Think of this as your go-to source for the most important things happening on Common right now. We will share:

• Discussions that you should be following

• Community news

• Important Common platform updates

• How you can get involved

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This newsletter is completely owned and operated by the community which means everything shared with you are updates that your fellow community members think you should 100% know about.

The Top Common Threads of September

The best discussions of the month. September had lots of exciting topics on Common. Here’s two to keep an eye on:

Bio Protocol and DeSci:

• Bio Protocol Proposal for $20k to Fund New DAO Study: Wolfram Institute requested $20k from Bio Protocol to fund a new study on ideal DeSci DAO incentive alignment

• “Bio-DAOs” have been picking up steam with MicroBiomeDAO launching soon & brand new AI agent opportunities being explored

Bunni: the evolution of a DeFi project

Common's Take on Bunni

Community Spotlight: Common Türkiye Community

This community is an active group founded to increase awareness and recognition of

Common in Türkiye. This relatively new community has grown exponentially and plays a key role in the Common ecosystem. Some stats:

• 800 active members on Telegram

• 1.3k Followers on X

• 853 members on common.xyz/commontr

Common’s Turkish community helps amplify Common’s marketing initiatives which significantly boosts the project’s global visibility. Organised raids by the community can take an announcement from 5k views to over 100k views within an hour.

The Telegram channel serves as the community’s main hangout spot, a support hub, and a direct feedback loop with the Common team.

Many members have created some incredible Common and Lamumu content on their own social platforms.

Some Fun Turkish community content :)

0xSING4PUR put Common’s logo on his car, shared it on X, and instantly became one of the coolest people in Türkiye.

Someone from the community made a Lamumu video game that had lots folks on the Common team gaming during the workday :’)

The Turkish community made both Common and Lamumu a globally trending phenomenon on X :D

Tonyukuk, Common’s Turkish Community Lead made a lovely September recap video that got 43k impressions.

Rewarding Your Yaps

We recently revamped our community content program that both recognises and rewards the community’s top content creators. Here’s how it works and here’s how we reward program participants.

The program has rewarded some amazing content including this tweet from Sadosist about how he was able to buy a house with crypto. The first leaderboard was announced earlier this month

gMoon Until The Next gMoo

& thats all we have for you this time! Stay tuned for more alpha. Until then… gMoon 🌙

P.S.: Don’t forget to join us on Discord :D

We launched Community Coins on Base! Now anyone can spin up a coin-powered forum in minutes. Launch a memecoin fund, build a vibe-coded dev roadmap, or organize an AI research collective.

When your community coin gains traction, it unlocks rewards, governance, and a Uniswap listing.

This is our new way to create onchain together.

Launch yours today

More Quests, More Aura

We announced partnerships with Orbiter Finance and Arcas this week!

Orbiter is a ZK-tech based crosschain protocol and Arcas builds community-driven games.

If you’re looking to gain more Aura, check out the quests:

• Orbiter Finance

• Arcas

Common is growing with Perpetual DAO

We’re excited to welcome Perpetual DAO!

Perpetual Protocol does onchain perps trading, and now they’re DAO is doing governance on Common.

Go join their community and stay up to date!

Soneium for All incubator

We’ve had a great time onboarding the Soneium ecosystem to Common, and we’re inspired by all the work they’re doing for builders.

They recently announced a fast-track incubator for people building consumer and gaming apps onchain.

Is this you? Apply here by June 30!

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More quests, more Aura this week.

We’ve partnered with SuperVol, a gamified options trading platform on Soneium to bring you three new quests.

Go check them out!

Proposal highlight: Authorize 1inch Foundation to Represent 1inch DAO in Hardware Wallet Dispute

The 1inch DAO is voting to authorize the 1inch Foundation to formally represent it in all legal proceedings tied to the terminated relationship with Alexei Devyatkin and HWLT FZE (the hardware wallet project).

Take a look.

AI that supports people, not replaces them

Communities are built by people, not automation. What if AI could help them contribute more effectively without taking their place?

