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Starboard Roundtable
Recorded: June 4, 2025 Duration: 0:58:19Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent discussion, leaders from Galaxy, Plume, ZeroG, Iris, and Dango shared insights on their upcoming project launches, including Plume's imminent mainnet launch and ZeroG's innovative campaigns. The conversation highlighted the importance of community engagement and strategic partnerships in driving growth within the crypto space, with Galaxy's Starboard playing a pivotal role in enhancing ecosystem analytics and metrics.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. Can everyone hear me all right?
I think so.
Yes, sir.
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Perfect.
Awesome.
GM, everyone.
My name is Patrick and I lead ecosystem and go to market for Galaxy.
And first and foremost, thank you for joining us on today's
X Spaces. We're joined today by an incredible lineup of Web3 leaders from ZeroG, Plume, Iris,
and Dango, where we'll be discussing primarily Galaxy's latest product launch, that being
Starboard, and how it's being used in these different scenarios to help fuel each team's respective growth strategies.
To all of our listeners on today and those listening in the future,
whether you're brand new to Galaxy or you've been with us for a while,
I'd like to take a couple of minutes just at the outset here to introduce what Starboard is,
explain why it matters, and share how it supports Galaxy's broader mission.
For us, when we look at the landscape of crypto, building technology is really not only the,
is no longer the largest challenge that many teams face. The real test that many teams do face
is how they sustain growth. And many projects can launch with a bang, they can have things that are
driven by hype, incentives, fleeting narratives, but that attention can often fade very fast.
What separates lasting projects from the rest is what happens next, retaining users,
expanding ecosystems, and rewarding those that truly contribute. At Galaxy, we've partnered
with over 7,000 teams over our lifespan, and we've engaged
more than 34 million users.
We really do understand and have seen what works and what doesn't.
The most successful teams that we work with today don't just chase visibility.
They build systems that turn participation into meaningful long-term contributions.
And that's really the vision behind what we've been building over the last four years with the Galaxy Growth Engine as a whole. turn participation into meaningful long-term contributions.
And that's really the vision behind what we've been building
over the last four years with the Galaxy Growth Engine as a whole.
And Starboard is really the newest and a very essential component
that we've added in that stack.
Now, whereas Quest brings users in,
Starboard really helps teams understand who's actually moving their mission forward.
Starboard itself is built for
the teams that want to go deeper on their ecosystem analytics and metrics. It collects and
analyzes both on-chain and off-chain data to uncover real high-impact contributions tied
directly to teams' KPIs, whether that's TVL, ecosystem growth, developer traction, or community engagement.
Now with Starboard, effectively teams can gain a 360 degree view of user behavior and
outcomes.
And then, you know, using this information, optimize and incentivize programs to drive
retention and scale sustainably.
In short, Starboard really transforms surface-level participation into high-level or
high-value performance insights, helping teams out there measure what really matters and reward
those that move them forward. We're really excited to dive into this deeper today,
what that means for our panelists, how each of them is leading innovation in their respective verticals, and how they're leveraging Galaxy Starboard.
Now, with all of that being said, I'd love to get into a couple of introductions from across the broader group here.
Maybe Jake from ZeroG, if you want to start by introducing yourself, share what you're building over at ZeroG, and then we can pass it on to Plume, Iris, and Degum.
Thanks.
For sure.
Thanks, Pat.
ZeroG, I'm all.
So I'm Jake, the head of business development at ZeroGravity Labs.
ZeroG is the first centralized AI operating system.
It's an AI native modular layer one blockchain designed to support scalable, verifiable,
and composable AI apps.
And it unifies compute, storage, data availability, and services into a single interoperable infra
stack.
And that is enabling builders to bring AI fully on chain.
Our mission is to make AI a public good.
I guess I'm next. Nice to meet everybody here. Great opening, Jake. I'm going to try to follow up strong with you. I'm Phil. I lead community at Plume. And we're getting incredibly close to our mainnet launch any day now.
So I've been pretty heads down.
And for those new to Plume, we're a blockchain that is looking to reimagine the future of
real-world assets, or RWAs, as some of you may know it.
And at Plume, our mission isn't just to digitize assets and leave them locked away behind the same old gates.
Instead, we're here to democratize RWAs and put real values into the hands of everyday users.
So you can think of more unique things coming on chain that you may have never seen before, like camel farms or durian orchards,
on chain that you may have never seen before like camel farms or durian orchards alongside
more traditional assets like golds t-bill rare minerals and collectibles all of these are coming
on chain and made a lot more accessible to you and we're partnering with leading institutions
innovative innovative defy protocols to ensure that everyone and not just the elite, can participate, invest, grow their wealth through RWAs.
