PoolTogether Community Newsletter #33
Optimism Rewards Phase 2, Pool Explorer, PoolTogether Inc Roadmap & Hiring, The new PoolTogether DAO, Community Updates, and moar! 🌊🏆
Hey Poolers
Another week of building the future of savings has passed. How does it feel to be a part of it? 🫵
Let’s dive right into our weekly news-splash:
Phase 2 of Optimism Rewards 🔴
During Phase 1 the PoolTogether protocol distributed 100,000 OP tokens to more than 8,000 unique users. The incentives helped the protocol to grow from 2.5m in TVL to over 30m today.
Phase 2 comes with an increase of the current rewards by 10%. The protocol will distribute 27,500 OP per week, starting now!
This shouldn’t go without a goal in mind. At $40 million deposited on Optimism, the protocol will unlock activation #3.
What’s important now: PoolTogether needs to you hit new milestones, grow and remain a healthy culture. The community is encouraged to get involved and use their strength to achieve our mission.
Next steps: PoolTogether has grown - this means it’s time for more prizes! Stay tuned for the next update on that!
👉 Get all information about Phase 2 in the Mirror article
PoolExplorer Update 🐢
The Pool Explorer hasn’t just gotten a sweet little design update - there’s also a new feature waiting for you! You can now search for wallet addresses on the Poolers page and get some insights over statistics and wins.
👉 Explore the pools on
https://poolexplorer.win/
PoolTogether Inc. Roadmap 🧭
As we enter the last parts of the year, PoolTogether Inc has shared their updated public roadmap.
👉 Find the public roadmap of PoolTogether Inc on the governance forum
PoolTogether Inc. is hiring 🤝
PoolTogether Inc. is a team of builders committed to making fun and healthy financial products that are accessible to everyone around the world. They’re working at the forefront of blockchain technology to create an experience that is maximally secure, verifiably fair, and has limitless potential.
Right now there are four open positions on the PoolTogether website giving you the chance to join the team!
Opo(o)lis - Special Deal for Poolers! 🏥
None of the jobs apply to you? Maybe you’re earning your money by contributing to various DAOs? Check this out: Opolis is a member-owned digital employment cooperative offering payroll and high-quality, affordable benefits (health insurance, retirement plans, and more) to DAO contributors like you.
Enjoy payroll, health care, benefits, and get your sign-up fees refunded if you sign up before Sept 1st!
PoolTogether on DeFiTeller
👉 Learn more & rate PoolTogether
PoolTogether on Nansen Portfolio
What was Apeboard before is now Nansen Portfolio. You can now track all your PoolTogether deposits:
PoolTogether on Dispatch
Dispatch is a tool for KYC. Don’t worry - not the KYC you’re thinking of. Dispatch is all about Knowing Your Community!
As the very first community PoolTogether is onboarded to Dispatch. Check out cool stats about Poolers & Pooly holders on their dashboards:
👉 https://app.dispatch.xyz/ethereum/pool
👉 https://app.dispatch.xyz/ethereum/pooly1
👉 https://app.dispatch.xyz/ethereum/pooly2
PoolTogether Governance Overview
The new PoolTogether DAO
PoolTogether and the community around the protocol have grown a lot since the initial launch in 2019. In February 2021 PoolTogether Inc set new standards by open sourcing and decentralizing the protocol. With the issuance of the POOL token protocol ownership was handed over to the community.
Until now the PoolTogether DAO has only loosely been organized. The community ran many experiments, organically iterated on the DAO’s processes, and often found ways that allowed us to function for the moment. Now it’s time to zoom out, improve, and formalize.
During the past weeks, a group of long-time community members collaborated on expressing their thoughts on an optimized organizational model for the PoolTogether DAO.
In Part 1 of the 2 part series, Brendan reviews the shortcomings of our current DAO, reflects on our people and values, then presents a said new model.
👉 Read and comment on the full post on the PoolTogether governance forum
Protocol Constitution
PoolTogether is Wealth Creating, Secure, User Owned, Autonomous, Open Source & Fair. Every Pooler knows this by heart. The PoolTogether Constitution combines the protocol’s mission, vision, and core values in one document.
If you identify as Pooler, it’s your time to get involved.
👉 Become a part of the first PoolTogether Constitution
More topics on the PoolTogether governance forum!
Community Vibes ✨
Explore our Discord forums 📣
What are forums? Forums are a place for more structured conversations. Forum Channels are designed to allow conversations to coexist in an easy-to-navigate list.
We are still experimenting with the feature, so come and help us test!
The Guidelines are simple:
Choose a clear title
Stay on topic
Be civil, collaborative & open to learn
No spamming or self-promotion
Community How Tos for Optimism 🥳
Once again we leveraged the power of Dework to come together around a shared cause: to make it easy to enter the Optimism ecosystem.
In PTB-10 creators had the chance to either submit videos or articles. The result is a ton of incredible submissions on both sides!
👉 Have a look at our favorites in the Winners Announcement
PoolTogether Fantasy Football League 🏈
DaBoom and TheRealTuna are putting together the first-ever PoolTogether Fantasy Football League!
The league will consist of 10-14 teams and has a $200 USDC buy-in. All funds will be deposited to PoolTogether on Optimism for some delegation fun!
👉 Send a DM TheRealTuna on Discord for more information.
PlayTogether now monthly! 🕹
Wen PlayTogether? Every month! After a super successful first event and the ambitions of our Pooler Noxe, PlayTogether will now return on a monthly basis.
PlayTogether is an event where PoolTogether community members come together for some gaming action. Participating is completely free and winners take home delegations.
The game and time for the next round is still open, repsond to the form below and help decide!
👉 Fill the form & sign up here
PoolTogether Community Podcast w/ Josh from Opolis
Are you a freelancer in the US (and now Canada!!)? Opolis has got your back! Tim & Josh discuss spicy water, crypto conference job hunting strategies, the problem with healthcare in the US, and how Opolis is a pick/shovel for building season.
👉 Listen on Substack⏐Apple Podcast⏐Spotify
PoolTogether Community Interview w/ Hollywood Henry
Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship, NFTs, designer brands - all these are things Hollywood Henry knows about. Learn about his lessons and what makes him stick around at the pool!
👉 Read the interview on Substack
👉 Suggest a community member
Reminders 📝
🫂 Bring your friends to Optimism
🤓 PoolTogether v4 Wallet Profiling & Exploratory Analysis
🔴 A Pooler’s Guide to Optimism
⚒️ Tools Page with community-built tools
🏄 Navigating the PoolTogether Discord
🏛️ PoolTogether on Karma
🤝 No Loss Donations to Unchain Ukraine
Tweets 🦩
Stay wavy & see you all around the pool! 🌊 🏆
See you at the pool 🍹🐠
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