Hi team,
First off, welcome @neekolas to the team this week! He comes to us from Brex.
This dispatch is coming out a day late because I wanted to rethink with the team how we communicate and share goals.
Going forward, we will review and define the goals as a team on Friday and will be shared every Monday in this update. These will be 2-3 high-level goals that we are aligned on as a team.
On that note, I wanted to reshare @saul's product roadmap again. It is such a great way to look at the path ahead.

Let's keep refining what our first release will be. Let's be clear on this as a team and please ask questions if you're not clear.
Have a great week everyone, Shane Mac
XMTP Updates
- Shared updated job listings, more to come. Check out all open jobs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZRK3ZfiVamKed0r83BlCqZjF_T2KIHNI1ZYPQsPkLZ0/edit
- More edits and review of the Litepaper https://docs.google.com/document/d/1490fnODLyJALd1XeO2iMyrbbw4zGED5cf4IVnGnO-BI/edit
- Great Twitter Spaces, can listen here: https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1484215706308599808?s=20
Crypto industry news
- Twitter supports NFT profile photos https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/131052/twitter-begins-rolling-out-access-to-nft-profile-pictures
- Opensea just continues to grow at an insane rate https://decrypt.co/90519/nft-platform-opensea-hits-record-3-5b-monthly-ethereum-volume
What we are reading/listening to
- Great thread from Chris Dixon about the decentralized and centralized conversation https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1485303906154467330?s=20
A week in the life with @neekolas
It was my birthday. As she has every year since I was a child, my mom made cupcakes. Theme is open to interpretation.

I live near Stanley Park, so I went for a few long walks with friends over the weekend. This picture is from a few weeks ago when we still had snow.

This is cheating the "week in the life" theme a little, but here's me and my girlfriend in LA from a few weeks ago.

