MetaGame: A Massive Online Coordination Game

Public Good Projects Discussion
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Project Name:

MetaGame

Project Description and why it’s classified as a Public Good:

MetaGame is a Massive Online Coordination Game in the making - a mash-up of a learning platform, a social platform, a freelancing network & an MMO-RPG.

In its current form, MetaGame is a community, an educational platform & a network of DAOs with the goal of onboarding more people into the DAO space & helping more people build successful DAOs.

Everything we do is open source & available for free. Our public goods are our newsletter, our podcast, events, and the platform that acts as a knowledge base & a resource hub teaching people about Web3 & DAOs, with these goals:

  • Teaching people about the good side of crypto & the true potential for impact.
  • Onboarding people interested in contributing to DAOs rather than just degening.
  • Connecting builders to projects & projects to users, through everything we do.
  • Supporting the Web3 ecosystem in its growth.

In its final form, MetaGame is about helping people find the most optimal ways to play life while solving individual & collective problems. A network state about using cutting edge technologies for social & ecological impact.

An alternative, a decentralized socioeconomic system optimized for wellbeing, solving problems, making an impact & helping each other become better versions of ourselves, as opposed to value extraction & profit maximization.

It’s a public good because everything we produce is fully open source. Also because it’s thematically geared towards impact entrepreneurship & helping people level up, both of which benefit the public.

Main Project Funding Sources:

  • Friends & family (Patrons)
  • Grants & donations (MetaCartel, Gitcoin, DAO Drops & Optimism)

Seeking project-specific funding or funding for general operations:

Project-specific

  • Improving UX/UI of MetaGame itself - the web app has been built over 3 years by dozens of volunteers gaining experience & it shows. MetaGame is currently undergoing a huge UX/UI revamp.
  • Continue hosting workshops & panels, and writing DAO playbooks that cover all important areas for building successful DAOs, in collaboration with experts.
  • Start reaching for self-sustainability by implementing token subscription based membership, a primitive that will be useful for other onchain communities as well
  • Matchmaking - a matchmaking system for connecting people to projects
  • Web3 Craig’s list to start aggregating tools & services for web3 builders

Project Roadmap and Milestones (only for project-specific funding):

  • Finish the UX/UI raid by the end of S12 (December 21st)
  • Have all the workshops organized & DAO Playbooks written by the end of S12 (December 21st)
  • Subscription based membership primitive (December-January)
  • Matchmaking system (January-February)
  • Web3 Craig’s list MVP (January-February)

Funding Request and Budget (only for project-specific funding):

$25-50k - the minimum should help us “finish” the UX/UI revamp & produce playbooks covering basics for building successful DAOs. The maximum would make sure the revamp goes great, that we cover everything needed with educational content, and even build some new features including at least 1 useful primitive for the wider DAO ecosystem.

Team Information, including backgrounds and roles:

  • peth - Summoner of MetaGame & member of MetaCartel, Etherean & a DAOist since 2016, writer, podcaster & bizdev
  • Alec - full stack dev with 15 years of experience.
  • dysbulic - Writing code for the last twenty plus years, webpages since the web was a baby, & web3 for about three years have honed dysbulic’s skills as a developer and software architect.
  • Sero - 5+ years experience in web dev. Highly skilled fullstack develop Typescript/JS, HTML, CSS, #1 on Dework, the DAO bounty platform Contributed to 15+ DAOs/Web3 projects Raid Guilder

Social Credibility (development progress, awards, notable GitHub commits, referrals):

MetaGame started as a DAO in 2019, with $5k & people mainly paid in reputation tokens.

Since then, we’ve shipped v1 of the platform, produced loads of content, had hundreds of community calls, organized 4 conferences and onboarded dozens of people to working full time in Web3 - all for ~$300k in total.

