Superteam Monthly Update: July 2022
GDP : $670k+ | Shipping: Wordcel, CandyPay & Metapass | 5 Members go full-time web3 | 5 New Instagrants & Missions | xNFTs on the podcast & more.
SuperteamDAO is a digital co-op of operators, devs & angels working on promising Solana projects.
Key Metric
$674,301 in Community GDP. This is the North start metric for Superteam. It represents value created for & by community members who found earning opportunities through Superteam.
Driving this number is a community of 165 members & 48 contributors. A growing talent network with 1800+ registered people looking for opportunities in web3. And 39 partner projects who’ve tapped into this talent pool.
A special shoutout to all the rainmakers (i.e. members who have brought in earning opportunities to the community). Shek.dev , DrPrk.eth, Abbas, Rajkaria, Kunal, Gajesh, Krish, Anoushk, Yash, Umang, Pratik, Ujjwal & core team members Akshay, Kash, Neil & Devaiah.
Over time, we will start tracking the dispersion and resilience of community earnings. Metrics such as % of GDP brought in and serviced by top x% members will help measure the extent of decentralisation of community GDP. Expect this to grow over time. There is an increasing trend of meaningful contributions from members outside the core team. This is what truly makes superteam special - members forming direct connections & creating value with others. More on this in our post on valuing web3 communities.
Shipping
Wordcel Club
This project won the web3 track in the Solana Riptide Hackathon. They are creating a decentralised publishing stack. This enables creators to own their content & social graph.
Since launching they have been on a blitzkrieg - onboarding ecosystem projects & their blogs to the wordcel club. They’ve just crossed a 100 unique publishers & blogs posted on their platform.
There are two partnerships from this month we’d like to highlight:
Notifications via Dialect : Creators are now building their following on an open protocols. This means followers will interact with them through many different apps. It is important to have a single standard of push communication that allows creators to reach their followers & prevents spam.
Group Accounts via Squads : Projects are a key type of author in the wordcel club. These accounts have a single .sol domain that multiple people will need to access for publishing content. Squads enables anyone to easily setup a multi-sig vault.
Getting Involved
Author & Beta tester. The team is continuously working on iterating & improving the product. Thus, access to publishing on wordcel club is currently invite only. If you would like to be an early author who helps shaping the product, drop a DM to Paarug.
Bonus tip: You can read this update & follow me on wordcel.club
CandyPay
The first product being launched is a significantly improved NFT minting experience. The team is focusing on building mobile-native & gasless minting. This is a young team submitting to the Solana Summer Hackathon.
Their first use-case has been providing proof of attendance for web3 events. They are the live minting partner for SOAP. This is also probably one of the few projects which is not only a submission but also a utility in the same hackathon - Solana Summer-camp @ Singapore used CandPay as their SOAP dispenser. They’ll also be powering attendance NFTs for the NFT Berlin club & the upcoming Solana Delhi HH.
Getting Involved
Partnerships, Biz-dev & Marketing. Their project has gotten a lot of early traction & the team is looking for someone to help blitz-scale and make CandyPay the default choice for minting SOAPs across the Solana ecosystem.
Open Source SDKs. The codebase is open-source so if you’re a creative dev who can find ways to make the product better or fix any bugs, dive right in. (Hint: one of the ideas they want to work on in the future is minting SOAPs for someone brand new to web3).
Metapass
The product went live on Solana this month! Their goal is to provide access-as-a-service. The first product they’ve launched is ticketing for events. They’ve partnered with projects like huddle01, Wordcel Club , Chingari, Superteam & FTXSuperteam to provide ticketing for both virtual & IRL events.
Their integration with huddle allows anyone to gate access to virtual events to ticket holders only. In the short term this looks like the primary use case, but there’s a lot more coming.
Chingari plans to integrate the metapass sdk natively into their app. This will allow any creator on Chingari to host ticketed meet-ups for the app’s 300m user base 🤯🚀
Wordcel club & other publishers can allow authors / creators to gate their content exclusively to NFT holders. This is similar to the402 protocol on Ethereum.
Getting Involved
Founding Engineer. A core team hire who will help shape the architecture and design of the product.
Open Source Contributions
UI for the Builds in Tailwind for Apr.dev for xNFT(Coral). by Anoushk
A security example to sealevel attacks to check for sysvar addresses in the xNFT project by Anoushk
Earning
Instagrants ⚡
Equity-free grants to support builders across the Solana ecosystem. Applications take less than 15 minutes, approval decisions come within 48 hours. Anyone can apply here.
Candy Pay 🍭 : Building a headless mint experience for the Solana collection, which lets users mint NFTs just by scanning a QR code, directly from mobile wallets using Solana Pay.
Led by: Vampo
Solace Wallet 👝 : Solace is a program based non-custodial wallet built for Solana, where users can store funds without the need of a seed phrase and it's mental overhead.
Led by: xxhwinSolana Vision 💻 : An all-in-one DApp for interacting with default and custom programs with a UI that is awesome!
Led by: Kunal
Missions 👷🏼♂️
Missions are freelance contracts for either an individual or a team to complete. Some Missions are open to the public, others are only available to Contributors (Level 2) and Members (Level 3) of SuperteamDAO. Apply here.
Solana Pay Market Research Mission 💸
The team will be directly working with Solana Foundation, on identifying suitable geographies, devising a Go-To-Market strategy, and proposing partners for different Solana Pay use-cases like Remittances, e-commerce, and Point-of-Sale!
Led by: Yash Agarwal and Yash Zanwar
Honey Finance Dev Mission 💻
Honey Finance, a decentralized protocol, and liquidity solution is looking to rebrand and the mission will involve developing the front-end of the landing page.
Led by: Joydeep
Learning
Solana Summer Camp
A superteam production catapulting India to the #1 position by submissions at the Solana Summer hackathon. Register here as a team or individual.
Podcast 🎬
We chat with Armani Ferrante, founder of Coral about xNFTs, Anchor, Solana phone, and the future of web3 on mobile. Enjoy!
From the Blog
Building the ultimate loyalty program
Celebrating Members 🚀
Despite the bear market, Superteam members went ahead and got a job:
Rahul Menon joins Thirdweb as a Product Manager.
Mohnish Isaac Kariappa joins IndigGG as Community Ops lead.
Yash Chandak joins Huddle as Technical Content Writer.
Aditya Shetty joins Superteam as Lead Writer.
Meme of the Month 😉
Enjoy yet another fun video, by our mystery intern!
That’s all folks, See you next month!✌️
Credits
Community dashboards: John Swaroop, Kunal Bagaria & Ishika
Cover image: Yash Bharadwaj
Correction: A previous version of this essay (that you can probably find on-chain ;)) missed crediting SOAP under the Candy Pay update. This has now been fixed. Sorry for this miss.