With the implementation of a small set of features, DEGEN, and its family of bots, has proven to be an integral part of BanklessDAO’s operations, from the seemingly basic, but ever important, POAP distribution feature set, to new presence-based features such as“Away from Keyboard”(/afk) and the Timecard commands. Username spam filtering, Guild welcome mats, and Guild Notion homepage delivery are among a few features that serve the DAO in a way that relieves contributors and administrators to spend their time elsewhere, rather than focusing on the tedious aspects of managing a large Discord server. Coupled with the collaboration with First Quests, the DEGEN Workgroup is making headway in simplifying onboarding and managing administration.
Additional developmental resources will be required to continue to build features that will not only support the DAO in its mission by automating more of our internal processes, but also to position DEGEN as the De Facto DAO tool.
The DEGEN Workgroup, then, will serve to not only simplify processes within the DAO, but position BanklessDAO as the market maker for DAO tooling.
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IN SEASON 2
In Season 2, the DEGEN Workgroup set out to do the following:
Develop a Gnosis Integration to manage multisig transactions from within Discord, as well as open up possibilities for other Web3 automation.
Create a tipping system to replace Collab.Land.
Create a system whereby Guild Coordinators can quickly scaffold meetings by automating agenda creation and POAP distribution.
Build a frontend to easily configure features available to any DAO or server utilizing DEGEN for their tooling.
Develop a companion Twitter bot to accommodate DAO activity on twitter, ie Twitter Spaces events.
What did we accomplish?
In Season 2, the DEGEN Workgroup launched DEGEN as THE de facto POAP bot, fully backed by the POAP protocol as the official POAP bot, and delivered it to over 85 servers. Furthermore, in an effort to best support the DAO, a separate bot was created—the Mad Hatter—that supported all of the specifically BanklessDAO functions and features. These functions and features include, but are not limited to:
Notion Guild Pages delivery
“Away from Keyboard,” or“afk” functionality
Coordinape participation form delivery
Guest Pass assignment and automated expiration
Timecard coverage and review
First Quests integration for a better onboarding experience
Twitter Spaces POAP distribution(pending official release)
Updated Username Spam Filter with more keywords to check against
Various features and updates to support Ops in administering the Discord server
Also, the BanklessDAO Product Support Center was spun up to support external servers in their quest to onboard DEGEN to their communities. The Product Support Center has become a support community on its own, and in finding that success, is spinning out as its own project with the intention to provide a home base of support for all BanklessDAO products that go to market.
Furthermore, the Round Table™️ was started to field concerns and ideas from protocols and DAOs. The intention here is to understand problems that are unique to protocols and DAOs operating on Discord and to build out features to better support protocols and DAOs operating in the crypto space.
This work was done in tandem with the work being done to further develop the POAP distribution features and manage the release of DEGEN to innumerable servers. As of the last official count, DEGEN is active in 88 servers, with more servers in queue waiting to get setup and running with DEGEN to support their communities.
In sum, the DEGEN Workgroup accomplished a lot. However, the original list was highly ambitious. The likelihood of the completion of any of these projects during Season 2 was incredibly low. Despite this, and despite all of the progress that was made in other areas, every single one of these initiatives have been started and are making incredible progress. To date:
JonValjonathan is developing the Gnosis integration and exploring the innumerable possibilities inherent in its development. This includes the creation of an SDK that may be utilized across other bots the team produces. As such, the potential that exists here is far more than was originally planned.
sweetman.eth, in taking a separate grant from the DAO, took on the work of developing Ethereum <> Polygon bridges and is developing the tipping mechanism by which the Mad Hatter will operate, with functionality that will exist on Polygon and, possibly, Ethereum.
Birdman began development for the Meetings and Agenda automation, actively looking at ways to not just simplify the process, but automate as much as possible in the scope of setting up and running a meeting. This work will carried on by another DEGEN developer.
SUMMARY
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IN SEASON 2