Because at Plume, we believe in a future
where meaningful financial opportunities
are just a click away, empowering anyone, anywhere,
to tap into real-world value like never before.
i'm gonna pass it off to josh
thanks ben gmgm can uh can everyone hear me
got you loud and clear yes sir amazing cool um yes i'm josh founder ceo of iris so iris is building
a data chain,
or we're actually building the first programmable data chain.
And the focus for Iris is twofold.
One is how do we kind of store large amounts of data
on a blockchain in a decentralized network?
So that's kind of the data chain component.
And our second focus is also how do we create more value for data?
Because data is this multi-multi-trillion-dollar asset class with the launch of ChatGPT and the growth of AI.
Data is kind of one of the few resources outside of perhaps compute that is actually crucial to building smarter and better AI models.
So one of our major focuses is also how do we create more value for data
and provide kind of higher quality data to models and to AI companies
in order to actually let them build even better models than exist today.
Awesome. Thanks, Josh. Over to George.
Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to be here.
Hey, guys. My name's George. I'm the growth lead for Dango.
At Dango, we're building the one app for everything DeFi.
And, you know, in layman's terms, what I mean by that really is, you know, we're building the ultimate one-stop shop.
So it's a hub where you can trade, you can earn, manage your portfolio, pretty much do anything that you could ever want from the comfort of one user interface, one chain and one unified account system.
That's us.
Awesome.
Thanks, George.
Yeah, so based on all of those introductions here, again, I think there's a lot of different interesting things that are going on
in this space. Each of you are attacking different verticals, different underlying problems or
niches in the market today, and then in different stages of that growth journey. I think kind of as
an introduction here that would be very helpful is just to understand from each of you why you
ended up wanting to work with Galaxy and why you wanted to work on Starboard together.
How does that feed into your effective growth strategy? So as they outset here, I'd love to
start with Finn and then we can roll into George, Josh, and Jake.
Yeah. So why we chose to work with Galaxy. Honestly, we've been working with you guys for quite some time for the initial bootstrap just for user growth and reach.
And as far as why we were taking interest in Galaxy, to be completely frank with you and honest, the timing lined up perfectly with our mainnet launch.
our mainnet launch, right? We're about to go live like any moment, any day now.
We're about to go live any moment, any day now.
And to me, attention is everything, especially during crucial times like this,
right? They're competitors to things like this. However, when I learned about Starboard,
it kind of felt like this is what I would like to use or need just to cut through the noise.
Because the reality of Web3,
especially if you're coming from community marketing growth,
is that everyone shouts in the void on socials
and it's tough to measure
who's really making an impact, right?
And Starboard, you guys help us try to track like that,
as you guys call it, like that real aura, right?
Not just somebody who's like tweeting the loudest or the most frequent,
but genuinely driving conversations, real engagement on chain,
genuine community engagement.
And to me, that is the opportunity that we are after,
spotlighting real contributors right as we're about to hit
the biggest milestone yet for
plume i love that i'll be dropping some alpha in here about the uh upcoming plume launch which is
super exciting so obviously everyone pay very special attention to that at coming launch here
um george i'd love to hear your take on yeah why you wanted to work with us over here at Galaxy and what inspired the Go Live with Starboard.
Yeah, sure. My pleasure. I think Finn made a great point there about wanting to cut through the noise, CT being a very loud space these days.
For us at Dango, we're a very small team, right? There's 11 of us. Eight of those are devs.
small team, right? There's 11 of us, eight of those are devs. Very small, but super ambitious.
And I think, you know, we're all aligned in this belief that no matter how good we build the
product, I don't think any of us actually believe that, you know, one day a horde of users is just
going to magically appear at our door. I think for 99.9% of builders, the stars never align like that for you and you you're never able to catch lightning in a
bottle like that you know in essence right the the best tech doesn't always win and that's because
it can be for a number of reasons but sometimes you know within your respective vertical maybe
you just get drowned out by sort of bigger louder right? And the consequence for you, you know, as a project is that,
you know, you unfortunately just shout into the void really
until, you know, your users and your funding dries up, right?
So I think from our standpoint, the onus,
we look at it as like the onus is on us to like,
to get after it and go for it.
I think that's like, in many ways,
like the ethos of being in a startup is that you have to sort of relentlessly hustle and grind.
And, you know, the last thing that we wanted to do really is just sort of sit back and hope for the best.
So we thought the best form of attack, really, the best form of offense, like who better could you partner up with, kind of work with than galaxy right i think galaxy very much you know back in 21 you guys were the ones
who trailblazed really the whole sort of questing scene and kind of like um i would say like very
much became the the biggest name within that whole sector and i think we were just we we were just
kind of thinking you you would come out all guns blazing into the info fight scene um and we're
sort of betting on you to crush it again, like you had done previously.
So far, so good. Really happy, really happy with what we're seeing and the traction that we're
getting. So yeah, super glad that we made that leap. Awesome. Great to hear, George. And to your
point, I think lean but mean team. Obviously, Dango's had a lot of success thus far and super excited for everything that we'll engage in together going forward.
