Intro
As was promised in the original proposal for the Core Work Group, we’re excited to present the third and final quarterly report. This report serves as an aggregate and description of the activities, updates and accomplishments of the CWG in these last few months — offering us both a community touchpoint and opportunity for reflection as a whole.
If you’d like to read the prior 2 quarterly reports, you may do so here and here.
In this 3rd issue of the Quarterly Report, there are 4 sections:
- Vision for the DAO
- Tasks we’ve accomplished since the last report
- Changes to the Team Structure
- Conclusion & Future
Vision
The original goals for the DAO were roughly outlined in Meow’s initial essay and included ‘expanding the Jupiverse and Solana as a whole, via the funding of workgroups and distributing grants’. You can read that essay here
Furthermore, in the prior quarterly report the CWG envisioned that the DAO’s purpose may also extend to include the goal of ‘becoming a positive feedback loop which creates the circumstances so that lifting others up lifts up the whole’.
Relevant action items were illustrated in the 4 pillars of impactful action outlined in the CARE essay. For example, focusing on educating others would create a more educated DAO which would benefit everyone.
However, as of recently the DAO has voted to ratify a Resolution, transforming the purpose from the realm of speculation and ideation into something now formalized through a vote.
The DAO Resolution defines the Jupiter DAO as the legislative arm of the community, with a core mission to accelerate the growth of Jupiter’s community, product adoption, and ideas. It is meant to pursue initiatives that increase user adoption, enhance community engagement, and drive global adoption of Jupiter ideas. And lastly, this is to be achieved through the strategic creation of workgroups and recruitment of talent.
As for the CWG itself, we continue to view ourselves as the connective tissue between the various elements of the Jupiverse including grant recipients, workgroups, the Team, and the community. At the end of this report, we outline several items which we seek to orient towards to continue fulfilling this vision.
Prior 3 Months
At the conclusion of the last quarterly report, we set out to achieve several specific goals — which we will go through below.
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Furthering the Grants system: At the time of the last report, the grants system was just ratified and set into motion. And where are we now? There is $39,000 remaining of the original $150,000 requested for grants. 17 grant initiatives seeking to become WGs have successfully passed a vote and received funding. Of those: 2 became trials, 3 deprecated, 7 are active, and 3 have joined up with other initiatives in the Jupiverse. Overall the grants system seems to be a good way to identify talent and allow them to take further steps within the DAO.
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Expansion of the DAO account & Messaging Efforts: This is the main way for the DAO to autonomously reach the masses. It serves to inform others of DAO votes, spread ideology, amplify campaigns, and interact with key members of the Jupiverse. At the time of the last quarterly report, the account had 29,000 followers. At the time of writing this, it has 62,000 — a more than doubling, and an increase of 33,000. We have also expanded comms efforts with the advent of the first DAO newsletter email which informs the 77,000 indviduals who signed up of all the ongoings every month.
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Propagation of the midjourney guide and DAO branding: At this juncture we have attempted items such as the weekly ‘practical AI’ sessions, but due to lack of attendance we have decided to convert the effort into a series of courses instead. However, this does not mean this item was not adequately achieved. People have continued consuming the midjourney guide in addition to using the official DAO prompt, and now you can see it almost everywhere on community accounts across the Jupiverse. Additionally, several workgroups have picked up and individuated their own specific styles using AI content.
Other Items
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Operation Support Snipers: In the CWG’s original scope we were meant to handle the Discord moderation. However, due to pure necessity, the moderation team was often used as an unofficial support staff for the team. Recognizing the need for a well trained support staff to scale up the Jupiverse, operation support snipers was launched. This was a taskforce created after Catstanbul to officially turn the moderators into a formalized support team. The CWG contributed to this effort in several ways by raising the flag of the importance of the mission, contributing to its structure, helping to set up the Zendesk and locating additional personnel. Any remaining moderators were handed off to the CAWG to manage within the Discord.
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The Jupiter Strictlist: Up until the release of the v3 system, the strictlist relied on a multi-input system composed of various tags including sanctum LSTs and various others. All of these tags fed together to form the ‘strictlist’ which receives a verification mark on jup.ag. The idea behind it was to prevent fake or duplicate tokens from overtaking the real versions. One of these tags was the catdet tag and this was a system where people could apply to the catdet portal site which many are familiar with. This was managed by about a dozen community members that formed the catdet council, the CWG, and a couple members of the team. This served as a huge upgrade to the outdated v1 system which relied entirely on github. However, the process has since shifted to a v3 system which you can read here.
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DAO Wiki & Jup.eco: As an expanded effort, we took a full audit of the DAO, its processes, and information sources. We then re-organized this knowledge base and created the DAO wiki which is housed on jup.eco. It also contains many of the DAO-made community apps, content and resources for other workgroups and the community at large including the AI guides.
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Providing Internal Support: This is one of the most overlooked and least visible tasks within the scope of the CWG, but arguably one of the more important ones. Within our capacity, we have continued to provide internal support to workgroups, trials, and grant-groups over the last quarter. This is including but not limited to guidance, feedback, delivering comms assistance and troubleshooting where needed.
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DAO audit: As mentioned above, we took an overhead look of everything going on in the DAO currently and a list of core issues. We also had many conversations with key community members. We’ve presented some of these to the team and use others internally to diagnose what can be improved in the DAO, and many of our current scope items are informed by this.