Some of the things:

  • MyMeta Profiles (decentralized profiles built on Ceramic)
  • Quest Chains (a decentralized education protocol)
  • The Onboarding Game (a text-based choose-your-own adventure game)
  • ChievMints (a dapp for minting achievement NFTs)
  • MetaGame v1 (all of the above + Quests + MyDashboard)
  • Organized over 100 community calls, mostly with guest speakers & projects
  • Organized 4 conferences & a hackathon, MetaFest Croatia being the latest
  • Got notable advisors such as Griff Green, Michael Zargham & Hanzi Freinacht
  • People created over 1000 decentralized profiles.
  • Shipped over 200 newsletters with 12k subscribers
  • Produced over 50 podcast episodes with 150k listens
  • Onboarded at least 50 people to work full-time in web3.

Links & Resources:

Discord contact:

@petheth

Eligibility criteriaEligibility Criteria:

  • Do you have a commitment to open-source (i.e. every open-source license accepted by the Open-Source Initiative) technology and sharing results publicly?
  • Have you provided transparency about how exactly funding will be used?
  • Are you advancing values of freedom and privacy (no surveillance and handling of personal data)?
  • Are you supporting decentralization in various fields (for example building Web3 projects)?
  • Have you provided social media channels to the extent that we can confirm social proof of your project?
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Got a few updates I thought I should share:

  • We posted our monthly list of updates in the newsletter, including the closer & wider ecosystem
  • We uploaded more of MetaFest talks up on youtube
  • The most important thing to know is that we’re making good progress in preparing for the relaunch of the platform in December

More importantly:

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November - December Updates

Alright, so here’s a bunch of updates:

  • We published 2 more monthly updates - October & November
    • This includes all contributions that happened inside MetaGame
    • Also the news from the MetaAlliance (40+ member projects)
    • And news from the wider DAO space, Web3 & the world
  • We were second most funded on Giveth, got about $5k
  • We finished building The Academy
  • Wrapped up the overall UX/UI revamp, except for a few details
    • Includes the Quests redesign
    • Landing page improvements
    • Rewriting of the onboarding game
    • Redesign of the educational pages & building of The Academy
    • Redesign of the calendar
    • Redesign of the Seeds page
    • Redesign of the signup pages & value prop
    • Reworking of the leaderboard
    • A bunch more smaller things
  • Published a few podcast episodes & the rest of the MetaFest talks
  • Brought 7 speakers to our community calls
  • And most importantly - organized DAOcember
    • Which kind of requires a whole section of its own…

About DAOcember

DAOcember is a virtual schelling point for the people who think DAOs are the future of coordination. This year, it brought together 69 DAO veterans representing 80+ orgs from across the ecosystem, with the goal of educating & helping the new generation of DAOists avoid the pitfalls.

Event Details

  • What: 2 weeks of talks, panels, demos & workshops - all about DAOs
  • Who: Newcomers, DAO summoners, DAO operators & DAO veterans
  • When: December 1st - 15th

Objectives

Our main goal is to aggregate DAO knowledge & help the new generations of DAOists.It splits into:

  • :white_check_mark: Aggregate: Bring the biggest DAO brains together
  • :white_check_mark: Reiterate: Discuss the past, present challenges & future of effective DAOing
  • :white_check_mark: Onboard: Help newcomers understand DAOs & DAOing
  • :white_check_mark: Accelerate: Help new DAOs get off the ground
  • :white_square_button: Produce: A course fully covering the journey of creating & nurturing DAOs

Stats so far

  • Telegram group & twitter following organically from 0 to 300+ in 2 weeks
  • 69 DAO veterans from across the DAO space presented
  • 80+ DAOs & related organizations represented
  • 100+ DAO summoners & operators signed up
  • Opening day attended by 400+ people
  • 25 hours of great content captured
  • 20+ DAO-building topics covered
  • $1400 raised from the community
  • 300+h invested in production

And if anyone wants to read more about the DAOcember DAO, our plans for the next few months - and maybe join the DAO, you can read more & mint the NFT here.

