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Guidelines
- Everyone must self-assess quarterly achievements along with their 3 areas of focus and resource allocation. e.g.
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🏃 Leo Chen 💙: 50% technical partners, 25% system, 25% NFT/Metaverse
In Q1 I led the Rosetta validation process with our partners...
- All Contributors require 2 strong YESes from the core team every month. Required to renew employment. Prefix performance reviews with "STRONG YES...".
- All Fellows require 4 strong YESes from the core team every quarter. Required to renew employment. Prefix performance reviews with "STRONG YES...". e.g.
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☁️ STRONG YES: I want to thank Victa for his efforts on Explorer as well as...
- All Core must write 4+ feedback for others on the team every quarter (encouraged monthly).
- All Fellows must write 3+ feedback for others on the team every quarter (encouraged monthly).
- All Contributors must write 2+ feedback for others on the team every quarter. (encouraged monthly).
- Managers must write monthly feedback for every person they manage and end with areas of improvement for the following month. e.g.
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🎽 Peter did a great job on partnerships… Next month I'd like him to improve on…
- Everyone should include a review of their own manager and ask for help in specific areas. e.g.
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🔭 Giv helped me with … Next month I’d like more guidance from him on...
Jump to: 25 Core Team — 17 Full Fellows — 18 Half-Time Contributors — 6 Part-Time Contributors — 6 Quarter-Time Contributors
🔟Harmony’s 1-2-10X Initiatives at Offsite
🏗️2022 June Onsite: War Mode on User Growth
📖Team Performance Review & Bonus – Q1 2022
25 Core Team ☁
🛡 Rongjian Lan 💙: 50% protocol, 30% staking, 20% cryptography
- ☁️ RJ's Twitter update about the state of the protocol was received very well. I'd like to encourage RJ to do this once a month and keep the community informed and excited.
- 🎽 I hope to see Rongjian lead more public communication on our technology and platform. We have always been building core platform and Rongjian can be the one who helps the engineering and communications team to 10x growth on our weekly technical communication and industry leadership.
- 🎽 We also really need Rongjian to help the engineers to converge on team communication and operations including clearly writing their deliverables so that it can be understood by community and for his engineering sub-team to finish monthly process on time (nurture & mentor). The deliverable should follow the guidelines.
6️⃣: Design Cross-Shard HRC20, Cross-chain landscape research, Finish cross-shard protocol change. 🏃 Leo Chen 💙: 50% technical partners, 25% system, 25% NFT/Metaverse
- ☁️ Leo's focus on the decentralization roadmap is enormously important. I appreciate Leo's commitment to this area and I would like to see us push for a path to decentralization even faster. I am also impressed and excited by Leo's focus on the game shard and bringing actual usage and utility to our other shards.
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Leo for helping map out how NFT projects can work together across games in the Blue Metaverse ecosystem, and for putting me in touch with promising projects.
- 🐯 Thanks Leo referring solid candidates. At a startup, recruitment is a team effort and every one is a recruiter. Even the CEO should be a chief recruiter. I look to Leo to continue support the recruiting effort, e.g. post the job biweekly on LinkedIn/Twitter.
- 🎽 On team communication and operations, I would ask Leo to still be the role model for all of our engineers by writing your own deliverables and helping his entire subteam (make everyone shine). The deliverable should follow the guidelines.
- 🎽 I look to Leo to keep driving network decentralization and our own cloud cost reduction. I would expect Leo to report out publicly on our monthly progress on cloud cost and network decentralization (make tough decisions).
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Leo for thoughtful review of proposals for offsite and for coming up with ideas for improving Harmony NFT marketplaces.
🎽 Li Jiang 💙: 50% operations, 40% roadmap, 10% DAOs
- 💃🏻 Li has been a stalwart leader over operations (and events). With intention, Li provides tools for success and resources to grow. As a result, our operations teams have flourished in the last few months, and I want to acknowledge that our leadership is what nourished that success. 🎽
- 🐇 I would like to commend Li for constantly maintaining a positive attitude and working to encourage others on the team to always be better. Li is always eager to share literature & philosophic concepts with the team to try and help us improve. At the offsite, Li took the time to have a 1-on-1 conversation with me to teach me about Stoicism, he recommended the book “The Obstacle is the Way”, and taught me that “you can’t control what happens to you in life, only how you respond to it.” At the time, this simple talk helped me tremendously. Never underestimate the power of positivity, or taking the time to have a meaningful discussion with someone. The only thing I’d like ask from Li in the future is improved written communication (i.e., elaborating when writing messages to avoid miscommunication). 🎽
- 🎤 Li continues to inspire me. He always takes the time to help those around him makes those around him feel valued and important. In such short time, his 10x Empathy initiative is already setting the stage for our team to prioritize self-care and care for each other. Li is incredibly wise and manages a never-ending workload, yet remains consistent, positive, and humble. I am always delighted to learn from his leadership. 🎽
- 🛹 Li continues to be devoted and committed to Harmony and is a clear role model in that respect. In most situations, Li almost always supports, without question, Stephen’s thoughts, opinions, and declarations. I’d encourage Li to have his own point of view more. 🎽
- 🦒 Wanted to commend Li for tremendous work aligning team's execution with strategy at and after the offsite; for fostering communication through centralized goal and progress sharing; for his thoughts on my marketing proposals; and for being a personal inspiration through times with good and hard news. 🎽
- 🎥 Li is a great mentor and really helped a ton with this month’s offsite in regards to focus and keeping everyone engaged. His insight from his VC background is super valuable to learn from. Li is a faucet of knowledge that never runs dry. 🎽
🏏 Ganesha Upadhyaya 🛡: 70% bridges, 20% research, 10% SDK
- 🛡 Ganesha’s continuous pushing on the btc and eth bridges is critical to the growth of liquidity and new users in the Harmony ecosystem. Even with the newborn baby, he still was able to allocate lots of time on the bridges he own and make good progress. It shows the strong dedication and ownership which is inspiring on the whole engineering team. Ganesha is also the most experienced engineer to understand what developers need and what’s their pain points. Ganesha can really help improve the developer relationship and overall improve our developers experience.
- 📱 Ganesha has great leadership skills and always provides the correct solutions to solve problems. He has a good eye on the security side and is devoted to btc and eth bridges. His guidance was really helpful to push forward the project and launch the vault incentive feature on time. Looking forward to working with him on more projects.
- 🐯 Ganesha is very supportive in talent acquisition and always provide interview feedbacks timely. I look to Ganesh to continue support the recruiting effort.
- 🛡 I am glad that Ganesha finally got a chance to take some days off to take care of the new born baby and his family. Even during days off, he still managed to join meetings regularly and follow company initiatives closely. He still manages the bridge team to push for trustless eth and btc bridges in a orderly manner.
🌻 Yuriy Menkov 🏏: 70% bridges, 20% staking, 10% support
- 🏏 During the months of march and april, two major bridge hacks happened (wormhole, ronin axie) and yuriy was able to assess the security of our horizon bridge and deploy additional monitoring and improve the overall security. These entail migrating the bridge backend and frontend to use 3-out-of-4 bridge validators (instead of 2-of-out-3), working with external validators on security, to name a few. Yuriy is also working closely with our bridge support person (valeria) in terms of resolving the tickets, of which, several issues required deeper analysis and proposed right solution. Further, yuriy manages the btc-bridge-vaults discord channel, answering questions and helping vaults to resolve stuck transactions. This discord is very active and lively with vaults asking questions all the time.
- 🏏 In the month of May, yuriy mainly focused on bitcoin bridge feature implementations. Starting with vault staking, which was flawless execution where vaults can stake their ONE collateral and once every 2 weeks collect the ONE reward automatically from their vault management dashboard. Vault’s (total 30+) highly appreciated this feature of the bridge. Further, yuriy also worked on adding additional monitoring for vault under-collateral, liquidation feature for frontend and vault replacement features. Meanwhile, yuriy has also release several improvements to vault client (software run by the vaults), as many as 17 versions are released and helped most vaults to upgrade in the timely manner. I am looking forward to yuriy owning the bitcoin bridge fully (not only frontend and clients, but also the smart contracts) and proposing (of course with my help) a roadmap for rest of this year.
🛹 Peter Abilla 🎽: 70% GameFi, 20% partnership, 10% community
4️⃣: (10 days off): Close 3 deals (XYZZY, Kart Racing, 5x5), Value proposition for key verticals (GameFi, DeFi, NFT), Execute engagements with RG & PQ. 100/80/95% - 🎽 Peter did very well to finish and announce 3 gaming partnerships from the gamer developer conference (accomplish important work).
- 🎽 Peter has strong experience and opinions about the industry. I would ask Peter to also consider the alternate viewpoints as well as the global needs of the whole team (disconfirm own beliefs). 🛹
- 🎽 Be mindful of your communications to the team. If you forward a message to a group without an explanation, it may seem that you are endorsing the full content and the sentiment in that message (make everyone shine). The team look to you for leadership and support so what you say and how you say it both have enormous impact. 🛹
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Peter for his great help in conceiving use cases for interoperability the Blue Metaverse, for suggesting most promising projects, and for his thoughts about how bigger games can slot in to our ecosystem.
- 🐇 Peter has gained my appreciation and respect after hearing him talk at the offsite. He put a lot of work into his game studio proposal, and I felt that lead to one of the most productive conversations that we had at the offsite. I felt a lot more knowledgeable (and excited) about on-chain games as a whole after hearing him talk. One valuable lesson he’s taught us is: know when to say no.
- 🎤 I respect Peter tremendously. He is pragmatic, direct, and understands where to allocate time/resources in the best way to make our biggest impact. I am often idealistic and have often called Peter my north star, as he offers a perspective that is often very different from my own, which helps me see the pragmatic side of things more clearly. He has taught me the value of saying no, when appropriate, and focusing on the big picture to maximize our impact.
- 🐉 Peter is a 1-man Special Ops for Harmony, and I’m so glad he’s taking on the game initiatives and culture partnerships. His hyper focused approach is building a huge swell of momentum going into Q3 and Q4 of this year. Best of all, he calls out all-the-things as it is, which is what the team exactly needs: effective and efficient.
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Peter for his always-welcome and unfettered takes on the viability of Harmony ecosystem projects, and especially for his advocation and roadmap for areas of focus which will have the most genuine impact.
- 🌲 I am constantly impressed by Peter’s ability to make connections and bring in valued partnerships. He understand both sides of the table better than anyone I know and is a powerhouse when it comes to finding alignment and building consensus. We could not be in a better place going into Q3 and Q4 with Peter at the helm of the gaming initiative.
- 🎽 Peter’s individual push on gaming has been critical to get our team focused on this particular area. I would like to see Peter bring insights and leadership in times of change for the rest of the team (nurture & mentor).
- 🎥 Peter is the 10x factor that Harmony needs to succeed. He has been instrumental in closing deals with partners and his laser focus on gaming will pay off big in the end to increase users, adoption, and transactions.
- 🔭 Peter is a logical and skeptical voice of reason backed by years of experience and wisdom in this space, and I’m happy to know he’s spearheading our push to foster a stronger presence in gaming / GameFi.
6️⃣: Establish game guild with daily stand-ups, Close 1 studio partnership, NFT NYC business development with 3 partners (not disclosed). 🎸 Jenya Piskunov 🏏: 50% explorer, 30% indexer, 20% multisig
- 🏏 In the month April, I was partially managing jenya (@Giv Parvaneh would love your feedback too, as previous manager). Jenya worked on building relayer and proof clients for our upcoming trustless eth bridge. Also other components like frontend and statistics dashboard. These are not yet fully functional, but very concrete progress towards the launch. Jenya is also owner of two other most widely used products: the explorer and the multisig. He regularly works on improving them with features.
