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Contents:
Return of the Incentives + retrospectives from Vega+
Builders AMA #3 - Vega Wallet
Vega+ Round 2 - Senior Ambassadors & 2nd batch
Community Call - June 2022
Blockchain Oracle Summit - Berlin
Danny Holland - ZK rollups & ETH Prague
Swag Fest - YUM
Another new month, another juicy Community Call ☎️ Here’s the latest from Vega:
1. Return of the Incentives + retrospectives from Vega+ 🦍
Incentives are coming in fast and fluid with more and more participants! Next week, the brand new MEGA REWARDS Incentive will kick off. Sneek peek details of what will be required are included in the recent Community Call (find the recording below).
This week we tasked the Ambassadors to give some feedback on the Incentives, what they liked, and what they think needs work. The best submissions are included below:
Tonynnamdi123’s Incentive Review - APE GAMES: Attack of the Apes
The design of the incentive improved my precision and helped me to develop a strategy to get to the leaderboard as well as aim for a particular spot with probably the highest reward since the first doesn’t take the highest reward. The 1.5% benchmark become almost no obstacle to achieving this because to end up in the top 50 in the leaderboard means that you have actually traded past even 4%. The reward is tricky but interesting and fun. During the trading time, the crypto currency market experienced a heavy bearish dive down and that affected me also but I was quick to curb my loss. Overall, the game was intensifying and I couldn’t stop playing till the very last minute. Also, the 150 xyz token was more of a realistic amount and portrayed a real trading condition and I recommend a similar amount is always used in subsequent incentive trading as it is more realistic.
Richnd’s Incentive Review - APE GAMES: Attack of the Apes
I have participated in many incentive programs on Vega’s fairground but this one is the most interesting because the reward structure is different from usual. To achieve the highest rewards you need to carefully calculate and constantly monitor your ranking position to have the right plan - it is much harder than trying to trade and get the most profit. Although my account was burnt out due to a drastic price movement, I think subsequent incentive programs should adopt a prize structure like APE GAMES. It’s really interesting.
Head to the forums for the other feedback → LINK
2. Builders AMA #3 - Vega Wallet 🛟
This week the Vega builder’s club hosted one of its bi-weekly Builders AMAs. These are a chance for the community to ask any questions they may have to the Engineering Team, and learn about developments to the protocol. This week’s AMA centred around changes to the Vega wallet, which now includes support for signing and confirming transactions. The builders club learned about all new changes to the wallet and how to get the latest version, how to confirm transactions, and other new features in the pipeline. Builders AMAs run every other Tuesday around ~5pm GMT+1 on Vega's Discord - come along to learn more!
3. Vega+ Round 2 - Senior Ambassadors & 2nd batch 🐯
On Monday 6th June, Apprentice applications closed for the 2nd round of the Vega+ Ambassador Program. These apps are currently being reviewed and those that are GMI will be contacted on Friday the 10th (today) with things kicking off on Monday 20th June (make sure you CHECK YOUR EMAILS pls, thanks😘)
On another topic, other Ambassadors are maturing! Both Vinay & Nelson have been selected as Vega’s first Senior Ambassadors! They’ll be partaking in some of the weekly planning calls for Vega+ and working their way up to taking more responsibility in the program. Hats off to these fantastic community members (both 1 year+) and keep an eye out for them both around the Vega Community 🤗.
4. Community Call - June 2022 🦔
Is that a new thumbnail? Okay, that was a low lift but a lot of the Community Channels have been updated by Vega’s friends at BigFan to fit the evolution of the Brand.
Anyways, that’s a little unrelated - this Community Call focused on: Vega+ Applications closing + restructure; Mega Incentive sneak peek (dropping next week); Barney’s Mainnet roadmap blog (to be released in 3 parts); + wtf’s going on with the NFTs? Watch the full recorded call below 👇
5. Blockchain Oracle Summit - Berlin 🍻
Barney represented Vega Protocol this week at the Blockchain Oracle Summit in Berlin. The panel covered interesting topics exploring: new DeFi opportunities that cross-chain oracles will enable, the increased complexity that arises in cross-chain communication and how oracles will evolve in a multichain future.
6. Danny Holland - ZK rollups & ETH Prague 🎈🏃♂️
This Saturday will be a big day for Danny (Head of Smart Contract Integrations at Vega), as he’ll be sharing his experience with ZK Rollups - some of the Vega gang are at ETH Prague right now backing him up!
Everyone knows ZK Rollups are the future of scaling, but nobody provides examples. In this talk, Solidity dev Danny Holland presents concrete examples targeted at Solidity developers.
We all love Ethereum, but it has some problems. L2's are the promised solution, but the community is underdeveloped. Veteran smart contract developer Danny Holland gives concrete examples of how to use ZK Rollup circuits in Circom, along with ZK Snarks, to offload compute from mainnet ETH to Rollups.
If you’re around the historical capital of Bohemia you won’t want to miss this one!
7. Vega Swag Fest - YUM 🖖
Vega’s fairy godmother, Diana, has been sending out Vega swag all over the world - from Nigeria to India and beyond! Both Incentive Winners AND Vega+ Ambassadors are being showered with Swag love - who said you can only get Vega Swag at conferences?
Want some, become a future Ambassador or get involved in the Fairground Incentives!
🌞 That’s all for this week; summer’s just beginning → go out and enjoy it 🌞
- Daigan 🍊 + Edo 🥝 + Sunny 🌞