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Weekly Dispatch 43

· 2 min read
Matt Galligan

Another exciting week in front of us as we get closer to having our push to production defined and timeline in place!

Eng has been making an impressive run here lately in the effort to get developers on board and building with XMTP. The effort to reach production, coupled with the interest from Coinbase Wallet in integrating has been 🔥 for this team and it's so awesome to watch.

We're on the edge of something very big here—and the team is showing that we're very ready for the task and journey ahead.

I also wanted to call out just how valuable it is for us to be making our efforts more public.

Just last week we published Martin's XIP-5, which had spun up some renewed interest amongst a few investors. One of those investors was then keen to have us fly out to California and take part in a discussion with U.S. Senators Corey Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand. And it all happened becasuse we published our work.

This is the power of open source—it will inspire and intrigue people, drawing them to the project and encouraging them to contribute in some way. This is just the beginning.

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