft medals & badge,a leaderboard which ranks talents based on number of reputation badges&medals the have earned and makes it easy for recruiters to find the best trusted talents ! more could be done :upside_down_face:
-This week I am going to conduct an extensive user survey to understand the challenges people face with professional networking, hiring &building tamper-proof career testimonials & credibility.
Also I would make some progress in the UI design of this idea .
I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rar…
I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and I’m building “daospace”, a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from over 100 DAOs, with @Sixty, the Governance Lead for Push Prootocol, and previous Governance Lead for Index Coop. We’re building this platform because DAO coordination is fragmented, and reputation has to be built from scratch, with each new DAO a contributor decides to join. We decided to create a unified platform that contains every forum post for over 100 DAOs, so the reputation built on forum can be represented on a contributor’s profile through onchain achievement badges, and can serve as their portable web 3 resume. We’ll also allow for DAOs to create forum posts on our platform. Logging in will be done through a wallet, as opposed to email/password like Discourse, so there will be no need to create a profile for each forum you decide to join. An EVM wallet is all you need to join any DAO forum you desire. We currently have over 250 , 000 forum posts with all engagement metrics included in our database and will scale considerably, once we move our local scraping operation to a cloud based solution, in order to provide real time data, along with every single metric on forum.
This will move the OP ecosystem forward because onchain achievement badges will live on Optimism; we’re starting with forum posts for creating achievement badges, but will get more granular over time, as we account for Discord posts, and contributions made to the DAO as well. DAO governance will be gamified in a way that’s sybil resistant for OP DAO members to increase high quality forum engagement, since posts has to meet a certain criteria to receive points for. Since we’ll have all OP forum posts, along with over 100 other DAOs within the Ethereum ecosystem stored in our database, we can perform deep sentiment analysis to identify opportunities, and pain points. Information from the OP forum will be easier to discover and sort through as well. Our platform functions as a search engine for DAOs, allowing for users to discover trending posts filtered by time, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and discover the top talent for specific roles.
What we would like to get out of this month is to interview 10 core members of the OP DAO, to get a strong understanding of what type of achievement badges to create for their top contributors.
We are going to ship a sybil resistant point system for DAO contributors this month, and present the overall points and ratings on the UI of our test app.
Our objective for this week is to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation.
2 minute daospace Demo 2
-Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web 3 designer . X - @defiprince_ I want to build ‘wagmiclu…
-Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web 3 designer . X - @defiprince_ I want to build ‘wagmiclub- a (web 3 linkedin)platform where professionals can build reputation,job testimonials & records onchain , and recruiters can easily hire the best talents and verify their credentials onchain. -I want to build this product because scouting the best talents for a job fit is a big problem today due to CV&Resume faking,no verifiable job history or testimonial. Wagmiclub helps users to build career reputation that is tamper proof & verifiable .Also the platform would also have a feature that enables a company to place a staff off for hiring in a job marketplace maybe due to their financial constraints at the moment instead of laying off,this gives enough credibility for other prospect recruiters scouting for talents to hire. -Each day over 1 , 000 talents are hired by employers,Building a more transparent&verifiable system for hiring and recruiting,is going to onboard a lot of companies & personal users to create and build a reputable profile onchain (on the OP ecosystem) — I want to build an MVP of this idea & would be needing to conduct some user surveys and feedback to exploit challenges recruiters or professionals face in building career reputations,verifiable credentials & hiring -Am going to ship wagmiclub to be a go platform for professional networking,verifiable credentials using Nft medals & badge,a leaderboard which ranks talents based on number of reputation badges&medals the have earned and makes it easy for recruiters to find the best trusted talents ! more could be done :upside_down_face: -This week I am going to conduct an extensive user survey to understand the challenges people face with professional networking, hiring &building tamper-proof career testimonials & credibility. Also I would make some progress in the UI design of this idea .
I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rar…
I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and I’m building “daospace”, a web 3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from over 100 DAOs, with @Sixty, the Governance Lead for Push Prootocol, and previous Governance Lead for Index Coop. We’re building this platform because DAO coordination is fragmented, and reputation has to be built from scratch, with each new DAO a contributor decides to join. We decided to create a unified platform that contains every forum post for over 100 DAOs, so the reputation built on forum can be represented on a contributor’s profile through onchain achievement badges, and can serve as their portable web 3 resume. We’ll also allow for DAOs to create forum posts on our platform. Logging in will be done through a wallet, as opposed to email/password like Discourse, so there will be no need to create a profile for each forum you decide to join. An EVM wallet is all you need to join any DAO forum you desire. We currently have over 250 , 000 forum posts with all engagement metrics included in our database and will scale considerably, once we move our local scraping operation to a cloud based solution, in order to provide real time data, along with every single metric on forum. This will move the OP ecosystem forward because onchain achievement badges will live on Optimism; we’re starting with forum posts for creating achievement badges, but will get more granular over time, as we account for Discord posts, and contributions made to the DAO as well. DAO governance will be gamified in a way that’s sybil resistant for OP DAO members to increase high quality forum engagement, since posts has to meet a certain criteria to receive points for. Since we’ll have all OP forum posts, along with over 100 other DAOs within the Ethereum ecosystem stored in our database, we can perform deep sentiment analysis to identify opportunities, and pain points. Information from the OP forum will be easier to discover and sort through as well. Our platform functions as a search engine for DAOs, allowing for users to discover trending posts filtered by time, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and discover the top talent for specific roles. What we would like to get out of this month is to interview 10 core members of the OP DAO, to get a strong understanding of what type of achievement badges to create for their top contributors. We are going to ship a sybil resistant point system for DAO contributors this month, and present the overall points and ratings on the UI of our test app. Our objective for this week is to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. 2 minute daospace Demo 2
Hey it’s Phil ‘PJ’ Murphy :wave:. I was ex-Dir of Product at SuperRare, and helped to experiment w…
Hey it’s Phil ‘PJ’ Murphy :wave:. I was ex-Dir of Product at SuperRare, and helped to experiment with web 3 at Medal .com. Prior to that I had my own livestreaming company, created a few interactive liveshows on Twitch with over 50 k unique viewers, and worked with many gaming content creators for the past 10 years.
In this program, I’m building :purple_circle: PlayMini 2 , a consumer social game platform combined with a trading protocol — an idea I had for a while and I believe that is only possible using crypto.
I’m fascinated with the social aspect of video games because they have become one of the best tools to stay in touch and hang out with your friends. Games represent a way to connect, interact, and spend time on something you can do with people you care about.
Gaming industry was worth ~$ 187 . 7 billion in 2023 , but only a handful of these are actually social games that you can play with your friends, community, or family. The recent rise of Chess .com, GeoGuessr, and recently, Crypto: The Game, highlights the importance of having a way to interact with each other in a fun competitive way — and that people are ready to pay for that as long as it’s fun to play.
One of the fun aspects of the games mentioned above is that you can actually compete for money prizes or get some kind of reward. You have to show your knowledge, skill, or reaction time. And I believe crypto is the only way to make it feel organic and different from anything that social games have seen before.
That’s where the OP ecosystem comes in handy. We want to use OP/Base stack to build an underlying foundation for shared prize pools, rewards, and trading. We believe that the efficiency provided by OP/Base stack is what has been lacking in the industry for a long time, and now it’s possible to build fast reliable back-ends with crypto so that consumers won’t even feel like they are using crypto.
In exchange, we believe PlayMini has an opportunity to bring thousands of non-web 3 -players to utilize OP/Base technologies, as well as, a trading protocol that we want to develop down the road, allowing anyone to trade crypto assets super fast, efficiently, and cheaply (on PlayMini, players will be able to trade cards allowing them to participate in higher-reward tournaments and get more benefits).
We want to release our first MVP publicly and get the web 3 community to play our first chapter. We’re seeking crypto people who like to play games and would love to help us with the initial game design feedback in the meantime.
We’re going to release a working mobile (browser/PWA) version of PlayMini with our first game (based on knowledge and reaction time), highlighting the potential of the platform should we continue working on this after. We also want to launch a public brand on Twitter in the coming weeks.
This week our goal is to solidify UI and early game design explorations. We’re going to interview people from our network, someone who likes social games and has web 3 knowledge (we want to focus our first chapter on the crypto community).
More to come soon :slight_smile:
pjm: Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far.
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
We decided to spend our first week on doing a game design and setting up all needed dev environments to be able to build this projects.
We ended up choosing to build a single-player quiz-styled game with rewards and the leaderboard where players can compete with each other every week.
We designed our first prototype in Figma, and recently started working on a front-end.
We set up a Twitter connection via Privy to allow anyone come and play without creating a wallet (every account on PlayMini is an embedded wallet since rewards will always live onchain).
Also we’re currently exploring the best way to handle asset minting on OP/Base and figure out how many crypto components we want to add to this first MVP version.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We were able to ship our first Figma prototype and solidify the initial game design + UI in general. This was the main goal that we were able to achieve.
However, we didn’t have time to fully design reward system and decided to move it to the next week so we can start working on the rest of front-end/mechanics in the meantime.
How can the OP community help you?
Show us the best/most efficient way to distribute NFTs/other types of tokens to players on OP/Base
Follow our Twitter as we are starting to build out our brand
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Have first working version of front-end. Finalize stack + have something to click on already
Finalize reward system
(optional) share anything you want in a 1-2 minute loom video
We’ll share Loom with working prototype next week once we align on the reward system and have more progress on visual sides of front-end
Lindsey: Great update @pjm
Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter and looking forward to seeing the prototype next week!
Hey it’s Phil ‘PJ’ Murphy :wave:. I was ex-Dir of Product at SuperRare, and helped to experiment w…
Hey it’s Phil ‘PJ’ Murphy :wave:. I was ex-Dir of Product at SuperRare, and helped to experiment with web 3 at Medal .com. Prior to that I had my own livestreaming company, created a few interactive liveshows on Twitch with over 50 k unique viewers, and worked with many gaming content creators for the past 10 years. In this program, I’m building :purple_circle: PlayMini 2 , a consumer social game platform combined with a trading protocol — an idea I had for a while and I believe that is only possible using crypto. I’m fascinated with the social aspect of video games because they have become one of the best tools to stay in touch and hang out with your friends. Games represent a way to connect, interact, and spend time on something you can do with people you care about. Gaming industry was worth ~$ 187 . 7 billion in 2023 , but only a handful of these are actually social games that you can play with your friends, community, or family. The recent rise of Chess .com, GeoGuessr, and recently, Crypto: The Game, highlights the importance of having a way to interact with each other in a fun competitive way — and that people are ready to pay for that as long as it’s fun to play. One of the fun aspects of the games mentioned above is that you can actually compete for money prizes or get some kind of reward. You have to show your knowledge, skill, or reaction time. And I believe crypto is the only way to make it feel organic and different from anything that social games have seen before. That’s where the OP ecosystem comes in handy. We want to use OP/Base stack to build an underlying foundation for shared prize pools, rewards, and trading. We believe that the efficiency provided by OP/Base stack is what has been lacking in the industry for a long time, and now it’s possible to build fast reliable back-ends with crypto so that consumers won’t even feel like they are using crypto. In exchange, we believe PlayMini has an opportunity to bring thousands of non-web 3 -players to utilize OP/Base technologies, as well as, a trading protocol that we want to develop down the road, allowing anyone to trade crypto assets super fast, efficiently, and cheaply (on PlayMini, players will be able to trade cards allowing them to participate in higher-reward tournaments and get more benefits). We want to release our first MVP publicly and get the web 3 community to play our first chapter. We’re seeking crypto people who like to play games and would love to help us with the initial game design feedback in the meantime. We’re going to release a working mobile (browser/PWA) version of PlayMini with our first game (based on knowledge and reaction time), highlighting the potential of the platform should we continue working on this after. We also want to launch a public brand on Twitter in the coming weeks. This week our goal is to solidify UI and early game design explorations. We’re going to interview people from our network, someone who likes social games and has web 3 knowledge (we want to focus our first chapter on the crypto community). More to come soon :slight_smile:
pjm: Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far.
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
We decided to spend our first week on doing a game design and setting up all needed dev environments to be able to build this projects.
We ended up choosing to build a single-player quiz-styled game with rewards and the leaderboard where players can compete with each other every week.
We designed our first prototype in Figma, and recently started working on a front-end.
We set up a Twitter connection via Privy to allow anyone come and play without creating a wallet (every account on PlayMini is an embedded wallet since rewards will always live onchain).
Also we’re currently exploring the best way to handle asset minting on OP/Base and figure out how many crypto components we want to add to this first MVP version.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We were able to ship our first Figma prototype and solidify the initial game design + UI in general. This was the main goal that we were able to achieve.
However, we didn’t have time to fully design reward system and decided to move it to the next week so we can start working on the rest of front-end/mechanics in the meantime.
How can the OP community help you?
Show us the best/most efficient way to distribute NFTs/other types of tokens to players on OP/Base
Follow our Twitter as we are starting to build out our brand
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Have first working version of front-end. Finalize stack + have something to click on already
Finalize reward system
(optional) share anything you want in a 1-2 minute loom video
We’ll share Loom with working prototype next week once we align on the reward system and have more progress on visual sides of front-end
Lindsey: Great update @pjm
Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter and looking forward to seeing the prototype next week!
@Lindsey
In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going fo…
@Lindsey
In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going for the grant but not actually using Hedgey tech?
Do you want weekly updates here or on Backdrop or both?
Thanks!
@Lindsey In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going fo…
@Lindsey In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going for the grant but not actually using Hedgey tech? Do you want weekly updates here or on Backdrop or both? Thanks!
Weekly Updates
This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really e…
Weekly Updates
This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really enjoying diving into Farcaster and Warpcast. I got a lot further than I was planning to, so super stoked about that.
The Big Rock Review
Read through most Farcaster docs, specs, watched intro vids, frame vids, and last two dev calls.
Rifled through lots of content in David Furlongs Awesome Frames repo and branched out extensively from there to other frame builds.
Created a Warpcast account, played with lots of frames, read discussions, generally explored the new space.
Learned basics of Apache, JS, Node.js, Next, React, and more
Set up a VPS virtual host for the domain cultureblocks.world
Built, validated, and cast my first frame
Help From OP Community
Feedback on my repos to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know I don’t know
Experiment with the discord bot by either joining the CB discord or adding it to your server
CB github - bot and CB server invites are in the cb_discord_bot repo readme.
Next Big Rock
Figure out how to access and work with all the data in Frames
Experiment with different Swirl flow designs
Build an MVP Swirl frame that the community can actually play with
Lindsey: Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thread?
Looking forward to seeing the Swirl MVP next week
maenswirony: Weekly Updates
This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some of the team behind it’s other work and was super impressed, so beyond the frame build I’m spending time studying their code to get something like an open-source mentorship.
The Big Rock Review
Figured out how to access and work with the Frame data, add state, build routes, etc.
Settled on a Swirl flow I’m pretty happy with, though might need to make a couple adjustments depending on the technicalities of AI/web3 elements as I get there.
I probably could have had a janky MVP up by today but decided to go a bit slower and do a bit more polishing on the way since it’s only week two.
Help From OP Community
Same asks for now:
Feedback on my repos
Experiment with the discord bot (feedback is directly generated)
CB discord bot github
Next Big Rock
Continue learning from frog.fm
I am going to ship next week even if that means sacrificing some quality and rushing through some of the learning process short term.
gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute…
gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute points to DAO members, based on high quality forum posts, and we also created a method to make sure it’s sybil resistant as well.
Week 1
1 . What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.
We succeeded in creating the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. We also shared two updates on Backdrop this week!
The challenge we would like to address in the DAO space is the cultivation of a portable and authentic reputation system. So we got started by designing the logic for an algorithm that rewards valuable contributions within a DAO forum, to balance the emphasis of quality content, community alignment, and active participation while providing a system that is also resistant to sybil attacks.
2 . What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We accomplished our big rock goal for the week: to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors.
What went right?
We created the logic for the algorithm that rewards and recognizes contributions that foster productive discussions and contributions that advance discussions while providing critical feedback.
What went wrong?
Full Sybil resistance is very difficult to achieve. There will always be actors who will try to game the system. However, this is just a realization, and not something that actually went wrong.
How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
Now that we have the logic for distributing Points to DAO contributors, we can create the algorithm for our meritocratic-based reputation system.
3 . How can the OP community help you?
The OP Community can help us by providing feedback on the logic for our point system. We will get feedback from several contributors from different areas of the DAO.
4 . What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Our goal for next week is to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created this week. By next week, we’ll be able to showcase the top contributors from the DAOs within our database.
5 . Here’s a short video explaining how the logic for the algorithm works 2
Here’s a Google Doc 1 that breaks down the logic in greater detail
Lindsey: Great update @daospace
Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one and love the thought and work you’re putting in here. Watched the video & will read through your docs later today. Great job sharing those.
Week 1 Update
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
It has been…
Week 1 Update
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
It has been amazing building at the ETH Denver hackathon this week. We came in to the hackathon with Onchain Clarity Co in mind and knew our guiding goal: Make OP Multiplayer. We had so many ideas that we changed the our approach of a singular site for Onchain Clarity Co to more of a hub of tools that accomplish onchain clarity.