So very, very excited to be working with you guys as well.
Josh, we'd love to get your take.
Yeah, so we have used Galaxy.
we actually use Galaxy now for some of the questing activities.
We actually use Galaxy now for some of the questing activities.
And then we also obviously just launched with the Starboard.
I think the big focus for us is how do we get a really strong view
of who are the real contributors within the Iris community?
And I think that's the big thing.
And that's the, I think the lesson that people learned from,
you know, the whole airdrop meta during perhaps early 2023
is that there was a lot of uh kind of misproportion uh
between sorry disproportion between kind of uh maybe the effort or the kind of quality of of
the work that people were doing for within the community versus like what they were getting
in the back end as well and i i think my my view of why we started to
work uh with galaxy and specifically on starboard is that we really want to have a kind of a pure
view of who are the big contributors within our community and then we can really kind of work with
them and really kind of support them to become kind of these these shepherds within our community.
Love that.
Jake, would love to hear from you as well.
Yeah, for sure. So I guess to backtrack a little bit as to why we're working together and have been for
so long, Zero Gravity came out of stealth in March of 2024 with a pretty strong mission to make AI a public good.
And we believe that AI tech should be accessible, transparent, and beneficial to everyone, not just a select few.
It's obviously quite the hype these days.
And by building a decentralized AI operating system, we're creating the infrastructure that will enable
that vision. And how it works, Zero-G is going to provide four independent services that solve
different pieces of this puzzle. Storage, compute, the actual layer one blockchain,
and then a data availability layer. So that's a lot. And we wanted to be able to come out of stealth with
a strong product that resided in testnet and really shine our mission across the greater
Web3 ecosystem. And who better than Galaxy with 35 million platform users. We just want to get our mission out there to be understood
and then take that a step further by building a community from day one
because, as we know, engagement is the new north star for community building.
So we started questing with Galaxy.
And originally, it was mostly social because we had a lot of, you know, educational resources and, you know, documents that actually talked about our protocol.
And so people got across those.
They kind of followed our socials, joined Discord.
They really just kind of sunk their teeth into zero-G at a higher level.
zero G at a higher level. And, you know, now that we are in a lot more of a mature position with our
products, we are really focusing, championing our community to get on chain and to play around
with our native layer one ecosystem with all the gaps that are building on us. So we can talk more
about this later, but we're doing quests, you know, both on and off chain to have, you know, our loudest voices that are meaningful, rewarded and incentivized to spread the word.
And then also the full on chain aspect where, you know, when our dApps see traction and user base playing around, not only are they going to get stress tested in the test net so we can optimize the experience, but when they succeed, we succeed as the infrastructure
powering those DAPs.
So it's really cool to work with Galaxy to have our chain natively integrated so that
all of our DAPs building on zero G can then take participation in questing themselves. And then we create that flywheel effect.
And that's why we're so happy to be working with Galaxy
for the past year.
Awesome, awesome.
Yeah, I think if there's one takeaway from,
I think everyone mentioned it here,
is with what we've been building over here at Galaxy
over the last couple of years, last four years or so,
is really the intentional mission of creating a full suite of end-to-end solutions
for Web3 growth.
And we started with the initial deployment of Quest and using that as really the widespread
framework for driving initial engagement.
And really what we've been on from a mission perspective is continuing
to outfit teams with a suite of solutions to help them with end-to-end growth strategies.
That could be asset distribution with things like EarnDrop. That could be identity management
for civil resistance with Passport Score. It could be leveraging AI to help guide users and
participants through those different ecosystems with Alva,
and most recently, certainly with Starboard. So I think it's really interesting to hear from this
group here that it's been not only, you know, Starboard as that initial, you know, kind of
point of contact or point of interaction, but it's actually really more of just a culmination
of additional touch points across the relationships that we've had.
And I think that's super powerful.
And certainly one of the strategic benefits of working with Galaxy in this sense is wanting to work across all of these different areas in a more all-encompassing strategic growth strategy.
I think that kind of leads into my next question here, which is, you know, community growth is certainly critical.
I think we just talked about that at length.
What does meaningful community growth look like to you right now?
And how is Starboard helping you drive that mission?
Maybe we'll start to go the opposite cadence here.
So maybe we'll start with Jake.
Well, we just released a new version of our testnet, version three Galileo. And we want
our community that has been, you know, so supportive, being outspoken about the upgrades
to our tech on social, you know, of course, they're climbing the leaderboards on
the starboard socially, talking all about Galileo, the benefits, the transactions per second,
you know, infinite scalability of it. That's great. And now we want to bring them on chain,
right? So we are going to be releasing more of a dedicated quest soon that guide users through, of course, off-chain tasks
that comprise of social and educational content, right? So we'll have formal educational content,
quizzes, and we'll promote our community to actually create content themselves, but we're
going to have on-chain tasks, right? And that's very important to us to be able to get traction and, of course, optimize the test net experience leading up to our main net later this year.
on certain launch pads and dApps on zero G,
using one or more, or if not all
of our different modular solutions,
such as the compute network,
data availability layer and storage,
and then tracking network use, right?