AI in communities is often framed in extremes. One side sees it as a threat to gatekeep, the other as a way to automate people out of the picture, but both are missing the point.

Real communities require human judgment and care.

When someone proposes a new initiative, reviews a controversial decision, or helps a newcomer get oriented, they're doing work that requires context, empathy, and stake in the outcome.

No algorithm can replicate that investment. The real question is whether AI can support it.

Read the full article here.

Join AthenaDAO’s demo day!

Join AthenaDAO on Wednesday, June 25th at 12 PM ET for a 45-minute virtual showcase of work at the intersection of women’s health, R&D, and AI.

Expect live demos from 7 pioneering projects, including new devices, fertility tracking platforms, and innovations in menopause and reproductive longevity.

AthenaDAO has used Common to coordinate community proposals to fund women’s health research, and we’re excited to see how these early-stage innovations are turning into real-world impact.

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The future of Common is yours

From the beginning, Common was created to serve tokenized communities, helping them coordinate, reward contributions, and grow together.

Now, we're turning that same vision inward. Common is beginning its own journey toward full decentralization.

We’re designing a future where our most active contributors can shape the roadmap and protocol, earning real ownership along the way.

The future of Common isn’t top-down. It’s collective.

Stay tuned for more.

You can fix your tech stack by using Common though

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This week we got to talk with Simon from Crecimiento about pop up cities and his goals to make Argentina a crypto capital.

Listen to the full podcast episode to learn about how pop up cities might just be the best move if you’re looking to build with a community.

Launch an idea, make it real

If you have an idea you’ve been wanting to build around, now is the time to do that on Common!

You can launch a community and a token right from our platform.

Why launch on Common?

• Everything in one place: Set up your token, create roles, and start discussions instantly.

• Transparent incentives: Reward your early supporters with community points and build trust from day one.

• Onchain by default: Your idea gets a permanent, verifiable presence onchain.

• Social-first: People don’t just buy in, they get to build with you.

Bring your ideas to life here.

Updated product features

We’ve been hard at work improving our product! Here are some new upgrades:

✅ Admin Community Profile Page – Trust Level Verification: Admins can now verify trust levels directly from the community profile page

🏆 Fix Prize Share Rendering on Contest Cards: Resolved display issues with prize breakdowns on contest cards

💸 Buy Stake Fix: Resolved an issue affecting buy stake functionality

And more to come. Stay tuned!

We know a place

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If you’ve been waiting for new quests, you’re in luck. We dropped 2 new quests this week with our newest partner, Yoonivee.

Join their community on Common or mint the Yoonivee NFT to join their exclusive NFT Holders Group on Common, and get more Aura while you're at it.

More quests are coming soon, so don’t miss out!

OKX Wallet Bonus Aura

Remember that you can get extra Aura for first-time sign ups through OKX Wallet. Just link the wallet to Common and get your Aura!

AI as a contributor

At Common, we view AI as a community contributor. Most platforms either fear AI or replace people with AI, but that doesn’t have to be the case.

With AI as a contributor, we can empower people to speed up coordination and reduce busywork. This also makes real contributions even more visible and impactful.

Communities deserve tools that support builders and reduce the barrier of entry to make ideas come to life.

We’re still all about “launch an idea, make it real,” but now it’s a more streamlined process so builders can focus on what actually drives impact.

Onchain culture meets capital

Recently, we held a panel discussion where the Soneium ecosystem chatted about the evolution of creative IP in web3, the empowerment of artists onchain, and the infrastructure needed to support digital culture.

The intersection of DeFi and creative IP opens even more possibilities. The panel discussed several financial models for creative assets:

• Fractionalization: Breaking ownership of high-value assets into smaller, tradable units

• NFT-collateralized lending: Using creative assets as collateral for loans

• Vote-directed rewards: Using VE tokenomics to direct emissions to cultural assets

Kyo Finance described how their vote-escrowed system could support creative assets:

"If one creator builds a fractionalized art and makes an NFT or art into an ERC20 token and wants to incentivize that directly... they could create a gauge of that like a staking vault and vote on that vault and it'll get emission."

Read the full post here.