We came to the conclusion that a fundamental piece of a multiplayer experience was missing, a friends list with activity status. So today, we launched our first product as Onchain Clarity Co: basedfriends.xyz 4
BasedFriends is a site that tells you who is online and onchain, customizing your view to the users you follow using your Farcaster social graph via the Farcaster AuthKit 1 . Additionally, we query the users you follow for their activity on Base via Airstack.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
What went right: We accomplished our big rock by launching a site with a novel product that is helpful
What went wrong: Initially, we were using the wrong tools for what we were trying to accomplish, it wasn’t until we got the right tools in place with Airstack that we were able to effectively accomplish pulling Farcaster and Base data. Going forward, we have the right tools in place to provide a quality user experience.
Next week: Next week will be all about distributing BasedFriends via Farcaster Frames, getting users and feedback to guide how to build from here
How can the OP community help you?
Test out basedfriends.xyz 4 and provide us feedback for what you’d like to see
Follow Onchain Clarity Co on Farcaster
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Adapting the site for mobile
Getting reach and running a marketing campaign
Adapt to user feedback to retain users
(optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video
Loom 2
maenswirony: Cool product
Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each time.
Lindsey: This is awesome @limes.eth
Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback.
Just watched the Loom and signed in to BasedFriends - WOW. Really impressive to get that up so quickly. Also, I didn’t even realize I could use Farcaster to sign into apps. Great implementation.
Will play around on the app today and share feedback.
Weekly Updates This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really e…
Weekly Updates This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really enjoying diving into Farcaster and Warpcast. I got a lot further than I was planning to, so super stoked about that. The Big Rock Review Read through most Farcaster docs, specs, watched intro vids, frame vids, and last two dev calls. Rifled through lots of content in David Furlongs Awesome Frames repo and branched out extensively from there to other frame builds. Created a Warpcast account, played with lots of frames, read discussions, generally explored the new space. Learned basics of Apache, JS, Node.js, Next, React, and more Set up a VPS virtual host for the domain cultureblocks.world Built, validated, and cast my first frame Help From OP Community Feedback on my repos to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know I don’t know Experiment with the discord bot by either joining the CB discord or adding it to your server CB github - bot and CB server invites are in the cb_discord_bot repo readme. Next Big Rock Figure out how to access and work with all the data in Frames Experiment with different Swirl flow designs Build an MVP Swirl frame that the community can actually play with
Lindsey: Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thread?
Looking forward to seeing the Swirl MVP next week
maenswirony: Weekly Updates
This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some of the team behind it’s other work and was super impressed, so beyond the frame build I’m spending time studying their code to get something like an open-source mentorship.
The Big Rock Review
Figured out how to access and work with the Frame data, add state, build routes, etc.
Settled on a Swirl flow I’m pretty happy with, though might need to make a couple adjustments depending on the technicalities of AI/web3 elements as I get there.
I probably could have had a janky MVP up by today but decided to go a bit slower and do a bit more polishing on the way since it’s only week two.
Help From OP Community
Same asks for now:
Feedback on my repos
Experiment with the discord bot (feedback is directly generated)
CB discord bot github
Next Big Rock
Continue learning from frog.fm
I am going to ship next week even if that means sacrificing some quality and rushing through some of the learning process short term.
gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute…
gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute points to DAO members, based on high quality forum posts, and we also created a method to make sure it’s sybil resistant as well. Week 1 1 . What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going. We succeeded in creating the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. We also shared two updates on Backdrop this week! The challenge we would like to address in the DAO space is the cultivation of a portable and authentic reputation system. So we got started by designing the logic for an algorithm that rewards valuable contributions within a DAO forum, to balance the emphasis of quality content, community alignment, and active participation while providing a system that is also resistant to sybil attacks. 2 . What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week? We accomplished our big rock goal for the week: to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors. What went right? We created the logic for the algorithm that rewards and recognizes contributions that foster productive discussions and contributions that advance discussions while providing critical feedback. What went wrong? Full Sybil resistance is very difficult to achieve. There will always be actors who will try to game the system. However, this is just a realization, and not something that actually went wrong. How is it going to impact what you do this next week? Now that we have the logic for distributing Points to DAO contributors, we can create the algorithm for our meritocratic-based reputation system. 3 . How can the OP community help you? The OP Community can help us by providing feedback on the logic for our point system. We will get feedback from several contributors from different areas of the DAO. 4 . What are your big rocks for the coming week? Our goal for next week is to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created this week. By next week, we’ll be able to showcase the top contributors from the DAOs within our database. 5 . Here’s a short video explaining how the logic for the algorithm works 2 Here’s a Google Doc 1 that breaks down the logic in greater detail
Lindsey: Great update @jarisjames
Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one and love the thought and work you’re putting in here. Watched the video & will read through your docs later today. Great job sharing those.
Week 1 Update What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going. It has been…
Week 1 Update What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going. It has been amazing building at the ETH Denver hackathon this week. We came in to the hackathon with Onchain Clarity Co in mind and knew our guiding goal: Make OP Multiplayer. We had so many ideas that we changed the our approach of a singular site for Onchain Clarity Co to more of a hub of tools that accomplish onchain clarity. We came to the conclusion that a fundamental piece of a multiplayer experience was missing, a friends list with activity status. So today, we launched our first product as Onchain Clarity Co: basedfriends.xyz 4 BasedFriends is a site that tells you who is online and onchain, customizing your view to the users you follow using your Farcaster social graph via the Farcaster AuthKit 1 . Additionally, we query the users you follow for their activity on Base via Airstack. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week? What went right: We accomplished our big rock by launching a site with a novel product that is helpful What went wrong: Initially, we were using the wrong tools for what we were trying to accomplish, it wasn’t until we got the right tools in place with Airstack that we were able to effectively accomplish pulling Farcaster and Base data. Going forward, we have the right tools in place to provide a quality user experience. Next week: Next week will be all about distributing BasedFriends via Farcaster Frames, getting users and feedback to guide how to build from here How can the OP community help you? Test out basedfriends.xyz 4 and provide us feedback for what you’d like to see Follow Onchain Clarity Co on Farcaster What are your big rocks for the coming week? Adapting the site for mobile Getting reach and running a marketing campaign Adapt to user feedback to retain users (optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video Loom 2
maenswirony: Cool product
Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each time.
Lindsey: This is awesome @limes.eth
Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback.
Just watched the Loom and signed in to BasedFriends - WOW. Really impressive to get that up so quickly. Also, I didn’t even realize I could use Farcaster to sign into apps. Great implementation.
Will play around on the app today and share feedback.
Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far.
What are your updates on…
Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far.
What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
We decided to spend our first week on doing a game design and setting up all needed dev environments to be able to build this projects.
We ended up choosing to build a single-player quiz-styled game with rewards and the leaderboard where players can compete with each other every week.
We designed our first prototype in Figma, and recently started working on a front-end.
We set up a Twitter connection via Privy to allow anyone come and play without creating a wallet (every account on PlayMini is an embedded wallet since rewards will always live onchain).
Also we’re currently exploring the best way to handle asset minting on OP/Base and figure out how many crypto components we want to add to this first MVP version.
What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
We were able to ship our first Figma prototype and solidify the initial game design + UI in general. This was the main goal that we were able to achieve.
However, we didn’t have time to fully design reward system and decided to move it to the next week so we can start working on the rest of front-end/mechanics in the meantime.
How can the OP community help you?
Show us the best/most efficient way to distribute NFTs/other types of tokens to players on OP/Base
Follow our Twitter as we are starting to build out our brand
What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Have first working version of front-end. Finalize stack + have something to click on already
Finalize reward system
(optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video
We’ll share Loom with working prototype next week once we align on the reward system and have more progress on visual sides of front-end
pjm: Week 2. PlayMini Update + Demo Loom:
What we did so far:
We built the entire front-end for the game (including the quiz game, leaderboard, Twitter sign up). Now you can actually play it.
Started working on the reward system and came up with a few ideas we want to work on next
Getting good list of ideas for categories/game packs to include in v1
What are we going to do this week:
Reward System (NFTs)
Inventory
Bug fixes + prepping for the release next week
Demo:
We recorded this demo to show the progress so far:
Loom link here
Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far. What are your updates on…
Hey. Wrapped up our first big week with PlayMini. Sharing updates so far. What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going. We decided to spend our first week on doing a game design and setting up all needed dev environments to be able to build this projects. We ended up choosing to build a single-player quiz-styled game with rewards and the leaderboard where players can compete with each other every week. We designed our first prototype in Figma, and recently started working on a front-end. We set up a Twitter connection via Privy to allow anyone come and play without creating a wallet (every account on PlayMini is an embedded wallet since rewards will always live onchain). Also we’re currently exploring the best way to handle asset minting on OP/Base and figure out how many crypto components we want to add to this first MVP version. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week? We were able to ship our first Figma prototype and solidify the initial game design + UI in general. This was the main goal that we were able to achieve. However, we didn’t have time to fully design reward system and decided to move it to the next week so we can start working on the rest of front-end/mechanics in the meantime. How can the OP community help you? Show us the best/most efficient way to distribute NFTs/other types of tokens to players on OP/Base Follow our Twitter as we are starting to build out our brand What are your big rocks for the coming week? Have first working version of front-end. Finalize stack + have something to click on already Finalize reward system (optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video We’ll share Loom with working prototype next week once we align on the reward system and have more progress on visual sides of front-end
pjm: Week 2. PlayMini Update + Demo Loom:
What we did so far:
We built the entire front-end for the game (including the quiz game, leaderboard, Twitter sign up). Now you can actually play it.
Started working on the reward system and came up with a few ideas we want to work on next
Getting good list of ideas for categories/game packs to include in v1
What are we going to do this week:
Reward System (NFTs)
Inventory
Bug fixes + prepping for the release next week
Demo:
We recorded this demo to show the progress so far:
Loom link here
Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build.
One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions…
Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build.
One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions has fallen ill over the past week which kept us from attending the ETH Denver event.
The developer schedule has been established for our build this month outlining tasks that need to be accomplished.
We have updated the CTA for the homepage of the platform & made some minor improvements to the ui design to create a better ux.
Eligibility criteria for our first grants round on Optimism network will be published in preparation for applications to open on March 14 th. Allowing creators to apply for small grant funding opportunities who are building on the Superchain. The grant program starts April 1 st utilizing the Gitcoin grants stack technology.
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a failure this week and health became a priority over social networking events. It definitely leaves the team feeling a bit low on morale going into this next week.
This Week
Testing our user database with a full node setup for the front end development.
Lindsey: Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what you push out this coming week!
FractalVisions: Here is our weekend update for backdrop build.
Kwil
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
We will be continuing to set up more nodes throughout the coming months ahead as we scale.
This was our BIG ROCK of the week for development.
We will now expand on our updates here for this week.
Grants
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
We are really excited for this opportunity to help other creators in web3 join the Superchain ecosystem. So far the excitement has been amazing. The way that everyone has reacted has given us a great idea of how we can evolve our grants eligibility criteria in future rounds.
Frames
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
API
Other updates include testing our API with Simplehash who is our service provider for onchain data aggregation. As you can see here we are aligning our platform with the Optimism network and Superchain by displaying mirror articles on the homepage currently.
The development of the MVP for Fractal Visions is looking fantastic so far and we really want to take public goods funding to the next level with our project. It’s been a magical experience thanks to backdrop build. We are able to organize our tasks & focus on shipping this month with extra motivation to accomplish our goals.
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
Cool product :slight_smile:
Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each…
Cool product :slight_smile:
Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each time.
Great update @pjm
Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter …
Great update @pjm
Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter and looking forward to seeing the prototype next week!
No need to use Hedgey tech at all for this! Share your updates both on Backdrop and here!
No need to use Hedgey tech at all for this! Share your updates both on Backdrop and here!
Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thr…
Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thread?
Looking forward to seeing the Swirl MVP next week
Great update @daospace
Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one a…
Great update @daospace
Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one and love the thought and work you’re putting in here. Watched the video & will read through your docs later today. Great job sharing those.
This is awesome @limes.eth
Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback.
Just watche…
This is awesome @limes.eth
Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback.
Just watched the Loom and signed in to BasedFriends - WOW. Really impressive to get that up so quickly. Also, I didn’t even realize I could use Farcaster to sign into apps. Great implementation.
Will play around on the app today and share feedback.
Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what …
Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what you push out this coming week!
Here is our update for Week 1 :
Finished initial contracts and wrote some unit tests in foundry.
H…
Here is our update for Week 1 :
Finished initial contracts and wrote some unit tests in foundry.
Here are our goals for Week 2 :
Write more unit tests.
Write Fuzz tests.
Get front end up on Vercel.
Deploy to Base Sepolia for testing.
Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build. One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions…
Here is our update for the past week of backdrop build. One of the cofounders for Fractal Visions has fallen ill over the past week which kept us from attending the ETH Denver event. The developer schedule has been established for our build this month outlining tasks that need to be accomplished. We have updated the CTA for the homepage of the platform & made some minor improvements to the ui design to create a better ux. Eligibility criteria for our first grants round on Optimism network will be published in preparation for applications to open on March 14 th. Allowing creators to apply for small grant funding opportunities who are building on the Superchain. The grant program starts April 1 st utilizing the Gitcoin grants stack technology. Big Rock Past Week Our big rock was a failure this week and health became a priority over social networking events. It definitely leaves the team feeling a bit low on morale going into this next week. This Week Testing our user database with a full node setup for the front end development.
Lindsey: Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what you push out this coming week!
FractalVisions: Here is our weekend update for backdrop build.
Kwil
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
We will be continuing to set up more nodes throughout the coming months ahead as we scale.
This was our BIG ROCK of the week for development.
We will now expand on our updates here for this week.
Grants
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
We are really excited for this opportunity to help other creators in web3 join the Superchain ecosystem. So far the excitement has been amazing. The way that everyone has reacted has given us a great idea of how we can evolve our grants eligibility criteria in future rounds.
Frames
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
API
Other updates include testing our API with Simplehash who is our service provider for onchain data aggregation. As you can see here we are aligning our platform with the Optimism network and Superchain by displaying mirror articles on the homepage currently.
The development of the MVP for Fractal Visions is looking fantastic so far and we really want to take public goods funding to the next level with our project. It’s been a magical experience thanks to backdrop build. We are able to organize our tasks & focus on shipping this month with extra motivation to accomplish our goals.
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
Cool product :slight_smile: Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each…
Cool product :slight_smile: Feedback - I’d like to stay logged in. Annoying to have to QR scan each time.
Great update @pjm Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter …
Great update @pjm Really like the approach you’re taking to this build. Just followed your twitter and looking forward to seeing the prototype next week!
No need to use Hedgey tech at all for this! Share your updates both on Backdrop and here!
No need to use Hedgey tech at all for this! Share your updates both on Backdrop and here!
Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thr…
Looks like you had a busy week! Great requests for help. Mind sharing a link to the bot in your thread? Looking forward to seeing the Swirl MVP next week
Great update @jarisjames Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one…
Great update @jarisjames Creating a points system that’s sybil resistant is going to be a tough one and love the thought and work you’re putting in here. Watched the video & will read through your docs later today. Great job sharing those.
This is awesome @limes.eth Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback. Just watche…
This is awesome @limes.eth Seems like ETH Denver was a prime location to grab feedback. Just watched the Loom and signed in to BasedFriends - WOW. Really impressive to get that up so quickly. Also, I didn’t even realize I could use Farcaster to sign into apps. Great implementation. Will play around on the app today and share feedback.
Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what …
Thanks for the udpate @FractalVisions . Sometimes there are dud weeks. Looking forward to see what you push out this coming week!
Here is our update for Week 1 : Finished initial contracts and wrote some unit tests in foundry. H…
Here is our update for Week 1 : Finished initial contracts and wrote some unit tests in foundry. Here are our goals for Week 2 : Write more unit tests. Write Fuzz tests. Get front end up on Vercel. Deploy to Base Sepolia for testing.
Hey I’m Walid (Owl on ct), and I am working on a hybrid exchange model and seek to deploy it for Op…
Hey I’m Walid (Owl on ct), and I am working on a hybrid exchange model and seek to deploy it for Optimism.
Inspired from the Off-chain order-book based perps DEX mission by the Optimism, I have started working on a similar model, just for spot instead of perps.
1 - core model is a smart contract based orders, orders are made and fulfilled autonomously, supporting any ERC 20 token, users can create an order based on their specified parameters :
(
Token 1 (have), Token 2 (want), Amount 1 (have), Amount 2 (want), deadline, partial fill, user 2 ( 0 if public/address of the other party if private)
)
the smart contracts simply handle the creation of orders, and the fulfillment of orders, from there, the users are free to use only the smart contracts in the case they have the matching order id for the order they wish to full-fill.
2 - the remaining part of the model would be built on a server (ideally in Go Lang or similar) to fetch order parameters (using The graph or similar services), to construct an order-book out of them, making an off-chain matching service similar to the one requested by optimism (except it’s spot rather then perps), fetching orders by id to be fulfilled by users.
3 - the last part of the model would be the front-end, this is still a ‘WIP’, and ideally once we reach beta stage, we would be able to hire someone to implement a front-end that is user friendly, and works well with user feedback.
