Welcome to week 8 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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Welcome to the Village
Projects building within the Polygon Village gain free access to our Village program benefits, including:
Grants
Jobs & Bounty Board
Welcome Vouchers
Visibility & Recognition
Curious about the Polygon Village and its participants? Head over to the Village to learn more.
DAO Monthly Roundup ~ August
Polygon DAO has just published a monthly roundup of the highlights from the month of August. Here’s some of what’s included:
The launch of our new DeSci vertical
Village Wonders mentors were announced, featuring some huge names like Sandeep, Polygon co-founder, and Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios CEO
Onboarded seven new partners
Grant & voucher updates & stats
Monthly WAGMI Job Highlights
15 total Village Talk sessions, with over 2.7K listeners
New Village Partners
We had new projects introduced to the list of Village partners:
Verse Network: An ecosystem optimized for DAO’s. You can check out the official announcement to learn all about the benefits offered through Verse x Polygon DAO vouchers.
Chainstack: Provides fast and reliable infrastructure services across several chains. You can learn about the Chainstack x Polygon DAO voucher benefits here.
Bountyblok: Provides a platform to power web3 projects for engagement. Learn about the voucher benefits here.
Realtize x Polygon DAO
On September 1st, Realtize announced the launch of their “Polygon DAO SBT Quest”, including a prize pool of Polygon DAO SBT and $1000 Matic.
The quest itself involves a total of six easy steps and extends up until September 20th. Here’s the link to get you started.
For questions, you can head to the Realtize Website or Twitter.
Expert Talk & Project Pitches
Last week, we had marketing advisor and expert, Web3Danzo, join us to give us “An introduction to early stage marketing strategies.”
Following this conversation, we had two teams pitch their project to the community:
The Fabled: A blockchain-based, action RPG game
MegaFans: a mobile e-sports platform
You can listen to the whole recording below.
AMA with Banxa
On Thursday, we held an AMA session with Banxa, a web3 payments gateway protocol.
You can listen to the recording below to learn how Polygon DAO and Banxa are working together to help support builders through the Village program.
Grantee AMA
We ended the week with an AMA session alongside a previous DAO grantee, Sharpe AI, to tell us how their platform makes DeFi investing easier for everyday users.
You can catch the recording here. However, we have written a quick conversation summary in the “Village Story” section below.
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Thursday, September 15th at 8:30 AM PST: AMA with Joke DAO
Friday, September 16th at 8:30 AM PST: AMA with Orange Protocol
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
It’s the first week of DeSci on Polygon DAO! To kick things off, we hosted an AMA launch event featuring industry experts and four DeSci projects - here’s a quick summary of the conversation:
What is DeSci
DeSci was introduced to the Polygon community in early August and was described as “the application of blockchain technology to various aspects of scientific research to make it efficient, accessible, transparent, and censorship-resistant.”
There are many problems facing the scientific community, but ultimately, the goal of DeSci is to put the power back in the hands of the researchers.
The benefits of DeSci
DeSci has the potential to offer the following benefits:
Research funding: From paying to get the research done to getting that research published and then funding the production of a therapeutic based on your research, the whole process is extremely expensive
Bandwidth/ Speed: A worldwide network of researchers is more efficient than the current (sometimes year-long) peer-review process
Transparency: Sometimes, financial interests lead to biased results (see the recent Alzheimer’s research issues)
Project Intros
Genomes DAO:
Fleming Protocol:
Bio DAO:
Molecule DAO / Vita DAO:
Why has Polygon decided to support DeSci
Decentralization is at the core of Polygon, so it only made sense for the network to become the home for this new decentralized science vertical.
Not only that, but the high speeds and low gas fees make Polygon the perfect place for teams to build out the DeSci lego blocks.
How can the Village help
Polygon Village will help DeSci projects along two different paths:
Awareness: We want to engage with and bring together academics & researchers from other DAO’s, and ultimately help increase awareness of the entire DeSci space
Village initiatives: DeSci projects will benefit from Village offerings, including funding, service vouchers, marketing, and more.
How can projects participate
We encourage all DeSci projects looking to get involved to apply for a Village grant under the “research” category.