So we'll have completion rewards,
but this whole starboard holistic picture
between off-chain and on-chain is going to allow us
to really focus in on rewarding the users that have
been doing the most meaningful contributions and viewing that holistically, right? Who's
new to the game versus who's been here for a while. We do have some pretty deep coffers when
it comes to community rewards and what we've set aside for those.
And we wanna make sure that we are, of course,
allocating those in the most appropriate manner
to our million plus user base at the moment.
Perfect.
Yeah, I think this was called out earlier as well,
is that it's about identifying
those high impact members of the community.
Obviously, you want to make sure that you're taking in all the different data points
from broad participation from your ecosystem across Quest, across these different areas.
But when it comes to identifying those very high impact folks that are really moving the needle
on a day-over-day basis, that's certainly where
I think Starboard is aiming to provide that value to teams. Josh, over to you. Similar question here,
or same question here. What does meaningful growth, community growth look like to you,
and how does Starboard help you move in that direction?
And how does Starboard help you move in that direction?
Yeah.
So growth for us, I see in two dimensions.
One is obviously just kind of absolute growth,
which is how do we reach as many people as possible?
How do we spread the message about IRS
and get everyone kind of excited about IRS
globally and across different regions as well?
So I think that's focus number
one and focus number two is how do we actually bring um not just not just uh allow everyone to
see us but really allow the kind of to bring core believers like strong believers into our community
so i think those are the two main forms of growth that we that we really care about
um and as it pertains to Galaxy,
I think Galaxy really provides two things.
That Galaxy is this kind of distribution funnel
that already has a lot of users.
So we're able to bring in a ton more users into,
or more, sorry, people into our community
through tapping into kind of Galaxy's user base.
And then going back to what I said, the previous question, in terms of the actual quality, so to speak,
but actually getting true believers and people who
can really make this not just be part of the community,
but actually make the community better,
that's how Starboard helps in terms of providing a clear view
of who the really big core contributors are
within the community.
Excellent. Yeah, couldn't agree more.
And obviously there's a lot of exciting things on the horizon that we'll tap into
and want to drive and see that participation from across the ecosystem.
George would love to get your take.
Yeah, sure. I think we definitely have um some overlap here in sort
of beliefs with with josh um especially with regard to sort of us having this sort of desire
to you know attract and bring over kind of long-term believers i kind of look at it as
two tranches really of users right you have tourists on the one hand and these typically
tend to be sort of people with a shorter shorter term mindset and i kind of view these people as being really they're ultimately
only ever borrowed because um the moment you read tge as a project i feel like you know you you
ultimately give these users back and they they move on to you know the next opportunity right
and then you have these other users like josh described these longer term believers who i think these users tend to tend to be very much like the the opposite they kind of
want to add value rather than extract and these maybe are more optimistic users who sort of tend
to believe in being a part of something greater than themselves and these are like gold dust
these kind of users they're very hard to find. They're very hard to build in your community.
And that's really what, you know,
that kind of user is what we're trying to optimize for, right, at Dango.
But I would say these days it's an incredible challenge to do that.
I think the attention span, I don't know if anyone else agrees with this,
perhaps not, that the attention span of crypto Twitter is definitely shortening uh i feel like a good example of that would be like last week
i would imagine there's definitely someone else here whose timeline was just flooded
with posts about loudio for me it was like literally sort of every other post
by sort of large kols just desperately trying to get into this pre-sale and just doing anything
and everything to to get into it um we have a new
main character every month right now it's james winn right punting these ridiculous sized longs
on hyperliquid and then asking everyone for donations even though he's supposed to be a
gigawail himself but it's very much i sometimes get this feeling um that in crypto twitter we can
tend to behave almost as sort of like children really who get bored of toys and we're
constantly moving on from one to the next and actually these longer-term believers or maybe
you can even describe them as like there is some overlap there with hodlers and i find this
interesting because you know i'm here saying that longer-term believers you know are a dying breed
i have not really heard that word hodl much really since like the previous cycle i feel like hodlers
hodlers are dying out and it's like maybe people have woken up to the fact that maybe
it's just a general thing, that altcoins tend to be a horrific long-term investment, which
is discouraging people from being a long-term member of a community.
Maybe it's because certain DeFi projects have tarred us all with the same brush.
I think that there's been some recent events, especially with certain projects like,
I think Movement Labs is a good example, right?
And where certain things have come to light about behaviors and unscrupulous, shady things that have been done.