The order-book model is still very early on, smart contracts part is almost done, and ideally soon will be public for testing and feedback for potential improvements.
as of week 2 , work has began on the off-chain matching engine, order contracts are almost done, some minor optimizations are in order, and will be public soon
Hey I’m Walid (Owl on ct), and I am working on a hybrid exchange model and seek to deploy it for Op…
Hey I’m Walid (Owl on ct), and I am working on a hybrid exchange model and seek to deploy it for Optimism. Inspired from the Off-chain order-book based perps DEX mission by the Optimism, I have started working on a similar model, just for spot instead of perps. 1 - core model is a smart contract based orders, orders are made and fulfilled autonomously, supporting any ERC 20 token, users can create an order based on their specified parameters : ( Token 1 (have), Token 2 (want), Amount 1 (have), Amount 2 (want), deadline, partial fill, user 2 ( 0 if public/address of the other party if private) ) the smart contracts simply handle the creation of orders, and the fulfillment of orders, from there, the users are free to use only the smart contracts in the case they have the matching order id for the order they wish to full-fill. 2 - the remaining part of the model would be built on a server (ideally in Go Lang or similar) to fetch order parameters (using The graph or similar services), to construct an order-book out of them, making an off-chain matching service similar to the one requested by optimism (except it’s spot rather then perps), fetching orders by id to be fulfilled by users. 3 - the last part of the model would be the front-end, this is still a ‘WIP’, and ideally once we reach beta stage, we would be able to hire someone to implement a front-end that is user friendly, and works well with user feedback. The order-book model is still very early on, smart contracts part is almost done, and ideally soon will be public for testing and feedback for potential improvements. as of week 2 , work has began on the off-chain matching engine, order contracts are almost done, some minor optimizations are in order, and will be public soon
Hello, I’m Igor! A Web 3 engineer with experience in developing high-load Web 2 projects.
I wan…
Hello, I’m Igor! A Web 3 engineer with experience in developing high-load Web 2 projects.
I want to develop a DAO-driven portal for traffic exchange between Frames applications for Warpcast. Each connected application will perform cross-promotion of other applications proportionally to the traffic brought into the system.
The generated fee in the form of clicks will be distributed among the Frames important for the Optimism ecosystem as a grant. The importance of applications will be determined through voting among the system participants.
Builders face the problem of expensive Web 3 traffic, which can often kill the initiative to create useful applications due to the lack of users. I want to make this project to break this vicious circle.
There are at least 3 reasons why this idea could help the OP ecosystem:
Strengthen already existing and popular Frames through traffic exchange with other Frames, creating additional stimulation for developers.
Engage users to stay on OP-based projects longer through cross-promotion of engaging Frames.
Encourage Frame builders to create more by showing them that by bringing value, they will be rewarded with new users.
It would be nice to get feedback from builders on the conditions under which they could participate in the traffic exchange with their Frames. It would also be useful to know what type of integrations is considered most acceptable for developers: integrating a separate frame from a third-party application, a button with a link to the application, or something else.
This month, I plan to create a working system with live integrations. In the following months, I would like to decentralize some of the system components to make it more robust in the long term.
In the first week, some Frames were launched to perform the first integrations and test the idea on real users.
Plans for this week:
Come up with ways to capture traffic for relevant Frames.
Conduct experiments with ways to verify traffic.
Consider ways to account for traffic with the possibility of further decentralizing the system.
Backdrop Build: Backdrop Build - Build
v 12099 × 1443 185 KB
Hello, I’m Igor! A Web 3 engineer with experience in developing high-load Web 2 projects. I wan…
Hello, I’m Igor! A Web 3 engineer with experience in developing high-load Web 2 projects. I want to develop a DAO-driven portal for traffic exchange between Frames applications for Warpcast. Each connected application will perform cross-promotion of other applications proportionally to the traffic brought into the system. The generated fee in the form of clicks will be distributed among the Frames important for the Optimism ecosystem as a grant. The importance of applications will be determined through voting among the system participants. Builders face the problem of expensive Web 3 traffic, which can often kill the initiative to create useful applications due to the lack of users. I want to make this project to break this vicious circle. There are at least 3 reasons why this idea could help the OP ecosystem: Strengthen already existing and popular Frames through traffic exchange with other Frames, creating additional stimulation for developers. Engage users to stay on OP-based projects longer through cross-promotion of engaging Frames. Encourage Frame builders to create more by showing them that by bringing value, they will be rewarded with new users. It would be nice to get feedback from builders on the conditions under which they could participate in the traffic exchange with their Frames. It would also be useful to know what type of integrations is considered most acceptable for developers: integrating a separate frame from a third-party application, a button with a link to the application, or something else. This month, I plan to create a working system with live integrations. In the following months, I would like to decentralize some of the system components to make it more robust in the long term. In the first week, some Frames were launched to perform the first integrations and test the idea on real users. Plans for this week: Come up with ways to capture traffic for relevant Frames. Conduct experiments with ways to verify traffic. Consider ways to account for traffic with the possibility of further decentralizing the system. Backdrop Build: Backdrop Build - Build v 12099 × 1443 185 KB
Such a cool idea and love your approach! Great plans for the week. Keep us posted
Such a cool idea and love your approach! Great plans for the week. Keep us posted
Such a cool idea and love your approach! Great plans for the week. Keep us posted
Such a cool idea and love your approach! Great plans for the week. Keep us posted
Agents With Benefits
Who we are and what we want to build: Hey! I’m Mark a web 3 developer. Yo…
Agents With Benefits
Who we are and what we want to build: Hey! I’m Mark a web 3 developer. You can find me across various channels as @Soko. I am working with team members recently assembled at ETHDenver where we initially came up with our idea. We are developing “Agents With Benefits” (AWB), a platform where AI Agents are tokenized as NFTs, enabling individual users or DAOs to own, govern, and earn from these agents. Our motivation is to disrupt the centralized control over AI agent development and governance by providing a decentralized framework that allows for broader community participation and benefit. By tokenizing agents as NFTs, we ensure transparency, provenance, and a secure mechanism for revenue sharing among contributors and owners.
Moving the OP ecosystem forward: Introducing AWB will enrich the OP ecosystem by bridging the gap between AI technology and blockchain, promoting a community-driven approach to AI agent ownership and governance. This initiative will draw a wide array of participants, from developers and creators to end-users, enhancing the ecosystem’s vibrancy and innovation. The unique model of tokenizing AI agents as NFTs, which can be owned by individuals or collectively by DAOs, aligns with Optimism’s commitment to decentralization and could serve as a catalyst for new forms of collaboration and value creation on the blockchain. Additionally Agents can be licensed as open source and free to use, accelerating the growth of AI + blockchain integrations.
Goals for this month and how others can help: This month, we aim to establish the foundational elements of AWB, focusing on the development of on-chain registry contracts for the NFT tokenization of AI Agents and user-friendly front-end interfaces for managing tokens, DAOs, and agents. We invite the community to participate in the development process by providing feedback, sharing insights, and conducting user interviews. Connections with experts in DAO governance, NFT law, and AI development would greatly aid our progress. Community engagement in early testing phases and feedback will be critical to refining our offerings.
What we plan to ship: Our objective for this month is to launch a comprehensive & functioning platform for AWB that includes:
On-chain registry contract: This will facilitate the tokenization of AI Agents as NFTs, allowing them to be owned and governed by individuals or DAOs, while also managing the distribution of revenue shares.
Frontend interfaces: We will provide intuitive tools for users to create tokens, form DAOs, and tokenize AI Agents as NFTs, making it easy for both creators and investors to participate.
Frames or other Social platform integrations: We plan to enable interaction with tokenized AI Agents through Farcaster frames or social media bots, showcasing the practical applications and benefits of AWB to a broader audience. We want to bring Agents directly to users.
HUB example implementation: Hubs are off-chain service providers that are whitelisted by our protocol and individual users. Ideally running trust-less execution environments, these HUBs have the responsibility of finding agent requests from AWB registered users, submitting them on-chain, executing them, and providing the result to the desired destination (Farcaster, Twitter, etc.)
We have some big goals for this program :sweat_smile: but we’ve made some exciting progress during our 1 week sprint in Denver and we believe our milestones are tangible - at least as MVP / prototypes!
Help us OP Community!
We want to establish connections with existing DAOs and communities on Optimism! Experimenting with novel use cases is necessary to see if the vision of AWB makes sense. Whether you are an individual or a DAO that wants to build an IP Licensed AI Agent please reach out with feedback or your idea. We’ll do our best to build it!
Thanks @Lindsey, Hedgey, and OP RPGF for giving us a chance to turn this dream project into a reality!
Links:
agentswithbenefits.xyz 1
ETHDenver Video Demo 2
Lindsey: This is a wild idea! love it
There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for the coming week. Go ahead and share one of those up for this coming week so that we can keep track of your progress!
Agents With Benefits Who we are and what we want to build: Hey! I’m Mark a web 3 developer. Yo…
Agents With Benefits Who we are and what we want to build: Hey! I’m Mark a web 3 developer. You can find me across various channels as @markeljan. I am working with team members recently assembled at ETHDenver where we initially came up with our idea. We are developing “Agents With Benefits” (AWB), a platform where AI Agents are tokenized as NFTs, enabling individual users or DAOs to own, govern, and earn from these agents. Our motivation is to disrupt the centralized control over AI agent development and governance by providing a decentralized framework that allows for broader community participation and benefit. By tokenizing agents as NFTs, we ensure transparency, provenance, and a secure mechanism for revenue sharing among contributors and owners. Moving the OP ecosystem forward: Introducing AWB will enrich the OP ecosystem by bridging the gap between AI technology and blockchain, promoting a community-driven approach to AI agent ownership and governance. This initiative will draw a wide array of participants, from developers and creators to end-users, enhancing the ecosystem’s vibrancy and innovation. The unique model of tokenizing AI agents as NFTs, which can be owned by individuals or collectively by DAOs, aligns with Optimism’s commitment to decentralization and could serve as a catalyst for new forms of collaboration and value creation on the blockchain. Additionally Agents can be licensed as open source and free to use, accelerating the growth of AI + blockchain integrations. Goals for this month and how others can help: This month, we aim to establish the foundational elements of AWB, focusing on the development of on-chain registry contracts for the NFT tokenization of AI Agents and user-friendly front-end interfaces for managing tokens, DAOs, and agents. We invite the community to participate in the development process by providing feedback, sharing insights, and conducting user interviews. Connections with experts in DAO governance, NFT law, and AI development would greatly aid our progress. Community engagement in early testing phases and feedback will be critical to refining our offerings. What we plan to ship: Our objective for this month is to launch a comprehensive & functioning platform for AWB that includes: On-chain registry contract: This will facilitate the tokenization of AI Agents as NFTs, allowing them to be owned and governed by individuals or DAOs, while also managing the distribution of revenue shares. Frontend interfaces: We will provide intuitive tools for users to create tokens, form DAOs, and tokenize AI Agents as NFTs, making it easy for both creators and investors to participate. Frames or other Social platform integrations: We plan to enable interaction with tokenized AI Agents through Farcaster frames or social media bots, showcasing the practical applications and benefits of AWB to a broader audience. We want to bring Agents directly to users. HUB example implementation: Hubs are off-chain service providers that are whitelisted by our protocol and individual users. Ideally running trust-less execution environments, these HUBs have the responsibility of finding agent requests from AWB registered users, submitting them on-chain, executing them, and providing the result to the desired destination (Farcaster, Twitter, etc.) We have some big goals for this program :sweat_smile: but we’ve made some exciting progress during our 1 week sprint in Denver and we believe our milestones are tangible - at least as MVP / prototypes! Help us OP Community! We want to establish connections with existing DAOs and communities on Optimism! Experimenting with novel use cases is necessary to see if the vision of AWB makes sense. Whether you are an individual or a DAO that wants to build an IP Licensed AI Agent please reach out with feedback or your idea. We’ll do our best to build it! Thanks @Lindsey, Hedgey, and OP RPGF for giving us a chance to turn this dream project into a reality! Links: agentswithbenefits.xyz 1 ETHDenver Video Demo 2
Lindsey: This is a wild idea! love it
There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for the coming week. Go ahead and share one of those up for this coming week so that we can keep track of your progress!
Weekly Updates
This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some…
Weekly Updates
This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some of the team behind it’s other work and was super impressed, so beyond the frame build I’m spending time studying their code to get something like an open-source mentorship.
The Big Rock Review
Figured out how to access and work with the Frame data, add state, build routes, etc.
Settled on a Swirl flow I’m pretty happy with, though might need to make a couple adjustments depending on the technicalities of AI/web 3 elements as I get there.
I probably could have had a janky MVP up by today but decided to go a bit slower and do a bit more polishing on the way since it’s only week two.
Help From OP Community
Same asks for now:
Feedback on my repos
Experiment with the discord bot (feedback is directly generated)
CB discord bot github
Next Big Rock
Continue learning from frog.fm
I am going to ship next week even if that means sacrificing some quality and rushing through some of the learning process short term.
Lindsey: Great notes @maenswirony
It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say shipping a rough MVP is definitely the north star for this week. Nothing speeds up feedback like having something people can put in their hands.
Week 2 Updates
What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.
The algorit…
Week 2 Updates
What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.
The algorithm for our sybil resistant point system for forum participation is almost complete. Points for the reputation system are determined using four factors:
Replies to topics created (forum posts)
Replies to regular posts (comments)
Likes received for topics created
Likes received for regular posts
We are using a sentiment analysis tool (VADER) to determine the alignment of replies and how many points should be distributed to the original poster.
We are still testing and fine-tuning the script due to differences in terminology used across different DAOs. With this point system, we will be able to identify the DAO members that brought the most value to their DAO’s forum and rank them accordingly.
2 . What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
Last week, our big rock goal was to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created in week 1 . The logic was for a Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors, and we already have multiple working scripts for each individual factor. The only thing left is ensuring that all the scripts works in unison so they feed into our point system correctly.
What went right?
We successfully created multiple working scripts for our Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors. This was our big rock for our second week of building.
What went wrong?
We hoped to get feedback from OP community members on the logic used for our points system, but scheduling some time to get their feedback has been challenging. However, we will continue to look for feedback, to make sure our points system serves Optimism DAO members.
We planned to drop our code on GitHub this Friday, but it will take a few more days to make sure that points are calculated properly, so we will keep you guys updated on Backdrop.
How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
Once we have the algorithm complete, we will have to create a new table in the database for points distributed to contributors. This will allow us to display the points and ranking for each contributor on our UI.
3 . How can the OP community help you?
Feedback! We still need to get feedback from Optimism DAO members on whether they are aligned with how we will be distributing points for contributors.
4 . What are your big rocks for the coming week?
Next week we plan on completing the algorithm to display points for each DAO contributor from Optimism DAO. We will be able to rank each DAO contributor based on their contributions to the forum, using the algorithm for our Sybil Resistant Point System.
5 . (optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video
DAO Contributor Point Allocation Demo
Sixty: Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above is by Jaris James from daospace. His first account got flagged and banned while posting our second weekly update.
cc: @moderators @Lindsey
Lindsey: Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace !
I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm. It seems like the biggest need right now is feedback from the OP community. What kind of feedback are yo looking for? Happy to ping a few people on my side as well if it helps you get interviews.
Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above :point_up_ …
Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above :point_up_ 2 : is by Jaris James from daospace. His first account got flagged and banned while posting our second weekly update.
cc: @moderators @Lindsey
image 1436 × 850 65 . 4 KB
Totally agree with you, session management has been a hard thing to solve for but it’s on our list!
Totally agree with you, session management has been a hard thing to solve for but it’s on our list!
Week 2 Update
Launched onchainclarity.co
Launched the OCC Blog 1 on Paragraph and posted our f…
Week 2 Update
Launched onchainclarity.co
Launched the OCC Blog 1 on Paragraph and posted our first article, “Blockchains are MMODBs”
Attained 38 followers on Farcaster 2
Improved BasedFriends.xyz based on feedback we received on Farcaster, improving the mobile experience
Presented BasedFriends on the community judging day at ETH Denver, we got some valuable feedback and plenty of the Base team to try out the site!
IMG_ 09951920 × 1440 366 KB
The Big Rock Review
Improve Mobile Exp: ( 10 / 10 ) We spent time improving the mobile experience when we saw that 85 % of our users were trying BasedFriends on mobile. It was a helpful lesson to take going forward and we fixed the search, sort, and filter functions
Run a Marketing Campaign: ( 9 / 10 ) We accomplished what we set out to with launching a blog and posting on Farcaster most days this week.
Respond to User Feedback: ( 8 / 10 ) We got feedback from 5 Farcaster users this week, effectively addressing 4 of the users comments. We even responded to this one in the /buildinpublic channel
Help From OP Community
DM me on telegram at limes_eth to let me know, “What is the most important thing you want to know before delegating to an Optimism delegate”?
Subscribe on Paragraph and give us feedback before next weeks edition
Next Big Rock
Launch GovScore
Lindsey: Building in public! I love it.
Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re sharing there around the build. Great approach!
It feels like you’re really pushing to understand who your users are and how they use the product - keep it up and can’t wait to see what you ship this week
Weekly Updates This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some…
Weekly Updates This week I spent a lot of time focused on the frog.fm tool. I dug deeper into some of the team behind it’s other work and was super impressed, so beyond the frame build I’m spending time studying their code to get something like an open-source mentorship. The Big Rock Review Figured out how to access and work with the Frame data, add state, build routes, etc. Settled on a Swirl flow I’m pretty happy with, though might need to make a couple adjustments depending on the technicalities of AI/web 3 elements as I get there. I probably could have had a janky MVP up by today but decided to go a bit slower and do a bit more polishing on the way since it’s only week two. Help From OP Community Same asks for now: Feedback on my repos Experiment with the discord bot (feedback is directly generated) CB discord bot github Next Big Rock Continue learning from frog.fm I am going to ship next week even if that means sacrificing some quality and rushing through some of the learning process short term.
