Hey, everyone, can you hear me, okay?
Great, we're going to give it a couple more minutes. We're also bringing Mark, aka Mork from the team up here to cohost. Hey everybody, good afternoon.
Thank you all for joining. Looks like we've got a solid crew here already.
Just give one more minute to let a few more forks stroll in here and then we'll get get rolling. We've got Chris here Founder CEO of Dialect and I'm Mark COO here and then we've got Harrison on the main account. We wanted to talk a little bit about
The features that we've launched today, as well as the future of sticker packs, some features that we have coming down the road. And then I think the question that's on a lot of people's minds, when we are going to actually mint some of these stickers. So we'll talk a little bit more about that.
And then we'll open it up for your old questions. In the meantime, please, please, questions at us as you have them, because we would love to hear what you all have questions about or what you'd like to hear us talk a little bit more about. So in the meantime, please, please.
And, um, all right. So, um, probably most of you all are familiar with dialect, but for those of you that have just been, you know, stacking sticker packs and not look too much into what's going on at dialect. I'll give a brief intro and then I'll toss it over to Chris to walk us through.
some of the new features that we launched today. So at Dialects, we're building Web3's best mobile messaging experience. So we are a mobile messaging app. We are live today on iOS, on Android, and also on the Saga phone. So we are approved
in the DAP store there. So hopefully many of you guys have already ordered your microphones. I'll be excited for you all to see some of the some of the soccer features that we have rolling rolling out there. And what dialect is is we are an app that enables wallet to wallet messaging that we believe is on par with telegram
and all the best mobile messaging apps on Web2. But what's unique about Dialect is that we integrate the ownership and interoperability of Web3. And we believe building messaging on top of Web3 primitives will bring rich interactive content and experiences
to messaging that are impossible in Web2 and ultimately will trump the Web2 messaging experience that exists today. So there's three innovations on the dialect enables, smart messages, which is the ability to execute transactions within a message.
The second thing is NFT stickers. You guys are probably all pretty familiar with that. But when you have a digital collectible, you can use it inside the app because these are -- we're a wallet enabled messaging app. And then the final thing is what our features today are focused on, which is what we are
what we call the collector's experience that allows you to discover collectibles, connect with other holders of those collectibles, and curate your Web3 identity. So Chris, why don't you talk through a little bit more about all the stuff that we launched today and how that brings this collector's experience vision to life.
Yeah, thank you, Mark. Hey, everyone, Chris here. I think I recognize a lot of familiar faces in the audience. Thank you so much for coming and for being a part of this launch. We are incredibly excited about what we launched today. It's an entirely new experience that Mark told you a little bit about. Some of you have been around since our last
We launched mid-December, so we launched dialect in mid-December and it's still a private baited today. We're trying to get folks off into early access as quickly as we can. But one of the really key parts of that experience was getting to engage with a new NFT category, like a new product category for NFTs, which are these chat sticks.
And we had that idea late last year, and it was really fun to launch it alongside the app. But as I'm sure a lot of you saw, you think about what real estate is taken up in any given mobile app reflects what's important to the creators behind the product and the experience.
And that center tab in dialect, which was kind of like where you would refer your friends and claim and earn sticker packs, we've completely renovated that to an exciting new experience. And what we've learned of the last couple of months is like what's exciting about stickers, chat stickers as an NFT category.
is they highlight a whole new kind of collector's experience that doesn't and hasn't existed in the same way in in previous like pfp collections and whatnot. And so the story there is so like you know we've been launching these packs. Now what we do what we have live today is you can see not only the packs that you
you currently own in the collections that you've claimed, but you can also browse and see all the collections that we've launched today. So this is great experience to discover collections. The next thing that's live from there, and you can see this all in the tweet that we shared a few hours ago, is when you tap through to a
collection that you're interested in, you can see both the art itself and some information that will be coming soon around the collection itself, but you can also discover holders. So we see this as like a complimentary side of the experience of messaging, where in messaging, once users can mint, once we all
about total holding and total supply for the stickers to be soon. Coming online soon is just a preview, but there's this whole other side of the social network here now where you can discover holders and reach out to folks. On your profile tab, that same similar experience of scrolling through and seeing the collection
that are available, the ones that you have. Now you have this social public profile that you can share and brand with other people. So we're insanely excited about this. There's one small innovation I really just like thrilled about that we had so much fun developing a dialect and would love all your feedback on this.