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December - March Updates

In short:

In more detail

:handshake:t4: Community

  • Hosting DAOcember led to 200-300 new people joining our discord server.
  • QuestChains applications were checked out and approved by peth
  • 3 monthly Seed distributions to the community
  • Cleaning up of the bridgebuilding CRM & continuation of DAO onboarding into MetaGame
  • Massive outreach to past players & newcomers to activate them
  • Booking of new guests & hosting townhalls

Community calls & Hackerspaces :phone:

:cake: Content

:iphone: Technology

  • Finally got our first full time developer/lead dev, thanks to The Octant! :heart::heart::heart:
  • Finished the ComposeDB grant work
  • Avatars and Seed price data on the site now display properly again
  • Cleaned up github issues
  • A bunch of small yet annoying website issues fixed
  • Added Seeds & XP rewards to Quests
  • Global search query bug fixed
  • The MetaLinks project (kind of like Linktree) was set up, with the ability to display NTFs
  • An issue preventing people from completing Playbooks was fixed
  • Display of NFTs broke & got fixed
  • New landing page was designed by peth & deployed by Polimyl
  • Cleaned up & optimized some of the code base, decreased bundle size & increase website load time

:seedling: Growth

  • Did some housecleaning for the next phase, with a review of processes and finances
  • We’ve onboarded JournoDAO to MetaGame
  • We got $25k from The Octant, giving us runway for >3 months
  • We made flyers to pass out during the MetaGame ETHDenver raid
  • The deck to present at the launch was made w/ the roadmap & products descriptions
  • Website analytics reported all time high on the day of the launch & on average a 100% increase
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March - April Update

In short:

  • Spent a lot of time ripping out & replacing a bunch of the backend
  • Profiles evolved into their own product, in a fresh non-spaghetti-code repo
  • Hosted 4 Townhalls with 8 guests & published 2 new podcast episodes
  • Organized DAO Spring

In more detail

DAO Spring!!!

DAO Spring is the first DAO acceleration/incubation program, starting this week.

Do you have a…

  • DAO idea?
  • A struggling DAO?
  • A DAO that just got started?
  • A project ready to evolve into a DAO?

Sign up at https://daospring.org



:handshake:t4: Community

  • We hosted 4 Townhalls with 8 guest speakers (links for replays below)
  • A bunch of us hit up ETHDenver, did some shilling & gathered leads for new guilds
  • Bard’s Night, a musical hangout in the Discord server was hosted by joseacabrerav
  • New Octos were welcomed and initiated by joseacabrerav and peth
  • New Seed distribution was done quickly by dysbulic
  • We had long, at times heated, discussions on championing proposals & the future of MetaGame

:iphone: Technology



  • Large amounts of work went into the preps for moving the site login and ID over to Wallet Connect (Sero , dysbulic , Udit Takkar )
  • More improvements were made on the MetaLinks project, with work on the landing page, search functionality, Donate Tab, and Guild Tab for Meta Links (Udit Takkar )
  • A lot more work put in to disentangle & make it all independent of Hasura
  • Other updates and improvements to the website included some minor fixes to the MegaMenu, an update to the link for Player membership subscriptions, the return of the Guild signup form, and updates to the sign-up page (Sero , nitegeist )
  • Farcaster Frames, so hot right now. dysbulic , Sero , and crew spent a bunch of hacking on a frame to help a Farcaster user claim a MetaLinks profile.
  • The builder crew put together a Webflow site for DAOSpring (Polimyl , peth )
  • We’re looking at Charmverse to replace Notion for docs management, with dysbulic , Polimyl , and Sero getting things started
  • The Quest Chains mint NFT is working again, go forth and mint your quests (dan13ram , vid )
  • ‘Chievments is modernizing, now with Optimism chain support courtesy of dysbulic

:cake: Content

New podcast episodes:

Other content:

:seedling: Growth

  • We set up a survey to help new contributors get more into MetaGame (joseacabrerav , Omka , peth )
  • We used connections to get early access to YUP for more efficient promo. (Nice work joseacabrerav )
  • Props to joseacabrerav for all the work on booking guests for Town Halls, and for spreading the word on MetaGame across other servers and guilds
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The Great Pivot

Last Octant Epoch we did not participate. We took some time to reflect on what we‘ve been doing and what we want to do next, and we are looking forward to participating in this one.