True love is seeing your proposal go through

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From memecoins to Kusama art, we explored what it means to own your ideas onchain, how AI might help artists and collectors, and why building cultural infra matters.

Aura interlude is coming to a close

Aura Season 1 kicked off with incredible momentum — thousands of participants, native Common actions completed, and thousands of Aura distributed across communities.

Weeks 4 and 5 were a bit quieter, but here’s what we’ve been working on behind the scenes.

• We overhauled the infrastructure that powers Twitter and Discord quests to reduce bugs and increase consistency.

• We upgraded the backend to support a higher volume of quests, increased partner flexibility, and improved quest lifecycle tools.

• We’re rolling out better tools for ecosystem partners to launch, manage, and measure quests natively within Common.

Now on to more quests and more partners!

Creating onchain impact with Common Cuties

Common Cuties is our newest initiative acting as a girls club for women building onchain. Inspired by the energy of groups like Berabaddies, Common Cuties is a space for creative builders, technical talent, and impact-driven contributors… just make it cute.

Follow @thecommoncuties for updates and a soft launch soon.

Everyone community deserves a Common forum

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Join in at 10am EST on May 7th!

Be sure to turn your reminders on to get all the alpha and insight.

VitaDAO is using web3 for longevity

And they’re using Common for governance and communication. We’ve seen awesome posts from their subDAOs VitaRNA and Vita-FAST, and they’re continuing to expand their impact with $VITA.

Check out this thread for more info!

Soneium is on Common

Aside from the Aura quests, we’ve helped onboard several Soneium projects to Common.

Say hi to Kyo, Sake, and Sonex!

While you’re there, browse other communities on Common and start participating directly on our platform.

More quests and fun to come soon…

Proposal highlight

All In For Sport is cooking with this proposal that establishes a two-house governance model, separating community oversight from operational execution through a new Operations Group.

View the proposal

All in For Sport is developing a perpetual funding mechanism for inclusion and empowerment in and sports. Check out their Common community to participate!

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(Get your OKX Aura bonus here)

We’ll have more community specific quests coming soon, so keep an eye out on the Quests page as well as Twitter.

Scaling DeFI communities with AZEx

Boring financial platforms are being left behind in crypto. Instead, people are looking to hubs like AZEx that are exploring peer-to-peer trading, yield farming, and soon, AI copy trading features.

AZEx has embraced a philosophy of treating users as co-builders, not just customers. Their community engagement strategy includes:

• Weekly community calls

• Twitter Spaces discussions

• Dedicated forums for proposals and voting

• Transparency through regular updates

• Open dialogue about challenges and milestones

Learn more in the blog post.

Coordination optimizations on Common

Rhys from our growth team wrote a couple threads this week detailing how projects like Soneium have leveraged Common’s features to optimize coordination.

He talks about improving discoverability, creating templates, implementing trust levels, and more.

Read the thread here.

Always more chances to Aura farm

Gain Aura

We started off our week with an OKX partnership where you can gain extra Aura for initial sign up using their wallet.

We then went live with our Soneium partnership where you can join their community on Common to get Aura. Soneium also released their announcement!

Follow along with our Sake Finance and Kyo quests to continue activating Aura.

Twitter quests and more are coming soon! Follow us on X for the news.

Common’s DAO Field Guide ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆

Due to popular demand from our first booklet, we created a brand new one!

This time, it’s a field guide broken into 2 sections. The first section is all about popular initiatives that DAOs have used to develop effective workflows.

In the second section, we dive into real world case studies! We started off strong with LinksDAO.

Learn all about how LinksDAO went from tweet to golf course.

Read it here

Cross-chain DeFi hub communities

Alpha and Yapping with AZEx gave us a lot of insight into how they’re scaling DeFi communities.

We learned:

• How their peer-to-pool DEX model differentiates from traditional exchanges

• Community-focused governance approach with the AZT token

• Their roadmap for AI-powered trading features.

Follow the podcast for new episodes!

Four new releases live

Our product is continuing to improve.

