PoolTogether Community Newsletter #21

Delegated Balance, Gov Updates, Community-built API, Help Bot, POOL Trivia Winners, POAPs at PoolTogether & more 🌊🏆

Mar 15, 2022

Hey Poolers,

Did you notice something? Gas is low! If you still have deposits in PoolTogether V3 it is definitely time to get those over to the new PoolTogether.

With V4 just the newsletters are weekly, prizes are daily! So what are you waiting for? Still don’t know wheresthedrip? 😉

Delegated Balance in the UI 🎁

You’ve asked for it - you shall have it! You can now see how much is delegated to you on your account page!

What’s Delegation?
Delegation gives you the chance to win without even needing a deposit!
👉 Learn more about how it works

Governance Updates 🏛

Voting Live: PTIP-62: Grants Committee Funding (Q4)

The third quarter of PoolGrants has concluded so governance is requested to approve the transfer of budget funds for Q4, which runs from Feb 19th to May 18th. On-chain vote for PTIP-62 is live now!

👉 Learn more about it here
🗳️ pPOOL Depositors vote gas-free
🗳️ On-chain Vote

(RFC) Treasury Working Group | Second Quarter Renewal

The Treasury Working Group (TWG) was established at the end of November 2021 via PTIP-46. Over the last several months, members of the TWG have worked to provide analysis on various governance issues. All this has been neatly summarized in within the RFC to give the PoolTogether community a chance to decide where to go in their second quarter. The TWG has opened their proposal up with a request for comments before transitioning to the actual PTIP.

👉 Read and comment on the RFC
🧵 Twitter Thread by LlamaDAO

Llama @llamacommunity_

Llama contributors @BraveDeFi and @yuan_han_li helped establish @PoolTogether_'s Treasury Working Group (TWG) in November 2021. This weekend, the WG submitted a renewal proposal to continue their work for a second quarter.

gov.pooltogether.com(RFC) Treasury Working Group | Second Quarter RenewalOverview The Treasury Working Group (TWG) was established at the end of November 2021 via PTIP-46. Over the last several months, members of the TWG have worked to provide analysis on various governance issues. Per our original proposal, the TWG’s core purpose is to: Ensure safety and prudence go…

Community built open-source API for Prize Stats 📊

Underthesea published the code that runs the API behind poolexplorer.win. Anyone is free to use the API, or the code. It has some unique functionality as it was designed for poolexplorer specifically (and now Pooly). The API runs off of drcpu's postgres database. Let’s build!

👉 Check it out

Help Bot 🤝

Superpooler Andy Kaufmann used his time at ETHDenver to make some meaningful connections. One thing led to another and now you can see the outcome in the #help channel on our PoolTogether Discord server.

Help Bot is there to answer all of those frequently asked questions. It picks up different variations of questions, allows trusted Poolers to edit the answers and helps to pick and collect frequently asked questions for our User Documentation.

Big thank you to amysundae, Oak and kdawg of Background Network, as well as Andy Kaufmann & DaBoom for putting in all the work to train the bot!

👉 More about Background Network

Winners of the No Loss POOL Trivia 🌊🏆

DaBoom proved his Quizmaster skills once again with Sunday’s No Loss POOL Trivia. I’d say we can call the event a success, so keep your eyes open for the second edition!

Here’s our big brains:

🥇 TheRealTuna
🥈 Taliskye
🥉 Leighton

POAPs at PoolTogether 🏅

In general POAPs are a great way to engage with the community, reward contributors and reflect on the things we’ve experienced together.

Thanks to our poolers Oops (Weekly POAP Designs since day 1), Nahuel (always got your back when it comes to distribution) and Pedro our community has some the dankest POAPs out there — that’s a fact!

👉 Read about our new Contributor-, Milestone- and Entertainment-POAPs on Mirror

Leighton as Speaker on CeloConnect 🟡🟢

CeloConnect (April 4-5) is a convention in Barcelona hosted by the Celo Foundation focussing on financial inclusion, a healthy environment, and connectivity through innovative technologies. Sounds like PoolTogether, doesn’t it? The Celo Foundation seems to think the same: Leighton is one of their featured speakers.

👉 More Information

Celo 🔦 @CeloOrg

#CeloConnect brings together some of the most inspiring web3 innovators. Chris Dixon @a16z Packy McCormick @packyM Fabrice Dautriat @Ledger Marco Barbosa @IPCTmarket Justine Humenesky @rabbithole_gg Leighton Cusack @PoolTogether_ Save your spot!👇 celoconnect.com

PoolTogether Community Podcast #11: Brendan 🔥🎙️

That’s the full set of founders right here! Brendan made the 3/3 appearance to complete Hot Mike’s first cycle. They talk about perfect coffee, the birth of PoolTogether, Brendan’s superpowers, benefits of hierarchy and future potential PoolTogether partnerships.

👉 Listen on: Substack⏐Apple Podcast⏐Spotify

PoolTogether Community Interview #21 DaBoom 💌

DaBoom isn’t just the recent addition to the PoolTogether Community Advocates but also the star of this week’s community interview. Follow the link below to find out more about our very own stormwater hydrologist and soon to be pool daddy!

👉 Full interview