The Village Times
For the week ending October 6th
Welcome to week 12 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 September Highlights
The Polygon DAO highlights for the month of September have just been published, and as usual, it was quite a busy month. Here are some of the highlights:
Polygon DAO has onboarded 10 new Village partners over the month, a new personal best!
$115K in grants & vouchers were disbursed, generating $1.5 worth of business potential for voucher partners
The reveal of the first-ever Village Wonders cohort
Satyug takes first place for the DAO’s Bounty Contest
300 new job listings, totaling 600 altogether now
Social & Community updates, including 17 total Village Talk sessions, and 1082 total PolygonID members
New initiatives, including the DeSci vertical, and Polygon DAO blog
Hot Off The Press
If you haven’t heard already, Polygon DAO has been on fire lately, releasing tons of awesome content week after week on Mirror.
Make sure to check out the latest blog post - “BUIDLing in web3 as a dev & non-dev”.
Village Wonders Highlights: Branding & Culture Key Takeaways
Take a look at the two key points MetaGameHub DAO took from their first mentorship session, as part of their selection for the Village Wonders by Polygon DAO program:
Bankless Decentralized Law x Polygon DAO
Check out this interview hosted by the Bankless Decentralized Law team, which featured boironattorney, Polygon’s chief legal officer. Learn about sufficient decentralization”, defining subDAOs, legal issues after the merge, and more. The episode also featured collaboration from Polygon DAO’s own in-house legal expert, Eaglelex.
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:
Mondays Are For DeSci
Last week, we had Erik Vanwinkle from DeSci Labs join us for a DeSci AMA session.
Make sure to check out the recording to learn all about how DeSci Lab’s DeSci nodes are enabling a transparent ledger for scientific records, thereby empowering scientists to form Autonomous Research Communities (ARCs) that operate on this ledger of scientific research.
Expert Talk & Project Pitches
For last week’s Expert Talk session, we had Multifarm Finance join us to talk all about “Treasury Dashboard Management”.
We followed this conversation with two new project pitches:
Fringe Finance: a platform that enables users to borrow against their crypto holdings, “easily, and on your own terms”.
Gagarin World: “the launchpad of the future”. Gagarin enables users to invest in select projects that launch their IDOs on the platform, while also offering guidance & expertise to the select teams.
AMA with Dispatch
Last Thursday, we hosted a special AMA session featuring Dispatch, an on-chain messaging and analytics platform. Make sure to listen to the conversation to learn all about how you can “learn your community” with their platform.
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Thursday, October 13th @ 8:30 AM PST: AMA w/ Sapient Nation
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
Polygon Q3 Quarterly Report
Network Analysis:
During Q3, Polygon saw 2.75M transactions per day, which is 2x the amount on Ethereum, and in terms of users, they were able to reach about 300K daily users. Both of these stats have remained stable quarter over quarter.
Total Value Locked
Although Polygon was able to surpass Avalanche and Solana, the network still saw a decrease in TVL, as was the case with the rest of the web3 ecosystem at large. Today, TVL is sitting at around $1.3B.
However, when adjusting for the change in asset price (MATIC), TVL has actually remained flat, rather than having decreased.
Polygon Ecosystem In Q3
Following on their year-long momentum, Polygon has once again, for another quarter, been able to partner with big-name brands. The added names from this past quarter include:
Mercedes
Disney
Robinhood
Starbucks
HTC
Reddit
You can check out the complete Q3 report here, and for those that would like to compare these Polygon numbers to other L1 chains, you can check out this report here, which was done by The Tie.
Web3 Marketing
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been diving into the different verticals Polygon DAO has to offer when it comes to service vouchers. So far, we’ve looked at Storage & Hosting, Accounting, Payment gateway, Cross-chain tooling, and Audits, but today we’re going to be diving into one of the aspects that can really determine the long-term fate of a project - marketing.
What Is Web3 Marketing
Web3 marketing is the promoting and selling of crypto-related products or services. There are many different marketing strategies, such as social media marketing, blogs, memes, videos, and many others, however, the goal is always to increase brand awareness, obtain and keep customers (protocol users in the case of web3), and ultimately improve sales and revenue. Of course, there is a lot that goes on in the process, such as identifying the correct target audience and creating the right communication channels.