And it's basically like a new way to browse NFTs and collections that we think is uniquely suited but not unique to stickers. And it's kind of like a Netflix style carousel. So if you just open up the stickers tab on dialect, you'll see that there is, as you scroll vertically, you're seeing different collections.
scroll horizontally to browse through the stickers of those collections. The reason this is really uniquely suited to stickers is because any one of these collections, the art is expanding every week. We've got more and more art we can share. Every artist tends to do somewhere between maybe five, ten, max, maybe like 15 or 30 stickers.
It's really nicely suited to this kind of horizontal scrolling view. But we think this is just like a great new way to parse a lot of what can be overwhelming information if you look inside of other wallets that you have. Sometimes you're just browsing through like an un-sorted grid of NFTs, which can be very nice.
And we think there's a purpose for that. But we're really excited about this collection delimited view. So launch today and available you can see we've also teased and revealed some of the art that's going to be minting very soon. And we're working with every one of the 50 plus projects to get art created and live inside a dialect as soon as possible.
and you'll be seeing more of that coming online every week. The last thing I would say here on the collector's experience is, and we can talk a little bit more about the Mint experience soon, but what we're really excited about is the new kind of collector's experience that opens up with these, with like the new
two kinds of supply mechanics and economics around stickers. So take, for example, the tainic or pond of dreams, which is one of our favorite limited edition or special edition packs by one of our favorite one of one artists. I believe there's about 10 or 12 stickers, different kinds of art in that pack.
And every one of those stickers has varying rarity. So we've not shared this before, but we're insanely excited to share it now. Some of those stickers are going to be rarer than others and some more abundant than others. And when minting comes, you'll be able to open the pack and find out that you got a random set of say three to five of the total 12.
And so everybody's going to get a unique experience around that first mint, around opening the pack. And then as you collect that art, now that will display on your profile and it will display on other users' profiles. And whether you're joining a token gated chat around some of the stickers that you have or you're connecting in some of the group chats
that already exists, you'll be able to browse through and find holders of the stickers that you don't have and be able to engage with and trade with them right in chat. So our belief at Dialect is that chat is the best medium for NFT liquidity and NFT trading. And so what we're crazy excited about is bringing these
worlds together and like one seamless mobile experience. So this might be pinned in the carousel at the top of this Twitter space. I think it might not be yet. So Harrison, if you can pin it, it's one of the tweets in our thread today. You'll see that on every collection, you don't just see the art available, you also see what you have of it. And this is what we mean by the collection.
experience that you can see your experience collecting through to owning a full collection. So we just think it opens up a new kind of expressiveness, a new accessibility, and a new kind of collectability in NFTs in general. And this is what we've been building toward for a few months, and it's been what we've been excited to launch with the
And the launch today around discovering, connecting and curating in dialect is that first step. So yeah, I think Paris and Justin pin this. It's at the front of the pinned and tweets here. So maybe I'll pause there and would love to
Yeah, so I would say, yeah, so I think one thing before we jump into some of the audience questions, so you talked a little bit about this idea of curating your identity and curating your profile and all those sorts of things. Talk a little bit more. We've got a
We've got all of the things that we launched today. We have minting coming up as soon as possible. We'll talk a little bit more about that. But there's a few features that we're hoping to launch next week as well that relate to this idea that you can curate your identity and stitch together different wallets
and public keys that you have. And all the, because speaking for myself, I have identities across. You know, I collect PFP NFTs, I collect fine art NFTs. I definitely am stacking lots and lots of sticker packs. And I'm also participating in DeFi. But these, I try to separate
these different identities that I have across a bunch of different wallets. So how are we thinking at dialect about stitching all these things together and what are some of the things that we're launching coming up that will help us to curate these identities into something that's a little more stitched together inside dialect?