MetaGame is moving forward to some new levels. The game is maturing and reconsidering the individual components and germinated seeds. (All puns shamelessly intended)

MetaLinks

  • MetaLinks (the first component of MetaOS that got spun out & rebuilt in a new repo as its own project) is continuing to be developed and has sprouted into a budding project.

NextMeta

  • We‘ve rebranded, rethought direction/themes and merged our podcasts into one together with the newsletter. NextMeta has been pumping out high quality content and now can be found on pods.media as collectable Podcast NFTs.

dAcademy

  • dAcademy is flowering into even more of a library for onboarding, and collaborating with other guilds in the web3/dao space creating new categories. (such as Regen/Refi category in collaboration with Greenpill Dev Guild)
  • Current playbooks and paths are branching into sub categories and even more pinpointed guides, workshops, and quick plays to help onboard the next wave or help the vets brush up on what’s new and current.

DAO Spring

  • DAO Spring helped bring us new energy and contributors to dAcademy such as members from EducationDAO. Along with the full DAO Playbook that has been produced, and 6 new DAOs launched through the challenge. New DAO Playbooks are in progress for more additions to dAcademy.

Community

  • Workshops and Guests have still been an active part of our Community and Bridgebuilding with more focus on actionable calls, either exploring specific tools to help us in the build or to help players in pieces of their paths.
  • For example, we had Ceramic stop through to investigate Web3Points as a possible new birth of XP
  • We had Armitage come through to showcase their new Sourcecred integration and functional dashboard for tracking contributions to Github repos
  • We had a Charmverse ambassador offer a workshop for Proposal/Evaluation/Rewards and workflows to best use them
  • We also had 5-10 other guests come speak at our community calls, tho we are in the process of shifting focus from having speakers to just having people come check in on projects

Other updates

  • Chievemints is now gasless with Biconomy’s Paymaster.
  • Guild pages are in a redesign for more functionality especially with dAcademy. Aiming to be a go-to launching pad for onboarding flows of orgs. And a great bridgebuilding tool integrating with other tools now being used in the overall ecosystem. The focus is not to create more redundancy but to embrace what’s been adopted and use the strengths of all that are being used regularly.
  • This rebirth of guilds will include a Bazaar for connecting with opportunities in the overall space.
  • Profiles are on the course to migrate to OrbisDB from ComposeDB on Ceramic. With a focus more on Guilds and also utilizing ENS profiles more as well.
  • We are reconsidering theGraph and looking into options such as Ponder, leaning towards Envio since it’s closely related in the MetaFam with support from MetaCartel and connections to RaidGuild. TheGraph for us since recent changes has been slow and causing issues. It’s time for that sweet speed of Envio.
  • Most of Ethers has been updated to Viem. With a few things still dependent on QuestChains Ethers uses.
  • EAS on Optimism has been integrated into profiles in its first form and is now also part of the playbook contribution flow of dAcademy through Charmverse’s proposal integration with a Credentials Attestation Schema.
  • We have embraced Optimism as the current chain of choice.

The Pivot

We are in a Great Pivot. (keep posted for a new full Saga describing the growing pains and new reconstructs of the game)

In short:

Over the years, we have created a massive repo now full of technical debt with high-turnover of temporary builders and changing tech in the space. This in some ways, will probably never completely go away in web3. But, so much has finally arrived and met the vision of MetaGame that was building on an idea a bit before all the pieces of the puzzle were available But the time has come to let the branches hold their own weight and create some repo fruit of their own.

For full context - the original idea of MetaGame was to take all of the Web3 building blocks & compose them into a Web3 socioeconomic system/network state/whatever. However, as most of the pieces didn‘t exist at the time, we ended up building things ourselves using unfinished & unstable infrastructure that has since moved on lightyears ahead.

Now, we are again looking into how we can separate out our massive monorepo into manageable components, which we will again try to compose together at a later date when they are all more mature. As we dissect the massive repo of the Game into smaller more digestible product components, we are preparing for easier onboarding of more contributors.

