Merch Madness Voting and Updates
We received some incredible submissions for our Merch Madness event. Each person who submitted will receive 50,000 GRND for their efforts regardless of selection in the final bracket. Voting will close Friday, April 19th at 11:59 PM. We’ve been encouraging everyone to join Farcaster as the engagement rewards involving $DEGEN work similar to what we’ve already built with GRND. Voting is live now utilizing Farcaster tools. If you vote, let us know. And if you can, tip the artists who created these logos.
Open Call on The Hug
Along with Merch Madness, we have an open call on The Hug to design more merchandise. Submissions are open until the end of the month. The theme for this open call is “The story is in the soil keep your ear to the ground”. Another opportunity to earn more GRND, merchandise of your choosing, and a feature as a UNDRGRND Artist.
GRND on Optimism, Base
Thanks to our friends and partners at Page DAO (specifically Dylan and Robbie) GRND has been bridged to the Optimism ecosystem which includes Base. We are currently in the queue awaiting approval to be listed on the Base bridge so we can begin transferring tokens to everyone on Base. We could begin distributing on Optimism now and begin the LP there. We’re currently being patient (Dylan is, I am not) to ensure we do everything properly and don’t destroy any potential value.
Deploy on Degen
UNDRGRND was accepted into the Deploy on Degen Week hosted by Syndicate. We’re working again with Page DAO to launch a product on the Degen chain to bring in grant money as well as to begin connecting another piece of this puzzle that is the UNDRGRND ecosystem. We’ve made excellent connections and will hopefully lead to the start of our own L3 with the help of Syndicate. For now, we’re starting small, delivering and overwhelming my brain with new knowledge.
Fractal Visions Grant
By bringing GRND to Optimism it opened up the opportunity for UNDRGRND to begin to apply to various grant opportunities. One of our executive board members connected us with Fractal Visions. Fractal Visions Quadratic Funding rewards projects building in the Optimism ecosystem via matching donations. Quadratic funding begins to reward communities exponentially for small donations by a large number of individuals. If you are able to support UNDRGRND with a small donation, the impact will have a much larger impact the more people who do. If you are interested in submitting your own proposal please let me know and I’ll help guide you the way others guided me.
Every amount counts!
These updates have been months of work in the making. More coming as they become finalized. You can join Discord for boring but necessary updates on what is coming up before an email announcement.
Thank you to everyone who has helped make these big steps possible. Who else needs a nap?
- @NFTjoe