Welcome to week 5 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: The opportunity for financial support to build your project for the ever-increasing 20k+ Polygon community.
Jobs & Bounty Board: Whether you’re a project looking for some helping hands, or a user looking for some extra funds, the Polygon community has you covered.
Welcome Vouchers: Get access to the best web3 service providers for free/at a discount under a single forum.
Visibility & Recognition: Polygon Village provides marketing services through weekly educational talks and AMA sessions. Selected projects can pitch their offerings to the Polygon community.
Curious about the Polygon Village and its participants? Head over to the Village to learn more.
New Voucher Partner Additions
Polygon DAO x OnMeta
OnMeta becomes a voucher partner and will now offer its on and off-ramp solution to Village projects.
Polygon DAO x Multifarm
Multifarm becomes a voucher partner, offering Village projects with their treasury management dashboard, enabling users to benefit from several of its features, which you can learn all about here.
Polygon DAO x 4EverLand
4EverLand service vouchers are now live in the Village. Those selecting these service vouchers will get free access to IPFS & Arweave storage, free bandwidth to enjoy 4EverLand global acceleration services, and enterprise-level support for tech and marketing.
Polygon DAO x Spheron
Spheron, a platform building web3 tools to help builders launch their projects 10x faster and 5x cheaper, joins our amazing list of Village partners. You can check out all they have to offer for projects building on polygon DAO here.
The Vote For Bounty Contest Begins
Polygon DAO launched a Bounty Contest, where one selected project will receive $15K in funding, as well as other Village initiatives, such as service vouchers, access to our job board, and more.
The submission window for this competition has ended, so now it’s time for the community to vote for the winner!
Using Polygon ID, users will be able to vote on the grail.xyz site.
There will be several rounds of voting for this competition. Projects that receive enough votes will move on to the next voting round, and so on until we get our competition winner. The first round of voting has just begun and will extend until Friday, August 19th, so make sure to get your vote in before then.
Those who vote will be eligible to win some fire merch.
To learn how to get started with Polygon ID, you can check out this guide.
Village Wonders Program Updates
Applications for the Village Wonders program have just ended!
Village Wonders is a 3-month cohort where 12 selected projects will win funding, mentorship, access to service vouchers from Tier 1 projects, a chance to pitch their projects in front of top-tier VCs, and more.
Selected projects for the first cohort will be announced in the last week of August.
Thank you to all that applied!
PolygonDAO is excited to announce a dedicated DeSci Vertical starting in September!
Decentralized Science (DeSci) TL;DR
DeSci is an open-source alternative to the current scientific ecosystem.
The research community is incentivized to share its findings openly, creating an ecosystem of accessibility and shared knowledge.
DeSci builds an open science movement.
You can read more on DeSci here.
PolygonDAO involvement
Scientific research is tough, which calls for a revamp of the traditional system! PolygonDAO is excited to announce a dedicated DeSci Vertical starting in September.
This is a shoutout to all innovative projects to come join the ecosystem and Buidl together.
DAO Initiatives
Grants and Vouchers - Grants and Vouchers from tier 1 Polygon Village partners. More details here. Grants will go towards hosting, infrastructure, audits, listing, and liquidity.
Mentoring and Guidance - Get mentored by our experts at Polygon on solving the challenging problems in implementing Science on the Blockchain.
Sessions with Experts - Weekly sessions focused on education and buidling from Experts. You get to showcase your innovative projects and get valuable feedback.
A dedicated DeSci Channel - For ideas and discussions. Join a vibrant community for igniting thoughts, sharing ideas, content, and support!
Join our Discord Channel here.
Every week, we host “Village Talk” sessions on Twitter, where we speak to different web3 experts and BUIDLers. Last week, we hosted two Village Talk events:
Expert Talks & Project Pitches:
Last Wednesday, we held an Expert Talks session with Hacken Club, a project looking to protect projects and users from getting hacked.
The topic for this conversation revolved around “Web3 Security”, and our agenda included:
An introduction to cybersecurity
The importance of security
How to stay protected
Preventing hacker attacks
Case studies & more
Project Pitches:
Following our conversation with Hacken Club, we got to hear from two new gaming projects, as they took the stage presenting their projects to the community.
The Fabled: Explore the vast world, forge your own path, and discover new locations and characters in this action RPG game. Players are able to select their own fabled - warriors, god, or demons.
Crown Chaser Game: This is a strategic, tower defense style game where users can collect NFT cards to have thrilling in-game battles.
Make sure to catch the whole recording to learn all about web3 security and hear from new, exciting web3 games launching on Polygon. Listen to the full talks below.