📝 Username Change After Generate: Users can now update their username right after generating it

🏆 Judged Contest Admin Flow: New admin controls for managing judged contest flows

🔐 OKX Wallet Support: Users can now sign in with OKX Wallet

Full updates here. It’s shipping season!

Aura to the moon

Check out the original video on our TikTok.

Want to learn more about Aura? Look at the FAQ here and also this intro to week 3 of Aura.

Explore Common

We’ve been busy working on new Aura quests for you to join, and we’re excited for what’s coming in Week 3.

In the meantime, check out our TikTok account for fun Lamumu related videos and listen to new weekly episodes on our podcast.

This week in crypto

We saw Magic Eden acquire Slingshot to “double down on crypto” as they say.

In the DeSci community, BIO Protocol announced the BioAgent elizaOS plugin which enables AI agents to generate and evaluate biological hypotheses across domains.

Farcaster hype is up with people vibe coding mini apps directly on their app.

Traps for DeFi security

Drosera is taking a unique approach to security through traps, which are specialized smart contracts that operate off-chain.

These traps can monitor for security threats, manage risk, and provide various other services to DeFi protocols.

With use cases ranging from risk management, DeFi operations, and entertainment, Drosera is worth exploring.

Read more here.

Aura maxxing continues

We’re now in Week 2 of our first Aura season!

There’s 2 new quests you can join:

1. Upvote your favorite Aura meme

2. Create an Aura thread

Note: You’ll need to hold ETH in your profile-linked wallet to cast a vote.

For week 3 and beyond, you can expect:

✨ Ecosystem partner quests
✨ Social quests: Follow @commondotxyz and hop in Discord to catch them live.

Community is always the alpha

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Aura is a new way to get rewarded for meaningful contributions on Common. You can earn Aura through onchain actions, governance, and quests.

Grow your network reputation. Learn more in our blog post and start your quests here!

User experience saves lives

Our recent Alpha and Yap with Koby from Coinomi Wallet shed some light on what good UX looks like in crypto.

According to Koby, ease of use is the foundation of a good crypto wallet. The best wallets smoothly integrate education into the product, allowing users to learn while actively using the application. This includes:

• Positive incentivization through game theory design

• Encouraging graphics when users complete actions for the first time

• Integrated support articles and videos throughout the user journey

Read the full blog post for more insights!

Lamumu is here!

Lamumu is our new cow mascot. In the early days of Common, an inside joke developed from the fact that Common sounded like “Cow Moon.” From there, we’ve run with the cow.

Now you can join in on Gmoo culture through our Discord and TG sticker packs.

Community tek is gud tek

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Today we had a nice chat with Coinomi about how they’re making user onboarding into crypto easier through seamless UX and security.

Stay tuned for our convo with Drosera next week over on X.

ZK tech will take over

We recently learned that berryfiable compute may be the future of security. Mash from Boundless shared lots of wisdom on how they’re building a protocol that can verify anything.

Through offchain execution, proof compression, and cost reduction, ZK tech is both focused on privacy and scalability.

Learn more about how you can use ZK tech here.

Where does your project fall?

There are many times when community incentives don’t really motivative people in meaningful ways. Sometimes it erodes trust and literally has ponzi rugpull vibes.

But when incentives are done well, they’re aligned with long term growth and inspire people to work towards common goals.

Top right quadrant for the win.

No spam in sight

If you’re wondering how to stop spam from taking over your community, check out this thread.

Common has admin and moderator tools that allow you to flag posts as spam and moderate based on topics. You can also adjust permissions for content creation.

Ghibli Common version

Coming next: farming Aura on Common + Lamumu…

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The change wasn’t just cosmetic, it represents a commitment to making onchain coordination accessible and powerful for communities.

We saw lots of momentum in 2024, but 2025 is going to be even bigger.

Read the full thread here.

Call for DAO Contributors 📣

We are collaborating with Stargaze and other projects on Common for a book about community and governance learnings!

Brady is gathering insights from Stargaze DAO contributors, so leave a comment on this post if you’d like to share!

