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Getting DAOn To Business
Yahya from Layer3 & Brandon Kumar
March 18, 2022
What’s up Layer3 community and contributooorrs. It’s Friday, which means it’s time for us to bring you up to speed on all things Layer3.
Featured Contests 💰
So much to do on Layer3, so little time 😰 - don't worry we got you. Here are a few selected contests you can jump straight to from this newsletter.
Making playlists is fun, right? Well it's even more fun when you can earn $FWB for doing it:
📝 Instructions: Curate a playlist that captures the essence of Friends with Benefits 🎧
✨ Reward: 2 $FWB or $98 at current prices.
Know a thing or two about angel investing? Eve Wealth are running a Blog Post contest, and offering a generous reward for the winning entry!
📝 Instructions: Write a 500 - 750 word article that explains to a beginner audience how to diligence a Web3 angel investment.
✨ Reward: 375 $USDC
Meme lords assemble - this one's for you:
📝 Instructions: Tweet the most relatable and witty meme referencing Zerion’s upcoming Smart Wallet release
✨ Reward: 50 $USDC
Remember, there are ways to earn across seven categories. So you can start earning crypto by doing sh*t - on your terms! Click to earn 👇
Featured Submissions 👩💻
Appreciating the legendary Layer3 contributors who brought the 🔥 this week.
Remember last week when we said The Doge NFT wanted Layer3 contributors to doge-ify historical art pieces? This contributor was pretty creative...
Doge-fied!🐶
@layer3xyz@ownthedoge
drive.google.com/drive/folders/…— 𝒿𝒶𝒾𝒶 (@heyjaia)
4:41 PM • Mar 15, 2022
Also - there's a contest to write a tweet thread explaining Compound Treasury. Some of the submissions have been 🔥 - here's a couple we liked:
Thumbs Up Finance proving they aren't top of our Layer3 Leaderboard for nothing!
Ever heard of the DeFi mullet thesis? 🤨
This is the idea (c/o @BanklessHQ) that as #DeFi continues to outperform traditional finance, banks and FinTechs will use it as the default yield source.
Let's look at how this is already playing out thanks to @compoundfinance 🧵 (1/5)
— Thumbs Up Finance (@thumbsupfinance)
1:54 AM • Mar 18, 2022
And another strong submission as always from community hero Tumilet
If we want to onboard non-crypto native financial institutions to Defi, we must work on their customer experience.
Let's be honest, Defi protocols UI are complicated.
Compound treasury from @compoundfinance aims to solve this by abstracting away protocol-related complexities.
— tumilet.eth (@tumilet_)
6:23 PM • Mar 16, 2022
Remember all submission data is real-time now on Layer3 - so go check it out for yourself!
What we've been BUIDLing 🏗️
GM how are the Devs doing? 👑 Louder for the people at the back
We said something exciting was coming... and the devs delivered:
Layer3 bounties are now instant ⚡️
Earn 1 USDC if you have an ENS in your Twitter name 👇
— Layer3 (@layer3xyz)
11:03 PM • Mar 14, 2022
That's right - bounties are now instant on Layer3. Get rewarded for on and off-chain actions instantly.
Hungry for more? Well if you're a Hexagon on Twitter - you're in luck:
We're giving away a lifetime of Polygon gas to anyone with an NFT PFP (link in bio)
— Layer3 (@layer3xyz)
7:32 PM • Mar 16, 2022
Go claim that $MATIC!
Community Spotlight 🔍
A weekly spotlight on some of our favorite DAOs, communities, and L3 community contributors
🫂 Finding your Friends with Benefits
Friends with Benefits (FWB) is a token-gated DAO focused on creatives, artists, musicians, and those who are generally passionate about the intersection of culture and web3. FWB began as an experiment in DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and how to organize digital community, and they’ve now expanded to multiple cities that host both online and offline events.
What’s their mission?
FWB wants to bridge the gap between creatives and web3: “The responsibility to create cultural and technical tools that improve the creative class’ introduction to Web3 remains top of mind...the community [has] consistently challenged us to think differently and act boldly.”
Learn more and get involved
See their full bounty board on our site here
🎉 We hosted our first Twitter Spaces yesterday!
Thank you to the 240+ (!!!) people who tuned-in to first-ever Twitter Spaces! Sarah hosted the spaces, along with Dariya, Brandon, and Yahya discussing all things Layer3. If you missed it, make sure to catch a recording of our spaces here.
All participants were eligible for a sexy POAP:
If you don’t have an hour to kill but still have major FOMI (fear of missing information), we’ve summed up some major points here:
Yahya covered some of the amazing features we’ve shipped over the past few weeks, including a leaderboard and our instant bounties feature If you’re interested in checking out our public roadmap, take a look at what we’ve been cooking. You can also request a desired feature here!
Brandon updated everyone on the state of our current partnerships and the DAOs we’ve been onboarding to our new beta DAOs clearly face a massive challenge in coordinating contributors, and Layer3 aims to solve that. Any DAOs interested in trying out our public beta can fill out this form, and Brandon should be in touch with you shortly.
Dariya discussed how we came to be and the true potential of Layer3: unlocking a global network of talent through on-chain reputation and identity The future of work looks bright for those in web3
We also chatted about why we made our decisions to jump from traditional industries to web3, addressed your burning questions, and roasted Brandon (and his loafers) for his former TradFi career.
Join us next week for more of Dariya's banter and Yahya’s ✨refined✨ British accent.
Featured Question: Will there be more dev-related bounties and contests on the site soon?
Answer: Yes, they’re on the way! And remember to check out our Superteam Solana contests if you want to show off your coding skills.
“We can take the 15 year old in Bangalore and give him the same opportunities as a 27 year old in Silicon Valley” - @dariyaxyz
Goes so hard and has the opportunity to change the world
— jai.eth (@jai_bhavnani)
11:52 PM • Mar 17, 2022
P.S. — Shoutout to Jai from Rari Capital for covering one of our more salient points! If you’re a 15 year old in Bangalore learning Solidity for the first time, check out beta.layer3.xyz.
Meme of the Week
By manvinder.eth#4033 on Discord
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