Intro
As promised back after the initial CWG Budget Proposal passed, one of the items we would adhere to is releasing a quarterly report that would serve as an aggregate update of all of the things we’ve worked on for the past 3 months.
This would become a community touchpoint and provide a proper orientation opportunity for the Workgroups to address what is working and where they want to go next.
Ideally this is to become a standard for all Workgroups going forward and provide a benefit to them as well as it allows them for a chance of reflection.
In this initial Quarterly Report there are 4 sections:
- Vision for the DAO and the CWG
- Tasks we’ve accomplished over the past 3 months
- Tasks we intend to accomplish over the next 3 months
- Any Changes to the Team Structure
Vision
Here we will touch on 2 items: The vision for the DAO and the vision for the CWG.
On paper the purpose of the DAO is to ‘expand the Jupiverse and Solana as a whole via funding workgroups, distributing grants, and approving LFG candidates’. This was the initial purpose of the DAO, and it was set to expand over time.
However, based on our experience, we would state in plainer terms that the purpose of the DAO is to empower active Catdets with the resources necessary to align themselves with the Jupiverse.
What does this look like in practice?
Imagine you want to start a podcast on behalf of Jupiter. Over time you are able to grow your audience, and you gain a larger and larger platform able to communicate Jupiter related topics, releases and most importantly the underlying ethos.
This will become a stronger focus over the next 3 months as we unveil the Grants system and can become much more agile in our ability to fund ambitious catdets.
Our vision for the CWG on the other hand is simple, yet massively involved:
We see the CWG as the important thread connecting the various groups within the Jupiverse together: The catdets, the Team, the Moderators, and the other workgroups.
These groups each have different needs, wants, goals, and abilities — yet all play a critical part in this making up the whole.
How do we ensure these groups are properly aligned, are able to obtain the resources they need, and can become adequately & intimately aware of each other’s needs?
This is one of the main goals for the CWG to figure out, and something that is crucial for the DAO to not only survive, but to thrive.
Prior 3 Months:
In the past 3 months we’ve made strides in various areas, with the main ones being:
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A revitalization of the strictlist: One of the core initial issues that the CWG was tasked with was handling the Jupiter Strictlist. It is the list of verified tokens that was previously done through a PR process. At the time that the CWG took it over from the team, token season was beginning and it took away significant bandwidth from the Jupiter BD team members such as Mei and Soju. Over the course of the last 3 months, we have fielded thousands of PR applications and inquiries within the token-list channel. Not only that, but we located a developer to help completely revamp the process, and now it is done through a website by posting the token address instead of the complex and time consuming PR process. What once took hours every day of labor, now takes under 10 minutes. You can check that out here: https://catdetlist.jup.ag/
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We’ve hosted and administered 3 LFG Rounds to date. The winners of which were Zeus, Sharky, Uprock, Sanctum, and DeBridge. Each round we hosted crucial feedback sessions with the community and iterated on the process each time via an explicit townhall and forum post. You may find a summary of those changes here: LFG Retrospective & Feedback(Changelog). In the future will be more LFG rounds, however, by July there will be a partial revamp of the LFG process that should be very exciting.
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Growth of the DAO twitter: One of the most crucial things was finding a way to communicate to the DAO and the greater Solana-sphere without being completely reliant on the Team or forcing them to adhere to our messaging style. The solution that we arrived at was a DAO specific twitter, and outside of Meow and the Main Jupiter account, it has grown to become the 3rd most far reaching Jupiter related twitter. At the time of writing this it has reached nearly 18,000 followers within 7 weeks, and we are inclined to believe much of it is organic considering that posts regularly garner between 200 and 1100 likes. For its size, it is one of the most powerful and far reaching twitter accounts Kemo or Slorg have personally seen, and we believe this will become one of the most critical DAO assets in our arsenal over the next 3-6 months. Because once it reaches the 50-70k range organically, then it can effectively reach almost everyone within the Solana ecosystem. We have been utilizing the DAO twitter to put out crucial messaging, announcements, and helping to amplify the other workgroups. In addition, we have used it to put out added insights not found on the main Jupiter account such as specific ASR data breakdowns. We will continue with this strategy for now, as it appears to be what the DAO respond well to.