Regen is saving the planet through blockchain

Environmental sustainability and crypto isn’t a crossover we see often, but the use case for using web3 is particularly appealing with Regen Network.

In an Alpha and Yap Space with Dave Fortson, Chief Growth Officer of Regen Network, we learned about how they're using blockchain tech to transform ecological asset markets and create meaningful impact for communities worldwide.

Read our latest blog post for the full story.

✨ Aura maxing onchain coming soon ✨

Your aura is very important. It’s the vibe you give off to others, and the influence you can have once you start aura maxing is immense.

Now imagine if you could gain aura from contributing to your community. Real rewards should come from real (and good) contributions.

Stay tuned to learn more about how to gain aura on Common.

The ecosystem is expanding

The Common ecosystem is rapidly expanding, and we have communities ranging from DeFi, infra, NFTs, and more. Take a look 👀

We also hit over 20k communities on Common this week!

You when you get sent a Common referral link

We now have Common Referrals!

Invite your friends to Common to earn rewards ♡

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If you missed our Alpha and Yap space with Dave Fortson from Regen Network, you can listen to the full episode on our podcast!

We learned a ton about ecological assets and special projects such as jaguar conservation that they’ve been working on.

1inch Recognized Delegates Program

1inch is recommending a renewal for the Recognized Delegates Program to promote decentralization and community-led governance for their DAO.

Be sure to check out the proposal here and join in on the convo!

Fan art gallery

We had some fun submissions for our recent Common Fan Art contest. Take a look at some funny ones!

Every hot take is better on Common ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

Imagine this scenario: You have a great idea and you tweet it with the 2 famous words “hot take.” But then what happens?

Either someone calls you out saying it’s not hot it’s ~lukewarm at best~ OR nobody sees it and life goes on.

Instead, you could post your hot take on Common, create a community around it, and then make your amazing ideas a reality. ₊˚⊹♡

Launch an idea, make it real (alongside the 16.5k communities on Common).

Everything is community

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Community builders are important!!

And this has been the case since the very beginning.

It’s also we need platforms like Common that can facilitate meaningful contributions and reward people who are creating great things.

While Discord is often used for community, it’s very limited in terms of actionable steps. People get lost in the noise and can’t really collaborate in ways that go beyond surface-level messages.

On Common, people are having robust discussions about governance and the direction of their communities. Check out communities like 1inch and VITA-FAST for examples.

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Anon PFP debate (it goes kinda deeper?)

This tweet went semi-viral this week and people are having (mostlyy light-hearted) convos about it.

It’s interesting to see this spark so much debate, but it points to how people value their online identities, and often, the community aspect that come along with having a notable PFP.

We all want to feel like a part of something bigger. Or maybe we just want to become self-proclaimed KOLs, so maybe we should doxx ourselves?

Who knows…. Anyways, the power of community is strong, and it seems like people will be fighting to uphold the online community they want to be associated with.

Interesting times on CT as always.

Lawful good mixed with chaotic

Seems legit.

Catch you tomorrow in the weekly recap!

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Monad testnet support

You can now launch a community on Monad Testnet on Common!

We will also support migration to mainnet once it’s out.

Join our Monad community for updates and support.

Trading made easier with Starbase

Starbase positions itself as an advanced DEX aggregator that pulls liquidity from various decentralized exchanges with high TVLs (Total Value Locked) in innovative ways.

Their core mission is clear: to offer traders the best price discovery with minimal human effort.

Check out this recap from our Alpha and Yap Space.

Based Pepe contest

New Farcaster contest with Based Pepe! Post your funniest Based Pepe meme on Farcaster for a chance to win part of the $3k prize pool.

Reminder that you have to hold $PEPE in your wallet before you vote.

Submit here!

(We also have 3 Common contests active: fan art, favorite Common community, and contest ideas. Enter for a chance to win USDC!)

Date idea for this weekend

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We’re kicking off three new Contests on Common. You don’t want to miss out because a.) it’s easy to join in and b.) you could earn USDC. 💸 Only open for the next 5 days!

Sound good? Let’s gooo.

🎨 Contest #1: Common Fan Art

Post some fun art about Common!