Lindsey: Great notes @maenswirony
It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say shipping a rough MVP is definitely the north star for this week. Nothing speeds up feedback like having something people can put in their hands.
Week 2 Updates What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going. The algorit…
Week 2 Updates What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going. The algorithm for our sybil resistant point system for forum participation is almost complete. Points for the reputation system are determined using four factors: Replies to topics created (forum posts) Replies to regular posts (comments) Likes received for topics created Likes received for regular posts We are using a sentiment analysis tool (VADER) to determine the alignment of replies and how many points should be distributed to the original poster. We are still testing and fine-tuning the script due to differences in terminology used across different DAOs. With this point system, we will be able to identify the DAO members that brought the most value to their DAO’s forum and rank them accordingly. 2 . What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week? Last week, our big rock goal was to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created in week 1 . The logic was for a Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors, and we already have multiple working scripts for each individual factor. The only thing left is ensuring that all the scripts works in unison so they feed into our point system correctly. What went right? We successfully created multiple working scripts for our Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors. This was our big rock for our second week of building. What went wrong? We hoped to get feedback from OP community members on the logic used for our points system, but scheduling some time to get their feedback has been challenging. However, we will continue to look for feedback, to make sure our points system serves Optimism DAO members. We planned to drop our code on GitHub this Friday, but it will take a few more days to make sure that points are calculated properly, so we will keep you guys updated on Backdrop. How is it going to impact what you do this next week? Once we have the algorithm complete, we will have to create a new table in the database for points distributed to contributors. This will allow us to display the points and ranking for each contributor on our UI. 3 . How can the OP community help you? Feedback! We still need to get feedback from Optimism DAO members on whether they are aligned with how we will be distributing points for contributors. 4 . What are your big rocks for the coming week? Next week we plan on completing the algorithm to display points for each DAO contributor from Optimism DAO. We will be able to rank each DAO contributor based on their contributions to the forum, using the algorithm for our Sybil Resistant Point System. 5 . (optional) share anything you want in a 1 - 2 minute loom video DAO Contributor Point Allocation Demo
Sixty: Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above is by Jaris James from daospace. His first account got flagged and banned while posting our second weekly update.
cc: @moderators @Lindsey
Lindsey: Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace !
I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm. It seems like the biggest need right now is feedback from the OP community. What kind of feedback are yo looking for? Happy to ping a few people on my side as well if it helps you get interviews.
Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above :point_up_ …
Hey guys, Sixty here from the daospace team! I am just verifying that the comment above :point_up_ 2 : is by Jaris James from daospace. His first account got flagged and banned while posting our second weekly update. cc: @moderators @Lindsey image 1436 × 850 65 . 4 KB
Totally agree with you, session management has been a hard thing to solve for but it’s on our list!
Totally agree with you, session management has been a hard thing to solve for but it’s on our list!
Week 2 Update Launched onchainclarity.co Launched the OCC Blog 1 on Paragraph and posted our f…
Week 2 Update Launched onchainclarity.co Launched the OCC Blog 1 on Paragraph and posted our first article, “Blockchains are MMODBs” Attained 38 followers on Farcaster 2 Improved BasedFriends.xyz based on feedback we received on Farcaster, improving the mobile experience Presented BasedFriends on the community judging day at ETH Denver, we got some valuable feedback and plenty of the Base team to try out the site! IMG_ 09951920 × 1440 366 KB The Big Rock Review Improve Mobile Exp: ( 10 / 10 ) We spent time improving the mobile experience when we saw that 85 % of our users were trying BasedFriends on mobile. It was a helpful lesson to take going forward and we fixed the search, sort, and filter functions Run a Marketing Campaign: ( 9 / 10 ) We accomplished what we set out to with launching a blog and posting on Farcaster most days this week. Respond to User Feedback: ( 8 / 10 ) We got feedback from 5 Farcaster users this week, effectively addressing 4 of the users comments. We even responded to this one in the /buildinpublic channel Help From OP Community DM me on telegram at limes_eth to let me know, “What is the most important thing you want to know before delegating to an Optimism delegate”? Subscribe on Paragraph and give us feedback before next weeks edition Next Big Rock Launch GovScore
Lindsey: Building in public! I love it.
Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re sharing there around the build. Great approach!
It feels like you’re really pushing to understand who your users are and how they use the product - keep it up and can’t wait to see what you ship this week
Weekly Updates
During discussions on ideas for the traffic exchange system, functionality was ident…
Weekly Updates
During discussions on ideas for the traffic exchange system, functionality was identified that brings additional benefits to the Web 3 developer community and expands the funnel of potential participants in the traffic exchange system.
In the process of traffic exchange, not only the process itself is important but also the visualization of traffic movement. Therefore, our project can be used by developers who need analytics only. Some of these developers may start exchanging traffic later.
As evidence of demand for such a feature, Pinata’s publication announcing similar functionality can serve as a confirmation: Pinata Blog | How to Use Farcaster Frame Analytics 1 .
This week’s accomplishments:
Published a repository on Github: GitHub - IgorShadurin/warpcast-traffic
Added a documentation section covering technical aspects and the process of transforming the project into a DAO: IgorShadurin/warpcast-traffic/tree/master/docs
Deployed a server for hosting the project.
Launched the website for hosting the portal: clickcaster.xyz
Created a Twitter account:@ClickCaster
Created a Warpcast account: @clickcaster
Plans for next week:
Launch a simple version of the click exchange API
Create a documentation section on connecting Frames
Perform the first Frame integrations
Requests for assistance from the OP community:
It would be interesting to start integrating already working Frames
Suggestions on ways to account for traffic decentrally on a large scale
Contact information:
Telegram: @IgorDvlpr
clickcaster.xyz_ ( 1 ) 1920 × 2380 158 KB
Great update @IgorShadurin !
I love the insights you pulled in this week and what you managed to sh…
Great update @IgorShadurin !
I love the insights you pulled in this week and what you managed to ship.
We have a frame (/Claimcaster) that I’d be happy to use for your first frame integration this week (dm me @ goforlindsey on Telegram).
Keep it up!
Building in public! I love it.
Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re shar…
Building in public! I love it.
Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re sharing there around the build. Great approach!
It feels like you’re really pushing to understand who your users are and how they use the product - keep it up and can’t wait to see what you ship this week
Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace !
I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm…
Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace !
I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm. It seems like the biggest need right now is feedback from the OP community. What kind of feedback are yo looking for? Happy to ping a few people on my side as well if it helps you get interviews.
daospace: Thanks @Lindsey
We are looking to conduct a couple of 15-minute interviews with active forum users or delegates. We want to show them the logic behind what we consider a valuable contribution within the governance forum and see if it aligns with their views. We figured people were busy due to ETH Denver, so we appreciate you’re assistance here.
Great notes @maenswirony
It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say…
Great notes @maenswirony
It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say shipping a rough MVP is definitely the north star for this week. Nothing speeds up feedback like having something people can put in their hands.
This is a wild idea! love it
There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for…
This is a wild idea! love it
There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for the coming week. Go ahead and share one of those up for this coming week so that we can keep track of your progress!
Weekly Updates During discussions on ideas for the traffic exchange system, functionality was ident…
Weekly Updates During discussions on ideas for the traffic exchange system, functionality was identified that brings additional benefits to the Web 3 developer community and expands the funnel of potential participants in the traffic exchange system. In the process of traffic exchange, not only the process itself is important but also the visualization of traffic movement. Therefore, our project can be used by developers who need analytics only. Some of these developers may start exchanging traffic later. As evidence of demand for such a feature, Pinata’s publication announcing similar functionality can serve as a confirmation: Pinata Blog | How to Use Farcaster Frame Analytics 1 . This week’s accomplishments: Published a repository on Github: GitHub - IgorShadurin/warpcast-traffic Added a documentation section covering technical aspects and the process of transforming the project into a DAO: IgorShadurin/warpcast-traffic/tree/master/docs Deployed a server for hosting the project. Launched the website for hosting the portal: clickcaster.xyz Created a Twitter account:@ClickCaster Created a Warpcast account: @clickcaster Plans for next week: Launch a simple version of the click exchange API Create a documentation section on connecting Frames Perform the first Frame integrations Requests for assistance from the OP community: It would be interesting to start integrating already working Frames Suggestions on ways to account for traffic decentrally on a large scale Contact information: Telegram: @IgorDvlpr clickcaster.xyz_ ( 1 ) 1920 × 2380 158 KB
@Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked market…
@Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked markets to gain access through public goods funding. I will be looking into this myself for Geld.Network
Great update @IgorShadurin ! I love the insights you pulled in this week and what you managed to sh…
Great update @IgorShadurin ! I love the insights you pulled in this week and what you managed to ship. We have a frame (/Claimcaster) that I’d be happy to use for your first frame integration this week (dm me @ goforlindsey on Telegram). Keep it up!
Building in public! I love it. Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re shar…
Building in public! I love it. Just followed OCC on Farcaster and love the transparency you’re sharing there around the build. Great approach! It feels like you’re really pushing to understand who your users are and how they use the product - keep it up and can’t wait to see what you ship this week
Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace ! I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm…
Great updates here @jarisjames-daospace ! I really like the clarity you’re getting on the algorithm. It seems like the biggest need right now is feedback from the OP community. What kind of feedback are yo looking for? Happy to ping a few people on my side as well if it helps you get interviews.
jarisjames: Thanks @Lindsey
We are looking to conduct a couple of 15-minute interviews with active forum users or delegates. We want to show them the logic behind what we consider a valuable contribution within the governance forum and see if it aligns with their views. We figured people were busy due to ETH Denver, so we appreciate you’re assistance here.
Great notes @maenswirony It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say…
Great notes @maenswirony It looks like you have a lot of the bedrock for from.fm completed. I’d say shipping a rough MVP is definitely the north star for this week. Nothing speeds up feedback like having something people can put in their hands.
This is a wild idea! love it There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for…
This is a wild idea! love it There’s a post in this thread for sharing weekly goals / big rocks for the coming week. Go ahead and share one of those up for this coming week so that we can keep track of your progress!
@Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked market…
@Lindsey great idea, this is also a great way for builders and entrepreneurs from overlooked markets to gain access through public goods funding. I will be looking into this myself for Geld.Network
Here is our weekend update for backdrop build.
Kwil :feather:
User DB Node Established 3190 × 1804 …
Here is our weekend update for backdrop build.
Kwil :feather:
User DB Node Established 3190 × 1804 275 KB
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
We will be continuing to set up more nodes throughout the coming months ahead as we scale.
This was our BIG ROCK :rock: of the week for development.
We will now expand on our updates here for this week.
Grants :sparkles:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14 th. Feedback was given from 12 + potential grantees for Mission # 1 to begin.
We are really excited for this opportunity to help other creators in web 3 join the Superchain ecosystem. So far the excitement has been amazing. The way that everyone has reacted has given us a great idea :bulb: of how we can evolve our grants eligibility criteria in future rounds.
Frames :framed_picture:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3 rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM 3 :speech_balloon:
Web 3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM 3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM 3 as a messaging service.
API :satellite:
Other updates include testing our API with Simplehash who is our service provider for onchain data aggregation. As you can see here we are aligning our platform with the Optimism network and Superchain by displaying mirror :mirror: articles on the homepage currently.
Screen_Shot_ 2024 - 03 - 09 _at_ 3 . 09 . 30 _PM 3055 × 1611 635 KB
The development of the MVP for Fractal Visions is looking fantastic so far and we really want to take public goods funding to the next level with our project. It’s been a magical experience thanks :pray: to backdrop build. We are able to organize our tasks & focus on shipping this month with extra motivation to accomplish our goals.
IMG_ 57662731 × 1948 427 KB
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames :framed_picture: on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
FractalVisions: We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & utilizing a node network setup with Kwil for the closed alpha/beta testing process of our front end for account creation.
The profile page now stores the user name, profile picture, banner, etc. in the user database directory. We will continue updating the site with these new configurations.
Our design brand guidelines have also come to completion. This will be available to the public via GitHub later this week.
A full recap of this weeks progress will be made again on Friday with details on updates from other tasks & our BIG rock of the week from the previous post we made in the thread here.
Have fun building & keep charging ahead !
FractalVisions: Thanks for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build
KWIL NODE
First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
This week
The SQL user database setup was successful.
You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil.
Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network.
GRANTS
We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
This week
Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack.
You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web3 space
FRAMES
There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
This Week
We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
This Week
We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs through Shopify.
Here is the official announcement
warpcast.com
Warpcast
A decentralized social network
We will continue to test different frame implementations in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year.
FractalVisions:
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
This Week
Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM3 dev team.
BIG ROCK
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
This Week
The BIG ROCK for the coming week is to onboard 6-12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18. We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism.
Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S5 R1) Preliminary Review Roundup
Grants
The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total. The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review. Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
Here is our weekend update for backdrop build. Kwil :feather: User DB Node Established 3190 × 1804 …
Here is our weekend update for backdrop build. Kwil :feather: User DB Node Established 3190 × 1804 275 KB Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode. We will be continuing to set up more nodes throughout the coming months ahead as we scale. This was our BIG ROCK :rock: of the week for development. We will now expand on our updates here for this week. Grants :sparkles: Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14 th. Feedback was given from 12 + potential grantees for Mission # 1 to begin. We are really excited for this opportunity to help other creators in web 3 join the Superchain ecosystem. So far the excitement has been amazing. The way that everyone has reacted has given us a great idea :bulb: of how we can evolve our grants eligibility criteria in future rounds. Frames :framed_picture: In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested. In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames. Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework. Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3 rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand. We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform. DM 3 :speech_balloon: Web 3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM 3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM 3 as a messaging service. API :satellite: Other updates include testing our API with Simplehash who is our service provider for onchain data aggregation. As you can see here we are aligning our platform with the Optimism network and Superchain by displaying mirror :mirror: articles on the homepage currently. Screen_Shot_ 2024 - 03 - 09 _at_ 3 . 09 . 30 _PM 3055 × 1611 635 KB The development of the MVP for Fractal Visions is looking fantastic so far and we really want to take public goods funding to the next level with our project. It’s been a magical experience thanks :pray: to backdrop build. We are able to organize our tasks & focus on shipping this month with extra motivation to accomplish our goals. IMG_ 57662731 × 1948 427 KB Big Rock Past Week Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!! This Week Setting up frames :framed_picture: on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
FractalVisions: We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & utilizing a node network setup with Kwil for the closed alpha/beta testing process of our front end for account creation.
The profile page now stores the user name, profile picture, banner, etc. in the user database directory. We will continue updating the site with these new configurations.
Our design brand guidelines have also come to completion. This will be available to the public via GitHub later this week.
A full recap of this weeks progress will be made again on Friday with details on updates from other tasks & our BIG rock of the week from the previous post we made in the thread here.
Have fun building & keep charging ahead !
FractalVisions: Thanks for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build
KWIL NODE
First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
This week
The SQL user database setup was successful.
You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil.
Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network.
GRANTS
We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
This week
Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack.
You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web3 space
FRAMES
There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
This Week
We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
This Week
We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs through Shopify.
Here is the official announcement
warpcast.com
Warpcast
A decentralized social network
We will continue to test different frame implementations in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year.
FractalVisions:
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
This Week
Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM3 dev team.
BIG ROCK
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
This Week
The BIG ROCK for the coming week is to onboard 6-12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18. We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism.
Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S5 R1) Preliminary Review Roundup
Grants
The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total. The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review. Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
Week 2 Update
:white_check_mark: Contracts Written
:white_check_mark: Unit Tests Written & Pass
:…
Week 2 Update
:white_check_mark: Contracts Written
:white_check_mark: Unit Tests Written & Pass
:white_check_mark: Front End Prototyped (Used Scaffold-ETH)
Goals For Week 3
Deploy to Base Sepolia
Run tests to see how our SVG + IPFS images look on OS and Sudoswap
Test front end on testnet contracts
Recruit people to try the testnet version!!
Week 2 Update :white_check_mark: Contracts Written :white_check_mark: Unit Tests Written & Pass :…
Week 2 Update :white_check_mark: Contracts Written :white_check_mark: Unit Tests Written & Pass :white_check_mark: Front End Prototyped (Used Scaffold-ETH) Goals For Week 3 Deploy to Base Sepolia Run tests to see how our SVG + IPFS images look on OS and Sudoswap Test front end on testnet contracts Recruit people to try the testnet version!!
Fixed, he should be able to post again. @daospace Copy/Pasting some times gets you locked, let me k…
Fixed, he should be able to post again. @daospace Copy/Pasting some times gets you locked, let me know if you run into trouble again.
Fixed, he should be able to post again. @jarisjames Copy/Pasting some times gets you locked, let me…
Fixed, he should be able to post again. @jarisjames Copy/Pasting some times gets you locked, let me know if you run into trouble again.
Thanks @Lindsey
We are looking to conduct a couple of 15 -minute interviews with active forum user…
Thanks @Lindsey
We are looking to conduct a couple of 15 -minute interviews with active forum users or delegates. We want to show them the logic behind what we consider a valuable contribution within the governance forum and see if it aligns with their views. We figured people were busy due to ETH Denver, so we appreciate you’re assistance here.