Although many of the web2 techniques are still prevalent in web3, there are some differences one must take into mind. This includes the lingo that is used in web3 (WAGMI, GM, etc), as well as the communication channels involved. Web3 is more focused on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, whereas web2 is more focused on FB, Instagram, etc.
Why Is It Important For Projects?
There are several different reasons why a project should have a clear marketing strategy, some of which include:
Long-term brand building
Establishing a strong, loyal community (community is everything in web3)
Trust building between the user and project
Polygon Village Marketing (Content Creation) Partners
Polygon DAO has partnered with five web3 marketing agencies to help projects with content creation, and increasing reach:
Any project looking for marketing 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 #10 ~ Dispatch
Today we’re going to take a look at Dispatch, an on-chain messaging and analytics platform that just recently partnered with Polygon DAO, in an effort to increase the communications process with our fellow grantees.
What Is Dispatch
“The Mailchimp of web3”, Dispatch is an on-chain messaging and analytics platform that aims to connect communities with their user base.
As any web3 user knows, there is a ton of information one must keep up with. Whether it be for newly launched defi pools, a new mainnet release, potential contract vulnerabilities, or anything else. Today, most of us get this information from Twitter or Discord, as this is the place where the team usually unveils new information, however, Dispatch aims to create a better alternative.
Dispatch enables teams to reach their token holders and users on-chain, in a format that reaches the user directly in the wallet.
How Dispatch Works
Rather than focusing on one-to-one messaging, as other messaging protocols do, Dispatch focuses on one-to-many messaging. They’re mainly focused on connecting teams to their users. Not only that, but teams will also be able to extract any meaningful data they gather in order to build their own Dune style analytics dashboard.
Although messaging is restricted for teams only, individual users will still be able to use the Dispatch app. You’ll be able to not only see a list of all the communities listed on the site, but you’ll also be able to click in and see the token holders and user base of the communities they’re a part of.
Dispatch x Polygon DAO
As you may know, Polygon Village offers monthly grants to select projects that apply to the program. Part of this process of course involves communicating with the different grantees.
Polygon DAO has recently partnered with Dispatch to send “thank you” messages to all grantees, with the August grant recipients being the first to receive these.
This is just the beginning of the partnership, but I would expect more and more of the DAO’s communications towards grantees to be carried out on-chain over time. Proof of Applications are coming.
To learn more about Dispatch, you can visit their Website or Twitter.
For anyone that missed it, you can watch Polygon’s Green Blockchain Summit 2, here.
Introducing Polygon Bootcamp Africa: a two-month-long education course and hackathon event
Polygon recently launched a new blog series, dedicated to educating the community on everything zk-technology related. Here’s the first of the series - “Efficient ZK Proofs for Keccak”.
During Polygon’s Green Blockchain Summit this past week, Coorest announced its Coorest Carbon Standard (CCS). Here’s a thread to help you understand what that means.
OCEFF selects Polygon to help deliver its next-gen ocean conservation initiative. Using Polygon, OCEFF will bring the world closer to deep-sea missions, “in new, more engaging ways”.
Robinhood officially rolls out its wallet Beta to 10K whitelisted users, allowing them to not only send & receive Polygon network tokens, but also interact with defi protocols within Polygon!
For anyone around the San Francisco area, there will be a zero-knowledge proof workshop at UC Berkeley, on October 30th. It’s a goated list of zk-tech speakers, including Polygon Hermez and Polygon Zero team members.
Polygon integrates Push protocol, formerly known as EPNS, enabling web3 communication between apps and their respective users.
Gaming & NFTs
OneOfNFT partners with eBay to launch the “Slam Girl” comic series, a Stan Lee creation of course.
For any Dolce & Gabbana NFT holders, you can now redeem your IRL item, as part of the recent Realta Parallela drop
Buildabear chooses Polygon, as the network to launch their 25th year anniversary NFT collection on
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 607 jobs on the platform from 133 projects
70 jobs got listed in the last week across job functions by HoneyBricks, deBridge, Quicknode, Push Protocol, Chainstack, SettleMint, Bitfinex, etc.
We also witnessed around 800 job applications last week.
Featured Job of the Week: Push Protocol hiring Business Development Manager
Stay up-to-date on who’s hiring by checking out the WAGMI Jobs page and following our WAGMI Jobs posts on Twitter.
This past week, Robinhood announced their wallet Beta launch, exclusively on Polygon, which inspired today’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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