Welcome to week 9 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.
DeSci Vouchers Are Live
If you’ve been keeping up with the Village Times newsletter, you’ll know that we recently launched a new vertical - DeSci (Decentralized Science).
As part of this initiative, Polygon Village by Polygon DAO will support selected DeSci projects through funding, vouchers, marketing, and more.
To get support, you can choose the “DeSci” category while applying for a #VillageVoucher.
Claim Your Merch
The Bounty Contest by Polygon DAO concluded last week - congrats Satyug!
Anyone who participated in voting throughout the competition can now claim their merch.
Monthly Grant Roundup
It’s now time to announce our grant recipients for the month of August:
Metapass
Nomis
Hall of GOATs Arcade Football
Metaverse Beauty/Fashion
Bello
InterSwap
Proofivy
AiGIA Health Data Marketplace (only if confirmed building on Pol)
DeFIRE
Race Kingdom
Play Time
Chainwhiz
KUDO
Privy Photos Inc
Genie
Cryptoticker
Congrats to all teams! We look forward to supporting your growth.
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:
AMA w/ PartyFi
On Thursday, we held an AMA session with PartyFi, and they explained how you can use their group chat investing platform to create profitable and winning trades. You can listen to the full talk below:
Grantee AMA
Last Friday, we had CrickDAO, the largest fantasy cricket game in the metaverse, join us for our weekly Grantee AMA session.
You can catch the recording here, however, like we do every week, we have a summary of the conversation written for you in our “Village Stories” section down below.
Next Week’s Events Schedule
Monday, Sep. 12th @ 10:00 AM PST: DeSci AMA w/ VitaDAO
Wednesday, Sep 14th @ 9:30 AM PST: Expert Talk & Project Pitches
Thursday, Sep. 15th @ 8:30 AM PST: AMA w/ JokeDAO
Friday, Sep. 16th @ 8:30 AM PST: AMA w/ Orange Protocol
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
Starbucks Joins Polygon
On September 12th, Starbucks announced that they will be launching their new web3 experience on Polygon - Starbucks Odyssey. Starbucks Odyssey will offer Starbucks rewards members and partners (employees) “the ability to earn and buy digital collectible stamps (NFTs) that will unlock access to new, immersive coffee experiences.”
We have seen time and time again that web2 brands are choosing Polygon as the network to build on (Adidas, Draftkingz, Reddit, etc), and Starbucks is the latest example.
Ypu can read the full story here. Be among the first to use this experience by signing up for the waitlist.
Payment Gateway
This week, we want to focus on our “payment gateway” vertical.
What is a payment gateway?
A (web3) payment gateway is essentially a fiat<>crypto bridge. So any time you’ve used a debit/credit card on a web3 application, you used a payment gateway. Any web2 native business that added crypto payments to their apps also used a payment gateway.
These are also referred to as on and off-ramps:
On-ramp: moving from fiat to crypto
Off-ramp: moving from crypto to fiat
Why is it important?
Payment gateway protocols are extremely important for web3. Without them, we wouldn't have onboarded so many people.
Imagine every single person that wanted to jump into the web3 space had to open up a wallet, go to an exchange, buy tokens, send them to the wallet, and store them safely - there’s no way web3 adoption would be as high as it is now.
How does Polygon DAO help?
Polygon DAO has partnered with four different projects, providing payment gateway-related services to Village projects.
These partners include:
Any project that is looking to add payment gateway support to their application 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 #7 ~ CrickDAO
Thousands of players worldwide play fantasy cricket every year, and CrickDAO wants to make this fantasy gaming experience more interactive by introducing some web3 components to the game.
What is CrickDAO
CrickDAO is tokenizing online fantasy cricket.
The platform functions similarly to other fantasy sports platforms, except for the added benefit of ownership, thanks to NFTs.
They aim to use NFTs that players own to create their team and participate in the league and competition - you truly own your players. This means you keep your players for more than just that one year and also buy and sell players using the platform’s built-in marketplace (not launched yet).
Tokenomics
CrickDAO is powered by the $CRIC token, which is the in-game currency for the entire ecosystem.
There is a capped supply of 200M tokens, with 50% of them going out as rewards (staking, liquidity, play-to-earn rewards).
How was Polygon DAO able to support CrickDAO?
CrickDAO received a grant from Polygon DAO to help build its platform. If you want to stay in the loop with everything CrickDAO, make sure to check out their Twitter and Discord.
Episode 3 of the WAGMI Jobs ”Celebrating Web3 Careers” series
Polygon just surpassed 2B transactions - a huge milestone!
Last week, the Polygon DeFi team held an AMA session with Stader Labs and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal to talk all about liquid staking using the MaticX token.
Here are the top six winners of the PolygonLEAP accelerator program, who were rewarded with a $250K prize pool.
Chaos labs announce the v0 launch of its Aave V3 risk application
Here are some Polygon stats from the month of August
Omni, a web3 wallet, introduces the “ultimate Polygon hub”
Juno, a web3 checking account, now supports instant on-ramps to USDC on the Polygon network.
NFTs / Gaming
HomaGames, a leading mobile game publisher with over 80 live games, is building a Homa FunFair on Polygon
Here’s a thread on Planet IX, one of Polygon’s top-rated games over the past couple of weeks, according to Dapp Radar.
One Planet completes its move to Polygon
Key highlights from the Job Board this week include:
There are 622 jobs on the platform from across 128 projects
78 jobs got listed in the last week across job functions by Hike, Fitmint, Chainstack, Fitlink, Bitfinex, NFTically, Vitamin Labs, Real Items, Horizon Blockchain Games, etc.
We also witnessed around 1400 job applications last week
Featured Job of the Week: Vitamin Labs hiring Director, Partnerships
Stay up-to-date on who’s hiring by checking out the WAGMI Jobs page and following our WAGMI Jobs posts on Twitter.
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