Reporter’s View: Summarizing the Major Events of PermaDAO in 2023
💡Web3 is booming, and Arweave is becoming a popular infrastructure choice for developers. PermaDAO is a community where everyone can contribute to the Arweave ecosystem. It’s a place to propose and tackle tasks related to Arweave, with the support and feedback of the entire community. Join PermaDAO and help shape Web3!
Author: Xiaosong HU @ Contributor of PermaDAO
Translator: Xiaosong HU @ Contributor of PermaDAO
Reviewer: Scarlett LI @ Contributor of PermaDAO
Arweave, in the era of Web3.0, serves as a foundational infrastructure akin to the Library of Alexandria, tasked with the permanent storage of humanity’s intellectual achievements. As Web3.0 rapidly evolves, Arweave is increasingly adopted by developers, fostering a new, vibrant, and diverse ecosystem.
PermaDAO emerges as a community dedicated to co-creation and application incubation within this space. It offers a platform where all participants can find their niche to contribute to the Arweave ecosystem. Proposals and tasks related to Arweave can be posted here, receiving support and feedback from the entire community.
Since the summer of 2022, PermaDAO has been voluntarily organized by several builders who are interested in Arweave. At the beginning, it mainly translated Arweave’s ecological weekly report and related literature in the industry into Chinese and English. With the progression of the Web3 industry and the collective efforts of the Builders involved in PermaDAO, the community saw significant growth in 2023. Let’s delve into the top ten developments of PermaDAO in 2023.
I. Expansion and Enhancement of DAO Functions: Establishment of Ten Comprehensive Guilds
In 2023, PermaDAO has evolved from the original 1 translation guild to 10 major guilds, and its functions have also evolved from the original translation of documents to diverse areas such as “Investment Research,” “News Writing,” “Translation,” “Planning,” “Event Organization,” “Branding and Promotion,” “Development,” and more, showcasing PermaDAO’s multifaceted capabilities as a DAO organization.
(PermaDAO official website entrance: https://permadao.com/)
Each guild has an independent reward and punishment system as well as a promotion and demotion mechanism. Every Builder who participates in the construction of the DAO organization can receive corresponding incentives every Friday. According to incomplete statistics, in 2023, the actual number of people receiving incentives in PermaDAO has exceeded 200.
II. Organizing and Hosting Arweave Official and DAO Organized Offline Events
On the evening of April 14, 2023, the “Web3 Hong Kong Night” event, co-hosted by PermaDAO, MoleDAO, and BuilderDAO, exclusively sponsored by Tencent Cloud and specially supported by Asia Digital Bank, concluded successfully at the Unification Center in Queensway, Hong Kong. This event invited more than 20 project guests to give speeches at the event, and the project areas covered multiple subdivisions such as DAO, NFT, DeFi, and SocialFi. Web3 People from all walks of life gathered at the Hong Kong Night. More than 400 guests from diverse backgrounds participated in the meeting and exchanged views. The atmosphere was extremely warm.
In September 2023, PermaDAO and Arweave’s official “Forward Research” jointly held the second “Arweave Day in Asia” event in Singapore. This is the largest offline series of events in the Arweave ecosystem every year. PermaDAO invited Arweave, Forward Research, SevenX, everVision, everPay, Hansa, ar.io, Akord, Kwil, Permaswap, Relation, 4EVERLAND, WeaveDB, Mind Network, arkreen, ReadOn, Adot, KYVE, Permaweb News, Stamp Protocol, d.id, Next.ID, The Graph, S31 Labs, Starpower, KNN3, DeSchool, NostrAssets and other Eastern and Western teams gathered at the old Parliament site in Singapore, and sparked exciting ideas during project presentations, roundtable discussions and audience Q&A sessions.
III. Exporting DAO Collaboration Tools
In September 2023, PermaDAO reached an in-depth cooperation with MAPDAO (a community organization incubated by Map Protocol). Different from the cooperation methods of other project partners in the past, this cooperation marks that PermaDAO’s DAO organization collaboration tool officially has the ability to output externally. ability. PermaDAO shares the underlying database with MAPDAO and assists MAPDAO in outputting a set of customizable DAO organization collaboration tools and corresponding guild management methods. This approach allowed Builders from both DAO organizations to have a unified entry point, enjoy uniform rules, and benefit from a unified settlement mechanism, achieving the goals of resource sharing and deep collaborative cooperation. Next, PermaDAO will also work with MAPDAO to build a standard system for DAO services, providing tool empowerment for subsequent DAO organizations and communities.