- 🏏 It was difficult month for jenya with things happening in his country and the move, yet jenya was always available to address any emergencies. While continuing to add more features and improve the two products (block explorer and multisig), jenya had to dive deep for analyzing multisig service interruption and also a carefully audit of the feature upgrades that were done in the gnosis safe github repo to figure out if any critical features are not forward ported to our multisig (which is a fork of gnosis safe). When the things resolve and become better, I encourage jenya to participate more on cross-team initiatives in terms of collaborating and providing valuable feedbacks.
🌲 Sam Harrison 🎽: 70% DAOs, 20% Community Partnerships, 10% Events
- 🎽 I want to recognize Sam for his focus this month and long-time crafts on iterating and learning about the DAO ecosystem. He’s attracted strong contributors to our DAO operations team by prioritizing people over process.
- 🎽 Sam can do more on obsess over details by facilitating the written communication practices of our team. Specifically, help his sub-team and projects write their April updates with links per our guidelines before I do it. Also I already gave this feedback, but make sure the processes you run and meetings your organize are relevant to our needs - we don’t need 4 core team on a call to get an update that could actually be better as a written update which can be read and consumed by all 25 team + many more contributors/community.
- 📖 I want to recognize Sam for always looking out for his team. Even as he took well-deserved personal time off, Sam actively supported the DAO Ops team during a critical time in the ecosystem’s development. He is the best mentor I have ever had.
- 🐇 I’d like to express my tremendous gratitude and appreciation for Sam. As a mentor, and as a team leader, his skill set is unparalleled. I wouldn’t be where I am today had it not been for his dedication to our DAO Ops team. He’s taught me to work hard, but also to remember to enjoy the work you do, have fun and make light of situations. The sense of humor & good energy he brings to our calls is really awesome (always there to crack Dad jokes and make others laugh when needed, but also knows when to be serious and get work done). He knows his stuff and is an extremely hard working. Sam really cares about Harmony and his team, & I am lucky to have had him as a mentor.
- 🎤 Sam is an incredible human being and leader. This month was challenging for Sam and the DAO team, but they each handled the DAO pivot and community sentiment with such grace, humility, and positivity. I think they have done an incredible job preparing for the coming years of DAOs. Sam has also been managing some personal things, yet stays focused on leading his team and has never allowed his personal stress to affect his work or his attitude. He stays incredibly positive, focused on serving his team.
- 🛹 Sam does his best with what he’s given. Q2 was difficult for him and his team given the negative sentiment with our approach to DAO’s, but he and his team executed with heart, care, and did their very very best. I applaud Sam and team for their hard work and execution.
- 🎽 I would like to see Sam help the team learn more insights on DAO adoption, in written summaries, across the entire industry and what we can learn and how we can position ourselves for 10x growth.
- 🏃 Sam can be more responsive in the team communication. I sometimes don’t know how to reach to Sam and get response in telegram.
6️⃣: DAO learning (written & video), Game shard case study, Establish studio partner pipeline to close 2 partners (M & C). ☁️ Giv Parvaneh 🎽: 40% operations, 30% communications, 30% products
In Q2 I focused on two specific areas to prepare for my potential role realignment as Head of Product and Communications. I took ownership of our 2022 roadmap and ensured alignment with the broader vision at Harmony. Updated our launch schedule and website and worked with the Trustless ETH Bridge team to project manage and ensure a timely launch. Working closely with Kelly, I have helped kickstart a pipeline for launch announcements and PR campaigns as well as interviewing and evaluating a new PR firm. I helped roll out integrations with The Graph and prominent centralized exchanges. Additionally, I have played a big role in internal operations further optimizing monthly deliverables, All Hands, and performance reviews.
- 🎽 Giv is formally considered for promotion as the head of products and communication. Rongjian, Leo, Li, Peter, Ganesha, Sam, Jack, Adrian and Matt have set Q2 deliverables for Giv in early April to evaluate his eligibility over three months.
- 🏏 My expectations for Giv's promotion is that he produce representative examples along:
- Product revival: analyze current products and propose improvement strategies to revive them (outcomes: report of shortcomings, improvement proposal, resource allocation, prioritization, revival roadmap).
- Product framework: drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for upcoming products (outcomes: go to market strategies, external communication, roadmap, resource management, metrics of success)
- Product opportunities: identify product opportunities (on what we should be building) by market research and propose attainable scope for our settings (outcomes: market research report w/ feasibility analysis).
- ☁️ Thank you Ganesha. 1) This is my desired approach - to have a holistic understanding and ownership of all of our products and constantly assess our roadmap and prioritization. 2) GTM strategy is key. We haven’t typically done a great job following through with launches. I’m aiming to work with our comms/marketing team to better understand and maximize our success metrics. 3) There is a lot of innovation happening, especially now during the market downturn. It’s a good opportunity to research and identify new products to bring impact to the ecosystem.
- 🏃 My expectation is mostly focusing on the product strategy and roadmap. The outcome is the strategy document, plan, or roadmap narrative.
- Internal products: How to balance the internal product launch with the externalization? What would be the balance to launch internal product vs externalization? For externalization, I would like to see an updated plan.
- Products launching in the next 6-12 months: What’s the overall launch plan for the upcoming 1wallet and 20% income product? In addition to those, I would like to see a research and plan for the payment gateway product which can fully utilize the potentials of Harmony.
- Platform as product: Harmony provides the infrastructure and blockchain service as the main product. What would be best platform features to launch such like ZK primitives and what’s the marketing strategy for existing features, such like VRF, and staking precompiles? An executable plan and action items are expected.
- ☁️ Thanks, Leo. Internal/external balance is something I would like to be very mindful of. I don’t think we want to manage many product internally due to lack of resources and longer decentralization goals. I’m hoping through DAOs, Guilds, and Partnerships we can strike a healthy balance of utility and decentralization. We do need to better manage our roadmap also as well as understanding how to best launch/utilize our valuable native offerings like VRF, staking precompiles.
- 🎽 My expectations for Giv:
- Monthly product launch with campaign: prioritizes and choose which product(s) to launch every month. He resolves all the dependencies and bottlenecks with engineers. makes hard trade off on which features to ship and which to cut.
- Giv coordinates a communication plan with a calendar of dates and time for announcements and follow up campaigns.
- Monthly launches would be for key initiatives that the core team is working on such as trustless ETH, BTC bridge, fixed income, cross-shard transactions.
- Weekly partner product launches like Aave, Chainstack. Coordinate with the partners date and time of launch, including details on when rewards would start, and leads the team or his subteam to make the maximum impact on community.
- ☁️ Thanks, Li. Timing campaigns, launches, partnerships will be key to maximize impact and growth. I’m hoping to work closely with our PR/marketing team to create a comprehensive comms calendar for surgical campaigns to ensure all our internal launches + partnership announcements yield max results.
- 🛡 I expect Giv to step up as a true leader to help the company win in critical moments in community relationship and product direction.
- As a head of product, I would like Giv to have a clear product roadmap written out with more insights and reasoning about why certain products are needed or changed. So far his work on product are mostly in maintenance phase such as migration or sunsetting. Head of product should step up on higher level with more visionary thinking and thought leadership.
- As head of communication, Giv should bridge what happened in Harmony and what the community demands, planning communication efforts such as weekly or monthly summary, writing PR responses to critical community feedback or FUDs, coordinating with the core team to react to and address community’s questions.
- ☁️ Thank you, RJ. 1) I have already taken ownership of our product roadmap and implemented clearer quarterly launch dates. As I mentioned above, my goal is to go deep on not only our own products but assessing what other projects are doing to better plan for future product initiatives. 2) I am working closely with Daniel, Kelly, and community leaders to keep track of feedback, FUD, and general questions to earn trust.
- 🛹 I’d like Giv to own the product development process end-to-end. That means product inception and working with Peter and others on market research, managing the sprints, product launch and product marketing, adoption, and growth, and maintenance and customer experience.
- 🛹 At the beginning of the quarter, it seemed like Giv would be doing more product-related work, but it appears he’s also doing a lot of team management and overall overhead-type of activities. If that will continue, then I am concerned about his ability to focus on product. I believe Giv is qualified and ready to take on product in a way that will help Harmony lead and will help optimize each product launch for maximum exposure and success. But, if he continues to do team management, that will hinder his ability to be successful on the product side.
- ☁️ Thanks, Peter. I agree that operations are currently taking up most of my time which would deter me from going deep on products. My aim is to simplify and delegate operations as much as possible so over time I can shift more of my time over to product management.
- 🎤 My expectations for Giv:
- Establish himself as the head of products and communication to the community, detailing product roadmap, addressing community sentiments through weekly/biweekly PR reports, ensuring our “why” for all initiatives is always clear to the community, ensuring our team directives are aligned to each other and to the community.
- ☁️ Thank you, Matty. I will be working closely with Kelly, our PR team, and community leaders to tell a clearer story about the “why” and “how” of Harmony’s value proposition.
- 🎥 My expectations for Giv:
- Giv Q2 communication expectations: Gain consensus on a retail facing website SEO. Develop an information flow that protects the integrity of our transparency but also protects the integrity of our brand and partners. Work with PR firms to gate high impact stories with a systematic flow of information for maximum impact.
- Giv Q2 improvements: Needs to integrate time for the team to actually be creative and come to consensus on product direction…. We must know what we are building before we build it. Always have an answer for the “Why?”
- ☁️ Thank you, Adrian. My goal is to go deep on product and communications. They are tightly related since we need to be able to follow through on product announcements, education of the community, and timing PR/press releases. As part of all of this, we have to ensure we have a clear product roadmap and unified vision which I have been working on.
- 🎽 I’d like to ask Giv to help make everyone shine in learning team communications. I suggest he first show his subteam how best to fully finishing the monthly team updates and then spread that to the rest of the core, fellows and contributors.
- 🎥 Giv has been super valuable in helping steer the conversation into better Comms and Marketing. In addition to that, his insight on helping me understand guilds has helped a bunch.
- 🔭 How Giv finds the time to work on everything currently on his plate is a mystery to me. I’ve worked closely with Giv for a few months now and I’m still impressed by his ability to a) be everywhere and b) be successful at it. From working on the website, to refreshing our roadmap, to assisting Jeremy, Matt B., and Logan on publishing the ONEWeekly on YouTube and Medium in my absense; Giv is there for the team and Harmony in ways that are invaluable to the project. He’s the right person to lead our products and I’m looking forward to seeing what else Giv delivers in the next month.
- 🎬 Giv has been instrumental in helping internal communications improve, as well as brand messaging. We have already begun coordinating better since the offsite and will continue to improve.
⚔️ Nita "Soph" Neou 🏃: 25% nodes, 50% services, 25% network releases
- 🏃: Soph leads all the conversation and support to important exchange partners and validators. He handled lots of on-call issues. He is a hidden hero of the team.
- 🏓 : Soph helped me build a local testnet step by step, greatly improving my develop/test efficiency, otherwise HIP16 develop/test efficiency would be very low.
- 🐉 Soph has begun to delegate more to his new teammates, which allows him to begin looking at the big picture. I’d urge Soph to continue in this direction, focusing of delivering via automation, documentation, cost reductions, re-architecture together with his teammates. Being remote, it would help to proactively propagate high-impact priorities deliverables to be shared across the entire leadership team.
- 🐯 Soph is easy to work with on interview scheduling and provide feedback quickly. I look to Soph to continue support the recruiting effort, e.g. post the job biweekly on LinkedIn/Twitter.
- 🏃: Glad Soph can take some time off in May to relief stress and accompany the family. We all miss him when he is off. :-) The testnet down issue becomes a problem now, needs closer collaboration with the community.