Grantee AMA with Building Web4
We concluded the week with an AMA session with one of our previous grantees - BuildingWeb4, a platform building a decentralized economy for digital content and public goods. You can listen to the full AMA below:
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Monday, August 22nd at 9:00 AM PST: AMA session with Stader
Wednesday, August 24th at 9:30 AM PST; Expert Talks + Project Pitches
Thursday, August 25th at 9:00 AM PST: AMA with JokeDAO
Friday, August 26th: Grantee AMA
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
DAO Tooling: Sobol
Marketing: Coindash
API/Node Infrastructure: Chainstack
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.
Last week was the Polygon Connect event in Seoul during Korea Blockchain week.
Although there were tons of amazing panels and speakers during the event, today, we want to focus on an announcement made during the One Planet presentation.
The Terra Development Fund
One Planet announced the Terra Development Fund, a multi-million dollar collaborative effort with Polygon to encourage NFT projects to transition from Terra to Polygon.
One Planet was one of many projects affected following the Terra collapse. They decided that the best path forward for themselves was to transition to the Polygon blockchain.
Now, they aim to help other Terra NFT collections transition to Polygon.
They have already started helping about 80 Terra projects make the transition over, and this collaborative effort with Polygon encourages other NFT buidlers to make the jump to Polygon.
You can learn all about this here.
What is One Planet
One Planet was the number one NFT marketplace in the Terra ecosystem, owning about 60% market share while reaching an Average Daily Transaction volume of $500K and Monthly Average Users of 30K.
They call themselves the one-stop shop for NFTs, as they provide a launchpad, marketplace, utility-adding infrastructure, as well as community support.
Some of the features their platform offers include:
A customized UI by NFT Property
Allowing for multiple transactions in a single order
Supporting the purchase of NFTs with ERC-20 tokens.
“Forging” NFTs
With future upgrades, including features like offline memberships, mini-games, and more
We welcome all new projects as they make their transition over and encourage you all to apply for the Village program so we can help you continue to grow your project through the amazing features we have to offer, including funding and service vouchers.
Each week, Polygon DAO will spotlight a project and its journey into the Polygon Village.
Village story #3 - ONTO Wallet
This week we want to highlight our upcoming AMA guest, ONTO Wallet.
ONTO Wallet is a DID-based gateway into web3. ONTO allows users to manage crypto assets (including NFTs), perform cross-chain swaps, readily access a variety of dApps, and learn everything important in real-time via the ONTO news feed. With ONTO Wallet, users can create an ONT ID, a decentralized digital identity that enables one-click multi-chain wallet address creation and management and fully protects their private data through an encryption algorithm.
Aiming to provide “blockchain and web3 at your fingertips,” ONTO offers several features, including:
Financial audits
Decentralized identity
Data security
Cross-chain transactions
Current team initiatives
The ONTO team recently started “ONTO DApp Week” – Currently, there are 700+ dApps under the Discover page, meeting the needs of all Web3 users, including DeFi, tools, games, and NFTs. DApp Week will allow users to get a taste of the benefits of ONTO’s dApp function.
PolygonDAO will sit down with ONTO Wallet to talk about features, updates, and more. Make sure you tune in tomorrow, 8/19, and learn what the team is up to.
Our gossip column includes news and updates from all across web3, with a bit of bias towards the Polygon ecosystem, of course.
Learn all about how Deceentral Games built a leading metaverse game on top of Decentraland, reaching 1K in daily transactions and over 6K DAUs.
Gummy’s, a video streaming platform leveraging Filecoin, Lens, and DFinity, will be launching on Polygon.
Polygon bridge for Gnosis Safe has arrived, allowing users to transfer their assets between Ethereum to Polygon without giving up security or cost.
According to Alchemy, there are now over 39K dapps on Polygon!
Coca-Cola launches a digital collectibles collection on Polygon to celebrate international friendship day
Recur is helping Hello Kitty launch their NFT collection
Degen Wizard
Here are some of the “whispers” & “hacks” we heard from the Degen Wizard.
Whispers:
The first perfume NFT collection just launched
Here are 10 websites to help you learn web3 development for free
Hacks:
A good thread going over different ways for web3 newbies to make money in the web3 space
US Treasury sanctions Tornado Cash. Here’s an article about the subject, written by Blockworks.
Maker DAO is considering converting $3.5B in USDC to ETH
Any farmers out there? There are some sweet APRs on MMFinance right now. Use with caution, however, as high APRs usually lead to higher risk - this isn’t financial advice.
You can head over to our community Discord and subscribe to our “alpha alerts” to receive notifications from the Wizard.
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 607 jobs on the platform from 120 projects
42 jobs got listed in the last week across job functions by Airstack, GuardianLink, Fireblocks, Community Gaming, Connectr, Quicknode, EPNS, Bebop, and Web3Auth. etc.
We also witnessed around 900 job clicks this week
Featured Job of the Week: Bebop hiring Head of Business Operations
Stay up-to-date on who’s hiring by checking out the WAGMI Jobs page and following our WAGMI Jobs posts on Twitter!
My face before and after Polygon zk-EVM - we like the low fees!
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