The District Weekly — November 17th, 2018

News and updates from the district0x Network

This past week we released our bi-weekly Dev Update covering Meme Factory, the District Registry, d0xTasks, and Ethlance. Overall, with the exception of Ethlance (already launched), we are busy pushing all other dApps to a public Testnet as soon as possible to wrap up QA.

Thanks to our Ambassador and previous stream guest Luke Parker (Kayaba), we have transitioned all community rewards to an open source bot that he created and helped us deploy. With his efforts, we can now distribute DNT in a more fun and engaging way. This month’s rewards are still in the process of transitioning over to this new bot and the rewards form will no longer be used. Keep in mind that this bot can only be used in the rewards channel found in Discord. The commands for the bot can be found by typing !help in the rewards channel.

While the rewards have functioned more like a faucet for the community to easily acquire and use DNT, this will now be transitioning over to a more action based or bounty style distribution model similar to the District proposals. To make this more accessible, the channel #jobs-bounties can be found in Discord at level two.

This channel will not only house tasks specific to district0x, it will be for anyone to post jobs or tasks from around the web. So if you have a job in Ethlance you want help with, find an interesting bounty on the web, or just have something simple, you can post it there. You could even use the new tipbot!

As part of phase three for our Discord community, we just launched a new initiative called #stealthis proposal. The idea is to surface proposals and ideas that the community resonates with and to push us into the ‘District and team creation’ phase. You can find these conversations and ideas in Telegram with the hashtag #stealthis as well as in a Discord channel with the same name.

We will begin using the talent pools and self-assigned roles to give people an easy way to find and source talent for research or development tasks. This is going to be a bit experimental and may take on a new form based on feedback but there is currently a research bounty of 500 DNT set on the first #stealthis proposal written.

The main idea in the short term is to encourage working groups around old proposals, new proposals, and even auxiliary module concepts. In terms of how that plays out in the future will be entirely up to what proposals gain traction and what projects see their first teams come together.

district0x Network News

DApp Digest

This past week on the DApp Digest we spoke with Nathan Ginnever of Finality Labs touching on Plasma, State Channels, and a slew of other topics. Stay tuned for our regular community livestream every other Tuesday at 3PM PDT (10PM UTC) as a forum for discussing recent updates to the district0x Network.

Additionally, we bring on guests from related projects in the space, hosting those as separate livestreams throughout the week. You can join us on Mixer, Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube.

We choose the topics and guests for the DApp Digest based on community demand. If there’s someone you’d like to have on or a topic you’d like to see covered, be sure to drop us a line!

District Proposals

If you’d like to learn more about submitting your own idea as a proposal, check out the district proposal github repo for instructions and more information.