- 🛡 I appreciate the dedication and all the extra hours Soph put on our operational tasks and all the handling of issues from partners, validators and developers. I can’t emphasize more on the importance of the work done by Soph. I hope Soph can keep the work life balance better and start transferring him knowledge to the new ops team to share the load.
- ♏️ Soph is the first one who I worked with at Harmony. I really enjoyed working with him and learned a lot from him. I can’t believe how lucky I am to have a great colleague like him in my timezone. Soph brings a lot of positivity to the work and I was blown away by his contributions during last month. We enjoyed his contribution during the 4 training sessions. Thanks a lot for that.
🚗 Boris Polania 🏏: 60% fixed-rate, 30% events, 10% ZKU
- 🏏 Boris managed the end-to-end product launch of the fixed-income product. While the product launch didn’t go through due to changed circumstances, I consider Boris’s contribution very valuable and helped demonstrate his ability to consider all aspects of product launch. In the month of April, boris also helped ZKU students with their projects, mainnet launch, and next steps.
- ⛵ It was good to have Boris’s help on ZKU.
- 📖 I want to recognize Boris for his help at ETH Portland. He was able to perfectly balance his work while provide assistance to hackers over the three-day event.
- ☁️ Boris did a great job getting the fixed income app across the line. Even though we didn’t end up releasing the product, Boris worked hard with front-end and backend teams to make sure the product is shipped on time.
- 🎤 Boris continually goes above and beyond expectations. For months, he has made himself available to the operations and events teams to provide guidance, assist partners, and participate in speaking engagements. When something is needed, Boris is always among the first to support those around him.
- 🏏 In the month of May boris was asked to focus on trustless eth bridge, specifically the goal was to understand the bridge end-to-end by writing unit tests for various smart contracts and running the CLI to understand the flow. Boris did a great job there. Further, due to his expertise in ZK, boris worked on the design ZK lightclient for the upcoming trustless bridge. The design is not fully reviewed yet, however he did a great job on picking up the tasks and making considerable progress on them. I encourage boris to find several initiatives that he can fully own and drive the launch going forward to next month and q3/q4.
🐉 Jack Chan 🎽: 20% grants, 50% partnerships, 30% cloud ops
- 🎽 I want to recognize Jack for his effort to nurture & mentor our ecosystem team. Jack is thoughtful and systematic, organizing processes that help us grow and help make everyone shine.
- 🎽 Jack is driving many initiatives. I would like to suggest he focus on just a few areas that can bring us 10x growth, potentially that could be on fiat onramps and go deep to push us onto 10 more platforms and gateways. Additionally, I encourage Jack to make tough decisions on our cloud usage and help push decisions and changes even if you feel like you are not the main architect.
- 💃🏻 Jack has a gift for organizing! Jack leads our grants team with care and dedication, always making it more efficient and scalable. He has been an asset to each of us on the team and continues to find solutions to improve our processes.
- 🎤 Jack has been an incredible support for me. In just one short talk with Jack during a moment I felt burnout, I felt renewed and focused with an actionable plan to improve my workflow to decrease my burnout. Thank you, Jack. That was a special moment for me. Jack manages many initiatives, and has been a great leader for our grant ops team - always pushing our process forward to maximize the value to our team and ecosystem.
- 🛹 Jack continues to work hard on behalf of Harmony. I’d encourage Jack to focus - at times he appears to be doing everything, everywhere, all the time, for everyone, with everyone, by everyone, all over the place. Thankfully Jack continues to execute despite the lack of focus, and I encourage Jack to focus on the few super important things for which he’s especially good at doing.
- ☁️ Jack is a swiss army knife and will have a positive impact no matter which area he focuses on. I feel Jack’s valuable skills are tied up managing grants and would instead like to see him be more involved with developer relations and to prepare our ecosystem to welcome new developers.
- 🐯 Jack helped create the engineering team onboarding process. Very helpful. He also has deep thinking in recruiting process improvement. I look to Jack to continue support the recruiting effort, e.g. post the job biweekly on LinkedIn/Twitter.
- 🎽 Jack is covering many projects on harmony.one/may and doesn’t have the bandwidth to finish. I suggest he can focus on how to make deeper impact while assigning ownership to other teammates for the rest (activity < productivity).
🎥 Adrian Robison ☁️: 50% Content, 30% Events, 20% Branding
- 🎽 For your April deliverables: below expectation on team communications. Per team guidelines, you must add a public deliverable document to each item and scope the deliverables to reach 270% completion by 4/30.
- ☁️ While events are important, I feel our products, partner launches, and branding are being neglected. It definitely feels your time spent on 30% Event allocation is much higher than that. I’d like to see less on events and more on product marketing initiatives that will bring us 10x growth.
- ⛵ Wanted to thank Adrian (& Danny) for helping to make our promote video for ZKU.
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Adrian for sharing his creative ideas in defining use cases for a Blue Metaverse.
- 🎬 Adrian was a beast this month as always. As the creative lead, Adrian was instrumental in putting our creative team together. I believe he has chosen the right people to put us in the right place to succeed.
- 🎤 Adrian has assembled a great team of creatives that have already made a huge impact. Adrian continues to be a massive workhorse; his effort and impact remains unparalleled. Adrian is a Swiss army knife, making an impact in every initiative. I admire his passion and ability to think outside of the box on team discussions.
- ☁️ Adrian’s energy and enthusiasm is unmatched at Harmony. Always learning, always experimenting, and always thinking outside the box to come up with creative ways to increase Harmony’s brand and presence.
- 🐉 Adrian has taken quite a hit from a number of events but continues to plough forward, capturing the feeling from our boots-on-the-ground efforts in the highest quality and impactful narrative.
5️⃣: ONEConference Proposal (Venues & Metrics), 1Wallet treatments (security & social), Post-onsite interviews (cross-shard & elastic endpoints). 100/100/100% - 🔭 Thank you for being driven to deliver top quality content and understanding that details matter. Your continual push to raise the bar in our content, communication, and pretty much everything we do as a team is greatly appreciated. With regards to May, it was a pleasure to work alongside Adrian as he filmed the team for post-onsite interviews and helped coach them along the way. Thank you for looping me into some of your calls this month - it was great to sync up and meet your team.
- 🎬 Adrian is invaluable asset to the team in many ways. He took initiative to do a proper scout for potential ONEConference venues. Additionally, Adrian always contributes immensely in creative brainstorms, helping lockdown ideas for the 1wallet treatments. Furthermore, he promptly got to work on offsite initiatives for content by filming interviews before the end of the month.
- ☁️ Adrian and team continue to get better and stronger. The quality of the content is improving dramatically and the community is responding very well to them. For next month, I’d like to see Adrian do even less on other initiatives and go deep on planning for ONEConference. Let’s lock down the venue next month and start planning the rest.
6️⃣: ONEConference venue (book + plan of show), Audience specific social media channels (main & talk), Principle footage for 1Wallet commercial. ⚽️ Abhishek Purushotham 🔭: 60% social media, 25% content marketing, 15% newsletters
- 🐯 Thanks Abhi for tweeting the job opening. I look to Abhi to continue support the recruiting effort.
- 🔭 Abhi did a fantastic job with the technical articles he wrote and published this month. His open communication is greatly appreciated especially knowing that our primary work hours eat into his personal/down time. I’m looking forward to working with Abhi to delivering even more to the public and our community.
🔭 Daniel Pagan ☁️: 30% Community, 40% Technical Content, 30% Ambassadors
- 🦒 Wanted to thank Daniel for continually proactively weighing in to make sure that our messaging around Blue Metaverse aligns with community sentiment.
- 📖 I want to recognize Daniel for his attention to our community, especially when it comes to crafting our messages to the community and the OneWeekly video series. Bravo!
- 💃🏻 Daniel is a force we need to reach our community, and I wanted to highlight his success and care for this mission. Daniel has been an immense support and asset to the success of the ambassadors, and he continually seeks solutions to the barriers they face.
- 🎬 Daniel deserves a lot of praise for helping introducing the ONEWeekly videos. It is great to have someone on the team who understands the community and can give us the feedback we need.
- 🎥 Amazing job collaborating and executing ONEWeekly. Your script writing has really helped push communication initiatives forward, something we really needed.
- 🎤 I want to commend Daniel on his ability to engage with the community. It’s no easy job to manage sentiment on community message boards, but Daniel has done a truly excellent job in communicating with the community, being direct and graceful in his approach. The ONEWeekly series is a fantastic initiative.
- 🛹 Daniel is doing great with external communication and is an accurate steward for community sentiment. I encourage Daniel to continue to do so, and also provide possible solutions in order to change community sentiment. To a degree, the ONEWeekly was a response to the sentiment that Harmony doesn’t communicate enough. I recommend more of these tangible solutions to problems brought up by the community. Great job in Q2.
- ☁️ Daniel has managed to bring much-needed confidence and trust to the community through his constant engagement and producing high quality/thoughtful content such as ONEWeekly videos. He is a trusted member of the community and needs no hand-holdoing to get the job done. I truly appreciate having Daniel on the team.
- Daniel has been a phenomenial mentor to me working on the ONEWeekly newsletter and scripts for Logen. He brings a great technical grasp as well as fresh approach to communicating with the community which I believe has been extremely well received through the AMA’s, videos and his constant ability to engage on our socials.
- ⚽️ Daniel has been great in dealing with the community sentiment and aligning our messaging on external communications. The ONEweekly campaigns has had good impact and we must definitely build more campaigns that are in line with the community sentiment. Daniel has been influential in making the team understand and realise how Blue Metaverse and BAYC was perceived by the community and putting these campaigns on a pause is the best course of action we could have taken at the moment. He is also a great mentor and keeps me in the loop with the strategic decisions taken by team during TGIs and off site where I cannot be present.
- 🐉 You put your life into your work, and it shows, most recently with the initiatives kicked off from Harmony ONE Weekly. That’s a LOT of sacrifice and the level of diligence and customer obsession is bar none. I hope (and have seen signs) that you scale yourself by coach others to do what you do best, and continue to build towards that, to help keep your momentum while having a better work-life balance.
- 🐯 Daniel is a good listener and a believer of community first. He really care about community’s voice.
- 🎥 Pagan has been very instrumental in helping craft the right scripts and narratives for our videos. I personally had his assistance in crafting teleprompter scripts for future content. Pagan gets it when it comes to Comms. He is a true leader on everything retail facing.
- 🎬 It has been great working more with Pagan by collaborating on our video production. His contributions to the video/content team not only makes our lives easier, but it makes for overall better content as well.
- ☁️ Daniel has taken our community interaction to another level. He goes deep on our roadmap and is able to speak about our products and initiatives with confidence. For next month, I’d like to suggest that Daniel spends less time on initiative with less impact such as office interviews, and instead dedicate more time to scale content for ONEWeekly and ramp up our social media efforts.
6️⃣: Launch monthly mailbag video series, ETH Bridge content (animated graphic & docs), Coordinate 2 social media marketing opportunities (?? & ??).
🎬 Danny Carranza ☁️: 40% Content (video/photos), 30% Community, 30% Events
- ⛵ Wanted to thank Danny (& Adrian) for helping to make our promote video for ZKU.
- 💃🏻 Danny was a great help to us at Coachella. I'm grateful for the hard work and effort he provides to events (especially on the ground). I am expectant for things to come—having seen Danny show more ownership and initiative to get things done.
- 🎥 SXSW, Coachella, Ghana…. I mean damn, we had a busy month. Thanks for putting in the work and slugging out the long hours.
- 🎤 Danny is the most fun person to spend time with; he really brings people together and makes work so much fun, even when things are stressful. Danny works extremely hard and has created content at such a high bar while also helping the team drive other initiatives.
- ☁️ Danny has been doing a great job with our content. I would like to see him taking on more of an ownership with our social accounts. Experimenting with different content strategies and having a good grasp on all metrics.