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SEO/Blog operation: We noticed that Jupiter had a profound lack of SEO efforts, and located 2 community members with this skillset to diagnose, audit and implement changes towards remedying items including the lack of backlinks linking to Jup Mobile and a misconfigured site map. Additionally, the production of articles related to Jupiter, Jup Mobile, and other web3 features to get started once the site is live.
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Continued Office Hours, WG Support, Newsletters:
Since the last report, the CWG has undertaken many new initiatives, but we’ve also kept up with many of the known classics. We have continued to run office hours where dao members can get up to speed on what workgroups are doing, ask questions and present their own ideas and proposals, we have continued to support and enable workgroups to do what they were voted in to do and we have published both the weekly and the monthly newsletters. -
Jupuary: The CWG assisted the team during Jupuary both with shoring up moderation efforts in Discord, helping with comms(ex. tweet, tweet), assisting in the creation of the official FAQ on the claim site, aggregating community feedback, and aiding in ideation.
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Jup Mobile support:
Helped kickstart App Store Optimization experiments, handed over to the team at a later stage. Facilitated involvement of community members into the process of collecting user feedback. Provided X support with contests and reply guying. Held meetings with team members to gain insight on where we can uplift them and assist. -
DAO Foundation & Legal Counsel Push: The CWG has been at the forefront in the discussion around the forming of a DAO legal entity and have pushed heavily towards achieving a good structure for the DAO. Additionally, we have retained legal counsel for the DAO who has provided crucial guidance for the Workgroups and regional groups.
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Official Telegram: The CWG played a pivotal role in the creation of the Official Jupiter Telegram alongside of Uplink, and helps to generate traffic to it through the recruitment of community members, diagnosing high traffic areas to place it in, and placing it in the newsletters and emails.
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Community Feedback: The CWG plays a role in directing and summarizing key community feedback towards the members of the Team who are currently involved in the DAO.
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Votes: In the last 2 months the CWG have acquired the technical ability and permissions to manage the voting infrastructure. This now means we can play an advanced role in helping to set up votes.
Smaller Items:
The CWG has also taken part in many 1-off or smaller scale items which we will list below without intensive description for the sake of attentional bandwidth and fatigue.
- Catstanbul DAO Room: Ran the DAO room on day 2, with speakers from grant and trial workgroups present.
- Planetside Chats: These were twitter spaces which often achieved 50-60 concurrent viewers and would discuss high level DAO topics. These were sunset with the departure of Seb from the CWG.
- Discord Re-organization: Helped contribute to changes in the Discord information & structure, such as by conducting a channel and information audit, and modernizing the important links and sections such as the grant info channel.
- DAO Midjourney Repo: The CWG collated a bunch of DAO images created with Midjourney in one location for people to use in their content creation throughout the Jupiverse
- Cohosted several key planetary calls and vote-related spaces
- Welcome to Solana Page: Although not used in its fina iteration, the CWG spearheaded an effort to revitalize and renew welcome.jup.ag with designs provided by the DAWG, and new copy and organization targeted at bringing on new Solana users.
- Mobile BG Vote: The CWG generated hundreds of images for backgrounds, which were reduced to a subsection voted on by the DAO and ultimately used as the Mobile Backgrounds.
- Grantee spotlights: Started a new regular X Spaces series with the goal of highlighting the Jupiter DAO Grantees and the Grants Program.
- Arranged and Spearheaded an effort to consult with Sphere-pay during a period of time where many workgroup members were facing issues cashing out through coinbase.
Team Changes
In the last quarter there have been several team changes to the CWG.
- AG’s trial evolved into a part-time position
- Kemo stepped down to part-time
- Morten stepped up to full time
- Seb stepped down officially
- And a few contributors were trialed with 1 being brought on in a greater capacity
The current lineup of the CWG includes:
- Full time members: Morten, Slorg
- Part time members: AG, Kemo
- Contributors: JPorta, 0xRay, Scarlet
The scope of work varies depending on role. The Full time members are typically available for every day of the week putting in over 8-10 hours per day. And at the opposite end the contributors usually have 1 specific task that they handle at their own pace.
Conclusion & Future
The CWG budget is on track to last until the end of June.
It is at that time that we will decide on the future of the WG — whether the current form continues or is reformatted and reoriented due to changes in scope.
However, below is a list of items which we would like to pursue in some form:
- Helping to finalize the series of DAO Resolution chapters
- Establishing the process for grassroots proposal submissions
- Establishing, facilitating, and fine-tuning the delegate system(in the event it passes)
- Highlight and integrate more of the DAO feedback mechanisms
- Maintain the overarching DAO comms(email, twitter & discord)
- Continuing to support and help instantiate WGs via the grants system
- Staffing and expand the grant system to include generalized grants and not just WG grants.
- Creating more synergies between Workgroups
- Seeking to fulfill the outcomes of the resolution including:
- Transitioning operational control of the treasury from team-dominant to community-dominant
- Seeing through the legal incorporation of the DAO to a Foundation
- Helping to find ways for the DAOs and WGs to discover additional funding mechanisms
- Mandating the quarterly report and other reporting requirements across all WGs
Over the next 2 months we will work towards some of these goals to the extent that is possible.
Once our budget has been fully consumed, we will put out a retrospective report including a summary of the 3 quarterly reports, lessons learned, and a budget breakdown
Until then, we thank you for reading through the entirety of this Quarterly report. If you have any comments or feedback, you are always welcome to let us know. We hope this has been as useful to you as it has been to us