JokeRace
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contests for communities to run, grow, and monetize. join our tg: https://t.co/j7Fp3u7pqS read our docs, sub our stack: https://t.co/wnK91jCXkO
Joined January 2022
we raised. $3M. from @Maven11Capital and a gaggle of some very favorite funds and angels. we're using it to hire for growth marketing (more on that below). and, oh yes, to build the future of onchain social finance with a new primitive:. contests. let's explain:. 1/
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some personal news:. we raised $2M from @1kxnetwork w/ participation of @seedclubvc @spice_cap @TheLAOOfficial @ArweaveEco @BoysClubCrypto. and 93 angels—the largest number of angels in crypto history. so we can be the place for any company or creator to build their community:
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rebrand everything:. "DAOs" —> digital communities."NFTs" —> collectibles."governance" —> decision-making."tokens" —> points, passes."on-chain" —> actionable."decentralized" —> community-led."jokedao" —> the best way for communities to make, carry out, and reward decisions.
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we're hiring. looking for a growth marketer to be the 4th member of our 4-person team who can own user acquistion and retention, grow this thing, and enjoy bad jokes. $210k annual comp, a bunch of perks, and the chance to scale something big. let's explain how big:. 1/7
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what is jokedao?. what is the *jokerace*?. what are the jokenomics?. and how does it all transform what's possible for grants, content, roadmaps, and creating DAOs in web3?. we put together a FAQ of everything you need to know. lfj 👇.
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big announcement:. today jokedao officially launches. we're excited to launch our new site where *anyone* can create voting contests. and it means we're the only web3 platform for bottom-up, on-chain governance. here's how it works 👇 .
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this is a big one:. we're now part of the @solana ecosystem. we're live through @Neon_EVM devnet so you can use your favorite eth wallet. to run any kind of contest—hackathons, grants, game shows, governance, and everything below—in the solana ecosystem.
hear me out. a Solana hackathon — but for written content only. tracks:. - Technical Deep Dive .- Research.- State of Ecosystem.- NFTs.- DeFi.- Payments.- Open Source Documentation.- Thought-provoking essay.- Tokenomics.- Tutorials. anyone interested?.
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another big breath. whew. hi everyone. we’re JokeRace, an onchain contest platform. and we’re very, very, very excited to announce that @0xPolygonLabs has chosen us as their grants platform to pick which grants to fund on @Giveth. oh and:. gm.
Polygon Village Update: Voting for the Buidl on Polygon#1 @jokerace_xyz round has officially commenced and will continue through December 19. There were 277 submissions, and the 100 most voted proposals will be eligible to onboard to @Giveth. Voters, we need you. Vote for your.
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ok big breath, but uh:. just really excited to announce that arbitrum dao will be using us as their grants platform to nominate, pick, and fund 80k $ARB (~$90,000 USD) over 8 contests. step one?. nominate who you want to be the judges.
Introducing “Our biggest minigrants yet,” program - and we're letting the community decide along the way with @jokerace_xyz . This week nominate a trusted Grants Council Member!.
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it's time to joke. drop a joke and your ens below by noon et wednesday, and we'll airdrop you 69 $JOKE. and let you compete to enter this week's jokerace, chosen by guest joke shark @packyM . 👇.
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it's that time. drop a joke and your ens below, and you'll get 69 $JOKE and chance to compete in friday's jokerace (curated by famed joke shark @Melt_Dem). lfj 👇.
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no joke:. jokedao is the first project to be approved by @0xPolygon's new Polygon Village. the program gives grants and vouchers to support the top companies and DAOs. and we're excited to collab on building open-source, bottom-up, on-chain governance.
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We're sorry for turning off the lights on Ethereum for a while. It seems abundantly clear that $JOKE will need to migrate to its own chain in order to properly scale. We'd like to encourage the DAO to start thinking in this direction.
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🚨 HIRING 🚨 . no joke: we're hiring a frontend dev to work together on solving web3's biggest obstacle—making coordination fun. specifically, we're looking for a really, really *good* frontend dev, per the job description below. our dms are open
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since officially launching a few months ago, jokedao has been used for governance by BanklessDAO, MakerDAO, Developer DAO, Layer3, Not Boring, and more. here's 10 ways that crypto's biggest players are using jokedao for grants, giveaways, governance and more 👇.
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aaaaaaaaaaaand. l. f. j. drop a joke below and your ens, and we'll send you 69 $JOKE so you can vote in the jokerace. 8-12 contenders will be picked by guest judge @BoredElonMusk to compete in the jokerace on friday noon et.
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what is jokedao?. we're a weekly game to vote on favorite jokes using $JOKE with the opportunity to win more $JOKE — and have your joke minted as an NFT governing the treasury. here's how you can get free $JOKE, use $JOKE, win $JOKE, and run jokedao. 👇.
