ApeCoin DAO-N Low #28
To the Bored,
Good evening and thanks for reading the 28th edition of the Bored Ape Gazette’s ApeCoin DAO-N Low newsletter!
As the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the expanded Yugaverse head down south to Miami, Florida for an insane weekend of debauchery and celebrating the two-year anniversary of the Mutant Ape Yacht Club, the next week at the ApeCoin DAO will be anything but boring as a quick election cycle takes place at the Ape Assembly, an $Ape sponsored project hosts an ApeCoin builders contest with 50K $Ape in prizes up for grabs, and an augmented reality AIP is on the ballot!
With so much happening around the DAO, let’s ape into the news and get to the DAO-N low on all things ApeCoin!
To begin, the ApeCoin DAO’s Ape Assembly, a governing body of highly active governance participants within the ApeCoin Ecosystem that was established as part of AIP 239 and controls a monthly budget of $10,000 USD, is voting for its first Spokesperson and Coordinator this week.
The Spokesperson will be the committee’s official representative while the Coordinator will be responsible for note keeping and other backend work. Both the Spokesperson and Coordinator roles will pay 420.69 $Ape per month and the office holders are expected to work 8-10 hours per week, according to the DAO. Take a look at the candidates for each role below:
Spokesperson: Evil (RageOfPotato), Moca_Bond007 (James_LympoDAO) , and BigBull (KapitalCrypto).
Coordinator: I3, Srini (Srinigoes), 1liyah (the1liya), and BoJangleGuy
The window to vote for a Spokesperson and Coordinator for the Ape Assembly is currently open and ApeCoin DAO Contributors who qualify to for the Ape Assembly and have connected their wallet to the ApeCoin DAO’s Discord can cast their votes here: https://snapshot.org/#/apeassembly.eth
$Apes have until August 28th at 11:59 P.M. EST to cast their votes in these races.
As the Ape Assembly committee votes for its first two representatives, the broader ApeCoin DAO is invited to participate in ThankApe’s builders contest and every $Ape holder will get to vote on several ideas to fund in the coming week!
ThankApe, an ApeCoin DAO sponsored project that aims to reward active contributors in the ApeCoin ecosystem, has teamed up with Nouns PropHouse to put on five builders contests and distribute 50,000 $Ape to 60 proposed ideas across the five contests!
$Ape 'Designers, Developers, Influencers, Futurist, and Governance Geeks' are all invited to submit their ideas and projects to ThankApe’s five Prophouse contests here: https://prop.house/thank-ape
The window to enter any of ThankApe’s PropHouse contests closes on August 23rd at 11:59 P.M. EST.
As ThankApe’s builders contest is taking place, the ApeCoin DAO is also voting on an $Ape improvement proposal that aims to make an augmented reality launchpad that will help creators enter the world of AR!
AIP-283, titled 'Ape.AR: The AR Launchpad, Powered by ApeCoin,' is an ecosystem fund allocation proposal written by ApeCoin DAO Contributor and CEO of AR/T HOUSE, Justin Fredericks, also known as JustFred.
“Ape.AR empowers (i) creative entrepreneurs to commercialize their IP (i.e. motion graphic BAYC apparel) with AR, resulting in (ii) a new form of augmented utility for their collectors and (iii) a new use for ApeCoin, which will exclusively power all of the transactions,” JustFred wrote. “This opportunity to integrate cutting edge AR tech, which would otherwise be cost prohibitive for independent entrepreneurs & artists, effectively drives culture forward into a physical-meets-digital, blended reality.”
In total, JustFred is asking the DAO to allocate $300,000 USD to AIP-283. With that money, JustFred will launch his Ape.AR Launchpad and invite community builders to apply to the program. After that, JustFred and his team will select three artists/ builders per quarter over the next year and they will help these builders integrate augmented reality and $Ape into their businesses.
The window to vote on AIP-283 is currently open and $Ape’s have until tomorrow night at 9 P.M. EST to cast their coins and vote on this proposal here: https://snapshot.org/#/apecoin.eth/proposal/0xf634576f2d80dd6c44cb988319d3774c9e2b48f570c93033358c446377c8ac54
With so much voting and work happening around the DAO this week, I’d love to end on a fun note!
After the approval of crypto artist AnnieRawrz's AIP to create a mascot for the ApeCoin DAO earlier this month, she shared several sketches of Discord emoji stickers featuring a potential mascot and asked the community for their input! Check out her sketches below:
“Started collecting ideas for the Apekin Discord sticker set. I don't think it'll be just 15 already going nuts with this... It's so hard to decide!!! What do you guys think? Am I missing anything? Drop your feedback below!!!”
Thank you so much for reading this week’s edition of the ApeCoin DAO-N Low and be sure to follow the Bored Ape Gazette on Twitter to stay up to date with all things $Ape!
Sincerely,
Kyle
Editor-In-Chief
Bored Ape Gazette