IV. Eager Talent Acquisition: Launching Long-Term Recruitment Plans
Echoing the famous line from the movie “A World Without Thieves” — “What’s the most valuable in the 21st century? Talent!” — the same rings true in the Web3 industry: talent is indispensable! In 2023, the various guilds of PermaDAO undertook numerous initiatives to attract talent. They planned various recruitment drives, established rewarding recommendation systems, and organized events like the “Outstanding Translator Competition.” These efforts were all part of an ongoing quest to discover and recruit exceptional Builders…
PermaDAO Investment Research Group Author Recruitment & Recommendation Plan
Click the link for more details: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/F_OCqY22vUJWu19YW1HWGA
PermaDAO’s PR Team Launches Ongoing Recruitment Campaign
Click the link for more details: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/98sHvw-xvq2L2pAXyXrR-A
PermaDAO Open Recruitment for Various Operational Positions
Click the link for more details: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fU56BSLD2_qYtpKuOlaPXg
PermaDAO Collaborates with Web3 Recruitment Platform SmartDeer to Launch a Dedicated Employer Branding Hub, Showcasing PermaDAO and its Open Positions in a Comprehensive Manner
Click the link for more details: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ShE-hIHaXk2Yc7IpTmDgGw
The above are special recruitment activities held and organized by PermaDAO in 2023, and they are valid for a long time~ Interested candidates are welcome to submit your resume at any time!
V. Expanding Outreach Channels and Delivering High-Quality Content
In 2023, PermaDAO has also achieved a qualitative leap in publicity with its high-quality content output~
- The first is to improve the publicity system of PermaDAO. The Product Promotion Association has adopted a series of reform measures and introduced a “points” system to match each channel according to the point method, and then based on the total number of people promoted and the number of advertisements distributed each week Automatically calculate the total incentive amount and give corresponding incentives to contributors. This initiative directly quantifies the workload of each contributor, and at the same time, to a certain extent, can avoid the endless harvesting practices of “woolists”. According to incomplete statistics, the number of weekly announcements has long been maintained at 700–1,000. During the period, about 15–20 people participated in the weekly publicity work.
- The second is to actively explore publicity channels. In 2023, PermaDAO gradually opened and established various social media accounts: from domestic WeChat public accounts and WeChat official groups to overseas TG Telegram groups, Discord groups and bilingual official tweets on Twitter; further strengthening external publicity channels. At the same time, PermaDAO has also opened official accounts with four well-known blockchain media: Foresight, PANews, Chain Catcher and Web3Caff, and continues to output high-quality and excellent research reports. It has long been listed in the selections of these four media (recommended on the home page). The establishment of multiple publicity channels has not only made more practitioners aware of PermaDAO, but PermaDAO has also contributed to the construction of Web3~
VI. Transition from Quantity to Quality, Achieving a Leap in Excellence
PermaDAO has consistently demonstrated its commitment to rewarding Builders with substantial incentives, a practice especially notable during the challenging bear market of 2023, where only a few DAO organizations persisted in such endeavors. However, with the increasing number of Builders joining, disparities in the development of various guilds led to imbalances in expenditures. To address these issues and to enhance the absorption of contributors in underdeveloped guilds, as well as to improve the quality of outputs in active guilds for the benefit of others, the management guild proposed a special plan in late October named the “Achievement System and Budget.” This plan ties achievements and assessment outcomes to the budget, transitioning PermaDAO’s development from a focus on quantity to an emphasis on quality, thereby marking a new phase of self-revolution.
(Each guild will be labeled accordingly based on different indicators every week)
VII. Welcoming Friends from Afar: A Joyful Expansion
In 2023, the growth of PermaDAO was significantly enriched by the diverse contributions of its members. Throughout the year, the contributor base became increasingly varied, shifting from being predominantly Chinese to including a substantial number of European and American faces. Furthermore, various projects within the Arweave ecosystem also joined the fold. Notable entities such as Arweave’s official entity “Forward Research,” Arweave’s official media “The Permaweb News,” and Arweave ecosystem projects like “KYVE,” “RedStone,” and “4EVERLAND” came onboard as official members to participate in the construction and development of PermaDAO.
What’s more worth mentioning is that PermaDAO also reached a cooperation with Arweave’s official media “The Permaweb News” in October this year. The core point is to relocate the original submission process of various overseas journalists or project parties in Arweave’s official media to PermaDAO’s submission center. , the content of English submissions will be reviewed directly in PermaDAO by the editor-in-chief of the official media. After passing the review, the contributors and reviewers can receive incentives immediately, and the articles will be automatically published simultaneously in the official media. Such cooperation not only marks that the entire collaboration mechanism of PermaDAO has been officially recognized by Arweave, but also the unique and stable incentive mechanism attracts Arweave’s ecological builders around the world to participate in community construction.
VIII. Focusing on Arweave Ecosystem Development with Multiple Hackathon Events
Since its inception, PermaDAO has been dedicated to the development of the Arweave ecosystem. In the past year, PermaDAO has organized a series of events, including hackathons, boot camps, and project incubations, to bring together project teams within the Arweave ecosystem. These events have provided numerous platforms for developers, project teams, investors, and enthusiasts of the Arweave ecosystem to engage and collaborate.