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Comms Assistance: We have deployed significant labor to help build out the comms network within the Jupiter DAO. This includes the growth of the JUP_DAO Twitter above, but also the establishment of the Wg-Announcements channel within Discord, the weekly CWG office hours as a key community touchpoint, the establishment and hosting of a weekly internal workgroup call involving all the workgroups, and regularly assisting the team with messaging. Also belonging in this category is the regular creation and attendance of crucial townhalls including but not limited to: voting townhalls, weekly CWG office hours, and retrospectives on DAO & team accomplishments & large updates.
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Managing the Moderation Team: One of the other initial tasks that the CWG was given by the team was to take over responsibility for the moderation team. This includes issuing guidance to them as it pertains to internal Discord matters as well as the forum.
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Speaking Events: c2yptic has regularly attended and given talks at various events on behalf of the Jupiter DAO including Solana Crossroads and Solana Summit. Additionally, we piloted an event sponsorship at crossroads including the design and usage of Jup DAO branding on the coffee cups.
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Jup DAO Branding: Kemo has gone above and beyond to take the complexity of the Jupiter branding guide, distill it down, create a new DAO logo, and make everything hyper-digestible and usable on this simple-to-use website. Additionally, several workshops have been held to date on how to properly use these branding guidelines including an introductory workshop and a figma specific workshop. More of these will be held over time, as well as written guides. You can find the DAO Branding Guidelines here: Jupiter DAO Media Kit | Jup.Eco
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Jup.Eco Design: Additionally, Kemo has provided the trial WWG (Web Working Group) with design & initial build assistance for Jup.Eco, handling the design and UI/UX and providing over a dozen live Webflow training sessions to the DAO.
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Alterations to the Voting Processes: With each vote, not just the LFG votes, the CWG has spearheaded and assisted with diagnosing issues, sourcing critical feedback from the community, distilling this into easily actionable steps, and communicating it with the team to be implemented.
Next 3 Months:
Across the next 3 months we have a list of goals which will be paramount in maintaining the DAO’s momentum and help to implement systems which will be critical in sustaining it for the years to come. Such items include:
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The establishment of the Grants program: One of the core issues is that the WG model lacks flexibility. It serves and important role, however there is a large social component to it that transcend the work in of itself. There are many people who want to contribute to the DAO, but don’t want to have to go through the intensive multi-month process. Additionally, with opportunities arising every 2-3 months, this means that people have to wait a long time in order to even be considered. Because of this the grants system will create more touchpoint for people to participate in the DAO, to contribute their skills and further JUP, and to be compensated for it.
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Continue Growing JUP_DAO account: The Jupiter DAO twitter is likely the single most important DAO asset. It’s reach is already making significant impacts within the Jupiverse, as it possesses the ability to be agile, clarify, and amplify in a way that is not dependent on the main Jupiter twitter. Once the DAO account hits an organic 50k follower count, it is likely that it will be able to reach the vast majority of Solana and be one of the most powerful accounts within our ecosystem.
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Further decentralize the Strictlist and add more Tags: The strictlist is now managed by Mei, me and a handful of catdets. The ideal situation is to get it even further decentralized, in addition to adding more tags that cover a wider variety of circumstances to help come a step closer towards the goal of finding a way to verify and label tokens that scales
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LFG Revamps: There will be announcements within the next few weeks about this, but the LFG system is set for a partial revamp that we believe many will be quite happy with.
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Hiring New Members: We currently have 2 advisors we are interested in bringing under the CWG umbrella. Additionally, we will be interviewing a person next week for a more involved boots-on-the-ground role, and have our sights on a handful of others. By the next Quarterly report, the CWG will have expanded in its numbers.
Team Changes
There have been 2 changes to the structure of the CWG to report at this time.
Durden has decided to step down from his role of ‘part time’ member into an advisory position. Going forward, he will help us with strategy, but not play a strong boots-on-the-ground role within the DAO.
Additionally, due to a family emergency, c2yptic will step into a part-time role for the next few months in order to take care of it. We appreciate everything c2yptic has done so far, and he will continue assisting with tasks such as:
- Budget & Multi-sig management
- Helping with DAO process iterations
- Managing the moderator team
- Spearheading the Grants system with us
- and the start of DeFI education events.
Conclusion
We thank you for reading through the first CWG Quarterly Report. If you have any comments as to the structure of it, please let us know below and we can better assist future Workgroups in how to structure theirs.