- 🎥 Danny really led the team this month in helping craft our social media strategy launching at the end of the month bleeding into June. In addition, he has been a key component in helping craft the ONEConference initial event document.
- 🔭 I joined a couple calls with the media team this month and it was very clear to me how instrumental Danny was in crafting a social media strategy. Looking forward to seeing their content hitting the masses through IG and TikTok.
⛵ Hakwan Lau 🏏: 30% zero-knowledge, 50% university, 20% fixed-income
4️⃣: 12 new ZK products (games, authentication) on testnet, Increase ZKU enrollment to 1200 (3x+ from last cohort), Monthly zkDAO newsletter. 100/100/100% - 🎥 Hakwan and I started my video journey with Harmony, and I am happy that I could squeeze one more session right before he left to go to Tokyo. His ZKU initiative is one of the most valuable pieces of the puzzle for the future of Harmony, especially when it comes to scaling. His work today will prove to be critical when the scaling wars hit full throttle.
- 🎬 I really appreciate Hakwan’s efforts with ZKU by spearheading the initiative. It received great feedback in Rio and only continues to improve. I am excited to see future projects built on Harmony develop from this initiative. He also reached out to make a promotional video for ZKU, which I appreciated – it is always welcome and cherished when a team member has a video idea and wants to get involved in the creative process. I love collaborating with him!
- ☁️ Hakwan continues to make ZKU a success story. He has a great understanding of the path ahead and it able to execute on the roadmap month over month.
- ⚽️ What Hakwan is doing for the ecosystem (not just Harmony but Blockchain in general) with ZKU is yet to be vastly recognised by the community but he is playing a very important role in building Harmony’s future. Educating and onboarding scholars that shape the future of Web3 through scaling solutions is what’s going to take us to a 10x when the market revives. I get to interact with Hakwan on a regular basis for pushing out ZKU content, he is very collaborative and is always open to sharing his thoughts on new ways of pushing ZKU content out. A pleasure to work with.
- 🏏: It is needless to say how well hakwan is able to run the ZKU. While, I don’t get much time to follow all the progress being made there, i ran into some of the student projects and i was impressed to see how aligned the project topics are to harmony’s goals (e.g, zkKYC related project) and i can see these students getting prepared to contribute significantly to harmony’s zk technology advancements. kudos on that. Further, Hakwan helped immensely to transition Cathie.
🎤 Matt McDonald ☁️: 50% biz ops, 50% gaming
- 💃🏻 Matt was tremendous support in operations in April. Matt executed and led the People Ops team to create a structure that gives us clarity and organization for the entire team. While being a great leader to us, I'd like to emphasize his care and dedication to our Harmony team and his intuitive ability to find efficient solutions.
- 🎥 Thanks for helping onboard my video team. There were growing pains, but we got through it and I’m glad that you were there to help along the way.
- 🎬 Although I didn’t work as much with Matt this month, Matt is always a call away when I need assistance on anything. He has really helped improve the onboarding process with new contributors recently, which is important for team culture. He is a dependable teammate who will have your back and support you when you are struggling.
- ☁️ While I truly appreciate Matty’s level of dedication to his April tasks, I feel his skills are majorly underutilized. He is a great communicator and works hard. I would love to see Matt be more involved with business development efforts and helping our partners succeed.
- ⚽️ Matt is a hero like many others at Harmony who relentlessly works in the shadows. I remember Matt joining us end of last year and had so much impact with planning and execution of our Denver and Rio events. He did great with events and now with our focus on ecosystem growth, he is going to be an asset in operations and employee onboarding. Most of all, he is easy to work with and always willing to chip in on areas outside his core responsibilities.
- 🐉 Matty is an inspiration to all those around him. I’m super impressed by how obsessed he is with ensuring that all tasks assigned to him, and things that he thinks will help Harmony, is taken care of, especially onboarding new members into Harmony. I do urge Matty to figure out a way to …
- 🌲 Matty is a great help - both professionally and personally. He approaches all problems with a can do attitude and is one of the hardest workers I know. Additionally - he believes in people. He helps people grow, he helps them succeed, he helps them become a team that is more than the sum of it’s parts. I look forward to working with Matty more.
5️⃣: (2 days off): 40 DoraHacks projects, Fellow and Contributor training program, All completing May deliverables. 100/90/99% - 🎥 Matty finally got my team solid on Notion. It’s been a process, but the content team has finally started hitting all of our targets, all thanks to Matty and his insight on Notion and how to properly input the correct data.
- 🔭 Matty is always available to lend a hand and answer questions. He helped walk me through a couple processes over Google Meet this month and offered assistance with a smile despite my redundant questions. Thank you Matty.
- 🐇 Matty is continuously working to make sure our team excels and works together cohesively to succeed. I’ve always admired that Matty is the first to be there to help others, and always wants to make sure we all hit our deliverables. His work ethic is unparalleled, and we are lucky to have someone as driven and caring as Matty on our team.
6️⃣: Gaming grantees & partners inventory (category & mainnet launch), 10 contributors & fellows on Opolis, All completing June deliverables. 💃🏻 Esther Arey 🐉: 50% Events, 30% Operations, 20% Grants
- 📖 I want to recognize Essa for her work on events. Not only has she identified an amazing team to ideate and execute Harmony’s event messaging, she has taken the time to create tools and documents to streamline the events process, which saves our team hours of work on each event. Essa has also – on several occasions – helped me to look past my own perspective and understand the greater picture. I thank her for that.
- 🎥 Great job coordinating Coachella. The experience ran smooth because of you and we made the best with what we had given the circumstances.
- 🎬 Esther has incredible work ethic and is constantly making sure operations are running smoothly, despite having a million things on her plate. It is a privilege to have someone as hard working and caring as Essa on the team, I always feel that I can come to her for help.
- 🎤 Essa and I have been strong support systems for each other. I know the recent months have had some ups and downs, but Essa has always remained incredibly positive and works as hard as anyone. She has gone above and beyond to support those around her, and has done a great job in owning and restructuring our event operations.
- 🐉 Essa is streamlining the event operations activities, though the team’s structure hasn’t been setup to empower her team for this. I wish to have Essa continue to learn more about the culture of web3, lean into NFT communities, learn about their web3 user experience and integrating those learnings into her daily responsibilities.
- 🐯 Our team is growing. It is challenging to coordinate team event than before. Essa did a great job on Q2 team offsite in a very short notice. She is a dependable team worker.
- 🎥 Essa was the glue keeping everyone together at the offsite. Her planning and attention to detail kept everyone comfortable and able to collaborate stress free. I can trust that when Essa is running something every box will be checked and everything will run smoothly. She is a rockstar.
- 🐇 In the time that Essa has been my mentor since the offsite, she has taken adequate time to check in with me, and sets aside time on a daily basis to make sure everything is going smoothly. She really cares about her mentees, and her position at Harmony. She is very thorough, and always willing to help & answer questions. You can trust when she is working on something, she gives it 100%, and I am looking forward to continuing to learn from Essa.
🛰️ Max Mustermann: _% staking, _% consensus, _% SDK
- 🛡 Max has done a fantastic job ever since I started working with him on the staking precompile bounty. After he joined full time, he continued the great work and exceeded my expectation greatly. He is able to pick up new task very quickly all by himself without too much guidance (staking, evm, gas estimation, cross-shard transfer etc.). I am looking forward to the continued growth of his technical capability on the protocol design and development and lead bigger initiatives by himself soon.
- 🛡 Max took on the hard problems each having many uncertainty and unknown issues. Regardless, he was able to make good progress on the problem analysis and had more insight about how to approach the problems for block sync and db replacement. Max is also always proactive in dealing with community problems and emergent issues which shows his strong dedication to the overall wellbeing of the project.
⛓️ Konstantin Potapov 🛡: _% p2p security, _% node system, _% RPC
- 🛡 Konstantin worked on many tasks such as block commitment thread update, transaction pool update, beacon chain epoch block sync, crosslink heartbeat signal feature etc. With his previous chain building experience, he was able pick up new tasks quickly and deliver good results. I would encourage Konstantin to ping me more often for any blockers, issues and design questions, so we can be on the same page earlier on the code design and solutions.
- 🛡 The crosslink heartbeat signal feature is a complicated feature to design and develop. Konstantin has showed strong coding and design skill in this month to get the crosslink heartbeat finished. I would suggest to have more granular PR for review so we can get the code reviewed faster.
🦒 Brian Felsen ☁️ (from 3/28): 30% metaverse products, 30% music partnership, 40% marketing
- ☁️ Brian brings with him a wealth of experience creating and growing partner relationships. I would like to see Brian move beyond metaverse initiatives and help more on the bizdev efforts for more growth and impact.
- 🐉 Brian was first brought in for marketing and research; his ability to deep dive into a subject matter quickly and surface up capturing the state of each union help us understand the state of metaverse projects and what metrics to use to measure success.
- 📖 Brian is one of the most qualified business-oriented people at Harmony. I eagerly await the growth of 1MusicDAO; In the hands of Brain it will quickly disrupt everything.
🐯 Tom Zhang 🎽: (from 3/30): 50% talent acquisition, 30% technical partnership, 20% investor relations
- 🎽 Really glad that Tom has kept an open mind and learning about building in Web 3 after a long career with traditional tech companies (hungry & foolish).
- 🎽 Tom has brought in many guests for TGI. I would encourage Tom to focus on meeting even more Web 3 native builders and bringing them to build with us (relevant to our needs).
- 🎽 Tom has been helping on building our community in the Bay Area. I would like him to recruit senior engineers and raise the talent bar for us this quarter (accomplish important work).
- 🏃: good initiative to revamp the TGI events to get more return. Looking forward to a TGI2.0. Always optimistic and passionate about Harmony. Appreciate!
♏️ Gheis Mohammadi 🛡: _% consensus, _% core protocol, _% virtual machine
- 🛡 Gheis amazed me during his first month by finishing his tasks earlier with great quality. His coding skill and problem solving skill is just fantastic. He was able to solve the prometheus metrics issue with Soph which has been there for more than a year. He is now looking into block sync codebase and will soon take over it as an owner.
- ⚔️ Gheis’ first month has been really amazing, with my interaction with him, he is a very skilled person that ask pertinent question in order to get things fixed. I am looking forward to work more with him !
18 Full Fellows (max 30 hours) 🦒
⏳ Zi Wang 🎽: 50% product, 30% creative, 20% marketing
4️⃣: Prepare 1Wallet on App Store (chat & NFT), Social NFT product design in 1Wallet (dynamic profile & avatar), Launch 1Wallet DAO. 70/100/100% - 🎽 Zi is the X factor on our team and community. He can connect with everyone in N^2 communications — meaning he is able to resonate with every person he talks to — and actually make everyone on the team better with his curiosity (spend 10 hours daily together).
- 🎽 Zi is spread too thin — he’s trying to help so many people, learning so many things across tech and culture (listening to audiobooks on 2X+ speed). Zi is sometimes late (or we always want Zi’s time), which means he’s an optimist trying to do more with his life. Take your own advice: slow down to go faster (activity < productivity).
- 📖 I want to recognize Zi for his impeccable leadership skills and ability to recognize talent. The 1Wallet team, as a whole, has been extremely helpful for the events team and our NFT ecosystem partner.
- 🎥 Zi, your insight in all of our deep dives at Coachella and Ghana about your product and the ecosystem as a whole has been invaluable. It was great being in the trenches with you at SXSW. I can tell that 1Wallet will become the MVP of Harmony because of all your great work.
- 🎬 Out of all the team members that I work with, I have probably learned the most from Zi through our experiences at SXSW, Coachella, and Ghana. His understanding of society & culture at large, combined with his knowledge on technology, makes his expertise invaluable to the team. I am fully confident that 1Wallet will be a success with Zi at the helm.
