I can picture it in my mind’s eye: a soiled poster, inspired by World War I imagery, of Vitalik Buterin doing his best “Uncle Sam,” pointing at the viewer in full unicorn regalia with the words “I want you for vroomDAO — nearest Discord server” underneath.
Alas, I am not a graphic designer, so this beautiful piece of creative will never see the light of day. If only vroomDAO had some motivated illustrators…
See where I’m going with this?
For those who have subscribed to these irregular bursts of Intelligent Drivel™, vroomDAO may ring a bell: I wrote about its formation last September. Seeing that last quarter feels like last century, here’s a short (and slightly adapted) primer from that newsletter:
What started as a group text to discuss the ins and outs of yield farming on the
Ethereum commit chain and Layer 2 scaling solution Polygon
,* vroomDAO has become a community of crypto-curious creatives, VCs, lawyers, finance professionals, strategists, gamblers, gamers, wrestling fans and futurists. Our goal is to share information, educate each other, find alpha investment opportunities, move fast and break things. We are champions of "progressive decentralization” — while "DAO" is in our name, we're not there yet. It's our hope that we reach this status within a few short months. For the time being, we are a
token-gated
invite-only Discord group with a multisig wallet that is funded to invest in interesting projects that align with our value system (Ethereum Semi-Maximalists who believe in a some kind of Eth-dominant multi-chain future).
Four months in, vroomDAO has expanded from eight genesis members to 16, each of whom is substantially “more expert” in the dark arts of web3 (DeFi, NFTs, play 2 earn, open metaverse and other crypto activities taken collectively) than the day s/he joined. And we are now accepting applications for our next 100 members — each of whom will be airdropped 2000 $VROOM tokens, the last of our founding airdrops. With 17% of $VROOM tokens distributed, 83% remains for liquidity farming, partnerships, potential membership sales and financing other yield-generating token activities that the DAO will confirm at a later date.
You can find the application for joining vroomDAO here. The DAO has committed to approving this last batch of founding members by January 19. The airdrop will be conducted by January 26. The party starts in our ‘Cord immediately thereafter.
Don’t be shy. It’s our hope that crypto-curious creative and business professionals seeking a safe environment to learn, educate and contribute get as much out of this blossoming community as each of us already have. Join us; we’d love to have you.
*Since publishing the aforementioned and quoted September draft, I joined Polygon Studios, Polygon’s investment and incubator arm, as Metaverse Lead. For the avoidance of doubt, vroomDAO is in no way associated with Polygon, Polygon Studios or any of the various ecosystem DAOs, protocols or Dapps built thereon.