We are operating on a very lean budget at the moment. And it would help us to replenish some of our stashes to compensate new building, collaborations, and contributions.

In this open-source public goods space we are in, altruism is great, but it’s even better to reward those hard at work to create the needed tools for the future of work and a thriving new societal shift.

With this pivot of components, we are happily hopeful to realize a new form of MetaOS. Not one so limited to the paths of MetaGame as a thing but as a place and as a connective movement that we have all been a part of. (if you are here reading this)

In short, we have unburdened ourselves of what has been (:rofl:), and are continuing towards the vision of MetaGame through the pieces that still work, coupled with blank slates.

Thank you for considering us in this Epoch. We’ll be here continuing to build.

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@petheth Thanks for the update, can you please restructure it to be more closely aligned with the reporting requirements?
Relevant links:

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Hey, sure thing! Didn‘t realize this existed :joy:

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  • Total Funds Received from Octant so far: 17.19 ETH
  • Funds Spent: 17.19 ETH
  • Detailed Utilization:
  • Funds were used so the DAO can finally employ people full time.
  • Up until a year ago, everybody was getting paid in our barely liquid native token, being able to earn $1k at most for working full time - resulting in 1 person ever working full time.
  • With the ETH raised, we were able to start paying people better and we hired a full time developer.
  • We also:
    • Completed the UX/UI revamp
    • Launched The Academy
    • Built MetaLinks
    • Refactored a lot of the codebase
    • Organized DAOcember
    • Upgraded the podcast & newsletter
    • Produced The DAO Playbook
    • Organized DAO Spring

Milestones and Deliverables

  • Milestone 1: UX/UI Revamp
    • Description: Fixed a shitload of UX/UI issues, simplified & removed a bunch of things, and redesigned a bunch of pages. You can refer to this reply for full update on everything we simplified & redesigned. We also did a big user survey and added temporary incentives on playbooks to gather more feedback about the platform.
    • Immediate Outcome: A lot of user issues were alleviated and we were able to relaunch MetaGame.
    • Funding Used: $30k
  • Milestone 2: DAOcember organized
    • Description: Main goal was to aggregate DAO knowledge & help the new generations of DAOists. We did that by bringing together the biggest DAO brains, organizing 2 weeks of talks, panels, demos & workshops - all about the past, present challenges & future of effective DAOing.
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • Telegram group & twitter following organically from 0 to 300+ in 2 weeks
      • 69 DAO veterans from across the DAO space presented
      • 80+ DAOs & related organizations represented
      • 100+ DAO summoners & operators signed up
      • Opening day attended by 400+ people
      • 25 hours of great content captured
      • 20+ DAO-building topics covered
      • $1400 raised from the community
    • Funding Used: $7k
  • Milestone 3: DAO Playbook written
    • Description: It is the first edition of the crowdsourced playbook on successfully building DAOs, with contributions from >60 DAOists from >80 DAOs and DAO-related projects. With the goal to This playbook should demystify DAOs, what draws people to building them, and how to actually build them. As the field is ever changing, we will be revising the playbook and adding new chapters at least once a year.
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • Seen by 7k people
      • Liked by 81
      • Retweeted by 51
      • Minted by 32
      • Praised in DMs by 10+
      • $550 raised through the NFT mint
    • Funding Used: $5k
  • Milestone 4: Subscription based membership
    • Description: A way for people to subscribe to buying Seeds as a part of membership. This was completed by redesigning & building the new Seeds page, with Superfluid integrated in multiple subscription brackets.
    • Immediate Outcome:
    • People were able to subscribe to buying Seeds to become members.
    • Funding Used: $5k
  • Milestone 5: Matchmaking system
    • Description: A way to match people to DAOs that they should join. We created multiple playbooks encouraging & helping people join other DAOs, but the actual matchmaking system took a step back because of the codebase changes (refer to Challenges section). Overall, matchmaking will be happening in collaboration directly with projects like GreenPill to create org-specific onboarding flows through dAcademy. From this will grow a rebirth of Guild pages as a go-to place for new users to connect with potential growth and work opportunities.
    • Other than that, we are also planning DAO Rush Week - a week where DAOs will do presentations on how they operate, what open roles they got & how to get involved.
    • We are in discussion with Trusted Seed who already has a manual matchmaking program, to potentially build matchmaking as a standalone app as a collaboration between Trusted Seed, MetaGame & Hats Protocol
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • 2 playbooks created
      • 3 collaborations started with other orgs
      • 5-10 people completing playbooks
      • 10-20 people joining calls
      • 1 event in the planning
    • Funding Used: $500
  • Milestone 6: Bazaar
    • Description: Goal was to create the inverse of our questing system - a place where guilds & players can post their offerings like tools & services. This plan also got disrupted by more pressing needs of the codebase & eventual migration out of the codebase (refer the Challenges section). Current plan is that the new Guild pages that will be built alongside dAcademy will serve this need of listing everything our community & ecosystem has on offer.
    • Immediate Outcome:
      None
    • Funding Used: $0
  • **Milestone 7: Codebase Refactoring
    • Description: After the UX/UI raid was wrapped up, issues kept arising on the backend and the UX still kept getting broken in several ways. We upgraded ethers, moved to viem. Splittin off pieces that don’t require walletconnect and hydration on the client side. Tl;dr a lot of refactoring and replacing some of the core dependencies - full update below under “challenges” :smiling_face_with_tear:
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • Fires put out, and app re-made functional multiple times
      • Our realization that we have too much technical debt
      • Decision to start decomissioning the 4 year old repo & building pieces anew
    • Funding Used: $10k
  • Milestone 8: dAcademy Launched
    • Description: We merged all of our educational pages into one called The Academy, where both the list & inside of playbooks was completely redesigned.
    • Likewise, all of the playbooks were updated and the total number of playbooks available increased at least 3x. We announced all of this in a latest challenge where we had 100 of them completed. Since then, we kicked of collaborations with other guilds who want to use The Academy & made the decision to fork The Academy into its own project.
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • Designed & launched all new Academy page
      • Revamped all existing content
      • 3x the number of playbooks
      • 2 new playbook categories added
      • Also 3x the number of people completing them
      • Started working with other guilds, now a cross-org team of 4
    • Funding Used: $3k
  • Milestone 9: NextMeta
    • Description: With more focus on content, we‘ve decided to merge our podcasts and newsletter into a single brand, so all 3 were rebranded and upgraded. This included a full rethinking of everything we do - from topics & how we cover them, to workflows & production quality. Bought new equipment, changed how we do things etc.
    • Immediate Outcome:
      • Rebranded
      • Production quality increased
      • Started recording video (prev. was just audio)
      • Published 8 new podcast episodes since
      • Listeners up 100%
      • Published 2 posts
    • Funding Used: $5k
  • Milestone 10: DAO Spring organized
    • Description: The first DAO incubation/acceleration program. It was an 8 week program including 8 panels, 8 workshops & 8 weekly challenges designed to help people get started building a DAO, or make progress on their existing DAO.
    • Immediate Outcome:
    • Funding Used: $6k
  • Karma GAP: [If you haven’t already, make sure to set up your Karma GAP page, add relevant milestones, and link your project’s Karma GAP page: Karma GAP - Octant community grants]

Challenges

  • Previous Challenges:

    • Description:

    • Technical debt in massive repo of MetaGame.

    • Over the years, we have created a massive repo now full of technical debt with high-turnover of temporary builders and changing tech in the space. This in some ways, will probably never completely go away in web3. But, so much has finally arrived and met the vision of MetaGame that was building on an idea a bit before all the pieces of the puzzle were available But the time has come to let the branches hold their own weight and create some repo fruit of their own.

    • For full context - the original idea of MetaGame was to take all of the Web3 building blocks & compose them into a Web3 socioeconomic system/network state/whatever. However, as most of the pieces didn‘t exist at the time, we ended up building things ourselves using unfinished & unstable infrastructure that has since moved on lightyears ahead.