- 🐯 Zi always offers good ideas/advice to improve the company operation. He pays attention to details. For example, he noticed our office consumed many bottled waters. The plastic bottled water is not health and cause pollution to the environment. He suggested we use Costco water services.
- 🎽 STRONG YES: Zi and team pushed forward open source and app store (unlisted) launch this month. I would like to see Zi’s team push to onboard more users sooner even if the trade off is saving more product features for later.
- 🌲 STRONG YES: In fact - if we can clone Zi a few times, our project would be better for it. The 1Wallet is the core to so many great things going forward. It’s simplicity of use and the value proposition that Zi has pitched is perfect and a secret weapon on how Harmony will grow over the next several years. Zi is a strategic asset that we need to keep as close to the project as possible. And… he’s a real good guy. I hope to work with him closer this year.
- 🎥 STRONG YES: Zi meets and exceeds every expectation of a Harmonaut and is pushing the limits with his social wallets. Congrats to him getting accepted into the app store. Harmony needs more Zi’s on it’s team.
6️⃣: App Store launch, NFT.NYC user activation, Integrate Trustless ETH bridge for cross-chain NFTs (Night House marketplace). 💻 Aaron Li 🏏: 50% Wallet, 30% Security, 20% Smart Contracts
5️⃣: (30 hours): Make Trustless ETH Bridge production-ready and launched on testnet, Modernize web wallet, Release security investigation reports. 85/85/90% - 🏏 STRONG YES: Aaron has immensely helped to make substantial progress on the trustless eth bridge. After reviewing the contracts, he identified some of the key issues which lead to several months of further development work. He also helped to review the pull requests and drive the overall launch of the product, especially needed his help when I am partially on my paternity leave. thank you.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Aaron is an enormous asset to Harmony. With his full-stack experience, he can utilize his skills in many different areas. I would like to see Aaron dedicate a little less time to wallet and more on security.
- 🎽 STRONG YES: Aaron has always been helpful and is not only a strong engineer but also a great technical communicator in writing.
🧑🍳 Victa Phu ☁️ : 50% DApps, 30% Integrations, 20% Dev Support
- 📖: I want to recognize Victa for his work on the DAO tooling integrations that our ecosystem deeply needs, especially his work with Opolis. He has been essential to our tooling success, planting the necessary seeds for decades of DAO success.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Victa is an extremely skilled and resourceful person. He is able to switch from coding, to helping partners seamlessly. I want to thank Victa for his efforts on Explorer as well as helping our partners with integrations.
- ⚔️ STRONG YES: Victa has been an invaluable addition to the team. Being a very skilled coding person he helped on the contract verifier backend and on the explorer v2 backend dealing with user reporting issue promptly. I also really appreciate his help for the offchain getLogs endpoint bounty test and his technical expertise in dealing with our partner like Graph.
- 🏃 STRONG YES: very responsive. Good job on the testing bounty write-up and management.
🐙 Sergey Karasev 🌻: 70% front-end, 20% UI, 10% Dev Support
- 🌻 Most of the time, Sergey was developing a new dark theme for horizon bridge - unfortunately he was unable to complete the part for the mobile version this month. This was partly due to the underestimation of the scope of the task and some blockers. We discussed all the problems with Sergey and I formed a list of recommendations for him. I also want to note the task of developing a new theme is really big and rather complicated, and Sergey has almost finished it. Sergey also did a good job introducing new features to the stacking dashboard.
- 🌻 STRONG YES: This month, Sergey took into account all the recommendations and feedback that I gave him based on the results of the previous month. All plans for the month were completed on time. The main achievement for this month is the creation of a new dark theme for the BTC bridge and new staking features. Currently, Sergey has taken over the active support of the Staking dashboard and the front-end part of the BTC bridge. Sergey helped to fix a lot of bugs in real time and was ready to work on weekends for quality product support.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Sergey has been a great addition to the team and helping us implement important updates on the BTC bridge and staking dashboard. He’s a hard worker and great to work with.
6️⃣: Trustless bridge frontend (statistic & relayer list), Staking dashboard (elected slots), Process Bitcoin bridge statistics (assets, daily user stats). 📱 Tejassvi Kaushal 🏏: 70% Bridges, 20% Testing, 10% SDK
- 🏏: While Tej has been working with us for several months before April, he was mostly helping with various bug fixes, testing, etc, however the April and May months have been very crucial for tej, as he was assigned some of the key and hard features to deliver. Tej executed the assigned tasks flawlessly and delivered them on time. I am super impressed with the quality of his code and testing. One of the key feature, vault staking, which allows vaults to stake their collateral and automatically collect ONE rewards once every 2 weeks was very well received by the vault runners and highly appreciated.
- 🏏 STRONG YES: Tej has made significant contributions in the month of May in almost finishing the user staking feature for the bitcoin bridge, which allows ONE holders to stake their ONE and earn both ONE and bitcoin as rewards. IMO, this feature is going to bring huge volumes to the bridge when launched. While, tej is able to prove himself in the role of individual contributor, i encourage tej to participate in reviewing others work (github PRs), collaborating partially in other projects, and slowly own several initiatives and drive them to success.
- 🗝️: Tej demonstrates deep domain expertise in onebtc bridge, and contract development. He made significant contribution to feature development of onebtc. As a fellow collaborator, I would like to see him incorporate code review feedback more, and ensure main branch in healthy state.
📖 Devin Marty 🌲: 10% Business Development, 70% DAO Tooling, 20% Events
- 🌲 I want to recognize Devin’s contributions during April. While I stepped away from direct, day-to-day management of the DAO Ops team, Devin really stepped up in a strategic way to ensure that everything kept moving forward and learnings were incorporated into how Harmony does our DAO program. Could not have taken the leave I did without Devin backfilling and helping out where ever I needed.
- 🐇 Devin has been a pleasure to work with these past few months. Anything you need, Devin is always there to help and assist to get the job done. In April, we exceeded our deliverables for DAO tooling, and it just felt like we worked together pretty seamlessly, having excellent communication and mutual dedication to our tasks. I’ve always been impressed at Devin’s ability to help across multiple teams, and his knowledge of a broad range of subjects, backed up by research. Lastly, he has taught me to have a healthy work/life balance, which has helped to increase my productivity.
- 🎥 Devin, your DAO report was critical for re-evaluating the way we on-board new DAOs…. While we can all agree that DAO will be huge, the current model needed adjustments, and your report provided amazing insight.
- 🐉 Devin’s a strong fit for his role around DAO operations given his philosophy around decentralized organizations, and authored a book related to DAOs: The Decision Making Employee: How to Succeed in a Decentralized Organization. I haven’t had a chance to work too much with him directly, but I’ve often hear from his peers that he’s been an excellent contributor to moving the the needle within DAO Ops for Harmony
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Devin is someone you can “set it and forget it” with. He is extremely knowledgeable, a great communicator, and versatile. An excellent team player.
- 🌲 STRONG YES: Devin has been a key player and asset during the last few months as we retool our DAO program. He is a constant support and brings both insight and conviction to his work. Devin’s dedication to decentralized organizations is quite strong, but he also understands the need to crawl before we walk, walk before we run and run before we fly. He has a keen insight into personal motivations and the power of aligned incentives and I could not be prouder of the way he has worked during this month.
- 🎥 STRONG YES: Devin’s understanding of DAOs is needed for us to grow and take DAOs to the next level. If DAO really does have the highest growth potential, we are going to need Devin there to help build our foundation. His insight at the offsite was humbling and actionable. It was clear that we needed to rethink our strategy, and Devin brings many actionable solutions to the table.
- 🔭 Harmony needs someone with Devin’s careful and calculated approach. His experience and knowledge in decentralized work brings insight that greatly benefits our DAO Ops team.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Not only is Devin insightful, but he also takes action and gets things done. Through conversations at the offsite, it is obvious that Devin cares about making an impact, and has many ideas on how to do so. Additionally, I am impressed with his work with Chaak on 1DAO Alliance and I think it could be the start of a great initiative for us.
🏓 Xiaopeng Li 🏃: 40% Decentralization, 40% System Optimization, 20% EVM
- 🏃: Xiaopeng had deep understanding of the evm and harmony code base. He learned fast on the CAPE project. Happy to have him back with us.
- 🏃: Xiaopeng keep testing and pushing the feature into production. He quickly helped many fixes of our code. He is getting better in the team communication.
- 🏏 STRONG YES: I was the happiest person when xiaopeng returned to harmony and started helping on various projects. Especially, on the trustless eth bridge, there were several issues that were preventing us from making progress and they were blockers. Xiaopeng was able to immediately start analyzing them and solve in the timely manner. Very happy to have xiaopeng back on the team. Xiaopeng also made several key fixes to harmony repo this month. thanks.
- ⚔️ STRONG YES: Xiaopeng has been critical into implementing HIP16 and and HIP18, working with him is always a pleasure
- 🏃 STRONG YES: push hard for feature into production, quickly fixed bugs in the core, no fear to take any new tasks.
- 🌀 Xiaopeng was very fast and helpful in fixing the EIP-2718 update to our js libraries in Horizon to help get me unblocked and moving. Since I’m a fellow I believe I cant give any yes or whatever, but definitely wanted to give kudos!
🌀 Bruce Darcy 🏏: 50% Bridges, 30% Security, 20% DApps
- 🏏 STRONG YES: Bruce started working with us for just over a month and has already contributed to various projects significantly. Starting with the revamp of fixed-income smart contracts, reviewing bitcoin bridge feature pull requests, and now few of the key features of trustless ethereum bridge like building canonical chain in ethereum lightclient to handle the forks and implementing arbitrary message passing over the bridge (beyond token transfers). Bruce’s solidity code is neat and has good amount of test coverage. Bruce is also able to demonstrate not only his coding/testing skills, but also great in designing and architecting solutions. I cannot wait to work with Bruce on upcoming projects.
- 🚗 STRONG YES: Bruce was instrumental in the development of Income smart contracts, his contributions were plenty and on-time. He also provide input that helped the design of the final version of the contracts. Always available and willing to help and teach, we held many long conversations about solidity best-practices, the general design of our product and the future of Defi in general
♒ Nick Vasilich 🔭: _% Eastern Europe, _% app partnerships, _% regional dao
- 🔭 Nick has been instrumental in onboarding quality, dedicated grantees into the Harmony ecosystem. This month was difficult for Nick as we (Harmony) re-prioritized our initiatives for the year. For Nick, this meant his primary tasks needed to be adjusted. That said, he’s pivoted some of his tasks to include deliverables which align better with our new initiatives, such as his engagement with game developers and studios. Nick has continued being a hard working and focused individual despite the turmoil brought on by the war in Ukraine and I look forward to his contributions in June.
- 🔭 STRONG YES : Despite the war happening around Nick locally, he has still managed to not only perform well on his deliverables, but was able to pivot mid-month and adjust his focus in reaction to our off-site initiatives. Within just a couple weeks, Nick was able to solicit a significant list of game developers and studios looking to bring their skills to blockchain / Harmony.
- 🐉 STRONG YES : Nick is quite the scout. Despite what’s happening around him with the Russian intrusion into his native home, he was still seeking to help grow the Harmony ecosystem, requesting to organize local hackathons (right before the conflict started), finding strong web3 builders that he meets around his region in-real-life; basically dreams of Harmony day-in day-out.
🐇 Rachel Brissenden 💃: 50% DAO Operations, 30% Business Development, 20% Community
- 🌲 Rachel worked her tail off in April. I stepped back during April and a primary reason why DAO Operations continued to function well was Rachel’s hard work and tireless commitment. She was doing everything from shipping swag and hosting Ambassador DAO events, to drafting messaging, surveys and more.
