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Rug Radio Town Hall Notes - December 30th๐
In this week's town hall, we share our highlights from 2022 and hear from a few DAO council members about our recent vote.
Intro๐
GM GM๐LIVE on video w/ matching Rug Radio hoodies
Rug Radio Town Hall is LIVE!
โ Farokh (@farokh)
8:07 PM โข Dec 30, 2022
DAO & Governance๐
As of December 28, 2022, Rug Radio is officially a foundation based in the Cayman Islands which sets the DAO up for optimal legal and tax structures
Voting quorum proposal passed; Shoutout to Tanja for leading the effort and making it happen
DAO Council Members
Kristina: Talked about the excitement around passing the proposal, getting so many people to show up in this market, and how this will allow us to make progress with allocating funds towards the right initiatives
Nifty Ape: Talked about the ability for the DAO to generate revenue and drive value back to the holders
Daito: Impressed to see that we had 23% of our $RDAO holders show up for the vote
Vick: Reiterated the relatively high participation and discussion around allowing $RDAO holders to get a free mint for the Cory Van Lew PFP
Team & Content Updatesโ๏ธ
Newsletter Updates from Ryguy
Highlight of 2022: Joining the team in October and getting to work with such an amazing group of people & meeting everyone IRL in Miami
Sent out several more newsletters and DAO announcements and finding that people still enjoying to read about FTX and royalties conversations
Found that we have readers in ~80 different countries
Transitioned our newsletter provider from MailerLite to Beehiiv, so you'll notice a better design (e.g. Cory Van Lew theme coming for all of January, Miami theme, etc) as well as more features specifically with a referral rewards program
Working on a wiki that will have ALL of the info about Rug Radio so we can point people to one place to learn about Rug Radio
Creator & Rewards Updates from Jess
Working on putting together the creator tiers system (more info coming next Town Hall!)
Our rewards program with Xpand rolled out smoothly and we're continue to building on that over the next 6 months, such as participate to earn where you can get rewarded for listening to creators
Working on the Rug store that we're going to launch after the Cory Van Lew PFP drop
Production Updates from Jazz
Highlight of 2022: Creating a piece of content such as clips and having that retweeted by people and seeing others adopt a similar format + a shoutout from 9GAG
Excited to see how integrating live streaming and video will contribute to content in 2023 + our new production team who will help us level up our content
Community Updates from JC
Highlight of 2022: Navigating all of the challenges since Day 1 and reflecting on where Rug Radio started and where we're at today
Community Highlights
Reveal that MESH acquired 207 genesis NFTs with Joe Lubin coming onto GM WEB3
Cory made PFPs for Joe, Betty, and other people continuing to build the anticipation around the mint
Excitement around the Voting Quorum proposal passing
Rug Radio holders get 30% off a ticket to NFT Paris
Timing out Harry for a week while he was sick๐
Worked on
Setting up Restream to that we could host GM WEB3 and Town Hall's on video, in addition to audio
Getting Rug Radio holders allowlisted for the TABZ mint
Setting up a documentary crew to film Farokh in Montreal ahead of the PFP drop
Updates from Loxley
Highlight of 2022: Seeing the growth of both the Rug Radio ecosystem, but the individual growth of the entire team
Looking forward to partnerships and scalability, monetization of efforts across the ecosystem, and building out the infrastructure in a way that democratizes wealth and opportunity
Operational Updates from Harry
Highlight of 2022: Joining the team when Amy went on maternity leave, meeting everyone in Miami, and discovering his role within the team
Worked on
Admin, emails, meetings, payments, tools, metrics, and managing our virtual office (aka Discord)
Restructuring the partnerships process that will allow us to scale in 2023
Additional Updates
Revealed who bought 207 genesis NFTs (Consensys Mesh) with Mike Kriak helping to facilitate the purchase. They will also be very involved in Rug Radio across a variety of aspects from a hiring, governance, legal, etc
Hosted Joe Lubin on GM WEB3 where Cory Van Lew released an honorary PFP for him
Faces of Web3: On track for an early 2023 release date
1,140 $RDAO holders will get a free mint with the snapshot taken on December 27 as a token of appreciation for swapping $RUG and participating in governance with the DAO council advocating for it as well
Snapshot was taken on December 27th. ๐
All @RugRadio $RDAO holders will get a FREE MINT for the upcoming PFP drop with @coryvanlew. ๐ฅ๐
Our earliest and strongest supporters swapped their $RUG for governance tokens, & they deserve to receive value for their participation. ๐
โ Daito ๐ (@DaitoYoshi)
8:33 PM โข Dec 30, 2022
There are 2 things we believe in at MESH: one is the power of community, and the other the future of DAOs as the premier form of human coordination. Today we are making an important announcement: we have swept the Rug Radio Genesis NFT & are proud holders of the @RugRadio token.
โ MESH (@ConsenSysMesh)
2:30 PM โข Dec 21, 2022
We had to get @ethereumJoseph a custom @coryvanlew x @RugRadio in honour of the Mesh acquiring 207 Rugs and the show this morning! ๐
โ Farokh (@farokh)
4:48 PM โข Dec 21, 2022