And I think that definitely impacts a lot of teams building in DeFiy space because you have to think on a certain level surely we're just
scratching the surface and if that's all we can see there probably has to be more of this right
it has to run deeper um so sorry for rambling i feel like i just went off on a tangent but it's
kind of like i guess what i'm trying to say is it's very it's very hard to build a long-term
community it's what we want to do and it's what we're trying to do um because i do believe you don't really have a choice and if
you do if you kind of do only cater to tourists and you you you want to amass an army of them
it doesn't matter because you sort of still lost before you've even started really um but i think
galaxy starboard for us is definitely like a great way to to kind of optimize for these longer term
users i mean i can say personally from my just like my personal account the the amount of people that i've just seen come out of nowhere who
they're now posting about us like relentlessly day in day out and i feel like um this is people
in nigeria people in china people in indonesia turkey all over and they have a chance to sort
of build up this aura over a long time horizon, right, as opposed to a short one.
This is something which will be a multi-month kind of initiative.
I think for us, it's a great way to encourage more people to kind of think with a longer-term mindset.
Yeah, George, I love that take.
And I think you call it something that's, you know, super, super interesting about this space in general.
And that's that there really isn't
anything like growth and specifically community-led growth in any other industry out there where
people can feel that they have a sense of personal ownership.
And there is that, I don't want to call it cultish behavior in some areas. Maybe some there is, but there is that aspiration or that intention by many.
They say, I love what Dango is working on, and I want to be more deeply involved.
So on one level, it's how do you cut through the noise to identify high value or high impact contributions amongst the broader
community. But on the other end, from a user's perspective, it's how do I have an opportunity
if I get involved to really be an active contributor, to add value to the mission at hand?
Can I feel like I'm actually involved in effectively the development
process and the success of the team and the project that we're talking about here? And I think that's
the beautiful thing about Starboard is it gives those people, to your point, an opportunity to
say, I'm not just going to get drowned out by crypto Twitter and everything else, you know, all the other noise out there.
This is something I'm passionate about.
This is something I want to be involved in and gives them an opportunity to fully exercise that and really tighten that connection between the team and those individuals that aren't just here as tourists.
They're people that you want as staples of the folks that
in a Discord community you come back to in four years and you say, okay, this person's been in
this community for basically since the start. And they're here because they love what we're doing
and the mission that we're on. So yeah, no apologies for rambling there, George. I think
you hit a lot of really key points there, 100%.
Finn, would love to get your take.
Man, he did mention some truly strong points.
My timeline did get blown up, completely blown up
with all the Laudio posts for a little while.
I agree with that.
What I'm going to say is not too far different
from what everybody else prior to me
has said um however though right like everybody here does agree that meaningful growth isn't just
about like inflating your head counts right to me coming from before I ever joined the web three
scene my career was heavily involved in marketing web two so So I've worked at some very global companies like LG,
primarily with an LG TV,
which is distilling very complex tech,
or even Vizio for those who are more North American-based.
All this being TV tech being a lot more heavy-headed
with tech terms and the way that things are presented.
I genuinely think that meaningful growth
is about sparking curiosity.
And I look at RWAs and say it's a TV text because to me, RWAs are still wildly misunderstood, right?
Because most people will just think tokenized T-bills and just glaze over it.
And with Starboard, I really want my community, I really want the community to push the conversations further, right?
One day it's gold.
And I mentioned earlier, we have some very unique things coming that people could have never imagined that become, you know, tokenized, right?
Like one day it's gold, next day it's camel farms, next day it's durian orchard.
Next day it's a competitive competition horse, right?
Whatever it is, you name it.
Quality contributors for us are the folks who can translate these stories in a fun, eyebrow-raising way.
And keeping the signal high.
And to me, this is where Starboard comes into play and helps me.
It lets me see who's actually moving these RWA conversations forward.
Dropping these threads that make people say like oh wait
you can really do that on plume but also just cross-referencing these users to see okay um
they're talking the talk but are they walking the walk are they also active with us right and
instead of like the usual retweet and spam i can both i can measure both their social reach and
just on-chain follow-through, right?
And I want to be able to reward the people who educate and inspire and experiment with new use cases for RWAs.
And to me, this is where real community value comes through and not vanity metrics, right?
And I don't want to just blindly look into just numbers.
I want to look into who truly shapes these conversations, both socially and on-chain,
and I want to have that ability to reward substance over spam, right?
And that's kind of how I'm utilizing Starboard in more meaningful ways for community growth.
Yeah, I love that.
And actually plays into my next question here, which is effectively for all of you, when
you look at Starboard, it's that tool exactly for driving intelligence on who is helping
to forward your mission, who is helping to translate those stories.
And then you raised some great examples there where rather than seeing a logo
on a page or community spam or anything like that, you have an opportunity to really say,
there is a super interesting story here on the capabilities that exist with Plume.
