Team, at our annual offsite, let’s remind ourselves for why we are building. We are here for the radical change and the 10X impact. If you’d like to drive a team discussion during offsite, write up a full-page essay. There are 20 people in attendence and many matters to deep dive. Writing your ideas – IN PROSE – and sharing them in public, similar to Amazon's executive memos, will be critical for alignment and followups.

On the other hand, read the agenda and reference here before joining the team discussion. There will be small group chats and brainstorming, but we shall keep up a high engagement and drive full consensus at the 20-person time slots.

People (20)

• Stephen, Rongjian, Sahil, Leo, Li, Ganesha
• Peter, Sam Giv, Boris Jack
• PJ, Adrian, Danny
• Hakwan Aaron, Vera, Matt, Fanglin, Zi

$10M Initiatives and 10X Projects

• EVERYONE: Messari's 2022 Crypto Theses
• Stephen: zkDAO for Succinct, Private, Fair Products
• Rongjan: Engineer Productivity & War Mode
• Sahil: Next 3 Years on Infrastructure & NFT
• Leo: Uptime and Scaling for Services
• Li: Invincible Summer with Liquidity & Partners
• Ganesha: ZKProofs for Rollups & Stateless Clients
• Giv: Metrics, Progress & Plans for Grants
• Sam: Metrics, Progress & Plans for DAOs
• Jack: Modular vs. Monolithic Blockchains for Scaling
• Adrian: Stories & Harmony X
• Hakwan: ZKU.one University: Zero-knowledge Products on Mainnet
• Boris: Progress on Crypto Cities
• Zi: Infrastructure for NFT marketplaces
• Aaron: Ethereum’s Formal Verification

2021 Review

• Showcases of “10K Users & $10M Assets”
• 20 DAOs, 100 Grants and 10 Events
• Team Performance Review & Hiring

Agenda

• 12/13 mon
• 12pm: team lunch
• 2pm: team hike
• 6pm (team cooking dinner): 2021 hard lessons, personal AMA
• 12/14 tue
• 10am: team talks on 10x projects, executive AMA
• 1pm: 3-person shards on $10m initiatives
• 6pm (dinner by li's parents): vision, mission & culture
• 12/15 wed:
• 10am: team talks on ecosystem, peers & industry
• 1pm: 2-person shards on product testing
• 6pm (dinner in town): 2022 dreams
• 12/16 thur
• 10am: checkout, team frisbee & soccer
• 12pm (lunch in town): roadmap & strategies
• 2pm: team hike

2022 Q1 Milestones & Deliverables

• Trustless Ethereum Bridge
1Wallet by Timeless0️⃣zkDAO – Succinct, Private, Fair
• 🌊Your Career: To Yearn for the Vast and Endless Web3

Ownership

1. 💙 Stephen Tse: vision, strategy, roadmap
2. 🛡 Rongjian Lan: protocol, staking, crytography
3. 🏃 Leo Chen: system, technical partners, NFT
4. 🎽 Li Jiang: operations, roadmap, DAOs
5. 🏏 Ganesha Upadhyaya: bridges, SDK, research
6. 🛹 Peter Abilla: partnership, community, DeFi
7. 🌲 Sam Harrison: DAOs, events, community partners
8. ☁️ Giv Parvaneh: grants, products, operations
9. ⏳ Zi Wang: brands, product design, user experience
10. 🍠 Aaron Li: security, smart contracts, cryptography
11. 🐺 Dan Boyden: community, moderator, social media
12. 🏀 PJ Conley: social media, newsletter, events
13. 🚗 Boris Polania: cross-chain, fixed-rate, events
14. 🐍 Jack Chan: validators, product partners, grants
15. 🎥 Adrian Robison: videos, brands, storytelling
16. ⚔️ Nita "Soph" Neou: nodes, services, network releases
17. 🌻 Yuriy Menkov: BTC bridge, staking, Javascript
18. 🎸 Jenya Piskunov: wallets, explorer, indexer
19. 🎙 Jacky Wang: state sync, RPC, NFT & DeFi

What to Learn from Peer Projects

Solana, Avalance, *Polygon, Terra, Near, Fantom

Terra: The DeFi Giant Reaching Mainstream Adoption

The depositor puts in $100 and expects to receive $20 in savings interest in a year The borrower puts down $200 worth of LUNA as collateral and borrows up to $100 at 50% LTV. This $100 is supplied by the depositor's funds. The LUNA is staked by Anchor and the staking rewards go to Anchor.

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Polygon: A Polymorphic Approach to Scaling Ethereum

Polygon is a front-runner in the Ethereum scaling war, but with rollup solutions on the way, will Polygon be able to hold on to its recent value gains? It's answer could lie in its recent pivot to become a layer 2 aggregator.

messari.io

Speculation and The Smart Contract Wars

Smart contract platforms are once again the center of speculation with asset prices soaring over the past month. Are their sky high valuations rational? An exploration of smart contract platforms and valuation.

messari.io

Action Items

“Invincible Summer with Liquidity & Partners” by Li

1. Olympus DAO on Harmony (Peter Q1)
2. ETHDenver (LiQ1)
3. Tooling (Graph, Explorer, etc.) (Giv Q1)
4. Coordination with Creative/Inventor DAO (Sam Jan. 22)
5. Work with Launchpads (Sam Q1)
6. Partner Highlights (Abhi Q1)
7. Exchange Hitlist (Li Jan. 22)
8. Grantee Token Swap (Hakwan Jan. 22)
9. Meme DAO (Adrian Q1)
10. Website Refresh (Adrian Q1)

Next 3 Years on Infrastructure & NFT by Sahil:

1. Timeless wallet (Sam 100k users by ETHdenver)
2. Mobile wallet launch (Hakwan Jan 22)
3. Ethdenver burner wallet for food And get users (Peter before ETHdenver)
4. 88 Rising MVP (Sam/Adrian 1/22)
5. 3 gaming app candidates (peter q1)
6. 1 flagship NFT marketplace (Jack and Giv 1/22)
7. Art chains - immutable (Ganesha q1)

Metrics, Progress & Plans for Grants by Giv:

1. Find a developer that gets 4 strong Yes votes. This person needs to be someone that will be here for the long haul that will be a strong team member, not just someone that we can bring on to solve a current problem.
2. Send harmony.one/yearn to at least 1 friend before dinner.
3. Events Data Base (Li Q1)
4. Spotlight Report for Grants (Giv Jan)

🌊 Yearn for Vast and Endless Sea