PoolTogether Community Newsletter #27
Season 1 - Week 7, Aave v3 Yield Source Integration completed, Deposit Delegator announced, POOL Bounties Program, Know your Community & more 🌊🏆
Hey Poolers,
What a week in DeFi: Exploits, hacks, network outages. That makes you think about priorities. PoolTogether is closing in on its third birthday and remains one thing: secure. In the protocol’s history, no funds have ever been lost. PoolTogether is a savings protocol that helps to build financial health, therefor security is nested in its core values.
How? Regular audits, security bounties, strong partnerships (like Code4rena and Chainlink), and a team of experienced developers with high contribution standards.
Enough said! Welcome to your weekly news splash of updates, vibes & tweets from in and around the pool.
Season 1 NFTs 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
No Loss
Fun way to save
Thousands of prizes
Season 1 of PoolTogether’s Pool Party throws NFTs in the mix and makes our favorite savings protocol even more rewarding.
Last week’s mission was for all the claimooors! Some statistics straight from the prize distributor:
🏆 14388 total prize claims on Ethereum, Polygon & Avalanche
🏆 3514 unique wallets
Week 7: Sign up for Prize Notifications
This week’s mission finally puts some spotlight on Prize Notifications. Those exist on Telegram and Discord, and notify you every time you win a prize! This is possible thanks to our builders Max’ and underthesea. 💪
You have time until Sunday, May 8th 19:00 UTC to participate. Follow the link below to find out how it works:
Aave v3 Yield Source Integration 👻
Exciting news! The team of PoolTogether Inc has completed their work on the Aave v3 yield source integration. Aave isn’t just (one of) the most trusted and reliable yield sources out there but also opens up the gates to expand the PoolTogether prize pool network to Optimism, Arbitrum, and several other networks. Code4rena already hosted an audit contest, and we’re now waiting for the results!
👉 Code on Github
👉 Contest Details
Deposit Delegator 🐙
Wen utility? Now!!
No news for poolers, but it’s finally official: the Deposit Delegator is here and brings a ton of opportunities with it. You can now give utility to any NFT or POAP, easily onboard normies without cost for them, or create clever mechanisms for decentralized funding. And that’s by far not all!
👉 Have a look at the Medium article
POOL Bounties Program 🤝
The POOL Bounties Program is an experiment to supercharge the protocol by creating a space for everyone to share ideas and contribute to the protocol. a transparent process for how to go from idea to product.
Compared to the existing Pool Grants Committee, the Bounties Program is focused on small, well-defined tasks via outbound requests. It should allow users, community, and contributors can more easily get involved in day-to-day activities.
Come and help us build! Do you have ideas for bounties, want to join the POOL Bounties Team, or complete bounties?
👉 Participate in the first bounties survey
👉 Visit the POOL Bounties site
POOL Liquidity on Ethereum 💦
About 115K $POOL for single-sided staking is now available on Bancor. Stakers profit from Bancor’s Impermanent Loss protection, Poolers can now feast on the valuable liquidity for our POOL token. You can add liquidity here.
What’s Bancor?
Bancor is the only decentralized staking protocol that lets liquidity providers earn trading fees with single-token exposure and full protection from impermanent loss. In 2017, Bancor invented the first automated market-maker (AMM) liquidity pools.
Thanks to glenn for initiating this DAO2DAO partnership!
Token Launches and Airdrops 🪂
$OP
To all DAO Governooors & Operatooors: Optimism has introduced its Collective. The reason I mention this is not just that Optimism is the next logical network for PoolTogether to launch on but the fact that you are probably eligible for their $OP token airdrop if you have previously participated in PoolTogether governance or are part of one of the DAO’s multi-sig wallets.
$GAL
Pool Party Season 1 or the “No Loss. No Heartbreak. Just Love.” Valentine’s Day Campaign: Project Galaxy is definitely a name known to Poolers. After a year of existence Project Galaxy is now launching its GAL token and with it the Project Galaxy DAO. The GAL token means more opportunities for the Project Galaxy community to get involved and rewarded.
As a token of appreciation Project Galaxy awards the PoolTogether protocol with an airdrop to our treasury! 🪂
Know your Community 🫂
PoolTogether Community Interview #23: 💌
This week’s PoolTogether community interview features a true digital native: gambrill. He lives in the backwoods of New Jersey (yes, that exists), was selling on eBay before some of you were born, and hosts his own podcast.
👉 Read the full interview with gambrill on Substack
PoolTogether Community Podcast #16 - Noah from Endaoment 🔥🎙
Maximize your charitable giving tax deduction you say?! Endaoment is working on solving a ton of challenges for US-based nonprofits. Noah gives us all the details on the podcast and Hotmike was blown away by how Endaoment is serving nonprofits.
👉 Listen on Substack⏐Apple Podcast⏐Spotify
This week on PoolTogether Discord 🗓
PoolStreaks w/ DaBoom - DailySeason IV is on! PoolStreaks is an exclusive game for POOL token holders on PoolTogether Discord.
👉 Read the Mirror article for all information
DAO Onboarding Call w/ Tjark - WednesdayInterested in contributing to the protocol or learning more about how we vibe? Come join our Onboarding Call and chat about DAOs, PoolTogether & how to get involved. 👉 RSVP here
Community Podcast Live w/ Hotmike - WednesdayEvery Wednesday Hotmike interviews cool guests (sorry) and you can join the chat and ask the questions! This week: Adrien of Ledger. Yes - the hardware wallet! Come and learn how to not get rekt.
👉 RSVP here
Chinese Community Call & AMA w/ neken Friday你会说中文吗？Then this is your place! Our Community Advocate neken goes over the current news and answers your questions!
👉 RSVP here
Community Call & Swim Meet - FridayThis is where we vibe! Our Community Call & Swim Meet is the source of all information, updates & love stories in and around the community. Everyone is invited to join us on stage and discuss their topic.
👉 RSVP here
Reminders 📝
🥳 Tokenomics Update: Time for a POOL Party! (Part 3)
🪙 POOL Prize Tokenomics: Motivations
☀️ PoolTogether on GM
👁 Kames’ Retrospective: 1 Year at PoolTogether
🐢 Community built open-source API for Prize Stats by underthesea
👁 Real Vision Finance Interview
🤝 No Loss Donations to Unchain Ukraine
Tweets 🦩
The PoolTogether Community Substack is International! 🌎
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Pool pilled? 💊
Contribute to the world’s savings protocol, run by its users:
Join our weekly Community Call & Swim Meet every Friday.
Share bounty ideas & feature requests on Canny.
Do you already know how you can bring value to the DAO? Apply for a grant with PoolGrants
New here? Join us for one of our DAO Onboarding Calls (every 2nd Wednesday).
Just get in touch with us on Discord
Stay wavy & see you all around the pool! 🌊 🏆