Hey all,
Big week last week, and another one in front of us. Saul, Shane, Peter, and myself will be at an offsite this week to work thorugh our launch plans, as well as setting up for Q2, and our future full team offsite.
Over the next few weeks we'll work to thoroughly define our short-and-medium term goals, as well as document our longer-term ones. The key for the next few months is knowing exactly where we are pointing our efforts, and deferring or outsourcing all else that doesn't meet a "must have" criteria.
Demand and competition in this space is heating up. We're well poised to capture the attention and the developers wanting to build with web3 messaging, and to do that focus will be our key.
XMTP Updates
- Anoop accepted our offer! We're working through references now
- Had great meetings with Inb0x and Rarible about looking into integrating XMTP
- Saul set up a handy
#decision-logchannel in Slack to keep track of our RAPIDs, RFCs, and P/PS progress - Great discussion around storage
Decisions made
Going to try this out as a new section to socialize all of the decisions that were made in the week as a tl;dr of sorts
- #358 RAPID: Periodically wipe the Playnet network
- We will be wiping the Playnet every 7 days
- #365 P/PS: Selecting a name for XMTP node software
- Not going to go with a separately branded name for now
- #363 License for XMTP node software
- MIT
Crypto industry news
- The White House published its Executive Order on crypto [link]
- It was quite dialed back compared to the speculation, and bodes well for hte industry
- Yuga Labs (makers of the Bored Ape Yacht Club) bought the CryptoPunks and Meebits IP [link]
- Ukraine's crypto donation drive has topped $100M donated [link]
- Stripe got into crypto payments [link]