Intro👋

• GM GM🌞

• Celebrated our 1 year anniversary on January 11th🥳

• Announced mint mechanics of Rug Radio x Cory Van Lew PFP

• Introducing our new Wiki for all the info about Rug Radio

Here's what we've got in this week's Town Hall...

• Presenting the Prop House Proposal

• Introducing our listen-to-earn rewards program

• Introducing our creator tiers system

DAO & Governance🏛

• "Adult Stuff"

  • On December 30th, the Cayman based foundation was established as we continue to strive for "Global excellence"

  • ConsenSys Mesh is going to help put together some explainers to describe the various aspects of the ecosystem and how people can participate in the governance

• Prop House Proposal

  • The proposal was posted to Snapshot on January 12 and is live until January 20 at 7pm EST (January 21 at 1am UTC) with the full proposal viewable here.

  • Using the Nouns tech, we'll establish a prop house to encourage community participation and provide funding for community members to execute ideas

  • With dynamic quorum, quorum for this proposal can be as low as 10%, but each vote against it adds to the quorum requirement

Team & Content Updates✍️

Rewards & Creator Updates from Jess

Rewards

• Introduced our first listen-to-earn on the town hall where if you listened live, you could earn 69 $RUG tokens

  • Fast forward to minute :40 - :42 to hear about how you can claim 25 $RUG tokens, if you weren't able to listen and claim $RUG tokens live😉

• Introduced our first bounty where all you have to do is quote retweet about the CVL mint and earn 69 $RUG

• Before Town Hall, we were at 473 members in a month and already saw an increase in engagement on Twitter with holders getting rewarded for engaging

• Listen-to-earn, bounties, and POAPs are coming soon to creators where anyone can earn $RUG by listening to your favorite creators and shows

Creators

• Hosted a call with all of our creators worldwide last Saturday where everyone could come together to chat and meet each other!

• Creator Tiers System

  • Designed to serve our creators on the level they need and want as well as communicate what our platform offers and how they can access the different benefits and support

  • With our ERC-721M smart contracts, these tiers can be directly assigned to a specific host pass

Community Updates from JC

• Highlights

  • Sweeps across Genesis NFTs setting new all time highs and trending across various marketplaces

  • Celebrating our 1 year anniversary

  • Announcement of our PFP mint

  • Excitement with the recent founders coming on GM WEB3

    • Kieran, Illuvium Co-founder

    • Mr Ben, Killa Bears Co-Founder

    • Pons_ETH, The Plague Founder

  • Worked On

    • Revamping the Discord ahead of the PFP mint with new roles, commands, etc

    • Hired a new mod, Tabarnak

    • Working with Harry and Loxley on filtering and creating a structure for partnerships

    • Troubleshooting issues with the Syndicate dashboard and updating backup links

    • Posted an update where people can interact with the Syndicate dashboard through a verified contract

    • Working on a way to delegate cold wallets to hot wallets for the mint

    • Working with Melina to create informational videos

    • Issues with scam passes being airdropped into wallets...BE CAREFUL and if you're unsure, ask us in the Discord

    • Brainstorming ideas and improvements to social content with Jazz

    • Question: Will there be a way to check if a Genesis NFT has claimed it's PFP during the mint?

      • It'll be done in the same way that you can check the $RUG balance of any Genesis NFT on the Syndicate dashboard

Additional Updates💬

• Bildr

  • We have a tech consultant coming on to help finish up the Bildr site and continue building out our tech

  • By the end of the month, our goal is to create videos to teach creators how to use the platform

• Production

  • Hiring content editors and videographers

  • Jenn is working on designing graphics for Bildr and nyj on Instagram

Our next town hall will be January 27, 2023 at 3pm EST!