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🚨 dude 🚨. so excited to welcome our newest user:. the ethereum foundation (!!!). thousands and thousands of dollars in prizes available for creating the best visualizations of ethereum roadmap, architecture, decentralization, etc.
📣 The Data viz challenge on @jokerace_io is now open! Dive into data, create a visualization with your findings, host it on a public page, and win bounties! . Learn how to apply here 👇.
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from the beginning, we've dreamed of letting any community, company, or creator use contests to monetize. today that dream comes to life. we've added entry charges. and we split the revenue with you for any contest you run. that's right: you can now make money by using us. 1/6.
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the bad news:.mirror informed us yesterday they're scrapping races, so this is the last week we can host the jokerace on their site. the good news:.we're going to build our own version with implications way beyond just jokes. here's what that means and how to get involved 👇.
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aaaaaaaaaand. it's that time of week. drop a joke and your ens below, and we'll send you 69 $JOKE to participate in this week's jokerace. guest judge @andrwwang will pick 8-12 jokes to compete for the famed silver crown.
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ok let's do this:. we're decentralizing!. we're now *jokerace*: contests to make, execute, and reward decisions. jokedao continues on as, you know, an actual separate DAO comprised of token-holders. independently, we will each work to build the joke brand 👇.
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damn. late last night, @juiceboxETH voted with 98.8% approval to give 40k to fund our next wave of development:. — content moderation.— tournaments.— decentralized grants. it's an absolute gamechanger for us—and, we hope, for the space. let's explain.
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hey uh lil nervous to announce this but um. we're now an app!. go to on your phone to download. you can play in contests fully redesigned for mobile. so that you can—knock on wood—have fun and earn huge rewards if you win 👇. 1/9
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alright it's that time of week. drop a joke and your ens and lfj 👇.
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we're excited to announce that we've launched our own @juiceboxETH project to raise money, and we'd love your help. let's dig in.
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honestly if your DAO is being attacked by a majority of token-holders, just seriously, congrats on getting the majority to participate in governance at all.
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are we allowed to flex and then pretend we were just joking?. because this has turned into a milestone week for us. @developer_dao, @layer3xyz, and @MakerDAO all announced contests with us. and today @banklessDAO joins them.
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fun fact: if you have an app-chain that's EVM-compatible, just shoot us a dm with RPC, chainid, and block explorer link. and we can let anyone do hackathons, grants, bounties, governance, etc on your chain. this week we integrated @ourZORA @LineaBuild @BNBCHAIN in about 5 min.
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we're excited to share some big announcements:. 1. the jokerace will return next week in beta.2. it will return on our own platform. which any DAO can use for on-chain contests and gamified governance. let's run through what that means.
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jokedao’s aim is to create an immutable joke blockchain that blackmails you all 10 years from now for the terrible jokes you’re all telling that will be branded forever into your digital identity like the mark of cain.
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we’re excited that @MakerDAO delegates are moving forward to use jokedao for DAO governance—starting with a pulse check of community priorities. if you own at least 1 $MKR, claim your contest tokens by monday night to participate. full details below.
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this week was our biggest in joke history. four of the biggest players in web3— @arbitrum @0xMantle @AragonProject @gitcoin —all launched contests on our site, with tens of thousands of dollars of rewards. you can find all of them on our homepage: here's how to play in each 👇.
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introducing: tweet of the week, running on @arbitrum . 🫴 grab the best tweets you've seen on the tl.🫳enter in JokeRace (& drop in replies 👇) .🏅the top 5 will win from rewards pool.💰rewards start at ~$250 and go up the more people play. enter here:
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hi we integrated 10 new chains this past month—so *anyone* can launch contests on any of them. @solana (via @Neon_EVM ).@SeiNetwork.@dymension .@Blast_L2 .@fraxfinance .@taikoxyz .@Ancient8_gg .@aevoxyz .@syndicateio .@MorphL2 . welcome to the jokeverse.
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imagine that whenever you paid to submit or vote in a contest you:. ~ bought back tokens.~ crowdfunded the winning cause.~ provided liquidity.~ purchased a product.~ donated to charity.~ collected credentials. this is our favorite thing we've shipped. it's called circuits:. 1/5.
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actual governance is hard work:. — writing proposals.— rewriting proposals.— discussing proposals.— campaigning for proposals.— voting on proposals. and hot take, it should be formalized, tracked transparently, and paid.
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it might be our biggest contest to date. 10,000 $ARB given out weekly to four projects each week. that's over $5,000 USD *per project* to 32 projects over the next 8 weeks. and all you need to do is shill your project and how it utilizes arbitrum at the link below.
