Dear Bankless Nation 🏴,

BanklessDAO is a value-oriented organization with the hope for a more egalitarian world at heart, and this motivates our day-to-day activities in the community. In this week’s Community Call roundtable discussion, Jenga spoke about the recent proposal to fund 3.95M BANK for a series of face-to-face crypto-onboarding events, the main goal for which is to grow the awareness of the Bankless movement and the Optimistic Vision through events that enable hands-on learning.

That said, these events should also enhance the DAO’s standing in the third round of Optimism retroactive public goods funding (RPGF). If you’re yet to go through the proposal titled Accruing value via RPGF3, there is still time to add your feedback.

Speaking of funding, all S9 seasonal funding requests must be posted on the Forum by July 22. Remember to use the appropriate template and include a poll for consensus.

While fund is a four-letter word, fun is only three letters and it’s much less work to find! It is a truth universally acknowledged that meeting other members of the bDAO fam is FUN — and a bit trippy too when you know these old friends but you’ve never met them. In this week’s editorial you can FOMO into the fun of the planned ChippiCon meetup which is happening alongside Permissionless II in September.

Remember to keep having fun as we help the world #GoBankless. Cheers.

Contributors: Melasin, Warrior, anointingthompson1.eth, Paulito, d0wnlore, Vi-Fi, trewkat, HiroKennelly

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✅ Action Items

⚡ Vote on Snapshot to approve or reject delegation of VitaDAO tokens.

🚶 Attend the Console demo on July 14 in the Amphitheater at 6:30 pm UTC.

💻 Join the Bankless Card team if you want to make web3 UX better.

🏃‍♀️ Catch up: Review this week's Community Call notes or listen to the recording.

🏛 Governance

Snapshot Vote

🔗 Delegate VITA Tokens to DAOstewards.eth

In Season 5, BanklessDAO acquired VITA tokens via token swap but was not able to actively participate in the governance of VitaDAO. In order to increase BanklessDAO's involvement in VitaDAO's governance, this proposal suggests delegating the voting rights associated with the DAO’s VITA token holding to DAOstewards.eth.

The VITA token is the governance token of VitaDAO, a community-owned collective dedicated to funding and advancing longevity science research that can improve people's lives.

Trip on Over to ChippiCon 2023

Author: HiroKennelly

It’s summer in North America, so it must be conference season! Folks may be heading to the City of Love for EthCC next week, or ETHToronto and the Blockchain Futurist Conference in August, but come September, the Bankless Nation is heading to Austin, Texas for a good old-fashioned crypto roundup at Permissionless II — kicking off on September 11!

Last year, this BanklessHQ co-sponsored event brought the DAO community together in Florida for some much needed IRL bonding, and this year promises more of the same, with an awesome but familiar twist:

SAY WHAT!? Yes frens, you read that right, Chippi are stampeding across Texas ranch land to reach the promised land: ChippiCon 2023!

Incubated in the Chippi Discord, the inaugural ChippiCon will take place on September 10 and serve as an opening ceremony for a few days of education, elucidation, and hallucination. The meetup will take place at Oddwood Brewing from 7-10pm local Austin time. Can you believe we get to party here?!

Aside from a dope venue and trying to reach ATHs IRL on retro vids (Hiro gonna whoop your ass!), the best part about ChippiCon 2023 may be that attendees are encouraged, noooo, REQUIRED to attend dressed as their Chippi! What is Johne gonna do with this:

I have no idea how he’s going to pull it off, but you should mark your calendars to be there so you can find out with me.

✅ The ChippiCon 2023 Deets:

• September 10, 2023 from 7-10pm local time.

• Meet at Oddwood Brewing.

• Dress as Your Chippi.

And while you’re planning for ChippiCon, stay up to date on BanklessDAO’s Permissionless plans in the super secret BanklessDAO Permissionless event thread. Maybe we can use the super secret thread to access the secret lair?

See y’all in Austin!