Vote For Bounty Contest Winner Announced
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been following the progression of the Bounty Contest, a Polygon DAO initiative, where the whole community got to vote for which project they believed should win the $10K in funding, vouchers, and more.
Every week we have had projects go up against one another in a “winner moves on” format, and we have finally reached our winner.
1st Place: Satyug Life
2nd Place: Zinar NFT
3rd Place: Polygon Alliance
You can read the full announcement here.
Congrats to the winners, and thank you to the Polygon DAO community for participating in this event.
Remember that voting automatically enrolled you in a chance to win some sweet merch, so keep an eye out for that!
Accounting is a huge headache for any company, web3 or not. However, considering the web3 space is so new, it’s really difficult for this segment of companies, especially when keeping regulatory procedures in mind.
Luckily, Polygon DAO has partnered with several web3 accounting projects to provide service vouchers to selected Village projects.
Today, we want to spotlight our “Accounting” vertical and showcase what Polygon DAO offers in this respect.
What is crypto accounting?
Every DAO, NFT project, or web3 project, in general, should keep a collection of their crypto transactions in their books.
Every time your project deposits money in a yield-bearing platform, anytime you collect fees from your users or sell an NFT, etc. - there should be a recording of the activity.
What are the benefits of strong accounting practices
Some advantages to keeping your project’s accounting practices strong include:
Help with budget
Help with decision making
Helping investors see the project’s profit, growth, and more.
And most importantly, tax preparation
Polygon DAO Voucher Partners & advantages they offer
Polygon has partnered with five teams to offer our selected Village projects accounting-related services.
Rather than going transaction by the transaction at the end of the year, your team can leverage the services provided by one of our accounting partners, making the process as easy as plugging in your project wallet. Best of all, these accounting-related services will be free to our selected Village projects.
Interested in offering your services to a growing ecosystem of builders and gaining visibility from DAOs coming to Polygon Village? Apply to become a Voucher partner today.
Each week, Polygon DAO spotlights a project and its journey into the Polygon Village.
Village story #6 - Sharpe AI
Blockchain technology enables an open network that anyone anywhere can build on top of. However, having this open network has introduced many apps and protocols, making it hard for individuals to dig through and decide where to place their money. Not only that, but the web3 space as a whole is difficult for any new entrant to understand.
This is where Sharpe AI comes in.
What is Sharpe AI
Sharpe AI is a web3 asset management platform that aims to help individuals manage the DeFi space.
At the end of the day, everyone wants to optimize yields; however, managing positions between all the different DeFi protocols is complicated. That’s why Sharpe AI is focused on risk management and providing users with multi-strategy investment products while ultimately focused on providing returns for platform users.
Roadmap
Sharpe AI recently launched their first solution on Polygon mainnet - Taurus Pools.
Over the coming time, Sharpe AI will be releasing two more solutions to the platform - Phantom & Helios.
How has Polygon DAO helped
Sharpe AI is a recent Village grantee and, as such, was able to benefit from several features, including:
Funding
Audit grant (service voucher)
Marketing grant (service voucher)
To learn more about Sharpe AI, you can head over to their Website or Twitter.
Teams can now register for the Moralis x Filecoin hackathon - $200K in prizes
Dapp Play Store integrates Polygon, allowing any Polygon project to publish their Dapp on the platform
The Polygon Developer Monthly Meetup was last week - catch the recording here
Polygon announced their new & improved version of the Polygon Wallet Suite
Robinhood adds support for the Polygon network, allowing users to send & receive $MATIC using the network`
NFTs / Gaming
Polygon is now on Seaport, Opensea’s NFT protocol.
Cool Cats NFT project snd Arc8 collaborate
The Polygon Studios x Techstars Accelerator Program is live
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 607 jobs on the platform from across 127 different projects
26 jobs were listed in the last week across job functions by Venly, Airstack, Quicknode, Stakin, Chainstack, Hike, Bitski, Fireblocks, and more.
We also witnessed around 1000 job applications this week.
Featured Job of the Week: Airstack hiring Full Stack Developer with expertise in Front End
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 the launch of DeSci on Polygon, here’s 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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