PoolTogether Community Newsletter #15
New Prize Distribution Live, DAO Happiness Survey (Part 1), News from Pooly, PoolTogether Wins Tracker, PoolStreaks by DaBoom & more!
Hey Poolers
Happy New Year and chūnjié kuàilè to all readers that celebrate Lunar New Year!
During January our community has consistently been growing. So far 2022 has driven 740 new members to our Discord. A total of 2238 individual poolers visited the server, 468 of those left a message, totalling up to 39k messages in the whole month.
The governance forum was visited by 978 individual members, who created 30 topics, wrote 249 post and shared 702 likes among those. 13 of those contributors posted for the first time.
New Prize Distribution is Live! 🏆
The vote about a new prize distribution has passed and the new prize tiers are already implemented. PoolTogether’s governance targets a net reduction in total prize distribution to bring the protocol closer to prize sustainability. 88.44% (122K POOL) voted for Option A:
Keeps $5, $10, $50, and $500 prizes
Removes $1 and $200 prizes
Replaces three $500 prizes with three $1,000 prizes
Total of $11,160 daily value
Total of 1,011 daily prizes
DAO Happiness Survey (Part 1) 🫂
Meaningful networks cannot be forced, they can only be cultivated. Good examples and role models plant the seeds that can grow to a strong narrative and mutual trust over time.
Last week we were calling for all contributors of the PoolTogether DAO to participate in a DAO Happiness Survey. We’re all working hard building this protocol and its surrounding ecosystem - so it was time to tab into the individual feelings behind that process.
Within four days we have received 36 responses. While I’m working on a full report I have created a 3-part infographic to reflect the results.
In a nutshell the results prove that PoolTogether lives a strong and welcoming community vibe, offers a clear governance process, and provides options to contribute and and get rewarded. The results also indicate room for improvement in our rewards structure, flow of information, decision making, and short term goals.
Pooly 🦤
Last week we introduced you to Pooly, our friendly Discord-bird that helps you explore the pool. A week in bird time is close to a year - so Pooly has learned quite a lot since our last newsletter.
Type “pooly help”
in #bot-commands on our Discord and they’ll show you all their tricks.
That’s awesome isn’t it? But that’s by far not all. Our fren Pooly (Pooly#0679) also reacts to your DMs. DMing Pooly with ‘pooly help’ will return the commands.
By popular demand poolers can now:
🔎 Check any address for wins and prizes
💾 Add and remove addresses to storage
🏆 Receive prize alerts
Telegram Bot 🤖
Do you rather want prize notifications delivered to your Telegram inbox? Thanks to Max'#0107 that’s now possible!
The PoolTogether Wins Tracker, helps you to track your wins on PoolTogether by notifying you when you got a prize. Track up to 5 addresses and get notified 1 hour before you can claim your prize in the dApp.
Use /add <address> to add your address to your watchlist (max. 5 addresses)
Use /check <address> to check if you have won in the last draw
List addresses in your watchlist with /list
Remove addresses from your watchlist with /del <address>
Use /help to display commands
PoolStreaks by DaBoom 💥
Pool Streaks is a game that plays off of the daily draws of PoolTogether's V4. Everyday a new multiple choice question is created in conjunction with the upcoming prize drawing. Each question will test a user’s ability to predict specific stats of the upcoming prize draw. If a user gets the question correct, their streak begins.
The first person to get 7 questions correct in a row wins a week long delegation of $4,000. We also have a secret delegator that has added an unknown amount to the prize pool.
If you don't like a question, you can skip it without answering and your streak remains in tact. If you get a question wrong, your streak starts back at 0, starting you over; but you are not out! This is a race to 7 correct answers in a row.
Each question will be posted for 24 hrs starting when the previous draw happens.
Join the game on Discord in the #hodlers-hangout.
PoolTogether Community Podcast #5: BraveNewDeFi of Nexus Mutual 🎙
BraveNewDefi was on the Podcast, so this episode is packed with information about how you can get covered against smart contract failure & exchange hacks. BraveNewDeFi is a member of the PoolTogether Treasury Working Group and Marketing Lead for Nexus Mutual.
👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack.
While we’re at it, don’t miss this Twitter thread going over BraveNewDeFi’s forum post about the direction for PoolTogether and the POOL Tokenomics:
PoolTogether Community Interview #16: TangFeng
Tell us a bit about yourself. Describe yourself in a few words/facts:
I'm currently a senior compsci student. My name comes from the Tang family from chinese wuxia novels. I personally spend my time either reading manga/novels, biking, or playing rouge-likes (Risk of Rain2 and Gunfire Reborn are my favorite currently).
Governance Forum 🏛️
Listen 🎧
🎙️ PoolTogether Community Podcast #5
🏊♀️ PoolTogether Community Call & Swim Meet #45
Follow the PoolTogether Community Podcast on: Spotify⎜Apple Podcast⎜Substack
Read 📚
🧠 What Is PoolTogether? A Crypto Savings Account That Pays You by Brains of Crypto
📚 DeFi Haftalık Bülten #48 (Pasif Getiri Projeleri : Notional Finance, PoolTogether, Platypus) by DeFi Library
Watch 📺
❔ Why PoolTogether ? - The best saving account / lottery #shorts by Aye Sir
⛓️ Pooltogether کسب درآمد از رمز ارزها با شرکت در لاتاری! آموزش کار با پلتفرم لاتاری ارز دیجیتال by Mihan Blockchain
Prize Talk 🏆
I hope you can all enjoy your week, my people. Can’t wait for Community Call-Friday! Stay wavy & see you all around the pool 👋🌊🏆