Thanks @Lindsey We are looking to conduct a couple of 15 -minute interviews with active forum user…
Thanks @Lindsey We are looking to conduct a couple of 15 -minute interviews with active forum users or delegates. We want to show them the logic behind what we consider a valuable contribution within the governance forum and see if it aligns with their views. We figured people were busy due to ETH Denver, so we appreciate you’re assistance here.
Week 2 . PlayMini Update + Demo Loom:
What we did so far:
We built the entire front-end for the…
Week 2 . PlayMini Update + Demo Loom:
What we did so far:
We built the entire front-end for the game (including the quiz game, leaderboard, Twitter sign up). Now you can actually play it.
Started working on the reward system and came up with a few ideas we want to work on next
Getting good list of ideas for categories/game packs to include in v 1
What are we going to do this week:
Reward System (NFTs)
Inventory
Bug fixes + prepping for the release next week
Demo:
We recorded this demo to show the progress so far:
Loom link here 2
Week 2 . PlayMini Update + Demo Loom: What we did so far: We built the entire front-end for the…
Week 2 . PlayMini Update + Demo Loom: What we did so far: We built the entire front-end for the game (including the quiz game, leaderboard, Twitter sign up). Now you can actually play it. Started working on the reward system and came up with a few ideas we want to work on next Getting good list of ideas for categories/game packs to include in v 1 What are we going to do this week: Reward System (NFTs) Inventory Bug fixes + prepping for the release next week Demo: We recorded this demo to show the progress so far: Loom link here 2
We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & u…
We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & utilizing a node network setup with Kwil for the closed alpha/beta testing process of our front end for account creation.
FV_User_DB 3277 × 1712 505 KB
The profile page now stores the user name, profile picture, banner, etc. in the user database directory. We will continue updating the site with these new configurations.
Our design brand guidelines have also come to completion. This will be available to the public via GitHub later this week.
Brand_Guidelines 2574 × 1663 307 KB
A full recap of this weeks progress will be made again on Friday with details on updates from other tasks & our BIG rock of the week from the previous post we made in the thread here.
Have fun building & keep charging ahead !
FractalVisions: Thanks for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build
KWIL NODE
First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
This week
The SQL user database setup was successful.
You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil.
Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network.
GRANTS
We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
This week
Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack.
You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web3 space
FRAMES
There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
This Week
We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
This Week
We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs through Shopify.
Here is the official announcement
warpcast.com
Warpcast
A decentralized social network
We will continue to test different frame implementations in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year.
FractalVisions:
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
This Week
Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM3 dev team.
BIG ROCK
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
This Week
The BIG ROCK for the coming week is to onboard 6-12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18. We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism.
Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S5 R1) Preliminary Review Roundup
Grants
The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total. The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review. Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & u…
We are happy to say some progress was made over the weekend with shipping the SQL user database & utilizing a node network setup with Kwil for the closed alpha/beta testing process of our front end for account creation. FV_User_DB 3277 × 1712 505 KB The profile page now stores the user name, profile picture, banner, etc. in the user database directory. We will continue updating the site with these new configurations. Our design brand guidelines have also come to completion. This will be available to the public via GitHub later this week. Brand_Guidelines 2574 × 1663 307 KB A full recap of this weeks progress will be made again on Friday with details on updates from other tasks & our BIG rock of the week from the previous post we made in the thread here. Have fun building & keep charging ahead !
FractalVisions: Thanks for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build
KWIL NODE
First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
This week
The SQL user database setup was successful.
You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil.
Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network.
GRANTS
We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14th. Feedback was given from 12+ potential grantees for Mission #1 to begin.
This week
Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack.
You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web3 space
FRAMES
There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
This Week
We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
This Week
We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs through Shopify.
Here is the official announcement
warpcast.com
Warpcast
A decentralized social network
We will continue to test different frame implementations in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year.
FractalVisions:
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM3
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Web3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM3 as a messaging service.
This Week
Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM3 dev team.
BIG ROCK
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
This Week
The BIG ROCK for the coming week is to onboard 6-12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18. We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism.
Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S5 R1) Preliminary Review Roundup
Grants
The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total. The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review. Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
Hi @Lindsey, my name is Cam and I really appreciate you for proposing this idea to the OP community…
Hi @Lindsey, my name is Cam and I really appreciate you for proposing this idea to the OP community. I just saw your Tweet re: sharing in this forum and then read your comment outlining what would’ve been great to share a when Build started :see_no_evil: I hope I’m not too late!
Let’s dive in…
:red_circle: TL;DR
I’m building Contxt: the place for your quotes n jokes
I’m a community-builder-turned-founder hoping to collaborate w the OP ecosystem to create an incentivized, community-centric product development methodology for bootstrapped founders building products for passionate & under-served niches.
You can learn more by reading below or see what Contxt looks like in this Loom video.
:red_circle: The Deets
Contxt is made for people I affectionately call Quote Keepers: a niche of passionate weirdos who derive joy from documenting the verbal prose of the legends in our lives. Contxt is designed to empower us to easily & efficiently document the people we love, admire, and find hysterical.
I’m also part of a growing and unique cohort of entrepreneurs:
Community managers → entrepreneurs
My career has revolved around community management & user advocacy, starting in XR, then customer success at Clay, recently as Director of Member Experience at Kift, and today as Head of Customer Ops at a community-based AI image generation company called Forecast.
I take a community-first approach in everything I do, and Contxt is no exception.
:red_circle: How Contxt Can Help Move the OP Ecosystem Forward!
While Contxt doesn’t implement any technical innovations like blockchain today (though e-commerce and NFTs are two revenue avenues I’m particularly excited to implement), the innovation I’m most excited about is a social innovation.
Specifically, how can we combine social and technological innovations (like blockchain) to address 2 crucial problems for any social product:
How do I create a moat around Contxt so Meta, Twitter, etc have a hard/impossible task of cloning it and taking all our users?
How does Contxt avoid the pitfalls we’ve observed from social media companies over the past 2 decades?
Pitfalls like:
:x: Attention economies
:x: Centralized & secretive governance
:x: No ownership or power given to users
:x: Top executives & early hires get majority of all financial rewards
One of the best ways I see to cultivate loyalty with initial Quote Keepers and ensure the longterm health of Contxt governance and policies is to create a soul-bound token to airdrop to those who have contributed to Contxt’s growth & development.
It will be simple and non-financialized (for now…)
1 token = 1 hour
As a solo founder, I’ve relied heavily on the generosity and good-will of my friends and former colleagues to provide feedback and assistance in developing Contxt. The app wouldn’t be anywhere near where it is today without them. I’d love to share appreciation with them + early users by airdropping them a token that will initially be for voting/development participation & appreciation purposes. Eventually, once laws and bills provide more clarity, I’d like to use the coin to send monthly dividends from our communal treasury that is filled with 10 % of all monthly profits.
I hope to collaborate with the OP community to forge a new path for solo founders; a path that will empower us to
Share appreciation with our early adopters and contributors
Create avenues for passionate users to channel their enthusiasm towards ideating, improving, and building the product alongside us
Build unbreakable ties with crucial early users that incumbents and newcomers will have a hard time recreating
:red_circle: How the OP community can help Contxt!
I have two very different request, but both would both be massively helpful:
The Grant - Having funds to invest fully into Contxt would be an incredible blessing to assist with ramping-up development. My dev costs are $ 4 k/month for part-time dev help (which I’ve paid out of pocket thus-far), so having the grant would allow me to get full-time help and free me up to focus fully on product design and community development initiatives I’m really excited about!
Quote Keepers - Contxt will be invite-only for existing Quote Keepers on launch day on March 20 . If you know anyone who jots down quotes you say, I would be forever grateful if you could fill-out this form so I can connect with them, learn more about their existing quote-keeping tendencies, and hopefully dramatically improve their quote-keeping life!
I’ve been obsessed with this idea for a while and would greatly appreciate the OPportunity to create this new path for founders with an invested community of like-minded individuals like yourselves!
Much love,
Cam
Hi @Lindsey, my name is Cam and I really appreciate you for proposing this idea to the OP community…
Hi @Lindsey, my name is Cam and I really appreciate you for proposing this idea to the OP community. I just saw your Tweet re: sharing in this forum and then read your comment outlining what would’ve been great to share a when Build started :see_no_evil: I hope I’m not too late! Let’s dive in… :red_circle: TL;DR I’m building Contxt: the place for your quotes n jokes I’m a community-builder-turned-founder hoping to collaborate w the OP ecosystem to create an incentivized, community-centric product development methodology for bootstrapped founders building products for passionate & under-served niches. You can learn more by reading below or see what Contxt looks like in this Loom video. :red_circle: The Deets Contxt is made for people I affectionately call Quote Keepers: a niche of passionate weirdos who derive joy from documenting the verbal prose of the legends in our lives. Contxt is designed to empower us to easily & efficiently document the people we love, admire, and find hysterical. I’m also part of a growing and unique cohort of entrepreneurs: Community managers → entrepreneurs My career has revolved around community management & user advocacy, starting in XR, then customer success at Clay, recently as Director of Member Experience at Kift, and today as Head of Customer Ops at a community-based AI image generation company called Forecast. I take a community-first approach in everything I do, and Contxt is no exception. :red_circle: How Contxt Can Help Move the OP Ecosystem Forward! While Contxt doesn’t implement any technical innovations like blockchain today (though e-commerce and NFTs are two revenue avenues I’m particularly excited to implement), the innovation I’m most excited about is a social innovation. Specifically, how can we combine social and technological innovations (like blockchain) to address 2 crucial problems for any social product: How do I create a moat around Contxt so Meta, Twitter, etc have a hard/impossible task of cloning it and taking all our users? How does Contxt avoid the pitfalls we’ve observed from social media companies over the past 2 decades? Pitfalls like: :x: Attention economies :x: Centralized & secretive governance :x: No ownership or power given to users :x: Top executives & early hires get majority of all financial rewards One of the best ways I see to cultivate loyalty with initial Quote Keepers and ensure the longterm health of Contxt governance and policies is to create a soul-bound token to airdrop to those who have contributed to Contxt’s growth & development. It will be simple and non-financialized (for now…) 1 token = 1 hour As a solo founder, I’ve relied heavily on the generosity and good-will of my friends and former colleagues to provide feedback and assistance in developing Contxt. The app wouldn’t be anywhere near where it is today without them. I’d love to share appreciation with them + early users by airdropping them a token that will initially be for voting/development participation & appreciation purposes. Eventually, once laws and bills provide more clarity, I’d like to use the coin to send monthly dividends from our communal treasury that is filled with 10 % of all monthly profits. I hope to collaborate with the OP community to forge a new path for solo founders; a path that will empower us to Share appreciation with our early adopters and contributors Create avenues for passionate users to channel their enthusiasm towards ideating, improving, and building the product alongside us Build unbreakable ties with crucial early users that incumbents and newcomers will have a hard time recreating :red_circle: How the OP community can help Contxt! I have two very different request, but both would both be massively helpful: The Grant - Having funds to invest fully into Contxt would be an incredible blessing to assist with ramping-up development. My dev costs are $ 4 k/month for part-time dev help (which I’ve paid out of pocket thus-far), so having the grant would allow me to get full-time help and free me up to focus fully on product design and community development initiatives I’m really excited about! Quote Keepers - Contxt will be invite-only for existing Quote Keepers on launch day on March 20 . If you know anyone who jots down quotes you say, I would be forever grateful if you could fill-out this form so I can connect with them, learn more about their existing quote-keeping tendencies, and hopefully dramatically improve their quote-keeping life! I’ve been obsessed with this idea for a while and would greatly appreciate the OPportunity to create this new path for founders with an invested community of like-minded individuals like yourselves! Much love, Cam
Weekly Updates
This week, the development of the traffic exchange system between Frames was quite i…
Weekly Updates
This week, the development of the traffic exchange system between Frames was quite intense. I successfully launched the API and Dashboard for Frames.
New Features:
Summary display of statistics on unique users and the number of requests to a Frame.
The main page now shows the number of registered users, the number of processed clicks, and the number of added frames.
Added frame verification linked to a specific Farcaster ID to prevent unauthorized frame additions.
Implemented authentication via Warpcast.
Added the ability to store authentication for quick access to the user panel.
Implemented the option for frame owners to add signing keys for traffic to identify the source. This form of identification will be used in the future when transitioning to decentralized traffic processing.
Enabled adding frames for statistical accounting.
API: Added endpoints for performing CRUD operations for frames, keys, and traffic logging.
API: Added cryptographic verification of clicks in frames with source and target identification.
API: Added click accounting for participation in the traffic exchange system.
API: Designed and implemented a system for storing analytical data by days for each frame based on Memcache and MySQL, aimed at accounting for a large amount of traffic.
All endpoints are covered with tests to ensure system stability when changes are made.
Currently, https://clickcaster.xyz/ 1 is operational on desktop versions, but may be unstable on mobile versions.
Plans for Next Week:
I plan to fix the mobile version of the site and integrate the first frames.
Lindsey, thank you very much for the suggestion to integrate /Claimcaster. I will reach out immediately after testing the entire system on live Frames.
clickcaster.xyz_ 1920 × 3365 226 KB
As I wasn’t active in the forum for the last two weeks, I thought I’d catch-up and provide an overv…
As I wasn’t active in the forum for the last two weeks, I thought I’d catch-up and provide an overview as to what’s been happening:
Week 1 (Feb 26 - March 3 )
Celebrated the Build Kickoff :rocket:
Discussed the use of Hedgey’s platform for a planned token with Alex Michelsen
Received MVP that’s ready for testing!
Improved the bug reporting database for effective debugging with DraftBit.
Highlighted bugs related to
Photo uploading
Quote creation
Onboarding UI/UX
Initiated discussions with various parties about contributor compensation via tokens at ETH Denver
Week 2 (March 4 - 10 )
Started using and learning DraftBit to start resolving issues and improvements myself
Completed a full pass of the Bug database and added 10 new bugs found from the new Testflight
Signed-up for 1 - 1 tutoring with Draftbit until launch
Completed first live onboarding session
Registered bugs and shared feedback with the developer
Compiled a final launch timeline for all that needs to get done before end of Build
Released Version 1 . 8 . 0 with radically improved quote functionality.
Scheduled 2 tutoring sessions for this week w Rahul from Draftbit
Met with Graham from Mezzanine to discuss legal formation of Contxt.
Week 3 (March 11 - Today)
Created a design system for in-app notifications and optimized UI
Reserved additional time with DraftBit expert for bug resolution
Compiled and edited copy for Contxt’s Patreon
Arranged 3 live onboardings for feedback and bug identification.
Set up sprints for the next two weeks.
Wrote a post for the Optimism forum and worked on a 3 -part blog post for launch.
Fixed lot so bugs
4 minor UI issues
Profile image bugs
Issues with edit state on profiles
Issue w keyboard not going down
Permissions for contacts & location
Name duplication in “Recent”
Quote assignments
Issues in “Add Person” field
I’ll make sure to post another recap at the beginning of next week! Keep building y’all :raised_hands:
Weekly Updates This week, the development of the traffic exchange system between Frames was quite i…
Weekly Updates This week, the development of the traffic exchange system between Frames was quite intense. I successfully launched the API and Dashboard for Frames. New Features: Summary display of statistics on unique users and the number of requests to a Frame. The main page now shows the number of registered users, the number of processed clicks, and the number of added frames. Added frame verification linked to a specific Farcaster ID to prevent unauthorized frame additions. Implemented authentication via Warpcast. Added the ability to store authentication for quick access to the user panel. Implemented the option for frame owners to add signing keys for traffic to identify the source. This form of identification will be used in the future when transitioning to decentralized traffic processing. Enabled adding frames for statistical accounting. API: Added endpoints for performing CRUD operations for frames, keys, and traffic logging. API: Added cryptographic verification of clicks in frames with source and target identification. API: Added click accounting for participation in the traffic exchange system. API: Designed and implemented a system for storing analytical data by days for each frame based on Memcache and MySQL, aimed at accounting for a large amount of traffic. All endpoints are covered with tests to ensure system stability when changes are made. Currently, https://clickcaster.xyz/ 1 is operational on desktop versions, but may be unstable on mobile versions. Plans for Next Week: I plan to fix the mobile version of the site and integrate the first frames. Lindsey, thank you very much for the suggestion to integrate /Claimcaster. I will reach out immediately after testing the entire system on live Frames. clickcaster.xyz_ 1920 × 3365 226 KB
As I wasn’t active in the forum for the last two weeks, I thought I’d catch-up and provide an overv…
As I wasn’t active in the forum for the last two weeks, I thought I’d catch-up and provide an overview as to what’s been happening: Week 1 (Feb 26 - March 3 ) Celebrated the Build Kickoff :rocket: Discussed the use of Hedgey’s platform for a planned token with Alex Michelsen Received MVP that’s ready for testing! Improved the bug reporting database for effective debugging with DraftBit. Highlighted bugs related to Photo uploading Quote creation Onboarding UI/UX Initiated discussions with various parties about contributor compensation via tokens at ETH Denver Week 2 (March 4 - 10 ) Started using and learning DraftBit to start resolving issues and improvements myself Completed a full pass of the Bug database and added 10 new bugs found from the new Testflight Signed-up for 1 - 1 tutoring with Draftbit until launch Completed first live onboarding session Registered bugs and shared feedback with the developer Compiled a final launch timeline for all that needs to get done before end of Build Released Version 1 . 8 . 0 with radically improved quote functionality. Scheduled 2 tutoring sessions for this week w Rahul from Draftbit Met with Graham from Mezzanine to discuss legal formation of Contxt. Week 3 (March 11 - Today) Created a design system for in-app notifications and optimized UI Reserved additional time with DraftBit expert for bug resolution Compiled and edited copy for Contxt’s Patreon Arranged 3 live onboardings for feedback and bug identification. Set up sprints for the next two weeks. Wrote a post for the Optimism forum and worked on a 3 -part blog post for launch. Fixed lot so bugs 4 minor UI issues Profile image bugs Issues with edit state on profiles Issue w keyboard not going down Permissions for contacts & location Name duplication in “Recent” Quote assignments Issues in “Add Person” field I’ll make sure to post another recap at the beginning of next week! Keep building y’all :raised_hands:
Hey everyone! Has been incredible seeing the updates over the last few weeks. I wanted to bump up t…
Hey everyone! Has been incredible seeing the updates over the last few weeks. I wanted to bump up the timeline and share a few notes as we start to move towards the end of the Backdrop season and approach the selection phase of four winners.