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this is a big one. as of today, contest creators and players now get 70% of all charges from contests—a 40% increase from before. we'll make less (a lot less). and our users will make more (a lot more). here's how it works. and why we decided to cut our take rate👇. 1/7
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tomorrow we make our biggest announcement to date. it may or may not have to do with us making token-voting a thing of the past.
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we're excited to build web3's only emergent, on-chain governance platform. submit entries. token-holders vote on favorites. useful for:. bounties. grants. endorsements. curation. user-generated roadmaps. today, we're announcing our jokenomics.👇.
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in under an hour—. just integrated @berachain. so anyone (yes, you too) can create a contest on berachain's testnet on our site.
Berachain’s Public Testnet "Artio" is now live. The March of the Beras begins at:. 🐻 🐻
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1/. BIG UPDATE. we've introduced Submission Control. here's why this is big:.
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excited to intro our head of marketing & professional yapper tavvi (@pagliachita). tavvi comes to us with an extensive resume in egirlmaxxing & jester's privilege. she's also held key roles at a unicorn startup and the world's leading beauty retailer, but we mostly hired her to.
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zero-knowledge governance: governance in which nobody knows anything but they vote anyway and then we get angry more people didn't vote.
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joke34:.splat edition (@devotionxyz). ~ lets you join the jokerace dao and govern the jokerace treasury.~ 1st user-generated nft collection (one nft per week).~ 20% to charity, 20% to joker, 60% to jokerace treasury.~ sold to first buyer.~ 2.86 eth.
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🚨 it's our BIGGEST feature we've EVER released 🚨. so far this week. introducing NFT allowlists. now you can allowlist NFT holders to submit or vote in your contest by just entering in the NFT's address. 1/8
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so, who’s gonna be the first crypto conference to use us for speakers to propose lectures and attendees to vote on the ones they want to hear?.
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🚨 NOT A JOKE 🚨 . we've integrated polygon's zkevm testnet. if you wanna launch a community, make decisions, and build reputation on @0xpolygon—this is the way. just connect to "polygon zktestnet" at and you can deploy no-code tokens and contests.
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made $0 in revenue this year, pretty sure this puts us ahead of 99% of crypto companies rn.
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this week, the community we're inviting to play the jokerace is. you. and we're giving you your own team with voting tokens. 1. put "jokedao maxi" in your twitter bio.2. join the team below.3. we'll airdrop 690 voting tokens to the first 100 joiners.
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get ready. we're rolling out one of our biggest features ever, and we mean EVER. 📱 👀. that’s… not what we’re announcing today. today we're announcing 8 lil game-changing features we shipped recently to improve your experience. check 'em 👇.
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every week we donate 20% of proceeds from governance NFT sales to charity. last week's winner, @ddwchen, picked the global sanctuary for elephants (@GlobalElephants) — we just sent them .2 eth ($517). read more and donate alongside us here:.
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🚨 we're protocolizinggg 🚨. introducing *extensions*. extensions are integrations built by 3rd parties on top of our protocol that expand the features and functions of contests. because we're fully onchain, anyone can build an extension—and we'll feature them on our site. 1/7
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fun fact. scroll mainnet launched an hour ago. we integrated it a few minutes later, which means anyone can now run hackathons, grants programs, governance, giveaways, marketing campaigns, etc on scroll. because we’re live on @Scroll_ZKP bb.
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oh we're shippingggggg. bunch of new updates:. — view previous, live, and future contests.— downvoting.— randomized proposals.— delete proposals.— faster faster faster. let's run through each, and they control against bias in DAO governance 👇.
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your idea of governance is to make it serious. our idea of governance is to make it fun. that's jokedao. that's the pitch.
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hosting the next joke contest on linkedin so they finally have good content.
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aw man. just wanna say thank to you all for your support yesterday for our launch. within 24 hours we had players like @DuneAnalytics @Livepeer and @lifiprotocol all deploying contests with hundreds of dollars in rewards. find em at and dm us any—anytime
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we're shippinggggg. some shit we've shipped this month:. ~ integrated five chains to launch contests on.~ search contests by title.~ share contests to twitter and @LensProtocol.~ made the site, i dunno, like 10x faster?.~ squashed a shit ton of bugs. 👇.
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it's our biggest release to date:. REWARDS 🤑. now anyone can create a contest, assign winners, and *reward* them in any EVM-native token. and you can just check our site to find or fund rewards. here's 7 use-cases for how rewards transform grants, bounties, and DAOs themselves:
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lfj:. SUBMIT A JOKE.thurs noon - fri noon et. VOTE ON A JOKE.friday noon-1pm et. #2 joke is the winner / winner gets 20% of nft sale / voters for winner get more $JOKE. $JOKE airdrops are paused but can acquire on uniswap (contract address in bio).
