Community Update #61
Alpha Mainnet AMAs, Community Calls, Community Feedback, and Podcast Snippets
Sharing updates from the Vega ecosystem and sometimes slightly beyond. To chat, learn and discuss more, see a full list of resources on LinkTree
Contents:
Alpha Mainnet AMA - Wrap Up
Last Community Call Of The Year - December 2022
Eden Block Podcast - Snippet Series
Community Socials - The Poker Master Emerges
Community Feedback - Fill In The Form
Swag Shoutouts - ETH Denver Nostalgia
Vega+ - Awards & Senior Ambassadors
🫡 In for a penny, in for a pound 🫡 Here’s the latest from Vega:
1. Alpha Mainnet AMA - Wrap Up 🦔
Last Friday we hosted an Alpha Mainnet AMA on Twitter Spaces with Vega Co-Founder Barney and Daig, who moderated the session! Barney provided an insight into Vega’s history up until now, reasons behind past decision making and where we expect to go towards the Alpha Mainnet release. 🚀
Main Highlights:
Vega was not affected by the FTX contagion (although the situation may lower crypto adoption in the short term, in the long term the opportunity for DeFi stands strong)
Throughout 2021 the team had to re-write the data nodes and was hard to get quality QA testers
The community should participate in the Mainnet Sims as a lot of work has gone into getting these final testing environments ready
Alpha Mainnet is expected in early 2023
Another AMA will run in January to provide the Community with a more accurate timeline
2. Last Community Call Of The Year - December 2022 🥶
The year has come to an end but things at Vega never stop! Playback this month’s Community Call for a deep dive into community activity, Barney’s AMA, Mainnet Sims, and more…
As always, the Community Call is live streamed on the first Tuesday of the month at 5pm GMT/UTC. January 2023’s call may move due to New Years Day. The Vega Discord will always have the latest information on this.
3. Eden Block Podcast - Snippet Series 🌿
Earlier in September, our friends at Eden Block invited Barney to record an Episode on their new Podcast series ‘Genesis Stories’. Recently, we’ve been working quite closely with Eden Block and decided to create short video snippets that capture key highlights of the episode!
BIG Shout out to victxx#5446 AKA Victxr who has been creating amazing content and adding great value to Vega’s social repertoire. If you didn’t know, Victx was also the winner of the Eth Denver Community Competition & designed/created these lovely video intros/outros 🫶 The Snippet Series will be running for the next 4 weeks, hope you enjoy them!
& if you’re interested in watching/listening more, check the full episode → HERE
4. Community Socials - The Poker Master Emerges 💗
Have you heard the big news… we have a new Poker Master in the Vega Community! Congrats 11.west#3526 for making it to the top of the Poker board, earning some cool Vega Swag & the Poker Master Discord role. Seems like the Community want more time to hang out together… Who’s ready to take his crown!? 👑
It was great to see new people speaking and connecting with the team on stage during the 2nd Poker Social, some shared their interests/stories in getting to know Vega.
Here are the winners:
🥇Camp Flag, Water Bottle, Neon Hoodie, Back Pack 11.west#3526
🥈Camp Flag, Water Bottle, Neon Hoodie angeldeln111#7758
🥉Camp Flag, Water Bottle Максим(Екатеринбург)#5593
There might be special Swag additions as surprises 👀 Participation was good, with 27 players at the start of the tournament, so we'll be also rewarding ojofirme#2544 & Dmitriy | Validatrium#2185
🧸 P.S. there might also be a Xmas special edition if there’s enough demand for it
5. Community Feedback - Fill In The Form! ✏️
The Community team has been looking for ideas around how we go about things at Vega. What would you like to see more of? What can we do differently? Any cool suggestions you may have are really appreciated to take things to the next level and ensure we’re creating the best Community we possibly can. If you have any ideas or feedback for the Vega Community Team, please gib feedback by either tapping the tweet or clicking HERE 😍
6. Swag Shoutouts - ETH Denver Nostalgia 💌
Earlier this year Vega sponsored ETH Denver and announced the transition to Alpha Mainnet! (ICYMI Check out Vega’s schedule at ETH Denver!) The Vega booth was packed with swag, Vega team members & lots of new frens were made. 🫶 Recently, we got a couple of shouts from Eth Denver attendees, which is great to see as we really put a lot of effort into giving back to the wider Community. 🦬🏔
7. Vega+ - Awards & Senior Ambassadors 🏅
Vega+ ended the year with a massive awards ceremony, giving updates from the core teams, looking back at 2022 and awarding the Ambassador Community for their dedication throughout the year. We’d like to give an especially big congratulations to Zwiftscka and Victxr for their promotion to the Senior Ambassador group 🎊 🎊. 2023 is looking exciting, and the new Apprentices are a cool bunch. Expect more from Vega+ in 2023!
😭 ‘Golly gosh, I wish I won those skis’ Anon 2022 😭
- Edo 🥝 + Daigan 🍊