I have a larger list of projects participating in backdrop, many of which have not replied here yet. I’ll be sharing a template with everyone early next week that projects can use to share a final update. Once everyone has submitted the update I’ll be reviewing and filtering down a list of 10 - 20 projects that will be going to a vote on April 1 st.
By April 7 th I’d like to have the four projects selected and streams going.
Keep sending the great updates and have a great weekend!
b0ggs: Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
Week 3 Update
Soft Launch of GovScore (You guys are the first to hear! There are some kinks bein…
Week 3 Update
Soft Launch of GovScore (You guys are the first to hear! There are some kinks being worked out here that I’ll touch on later in the post but #BuildinPublic am I right!)
Added description to BasedFriends to guide users on what to do when they land on the homepage
The Big Rock Review
Launch GovScore: ( 9 / 10 ) We launched GovScore! Currently we are in an alpha state where our score isn’t fully developed yet. We have been able to factor in a users transparency and voting power scores, but when adding in voting consistency we are still dealing with bugs. We aim to update it this week and run a distribution campaign in succession with launch.
Help From OP Community
We’re running into issues retrieving the onchain data from Wagmi (too many requests). If you have experience with viem or wagmi regarding reading data on the bulkier-side please reach out. GovScore is open source on Github.
Next Big Rock
Improve GovScore to include the following:
Include ‘Voting Consistency’ into the GovScore calculation
Add a ‘Filter/Sort by GovScore’ function
Add a delegate preview to show who the connected wallet is delegating to
(stretch goal) Allow user to change their delegate in-app
Run a distribution program GovScore is officially launched
Farcaster Announcement
Blog Post
Share with OP token holders
Hey everyone! Has been incredible seeing the updates over the last few weeks. I wanted to bump up t…
Hey everyone! Has been incredible seeing the updates over the last few weeks. I wanted to bump up the timeline and share a few notes as we start to move towards the end of the Backdrop season and approach the selection phase of four winners. I have a larger list of projects participating in backdrop, many of which have not replied here yet. I’ll be sharing a template with everyone early next week that projects can use to share a final update. Once everyone has submitted the update I’ll be reviewing and filtering down a list of 10 - 20 projects that will be going to a vote on April 1 st. By April 7 th I’d like to have the four projects selected and streams going. Keep sending the great updates and have a great weekend!
b0ggs: Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers:
I’m Georg…
I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers:
I’m George Donnelly. I’m building Yap Bay, which is a Web 3 remittance platform that combines TradFi and DeFi to enable faster, cheaper, and more accessible cross-border payments for the world’s unbanked and underbanked population.
My why is that I want (a) to enable people first in high-remittance-fee areas to be able to send small remittances with significantly lower fees. (b) enable people, particularly in the developing world, to break out of TradFi limits (c) use this as a foundation for a lot of other crypto-as-a-daily-currency use cases.
YapBay can bring a lot of new people into OP, people in the developing world who work, people who have to contend today with the worst TradFi systems anywhere in the world. Remittances is a $ 700 billion industry and we can disrupt it.
I’d like to test the attractiveness of the concept and get funding. Feedback is always amazing.
A basic MVP of transaction-chaining to support fiat-to fiat-remittances using OP as the transport layer and hopefully an AI-enabled algorithm to help build people chained transactions.
This week I am integrating my contracts into my website. Ugh. :slight_smile:
About Me: https://georgedonnelly.com/
Personal X: https://x.com/georgedonnelly
About YapBay: https://yapbay.com/
GitHub: GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay: Unstoppable fiat to fiat crypto remittances for the whole world
YapBay X: https://x.com/yapbay_
Here are my updates at Backdrop Build:
backdropbuild.com
Backdrop Build 1
Together we build - Bring that crazy idea to life alongside hundreds of other amazing builders in just 4 weeks.
· 23 hours
It’s been really challenging drilling down and identifying the unique features that make YapBay a worthwhile project but I might have done a little of that in this blog post.
yapbay.com
The YapBay Unique Value Proposition | YapBay Web 3 Remittances Marketplace
A Web 3 Remittances marketplace
My contracts are now also quite complex and the documentation is out of date. I’m having trouble getting them compiled,
I’ve create a contract registry contract now to keep track of all of the addresses.
Next I’ll be grinding on integrating it all into the website.
Still not sure if I should put the contracts on Sepolia testnet or on an Optimism testnet. I need to look into that.
· 2 days
I feel like things are going EXTREMELY well.
I have 7 inter-operable Solidity contracts which is really more than I need for the MVP, but I got carried away.
Now I am working on integrating the contracts into the website and building the front end.
GitHub
GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay-contracts: The Solidity contracts for YapBay
The Solidity contracts for YapBay. Contribute to Panmoni/yapbay-contracts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Very exciting stuff and yes I am absolutely still building!
· Mar 8
I’ve got my first contract, the account contract, on-chain and integrated with my Next.js 14 instance. I can put data on-chain and pull it from the chain and display it on the website. I’m using Sepolia testnet. Pretty exciting.
· Mar 6
I’ve got my contracts pretty well defined now, and starting to refine the code.
· Mar 1
I’m wading through a lot of uncertainty to define my contracts and then reduce the schematics down to what I need for the MVP. Fun and challenging!
· Feb 27
I wrote a blog post and have started planning out my contracts. Got set up on Optimism and Sepholia via the wonderful Alchemy!
· Feb 26
I’ve got a website up for the project at https://yapbay.com/. where I did the following:
defined the project focus
defined the project roadmap
create a NextJS instance with basic pages
Question: Do I have to deploy my MVP to a specific chain to be eligible? I’ve got it on Sepolia testnet atm… should I move it to OP Sepolia? @Lindsey
Week 3 Update Soft Launch of GovScore (You guys are the first to hear! There are some kinks bein…
Week 3 Update Soft Launch of GovScore (You guys are the first to hear! There are some kinks being worked out here that I’ll touch on later in the post but #BuildinPublic am I right!) Added description to BasedFriends to guide users on what to do when they land on the homepage The Big Rock Review Launch GovScore: ( 9 / 10 ) We launched GovScore! Currently we are in an alpha state where our score isn’t fully developed yet. We have been able to factor in a users transparency and voting power scores, but when adding in voting consistency we are still dealing with bugs. We aim to update it this week and run a distribution campaign in succession with launch. Help From OP Community We’re running into issues retrieving the onchain data from Wagmi (too many requests). If you have experience with viem or wagmi regarding reading data on the bulkier-side please reach out. GovScore is open source on Github. Next Big Rock Improve GovScore to include the following: Include ‘Voting Consistency’ into the GovScore calculation Add a ‘Filter/Sort by GovScore’ function Add a delegate preview to show who the connected wallet is delegating to (stretch goal) Allow user to change their delegate in-app Run a distribution program GovScore is officially launched Farcaster Announcement Blog Post Share with OP token holders
Thanks :pray: for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The…
Thanks :pray: for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email :e-mail: notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build
KWIL NODE
First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode.
This week
The SQL user database setup was successful.
You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil.
Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network.
GRANTS
We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q 3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14 th. Feedback was given from 12 + potential grantees for Mission # 1 to begin.
This week
Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack.
fvm 11280 × 720 292 KB
You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web 3 space
FRAMES
There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested.
In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames.
Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework.
This Week
We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available.
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3 rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand.
This Week
We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs 1 through Shopify.
Here is the official announcement :mega:
warpcast.com
Warpcast 1
A decentralized social network
We will continue to test different frame implementations :framed_picture: in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year.
FractalVisions:
We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform.
DM 3
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Web 3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM 3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM 3 as a messaging service.
This Week
Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM 3 dev team.
BIG ROCK
Last Week
FractalVisions:
Big Rock
Past Week
Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!!
This Week
Setting up frames :framed_picture: on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products.
This Week
The BIG ROCK :rock: for the coming week is to onboard 6 - 12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1 st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS :newspaper_roll:
Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18 . We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism.
Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S 5 R 1 ) Preliminary Review Roundup Grants
The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total.
The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review.
Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
FractalVisions: FractalVisions:
This Week
The BIG ROCK for the coming week is to onboard 6-12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
Performing some due diligence here with a brief update for the start of the week. Honestly we will miss this program and don’t really want v3 to end. This has been a great experience overall.
Our Gitcoin grants program is underway with the inbound process of new grantees we are assisting during the application phase.
We have a handful of potential grantees in the final process of submitting applications. Meanwhile there seem to be a few barriers such as having a GitHub verification which can be somewhat confusing for first time applicants. We are taking calls one on one to help walk through the steps for each applicant if they need assistance. If there is a lack of applicants by the end of the week we may consider starting the donation phase on April 7th a week later than expected which will extend the entire round by one week from May 1st to May 7th.
This past weekend we started to dial in the Kwil user database & pushed a few updates. One of the things we optimized was files for less storage. The code reduces even the heaviest image down to kilobytes. There is a number of other tasks related to the user database that will continue throughout the future such a separate database for creators to access and information for the collections they own. This information pertains to the genre, social links, project profile picture, page banner, description, and royalty settings.
The API integration that we are using with Simplehash has helped to reduce the amount of spam that we have showing up on the platform. You can read more about this filter here. How to Filter Spam NFT Tokens
A hidden feature has been implemented into the bulk selection tool for the marketplace which will aggregate items to a hidden page for each user profile. This allows each user to keep their holdings private on the front end.
The transfer function code is currently being setup to test the smart contract with the user interface. This is the first major key feature that will interact directly with the smart contract.
Listing items from collections will also be implemented at a later date. We have a number of collections in house that are being utilized to help dogfood our MVP prior to the 3rd party builders onboarding process that will take place over the next year. Utilizing the grants program as a form of curation & applications for featured builders who may want to apply directly to be a part of the Fractal Visions ecosystem.
We are very excited to present a video update for the launch in the coming days ahead. Thanks for hosting the v3 for builders on OP.
I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers: I’m Georg…
I just saw this post, been busy building. Apologies for the delay. Here are my answers: I’m George Donnelly. I’m building Yap Bay, which is a Web 3 remittance platform that combines TradFi and DeFi to enable faster, cheaper, and more accessible cross-border payments for the world’s unbanked and underbanked population. My why is that I want (a) to enable people first in high-remittance-fee areas to be able to send small remittances with significantly lower fees. (b) enable people, particularly in the developing world, to break out of TradFi limits (c) use this as a foundation for a lot of other crypto-as-a-daily-currency use cases. YapBay can bring a lot of new people into OP, people in the developing world who work, people who have to contend today with the worst TradFi systems anywhere in the world. Remittances is a $ 700 billion industry and we can disrupt it. I’d like to test the attractiveness of the concept and get funding. Feedback is always amazing. A basic MVP of transaction-chaining to support fiat-to fiat-remittances using OP as the transport layer and hopefully an AI-enabled algorithm to help build people chained transactions. This week I am integrating my contracts into my website. Ugh. :slight_smile: About Me: https://georgedonnelly.com/ Personal X: https://x.com/georgedonnelly About YapBay: https://yapbay.com/ GitHub: GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay: Unstoppable fiat to fiat crypto remittances for the whole world YapBay X: https://x.com/yapbay_ Here are my updates at Backdrop Build: backdropbuild.com Backdrop Build Together we build - Bring that crazy idea to life alongside hundreds of other amazing builders in just 4 weeks. · 23 hours It’s been really challenging drilling down and identifying the unique features that make YapBay a worthwhile project but I might have done a little of that in this blog post. yapbay.com The YapBay Unique Value Proposition | YapBay Web 3 Remittances Marketplace A Web 3 Remittances marketplace My contracts are now also quite complex and the documentation is out of date. I’m having trouble getting them compiled, I’ve create a contract registry contract now to keep track of all of the addresses. Next I’ll be grinding on integrating it all into the website. Still not sure if I should put the contracts on Sepolia testnet or on an Optimism testnet. I need to look into that. · 2 days I feel like things are going EXTREMELY well. I have 7 inter-operable Solidity contracts which is really more than I need for the MVP, but I got carried away. Now I am working on integrating the contracts into the website and building the front end. GitHub GitHub - Panmoni/yapbay-contracts: The Solidity contracts for YapBay The Solidity contracts for YapBay. Contribute to Panmoni/yapbay-contracts development by creating an account on GitHub. Very exciting stuff and yes I am absolutely still building! · Mar 8 I’ve got my first contract, the account contract, on-chain and integrated with my Next.js 14 instance. I can put data on-chain and pull it from the chain and display it on the website. I’m using Sepolia testnet. Pretty exciting. · Mar 6 I’ve got my contracts pretty well defined now, and starting to refine the code. · Mar 1 I’m wading through a lot of uncertainty to define my contracts and then reduce the schematics down to what I need for the MVP. Fun and challenging! · Feb 27 I wrote a blog post and have started planning out my contracts. Got set up on Optimism and Sepholia via the wonderful Alchemy! · Feb 26 I’ve got a website up for the project at https://yapbay.com/. where I did the following: defined the project focus defined the project roadmap create a NextJS instance with basic pages Question: Do I have to deploy my MVP to a specific chain to be eligible? I’ve got it on Sepolia testnet atm… should I move it to OP Sepolia? @Lindsey
Thanks :pray: for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The…
Thanks :pray: for all the extra support during the round in motivating the development process. The email :e-mail: notifications are very helpful in keeping us in the loop on how many days we have to make further updates on Backdrop Build KWIL NODE First we had made an update over the weekend with the completion of the database configuration. Last Week FractalVisions: Today has been big for this weeks development as we pushed hard to work 1 on 1 with the Kwil team to finalize the node set up for the SQL database & between our post update on the official backdrop build site this morning and this post we established our node network deployment. Now we will need to update the frontend codebase to communicate with the new database configurations. Testing of the user DB will start immediately now that we are in full production mode. This week The SQL user database setup was successful. You can connect to the marketplace & create an account by updating the user name, uploading a profile picture, and banner image for a personal user profile. This was accomplished by setting up a full node for our front end utilizing Kwil. Next we will setup a dedicated machine with an additional node & also starting to look into running encryption on sentry nodes for third party developers to access for our node networks scaling capabilities in the future to help decentralize the user db node network. GRANTS We are also utilizing the retroactive public goods funding rewards that we received in round three to host a grants program on Optimism utilizing Gitcoin and the open source grants stack technology. It’s an honor to go from being a donor to a grantee to a grantor by operating our own independent round. Fundraising for the matching pool started last year at the end of Q 3 and we are considering increasing the size of the QF matching pool based on participation. Last Week FractalVisions: Over the course of the past week we have shared some of the eligibility criteria with the creators and builders for our grants program that is opening this next week for applications on the 14 th. Feedback was given from 12 + potential grantees for Mission # 1 to begin. This week Our first quadratic funding round has opened for applications on Optimism network. We aim to attract impact makers to the Superchain through our grant funding program continuing on throughout 2024 on other networks that are also part of the OP Stack. fvm 11280 × 720 292 KB You can find more details here. CharmVerse - the all-in-one web 3 space FRAMES There have been a lot of advancements surrounding this technology that is mainly developing over on the farcaster network. Last Week FractalVisions: In frame transactions & minting NFTs via frames is still in the process of being tested. In order to do this migration to the app directory of next.js was needed to solve some bugs. On Friday the migration had been completed to next.js and we have begun to implement the Frog tool kit for building frames. Beyond the frames we have been researching & testing with documentation from Thirdweb, Piñata, and Frog frame toolkit framework. This Week We are continuing to work on the integration of frames for minting with a custom smart contract utilizing the developer tools that are currently available. Last Week FractalVisions: Fractal Visions team has also partnered with Percs which is a 3 rd party plugin for Shopify that will allow us to sell merchandise via frames on the Farcaster network. The intention behind this integration is to help token gate merchandise for participants of grant rounds & offer merchandise that helps promote the Superchain ecosystem through custom designed products aimed at capturing the spirit of the Fractal Visions brand. This Week We successfully launched our merch frames on warpcast with a new partner integration Percs through Shopify. Here is the official announcement :mega: warpcast.com Warpcast A decentralized social network We will continue to test different frame implementations :framed_picture: in preparation for other builders who join our ecosystem over the course of the next year. FractalVisions: We can also allow other impact makers & creators to deploy frames in this way through an exclusive release on our platform. DM 3 Last Week FractalVisions: Web 3 message capability is also underway utilizing DM 3 protocol to install a widget on our site which allows us to communicate with customers for support tickets & technical assistance in a decentralized manner. Next.js integration was also needed for this implementation to use DM 3 as a messaging service. This Week Message integration pending next.js bug fix from the DM 3 dev team. BIG ROCK Last Week FractalVisions: Big Rock Past Week Our big rock was a last minute success this week as the development continued to push past technical barriers. Our node is now ready to rock for the coming weeks ahead !!! This Week Setting up frames :framed_picture: on the Farcaster network with our new partner Percs via Shopify to sell physical products. This Week The BIG ROCK :rock: for the coming week is to onboard 6 - 12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1 st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress. OTHER DEVELOPMENT NEWS :newspaper_roll: Fractal Visions has made it into the final review for a builders grant on Optimism during cycle 18 . We are very excited to share this news and will be dedicating our development work efforts towards the milestones that we have setup over the next 12 months for this grant. We are deeply committed to building on Optimism. Grants Council - Cycle 18 (S 5 R 1 ) Preliminary Review Roundup Grants The Cycle 18 Preliminary Review has been completed. From the 314 applications we received, 252 were scored by 2 reviewers randomly selected depending on the subcommittee involved following the specified rubric. The 314 applications submitted during cycle 18 surpassed the entire Season 4 with 306 applications in total. The Grants Council congratulates the 106 proposers that will be considered for Final Review. Here is the list by mission request of proposals for Final Review organized by the Su…
Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (…
Lindsey:
A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared)
Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example:
Anything we need to post on backdrop build?