👀 In Case You Missed It

🚀 Blockchain And Beyond Conference

Author: Paulito

The ‘Blockchain And Beyond’ Conference, held June 23-24 June, 2023, attracted more than 2000 young, energetic people to attend! Throughout the event, there were so many insights provided by presenters with knowledge in every area of technology, including blockchain and web 3. The conference was organised by BlockchainUNN, a student organization at University of Nigeria which is developing the next generation of blockchain leaders through hands-on projects and education.

The event included many giveaways from the speakers, panel discussions with one-on-one interaction between attendees and speakers, breakout sessions where participants learned more, and much more. The whole thing was a blast.

You could see the excitement and concentration on the faces of the participants, something I haven't really experienced or seen before. Beyond education, BlockchainUNN took it upon themselves to empower a few fortunate individuals with brand new laptops and offer them a year's scholarship; all of this was worth NGN 1,000,000.

BanklessDAO was represented by three individuals in the DAO: PaulitoBankless, The Real OG, and Emmanuel. Great work guys!

👥 DAO Deep Dives Podcast Featuring bDAO OGs

The DAO Deep Dives Podcast hosted four original members of Bankless DAO (Joe, Grendel, Tommy, and Eagle) to discuss the mission and initiatives of the DAO. Check out this interesting conversation which is part bDAO history and part cutting-edge ideas for the DAOs of tomorrow.

😇 Support DAO Projects

Clr.fund is a protocol for allocating funds to public goods that benefit the Ethereum Network via quadratic funding. There are four BanklessDAO projects represented, plus many others you can choose to support as well. You'll need a wallet with funds on Arbitrum to interact with this application and donations close on July 16. To ensure that every contributor is a unique person, clr.fund uses. BrightID.

🍔 Grab It While It’s Hot

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🗓 Set A Reminder

🇯🇵 Bankless Japan x WebX

Bankless Japan is proud to announce our media partnership with WebX, being held at the Tokyo International Forum. Produced by CoinPost and CoinPost Global, WebX will be the largest web3 conference in Asia and builds upon the momentum of a booming web3 ecosystem that’s being developed in the region.

Taking place between July 25-26, this will be a jam-packed event filled with inspiring talks, a thriving exhibitor floor and side events to keep the vibe going after hours. Headlining the list of amazing speakers is Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, which marks one of the first speaking appearances of a national leader at a crypto conference.

Bankless Japan will be representing BanklessDAO at our exhibitor booth. There we will show how BanklessDAO and Bankless Japan are best situated to help onboard one billion people into crypto. We are also facilitating mini workshops for attendees and other vendors: Merging NFTs and Loyalty Programs with Yuki and Web2 Security Principles for Web3 Companies with d0wnlore.

We are proud to be collaborating with CoinPost for this event and are giving BanklessDAO members – and our frens – two ways to attend WebX on a discount:

• 30% off a General ticket, and an exclusive Bankless Japan × WebX NFT, by participating in our beyondClub campaign.

• 20% off a General ticket with coupon code: "BANKLESS_WEBX".

Please spread the word in your circles and socials. We hope to see you at WebX and the Bankless Japan booth!

🤩 New Joiner Session S8 x 04

Join the New Joiners Session to learn more about BanklessDAO and how to get involved. You will meet mentors who could guide you on your journey into DAO life as well as other new joiners who may become fellow travelers. This session will be held on Zep. Please be prepared to share a little about yourself.

RSVP to have Zep meeting details emailed to you nearer to the event, which will be held on Monday, July 17 at 13:45 UTC.

🛄 How To Bounty Board

Are you interested in learning how to create and claim bounties on the Bounty Board? Join the Education Department on Tuesday, July 18 at 14:00 UTC in the watercooler voice channel to learn more about the project.

🔩 How To Sesh

Sesh is a bot for organizing calendar events and setting up polls on Discord. If you would love to know how to use sesh, join the Education Department on Wednesday, July 19 at 14:00 UTC in the watercooler voice channel.

💬 Console Demo

Console is a group chat platform built for Web3 communities. With just two clicks, a user can connect their web3 wallet, select an NFT and join a token-gated community. Console also offers a suite of tools for managing your web3 community, such as profile pages, events, docs, and other CRM tools. Join this demo in the Amphitheater on Wednesday, July 19 at 18:30 UTC to learn more.

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