And it's important to give people an opportunity. Obviously, there's a lot of folks that are
cited at the outset of what Plume provides in this case, but help translate those stories and
help spread that word in a pretty organic, meaningful, and tangible way. So when it comes
down to helping to basically forward your strategies, for each of you here, how are you using Starboard in your growth
campaign? In particular, what type of actions or intelligence are you trying to track and how may
that reflect into your broader strategy? Maybe for this one, we'll start with george you haven't gone first yet that's put you on the spot sure yeah uh so at the moment um we're using the galaxy starboard really to just track
who are the sort of most active vocal passionate members in the community we're only tracking
really that off-chain data right which is basically like who's who's the most active
about dango on socials.
We did announce, and we're very excited about this,
that we're allocating 0.1% of the total future supply of Dango's native token to basically people
who participate on the Starboard.
I think, you know, why we did that,
we definitely see the Starboard as being,
we want to integrate it more
and more into into the community i think the the bonus for us as a team is that we can very
easily um and quickly just take a look at the starboard right at a glance and and immediately
kind of see right like where people stand in terms of how much they're um how much they're
supporting us which is invaluable and the other thing that i super like about it is and i think we've you know we have seen this in the past is that um
people value transparency god knows they love it and and i think the good thing about the start
the starboard is that you know there can there cannot be any foul play here right in the sense
that we as team members cannot you know we can't do anything with the aura right aura you know it can if people want it they have to earn it it's not like we can just behind closed
doors kind of allocate points to people or move people up and down the leaderboard this is a very
fair and transparent system and i think like generally as a team that's something that we
align with you know very very closely and i think it's something that the community appreciates as
well because there's you know they can guarantee that whatever you know everyone is on the level playing field right
there's no um favoritism right and there's also no kind of insider activity here where we as a team
can sign it can kind of gain things or we can do things to sort of you know net ourselves future
amounts of the token right which i think we have seen this happen before with other projects in DeFi with regards to airdrops.
But I think like in the future,
what we'll do as well,
we've allocated those tokens.
What I see myself doing is,
I kind of hinted at it when I said
integrate it more and more into the community,
would like to surprise the community,
people who are on the leaderboard with you know
maybe surprises every now and again whether that be like merch or um perhaps even like airdrops of
like usdc just little things here and there just to because it will be a long while before you know
our token goes live we have a gazillion and one things that we want to ship and really you know
before we drop that token i think we're aligned internally but we want to try and find product market fit
and we believe we can do it but we'd like to do that before we drop the token so
whilst it's a long ways away i think in the in the interim we'll be we'll be surprising lots of
people on the starboard hopefully with some with some nice little gifts and rumor has it there may
or may not be some dango drip some fresh d dango drip on the way. We've already released some socks,
which I think people are enjoying,
and we've just finalized another piece of merch,
a bigger ticket item,
which I think hopefully the community is going to love.
George, I love that.
Also, definitely a shout out to everyone's swag here,
but I've been keeping an eye on the Dango swag.
So I love what you guys are doing there.
Message me, sir. Message me. I'll hook you up.
Yes, I need a pair of socks. I need a pair of socks.
In any case, I think, yeah, George reached a great point here, which is, you know,
this is not just a tool for that immediate execution or that one-time execution.
Is that ongoing intelligence layer that can say, where do I need to be?
Where can we pick up on industry trends or specifically project trends, ecosystem trends?
And then is this an opportunity?
Where is the opportunity within that to continuously interact and engage with those high impact members of community itself.
Also, certainly a shout out on Dango's front
for the 1% token allocation there as well.
So super exciting and certainly something
for everyone here to keep an eye on
in terms of making sure that you're being involved
in driving that deep participation.
It's an interesting story as all of these teams here.
So certainly that's, I think, an interesting opportunity to become more deeply involved
across the board.
Maybe for this next, yeah, maybe I'll toss it over to Jake on how are you using Starboard
in your campaign?
What type of performance are you looking to track?
Yeah, so I think George hit the nail on the head with our phase one, right?
We're currently tracking the sentiment off-chain via socials because, you know, at this moment in our roadmap, it's very important to us to empower the community to evangelize our new products and create content to help their communities or friends get across what we're solving in the space.
And it's actually really exciting to see.
We've got tens of thousands of people on our starboard and we can obviously see and we
understand the ones that have been around for quite some time.
I mean, I could probably name the top 10 off my head right now because they've been with
us since day one.
They've been posting about Zero G Chain V1, V2, now V3.
V2, now V3. And it's so cool to see the evolution of content, right? And now we've got a bunch of
And it's so cool to see the evolution of content, right?
people that are new to the party because, you know, the, I guess, content has rippled through
the ether, if you must. And so we are able to now quantify the loudest voices and then ensure that
they are working towards, you know, a greater good greater good. They're empowering our mission.
They are being the change that they want to see.