In the summer of 2023, PermaDAO, Arweave SCP (Arweave Asia Foundation) and TinTin jointly organized Arweave’s Hackathon Charity Training Camp series. During a period of one and a half months (due to the project team’s pursuit of excellence, it was eventually extended to three months), PermaDAO invited a total of 9 Arweave ecological parties to hold 15 online sharing courses to help developers from code practice to products The performance is fully explained and sorted out. This hackathon was warmly welcomed by the developer community. Among them, are both old OGs who have already joined the circle and college students who are still on campus. Their knowledge reserves about Arweave and blockchain development are also inconsistent. However, after going through Developers gained a lot from the hackathon instructors’ meticulous pre-class preparation, trial lectures, and post-event summary process. After multiple scores from professional judges, media reviews, etc., 1 ecological rookie project — Cascad3, 2 projects with unlimited potential — ProtocolSign and Soulcial, and 5 best-participating projects — were finally selected from the 14 final submitted projects. — Public Vector Database, Deschool, Apus network, Smarter AA Wallet and FancyLink.
In October, the Arweave ecological hackathon PermaHACKS, jointly supported by Forward Research, PermaDAO, everVision, Community Labs, decent.land, and Permaweb News, also started.
This event provides a prize worth $20,000 by allowing developers to learn to use the Arweave ecological development tools and write and deploy smart contract backends using the Arweave-based technology stack. To ensure data is available, the dApp’s user interface is hosted on blockweave, providing the infrastructure needed to build permanent, decentralized applications. After 10 days of evaluation, 7 projects received incentives from 5 organizations including everVision.
IX. Actively Organizing Cross-Ecosystem Exchanges to Co-Build Web3
ABy the end of 2023, the surge of BRC20 and inscription technologies sparked another wave of market excitement. Both the Bitcoin and Arweave ecosystems are committed to advancing the vision of decentralization, continually breaking through traditional boundaries with innovative technologies and application scenarios. PermaDAO, recognizing this synergy early on, began engaging with Bitcoin ecosystem projects as early as June 2023. This culminated in a two-day BTC & Arweave themed seminar on October 23–24, co-hosted with Layer Two Labs, fostering further integration and collaboration between these two pioneering ecosystems.
For this seminar, PermaDAO invited a strong lineup of guests from the BTC and Arweave ecosystems to discuss and share; guests from the Bitcoin ecosystem included: Paul Sztorc, the founder of LayerTwoLabs, Andre Serrano, the product manager of sBTC, and Dr., the product manager of Babylon. Sankha Banerjee, co-founder and CEO of DLC.Link Aki Balogh, YakiHonne’s business operations director, and BITMAIN’s marketing manager Margie Feng;
Guests attending the Arwevae ecosystem include: Arweave founder Sam Williams, Arweave COO Sebastian Campos Groth, everVision founder Outprog, Stamp founder Tom Rakis, Permanent Data Solutions community leader Anthony Danielle, Arweave OG DMac, founder of WeaveDB People Tomoya Nagasawa, WeaveDB CEO Ahmad Mardeni, Hansa accelerator lead Dharme, MindNetwork BD and marketing lead Christian Pusateri.
This seminar promoted a further understanding of the ecology of both parties, and the project parties also found a better way to integrate the two ecologies, which was well received ~
X. Embracing Open Collaboration: Our Continuous Journey
In 2023, the robust development of PermaDAO was made possible thanks to the support of numerous projects and the contributions of dedicated Builders. Throughout the year, PermaDAO established deep collaborations with a multitude of projects (apologies for not being able to list them all due to space constraints). This ongoing commitment to open collaboration signifies PermaDAO’s dedication to its journey of fostering a vibrant and interconnected ecosystem.
- On February 7, PermaDAO announced its cooperation with Classical.cool to open a new era of Web3 cultural collection and inheritance
- On March 16, PermaDAO announced a formal partnership with DAOrayaki, and both parties will focus on content creation and curation in the Web3 field.
- On March 30, the Unift protocol reached a strategic cooperation with PermaDAO and will provide the first Nostr Graph service with permanent decentralized data storage.
- On May 8, PermaDAO and MultiDAO established a new partnership
- On August 2, KnowHere officially reached an ecological cooperation with PermaDAO. Users can use the Arweave decentralized storage service when uploading content.
- On August 13, Singapore’s Web3 media DeThings and PermaDAO reached a strategic cooperation. The two parties will work together to carry out in-depth cooperation in mining high-quality Web3 content and organizing cutting-edge Web3 activities.
- On October 13, PermaDAO announced a formal partnership with Grants3
- On October 19, PermaDAO announced a formal partnership with MAPDAO
- On November 3, PermaDAO became the official cooperative community of SoSoValueCrypto Season 1 Crypto Investment Research Competition
- On December 10, PemaDAO officially settled in Forsight WiKi
- On December 12, PemaDAO announced a formal partnership with 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐍𝐎𝐖
Closing Remarks
As 2023 draws to a close, despite the challenging times facing the Web3 industry, PermaDAO has continued to forge ahead with unwavering determination.
Looking ahead to 2024, we warmly welcome and eagerly anticipate more partners and project teams joining PermaDAO. Together, let’s collaborate to build and enhance the Web3 ecosystem, and journey towards a future as boundless as the stars and the sea.