Yeah, great question. So also this is.
a sneak peek on features within dialect that we have not mentioned before. So this is like a hearing at first and we'll have a lot more to share in the coming week. Our, when we were designing dialect, probably one of the first things you all noticed was that we generated messaging while it for you on
on the fly. It is now the case that you can sign in with any wallet that you have elsewhere. And I know that was one of the most hotly requested features. When we first decided to go with just generating a new messaging wallet for all new users, the underlying assumption there was that we
All already the vast majority of us live in a multi wallet world. Like just like Mark just said, we've got hot wallets, we've got ledgers, cold wallets, we've got wallets for D5, we've got wallets for NFTs. Our belief at dialect is the future is going to become more and more multi wallet over time.
time and to get a little bit technical, one of our favorite metaphors is actually in Web2 authentication. Cryptographies used all over Web2 authentication, whether it's OAuth or other style. And there's these idea of like session tokens. And it's really just like sort of disposable
expiring things that you do in a moment in a session in Web 2, when you log in to an app, it generates a session for you at last a few hours and then it's silently updates it. That future of just seamless, I don't have to think specifically about individual wallets. We think there's just metaphors
in order to join a Togigated Chat with some very valuable NFTs in it. Instead, what we do is we came up with this user experience that we'll be launching in the next couple of weeks around linking wallets. You can build your identity across multiple wallets, starting with your messaging wallet, which you know you
you set a username and you can set a PFP. And then over time, if you say, you know what I want to join this token-gated chat, that's being run by this community. And I got that very valuable NFT in a ledger. Coming online in the next few weeks in Dialect, you'll be able to seamlessly link up any other kind of wallet.
it, whether it's a ledger or any other directly in dialect, and then take and curate the experience like here are all the things that I have in that wallet, I can now use them to access special features. So like whether it's that one of your favorite NFT projects does a gated launch of stickers, or there's a gated
We did chat around one of your PFPs or one of your more valuable NFTs. You can very, in a highly trusted, highly secure and very safe way, bring that into your dialect messaging identity without having to compromise on your security. So we're really excited about this multi-wallet experience.
The next piece of it, which is what Mark teed up a little bit there is. So today, when you visit your profile and dialect as of launching today or you visit any of your friends, profiles, you can see the stickers that they've collected. But when we say curate and share your web 3 identity like now or before,
As you link these wallets, you may have noticed on your profile, and on other users' profiles, there's both stickers and other collectibles. So we want to bring this great, beautiful browsing experience with NFTs into dialect as well for all kinds of collectibles. And we think this is going to be one of the best ways to show off
what you've got. And it'll give you the ability to curate. Over time, you'll be able to put up and push up to the top, the things that you love the most, push things that are you less interested down to the bottom. And also, we've got some exciting stuff in the works to make sure all of the spam and the teas that have dropped in your wallet are just dealt with. So you really get that great showcase experience.
So that's what we've got coming on the multi wallet side. And just in general at a high level, we believe that that users best security practices and best user experience is multi wallet. And so we're moving fast in this direction of allowing users to bring together and link up and showcase.
and curate their own identity. And speaking of showing what you got, when are we going to get to mint the stickers? So talk a little bit more about the work we've been doing with CompressorNFTs and then obviously when when mint.
So I'll jump to the chase. When Mint is soon, there's kind of a fun thing that Anatoly the slotted founder likes to say where you can either pick what you're shipping or when you're shipping it. You can never pick both. And if we were to pick when we were shipping, this is a profound new piece of technology where they, you know, all
All of the first NFT chat stickers will use the Solana and MetaPlex compression technology. And actually, if everyone's interested, we can share a little bit on this called why we went that route. But the when and what is definitely that we want you all to have the most successful
mint possible and we want it to be bug free and we want it to be robust and we want it to just be the exciting kickoff of an entirely new fun way to express yourself and own your voice. And as a result, the win. I'm going to share this exclusively with this group. Again, we
been pretty tight-lipped about exactly when, but it could be within the next week or two. It's looking very likely that that's true. We're in the very last stretch here. We know of all the caveats and all the bugs. I wanted to give a shout out to both the Salonacore team. I don't know if there's anyone here, Salonal Labs and Salonacore team.
on a foundation for the incredible work they've done on the compression tech and the team at MetaPlex who are doing a ton of the last bug squashing. And then if we, you know, time permitting and the audience is interested, I'm talking a little more about the infrastructure and the tech around how this stuff works, but I'm calling out one extra
And these are the RPC providers and indexers who manage a lot of the very complex like state management required for like this advanced compressed NFT tech to work. And specifically we're talking about teams like Helius. I don't know if anyone of the audience
source and it is being now developed collectively as a community and specifically like the heliosteem have leaned in to work on ironing out some of the last bugs. One last point I'll make on that is mending is looking very good at this time but what do you want to do with your NFTs after you've minted them? One you want to like
showcase them. That's great, but you also might find out that you got a sticker that you like, but you find someone else who's got a sticker you absolutely love. And if you want to be able to DM that person and say, "Hey, let's do a swap," or "I'll pay two Saul," or maybe it's even point one Saul, depending on the rarity.
you're going to want to be able to transfer and buy cell trade and there are still some bugs being ironed out there. So from a logistical perspective, we're probably looking at an initial mint and then there may be a few days later
a weak-ish timeline between that and the first trades. And so just giving everyone a heads up here that we're going to start with ninting first and then we're going to segue and slowly roll out trading and transfers.
Sweet. Yeah, we're all looking forward to make that happen. Why don't we cover a few of the questions that we've started to get? And then if folks want to come up on stage and ask questions, feel free to request on that front as well. So the first one that I saw in the chat is
from Zen Lama. If you guys don't follow Zen Lama, you should. They're on the Slana core team and have had some great content recently about all the work that Slana is doing to improve on all their systems and everything.
I go to is when I'm trying to understand what's going on with slanted development. So make sure you follow Zen Lama. But the asked, can you talk about any plans for end to end encryption in chats? So we've got a pretty unique take on this. So Chris, maybe you can expand a little bit about how we're thinking about end to end encryption.
Yes, hey, Zem and Lama, excellent question. Fun fact about our history at dialect. Maybe many of you know this. We launched over a year ago. Almost exactly a year ago to the date, early March. And we launched as developer tools to get messaging and notifications integrated.
over the Solana ecosystem and that was what we were up to for most of 2022 before launching the mobile app. That developer tool set supported the Diffie Helman key exchange technique and it still does today. Back then we were well
web tooling that connected to wallets in the same way that apps do. And so there is a well-established way in which you can take like key pairs in crypto and web 3. These are asymmetric.
key pairs and use them to securely and safely derive symmetric keys for encryption, and it's called the Diffie-Helmond technique. And we built that out and actually ended up partnering with Solano Labs and specifically Jordan Sexton at Solano Labs to help establish a while at
standard spec for this. So we built it, but at the end of the day, in order to generate those keys, you need to be able to have access to the actual private key. And that is in the domain of the wallet providers, like phantom, software, glow, backpack.
And the API that they expose and rightfully they expose like a very limited API like apps cannot access that private key that is strictly in the domain of software. And now moving forward, this is going to be saga and the seed vault as well, which is even more secure. None of those apps actually none of those while it's actually exposed.
the encrypted decrypt technique. And so this is like a little bit of a fun history or at least fun to me, where we built a lot of that out and it actually could work in certain scenarios, but the wallet basically didn't adopt the standard. They probably will in 2023 and then our full developer tooling.
We'll support that. Now that we are an actual like full mobile app and we generate keys for you on the fly, we can absolutely turn this back on. And we will likely do that as we exit private beta because we think n10 encryption is really
important. Where a little more work probably needs to be done is in doing fast performance, secure, seamless, and 10 encryption in multi-party environments. So like, Dippy Helman gets a little more complex when you start having multiple parties. And there's other techniques that can be used as well.
Anyway, fun little story of that. We actually did support it for a long time, but it was blocked by existing sort of like kind of limited use by existing standards and we care very much about encryption. And we will very much be turning this on as we exit private beta. Sweet.
was there's other wallet messengers out there. How does dialects stand out of the pack? And secondarily and most importantly, ensure that transactions are absolutely secure.
Great question. I think the short answer here is we think that messaging in Web 3 is in its very earliest innings. It is not enough to simply turn on messaging between wallets and call it a day. Every single new messaging paradigm wins,
because it offers differentiating features from what previous paradigms offered. So email was just revolutionary because it was instant versus like licking an envelope and putting in the mailbox and waiting five days. Other ones, you know, you can give other more nuanced answers, but like with the launch of WhatsApp, we
at Telegram is just profoundly better experienced than some of the other. They also rode the wave mobile. That was a really big innovation there. We believe Web3 is one of these vectors as well. And so there's a lot of messaging platforms out there, but most of them are just kind of re-implementing traditional, just sending and receiving
text, images, attachments, and that will never be interesting or differentiated enough to become a major messaging platform on the internet. And we didn't say this before necessarily, but a dialect we're on a mission not just to create like the best web through messaging experience. We believe Web 3 can unlock the best internet.
measuring experiences. There are some projects that are innovating in the space and we're very excited to see that. What we're excited to see is long-term one of the promises of Web3's interoperability. And so as breakout winners emerge in this space with really interesting and differentiated features, what we hope ends up happening
is that they begin to interoperate because that's the promise of Web 3 that you have this universal user table with wallets. You can sign in with the same keys anywhere. That is an amazing revolutionary tech and we can't wait to see interoperability in Web 3 messaging in ways that Web 2 never never delivered on.
That said, given that we're all rapidly experimenting on exciting and fun new features, right now we're mostly focused on just making our user base in our community as happy as possible. And we're just iterating and experimenting on the great features that we think can help make that happen. A couple areas where
where we provide a lot of exciting innovation that we expect other projects to adopt as well. He's on the smart messaging front, which we've got pinned here with an example of a buy now button. These are messages where you can literally take action right from the message. And then of course on the expressive digital collectible front of chat stickers.
It's just so much fun. Everybody's been really enjoying engaging with this new kind of content and this new kind of NFT category. So all of which is basically to say, we think that it's all about innovation and differentiation and we're excited by the handful of folks that we believe are really doing that and we count ourselves in that group. We hope you do too.
All right, and talking about smart messages, a second part of the question was about security. So we'll actually be, maybe this is a little bit of alpha that there might be some smart messages that will go live next week. And we're planning to talk a little bit more. We've been partnering with Otter Sect.
which is one of the leading security audit firms in the space on making sure that smart messages are secure. So maybe talk a little bit about what we're doing there and how we think about security generally because it's obviously the, you know,
the number one priority for everything else. Excellent second half of the question. Thank you for the reminder. In our one of these differentiating features of ours, the smart message is a way to execute and take actions directly from messages and with any new
like profound change in the way you interact on the internet, you always need to be careful to design things as robustly and safely as possible to keep the experience trusted and safe. There's two things that we've done here to make that possible. Smart messages are an open standard. The spec is
open source, but it's also not sitting alone in a vacuum. We developed it in close coordination with Solano Labs and it runs on rails that are very similar to Solano Pay, which is a really powerful open protocol for more than just sending and receiving tokens.
It's really taking any action on the internet. So one thing is standing on the shoulders of giants and working with the people who are building really lasting open source tech. So we didn't develop it in the vacuum. Part one, we worked in close collaboration with Salana and then alongside a similar piece of tech.
And then two, as Mark hinted at, it's a very new interaction mode on the internet. And we've partnered with one of the leading security firms, AutorSec, which I'm sure many of you have heard of. They do audits. I don't want to quote exactly which customers, but a lot of the big L ones, like the major blockchain.
major protocols and whatnot and they were really delighted to work with us on auditing not only the protocol for smart messaging but also the specific instantiations of specific smart messages. So we're talking about sending and receiving tokens. We're going to have some very cool buy now smart messages.
where when you link out to a piece that's listed on a major exchange, there will be a buy now button right on the message. And in addition to all that, auditing the quality robustness and the safety of the code in our mobile app. So across the board, we've been working very closely with them on making sure we create the safest experience possible for our users.
Awesome. So KP at Chris Eck, I asked a couple questions in there. So maybe we could dive in a little bit to some some sticker related stuff.
Use ordering if we can have double packs. So will it be possible to own more than one of the same pack?
Yes, yes, and yes. This is a great question, Chris. Thank you for joining or KP. Right now, packs are not NFTs. They are sort of like white list spots in order to provide
from the mint action when minting is ready. We only did that to start because we wanted to get these into people's hands and experiment with the idea and see if people were excited about sticker facts. The answer there is very definitively yes. They should absolutely themselves be NFTs and we will be migrating
to this over time. In that scenario, whether it's any individual sticker, is itself an NFT and you can own an arbitrary number, then we're going to have an amazing intuitive experience around collecting and buying and selling. Same exact thing goes for the packs.
I hinted at this earlier, but when you open a pack it's going to be very kind of like magic, the gathering, baseball cards, the kind of like got a catchable all Pokemon kind of stuff. When you open a pack you'll get kind of like a randomized set of stickers and that means
owning multiple packs makes perfect sense. You might want to collect a few and maybe you even buy in cell packs without ever opening them. We think this is a super fun, very engaging, very entertaining, collectors experience that we is not live today yet, but we cannot wait to get that live.
And I see some other comments from Diego around whether or not we can have a leaderboard for who has the most packs. I think that's a pretty fun idea.
Actually, one of the things I personally am very excited about in the latest release is that I can click on other people's profiles and see how many packs they have. So that's pretty fun. It's so much fun. Diego, it's good to see you. Thanks for joining.
Yes, absolutely. Exactly how we have so many ideas, and that is a fantastic one, on how you discover. Okay, small aside, we're not the only ones to feel this way.
Ownership driven social networks is a huge thing in the real world whether we talk about it or not whether it's the kind of car you own or you have a certain bike or you have a like a sport you play that's a little more interest driven but there's some ownership there and then all the other existing things
that we talked about like with Magic The Gathering and these other kinds of collectible experiences. We believe the discovery of a social network through ownership of a common thing is like a massively untapped space in Web 3. And this is the light launching this collector's
experience, what we want to unlock is the ability to discover people with shared interests and shared ownership. And leaderboards are an amazing kind of like global representation of that. And we love to turn some cool stuff on there. We'll keep you posted.
Yeah, there's also a question from Sega is zero by zero. Is there any plan for expanding to other chains in the future? You all are like one step ahead of us. So again, not really not mentioned
before this space, but we can say definitively we are absolutely a multi-chain product. And we believe our goal at Dialect is to bring the best entertainment, the best content, the best art to our community.
And we are die-hard Salonathans, amazing tech, incredible community, but we also just believe that there are amazing and interesting communities and content and art across many chains. And we talked a little bit about our multi-wallet experience a few minutes ago. There's no reason
while it's on every chain and you just don't have to think about it. And so you just browse and find content that you like and then you can seamlessly engage with it. So yes, we are going multi-chain. I can't give you an exact date on that, but what I can say is we have fully designed the experience. We've ironed out all the technical consequences and implications and it is
going to be so good. It's going to be so much fun. I cannot wait to get it and everyone's hands and get your feedback. And yeah, and I think part of our thesis there is that basically when you look across all of the chains and as a creator and you're trying to bring
content of people, you start to really evaluate what each of the chains makes possible. And like it's no secret that we are, we're very enthusiastic, Solano folks. And like what, like without Solano dialectism is even possible because of compressed in a
because of Solana mobile, because of Solana Pay. And we think that when you start to stack up all the chains one side by side, users, creators will start to see what becomes possible and what is the best, best chain to use to bring the best and rich
and most interactive experiences to people. And so we're very excited to start to see creators and content and users from across the spectrum of all the different chains start to start to meld together a little bit and what will be possible once people
start really composing and playing with all the different tools at their disposal. There's another question about some of the packs that we have going on. People are interested in the golden packs specifically.