- 📖 I want to recognize Rachel for stepping up to the plate and improving our DAO tooling portfolio – Drastically. I also want to celebrate Rachel’s growth as she takes on more responsibilities and initiatives at Harmony!
- 🎤 Rachel has been relentless in her growth, and I am thrilled to see her expand her role at Harmony. She has been on fire with DAO tooling and brings so much value to the DAO team! Rachel works extremely hard and her success is very well deserved.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Rachel breathes Harmony. Each day, she pushes herself to grow and always seeks areas to provide more value to the team. She has done an excellent job with DAO tooling and working with the DAO Ops team to set themselves up for future success.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Rachel's passion for Harmony shines. Though Rachel works primarily within the DAO team, I have seen her efforts, as her mentor, in the last two weeks. She is driven in her work and seeks results. I hope to see Rachel delegate more from AmbassadorDAO to the DAO and refocus her efforts on the DAO team this quarter.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Rachel is one of the hardest working individuals in the community. I love her energy and enthusiasm and would like to commend her drive and dedication to Harmony.
- 🌲 STRONG YES: Rachel is an undeniable asset to this project and community. She is an exemplar when it comes being prepared, being enthusiastic and going the extra mile. She is the driving force behind the success of the Ambassador DAO and we have discussed, often, how to scale her contributions.
🥤Jeremy "Globey” Straughan 🔭: 40% Ecosystem, 20% Partnerships, 40% External Communications
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Jeremy has brought invaluable content and solutions to our team in such a short period of time. His contributions have helped amplify the voices of our ecosystem partners, build a strong rapport with them, and brought a high quality draft of our new co-marketing pipeline to the table. Jeremy has proven himself to be a high-impact addition to the team.
- 📖 I keep it short. Globey is the man for the (any) job. He is so easy to work with and delivers at a high level.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Jeremy is a gem and we’re lucky to have him. He is incredibly helpful, knowledgeable, and close to our community. I truly appreciate his efforts with the outreach and support of our grantees and partners.
🛫 Tahir Javed 🐉: _% devops eng, _% compliance, _% cloud migration
- ⚔️ [?]: STRONG YES : TJ has been doing quite well this first month by asking many questions in regards of his onboarding tasks and the technology we internally used. Our technology landscape is quite big an it’s important to ask as many questions as possible so to be onboarded as fast as possible.
- 🐉 STRONG YES: Given TJ’s recent start, I’m happy to have him already began taking on the on-call rotation. He’s been given a tall order to migrate two main Harmony internet domain names, in order to help us consolidate the visibility of users to better our level of service to all wallet users connecting to Harmony’s blockchain via the foundation’s public RPC endpoints, and for developers. He’s progressing well at pace to also now take on another large effort to shift our rclone chain snapshot to use a decentralized Storj approach, which is yet another huge undertaking
🏔 Diego Nava 🏃: _% Elastic RPC, _% Key Partner Success, _% Backend Scalability
- 🏃: Diego onboarded very fast. He quickly captured the elastic rpc architecture and come up with good design doc.
- 🏃: Diego shows initiative and has taken on ownership of the elastic rpc testing for shard1 (gamefi), a key component to Harmony’s strategy. I look forward to working with Diego on the bounty for the shard1 testing. He has shown strong knowledge of AWS and cloud infrastructure and a willingness tackle complex problems.
- 🏃 STRONG YES. good design doc and quick learning
🧙🏻Francisco Egloff 🚗: _% front end, _% ?, _%?
- 🚗 STRONG YES: Very hard-working, fast and solid development. Strong react and solidity skills. Francisco is also vert ease to work with, always willing to help and give the extra mile.
- ☁️ STRONG YES: Francisco did a great job with the basic income product. He is a great communicator, a skilled front-end developer, and works fast and efficiently.
☕️ Cathie So 🏏 (since 5/3): _% quantum computing, _% zero knowledge proof, _% circom
- ⛵ STRONG YES: It was amazing to watch how fast Cathie has grown as a ZK dev in just a few months; she was new to crypto just half a year ago. As ZKU scales up to handle hundreds of students concurrently, there is just no way that we could have done it without her. She is also quickly becoming an effective manager and mentor.
- 🏏 STRONG YES: It is only recently that I started managing Cathie (previously Hakwan). Cathie has significantly contributed to Zero Knowledge University (ZKU) in terms of grading assignments, helping students with projects mainnet launch and grant proposal writing, and many other course related works. I am looking forward to closely working with Cathie in the next months.
6️⃣: Guide ZKU Cohort 3 to launch 50+ products on testnet, Implement ZKP friendly activation function(s) in circomlib-ml, Use circomlib-ml to build a demo application on Harmony testnet. ⛓️ Socheat Khauv ⚔️: 45% nodes, 45% services, 10% network releases
- ⚔️ STRONG YES: Socheat has been doing well by working out the validator node upgrade in shard 1/2/3 though I mentioned to him took a bit longer than I was expected, I suggested him to talk to me sooner if a task is taking too long to do. He started to help with devops issue which really help me offload the work we have
- 🎸 STRONG YES: sometimes it felt that Soph carried the whole world of harmony infra on his shoulders alone, so I'm happy Socheat with us now. already done some work together. strong yes
- ⚔️ [?]: STRONG YES: Socheat has been the invisible workforce helping in the dark with all the out of space disk issue but now getting more and more involved into Harmony feature/PR/Issue testing. He started to discuss with more with the community. Suggestion for improvement, I would like to see Socheat more involved with the validator community and be more proactive when “planning” the bigger tasks.
- 🏓 Socheat has been helping to test HIP18, and he has helped to gather the information needed for the test from the community. He can quickly understand how to test it, I would like to complete more tests together.
- 🐉 [Jack]
- 🏃 STRONG YES. Finally we have someone can handle additional devop works. Looking forward to taking more responsibilities.
🗝️ Hash Mesan 🏏: 50% Wallet, 30% Security, 20% DApps
- 🏏 STRONG YES: In the month April, hashmesan initially worked on reviewing the storage limit issue of the trustless eth bridge. He was able to analyze and propose solutions. Later part of the month, Hashmesan looked into vault liquidation during under-collateral feature. Hashmesan working with tej and complementing each other to make great progress on the btc bridge features is very commendable. Hashmesan not only has a great hold on the smart contract development, he is a critical thinker and able to spot security loop-holes. His expertise has helped us immensely in the bridge projects. On the sideline, hashmesan also contributed to resolving a blocking issue in the ledger nano x harmony app.
- 🏏 STRONG YES: In the month of May hashmesan has worked on a key feature of the bitcoin bridge the vault replace feature, which allows vault runners to move their btc holdings to a different vault. Hashmesan also helped to co-propose/review the staking design and also review the staking pull request. Hashmesan analyzed the relay bug, which was preventing us from making the relay permissionless and proposed a solution. Overall, very good month of contribution and I am looking forward to working on many more challenging projects with Hashmesan.
- 📱STRONG YES: Hashmesan is a high-skilled developer and the vault staking mechanism he suggested was very good. He has a good understanding of the btc bridge contract and his feedback was very helpful for us. Looking forward to collaborating on more projects with Hashmesan.
6️⃣: Bitcoin bridge features (vault replace & retire), Elastic load balancer infrastructure stabilization, Developer growth. 📶 Richard Gatchalian 🎽:
6️⃣: (from 6/8) Strategy & execution plan for outbound partnerships, 3 NFT launches on mainnet, ??. 🐈 Semar Martins ⛵ (from 6/_):
18 Half-Time Contributors (max 20 hours) 🎤
🐐 Michael “Mikey” Benson 🦒: 50% DAO Ops, 30% Grants, 20% Comms
- 🌲 STRONG YES: I want to recognize the way in which Mikey has taken a difficult task (DAO Funding) and led the way with grace and clarity. As it is a vital mechanism for community involvement and engagement, Mikey’s contributions have been vital to navigate the communities souring impression on DAOs. I believe that, as he expands his scope to tasks beyond the DAO Operations Team, other teams will find his contributions as valuable as I have. Working w/ Mikey is full of laughter and support. He is a vital part of the team.
- 📖: Mikey is fantastic on DAO and grant operations. It is a privilege to work with him on a daily basis. I would like to see him be given more opportunities and responsibilities.
- 🐇 Mikey is a pleasure to work with on the DAO Ops team. He works hard, and practically lives on the talk forum. He is very thorough when it comes to reviewing proposals, and spends adequate time responding to individuals on the talk forum. He is always there if you need something, and I appreciate that he took the time to help me create the DAO tooling webinar framework. Additionally, I appreciate that Mikey brings comedic relief to our calls at times when it is needed, and I’ve seen him grow as an individual in our time working together.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Mikey works extremely hard, and has done an excellent job in managing DAO proposals. I am also excited to have Mikey’s presence on our Grant Ops team. Mikey is very knowledgeable and has a strong pulse on DAOs within the community. Additionally, I would like to commend Mikey on his presence within DAO Ops in managing recent sentiment and drafting new guidelines to set the DAO Ops team up for future success.
- 🌲 STRONG YES: Mikey has developed very strong institutional insight into what works regarding DAO funding. He has been on the front line in formatting and communicating new funding guidelines and communicating with the DAO community. His support has been vital for the success of our DAO program and I highly recommend him continuing (and expanding) his role with Harmony.
- 🦒 STRONG YES: Although I’ve only worked with him for a couple of weeks, I want to recognize Mikey’s contributions to the offsite, his exceptional availability to answer DAO-related questions, his work ethic and output, his identifying problems and pain points in DAO operations, his proactively suggesting solutions, and his follow-through with checkins.
- 📖: Mikey is an ESSENTIAL part of the Harmony team and its ecosystem. He has been a rock for the DAO ops team and integral for community-team relations. I was thrilled to see him at the Q2 offsite; his insights were, and remain, attuned and empathetic. As we scale, I could not see a successful Harmony operations team (DAO and otherwise) without Mikey at its core.
- 🎥 STRONG YES: If DAO has the highest growth potential, we need Mikey there as operational support. He understands the space and takes ownership in the space.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: I have seen Mikey give his all to DAO initiatives. He has been taking more responsibility and taking the initiative to be involved in other team areas. His desire to learn, be an asset, and contribute to this team has been inspiring. I am eager to see Mikey step into other areas of focus and see those areas flourish with his support and helping hand.
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Mikey takes an optimistic approach to DAO operations but with a healthy dose of skepticism; a realist’s approach. He and Devin produced some valuable arguments at this month’s offsite re: DAO formation and grant structure. He’s dedicated to ensuring DAOs are successful on Harmony and it showed this month as Mikey worked hard at being highly communicative with our DAO community.
🏀 PJ Conley 🎤: 40% BizDev, 40% Latin American Growth, 20% ONEquest
- 🎤: PJ has been asked to shift areas of focus several times, yet always shows up with a great attitude. He is a great teammate - always willing to learn, assist others, and find areas to make an impact to support the team’s initiatives.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: I want to see PJ become more proactive and involved with core team initiatives and to always seek to raise the bar with every task he completes. PJ is skilled and knowledgeable, and I look forward to that being shared among more sub teams so PJ can maximize his impact.
🌳 Al Cheung 🎤: 40% Grant Ops, 30% Venture Partners, 30% Ecosystem Events
- 🎤 On his first day, Al immediately made an impact on events and bizdev. Al is extremely dependable, a great communicator, and an ideal teammate. He has very strong knowledge that has made him an integral part of the grant ops team.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Al continues to make a large impact on grant ops, bizdev, and developing new partnerships. Al continues to be highly dependable and a great communicator, always willing to amplify those around him. Al is a wonderful team player.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Al has the competence, intelligence, and drive needed on our team. As a member of the events and grants teams, he has stepped up and taken leadership, given insight, and (most importantly) asked the right questions. I've learned a lot from Al in the past month, and I've seen him give his all to this project. We are fortunate to have him.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: I worked with Al both in Denver and Rio. Not only is he hard working, he is also very helpful no matter how small a task may be, something valuable in a teammate. He is knowledgeable and social, therefore his skillset is ideal for events and partnerships.
