Hubble’s Community Update #2 (October 2021)
This month has been quite an all-rounder in terms of progress. Each Hubblenaut, Mod Guild member and Hubble Homie has been hustling at their domain. We feel like intelligence operatives — or perhaps a better analogy would be The Avengers.
Alright-alright — maybe not as cool as the Avengers.
On both Product and Community, it’s been a very fulfilling month. If you’d like a Product Update, you can find one written by Arpit here.
The Community Update
Hubblers have been compounding at an avg growth rate of 64% (on Discord) over the last 4 weeks and very consistently so. This is unprecedented growth, if I may say so myself.
Here’s some growth stats:
- 🧪 1062 Unique Testers
- 🐦 Grown by 2.66k+ Followers on Twitter
- 🧍♂️Grown by 2.91k+Hubblers on Discord.
One of the first things that happened this month was Hubble’s first Community Call.
We discussed everything ranging from smart contract progress, revealed the testnet date, showed off the interface for the very first time publicly and talked about what’s next on the community side. This call gave the community so much to look forward to over the month of October and we’re very happy to say, we’ve delivered on all fronts.
Here’s a recording of the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1r8CX0n1yc
Here’s the agenda:
Hubble Space Cat
Now this we’re quite impressed by. Made by someone who I personally believe is one of the best artists in the Avalanche ecosystem, Alejoh.
The space cat was designed in public with constant feedback from community members part of the (🔭, 🔺) Hubble Fam
Launch Party
Celebrating the Launch of Milky Way Testnet.
We had over 100 RSVPs to Hubble’s launch party, scheduled for shortly after the launch of Milky Way 1.0. We had some enlightening discussions with Saurabh Deshpande from the The Block Research on NFTs, MultiChain and everything in between. We also bantered on the Vancouver tech-scene, the Indian crypto scene and had some interesting anecdotes to share. The event lasted quite long and we had the opportunity to say hi and appreciate many of the hubblers that have been contributing to Hubble since its inception.
Community-Initiated Projects
Hubble’s core mission is to be community run. Hubblenauts believe becoming community-run isn’t a switch you can turn on whenever you’d like. It’s a process — and it begins at the very beginning. These projects are a small step for a hubbler, and a giant leap for Hubble.
We have now initiated 3 community-run projects.
- Liquidation Tweeter
- Hubble PFPs
- Hubble’s first Liquidation Bot (by a Quant at Citadel).
Liquidation Tweeter
Built by @DevblixT and Lexilier. This is Hubble’s very first community-initiated and run project.
The liquidation twitter publishes a tweet each time someone is liquidated on Hubble, forever immortalizing when you receive a hubblehug on crypto twitter.
The creation of this bot was an enormous milestone for Hubble, it’s unprecedented we hit it this early. Hats off to Devblixt and Lexilier for taking this terrific initiative and building the bot way before we launched on the mainnet. Devblixt has gone as far as to create a Hubble community github.
Here’s a little bit about the twitter-liq-bot team.
Devblixt: I’m a tech enthusiast doing my bachelors on Computer Science, I’ve worked as a Tech Journalist in the past, and I’m really interested in Web 3.0 and I want to bring whatever value I can to its development.
Lexilier: I’m bit of an explorer trying and exploring new things on the internet. Primarily pursuing bachelors in computer science and interested in entrepreneurship and blockchain technology. Invested highly in stocks and crypto.
Hubble PFPs
There has been an enormous level of progress been made since the inception of the PFPs team: @Dorlanz0x, @GlassGuy__, @lelouch_az. Pretty much as soon as the team spun, the ideas and work has been flowing without pause. The channel for this project was made private to avoid any spoilers, but here’s some of the progress the team has made when it comes to the PFPs.
Holders of this PFP will also receive a trading fee discount on Hubble.
Here’s a little bit about the hubble-pfps team.
Alejoh: I’m digital illustrator and designer, almost new on defi but really interested on contribute with my skills. Drawing all my life, and doing it 24/7 the last years.
Dorlanz: I have been in defi since the first defi summer on ETH, but back then I didn’t understand much and ETH fees made it expensive to experiment. I learned most about defi, in Avalanche, hand in hand with the ecosystem development.
Lelouch: I’m software engineer and crypto entrepreneur, already in defi and trading for 3 years. Have knowledge about FE code and trading, interested in technology especially blockchain, trading technical analytics and economics analytics.
Hubble is very lucky to have contributors like Lelouch, Alejoh, Dorlanz, Devblixt Lexilier . They are Hubble.
Liquidation Bot
Hubble needs a liquidation bot to trigger liquidations when a trader’s margin requirement falls below the threshold. These liquidator bots receive a certain % of the liquidation cost (as well as the insurance fund). A Quantitative Analyst at one of the world’s largest hedge funds is building a liq bot for Hubble.
If anyone else is interested in building a liq bot, we strongly encourage and we’ll provide all the help and support we can, please reach out to @atvanguard on twitter.
Milky Way 1.0 Feedback
Traders used Hubble for the very first time this month when we launched Milky Way 1.0 and for days, the feedback poured unstoppably. It took me a while to go through everything. We received thousands of words of feedback.
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the notes:
Call with Hubble Homies
Since Hubble was announced, a set of community members have taken the self-directed initiative to help other community members when it comes to answering questions, helping them onboard to the testnet. Without these contributors, we would not have been able to contribute so many hubblers to the testnet as smoothly as we did.
Recently, I finally assigned these legends a role (Hubble Homies) and we had the pleasure of sharing an evening talking about a wide variety of topics, ranging from educational content for Hubblers to initiating Coordinape Circles. The call lasted 1.5 hours!
Here’s a list of the Hubble Homies:
- 0x3ponco — Bahasa Mod
- AA_Style — Turkish Mod
- Conqueror
- Dorlanz — HubbleHug Inventor
- Lelouch
- limonyay
- Saurabh Deshpande
- tony198x
- tudnv
The Mod Guild
This month, four new languages and their moderators were added:
- 🇮🇩Bahasa, moderated by 0x3ponco.
- 🇪🇸Spanish, moderated by Dorlanz.
- 🇮🇹Italian, moderated by Fiacchitt and ArancinoPepato.
- 🇵🇹Portugese, moderated by sssslucassss.
We created a Coordinape circle for the Mod Guild. Here’s some details on the Circle:
- Filled with 10,000 xp.
- 12 Members
- Epoch Duration: 7 days, every Thursday.
- Initiation: 28th October, 6:30 AM UTC
Coordinape allows decentralized teams and DAO’s without top down management or HR to autonomously allocate and reward contributors with funds, all done via sybil resistant social graphs.
Decentralized payroll for flat organizations.
On that bombshell:
