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Governance Call 16: March, 2025
Recorded: March 27, 2025 Duration: 1:01:03Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent governance call, Metapool DAO discussed significant developments including the launch of Piper X's integration, upcoming grants for AI projects, and a new adaptive buyback mechanism aimed at enhancing token visibility. The community's engagement in governance proposals reflects a growing trend in crypto adoption and innovation.
Full Transcription
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Throw the coffees, share with the crew hello everybody hey lucio how you doing hi good good evening over there good morning over here so um
what time is it for you claude yeah it's 8 a.m here so it's morning time uh so anyhow so thank
you very much everybody for coming in uh i reckon it's been um it's been quite uh
it's been quite uh it was it's been quite a month to be honest um things are well not uh
as expected right is it big, big bull run.
I saw there was a law in the Senate in the States to regulate the stablecoins.
So, that will be, if it goes, good for everyone.
Yeah, I think the tokenization part, that's done, right?
It's a done deal.
BlackRock, right, and a few others, right? They announced a couple of things this past week, right? But still, the reality is, and I think this is something we're also facing as a DAO. on for one second
the beauty of children
i i think he's still hearing me so i will comment this i think it's good on the on the idea of bringing much more people into crypto it will bring in crypto into the mainstream so I think
some things will be good some things will be bad but the net will be positive
hey hey guys send gals and now family is more important claudio nobody yeah every step of the
way right and so that's one of the reasons if you're uh stay at home dad as i am so uh well it
comes with the spurts it comes with this um thanks and uh and yeah uh and that's the reason why i'm
why i'm working right it's this whole thing so anyhow uh i think it was a a
eavesdropping into my daily life um anyhow so okay so a few things on the agenda today right so
uh this is our governance call um is this governance called number 17 16 16 okay sweet 16. um i think for many of us is we need to start
to understand um what what's the next step uh uh next steps we're going to be taking right so we
had medical and poor medical improvement 14, uh, discussion or not last governance
call that was rejected by the community.
Now we're moving forward into what is medical improvement number 15, which was recently
approved.
Right.
Um, I think it was really, really great to see many people come in and both expressing
their thoughts as well. Uh, I think that's, that really great to see many people come in and both expressing their thoughts as well.
I think that's very, very important.
And that's something we're going to be discussing today.
Now, we also have the Metapool DAO grants number 12, right?
That is up on the 28th.
That's the last deadline for people to submit uh their projects ai related we will
start to discuss that as well and then one of the things that we're going to be discussing right now
is piper x right with story so we launched on um we launched a few weeks back um our first integration with a uh dex in um in story and so really really really
excited about that and more most importantly for us is trying to uh focusing on on being a
ecosystem player right and i think those are the most important things. So without further ado, I'll start sharing my screen and then we'll take it from there.
So just one second, everybody.
This is...
Oh, sorry about this.
It's just PDF, it sucks.
I don't know why I'm not grabbing my screen.
Okay, yeah, entire screen is not gonna flow flow so it's gonna look a little bit bad apologies for that uh that's totally on me uh i should have uh double check on this one that was on but it so
okay so let's uh try to do it this way then um okay there you go so it's gonna
um okay well anyhow that's what it is okay so we got agenda right now as i said before
piper x we're going to be discussing right now and paid out grants number 12 and the other one then we got medical improvement 15. so without further ado let's go deep dive into this again
we're looking at the comments so go ahead comment if you want to make sure that
you reach out to us we also have a telegram group as well. There's a governance channel over at our Discord as well.
So we have our team there, we have Rose there,
we have our ambassadors as well.
So if you have any questions, please shoot them.
I think this is the space for this, right?
It's not about just lucy myself talking
it's a government call that means everybody's open there's a open mic policy here uh i know
many people will not like to turn on their camera that's fine uh but they can write their questions
and comment okay so let's go for this um next on the agenda it's going to be this one okay so piper x uh as you know right um
we've just launched the ip state ip pool on viper x um we're expanding liquidity into
story protocol ecosystem right now uh if you have liquidity you can earn an 18
right now uh if you have liquidity you can earn an 18 percent apy uh rewards are paid daily right um
also very important um the fast on stake feature um goes through the integration of piper x right
you can on stake uh uh state ip directly on medical uhool, trade manager positions,
and more importantly, contribute to the efficiency
of IP liquidity, the liquidity of IP in the whole ecosystem.
So very important shout out to our partners at Piper X.
They've been really great to work on.
We understand that they're also
in this process of attracting more capital and more liquidity, increasing their TVL.
We will also be doing some campaigns around incentivizing staking but that's uh in a few few more few more days we first wanted to
get this out of the way uh next one on the pipeline is story hunt as well so we're going to be working
with them and announcing a campaign soon uh lucio any comments you want to have on this no no it
was it wasn't an easy integration we're also also integrating with StoryHand, that is the other DEX.
So the idea is to provide the easiest operation everywhere. So it even you can compare that
that is a part I like. You can, let's say you want to unstake five IP, you can compare how much
you will get by Metapol, that is with the native unstake, that is ZL of V, how much you will get by Metapol that is with the native and stake that
is zero fee how much you will get by Piper X and how much you will get by story so it's a way to
learn how to pick the better options always excellent excellent right there so yeah so that's us moving forward and understanding
um what's it uh what we're going to be doing with uh uh with liquidity or TVL in in in uh
in story right where does it go right and because as you know like uh capital needs to move that's the nature of it uh and liquid staking tokens are no exception to this
right so we're doing our best to partner with the right protocols um hyper x and story hunt have been
uh we've done our due diligence on them right they've been audited as well and so uh understand that also there is risk there is an
inherent risk of a smart contract risk on these platforms but we did our best to do our our due
diligence and uh we are putting uh liquidity here that on protocols that have been truly audited really truthfully audited um so anyhow if this
there's no questions around this i see questions around the mpdow grants program okay that's perfect
um but that's a little bit that's the next next on the agenda right so let's let's let's start moving with this one uh so very important so and and i think this is kind of a big bet we made this on this mp
dow grants program number 12 is we are focusing on supporting a agents uh
agent ai agent projects uh from the story ecosystem um um is, and I think this needs to be clarified a little bit,
is maybe there are agents in other blockchains
that would like to migrate into story.
That's what we're trying to facilitate as well.
Of course, ecosystem projects are always important,
but for us, the most important thing is just helping ai agents find
their place in the story uh blockchain right we want to support that uh now is if if i have an
agent over on solana on near on base right uh yes you can apply for it right the idea is that you
use this grant to bring that agent over to story. We believe that there's always going to be an opportunity for growth in this ecosystem, in this blockchain. And so definitely for us, that's something we want to be supporting. And more importantly, we want to help the story ecosystem grow, right? And what better way than through a grants program?
So you got the deadline for next week.
So next week, so for this week, so tomorrow is the last day.
If we see that there's more people interested in this,
we can definitely extend it.
But that's TBd right now at the
moment uh the grants team is discussing that internally but i think that the most important
thing right now is that we're here to support builders and the ecosystem and this is and this
is us putting users front and center of everything um there's oh and so um there's a blockchain insights has a question uh now francisco can you
bring it up i think now it's the time uh so so people can see it on the screen
so i'll read it out loud it's about grant 12 if a proposal fail on chain voting would be applying
for the next round grant with uh voting power accumulated from the last round.
No, it gets reset it, right? So every time they go and ask for a new grant, everybody starts at zero, right?
There's no accumulation of voting power assigned to it. For those that are doing voting,
doing voting what i would accept bias is once the grants round program ends they should be uh
uh on on voting their positions or moving their voting positions for the next grants round right
uh you can leave it both voted uh but i think uh it it doesn't serve any purpose because if it's
already done then it's already done uh lucio done. Lucio, you want to add to that?
No, no, no.
That's how it works normally.
And we are even thinking about proposing extending it.
So, for example, you vote even for validators.
And at some point, you need to vote again in order to remain active.
We found, for example, that people leave boats
and there are validators that are no longer running
or they are not running well
and they have the boats still there.
So the idea is you need to be active in the community.
Yes, I think it's been,
this is not our, again, this is our 12 grants round, right?
So we kind of are trying to improve it as much as we can.
I think most of the improvement lies on the pipeline of projects.
Do you want to be transparent here, right?
There hasn't been a lot of builders coming and requesting grants. Again, right? We understand that this is related to blockchain development, but it's not blockchain technology per se or at the core.
technology per se or at the core.
Correct me here if I'm wrong, Lucio, right?
Agents, the agents, agent models are third party models, right?
Lama, the works, Cloud, DeepSeek, Google AI and whatnot, right?
And so it's like it's Web2.
That's totally Web2. it's totally centralized
right it's not we cannot discuss we cannot uh uh disagree on that one now how they use that
information how they process it how they type into a blockchain that is the opportunity we're trying
to uh uh explore we are really early that that's the reason why things seem confusing and there's
people going around in all directions like headless chicken but that's it that is because
we are really really early in something that will be revolutionary so embrace it
yeah yeah embrace the chaos and and be flexible and try to understand us as a core, multiple core team.
We're also trying to figure out, like, how does AI make a play, right?
There was some announcements on House of Stake, which is the governance framework that's about to be launched for Nier Protocol, right?
We were going to put some information here but we rather
that information let's sink in uh i'll share my screen a little bit and just so guide people into
the right direction but i'll do it that further uh further down the road i think the most important
thing right now to discuss is what has recently been voted right which is metaphor improvement 15.
this what has recently been voted right which is metaphor improvement 15. there you have uh the um
qr code um both results are there right so we had more than 200 million 200 million of
voting power being used um so so it was it was quite quite a um an achievement right I think this is the most
voted MPIP uh that we've uh would be that we've done Lucio I'm gonna let you take the lead on
this one so go right ahead my friend yeah I can tell how how has been, let's say, created from the start. At some point, that was like three or four months ago, we started noticing that we need to move and grow that applies to almost everyone.
So we need to grow, we need to change, we need to apply the resources we have in the DAO, all of us, in order to make the DAO grow, in order to stay relevant.
There's no other opportunity.
So a lot of ideas started coming in on how to do that.
of ideas started coming in on how to do that one was from a very estimated advisor and investor
that told us okay you need to start doing something with with the resources you have
at least start uh let's say gaining attention on on the token on the you you have one of the best
projects that was a very good compliment but we need to be noticed okay we we have been providing
to all our members like 40 50 percent apy for the last year and that happens nowhere or almost
very very few uh small projects so we need to make people know that and in order to know that we need to have
maybe more sophisticated mechanisms and also create more attractiveness for our token to be traded
for mpdao to be training for more people to participate in that so there was a first proposal that was
a mp14 but for xyz not everybody liked the good part is that from the feedback of that proposal
we have alejandro that is very og on near and one of the first collaborators of metapool
on near and then one of the first collaborators of metapool and he say okay i can i i see that
this is a good idea i can polish it a bit better and i can i can create a little more
let's say middle ground proposal and he did that was the mp15 that he published more more feedback was put into into the proposal and he adjusted more things and now it is approved.
What we need to do now is to start implementing it because it is a it is let's say sophisticated.
It is a way to create a more trustable token we have a lot this proposal defines a series of automated mechanisms
that will make sure that our token has a volume has trading is trustable so i think this is a
very positive move of course it's if it is risky everything is risky if you don't risk you are sure
is if it is risky everything is risky if you don't risk you are sure you ensure your own death so we
need to risk things anyway and and what we are doing that that is what we are doing and we will
try to do it the most predictable transparent and safe everything will be on the stats.metapool.app so anyone can check all the automated calculations
and let's see what happens in the next three to four months
uh yeah sorry about it guys just uh uh uh pushing pushing the link in the near protocol uh telegram
group um yeah so so i think we're we're still uh at a very early stage right even though the
protocol has been here for four years um we still haven't cracked it right and i think and and i i i was
trying to look for for the uh that con talk around daos uh that this guy really really bright um
i think is a polish guy or or from bulgaria i'll i'll try to to be a little bit more active on x sharing some of these thoughts
but there's no perfect doubt right and we are far very far from being perfect i want to be very very
transparent on this one um is there going to be hits and misses most likely right but we need to try and we need to change we cannot stagnate that's reality
and i'm being very i'm going to be brutally honest right now as well uh and sometimes
moving forward means that and and this is by anybody that has created products, digital products knows this, right?
Your first 100 users are going to be totally different than your next 1,000 users, right?
And I think we're on this shift of our first 100 users, and don't get me wrong, I'm totally, we're blessed again, and we're grateful for everything that you brought into the protocol
because we sure as hell know that the protocol has put everything for you because that has been
our statement from day one but again we're trying to build a sustainable ecosystem here
and you cannot build something that's sustainable by stagnation.
It's impossible.
And everybody that has built a digital product knows this, right?
You need to change.
And this change sometimes, not sometimes,
it will involve people flowing out of the ecosystem
because things are not the way it used
to be because xyz right um and it's fine they're putting their own personal reasons and they're
not putting the dow front and center of their decision that's fine we do not intend for them to do that. We intend to support those that support the DAO, right?
Some people might continue to support it, less, maybe more XYZ, right?
But I think we've demonstrated day in, day out that we are working towards sustainability, right?
And this is part of it. It's an experiment as sustainability, right? And this is part of it.
It's an experiment as well, right?
I think that's what many people need to realize and understand,
that we're looking for ways of improving.
Tokenomics is a challenging area.
We've looked at all of your comments as well.
We will be getting some advising from trusted parties, right,
and trying to figure out, like, how do we move forward on settling on processes that accumulate value for the token itself
because to be honest what we put in forward and started over a year ago i reckon i don't know when
was the last time that it was both that we started to to uh uh distribute uh protocol fees, right, natively from the ORLST.
We did it with the best intention of doing two things.
And I think we didn't, and I think it's on us as well, right?
Like we didn't really dial it in, right?
We say, hey, this is an APY, this is an APY,
but we didn't state it what we wanted from the users, even though I was very vocal about it and maybe governance calls.
And I think that's something different.
That's an approach that we're going to take this time where we're going to be very much focused on doing two things.
One, explaining each and every one of the steps, right? Like how does it
benefit the user and how the user will benefit the DAO. We didn't do that on the previous
process, right? It was also a very laid back process. It is voting. You put your voting
power to use and then you get paid. But we didn't tell
people the most important aspect of it, right? It is, yes, you're getting paid and the DAO is
putting all their efforts for you to getting paid. But in order for this to be sustainable,
and that's the first thing is, we didn't put a cap, then date to it right that was a mistake right here
what we're saying is three months and then we review right that was the first lesson tough
lesson because of course people were upset like hey man like i don't want to do work
that's reality i don't know i'm'm already working, right? I'm already voting and I'm getting paid,
right? And we forgot to say, yes, dude, yes, that's fine, but you need to bring in more stake.
We forget that important. Maybe we kind of rush it. I understand, but we were in not desperate but we were very much focused on on creating a value cash yield
process protocol uh on our protocol but but we forgot about that right saying hey yes this but
this you know how this is sustainable that you bring in more state and then and and by all means
go into the charts we did bring in more state, but it was a core team bringing that.
It is our job. Don't worry. Do not be mistaken.
But it was not a community effort to bring in more delegation.
And so we're at the end of the day, we're like thinking, OK, this is not sustainable right because at the end of the day it's not going to be the work of of of 10 people or of 20 22 people which is part of the core team uh
cannot really push then this the the sustained the sustainability of this system if um if we're if
if uh 60 100 or 200 people are getting paid. Right. It just doesn't work.
But it's a Pareto law. Right. It is 20 percent is going to going to support the 80. Right.
But then it was not 20 percent. It was 10 percent. So so we were like, OK, no, this is this is not going to work.
Because we if it because if we focus just on this process on this only
then we're gonna miss the next bounce of the ball right and so and and so right now it is taking two
steps back we rattled the cage we totally understand that we know that some feathers
were ruffled right but again right if you want to make an omelet, you're going to break some eggs.
That's reality.
And we are very keen on rattling the cage.
Why?
Because we do not want to stack meat.
So anyhow, I'll shut up right now, Lucio.
I know you got some stuff to say.
No, no, I'm 100% acuerdo con ti, para ser honesto. Y es un problema, porque es un problema de actitudes, porque quizás pensamos que tengo esto, que es un buen lugar para estar, providing benefits sharing it's a DAO it's a new way of organized people all around the world with no limits on geographical or jurisdictions on who you are or whatever is is about you it's just join and start sharing value and it's real value that we are sharing that is something that is maybe we are we all in Meta MetPool are used to but we are distributing around 100k a month digitally all over the world so it's it is new it is it is impressive but to be honest
think that okay i see i see what it is i will join and i will start pushing this uh why because
now i'm part of it and if this uh down grows it also my benefits grow but what what we found if
you like is that there's a percentage of people that say now okay good nice i can get this by doing nothing now i am entitled to it
and it's uh it will go nowhere because at the end of the day if you don't push if you don't help and
you don't make it grow it will simply at some point will die that is that is you you you you
need to understand that unless you are working to make something grow it dies so
if even if if you see that things continue let's say moving forward that is for the effort of this
20 like you say in the pareto distribution uh but uh we need the rest of the 80 to put some some
effort so that is the the rattling of the cage and the and the let's say
realignment of incentives so everybody keeps getting benefits but they must also put the work
into it
yeah it's a it's a it's just it's it's it's it's it's part of building a product, right? At the end of the day, I want to keep it simple
and not be using like very bloated questions, sorry, bloated descriptions, right? We're
building a digital product here, right? We're building a liquid sticking platform uh we want to work
uh we're working towards it being sustainable and being sustainable is
it is important to notice that this is different because this is not a it is not a work to
ditch the company that exists in in california this is now that that exists in California. This is the DAO that exists in every place,
wherever you are.
So this is different.
We are not screening anyone that wants to come in
and collaborate.
It is just coming and do it.
But what we need to do is to put, let's say,
it gotta be related, benefits and the effort got to be related.
Yeah, definitely.
Most definitely.
Questions.
Hey, well, and it's an opportunity to say hello
to our community, community right hey mixie
hey uh max one uh you get you woo uh destiny uh thank you very much for coming in appreciate you
i know it's a late night over there of course our own our own folks right uh uh francisco's right
there un robot hedimax another one uh blockchain insights um thank you very much for coming in everybody rose
uh brian is right there uh crypto sam thank you very much for coming hello to you back to you
nido of course you're not late man you're always on on the right on the money pieces
all the way from the philippines thank you for for being here so mateo our our sky empire
for being here. So Mateo, our Sky Empire, Chris Jams. So thank you very much, everybody, for
being here and listening to us. We are grateful for all your support. We want to continue to grow.
This is an open conversation. Let's go a little bit deep dive into what is MPI P15. Lucio,
you want to go into, and I think what everybody's on their mind right now thinking is the adaptive buybacks.
Tell us a little bit about that so people can hear it directly from us, right?
Like, okay, how is this going to happen, right?
How are we going to avoid front running, right?
Because that's also, that's one of the issues about the buybacks, right?
We understand that there's a uh a price
cap right that we want to be also be yeah yeah there's a lot of uh yes but also it it has it is
a mechanism that has a lot of knobs right and so understand that we're no experts and that's where
we're going to get some support as well but anyhow i'll go
right ahead lucille yeah to be honest but at this point this is not that complex it is it is not
super simple but the idea is that it to be for it to be completely automated to be the the way to
avoid uh let's say human intervention and and problems is to make it automatic try try to make it the
most automatic possible so so you you make the calculations and and you make the the agents
execute so there's no decision in the middle um in order to avoid that this uh then there was a lot
of discussion in mbed 1515 a good point about that
is that okay we want from running what do you mean by from running buying mpdow ahead of the
buyback bot perfect that is the idea we need uh we want a volume of buy sensors of mpdow so
there's no problem the the buybacks will be uh during the entire month and
will be let's say trying to to to get the best price and just uh buying back in order to distribute
to to user this is another important thing there is no change in the amount of value that we are distributing. It's still 65% for all the voting members.
The difference is that part of it will be paid in NPDAU.
So it's just what coin are you getting, not the amount of value that you are getting.
So I think this is quite mild compared to what we have been
talking in the last five minutes so it is a it's a very simple let's say proposal that keeps the
status quo but changes how do you get paid uh the what we were talking a few minutes ago is also
start changing what do you need to do in order to get paid we are keeping the amount we were talking a few minutes ago is also start changing what do you need to do in order to
get paid we are keeping the amount we are changing the currency the dow has has decided to change
what is the coin that we used to pay and in the future we will also require more more activity
let's say like claudia was saying bring more uh stake bring more stake to NEAR, to STORY, to Solana, to Ethereum.
You have a lot of options. At least follow and retweet a few things that you need to start asking before paying.
I think it's a very more healthy relationship between the DAO and its members when you get the benefits but also you get the obligations.
You want me to go a little more into the technical detail, Claudio?
I think we got five minutes um i i i can we i think yeah right yeah we'll do we'll do a couple of videos
we're talking to near week as well uh we're talking to alejandro as well abb right and
something and so so a third party can explain what's going to be happening here um the reward
locking uh do you want to go into that as well. I think that's something
that people are interested in knowing, right? So for those of you, and let me share my screen as
well a little bit. We're not going to go deep dive into it. Maybe this is an opportunity for us to come like a twitter thread and and and kind of uh uh move
move it a little bit um let me share this share this tab let me know if you can see it um and so
there's a couple of things here right couple calculations here that were done uh about the
floor price um then the adapted buyback engine that lucio lucio is going to be building and the team
uh distribution all those numbers will be published on stats.metapool.app so
everybody everybody in the dao can make the same calculations
exactly and you're seeing here right this? This is our public numbers. Francisco,
if you can share the link in the YouTube channel, I'll surely appreciate it. I can share it, but
it's not going to get linked. So please do share it right now. Why? Because this is where all the
action is happening, right? This is to get updated information daily right uh source of truth is the blockchain
right um and so uh you've seen that it's ups and downs but we've been growing right but anyhow
this is where all the information from the buybacks is going to happy happening
we're gonna try to uh make it as transparent as possible but also not giving opportunities but for people to
front run the doubt right because i think that's something that is concerning right it's unavoidable
that's another important thing uh so what is the main goal of medical improvement 15 a cost shop
cost shop uh yt the main goal for it is that we see two things happening one first one of course
improving improving the value of our governance token first and foremost that's in that and with
that we think that the rising tide will rise all boats right and? And so that's the first one. Second one is that we
distribute more MPDAO because right now the DAO is sitting on a bunch of MPDAO that is not being
distributed and it doesn't help as well, right? And this is basically the on-chain metrics for
our governance token as well. As more MP dow is being distributed it's the it's better
for everybody right um can we avoid concentration of it no that's uh totally impossible there's
always going to be some whales and that's reality core team members as well they have good allocations
that's the right uh the correct
wave to reward commitment from the team we've been building this on and off for four years
on and off consistently sorry for four years not on enough
and so so anyhow hopefully i answered your question but lucio do you wanna do you wanna no
you did it perfectly on the long run is growth on the long run is growth yes the proposal is about
buybacks buybacks are about the price of the token and also we we need to burn 25 percent
of the supply that was decided in the in one of the previous mbps or the or of the one
of the token reset so the idea is to improve not even the price if you like to improve the
token visibility in this very crowded web tree space that would be a good way of describing because we don't know if
if the the price will will move or will go up or down or will will stay we don't know
yeah i think i think that's something we can't control right market dynamics
but what we can't but we need to work on, what we can control, right?
And the other one is that we haven't been very disciplined on marketing our governance token.
That's reality, right?
That's on us.
We need this to improve it because, like, we share our governance token
and there was some
interest interested parties in investing right and there we we get from time to time uh non-scammers
coming to us and saying hey when invest but then when we show the coin coin gecko coin market well
not even coin market coin gecko uh page they're like okay this token's dead right but because
they can't see this right they can
see that we're doing the governance calls they can see that we're getting people uh excited and
or sometimes a little bit uh upset or what what we're doing right and and it's totally fine right
you're you have freedom of speech and thought uh you saw it in a couple of the comments there
people abstaining people voting against right and explaining to it as well, right?
But I think the most important thing is moving forward.
We didn't get stuck.
Oh, medical proposal 14 got rejected.
Oh, we're not going to do nothing.
Immediately, we started to work with some of the good people on the ecosystem, right?
In this case, Alejandro said, and he raised his hand and said,
hey, you know, I think we should do this, right?
And 48 hours later this, right?
And now this week we're voting for it.
So anyhow, any more questions you got or comments,
please do so here on YouTube or X and happy to discuss them here, right?
If not, then we can start to unwind this governance call.
I do want to make a a good statement here um let me let me share this one hold on a second because this
is something that uh we we kind of we we were not uh uh getting getting limelight and and i think
this is a missed opportunity now that we have a a lot of you here again, and then we're doing all this to move forward,
increase the chances of distributing more value,
because this is the other thing,
we were distributing value,
we were putting users front and center,
but it was stagnating, we were not growing.
And that's bad, that's bad.
Even if the impacts right there right because that was a
that was some of the concerns right hey guys like why are you doing this everything works it's
perfect yes but we're not increasing people that we're uh supporting why because we want to do this
other stuff as well hold on a second let me share my screen again so uh call for papers for the deep dive into
blockchain uh summer course program we want to do stuff that really makes uh moves the needle right
and and we can only and and last year we did four scholarships this year we're doing 12 right we're growing right but where but our
governance is not right and and and that's uh getting in the in the middle of our growth right
not being stagnating so we want to continue to do this right so for those of you that are coming
in from africa that are coming in from southeast as, from Latin America, this is for you, right?
Yes, it's for university students, last year university students, people that have recently graduated or folks that are doing a master's program or a PhD or a doctorate.
This is for you.
We want more research to come out of this region, right?
Which we're calling frontier markets, right?
It is
regions that are at the border of massive crypto adoption. This is why stable coins are really hot
right now, right? And so we want to support that. And then we want to support researchers that want
to also study or make papers around AI and blockchain as well. We want to support that. But we don't want to be left behind, right?
We want researchers from Mexico.
A couple of them got approved, right?
We want researchers from Africa.
This year is the first time that the blockchain center
from the University of Zurich is partnering
with the blockchain center from the University of Cape Town,
South Africa.
So for those of you that have problems getting visas for for uh switzerland then south africa is going to be
is going to also be having a um a course program that is the same course the same quality as the
university of zurich hopefully soon we will have one in Latin America
and also one in Southeast Asia,
but that's a work in progress.
Anyhow, for now I'll shut up, right?
But I just wanna give a really,
really great shout out to our team.
Civeles, Pablo, Lucas, Rose, also Francisco, right?
A couple of the folks from Tiago, Marcela, also Brian.
You guys have done an amazing job at putting this together, right?
Mateo gave a lot of feedback, did a lot of the partnerships from Southeast Asia as well.
Jam, Max One, they're putting in everything, every effort into getting the right people
exposed to this scholarship because this scholarship will not be done through the traditional governance in our region right
so it's up to us up to us the individuals to get this up and running right and your support of the
dao this is the end result and and and we need align on this one. I know filling our bags and whatnot, that's part of it,
but that's an extractive limiting train of thought, right?
We need to bring in more people, more research,
more eyeballs on this one.
But anyhow, I'll stop right there, my rant.
But this gets me excited, right?
This is what we're doing
uh uh blockchain technology about this more distribution of the value to those of to those
people that are not uh exposed to it right and so anyhow um anything you'd like to add there uh lucio
no no no 100 with you on that and uh getting uh uh let's say a course similar to the of course now uh
a scholarship similar to the one in surich in south africa and getting one on in latam or maybe
in southeast asia will be that that is that will be great man if we can if we can organize that and
let's say i get blockchain education near where the people are that will be
amazing exactly and there was a link i think to to share yeah yeah yeah i just just posted it up
for francisco to share it in the in the uh youtube channel and also on on twitter if anybody of you
can grab it uh please go right ahead. But anyhow, I think the most
important thing right here is that we're demonstrating that we're putting users front
and center, right? It doesn't have, and it's not through a dynamic where you're extracting value
from the protocol, right? Which was kind of the way we were going to be going, right? Or where we're at a little bit, right?
We have a, and a shout out here also to Mateo, right?
He's done an amazing job with a referral program
with the folks from the Build Buddies as well.
I just want to take a little bit of time
to get that up and running as well
and give a shout out to the team. I know that it's been a work in progress.
And for us, here it is.
So we've done an amazing job here.
Let me get this in.
So let me share it as well here with uh francisco so francisco can push it the idea is
we're going to be doing a build buddies also in latin america uh let me share my screen right now
and here it is so this is build buddies um so this is the all the events that we've done
uh tomorrow we have an event here in the in thean right so uh that's of course in vietnam um then we have uh another one happening in um
on the 29th uh this is going to be in hoxman city or saigon uh then we have another one happening in um Bangkok as well so shout out to Kenny
really great guy uh we met him in at Devcon doing an amazing job there right uh so we have another
one uh that is happening a bowling meetup that is happening on Sunday March 30th and so this is
stuff that we're doing in order for allowing more folks to get exposure
to crypto and blockchain technology on a very laid back uh uh um environment right uh but anyhow
so you got everything right there uh latam is happening hopefully uh was going to be done this
weekend but i'll push it to next uh but there's going to be done this weekend, but I'll push it to next.
But there's going to be, you're going to start to see regions from what we're calling Frontier
Markets doing the Build Buddies here. And we got some amazing partners as well. Shout out to RIA
Finance. Shout out to the validators, TT validators. And so anyhow, I think I'll shut up right now. We're coming into the
hour time. Also, wouldn't be mindful if you have any questions, please put it in the comments,
right? Thank you very much, Mexi, for your words. Hey, Luis, how you doing?
Imam Kikoku, hi, hi. Hello. InvestingDance.IP. Hey, folks, how you doing?
hi hi hello yeah investing dance that ip hey folks how you doing um well another and i think this is
another another cool cool story to share is i'm gonna uh how do we share this one um grayscale
just selected their top 20 crypto projects for q2 2025 and uh story protocols right there so i know maybe you're hearing some back noises
there that's my baby kid so anyhow uh i'll i'll share some uh i'm not gonna dox him right now
but anyhow so this is this is the x uh account uh francisco if you can share it i don't know why i can't share my screen oh yeah i can't share because here you go this is it so there you go folks uh story protocol has just been at it uh so really
really shot good shout out to them right uh story protocol team just going going all out uh yes focusing on AI on so yeah so it's been it's been
quite uh quite a run for them so congrats on that one uh and we're part of the liquid seeking uh
ecosystem there so so anyhow uh again let's uh let's try to move it one step at a time
uh before we wrap up folks uh if you're heading to token 2049 um
this year we will be supporting uh staking rewards team on this so we will be having a uh
hopefully they'll put in my my name there we're having a keynote it's happening in
Dubai at the Waldorf Astoria uh of course we are one of the main main main sponsors there
um so really excited to be here meeting um all of the uh the latest uh and talking about the best
the latest uh and talking about the best um uh partners that we can get so um if you're planning
to attend dm uh either francisco or i don't care or a rose on the discord uh or any of us um
and uh or sorry at in their discord channel uh because we have some discount
codes for 50 of the ticket price um later later during the uh the week we will be doing a uh
raffle as well so somebody can get in for free sorry doesn't include the plane and the accommodations
in for free sorry doesn't include the plane and the accommodations uh but anyhow but a free ticket
still a free ticket uh other than that i think we are ready to wrap this up uh lucio any last
comments that you have no it's just a little silly comments because of scammers there's no more i
don't care in the discord he started caring yeah and now i think uh what is the the new handle en el Discord, empezó a cuidar y ahora creo que... ¿cuál es el nuevo handle Francisco?
Después de unos años, empezamos a cuidar, creo que ahora no está salvado o algo así,
así que no escuchen a nadie que se llama a él, no me importa.
Ok, ahí está, mi mal, mi bad. I always say Francisco, right?
So anyhow.
It is now, but never saved.
Okay.
Now we need to save him.
Do you see?
We're going to make him start caring,
and now we need to save him.
Okay, good.
Okay, so time's up.
Thank you very much, everybody, for your time.
Thank you very much for your questions.
Again, we're really, really, really excited on the next few months,
all this year, even if it's going to be a very daunting future, right?
But it's going to be bright, right?
The biggest country in the world has now embraced crypto, right? But it's going to be bright, right? The biggest country in the world
has now embraced crypto,
right? Is it
the right way or not?
There's always
that you can't control Trump, right?
There's no such thing as bad publicity,
so it is what it is.
Exactly.
Please, bring your
comments, bring your feedback. i think the most important thing
is how can we improve how can tomorrow we can be one percent better oh last but not least uh
something that is uh we're really really really proud of um and this this i need to share my
screen map because it's been it's been quite quite a few uh it's
been a few years right but then again like the hard work is always repaid right so uh let me see
if you're sharing it yes so medical is back on top we're the number one liquid staking protocol on NIR. So again, grateful for all your support.
Thank you very much for backing us, for staking your NIR with us.
It takes a village.
And like I said, you cannot leave it at the hands just of the core team.
So thank you very much everybody for contributing for using
the referral code and getting more delegation on to marapool uh up and upwards on and upwards right
that's uh that's the last thing thank you very much everybody for coming in here appreciate you uh
each and every one of you and like i I always say, have a good day.
And more importantly, stay safe and keep on staking.
Until next time.
Thank you very much, everybody.
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