    • Updates:

    • We are looking into how we can separate out our massive monorepo into manageable components, which we will again try to compose together at a later date when they are all more mature.

    • Resolution:

    • As we dissect the massive repo of the Game into smaller more digestible product components, we are preparing for easier onboarding of more contributors.

    • Lessons Learned:

    • With this pivot of components, we are happily hopeful to realize a new form of MetaOS. Not one so limited to the paths of MetaGame as a thing but as a place and as a connective movement that we have all been a part of. (if you are here reading this)

    • In short, we have unburdened ourselves of what has been (:rofl:), and are continuing towards the vision of MetaGame through the pieces that still work, coupled with blank slates.

Outputs and Outcomes

Outputs (Last Epoch):

  • Output 1: Podcast & newsletter upgraded

    • We‘ve rebranded, rethought direction/themes and merged our podcasts into one. NextMeta has been pumping out high quality content and now can be found on pods.media as collectable Podcast NFTs. There are currently 8 episodes on pods. Each episode is in video form on youtube with plans to also start including on Lens.

  • Output 2: dAcademy launched

    • dAcademy had a playbook raid, which increased the use of playbooks by 3x. dAcademy is flowering into even more of a library for onboarding, and collaborating with other guilds in the web3/dao space creating new categories. (such as Regen/Refi category in collaboration with Greenpill Dev Guild)

  • Output 3:

    • MetaLinks is continuing to be developed and has sprouted into a budding project.

  • Output 4:

    • Chievemints is now gasless with Biconomy’s Paymaster.

  • Output 5:

    • DAO Spring helped bring us new energy and contributors to dAcademy such as members from EducationDAO. Along with the full DAO Playbook that has been produced, and 7 new DAOs launched. New DAO Playbooks are in progress for more additions to dAcademy.

  • Output 6:

    • Workshops and Guests have still been an active part of our Community and Bridgebuilding with more focus on actionable calls, either exploring specific tools to help us in the build or to help players in pieces of their paths.
    • For example, we had Ceramic stop through to investigate Web3Points as a possible new birth of XP
    • We had Armitage come through to showcase their new Sourcecred integration and functional dashboard for tracking contributions to Github repos
    • We had a Charmverse ambassador offer a workshop for Proposal/Evaluation/Rewards and workflows to best use them

  • Output 6-10: Not sure if I should be pasting stuff from milestones?

Short-term Outcomes:

  • Outcome 1:
    • Guild pages are in a redesign for more functionality especially with dAcademy. Aiming to be a go-to launching pad for onboarding flows of orgs. And a great bridgebuilding tool integrating with other tools now being used in the overall ecosystem. The focus is not to create more redundancy but to embrace what’s been adopted and use the strengths of all that are being used regularly.
    • This rebirth of guilds will include a Bazaar for connecting with opportunities in the overall space.
  • Outcome 2:
    • We are operating on a very lean budget at the moment. And it would help us to replenish some of our stashes to compensate new building, collaborations, and contributions.
    • In this open-source public goods space we are in, altruism is great, but it’s even better to reward those hard at work to create the needed tools for the future of work and a thriving new societal shift.

Long-term Outcomes:

  • Outcome 1: UX/UI revamp

    • Not sure if I should be pasting all of the above to here…

  • **Outcome 2:

    • Profiles are on the course to migrate to OrbisDB from ComposeDB on Ceramic. With a focus more on Guilds and also utilizing ENS profiles more as well.
    • We are reconsidering theGraph and looking into options such as Ponder, leaning towards Envio since it’s closely related in the MetaFam with support from MetaCartel and connections to RaidGuild. TheGraph for us since recent changes has been slow and causing issues. It’s time for that sweet speed of Envio.

  • Outcome 3:

    • We have embraced Optimism as the current chain of choice. This has lowered costs and is helping us in incorporating more use of EAS.
    • EAS on Optimism has been integrated into profiles in its first form, and is now also part of the playbook contribution flow of dAcademy through Charmverse’s proposal integration with a Credentials Attestation Schema.