🎞 Andrew Nunes 🎥 (from 4/13): Editing for Instagram + TikTok 80%, Editing for YouTube 20%
4️⃣: Take 12 previous videos, reformat vertically/remove music to be posted on IG as reels, Create 6 new engaging social media videos, Curate photos to be posted on Instagram for the next month. 100/100/100% - Andrew was mainly onboarded for the second half of April. In that short amount of time he was able to turn around a significant amount of content. Needless to say I am very impressed and looking forward to getting ahead of schedule.
5️⃣: Create 13 new social media videos, Curate photos for Ghana, Reformat 10 previous videos for Instagram reels. 100/100/100% - 🎥 STRONG YES: Andrew has built our reserves of social media content up so that we are ahead of schedule. We were in the “set up phase” and now we are in the phase of getting the social content scheduled 1 month in advance. I expect a ton of growth in all of our social media platforms and that will mainly be because of Andrew’s work.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Andrew is one of the newer additions to the team but has already made a great impact on content strategy and execution. Andrew delivers quality work very quickly and has been very dependable.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Although Andrew is one of the newest members of the team, he is great to work with because he is great at taking direction and understanding our goals. Furthermore, he has a knowledge on creating social media content which is an important skill to have on the team for promotional videos.
6️⃣: Create 14 new social media videos, Publish 20 posts on TikTok, Take 12 previous videos, reformat vertically/remove/add new music for TikTok/Instagram reels. 💪 Skyler Abilla 🔭: 80% Podcast, 10% Social Media, 10% Community
5️⃣: 5 Episodes of Harmonize, Conduct 8 interviews, Reach 5,000 downloads. 100/100/80% - 🔭 Skyler has put together a handful of Harmonize episodes this month with creativity and dedication. These months have not been the easist for Skyler so I certainly appreciate the hard work and focus that’s required to create his content.
👁️🗨️ Eilam Meintser 🎥 (from 1/29): Graphic Design 40%, Marketing Assets 30%, Branding 30%
4️⃣: Finish EthCC design & send to manufacturing, Develop NFT.NYC merch design & finalize, Develop ONEWeekly Newsletter logo & branding 100/100/100% - 🎥 Eilam was instrumental in kicking off the branding for ONEWeekly as well as our event designs for Paris and NYC. I worked with him closely on all of them and he always delivered stellar product no matter the time of day
- 🎥 STRONG YES: Eilam is one of the most essential contributors on this list, contributing to not only all of the video team’s needs, but also helping many other event and branding driven initiatives. Most all of our team has worked with him at some point and he is a great asset to keep our brand looking clean and high level.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Eilam is a great contributor to the creative team, helping bring our vision to life. Aside from working with the video team, Eilam has grown to work with the communications and DAO teams, thus helping contribute to assets needed by many sub teams at Harmony.
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Another strong yes from me. Eilam, like Wahni, is an expert in his craft, highly communicative, and helped create visuals for the ONEWeekly video series. He’s been a pleasure to work with each week.
💿 Kelly☁️: (from 12/18/21) Graphic Design, Content Communications, Media Strategy
- 🎥 STRONG YES - Kelly is ESSENTIAL in helping Harmony craft our voice. Her insight regarding anything communications related is invaluable.
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Kelly is not only highly skilled at crafting clear communication and a strategy to amplify our message, she’s also systematic in her approach and contructively critical. She offers a strong, rational, critical voice that’s greatly needed on the team. This month she lined up a number of specific PR firms for us to interview and performed due dilligence on our behalf. Kelly has also been instrumental in ensuring the new website is carefully designed and crafted.
- 🌲STRONG YES: Kelly has the brains and experience to bring our comms, marketing and media strategy up to where it needs to be. I have been very impressed by, not only her work product, but also how she goes about crafting her product. She asks the right questions, gets to the heart of matters, and builds a consensus that is so vital to make sure her deliverables are above reproach. Not only am I a “Strong Yes” for her to continue, I would argue for bumping her up to a Full Time Fellow.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Kelly is the right person to help us get on the right track when it comes to communication and brand messaging. She has the experience and expertise to help align different sub teams within Harmony and I’m certain she will be key in our growth in communications and marketing.
6️⃣: Hire website team for design, content and development, Website design concept decided, Review and hire PR firm(s). ♠️ Wanhi Lee 🎥 (from 4/1): 70% Video Editing, 30% Visual Effects
- 🎥 Wanhi has shown that he has the grit to take our content to the next level. He has given a unique and high end voice to our videos that take “standard content” to the next level. He is hungry and wants to add value anywhere he can.
- 🎥 STRONG YES: Wanhi went above and beyond this month, adding his talents to work on transitions and intro outro sweeps for not just the content team, but for ONEWeekly, DAO Ops, and even working on stuff directly for 1Wallet. He helps elevate the Harmony brand to a higher level and continues to also make amazing edits for the video team. He even got to help on a shoot, proving that he has what it takes to be well rounded in this space.
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Wanhi has been instrumental in getting high quality animated graphics on the ONEWeekly. On top of being creative and producing high quality content, Wanhi was also communicative and quick to respond to requests. He was a pleasure to work with this month and I fully look forward to continuing that work with him.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: It is a pleasure to work with Wanhi, as he is equally creative as he is hardworking. He thinks outside the box and creates appealing content regardless of the subject matter. This month he has really grown to helping more sub teams with video assets so it is great to see his role growing.
🎮 Matthew Barrett 🔭: _% ONEWeekly
5️⃣: 3 ONEWeekly (Ep3 & Ep4), 8 partner highlights (Wk1 & Wk2), 1 core team interview (Week 4 ONEWeekly). 100/100/100% - 🔭 STRONG YES: Matthew has helped us create this month’s episodes of the ONEWeekly video series while publishing our weekly newsletter through Medium. Matthew also helped promote a number of ecosystem projects and created our Q&A for this month’s interview with RJ. Thank you to Matthew for being hard working and communicative throughout.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Matt has been a great help with our weekly transcriptions. In addition, he is eager to respond to requests and helpful in providing feedback on our efforts.
6️⃣: Begin creation of trustless Ethereum Bridge user guide, 4 ONEWeekly newsletters, Review and update 4 official Harmony documents. 🕸️ Amanda Bancroft 💃🏻: 40% HR, 40% Accounting, 20% Events
- 💃🏻 Amanda has done an incredible job and shown dedication Harmony values in her work. Her guidelines and presentations for our team to utilize have given us more scalability and efficiency in our events, accounting, operations, and human resources. Amanda takes the initiative and delivers work well done.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Amanda continues to make an impact on several key areas that impact every person on the team. She holds herself to a very high standard and is very proactive in finding new ways to support team process and growth.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: In May, Amanda has continued to flourish in her deliverables. Amanda has been assisting more with operational needs and has done a great job helping our team find organization and structure. In May, I would like to work more closely with Amanda to structure a bookkeeping system that allows more efficiency for the team's transparency. Amanda fulfilled all of her tasks with little hand-holding, and I am happy to have her as an asset to this team.
✅ Rob Rasor 🐯: 50% HR, 50% People Ops
- 🎤: Rob onboarded during a transitional period, yet managed to establish order for his workflow and the HR operations. Rob is highly dependable and an excellent communicator.
- 💃🏻 Rob has been a strong foundation in our HR and People Ops teams. Rob has given our team knowledge and feedback to protect and lift our employees and better assist our team in payroll, benefits, and support. In addition, Rob selflessly takes on responsibilities to ease the weight of core members and fellows/contributors alike to ensure their needs don't fall through the cracks. I want to highlight Rob's care and dedication to this team. He has been the strong point that is easy for many of us to overlook.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Rob has continued to optimize our HR operations. While only here for 2 months, his presence has directly supported each person and brought a level of cohesiveness to our team. Rob is an excellent team player and is hungry for growth.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Rob continues to empower our team with knowledge, resources, and production. I'd like to see Rob scale his efforts in June to ease the workload and ensure efficiency in our Human Resource processes.
- 🐇 In the time that I’ve worked with Rob, I can clearly see that he is doing a great service for Harmony in an area that is much needed: HR. Since Rob has been working with us, I notice a significant improvement in our hiring processes (especially when it comes to communication). I’ve been impressed by Rob and Matty’s efforts to improve this process, and I now feel (as someone working for Harmony) more at ease that they are there to support me if I have any questions or need help, which has been a huge relief. Addtionally, I’m looking forward to us getting our team using Opolis & continuing to improve our hiring procedures as we scale. 10/10 needed on our team.
🚎 Artem Kolodko 🎸: Block explorer 50% Multisig 35% Trustless Bridge 15%
- 🎸 STRONG YES: Artem does heavy lifting on developing block explorer features, reducing db costs and helps with Ethereum trustless bridge. he is irreplaceable help of mine
- ⚔️ STRONG YES: Artem has been doing a lot of work in regards of the explorer dashboard and our other services like multisig. Many of the new feature would be been in the backlog still. Additionally, he worked as well on the DB reduction cost showing me high DB analytics skill to figure out issue.
📗 Eduard Peris 🎤 (from 5/1): Business Development 70%, Grants in EMEA 20%, Events 10%
5️⃣: Lead Davos representation, Discussions with key potential sponsor Barcelona, Prepare training for new contributors. 75/100/85% - ☁️ STRONG YES: Eduard is a resourceful contributor with great connections in Europe. He can bring much-needed coverage to the EMEA region. I’d like to encourage Ed to shift most of his focus to business development.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Eduard is a strong presence at events and can amplify Harmony’s growth in EMEA regions.
6️⃣: Support Matty on onboarding guiding docs, support Garrett with EthCC, review top blockchain sustainability strategies. 🦠 James “Flu” Griffin 🌲: _% 4️⃣: Strategize Permissionless conference, identify 10 grantees, 4 Project Y grantees, Establish communication channel with 50 ecosystem projects. 80/80/100% 5️⃣: Recruit one gaming focused team from Permissionless hackathon to deploy on Harmony, Publish insight/follow-up for Team V & Team C, Publish GameFi Project Plan. 100/100/100% - 🌲: STRONG YES: James insight into the inner workings of the Harmony community is invaluable. I believe we should make all efforts to continue to engage and support him in his work. We should also strategically move to include his insights into more areas and move additional support into place to assist him in his work. He would be very advantageous to have as part of our Grants program, our Developer Relations program our our Game program.
- 🔭: STRONG YES: The insight that James (Flu) can provide is valuable and we’ve only partially tapped into what I feel he can offer. We should ensure that James is working more closely with our ecosystem and grants team which is his area of focus. I think James can do a great job while surrounded by team members with similar tasks, and reporting to a team member who is also grant and ecosystem focused.
6️⃣: Identify 10 projects/investors at Consesnsus Austin, Establish communication distribution method from the Private Server with Harmony Leads - Feeding into the main projects Discords. 🚜 Demetre Gostas 🐉 (from 5/13): _%
- 🎥 STRONG YES: Demetre brings invaluable enthusiasm and energy to Harmony and backs it with strong knowledge of our products and what holes exist in our ecosystem. He is a hard-core user of the Harmony ecosystem and to have someone like that actually building and contributing on the team is just what we need at this point in time.
- 📖: Demetre is incredible in his work ethic and attitude. We need his DeFi expertise at Harmony.