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it's almost like giant financial decisions for entire communities shouldn't be made by single individuals operating with zero transparency. this week is a reminder of why the future of governance will be on-chain and community-driven. of why we're building what we're building.
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another big day for us:. we just took our first lil steps towards becoming a full-fledged social app with our latest feature:. comments. and no, they're not just for feedback. in fact, they can change how contests are played. 1/8
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correct us—we're pretty sure we've produced the first user-generated NFT collection. that's right. weekly jokerace NFTs are the first time ever that a community has created and picked the NFTs themselves. because we're showing what community-led governance actually looks like.
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We love @get_para. And today we’re excited to integrate it as the first embedded wallet we’ve ever enabled. That means anyone can come to our site, pick Para as their wallet, and start playing in contests—no crypto experience required. Choosing Para was a no-brainer for us
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let's run it up:. we're publicly and goodly excited to be launch partners for @pgn_eth's launch. you can deploy your first transaction on PGN—and help influence the future of the chain—by playing in their contest below.
Tell us who else you would like to see building on PGN by submitting a suggestion on @jokerace_xyz.
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just to be clear we're not bankrupt. hell, we're not even sure we legally exist.
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fun fact, there are now over 47 different zkEVMs—and yet we remain the only jkEVM.
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Several other teams are working towards their own visions. Below are recent results from an clinical test comparing JokeRace, Apple, and The United States Government:
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we're taking this week off due to a wild theory that rest prevents burn-out. also we just shipped a whole site in 6 weeks. we'll keep taking every 5th week off, but the good news is that contests are permissionless. so if you want to run the jokerace, here's how to set it up:.
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we’d buy a law firm too, but unfortunately we don’t have any competitors to sue.
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jokedao's aim is to create the metaverse's first joke emporium to monopolize the market's most valuable humor and sell it at inflated prices to the wealthiest and least emotionally responsive fathers so they can leverage it to finally become relatable to their children.
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big news. we're excited to announce that we're helping solve the biggest issue in crypto today:. helping literally anyone in this space get a date.
the first @BoysClubWorld Blockchain Bachelor contest just dropped on @jokerace_xyz . starting with a question to get to know our contestants: . discuss your relationship with the bell curve. what was your most left curve moment?
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so @gitcoin is electing a council that will decide who gets to participate in gitcoin grants rounds. anyone with over 50 $GTC has 20 votes to pick who should be on the council. just a few days left to participate and earn onchain reputation 👇.
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mic check one two three. ok now:. we've launched a new landing page where you can play featured contests and win rewards—if you want your contest to be featured, just dm us. oh and: this is just the start of our redesigned v3 👇
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if you *have* a token or tokenized community, it just got 100x easier to operate. say your token is on mainnet ethereum: just pull the list of holders, and that's your allowlist. now you can run governance and any kind of contest—hackathons, grants, games—on any EVM chain. 2/
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introducing: meme of the week. 🫴 grab the best memes from twitter.🫳 drop them in JokeRace.🗳️ vote on the best ones. 🥇🥈🥉 the top 3 will win from a ~$500 rewards pool. enter memes here pwease:
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three major contests announced today:. ~ @OctantApp’s Great Climate JokeRace. ~ @RnDAO__’s $10,000 hackathon. ~ @crowdmuse’s Cyberphysical Design Contest. the future is a joke. wait.
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to the "axe murderer DAO" that recently launched through us:. when we said we want to be the place for all online communities to make, execute, and reward decisions, like dude we didn't mean *all online communities*.
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yo so—. @AragonProject threw a contest on JokeRace on what feature to build. and the winning submission from their community? they just built it 👇. they literally used us to crowdsource their roadmap. so sick.
We’re bringing multichain governance to DAOs with @zksync and @LayerZero_Labs! ✨. This plugin enables DAOs to govern assets + permissions across EVM chains from one mainnet DAO contract. Take your DAO to the multiverse 🪐
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want to hold a contest for everyone who follows you on twitter?. have them join a @guildxyz, export the list of members, and that's your allowlist. throw in some rewards, and now people are *incentivized* to follow you on social media 😈. 4/.
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what would happen if conferences used @jokedao_ for attendees to pick speakers?. if @rehashweb3's contest is any indication, over half of the winners would be non-male. this is the power of decentralization: more diverse communities expressing more diverse preferences.
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there are better ways to build communities:. ~ offer access not based on wealth, but the actions ppl perform.~ offer social games to develop meaningful relationships.~ offer opportunities to earn reputation.~ offer automatic execution of decisions. *that* is what we're building.
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not sure what's worse, that David Phelps is making me write this, or that i am David Phelps writing this. anyway hi rn you can win a @celestia mammoth nft, $50k from @LensProtocol, 1M points and your app integrated with @skate_chain, $2k from @phi_xyz, and a @blocksense_ role
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