PoolTogether Community Newsletter #16
Delegation UI is Live, Valentines Day NFTs, Delegation Meme Contest, Community Advocate Nominations, Atlantis World Headquarte & more inside! 🌊🏆
Hey Poolers
This week’s newsletter is all about love, friendship and community. You could say most of the PoolTogether newsletters are like that, but this one is special. Read on to find out how you get your digital hands on a lovely PoolTogether NFT, why I think Richard secretly works for Apple, and how our future Metaverse hang out could look like.
Delegation UI is Live
If you’re an experienced Pooler you probably know about Delegation. Delegation allows you to enable someone else to win prizes with your deposit. You keep your funds and basically delegate your chances in winning. Previously this was only possible via manual SmartContract interaction on a block explorer - now it’s finally live in the PoolTogether dApp.
To try it just navigate to the Account tab, click on your deposited amount and hit “more info”. You will be prompted with the option to “Delegate deposit”. Why note delegate your deposit to a loved one for some time?
More info about delegation and its use cases in the PoolTogether User Docs.
Valentines Day NFT Campaign 💕
Hard Facts:
16 lucky winners will receive a $25k delegation for 1 week each
9 lucky winners will receive a pre-funded account with 50 PTaUSDC on Polygon.
Everyone will get a NFT
PoolTogether's cupid is spreading the love with his pool noodles from February 7th until February 11th. Make sure to grab your PoolTogether artwork done once again by the incredible Oops.
Check the campaign page on valentine.pooltogether.com to find out how to participate. 💌
Delegation Meme Contest
You all know I got a little thing for memes. I can’t argue with that. That’s why I want to see your best Delegation Memes before the Community Call on Feb 11th. I will raffle out a $2222 Delegation for 2 weeks to one random contest contributor. Drop your contributions into #memes on the PoolTogether Discord.
Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged but will will only increase karma and not your chances in winning the contest.
Introducing the Community Advocates
After iterating on two Requests for Comments and facilitating all feedback I’m excited to finally be able to announce the first official nominations for Community Advocates:
Both of them have gone above and beyond for PoolTogether, its users and contributors, and I’m sure the nominations don’t even come close in covering the things they’ve done. Let’s all celebrate Taliskye & underthesea for their contributions to the protocol and our community.
What’s a Community Advocate?
The Community Advocate role is a status role for the most active and dedicated members of our DAO. It is not compensated and does not require any formal responsibilities. The role is meant as an official designation of people who are already recognized as helping the community.
Community Advocates are trusted members of the PoolTogether community that are willing to define, and contribute to, the community’s values, mission & vision.They help to align those with our community’s wants and feedback, and ensure we maintain a wholesome and healthy vibe within. Community Advocates are equipped with server moderator permissions to be able to pursue their duties in helping the community.
Why did we formalize the role?
There are many ways to show appreciation for ongoing contributions. This is intended to be one of them. Our DAO couldn’t exist without all the Poolers putting in meaningful contributions on a daily basis, so the least we can do is to express that we notice and allow them to identify as a part of the whole.
Wholesome Community Vibes
PoolTogether’s community is special. It’s not just that Poolers celebrate each other’s winnings - Poolers actually care. I covered some heartwarming moments in previous newsletters already. Here’s another one for the books:
Updates from PoolGrants
We’ve seen two community oriented grants coming our way with the Avalanche Hype and Vibe Contest and the Discord Welcoming Committee aka Welcome Wagon. The article also updates us on the grants for Unstoppable Domains and the PoolTogether Christmas Cards.
Read the full thin on Medium to find out more.
Atlantis World
Another grants update is coming from Atlantis World this week. Originally PoolGrants partnered with Atlantis World to bring PoolTogether ATM machines into the metaverse. Real recognize real so the team around Atlantis World went forward and surprised us with a PoolTogether Clubhouse on top!
The clubhouse will be tokenized and airdropped to the PoolTogether community, so we’ll all be able to use it for community events, public spaces and gamified depositing when they are live.
Shoutout & big thank you to our frens at Atlantis World 👏
How to track your prizes in PoolTogether
If you don’t want to open up the PoolTogether dApp daily to check prizes you now have two different options to get notified on either Telegram or Discord.
Telegram users can use the **PoolTogether Wins Tracker** by Max’. It allows you to track your wins on PoolTogether by notifying you when you win a prize. You can track up to 5 addresses and will get a notification 1 hour before you can claim your prizes.
For notifications on Discord we’ve got you covered with underthesea’s Pooly bot. Head to #pooly-bot on our Discord to find Pooly (Pooly#0679) and send a DM with pooly help
to the bot.
Governance Forum 🏛️
Leadership of the #Marketing Working Group
Outlines 5 key roles in the Marketing Working Group
Invites community members to apply
Explains the different subgroups for the Marketing Working Groups
Over the last weeks it’s been discussed in Discord different options regarding the Management of the assets in the PoolTogether treasury. It is estimated we are missing out roughly $300 in daily opportunity cost that could easily be earned with a low risk strategy on the stableassets held by the treasury.
In order to start making the best use out of them, the TWG has put together some basic actions that should be considered.
PTIP-54: Treasury Assets Management #1
This proposal will withdraw the current USDC and DAI reserves, as well as the USDC sponsorship, and move those to V4 ($3,290K USDC) and Notional ($480K DAI and $500K USDC).
PoolTogether Community Podcast #6: Crypto Texan of Index Coop
Crypto Texan on simple yet powerful index products from Index Coop, ICE Poker, and how we're all going to make it.
Listen on: Substack | Apple Podcast | Spotify
PoolTogether Community Interview #16: Loitering_Sean
Tell us a bit about yourself. Describe yourself in a few words/facts:
I’m a 40-something father of two from Toronto, Canada. Although I have been born and raised here, I am extremely fortunate to be well travelled. I have had the pleasure of living in Sweden for a short while- jag kan inte pratar svensk, förlåt- and have also been able to visit every continent in the world- except for Antarctica.
Listen 🎧
🎙️ PoolTogether Community Podcast #6 with Crypto Texan of Index Coop
🏊♀️ PoolTogether Community Call & Swim Meet #45
🪂 Unleash the Awesome: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Distractions or Opportunities
Follow the PoolTogether Community Podcast on: Spotify⎜Apple Podcast⎜Substack
Read 📚
🎲 3,3 Together is back (Community Pool)
Alright frens, that’s it from me for this week. Stay wavy & see you all around the pool 👋🌊🏆