PoolTogether Community Newsletter #28

Aave v3 Yield Source Integration, First Bounty live, Week 8 of Season 1 NFTs, Track your deposits on Apeboard & a lot more inside 🌊🏆

May 12

Hey Poolers,

it has been a troubled past few days in the crypto space and I hope you all managed to stay afloat! We have a helpful and caring community on Discord. Feel free to join and reach out if you have been affected and don’t feel well! Here’s some of that No Loss community-wholesomeness delivered straight into your email inbox.

Markets go up and down, but PoolTogether works. Why? Because it’s secure and doesn't over-promise. It's simple to understand, easy to use, and quick to explain: It's a savings account - a powerful financial tool that helps to build healthy habits. 💯

That being said, I appreciate you all for being a part of this. Let’s filter through the noise with our weekly news splash! 💦

Aave v3 Yield Source Integration 👻

Code ✅
Audit ✅
Wen L2? 👀

Over the last year, PoolTogether has built a strong partnership with Code4rena. Code4rena is hosting regular audit contests for PoolTogether. This allows for a steady stream of new feature releases while being able to maintain the full security of the protocol.

The latest contest for the Aave v3 Yield Source Integration allows PoolTogether to update its deployments on Polygon but also opens up the door to other networks.

First Bounty of the POOL Bounties Program Live! 🏆

The POOL Bounties program was introduced during our two latest Community Calls. It offers a chance for the PoolTogether community to explore fun ways to grow the protocol, its presence, and reach.

The first bounty is now live on Dework, and it’s one that allows everyone to participate: What is your best idea for unlocking growth of the PoolTogether protocol?

You have time until 7 pm UTC on Sunday, May 15th. ****The six best ideas will be rewarded with 5 POOL each.

Participating in POOL Bounties on Dework is super easy:

Click on Submit Work
Connect your Discord account with Dework
Enter your submission: A short and descriptive title, an overview of your idea, and an explainer of how the idea will benefit the protocol

👉 Submit your idea on Dework today!
Do you want to go beyond that? 👉 Explore the POOL Bounties Program

PoolGrants grants grants! 🏦

With all the Bounties talk we shouldn’t forget about PoolGrants! The Grants Committee has been busy working some magic with help from the community, it’s a reverse 80/20 thing; 20% Grants magic, 80% Community magic. This month is going to be equal parts alpha and funded grants, so strap your board to the top of your ride and buckle your seats, we’re hitting the waves, LFG.

👉 Check out all funded grants in their Medium article
👉 More info on PoolGrants

Week 8 of Season 1 NFTs 🥳

Every party has to come to an end. Dance the last dance, and kiss the last kiss, Poolers! Week 8 of Pool Party Season 1 comes with two missions appreciating all people that make the protocol what it is. Both missions are retroactive so you don’t have to do anything to become eligible and can just mint your NFTs next Monday.

Mission #1 rewards all POOL Hodlers. Anyone who proved to be a true pooler and has held POOL for the last 42 days is included! Learn more about the POOL token.

Mission #2 is for the Governance Poolers. It rewards all previous voters on PoolTogether governance. Learn more about PoolTogether Governance here.

👉 Follow me to the Pool Party & claim your NFT!

Update on the Prize Notifications 🔔

PoolTogether Prize Notifications have officially been battle-tested in the spotlight of last week’s mission. Currently, 1345 individual wallets tracking more than $5 Million of deposits!

Quick reminder: Prize Notifications on Telegram and Discord are fully community-built! Our Poolers Max’ and underthesea have both done outstanding work in building, upgrading, and maintaining these valuable additions to PoolTogether.

👉 More info about Prize Notifications

Defiant 💌 PoolTogether

The Defiant is a content platform for unbiased No-Shill DeFi news and is probably a known name to most of you. It curates, digests, and analyzes all the major developments in DeFi & web3, so that you can stay informed about what’s going on.

Hold on... No-Shill DeFi News & No Loss Savings Protocol? 💡 Makes sense! Diego, Community Lead at The Defiant and superfren at PoolTogether, thought the same!

Poolers can get 25% off their annual subscription if they sign up via this link. They also have a free subscription - so it’s a positive-sum outcome either way!

Track your PoolTogether deposits on Apeboard

Ape Board 🌖 ⚛️ 🧪 🔺 👑 ☀️ @ape_board

Pooltogether 🌕 (@PoolTogether_ ) on @ethereum @avalancheavax @0xPolygon is supported on Ape Board 🙈 You can now track your position 👀 Bridge your assets: apeboard.finance/ape-bridge

You asked for it, so you shall have it. Thanks to your united efforts Apeboard has now integrated PoolTogether in their Multi-Chain Dashboard!

Poolers and apes can now track their PoolTogether deposits and POOL holdings across all networks.

👉 Visit Apeboard

Governance Updates

Multi-Chain Governance
What started out on just Ethereum has turned into a true multi-chain protocol. PoolTogether allows the full spectrum from beginners, degens to OGs to easily safe money on a network that suits their needs. There’s one thing that complicates it currently: even though the POOL token is both on the Ethereum and Polygon networks, protocol governance so far only exists on Ethereum only.

To finally overcome that, Brendan (CTO of PoolTogether Inc.) has done intensive work on a new multi-chain governance system. What that means? True cross-chain voting, to enable POOL token voting on any chain that the protocol is on. Multi-Chain governance allows to easily capture and broadcast state updates of proposals and voting across multiple L2s or sidechains.

This governance architecture will not only benefit PoolTogether! It’s meant to create a new community standard bringing the Ethereum community up to speed for a future with L2s. Ethereum Magicians - reach out to us on Discord!

Roll-up deployment - Temperature check
What does the community want first: More assets or more chains? This question is being asked by drcpu in a temperature check. The post sums up some discussions around the topic and invites us to think about the direction of PoolTogether in the near future.
👉 Comment and vote on the Governance Forum

PTIP-72: Single-sided POOL staking with IL protection on Bancor
Bancor DAO just recently voted to onboard the POOL token which resulted in an increase of POOL liquidity on Ethereum.

PTIP-72 seeks to deposit 100k POOL from the protocol treasury on Bancor 3, further deepening the liquidity of our token.
👉 Comment and vote on the Governance Forum

How I started using PoolTogether with my card within about 5 minutes 🍊

Are you tired of Metamask? Good that there are strong alternatives! Noxe takes you on a little journey of how he discovered Orange Wallet and how easy to use it is. From fiat to PoolTogether - all within a single app. It all started with a contest...

👉 Read the full story on Mirror

Bronder, Bro

There is no greater power than the power of the community. The time has come to decentralize BRONDER! Underthesea and Bronder combined their forces to give the PoolTogether TWAB Rewards contract a proper test-ride. Join us as we enter the gates of PoolTogether’s meme economy, and don’t forget your stroopwafels!

👉 Read the article and claim your BRONDER tokens

Disclaimer: The BRONDER token is a meme token without financial worth or utility.

PoolTogether Community Interview #24: SmartInvestor

He’s based in London, England and very keen to learn about crypto and the future. Learn more about SmartInvestor in this week’s edition of the Community Interview!

👉 Read the full interview on Substack

PoolTogether Community Podcast #16 - Loitering Sean 🔥🎙

Marketing, Metaverse, Maple Leafs - Tim and Sean talk about what it's like to do marketing for the PoolTogether Community. Sean joined the PoolTogether Community in November 2021 in an effort to dive deep and learn the space in a friendly environment. And you all know the PoolTogether community is just that!

👉 Listen on Substack⏐Apple Podcast⏐Spotify