    Metrics for Outcomes:

    1. User Engagement: Recently added pods are at 20 mints. Youtube views of the episodes are around 500. Total podcast listens reached 200k. Playbooks had a 3x increase of use and mints in the last 2 months. Newsletter is at almost 12k subscribers.
    2. Adoption and Usage: We are collaborating with GreenPill to create onboarding materials in forms of playbooks for dAcademy. This collaboration will also include playbooks such as ‘How to Run a Grants Stack’ as well as ‘How to use Charmverse as an Admin for your Community’
    3. Community Impact: We are over 2k myMeta Profiles created. MetaLinks is opening to new users. Guild pages are in re-design.
    4. Financial Metrics: We have been operating on a slim budget from solely grants recently. Raised just over $20k over the past 6 months.
    5. User Satisfaction: Our guild partners have praised us, excited to use dAcademy as an educational resource. We worked through some UI/UX hurdles during the recent raid to improve functionality. We are currently reapproaching QuestChains to make for a faster experience with more features, per feedback from users.
    6. Innovation and Development: 7 DAOs summoned from DAOSpring. Chievemints is now gasless per Biconomy Paymaster. MetaLinks is moving forward and incorporating more EAS. EAS schemas are being used in our Charmverse flow for playbook creation.

Plans for Potential Funds Raised in the Next Octant Allocation Window

  • Goal 1:
    • Description: Refactor repo into smaller repos. Support new builders to MetaGame.
    • Expected Outcome: Clear up some technical debt. Allow for composable pieces
    • Funding Needed: $10k-25k for new builder support
  • Goal 2:
    • Description: Expand dAcademy and Guild support
    • Expected Outcome: Increased collaboration with other communities. A growing library of onboarding resources for the space with the eventual ability for other communities to fork or expand on the dAcademy universe into their own educational resources.
    • Funding Needed: $10k-25k for backend updates, builders, and bounties for creators/collaborators.
  • Goal 2:
    • Description: Ship 12 more podcast episodes & 6 posts
    • Expected Outcome: Conduct more interviews, publish more great podcast episode, get more listeners
    • Funding Needed: $9k

Other Funding

  • Grant Funding Received Since the Last Epoch:
    • GG20 : $2k
    • Giveth QF Round : $2k
    • RF Optimism : pending ~$35k
    • DAO community: ~$20k
  • Other Non-Grant Funding Sources: Right now, we solely rely on grants as we create within the open-source public goods space.

Future Plans for Financial Sustainability

We have been active in multiple QF grant rounds via Gitcoin and Giveth. We are currently awaiting review for our RF Grant from Optimism.

DAOcember, DAO Playbook & DAO Spring have all paid for themselves through their own fundraising mechanisms (NFT mints by the audience & sponsorships). We plan on continuing to do this.

  • NextMeta has intentions to support other communities with promotion via interviews & sponsorships, with bonus funding through NFT mints.
  • We are collaborating with other communities and projects to increase their onboarding material via dAcademy, in the future maybe this could include some sort of monetary donation for support.
  • Overall, we hope to have each of our initiatives paid through their own channels so that over time, we can stop trying to raise money through MetaGame itself which is at this point more so a collection of projects than a single project.

The Great Pivot

Last Octant Epoch we did not participate. We took some time to reflect on what we‘ve been doing and what we want to do next, and we are looking forward to participating in this one.

MetaGame is moving forward to some new levels. The game is maturing and reconsidering the individual components and germinated seeds. (All puns shamelessly intended)

We are in a Great Pivot. (keep posted for a new full Saga describing the growing pains and new reconstructs of the game)

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Ok I added a bunch more milestones & details in general, but not sure about another section…

Basically, I put everything we did inside the Milestones.
What confuses me are the “Output” & “Outcomes” sections. Not sure how they are different, and whether I should be pasting stuff from Milestones, or make milestones report shorter but then expand in the Outputs or Outcomes sections?

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