They're evangelizing a really cool community and a product.
I mean, just how creative these folks are getting, even just on X, is crazy.
I mean, AI-generated content.
Someone made a rock song about Zero-G.
It's got like 100,000 views.
It's an educational rock song. That's stuff that I just love to see. And that gives me more collateral on the BD side. When there's more noise about you, when there's more educational resources, which will be coming soon with Starboard is, of course, all the
on-chain elements, right?
Well, we're going to turn fragmented on-chain data into actual metrics to power this growth.
I mean, you could dive into the whole marketing side of everything, but as our head of BD,
I am focused on actualizing my return on my investment.
So we've set aside more than six figures
for this initial campaign.
Well, I don't wanna beat around the bush and say,
I would like to return more than six figures
back to the foundation, back to the tokenomics, right?
If these community members are going to participate
in using our services, buying the token to be able to consume these
services on-chain, I would like that token to appreciate via tokenomics.
I want to generate as much revenue as I can for my protocol by targeting the metrics that
matter so I can see what is actually going to produce the most revenue
by monitoring all these on-chain aspects and then being able to skew where we invest our money
in the places that it actually returns the most investment. It could be layer one transactions,
it could be storage, it could be data availability fees, it could be compute.
It could be data availability fees.
It could be compute.
I want to be able to be the guiding hand on chain with incentives to be able to measure
the outcomes with product led revenue for my protocol.
And that is why we're very excited about all the dashboards and the different aspects
of transaction tracking that this on chain element from Starboard introduces to our decision-making.
So that would be phase two.
I love that. I think it's a great call out here. And certainly one of the things that,
you know, excited to see what we can do with the broader group here is the on-chain element
that Starboard enables. That's certainly one of the key aspects of leveraging Starboard
in general is that on-chain capability, taking that same general policy that exists for driving
activity on or understanding the analytics and driving meaningful high-impact activity off-chain,
but also applying that to an on-chain environment, uh galaxy starboard in particular uh provides uh finn would
love to get your take yeah so like in regards to just how we're initially using starboard for a
campaign and what jake said a lot a lot of what he said like i completely agree with right like
initially what we're trying to do with withborn Galaxies almost treat it like a symbol-resistant scalpel in which, like, for Plume, we want to look at, like, meaningful contributions, right?
And that does start with provable on-chain actions that grows your protocol, as mentioned earlier.
Whether it's maintenance deposits, bridge of volumes, daft usage, governance votes, all these things carry the most weight and lets us understand the audience a lot more and invest accordingly.
but the real follow through that to me, that makes starts,
it lets a smart high signal user with maybe a lot less followers,
like maybe like a few thousand, right?
Stand hood to toe with a lot more bigger name K Wells,
because to me, they hold more value to me, right?
Like these people are driving more deposits or better discourse.
And I'm here to, I'm here to support that exact crowd.
I want to champion those people as our mainnet goes live, right?
So that's just kind of how we're starting it.
And over time, we will be evolving the way that we utilize Starboard
and the way that we see it with the tools that you guys offer us.
And the tools will clearly evolve too in due time.
This is just the start of Starboard. So I definitely look forward to seeing what you guys offer more. And the tools will clearly evolve too in due time. This is just the start
of Starboard. So I definitely look forward to seeing what you guys offer more in the future.
I love that, Finn. And yeah, absolutely. The intention is to continuously, as we've done with
other areas of the Galaxy platform, continue to increase that feature functionality over time.
And it's great to have great partners that provide that feedback and that intelligence
to say, hey, this is exactly the type of tooling
that I need to be successful.
So certainly a major shout out to everyone in this group,
as well as the other teams that we worked with
throughout the launch of Starboard at the outset here.
Now, coming to a close here,
I know Josh had to drop due to hardstops.
No worries there.
But Josh, if you're listening to this on a recording, thank you very much for your time.
In any case, as we kind of wrap up for today, just to kind of close out, I would love to hear from each of you.
What is next on your horizon?
What should people be paying attention to?
What do you want them to be honing in on?
And maybe we'll start for that with uh with george yeah sure so our um the next big milestone for us
which i think most of the community is is pretty it's pretty excited about is it will be testnet 2
uh testnet 2 um testnet 2 is going to be pretty awesome for one main reason
we're yet to really showcase
the full potential of dango
with our full blown dango decks
and testnet 2 will be the occasion
where we wheel out
most of it
what does that mean in essence
the dango decks will support
perps, spot and margin
and it will do it via a cross-collateralized unified account system.
I think this will be the first of its kind in DeFi.
This is, I think, of all the things that we're building at Dango,
probably the one that perhaps we are most excited about.
I think there are projects that have come up on the scene recently
who have kind of shown kind of how much opportunity there is within the within the exchange space.
I mean, we just love exchanges. I mean, that's like in our DNA. Right.