- 🔭 STRONG YES: Demetre brings great skill in DeFi and ecosystem growth to Harmony. This month, I’ve seen Demetre work on exchange listings and related incentives, propose the “PIPE” project for Harmony, and brainstorm with me and Ganesha on how to increase transactions on our trustless BTC bridge. Demetre has a lot to offer in his field of focus and I can’t wait to see his “PIPE” project come to fruition.
⚖️ Garrick Hyde-White 💃🏻: 100% Events
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Garrick executes at a high standard, and is a great communicator. He will do an excellent job at leading our event teams to increase the value we get from events.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Garrick has gone above and beyond expectations in event strategies this month. Garrick has been quick to utilize external and internal resources and dedicate his time to finding cost efficient solutions directly impacting builders in the NYC build out. I would like to see Garrick take more responsibility within events and continue to lead and guide our team in initiatives to carry out our mission to capture builders. I am expectant to see our efforts shown in June and am proud of how quickly Garrick has learned and utilized this team.
- 🎥: I really want to work with Garrick more, especially on ONEConference. I had a great couple of conversations with him and his insight and ideas are really constructive. I want to collab with him more when it makes sense.
- 📖: Garrick has been awesome to work with for NFTNYC planning. He brings a brilliant perspective and unparalleled network to our events team. Excited to see him grow at Harmony!
6️⃣: Restructure event matrix, NFT.NYC project manager, brand sponsorship deck (cover costs for our event division). 📢 Jose Couto 🚗:
6️⃣: Press release guidelines in Spanish, Onboard 3 projects from Europe, organize local team for ethMexico and ethLatam hackathons. 6 Part-Time Contributors (max 15 hours) 🎤
🪖 Eli Bou Zeid 🐉: 80% wallet security, 20% security bounties
- 🐉 : Eli has been a fantastic contributor to the wallet security initiative being on top every single security issue that was flagged as a viable case. He is highly disciplined, responsive and thorough. We were able to improve our workflow and ultimately reduce Harmony wallet owner dissatisfactions to zero for reported cases. In the future, given the opportunity, I’d would work with him gladly work with him again.
- June 1: On call / on personal leave to complete his cybersecurity courseworks
⌛ Haodi Jiang 🏃: _%
- 🏃: STRONG YES: Haodi helped a lot in watchdog, cross-shard bridge. His deliverables was important for the game shard launch.
- ⚔️: STRONG YES: Hoadi has been really helpful going through feature request in watchdog / go-sdk. He has been working closely with Lutty on multiple initiative like the elastic RPC and recently helping the team with level DB sharding operation
6️⃣: HRC721 support in cross-shard bridge, Cross-shard bridge on mainnet (smart contract, backend), Watchdog frontend/backend redesign. ⌨️ Lutty Yang 🏃: _%
- 🏃: STRONG YES: Lutty keep pushing forward with elastic rpc implementation. Thanks for the successful launch on shard 1.
- ⚔️: STRONG YES: Lutty is the code genius for multiple important feature like the elastic RPC. Issue highlighted as part of the s1 launch test were fixed in less than a day
6️⃣: Dynamo database investigation, Go development kit support of new snapshot, Endpoint server enhancement. 🧩 Yu Yi 🏃: _%
- 🏃: STRONG YES: YuYi did a fantastic job in managing China community, business development leads to a good investment to GO+.
- ⛵: STRONG YES: I wanted to say that for ZKU, one of the most important introductions / partnerships is the one with KuCoin, and that was all thanks to Yu Yi’s help. Also, in the current cohort we have been seeing more highly qualified students from mainland China joining our course as well.
6️⃣: 4 Chinese medium posts (1/2/3/4), 4 one weekly videos (1/2/3/4), China hackathon plan and zku promotion, Footprint's interview. 🎩 Gabby Vorbeck 🌲: _%
- 🐉 : Gabby understands the strengths of Harmony and is able to pitch during events. His deep analytical mind has been really helpful to analyze the investor and grantee landscapes
👩🏻🚀 Kayla Cho 💃🏻: 50% Events, 30% Operations, 20% Community
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Kayla is very knowledgeable and has start up experience - she understands the effort it takes to succeed at a high level in web3. Kayla is a great team player and responds very well to feedback as she is hungry to grow.
- 💃🏻 STRONG YES: Kayla has been an asset to our events, operations, and community. She has taken the initiative in our community outreach and has been courageous to address our structure and strategies flaws. In addition, Kayla has shown that she is not just a team player but will go above and beyond to ensure every tiny detail is in order. I have seen Kayla grow this month as she yearns for growth and feedback, and I am looking forward to seeing her confidence and responsibilities grow in June.
- 🐇 Kayla is incredibly hard working, and a bright individual. She is extremely passionate about Harmony, and I’ve grown to admire her positive attitude, and ability to host successful events with such ease! She is a natural organizer & event host- She’s excelled at hosting Ambassador DAO events in LA, always bringing in a large number of attendees. She is always eager to reach out, learn, and is always available for a call or message. We are lucky to have Kayla on the team.
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Kayla is a self starter who takes initiative and gets tasks done. She has great experience with events therefore contributes valuable opinions and facts during event ops meetings. She is great at organizing events and I can see her role growing in the future. Furthermore, she has been very helpful with my ONEConference research, helping collect data through polling on various channels.
6 Quarter-Time Contributors (max 10 hours) 🎤
🧿 Noura Bou Zeid 💃🏽: 40% Events, 30% Community Engagement, 30% Women in Web3
- 🎤: Amazing work from Noura. She consistently delivers high quality work with conviction, passion, and great attention to detail. I am especially excited to see her grow in her presence in supporting women in web3 initiatives. Noura is becoming a leader in the space and has very bright days ahead.
- 🐉: Noura is able to work on events with very little context nowadays. Understandably her daytime commitments are very demanding, otherwise she would be able to help strategize with larger initiatives.
- 📖: Noura is the brains behind many of our events. Not only does she expertly level-set expectations during ideation, she is a brilliant executor and a much needed part of the Harmony team.
- 🎤: STRONG YES: Noura is an excellent team player. I would love to see Noura continue to grow in her role of becoming a leader for women in web3. Additionally, I would like to see Noura become more active with various sub teams to make a larger impact on core initiatives as we temporarily scale down events.
- 🎥: STRONG YES: Having a female voice and perspective from Noura is oftentimes super valuable when she contributes to big initiatives. She was extremely helpful in helping plan potential Miami venues for my ONEConference proposal (in case we wanted to do it outside of SF)
- 🎬 STRONG YES: Noura brings very valuable perspective to our events team. She never fails to bring up great points when discussing anything from logistics to attendee experience. Furthermore, Noura is great at working events and she is a big reason as to why our events run smoothly.
🥑 Miguel Velasco 🎤: 50% Events, 20% Operations, 30% Community Engagement
- 🎤: Miguel onboarded mid-month during a hectic time, yet managed to find immediate ways to make an impact. His passion shines in every task/initiative he is involved with. Miguel holds himself to the highest standards and is a great presence at our community events. I look forward to his exponential growth in the months to come.
- 🎤 STRONG YES: Miguel is always hungry to learn. He wears his passion on his sleeve and hustles at events. Miguel collaborated on improving the regional events playbook, which has been very helpful in supporting our event team’s restructuring. I would encourage Miguel to continue to look for ways to make an impact on other core initiatives while we temporarily scale down events.
- 🐉 STRONG YES: Miguel has been proactively bringing in projects that are complex, with fully written summaries, such as Spatial Motors. He is always scouting for new initiatives, thinks web3 by day, and dreams of web3 by night. While we scale down events, it will limit his scope in scouting capabilities to possibly be our existing grantee managers, likely can help follow up to measure the success of the 100+ Project Y recipients.
- 🐇 I could write a book on all the times Miguel has gone out of his way to help others, and has gone above and beyond to help me with Ambassador DAO. I’ve worked with Miguel closely for months on ADAO: And I’ve learned that his passion for Harmony is undeniable. I have not met many individuals in this life as dedicated as Miguel. He showed up at EthDenver simply READY to go, and ready to work! Upon first meeting him, he had his laptop & notes on how we can improve/organize Ambassador DAO (without even being asked or prompted). He is a do-er and a self-starter. Exactly the type of dedication and passion we need on this team. He is the definition of a team player; a friend and colleague that we are lucky to have on our team.
🧭 Jarvis Qian 🏃: China, events, business development
5️⃣: (15 days off): Launch AEX listing with Ask Me Anything campaign. 50% - 🏃: Jarvis follow up very well with exchange partners. He will be on leave from June 1, 2022 for family reasons.
🤠 Chak Raam 🌲: _%
- 📖 Chak is a brilliant creative and executor. I do think he should be doing more that just DAOs, since it feels unfair to hog so much talent. I am excited to see Chak discover his full potential at Harmony; he has the skills to 10x many of our new and existing initiatives.
🇪🇺 Juan Beltran 🚗 (from 4/4): _%
- 🐉 : STRONG YES for helping diligently following up with nearly all Q4 2021 grantees and some in Q1, while maintaining the momentum to review new inbound grant proposals. He’s starting to think big into new ways of expanding the ecosystem including this recent one on the validator side with Flux. In time, Juan can become a strong contributor in both grants management and validator operations.
- 🎤: STRONG YES: Juan has been a very strong presence in grant ops and following up with Q4 & Q1 grantees to improve relations and amplify their success. I look forward to Juan continuing to grow on the grant ops team.
🔫 Timothy Posvar 🌲: 100% DAOs
5️⃣: Organize 1DAO Alliance Discord including comms flow, Identify ALL DAOs on Harmony, Onboard 20 DAOs into 1DAO Alliance Discord. 100/100/100% - 🌲: STRONG YES: Tim joined at the beginning of May and has set up and is running the 1DAO Alliance Discord (the primary channel of communication with the DAOs on Harmony). He has organized several DAO 1:1s with the DAO Ops team that have facilitated inter-DAO communication and, in doing so, has helped us find and resolve pain points that the DAOs have encountered. Tim is our “man on the street” for DAOs having worked in both the Validator and Community DAO. He is a highly valued member of the team.
- 🔭: STRONG YES: Tim brings a unique perspective to the DAO operations team as someone from a DAO, the community, a validator, and a Reddit moderator. He provides honest feedback and opinion and knocked out all his May deliverables despite joining a bit late in May.
- 📖: Tim is essential for DAO relations and has gone above and beyond in setting up the official DAO discord. I am impressed with his professionalism and work ethic. I’m eager to see Tim progress at Harmony.
- 🐇 Tim has been an essential addition to the DAO Ops team. We really need someone who tapped in to the pulse of our community, and that is Tim. He knows his stuff about Harmony, and he is one of the most heavily involved in our online communities (such as Reddit, Twitter, and Discord). He responds to situations with grace, and backs it up with the facts. From what I’ve observed, he excels at putting out fires, and is very in touch with the community sentiment. He takes a logical approach in his responses, and always responds with a level head. Having him on as our DAO Relations lead is essential, especially considering the sentiment surrounding DAOs. I see Tim as a team player, and someone that will be there to help when needed.
- 🐉 STRONG YES: Tim has been a key player in our community engagements, being level headed and timely in reporting issues related to our real time chain dynamics, exchange issues and community sentiment across the main social media outelets. Very mindful of the big picture.
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Vendors 🦒
💫 George Hughes 🛹:
5️⃣: Kickoff top music partnership, Engaging producer of approved media campaign for team execution. - 🛹 Strong Yes: George continues to add value to the 88 rising relationship.
- 🎥 Strong Yes: George has many plays in motion in media and partnerships that need him to fully realize.
- 📖: George has been a godsend for the MADNFT team, and will help them become a premier, Harmony-centric NFT platform. His work with other partners – from what I have observed – has positioned Harmony incredibly well for the future.
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4️⃣April 2022 Milestones & Deliverables
5️⃣May 2022 Milestones & Deliverables
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