And also I just curious, what are our plans for launching more packs? Oh my god, these golden packs have been around forever and there are only five of them. And I think all five got claimed around our early launch. Just pure luck.
back in our old system and like I think it had a double check but those folks we have not been able to get in touch with them but we've got some really cool stuff behind these golden packs and it might end up being that these are just NFTs that just like I never end up getting unlocked. So it's like
It's super exciting for us. We realized this only yesterday when this whole thing started coming together and we were about to launch that like, "Oh, of course, everyone's going to be able to see that these exist." But there's only five of them. And it never really clicked because we never got in touch with the folks who've got them. We just DMed them. But you all probably are aware that we've got this message request system. So maybe#
do something fun there as well. Smallest side on stickers. Like the largest, just a little bit of alpha here, the largest sticker collection. I think it's got about 15 or 20 pieces of art in it, but the total supply across those 50 or 15 or 20 pieces of art is going to be
I think north of 150,000 stickers. We didn't really try that. That's just like kind of what happened with users claiming these. Absolutely, there will be stickers out in the millions because we believe this is a whole new way for artists to express themselves and bring their content and their brand to web
three users who can genuinely own a piece of that brand. On the extreme other end is scarcity and rarity. And so we're working with some incredible artists who are doing some amazing, probably like very exclusive small drops. And what we love about NFT stickers and just general this kind of like way of thinking about
collectibles is it massively opens up the spectrum of collectability. So that was part question number one on this golden pack. On like where we're going with this, we've announced a bunch of packs. You've probably seen a lot of the recent ones have been with some of our favorite really like top PFP projects on slona. We've got some
It's an amazing stuff in the works, not only on Solana, but elsewhere, among some of our favorite PFB brothers. I think there's just huge opportunity for those projects to expand their IP, create these new and expressive ways to interact. It's also true that a lot of these projects already have some great sticker art that they might use in Discord, and now it really makes give them ability to collect like, make collectibles out of
of these. So there's some incredible stuff coming on one there. One of these other things that I think just based on pure supply, a lot of our users are not, a lot of you all have not had a chance to see as much. We're going to have some amazing things coming online there. It's just the insane amount of high quality art
being created by some of our favorite one of one artists. So a lot of the very early packs, if you look all the way back to early December or mid-December when we first launched the Model App, we launched with Art from 15 of our favorite one of one artists. These are folks like Spooky Diacom, Joyce Liu, Nolegs, Tainek or Raphican,
Luke X-Dodd, like a bunch of other like really Mark Alino, like Mark Alino did our very first and their art is just abs, you can all see this now. It's all like for anyone who hasn't already claimed these packs. It's just incredible art. We have entirely separate new waves of artists now coming online over the next few weeks.
interest on both your end and on the artistic end of like artist reaching out to us wanting to do stickerbacks has just been explosive. So in so many words, there is just an absolutely like title wave of art and content coming and we believe that NFT chat stickers
are legitimately a new category, like a new product category, and we can't wait to see it just like grow like wildfire across Salana and other chains. So stay tuned. And then in terms of how you get this art, we're turning on some amazing new secondary experiences. Apple obviously is a little bit restrictive about
what kinds of web 3 things you can do in iOS apps. But we've got some amazing ways that we think we can get around that to provide you all this really fun collectors experience. And then as far as new drops go, we want to make the best artist and creator platform for engaging directly with their
their audiences. And so stay tuned for some really amazing features around being able to connect with and engage with artists and participate. Like we will be over time less responsible for specific crops. We're going to be doing that all the time anyway, but it's going to be a little more like as this market really comes online, it's going to be artists and create
and we'll continue to do feature ones ourselves. But as this market explodes, it's going to be more and more about the incredible talent you can find in our platform. I hope that answers your question. All right, here's, we've got time for a couple more questions. This next one is near and dear to my heart as a dialect powder.
