Introducing “Lodge Letters”: Elk’s New Weekly Newsletter
Elk’s weekly recap is now Lodge Letters. Plus: New farms, and an index of all topics covered in weekly recaps to date.
Greetings Elks,
For this, our 30th weekly recap, we are rebranding our newsletters as “Lodge Letters.” The content will remain mostly unchanged, but we are going to tweak the layout to give more emphasis to the weekly letters from the Team Desk, which often provide evergreen insights into the Elk protocol, DeFi culture, and financial philosophy.
Not to worry, we still plan to give summaries of the week’s protocol news, community events, and milestones. Our goal with this rebrand is simply to highlight topics for handier reference in the future. With that in mind, an inventory of the first 30 recaps are indexed below with the subjects covered by the Team Desk.
As ever, if there are any features you’d like to see, drop into the Telegram Elk Lodge and let us know.
In the spirit,
Roland (Editor)
Protocol & Partnership News
- 🧊 Warming up. Our partners Defrost Finance (Avalanche) invited us for a Telegram AMA. Farms for MELT-ELK, their protocol token, and H2O-ELK, their stablecoin went live this morning
- 🦔 Hedge your bets. Our partners Hedgey Finance (Gnosis) launched two Elk Treasury Pools, which allow investors to buy options on covered calls for the $ELK token
Community Happenings & Milestones
- 🖌 Required Reading. Professor Elkstein returned to the classroom for “Elk Academy Lesson #8: A Skeptic’s Guide to NFTs,” a rich conversation on NFTs, generative art, and the nature of collectibles markets
- 🎤 More NFT Fun. Episode 11 of the Elk Finance Podcast was “All About NFTs.” Following up on the discussion of Moose NFTs from Episode 9, Shylo and Farid take a technical dive into NFT smart contracts
- 🤝 Elk is Hiring! Check out our new listing for a “Blockchain Systems Developer” on Lemonn (BSC), a blockchain jobs marketplace
We’ll start up with more fresh content next week. For now, here is a complete inventory of Lodge Letters to date, with covered topics for quick reference:
Letters from the Elk Lodge (Weekly Newsletters):
#01. Newsletter Launch (Jul. 9 2021)
#02. ElkNet Launch (Jul. 26, 2021)
#03. The Bridge Fragmentation Problem (Aug. 2, 2021)
#04. BSC/xDai (Gnosis) Launches (Aug. 9, 2021)
#05. $2M TVL (Aug. 16, 2021)
#06. 2x TVL in One Week (Aug. 23, 2021)
#07. The DeFi Network Wars (Aug. 30, 2021)
#08. NFT Mania! Pt. 1(Sept. 6, 2021)
#09. The Gift of Seasons (Sept. 13, 2021)
#10. ElkNet Stability Upgrades (Sept. 20, 2021)
#11. Elk Season 2 (Sept. 27, 2021)
#12. Single Staking Pools (Oct. 4, 2021)
#13. NFT Mania! Pt. 2 (Oct. 11, 2021)
#14. Beyond the Bridge (Oct. 18, 2021)
#15. 6 Chain Launch (Oct. 25, 2021)
#16. Elk’s All-Over Strategy (Nov. 1, 2021)
#17. The Most Chains (Nov. 8, 2021)
#18. xDai Rush (Nov. 15, 2021)
#19. Crypto Fatigue (Nov. 22, 2021)
#20. BSC Moose Sale (Nov. 29, 2021)
#21. Farming Round #9 (Dec. 6, 2021)
#22. Elk vs. Bear (Dec. 13, 2021)
#23. The Nostalgia Trap (Dec. 20, 2021)
#24. Year in Review: 2021 (Dec. 27, 2021)
#25. Proxy Token Preview (Jan. 3, 2022)
#26. 2022 Marketing Roadmap (Jan. 10, 2022)
#27. Chance Favors the Prepared (Jan. 17, 2022)
#28. The Golden Rule (Jan. 24, 2022)
#29. ELK Tokenomics (Jan. 31, 2022)
- 👕 Sweet duds. An announcement about some new Elk merch store
- 🌴 Branching out. An AMA in Elk Reddit
- 🍹 Get Social. Our fun Friday Night Socials continues in the Telegram Elk Lodge. Who knows who will show up this week?