🤝 Contest #2: Favorite community

Shill your favorite Common community!

💡 Contest #3: Contest ideas

Help us come up with new Contest ideasss!

Have fun! We can’t wait to see your submissions.

Today we had an insightful chat with Starbase where we helped walk through their community growth strategy and how they can leverage Common. Listen here!

Also, be sure to submit some Common fan art for our latest contest. You could win USDC and Common clout.

Welcome Cortex Protocol 🎊

We're very excited to partner with Cortex, a platform that enables AI agents to interact with blockchain networks.

They already have a proposal up about a loan renewal. Go check it out!

Vote for us on Kaito 🗳️

You can now vote for Common on Kaito’s pre-TGE Yapper Launchpad.

See more details here.

Things we have in Common 🤝

Hermes Omnichain has a new proposal to approve a gauge for the AUSD/USDC 0.3% pool on Arbitrum, partnering with Agio Protocol.

We also saw Kyve start a post about a software upgrade that would merge the consensus and protocol staking layers.

Oraichain is requesting 1.5M ORAI from the DAO Treasury to expand the Foundation Delegation Campaign 2025.

AthenaDAO for women’s health 🧬

One area of health research that’s often overlooked and underfunded is women’s health and fertility, and AthenaDAO is on a mission to change that.

We spoke with Victoria and Jenna from the team to learn more about how they’re bridging this gap. Founded in August 2022, AthenaDAO has quickly established itself as a leader in the DeSci space, with an impressive community of 27,000 members and nearly $1 million in funded research.

Learn more in our latest blog post.

Common ft. Vitalik

Our Head of Growth, Mark, spotted next to Vitalik. He’d probably love us tbh, and you probably will too.

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Common is competing in Defi App’s Degen Arena. Defi App gives you instant x-chain swaps, yield farming, and perps. Check out our team here.

We were also featured by Kaito for their Yapper Launchpad in this announcement.

Now let’s get into this week's community highlights!

Things we have in Common 🤝

LinksDAO was doing the most this past week with their proposal to buy a US golf course in Kansas City, MO.

In the Stargaze community, LiquidityDAO is being sunset and its liquidity management responsibilities will be transferred to Marketplace DAO.

Jellyfish DAO’s first post is about longevity themed movies. Go comment what your favorite longevity based movies are!

Yappers get rewarded 🗣️

This week we saw a lot of activity happening on CT. First off, Kaito’s airdrop went live. Although there were mixed opinions, overall sentiment seemed to lean towards positive… what do you think?

Solana is under fire after Libra’s memecoin disaster, and maybe people are going back to being Ethereum maxis. Maybe.

In the meantime, builders are building as per usual. Monad testnet is live!

Biology research meets DeSci 🧪

We’ve loved seeing all the work coming out of Quantum Bio DAO, and we had a great conversation with the founders this month.

We learned all about how quantum mechanics plays a fundamental role in biology and how DeSci can help accelerate research.

Read our newest blog post for more alpha on what they’re up to.

Community first

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Write a note of onchain appreciation to your crypto crush for a chance to win USDC! Winners will also get invited to a Twitter Space of Love.

💌 Spread the love here. 💌

We’re also running a contest with Ski Mask Dog over on Farcaster. Post your wildest memes and win $SKI. You must hold $SKI in your wallet before you can vote.

Check it out!

Things we have in Common 🤝

In the 1inch community, they’re outlining the development of a $90,000 library for handling gasless, trust-minimized Request for Quote (RFQ) transactions between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Maia DAO seeks approval to allocate 72.88 ETH to fund a one-month Supply Consolidation Program, and ElementDAO wants to continue DELV's engagement for a 6-month period to onboard new yield sources.

Look through more communities here. ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

From the timeline 👀

We saw lots of news on CT this week, starting with Doodles launching their $DOOD token on Solana and OpenSea announcing $SEA token.

Succinct launched their Prover Network Testnet and a way to earn stars for participating.

DeSci continues to grow with Solana posting about their first BioDAO, Curetopia.

A coordinated task is better

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