A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)?
Etc.
Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders.
Thanks!
Lindsey: A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (…
Lindsey: A final outline from each team will be shared at the end of the season (Late March) (template to be shared) Awesome! We are also curious if anything else will factor into the judging process? For Example: Anything we need to post on backdrop build? A short video explaining the project (e.g. 1 min)? Etc. Just posting these questions here because hopefully they can help all builders. Thanks!
Week 3 Updates
I had some power outages this week (living in the jungle) which slowed me down, b…
Week 3 Updates
I had some power outages this week (living in the jungle) which slowed me down, but still made pretty good progress.
Big Rock Review
I finished the MVP which is now live on Farcaster. Anyone can test it out by casting \http://cultureblocks.world/swirl (without preceding \)
Also updated my week one post with a more concise explanation of what I’m building and added the redirect link from the frame to it.
Help From OP Community
Cast a swirl frame and let me know what you think! – \https://cultureblocks.space/swirl (without preceding \)
Next Big Rock
Stabilize the MVP as needed
Gather feedback for tweaking any settings/adding customization
Add AI image generator as option for Swirl output
Create a farcaster hub on a VPS
Build a bot to forward Blocks to the /culture-blocks warpcast channel
Automate a mint process for blocks
I don’t plan on getting all of that done necessarily, but that’s basically the order of priorities at this point. It seems like the next phase will be to build a full front end on for Culture Blocks on top of Farcaster, expanding on the micro interaction that is a Swirl into a larger structure for building networks of Culture Blocks in interesting and useful ways. Each of these pieces leads into that.
Week 3 Updates
1 . We’re proud to announce that the algorithm for our Point system that identifi…
Week 3 Updates
1 . We’re proud to announce that the algorithm for our Point system that identifies the contributors that brought the most value to their DAO based on forum activity is now on GitHub. We also included a database file as a Google Drive link of every forum post ever made on the Optimism forum along with every metric as well within the README file. This data can be used to create custom AI models, and to perform deep sentiment analysis to gain a greater understanding of the DAO and its members. The database includes 1 , 374 total topics and 20 , 720 total posts.
Also, we received feedback from another DAO on how they would like to utilize our point system. We met with the Community Manager of the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and they expressed interest in using our point system for their Delegate Incentive Program. They would like to include data from onchain voting via Tally as well, so we built a Tally scraper from scratch to present the data within their database file, and will begin working on a Snapshot scraper soon as well. The feedback we received was to simplify the method of sybil resistance for our point system. Instead of creating multiple rounds of engagement filters, and applying weight to each member that presents a social hierarchy, to instead, lock points by default, and points will unlock if the engagement received was from a role holder. This method ensures that all points received were from vetted accounts, such as “Delegates,” and “Regulars” on forum, and since the points received by each member will be equal, it boasts meritocracy by eliminating a potential social hierarchy, and the potentiality of creating posts that will pander to the most influential members of the DAO.
2 . Our goal for this week was to push the algorithm to GitHub, and receive critical feedback in terms of ensuring our system was sybil resistant, and we achieved just that.
However, it would be nice to hear directly from the members within Optimism, still waiting to set up a few 15 minute meetings to get their opinion on our point system and to see if they feel that the results are accurate.
3 . The OP community can help us by giving their opinion on whether they agree with the final results of the script, that revealed the top members within their DAO based on forum engagement. Here are the results below:
Topic Likes = 10 points
Regular Post Likes = 1 point
Aligned Topic Replies = 20 points
Aligned Regular Replies = 2 points
The top 5 Contributors within Optimism based on all-time forum engagement (Nearly 2 years worth of data):
@Gonna.eth: 12490 points
(Topic Likes): 373
(Regular Post Likes): 1082
(Aligned Topic Replies): 374
(Aligned Regular Post Replies): 99
@Michael: 12023 points
(Topic Likes): 586
(Regular Post Likes): 711
(Aligned Topic Replies): 268
(Aligned Regular Post Replies): 46
@ 0 xJohn: 11533 points
(Topic Likes): 206
(Regular Post Likes): 53
(Aligned Topic Replies): 471
(Aligned Regular Post Replies): 0
@ben-chain: 11076 points
(Topic Likes): 527
(Regular Post Likes): 204
(Aligned Topic Replies): 279
(Aligned Regular Post Replies): 11
@jackanorak: 9906 points
(Topic Likes): 269
(Regular Post Likes): 1194
(Aligned Topic Replies): 288
(Aligned Regular Post Replies): 131
4 . Our big rock for next week is to provide additional context about the members within Optimism based on their forum posts. We will reveal the top 5 - 10 keywords used by each member in the DAO, and reveal social clusters as well, this will give external projects a better idea about who to approach to form a particular partnership. For example, let’s say a project specializes in “Peer to Peer Cloud Computing” like Akash Network, and they would like to partner with Optimism. They will be able to view which members discusses topics that closely relates to their project, and the members that has the closest relationship to this particular person, so the project “Akash” in this example, could have a better understanding of who to contact in order to form a partnership.
We also spoke to the Founders of “Meet With Wallet” who can create a feature on our UI, allowing for users to book meetings natively within our app. We can create an algorithm that discover conversations that relates closely to a topic that a particular project specializes in, and create a “Suggested” post giving brief details of what the project offers that would like to collaborate, and display a button for booking a meeting, in order to help aligned projects, receive more inbound leads.
5 . tl;dr - The video update of Week 3 for daospace
Sixty: Sixty from daospace here!
Congratulations to @Gonna.eth @Michael @0xJohn @ben-chain @jackanorak , for all the value you have provided to the OP Forum. While this list is not complete, we thought it would be a great demo to highlight the top 5 OP contributors based on forum activity/engagement. This type of data will be viewable for all the DAOs we have indexed in the future, and we expect different DAOs to use this type of analytics to incentivize positive contributions, use it to inform a merit-based governance system, create leaderboards for airdrops and attract high context/level delegates.
Some interesting facts based on this data is that the top 10 contributors based on forum activity are not present in the top 10 delegates in terms of voting power. And despite @0xJohn having a very short contribution history in the OP forum, he appears as a top 3 contributor due to having the most ‘viral’ topic in the forum’s history, with 34.7k views and 599 replies.
Gonna.eth: I would like to see badges included in the metrics. Profile - Gonna.eth - Optimism Collective
I think the forum does a great job of recognizing who’s making contributions and you can play with points depending on how difficult is to get a badge.
Thank you for the 1st place, but quantity is not quality and there are many smarter than me in this forum.
Sixty from daospace here! :video_game:
Congratulations to @Gonna.eth @Michael @ 0 xJohn @ben-chain …
Sixty from daospace here! :video_game:
Congratulations to @Gonna.eth @Michael @ 0 xJohn @ben-chain @jackanorak , for all the value you have provided to the OP Forum. While this list is not complete, we thought it would be a great demo to highlight the top 5 OP contributors based on forum activity/engagement. This type of data will be viewable for all the DAOs we have indexed in the future, and we expect different DAOs to use this type of analytics to incentivize positive contributions, use it to inform a merit-based governance system, create leaderboards for airdrops and attract high context/level delegates.
Some interesting facts based on this data is that the top 10 contributors based on forum activity are not present in the top 10 delegates 1 in terms of voting power. And despite @ 0 xJohn having a very short contribution history in the OP forum, he appears as a top 3 contributor due to having the most ‘viral’ topic in the forum’s history, with 34 . 7 k views and 599 replies.
FractalVisions:
This Week
The BIG ROCK :rock: for the coming week is to onboard 6 - 12 creat…
FractalVisions:
This Week
The BIG ROCK :rock: for the coming week is to onboard 6 - 12 creators & builders who contribute to the Superchain ecosystem into our 1 st grant round on Optimism. Currently there is one application that has been submitted so we will report back at the beginning of the week on progress.
Performing some due diligence here with a brief update for the start of the week. Honestly we will miss this program and don’t really want v 3 to end. This has been a great experience overall.
Our Gitcoin grants program is underway with the inbound process of new grantees we are assisting during the application phase.
We have a handful of potential grantees in the final process of submitting applications. Meanwhile there seem to be a few barriers such as having a GitHub verification which can be somewhat confusing for first time applicants. We are taking calls one on one to help walk through the steps for each applicant if they need assistance. If there is a lack of applicants by the end of the week we may consider starting the donation phase on April 7 th a week later than expected which will extend the entire round by one week from May 1 st to May 7 th.
This past weekend we started to dial in the Kwil user database & pushed a few updates. One of the things we optimized was files for less storage. The code reduces even the heaviest image down to kilobytes. There is a number of other tasks related to the user database that will continue throughout the future such a separate database for creators to access and information for the collections they own. This information pertains to the genre, social links, project profile picture, page banner, description, and royalty settings.
The API integration that we are using with Simplehash has helped to reduce the amount of spam that we have showing up on the platform. You can read more about this filter here. How to Filter Spam NFT Tokens
A hidden feature has been implemented into the bulk selection tool for the marketplace which will aggregate items to a hidden page for each user profile. This allows each user to keep their holdings private on the front end.
The transfer function code is currently being setup to test the smart contract with the user interface. This is the first major key feature that will interact directly with the smart contract.
Listing items from collections will also be implemented at a later date. We have a number of collections in house that are being utilized to help dogfood our MVP prior to the 3 rd party builders onboarding process that will take place over the next year. Utilizing the grants program as a form of curation & applications for featured builders who may want to apply directly to be a part of the Fractal Visions ecosystem.
We are very excited to present a video update for the launch in the coming days ahead. Thanks :pray: for hosting the v 3 for builders on OP.
Update from last week!
Setup the Contxt Patreon
Planned my Launch video
Recorded my launch video
…
Update from last week!
Setup the Contxt Patreon
Planned my Launch video
Recorded my launch video
In the process of editing it now!
2 debugging sessions with my developer Sefa
Squashed over 15 bugs since last update, all UX and database issues
For ClickCaster, this week we have:
Fixed bugs for mobile devices
Created a demo video for backdro…
For ClickCaster, this week we have:
Fixed bugs for mobile devices
Created a demo video for backdropbuild and executed the Launch
Integrated 2 Frames with a user base of more than 1000 people
Continued development and UI fixes.
backdropbuild.com
Warpcast Traffic Platform - Backdrop Build
Warpcast Traffic Platform is a project participating on Backdrop Build. It is described as The project is a traffic exchange platform specifically designed for Frames applications operating within the Optimism ecosystem.
It aims to solve the high...
Hey everyone! Congrats and the incredible month! It’s been amazing to see the updates flowing in an…
Hey everyone! Congrats and the incredible month! It’s been amazing to see the updates flowing in and see these ideas evolve.
I’ve just created a new post for final project submissions, along with dates and a template for submissions.
Starting tomorrow, you’ll have one week to submit your final updates!
Cheers!
Hedgey RPGF grants final project updates
Hi Everyone,
Last month we kicked off the first round of Hedgey’s RPGF grants. The idea was to use the 50 k OP Hedgey received from Optimism’s last RPGF round and forward it on to 4 teams launching new, novel products in the Optimism ecosystem.
Over the last month several teams have been giving weekly updates on their progress (link to the post here.) There are also several projects that have been participating in season 3 of Backdrop that may not have posted their projects and updates yet.
I’…
FractalVisions: Curious about order of operations here.
Finding it a bit odd that winners are announced prior to the final update on the forums. In retrospect it may have been better to get this information in before the announcement as we were unsure if it was still mandatory to complete after finding out we didn’t make the cut.
Also it was highly confusing coming from the governance post as our initial introduction to backdrop build that the program was announced here for builders on the Superchain but then saw a lot of ai related entries that were chosen at the end as winners for the contest that seemingly had nothing to do with blockchain technology at all.
Lindsey:
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live.
Here again it states how the project should relate to the Optimism network so it was very confusing when we saw ai projects being chosen for the winners.
Was there some sort of announcement that there would also be other projects that didn’t use blockchain technology or are related to Optimism ?
Lindsey:
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Is there something we are missing here?
Is the 50,000 OP separate from the same prize pool that all the other folks got awards from?
Or is there a separate prize pool for those on Backdrop Build who didn’t post in the forum here ?
We are trying to get some clarification on the changes that occurred after the beginning of the program.
It was not obvious that folks here in the forum would be competing against others who did not participate in the reporting process here as well.
Also again here it states 10-20 projects would be selected. How many total were on the ending event ?
From our recollection there were around 40 chosen. Many of which never participated in posting once here in the governance forums.
Lindsey:
At the end of the season, the top 10-20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Just to let you know it was never clear that the other folks who were not participating in the governance forums here would also have a chance at winning the 50,000 OP and we are not quite sure why it was an extra requirement to make posts here every Monday and Friday on top of the updates on Backdrop build.
I am Maher from Tunisia, a software engineer. I am trying to build an OS based on Ubuntu that has a…
I am Maher from Tunisia, a software engineer. I am trying to build an OS based on Ubuntu that has all the needed tools for parental control. I working on this project because I am seeing more and more young children getting into the internet and getting scammed by the adds on every website.
I was working on the project from time to time. I found some good tools to use in the project.
Like Plucky and Nxfilter.
I don’t think the project is known for the public. but I enjoy what I am doing.
it is not that native, But I am grouping all the free and paid tools in one place to build an os
I might need to code something also.
safer place for internet users. I think this will add something at least.
an os that is free and easy to use. just plug and be safe yourself and your children
I’ll continue working on the project. I am intending to invest all the money in this project.
the project needs more than 3 months but I think in three months I’ll solve all the big problems and get all the tools in the right place.
backdropbuild_v 3 _parental_control_OS
Greetings again. I just launched and here is my demo video and demo instructions.
…
Greetings again. I just launched and here is my demo video and demo instructions.
YapBay Demo for Backdrop Build v 3
Try out the demo on-chain on Sepolia testnet:
yapbay.com
YapBay: Empowering Global Remittances with Web 3
YapBay is a Web 3 remittance platform combining TradFi and DeFi to enable faster, cheaper, and more accessible cross-border payments for the world's unbanked and underbanked population.
I look forward to completing whatever other requirements there may be!
I would like to see badges included in the metrics. Profile - Gonna.eth - Optimism Collective
I thi…
I would like to see badges included in the metrics. Profile - Gonna.eth - Optimism Collective
I think the forum does a great job of recognizing who’s making contributions and you can play with points depending on how difficult is to get a badge.
Thank you for the 1 st place, but quantity is not quality and there are many smarter than me in this forum.
daospace: Thanks for your feedback @Gonna.eth. Including badges into the metrics is a solid approach, and can make our point system a bit more sybil resistant as well. Our goal is to identify the members that brought the most value to the forum, and display a leaderboard on our UI, which is a DAO discovery platform, in the hopes of bringing more lucrative opportunities to the DAO contributors that built a solid reputation for themselves, and this may help us achieve that.
Although most badges distributed by Discourse are based on quantitative metrics, the ones that can improve our point system are the ones that rewards active participation over a certain time duration that would be extremely difficult or impossible to game. Badges such as ‘Regular’ or ‘Licensed,’ which grants certain permissions, at least serves as a vetting process, unlike many of the other badges which are rewarded once receiving a certain number of likes, replies or link clicks, which can be easily gamed by creating many accounts, and executing a python script to falsify engagement.