Power user, but is when when desktop So this this question so one like last year we spent most of the year building desktop Did all our tools and we've got an amazing footprint there amazing technical infrastructure. It is a little behind
We are doing a lot of work to make sure that we can get the message
So if you had to pick a web app or a native desktop app, we think there are ways we can support both, but we'd love to hear what's more interesting to you. Probably with my tone of voice, you could tell which one I care about. So that's when desktop is soon.
As a very hacky workaround, if you have an M1 Mac, you can install, dialect the mobile app on your desktop. I do not recommend this. It's not great, but it will do the job. Cool. Okay. So last question.
And I'll use as an opportunity to shout out some of the folks on our team. People are asking how big the team is and if we have any open positions and that we're hiring. So first, just want to give a shout out to obviously
So the Harrison who's here, but Carl who I'm empirical is in the audience. He's he's on our design team. Nick Schalezkov, our engineering manager, absolute Gikachad is in the audience. Selena is here.
Melody is here, so we've got a bunch of the dialect team in the audience and some they move absolute mountains. So we have an incredible, incredible squad here at dialect and all Chris can go in a little more detail, but yes, absolutely. We are hiring.
I'm just going to double down that and just highlight absolutely incredible work. I think we've made, we've gotten so lucky to put together an incredible team. Nick Geleschkov is one our engineering manager but also the Giga Brain behind Minting. So everything that's going to go right and smooth
than beautiful. Over the next, sometime within the next 7 to 14 days with minting, you can thank Nick. This is absolutely like, we are the very first mover in the compressed NFT space and he is our lead there. Empirical is our
are newer member of the design team who's just been doing some incredible work. So everything about this new collector's experience, he, Gregory and another member of the team, Sabina, have all just done an amazing work there. I love the work that we're doing. And then many of you don't need an introduction to Selena as she
is often point person with many of you and I know all of your when mint when early access questions go to her and then there's many other members of the team who are not here right now because they are addressing some of the performance issues we've had just like crash of activity into the app and I'm sure some of you've seen things are a little bit slow they are cranking out fixed
and improvements that right now as we speak. So tons of folks on the team who are not here that I would love to shout out. We are about 15, 16 folks and yes we are hiring. We are looking for roles across the board if you are a the one thing we prize the most if I like.
is an extreme ownership. If you feel like you're the kind of person who loves to own something and to end and obsess over the details, we'd love to hear from you. That's on engineering, full stack, front end, back end. We're doing more and more work that's touching the chain in new and innovative ways. But it's also more traditional infrastructure and off-chain
cloud services, mobile developments, obviously on that list. And then on the non-engineering side, growing the team on both product and marketing. So we'd love to hear from you again. That kind of like being able to look at things from a galactic perspective all the way down to like Adam's splitting detail. We have crazy vision for what the future
of Web 3 and just general messaging looks like, but we also just swept all the details. We want to make the best and seamless and most buttery, smooth experience out there. Sweet, well, that will about do it for us today. If you'd like to talk more with us, hit us up first and
for most inside dialect, but we're also available. I'm Chris. And I'm Mark. Most of us by virtue of being the first people to use the app got got most of our regular names as as usual names. I will say though, on the hiring front, if you don't have early access in dialect,
message me on Twitter and if you're interested in talking about possibly or really any reason that I'll feel free my DMs are open. Yes Twitter, Twitter DMs anybody on the team reach out to us, dialect Twitter discord. We've got a pretty active community on the discord as well and you can open
and a ticket if you want to get directly to us. We'll make sure to answer all those quickly. But thank you guys so much for joining. Thank you for trying out dialects. Please provide as much feedback as possible. The more and better feedback you give us, the faster.
We can guarantee that we are a team that likes to ship very, very quickly. So give us the feedback and we will go to go to work to make the app better and better and better. And true, I think slanted cultural fashion, we want to should fast iterate and improve as fast as possible. So it's been
It's been a pleasure to talk with you all today. Enjoy the new features and look forward to minting some stickers here and hopefully the next few days and/or weeks. All right, that's all we got for today. We'll talk to you guys soon.