I think, you know, exchanges and layer ones are pretty much like the two only tried and tested, proven, profitable business models that have stood the test of time in crypto.
We're literally building both of those and i think for us you know having
that opportunity to reveal the dango decks in its earliest form at the moment we only have the
convert feature which is you know it's incredibly basic and you know it's not something that we we
want to scream and shout about because that's not unique to us but the the unified account system
um as well as the the cross-collateralized um. I think, yeah, I'm very, very excited for Dang Bros,
which is what we call our community members,
to be able to get their hands on it and play with it.
And I think at that point, you know,
hopefully they sort of realize that we, you know,
we really are doing something different
and we're treading a different path
to what other, you know, sort of projects
within our vertical are doing.
But yeah, look out for testnet 2.
That'll be sometime in mid-July.
Excellent.
Yeah, super exciting stuff on that front as well.
So, you know, heard the earlier call out about more swag.
So I'll definitely message you, George.
So that's another thing to keep an eye out for.
an eye out for. Jake, we'd love to hear what is coming up for you. Well, in addition to all the
Jake, would love to hear what is coming up for you.
great stuff that we discussed related to Starboard, right, that's going to be a big priority.
But, you know, the alpha here is we've got a new campaign with Galaxy coming soon. It's going to
be part of the larger initiative called Zero-G Test Orbit,
and we are going to launch season one of this campaign titled Gravitos, and that's going to be on our new testnet version three in the next couple weeks here, and that is going to comprise
of a bunch of really fun activities to get the community engaged with both on and off chain activities that will be redeemable for rewards on Zero-G.
And this is also going to comprise of some of our day one DAPs that are building on Zero-G.
So not only will the Zero-G ecosystem be able to participate on a protocol level, but they will also be able to
interact with our dApps, all of which are also natively building with the connection of Galaxy
as well. And so do keep a lookout and follow our socials, ZeroG underscore labs and ZeroG.ai
to stay in the loop about that campaign and what we're doing with galaxy there
and i'm sure that they'll be able to you know spread the word as well so keep a lookout for
that over the coming weeks we are going to be at etcc in a larger capacity with some developer
workshops and hackathons so i'll be there shoot me a message if you want to connect in person and
you know of course we look forward to meeting with you and helping you build. Thanks for having me, Pat.
Of course. Yeah, Jake, great call out there as well. And super excited about the future work
that we have planned across all things zero G integration. Finn, would love to hear what's
next for you guys and how to stay in the loop.
Yeah.
So as I've mentioned throughout this entire call, for us, what's next is main net.
Right.
And at this rate, it could be any day now, potentially this week.
Right.
Maybe it's an alpha.
And when that does happen, to us, that's when the real RWA revolution kicks off, right?
Introducing a Plume portal, we're going to be having, utilizing Plume portal,
in which we will distribute over, I would say, well over $20 million US dollars worth of Plume token. So I think we have a lot of tokens for grabs when our manet launches,
especially as part of our Season 2 Incentive campaign.
We'll be utilizing Starboard, in which it has its own incentive token platform too so feel free to get out there keep
this we want to give the spotlight to folks who just don't cheer from the sideline but actually
jump in transact and and cheer plume right we'll roll out new tasks tied to deposits bridge volume
governance and leaderboard always reflects who is building plumes story at the end of the day
plumes north star is simple we want to take assets that used to live behind closed doors
and turn them into open programmable money lego for for everyone right um so a lot of very very
exciting things coming up this week for sure and final And final note for anybody who's out there in the Goon community,
some of you guys are waiting for the bounty code, which is Stargoons.
Feel free to punch it in.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you for having me on.
It was fun to be here with some great people and having great conversations.
Love that, Ben.
And I was going to end on a very similar note. I mean, to wrap things up here from the galaxy end, you know, this type of work that is involved with the launch of Starboard, the evolution of galaxy, and really the, you know, the progress that our space makes as a whole really comes down to where you can find those very
collaborative partners that we can work with that help us work through these ideas,
that help us iterate and advance both in our own way and in theirs when it comes to their teams.
And it's that type of collaboration that is, again, one of those unique aspects to
this space as a whole and is what is pushing this space forward. So a major shout out to Plume,
to Dango, to Zerg, to Iris for being four of our critical partners in this process.
And yeah, definitely looking forward to all of the
continued collaboration, future starboard campaigns, on-chain boards, future quests,
future other activations, and yeah, a very bright future ahead for all things across all of these
teams. So everybody out there, definitely dive deep on each of these teams in particular,
keep them on your radar, make sure you're actively driving that participation.
Go generate your aura, farm your aura, as it were.
And very excited to see all of the success that's on the horizon for each of these teams.
Thank you, everybody, for joining us.
And have a great rest of your day, your week, your night.
And we'll all see you very soon.
Thank you very soon.
Thank you, Patrick.
Thanks, Patrick.
