Welcome to week 14 of The Village Times, a weekly newsletter run by the Polygon DAO for the community. The Village Times includes Village updates, announcements, partner and grantee spotlights, and more.
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Grants
Jobs & Bounty Board
Welcome Vouchers
Visibility & Recognition
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Village Wonders Mentorship
Last week, Maria Chak from Republic Crypto gave a “Fund Raising Best Practices” mentorship session, as part of the Village Wonders program.
New Village Partners
LedgerOps announces their partnership with Polygon, offering web3 security services to selected projects building with Polygon Village:
Blockchain Lawyers Group joins Polygon Village, offering selected projects legal advice and support:
Hot Off The Press
This week’s article was all about zkEVM again. Last week’s piece took a look at the technology behind zkEVM, whereas this week, we highlighted its benefits, and how it offers a unique scaling solution for Ethereum.
Our Village Talk sessions are a great marketing opportunity for projects, whereas, for the community, it’s a great time to get some sweet alpha.
Last week we held two Village Talk sessions:
Mondays Are For DeSci
We started our week with an AMA session featuring DeSci World, “the one-stop shop for users to view, engage with, and understand all that is happening in the World of DeSci.
Expert Talk & Project Pitches
For our expert Talk session last week, we had STP Network, an ecosystem optimized for DAOs, join us to discuss the “Types of DAOs: From Social to Investing”.
After this conversation, we had two new teams take the stage to pitch their project to the community:
Zumer Protocol: the first community-driven metaverse bank, offering collateralized financing with the goal of increasing liquidity in the NFT market.
RociFi: an under-collateralized credit protocol on Polygon, enabled by the platform’s on-chain credit scores
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Oct. 24th: DeSci AMA @ 4:30 PM UTC | 6:30 PM CET | 12:30 PM EST
Oct. 27th: AMA w/ Sapient Nation @ 3:30 PM UTC | 5:30 PM CET | 11:30 AM EST
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
Shopping.io x Polygon
ICYMI, on October 4th, Shopping.io announced the integration of Polygon’s MATIC token on their platform. With this integration, users will be able to shop at some of the biggest retailers in the world, including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, using cryptocurrency.
What Is Shopping.io
Shopping.io is “an online ecosystem created to provide shoppers and merchants with a seamless and immersive crypto e-commerce experience”. The Shopping.io ecosystem consists of three main parts:
Browser Extension: A tool that allows users to “shop from any online store that is approved” by the extension. What makes it unique from others is the fact that any e-commerce store can be integrated without prior collaboration with Shopping.io.
Shopping Pay: This is the Shopping.io payment processor, allowing businesses to accept any token that has been integrated within the platform, such as MATIC.
Shopverse: the platform’s first virtual shopping mall. Users will be able to shop & engage with the brands they love through an interactive experience, enabled only by web3 technology.
Shop to Earn
Shopping.io is a shop-to-earn platform, allowing users to earn the platform’s native token, SHOP, with every purchase.
Aside from being used as an incentive mechanism, SHOP can also be used to unlock memberships within the platform. There are five different membership classes to choose from, each depending on the amount of SHOP tokens you’re willing to lock up for a minimum of 3-months - Asteroid, Moon, Planet, Star, & Galaxy.
Shopverse NFTs
Shopverse is the platform’s genesis NFT collection consisting of 2,800 pieces, which unlock different benefits within the Shopping.io platform, such as an additional 2% off on purchases, the ability to open up a store in the digital mall, and staking rewards.
On October 4th, the day of the MATIC integration announcement, Shopping.io announced a 2% off promotion to anyone who makes a purchase using MATIC. The deal only lasts 30 days, so there are still about two weeks left to take advantage!
It was a big week for Quickswap, as they just launched their V3, allowing LPs to deposit liquidity pairs in a custom price range (similar to Uniswap V3), as well as deployed on Polygon’s zkEVM. Huge congrats to the Quickswap team!
Polygon reaches 1.4M weekly average users, a new ATH for the network. Make sure to click on the link to check out the dapps driving this increased growth as well as other interesting network stats.
SportsFiveAgency partners with Polygon to help sports rights-holders and brands transition easily to web3. The agency’s IP includes the Lakers, Knicks, Chelsea, and more.
One of the QiDAO protocol devs made this MAI faucet on Polygon’s zkEVM for anyone to use
Thallo announces the world’s first two-way carbon bridge
A new UI experience on Uniswap: “The same Uniswap you know and love, now with more token data, discovery, and search options so you can swap easier than ever before“
Stakeall Finance announces their MATIC staking campaign, in partnership with Lido & Polygon. Stake your MATIC on Stakeall and earn LDO & MATIC rewards along the way.
Check out this cool video showing how Timeswap created a permissionless, oracleless lending protocol. “Like Uniswap, but for lending and borrowing”
NFTs / Gaming:
Learn all about what Polygon Studios is and what it hopes to accomplish, through this interview with Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios CEO
To celebrate their recent partnership with Coinbase Wallet, Crypto Unicorns launched this bounty campaign, in which anyone can participate to win rewards.
VC-backed metaverse app BUD launches on Polygon. BudCreate is a user-generated metaverse gaming platform where anyone can create and share their experiences for free, made up of about 9M creators
Real Sup Ducks partnered with DraftKings to drop the first-ever PFP NFT project on the Draftkingz marketplace.
Here’s the official game trailer for Voxie Tactics, a free-to-play tactical RPG game
Here’s an in-game, in-engine look at Pirate Nation, a web3, voxel art RPG where players embark on a journey to take over the seas.
After all the recent hype, here’s the first look at the Flipverse trailer, in collaboration with eDAO
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 613 jobs on the platform from across 137 projects
65 jobs got listed in the last week across job functions by Bitski, Airstack, Fireblocks, Coto World, UMA, Ankr, Pillow, SettleMint, CoinDCX etc.
We also witnessed around 800 job applications last week
Featured Job of the Week: Airstack hiring Senior DevOps Engineer
Stay up-to-date on who’s hiring by checking out the WAGMI Jobs page and following our WAGMI Jobs posts on Twitter.
In honor of last week’s zkEVM public testnet launch, here is this week’s meme of the week:
Have a meme you’d like to share? Make sure to post them on the Polygon DAO Discord.
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