To build upon your suggestion, we would also like to factor “roles” into the point system. For example, all the initial points distributed will be locked, and will only unlock if you received engagement from a member that’s a role holder, and if necessary, certain roles can be weighted differently than others. For example, you’re a 'Moderator," so If I receive engagement from you, I would receive points for that, but if I receive engagement from a non role holder, these points wouldn’t unlock until they earned a role. Since earning a role takes time and effort, this should discourage bad actors that intends to game the system, especially if there’s an incentive for being ranked amongst the top contributors in a DAO based on forum activity.
Once this system is fine-tuned, projects that are releasing new tokens, that would like to invite valuable contributors to join their DAO, can airdrop tokens to the top “X” contributors from various DAOs displayed on the leaderboard. This can help early token teams attract high-level delegates, and can use a platform like Hedgey Finance, to distribute locked tokens, to encourage them to use their tokens for governance participation as opposed to immediately dumping them.
Based on the all-time engagement you received, I feel that you will still rank pretty high on the leaderboard if you received a decent amount of engagement from other role holders or contributors that earned valuable badges. Since you mentioned that there are many more intelligent members on the forum, we can use generative AI to judge the quality of the post and create the logic for distributing higher amounts of points for that; however, our current system rewards contributors based on consistent activity as opposed to judging their intelligence. A contributor can be considered extremely intelligent but only post once in a while, whereas other members can provide consistent posts that drives discussion on the platform, therefore can be viewed as more valuable overall in terms of forum participation.
However, we do intend on adding contributions to the overall DAO score, we’re just starting off with forum participation, since it’s a straight forward approach of obtaining this data, through the Discourse scraper we built. But in the near future, we can track contributions like GitHub commits/pull requests to create a more accurate score to reflect the overall value of contribution from each member.
Hi Lindsey,
Just wanted to let you know that I have completed the backdrop program! Thanks for lett…
Hi Lindsey,
Just wanted to let you know that I have completed the backdrop program! Thanks for letting me know about it, quite an interesting experience being part of it.
We are currently on Sepolia testnet while we iron out bugs, get feedback and upload more journalism impact reports, but plan to launch on OP Mainnet this summer!
Thanks again for putting this program my way !
EDIT: Just saw the thread where we post our final submissions, will be sure to put my information there
backdropbuild.com – 21 Feb 24
voicedeck - Backdrop Build 4
voicedeck is a project participating on Backdrop Build. It is described as marketplace for journalism impact certificates
Thanks for your feedback @Gonna.eth. Including badges into the metrics is a solid approach, and can…
Thanks for your feedback @Gonna.eth. Including badges into the metrics is a solid approach, and can make our point system a bit more sybil resistant as well. Our goal is to identify the members that brought the most value to the forum, and display a leaderboard on our UI, which is a DAO discovery platform, in the hopes of bringing more lucrative opportunities to the DAO contributors that built a solid reputation for themselves, and this may help us achieve that.
Although most badges distributed by Discourse are based on quantitative metrics, the ones that can improve our point system are the ones that rewards active participation over a certain time duration that would be extremely difficult or impossible to game. Badges such as ‘Regular’ or ‘Licensed,’ which grants certain permissions, at least serves as a vetting process, unlike many of the other badges which are rewarded once receiving a certain number of likes, replies or link clicks, which can be easily gamed by creating many accounts, and executing a python script to falsify engagement.
To build upon your suggestion, we would also like to factor “roles” into the point system. For example, all the initial points distributed will be locked, and will only unlock if you received engagement from a member that’s a role holder, and if necessary, certain roles can be weighted differently than others. For example, you’re a 'Moderator," so If I receive engagement from you, I would receive points for that, but if I receive engagement from a non role holder, these points wouldn’t unlock until they earned a role. Since earning a role takes time and effort, this should discourage bad actors that intends to game the system, especially if there’s an incentive for being ranked amongst the top contributors in a DAO based on forum activity.
Once this system is fine-tuned, projects that are releasing new tokens, that would like to invite valuable contributors to join their DAO, can airdrop tokens to the top “X” contributors from various DAOs displayed on the leaderboard. This can help early token teams attract high-level delegates, and can use a platform like Hedgey Finance, to distribute locked tokens, to encourage them to use their tokens for governance participation as opposed to immediately dumping them.
Based on the all-time engagement you received, I feel that you will still rank pretty high on the leaderboard if you received a decent amount of engagement from other role holders or contributors that earned valuable badges. Since you mentioned that there are many more intelligent members on the forum, we can use generative AI to judge the quality of the post and create the logic for distributing higher amounts of points for that; however, our current system rewards contributors based on consistent activity as opposed to judging their intelligence. A contributor can be considered extremely intelligent but only post once in a while, whereas other members can provide consistent posts that drives discussion on the platform, therefore can be viewed as more valuable overall in terms of forum participation.
However, we do intend on adding contributions to the overall DAO score, we’re just starting off with forum participation, since it’s a straight forward approach of obtaining this data, through the Discourse scraper we built. But in the near future, we can track contributions like GitHub commits/pull requests to create a more accurate score to reflect the overall value of contribution from each member.
Curious about order of operations here.
Finding it a bit odd that winners are announced prior to th…
Curious about order of operations here.
Finding it a bit odd that winners are announced prior to the final update on the forums. In retrospect it may have been better to get this information in before the announcement as we were unsure if it was still mandatory to complete after finding out we didn’t make the cut.
Also it was highly confusing coming from the governance post as our initial introduction to backdrop build that the program was announced here for builders on the Superchain but then saw a lot of ai related entries that were chosen at the end as winners for the contest that seemingly had nothing to do with blockchain technology at all.
Lindsey:
The idea is to find solo builders / early stage projects who want to launch a big idea on Optimism and need time, exposure, and enough funding to bootstrap the idea and get it live.
Here again it states how the project should relate to the Optimism network so it was very confusing when we saw ai projects being chosen for the winners.
Was there some sort of announcement that there would also be other projects that didn’t use blockchain technology or are related to Optimism ?
Lindsey:
Early thoughts on the types of projects/people i’m looking for (open to feedback on what the Optimism community thinks is actually most important)
Optimism native (or building on Base, Mode, or other OP worlds)
New and novel ideas
Farcaster frames are cool
Products that can become category defining are cool
People who are incredibly talented, hard working, and are willing to go all in
Ideas that have potential to drive key Optimism north stars forward in a big way
Is there something we are missing here?
Is the 50 , 000 OP separate from the same prize pool that all the other folks got awards from?
Or is there a separate prize pool for those on Backdrop Build who didn’t post in the forum here ?
We are trying to get some clarification on the changes that occurred after the beginning of the program.
It was not obvious that folks here in the forum would be competing against others who did not participate in the reporting process here as well.
Also again here it states 10 - 20 projects would be selected. How many total were on the ending event ?
From our recollection there were around 40 chosen. Many of which never participated in posting once here in the governance forums.
Lindsey:
At the end of the season, the top 10 - 20 ideas would be selected and shared with the Optimism community, at which time the optimism community could vote using JokeRace/Farcaster/TBD to select the top four ideas to begin a 3 month funding stream (using Hedgey Grants.)
Just to let you know it was never clear that the other folks who were not participating in the governance forums here would also have a chance at winning :trophy: the 50 , 000 OP and we are not quite sure why it was an extra requirement to make posts here every Monday and Friday on top of the updates on Backdrop build.
maenswirony: I think you’re looking at the backdrop finalist review (I got the email today) for whatever their grant system is. This grant from Hedgey is distinct from that and being handled by Lindsey as he’s articulated.
FractalVisions: Circling back here…
We have had some time to reflect on the past few days of campaigning in public & attesting to the strength of our social networking.
Starting off. This was a great experiment and along the way we found ourselves challenged with the task of gathering votes.
The synergy between the other participants coming together to build on the Superchain is exciting.
Battling a cold here at the Fractal Visions HQ over the course of the past few days added to the complexity of this experience which felt like a perfect storm that had formed throughout the contest for the finalists.
The social networking was a lot of fun. We may have made more connections with people & projects that are involved in building on the OP Stack which is always something that feels like an extra reward when participating in a grant round.
Although it doesn’t seem like this was completely necessary. The platform for voting has received a fair amount of attention and constructive criticism. There was one thing that was brought up by voters which was fees being charged for voting.
Is the platform Jokerace taking any portion of the fee ?
There also seems to be a number of people who wanted to change their vote after discovering we were in the race.
It would have been clutch to have a few spaces that would have let each project shill or shill it forward to their favorite finalists to create more camaraderie amongst the participants. The visibility on the projects could have used a big boost from the official grant operation accounts on social media. Those are the basic gripes we wanted to toss into the hat here for the end of the campaign.
Thank you so incredibly much for the opportunity!
I think you’re looking at the backdrop finalist review (I got the email today) for whatever their g…
I think you’re looking at the backdrop finalist review (I got the email today) for whatever their grant system is. This grant from Hedgey is distinct from that and being handled by Lindsey as he’s articulated.
Thanks for sharing!
We were really confused and already thought it was over. Hopefully this didn’t …
Thanks for sharing!
We were really confused and already thought it was over. Hopefully this didn’t come off as too harsh of a criticism because we certainly don’t have anything against all the amazing creators out there but somewhere along the lines everything started to blend together and at the very end of the program we had no clue that these are two separate programs. I guess that’s what we get for being rookies.
Hopefully :crossed_fingers: it will help for future rounds as valuable feedback to signify to everyone what exactly is happening.
Thank you for helping here @maenswirony !
@FractalVisions - I hope things are cleared up, but yes, …
Thank you for helping here @maenswirony !
@FractalVisions - I hope things are cleared up, but yes, the two programs / winners are totally separate. This week participants in Hedgey’s program will share their final updates on the Final Submissions forum post and judging on those will begin next week.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Of course. We are still shipping away and now it all makes sense. Thanks for the update.
Of course. We are still shipping away and now it all makes sense. Thanks for the update.
Hello @Lindsey. Where can I find the Hedgey Program final submissions forum? Thank you.
Hello @Lindsey. Where can I find the Hedgey Program final submissions forum? Thank you.
Hi Hedgey
I just got a message on X from someone who wanted me, as a badgeholder, to support their …
Hi Hedgey
I just got a message on X from someone who wanted me, as a badgeholder, to support their project…
Here is my reply:
—
Hi […]
Actually, I’m not planning to. I’m sure […] is awesome, but probably there are other great projects, too, and I wouldn’t feel good about simply jumping in and supporting one project over others on this basis.
As for Hedgey’s setup, I don’t think they should just ‘appoint’ badgeholders like this without asking first. They should realize that voting responsibly requires a proper time commitment. Not you fault, of course! Just to explain why I am not participating.
—
Thanks for the feedback @joanbp ! It’s a good point. I was trying to think of a way to keep the vot…
Thanks for the feedback @joanbp ! It’s a good point. I was trying to think of a way to keep the voters very Optimism aligned and thought RPGF recipients and badge holders combined was better than just OP holders, but to your point it is a huge commitment to decide something like this thoughtfully. I am absolutely taking in your feedback for the next one
:+ 1 :
I think it can be ok to have an open vote where lots of people vote on just their personal f…
:+ 1 :
I think it can be ok to have an open vote where lots of people vote on just their personal favorites. Then it is, for better or worse, a popularity contest.
And I guess I also appreciate your idea of trying to only allow aligned voters.
It’s just that Optimism badgeholders have not signed up to be responsible for every other funding round someone sets up (I hope that doesn’t come across too harsh).
The way you have set this round up, I’m now - without ever having had anything to do with your project - receiving messages from left and right from people who want to ensure my support. Those people feel a need to try and elicit my vote, even if they might have had better things to do. And it puts me in a bad spot because I don’t want to disappoint these people, but I also don’t want to vote insincerely. Especially not when I only get the right to vote because I’m an Optimism badgeholder.
I appreciate you taking the feedback. :slightly_smiling_face:
Lindsey: That’s great feedback @joanbp - absolutely agree with you and not too harsh at all. I will 100% take that in for the next time we (hopefully) get to do this and will think through a different approach that avoids this. Cheers!
hello @Lindsey that initiative looks really great. I would like to know ¿what parameters there are …
hello @Lindsey that initiative looks really great. I would like to know ¿what parameters there are been considered to evalutate and select the finals teams?. Thanks
TheMvp 07 :
what parameters there are been considered to evalutate and select the finals teams…
TheMvp 07 :
what parameters there are been considered to evalutate and select the finals teams?
Hey thanks for the thoughtful question. The only eligible teams were those that completed a one month virtual hackathon at backdrop build 1 , so that there is some proof of work before they can be voted on.
As we near to an end, I have some general feedback and thoughts as a participating project in the j…
As we near to an end, I have some general feedback and thoughts as a participating project in the jokerace
The Good
We got to build relations with OP Badgeholders and projects outside of the RetroPGF season when they are swamped
We developed a new process to have a distributed jury for credibly neutral project selection!
Most of the badgeholders and projects were happy to vote and found this a pretty good idea :slight_smile:
The Bad
Feels a little petty to trouble stalwarts like Protocol Guild, L 2 Beat, Nethermind etc for a few votes in your jokerace
Unable to focus on anything else during the 5 days except how to get as many votes as possible
The Ugly
Process of winning was very unfair to projects without a network in the OP ecosystem. For example, only 6 of 13 projects even got more than 10 votes and 4 got zero support :cry:
More thought and discussion on whether selection should have been network voting by badgeholders and retropgf recipients or judge voting where for example Joey from backdrop, OP grants council and yourself being the only ones having votes.
as i have positions of influence as a council member in gitcoin and octant, plus my active role in arbitrum dao governance, it was queasy taking favors from people to vote for my project.
That’s great feedback @joanbp - absolutely agree with you and not too harsh at all. I will 100 % t…
That’s great feedback @joanbp - absolutely agree with you and not too harsh at all. I will 100 % take that in for the next time we (hopefully) get to do this and will think through a different approach that avoids this. Cheers!
lefterisjp: hey hey!
So I somehow got pulled into this even though I resigned from Optimism citizenship
Some quick feedback from me.
Please do not op-tin all citizens without asking them. We are all really busy people and getting more responsibility is not wanted
Needed time to go in through each of the grantees, figure out what would like to vote for and actually vote.
This results in a lot of spam/pressure from the grantees to the people holding votes.
I already gave this feedback to jokerace, but putting it here. There is both gas costs and fees for the voters. As some who did not sign up and just was asked to help it’s a bit of a big ask to swallow 4x gast costs, 4x jokerace fees just to help some projects that dmed me online. Yes they are not super high but still … I did not ask for this or get anything out of it. So any payment is bad.
Circling back here…
We have had some time to reflect on the past few days of campaigning in public …
Circling back here…
We have had some time to reflect on the past few days of campaigning in public & attesting to the strength of our social networking.
Starting off. This was a great experiment and along the way we found ourselves challenged with the task of gathering votes.
The synergy between the other participants coming together to build on the Superchain is exciting.
Battling a cold here at the Fractal Visions HQ over the course of the past few days added to the complexity of this experience which felt like a perfect storm that had formed throughout the contest for the finalists.
The social networking was a lot of fun. We may have made more connections with people & projects that are involved in building on the OP Stack which is always something that feels like an extra reward when participating in a grant round.
Although it doesn’t seem like this was completely necessary. The platform for voting has received a fair amount of attention and constructive criticism. There was one :point_up: thing that was brought up by voters which was fees being charged for voting.
Is the platform Jokerace taking any portion of the fee ?
There also seems to be a number of people who wanted to change their vote after discovering we were in the race.
It would have been clutch to have a few spaces that would have let each project shill or shill it forward to their favorite finalists to create more camaraderie amongst the participants. The visibility on the projects could have used a big boost from the official grant operation accounts on social media. Those are the basic gripes we wanted to toss into the hat :tophat: here for the end of the campaign.
Thank you :pray: so incredibly much for the opportunity!
hey hey!
So I somehow got pulled into this even though I resigned from Optimism citizenship :sweat_…
hey hey!
So I somehow got pulled into this even though I resigned from Optimism citizenship :sweat_smile:
Some quick feedback from me.
Please do not op-tin all citizens without asking them. We are all really busy people and getting more responsibility is not wanted
Needed time to go in through each of the grantees, figure out what would like to vote for and actually vote.
This results in a lot of spam/pressure from the grantees to the people holding votes.
I already gave this feedback to jokerace, but putting it here. There is both gas costs and fees for the voters. As some who did not sign up and just was asked to help it’s a bit of a big ask to swallow 4 x gast costs, 4 x jokerace fees just to help some projects that dmed me online. Yes they are not super high but still … I did not ask for this or get anything out of it. So any payment is bad.
Hey @lefterisjp thanks a ton for the feedback here. Another badgeholder shared the same feedback an…
Hey @lefterisjp thanks a ton for the feedback here. Another badgeholder shared the same feedback and I feel terrible about having people spam you on this. Was not my intention and the feedback is totally taken in. I was trying to find a way to limit the people who had a voice to a more narrow line of Optimism focused people, but will have to rethink how I do that in future rounds. And thank you for the feedback on JokeRace as well. I’ll share that with David and definitely keep it top of mind for anything in the future.
also - thanks even for the time in sharing your feedback!
no need I know David and shared that and a bit more directly! Think organizers or winners should ta…
no need I know David and shared that and a bit more directly! Think organizers or winners should take on fees eventually or have an option to take the fees.
I believe in platforms making money, otherwise nothing works. Just incentives on who pays the fees are a bit off here.
