PoolTogether Community Newsletter #30

PoolTogether 🤝 Optimism Meme Bounties, NYC Meetup, Pooly NFT has taken off, Governance Updates, PoolStreaks Season V & more inside 🌊🏆

Jun 14, 2022

Hey Poolers,

The waters of the big crypto oceans have been awfully rough and chilly over the last week. A good time for us to take a dip into the warm waters of the pool and enjoy savings without the risk of liquidation.

Let’s dive right into this week’s topics:

PoolTogether hits the testnet 🔴_🔴

You are craving that alpha, don’t you? Wanna know a secret? It’s just in front of your eyes; right there on Discord! Let me share what I found out by scrolling through the PoolTogether #bounties-chat:

The Optimism Swim Team consisting of McOso, underthesea, Max’ and drcpu managed to deploy the PoolTogether contracts on kovan, Optimism’s testnet. With that, we are on schedule to go live on Optimism mainnet in two to three weeks if everything goes right.

PoolTogether 🤝 Optimism Meme Bounties

Poolers, nerds, memelords & general optimists - listen up! The POOL Bounties Team is back with a fresh bounty to celebrate our path to Optimism.

Synchronized Swimming Team GIF - Synchronized Swimming Team Swimming Pool GIFs

Where to better spend L2 summer than in the pool? Help us set the mood with some powerful memes!

👉 All information on Dework
👉 Questions? Reach out in #bounties-chat

NYC Meetup 🗽

Are you attending ETH New York, NFT NYC, or are just hanging out in New York City next week? Come and meet some Poolers!

Pool Together will throw a Pool Party at TALEA Beer Co. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from 5-8 pm on Tuesday, June 21. The party will have free drinks, food, and highly demanded PoolTogether towels for all guests.

👉 RSVP for the Event

Pooly NFT has taken off! 🦜

Congratulations to PoolTogether Inc for going beyond their funding goal! There are now more than 5,400 individual Pooly holders out there!

We’ve seen lots of encouragement from the whole DeFi ecosystem toward PoolTogether Inc. A whole community has formed around Pooly and you could almost say the birb turned into the symbol of the protector of Decentralized Finance.

Pooly @PoolyNFT

🔥 over 5,000 Pooly holders 🔥

So much has happened already: There are community-made Dune Analytics Dashboards (1 & 2), A Dune Beginners Guide featuring Pooly, Lens handles for Pooly Holders, tons of artwork, a PFP competition, and way more. The list seems to become endless even though the first birb only hatched just over two weeks ago!

Want to join the flock? Here are some links for you:

More information about the Pooly NFT collection
Follow Pooly on Twitter
Follow Pooly on Lens
Join the community of supporters on Discord

PoolTogether Governance 🏛

PoolGrants: This Lil’ Pooly Did Marketing and More 💸

Some are waiting for the second coming of DeFi summer, others are on board for Layer 2 summer, but we all know it’s PoolTogether Fam Summer. Our honorable poolers have come to the grants committee with a tsunami of ideas to flood the community with marketing junkets and opportunities. Let’s not waste time treading water talking about how this marks PoolGrants first full year.

👉 View all funded grants on Medium

Treasury Working Group: Third Quarter Renewal 🏦

While PoolGrants is focussing on spending treasury funds, the ~~Turtle~~ Treasury Working Group aims to manage these and put them to best use. BraveNewDeFi has mapped out the group’s duties, deliverables and history before we’ll move forward with an on-chain vote.

👉 Read all about the TWG in this thread

Marketing Working Group: Creative Process Primer 🤓

Next team on the list: Marketing! Loitering_Sean breaks down typical roles in marketing and the creative process behind it. All Marketooors, get involved!

👉 Become a Marketing Expert on the forum

Be a Governooor! 📣

Those and many more topics are currently being discussed on the PoolTogether governance forum. Jump right in and participate!

Community Vibes ✨

PoolStreaks Season V 🔮

Pool Hodlers, it’s time for a game! Season V has officially begun with the draw 238 of PoolTogether. Can you predict the prize machine? Join us on Discord and prove your psychic abilities to the rest of the community.

👉 Let’s play a game, Pooler!

Community POAP Raffle 🎟

Poolers love winning, so community member LiviuC has spun up a raffle to spoil us with even more prizes this week! If you’re holding one of the latest Community Call POAPs you’re in for the chance on one of uGMI prizes.

👉 Participate on POAP.fun

DeFi x NFT alpha - fireside chat 🔥

KrisKay has invited to a fireside chat about the intersection of NFT & DeFi and had some 🔥 guests joining him along! Index Coop, Nested Finance, nftfi, and PoolTogether shed some light on the, still emerging, ecosystem and talked for 1.5 hours.

👉 Listen to the recording on Twitter

Kris Kay | 🍩 DeFi Donut @thekriskay

Set your reminders for tomorrow! 🔥 DeFi x NFT alpha inbound.. Featuring: @NestedFi , @NFTfi , @PoolTogether_ , @indexcoop & the host w/ the most: @thekriskay How are DeFi & NFTs coming together to disrupt the space even more? https://t.co/Vvn6kTSXkO

PoolTogether Community Podcast #23 with Torgin

All episodes of the podcasts are worth listening but this is a special one. PoolTogether OG Torgin talks about security audits, oracles, grants, and multi-sigs. Torgin is one of PoolTogether’s earliest contributors, one of the founding members of PoolGrants, and one of the strongest participants in governance.

👉 Listen on Substack⏐Apple Podcast⏐Spotify

PoolTogether Community Interview #27 with Nahuel

Nahuel is a name you should have already heard if you’ve been at some Community Calls & Swim Meets. He works at Zerion, is an early contributor to PoolTogether who’s always voting on governance, and the one showing up every week to make sure you get your dose of POAP delivered to your wallet.

👉 Find out more by reading the full interview on Substack

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