Welcome to week 11 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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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.
Polygon DAO Launches NFT Messages
Last week, Polygon DAO launched NFT messages. By leveraging Dispatch, an on-chain messaging and analytics platform for web3 projects, we were able to send NFT messages to the 200+ August grant applicants.
If you’re one of those August applicants, make sure to check it out using one of the following links:
Village Wonders Highlights
Check out the highlights from last week’s launch of the Village Wonders program:
Hot Off The Press
The Polygon DAO blog was just announced last week, but there’s already plenty of awesome content you can find there.
Check out the latest blog post, “Jobs and Bounties”, to learn about the different jobs & bounty programs that have been offered by Polygon Village thus far.
New Village Partners
Polygon DAO is proud to announce the newest Village partners.
RockX: bringing easy on-chain access to projects:
NOWNodes: providing fast & easy access to popular blockchain nodes:
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 three Village Talk sessions:
DeSci AMA
For those of you keeping up with the Village Times, you’ll know that Mondays are for DeSci.
As such, this past Monday we had Talent DAO join us for a fireside chat about their decentralized community-reviewed publication protocol.
Expert Talk & Project Pitches
Last week, for our expert talk session we had tsellhorn, head of remote at Polygon, join us to talk about “Remote Working in Web3”.
Following this conversation, we had two projects take the stage for 10 minutes each to pitch their project to the community:
MechaChain: a play-to-earn game, where becoming a “Mecha Pilot could become your next job”.
Thunder Lands: a virtual gaming metaverse set in the dark fantasy genre
Here’s the link to the whole recording, for anyone interested:
Grantee AMA
We ended the week with a Friday grantee AMA session, featuring Stabl Fi to learn all about their cross-chain, organic yield-bearing stable IndexCoin.
As usual, we have a summary of the conversation under the Village Story section down below.
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Wednesday, Oct. 5th @ 7:00 AM PST: Expert Talk with One Planet
Thursday, October 6th @ 7:30 AM PST: AMA w/ Joke DAO
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
Robinhood Wallet Launches Exclusively On Polygon
ICYMI, Robinhood just launched its non-custodial crypto wallet exclusively on Polygon.
Robinhood first announced its crypto wallet back in May, and has since added 1M+ users to the waitlist. The first 10K waitlist members will be the first to be able to try Robinhood’s beta version wallet, however, it’ll open up to the rest of the waitlist members “sometime before the end of 2022”.
What does Polygon integration mean for users?
What does Polygon integration mean for users?
Robinhood’s wallet integration with Polygon allows users to buy Polygon tokens from the Robinhood app, and transfer them directly to the user’s own personal Robinhood wallet.
Not only that, but it will also allow users to interact with different defi protocols within the Polygon network, such as Uniswap, Aave, and more - Robinhood and Polygon are bringing Defi to the masses!
I think that it’s amazing to see that even during this “bear market”, Polygon is still managing to secure these partnerships with top-tier brands. It’s exciting to know that Polygon dapps will be among the first to be used by the 1M+ Robinhood wallet waitlist members.
For today’s voucher partner spotlight, we’re going to be looking at our “audit vouchers” vertical.
What is a smart contract audit?
A contract audit is a process in which the smart contracts that make up a protocol get reviewed and looked over by a professional team of auditors (people that have a deep understanding of blockchains and web3 development).
These auditors check for bugs, issues, or any other security vulnerabilities that may be present in the contract code, making the protocol safe for people to use.
Why Should a project care about contract audits?
Millions of dollars worth of crypto are stolen from users every year, and of course, the biggest reason why so many users are losing their funds is because of smart contract vulnerabilities.
Not only does this cause users to lose trust in your platform, but it also greatly affects the reputation of your platform. Any project that has suffered this fate during the past year knows how hard it is to gain that trust back.
Polygon Village Audit Partners
Polygon DAO has partnered with five top-tier audit agencies to provide selected Village projects with a free audit of up to 500 lines of code:
Any project that is looking for smart contract audit support for their application or protocol can apply for our Village vouchers here.
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 #9 ~ StablFi
StablFi is a cross-chain, organic yield-bearing platform that allows users to participate in defi strategies, without having to worry about managing the strategies for themselves.
It’s home to $CASH, which is the yield-bearing stable indexcoin that is backed 100% by a balanced bucket of other stablecoins. Today, those stablecoins include USDC, USDT, and DAI, however, more can and will be added over time.
How Does StablFi Work
To get started with the platform, you simply connect your Polygon wallet and deposit your stablecoins. Once you deposit your stablecoins, you receive CASH tokens in return. This CASH is then stored in your wallet, while the stablecoins you originally deposited gets sent to different defi protocols to accrue yield.
As the stablecoins accrue yield in the background, your wallet’s CASH grows in size. You’re essentially gaining exposure to yield across the Polygon ecosystem by holding one single token - CASH.
Roadmap
StableFi’s roadmap includes:
StableFi Institutional: a new initiative set to target big institutions
Benefits for partner projects
Governance token: coming this upcoming year
How was Polygon DAO able to support StablFi?
Polygon DAO Support
Building with the Village comes with some awesome benefits, including funding and vouchers, both of which StablFi was able to receive.
StablFi was able to have their smart contracts audited by LedgerOPS, one of our Village partners. Not only that, but they were able to build a strong relationship, to the point where they’ll now be receiving on-going audit support.
A reminder for those that registered, that today, September 29th, is Polygon’s Green Blockchain Summit 2, where attendees will get to hear about blockchain and carbon markets
MaticX, a liquid staking token for $MATIC, gets added to Aave V3 on Polygon. This allows users to use their liquid staking tokens on Aave as collateral to borrow stables, or even more MATIC.
Ankr partners with Polygon to “enhance the building experience for web3 developers who want to create application-specific chains with Polygon Supernets”
Hamzah Khan, head of defi at Polygon, submits a proposal to initialize Compound lll on Polygon
SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives protocol, is launching its V2 platform on mainnet soon, but users can start signing up today for early access to a Closed Alpha
Here’s how you can leverage Tranzo to safely migrate your Aave positions from your browser wallet to a hardware wallet
For any Binance users, BUSD is now available on both the Polygon and Avalanche networks.
Coinshift, one of our Village partners, has integrated Superfluid to enable more advanced salary related features for DAOs and other web3 companies.
Gaming & NFTs
Polygon partners with Random Games, a gaming studio that just raised a $7.6M seed round to launch their Unioverse. The Random Games founders are known for their previous works, such as of GTA, Call of Duty, Star Wars, and Terminator
Famous music group, Jungle, launches their Jungle Fan Club, where holders will get access to unreleased music, videos, merch, and more. Oh, and it’s free.
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 610 jobs on the platform from across 131 projects
86 jobs got listed in the last week across job functions by Merge, VitaDAO, Quicknode, Deefy, UNXD, SettleMint, Kima, Chainlink, Fitlink, UMA, Ankr, Vitamin Labs etc.
We also witnessed around 900 job applications last week
Featured Job of the Week: Deefy hiring Frontend Engineer (Blockchain)
Also, for those that missed it, here’s episode 4 of the “Celebrating Web3 Careers” series, which is done by the WAGMI Jobs Twitter page.
Stay up-to-date on who’s hiring by checking out the WAGMI Jobs page and following our WAGMI Jobs posts on Twitter.
The Polygon DAO community has been growing steadily every month, having reached 15K Twitter followers now!
Today’s meme of the week goes out to all 15K of you:
Have a meme you’d like to share? Make sure to post them on the Polygon DAO Discord.
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