🚀 Building a (Rocket)Ship. We are a Day-1 startup. Blockchains are becoming the foundation of the global economy, yet their adoption is at only 1%. That means that you, as a pioneer and developer, are shaping the future with 10X impact. Harmony is a community-driven project with a team wearing crazy ambitions on their sleeves. Because the invincible summer awaits! For creatives, we approve your obsession with user experience. You are a product designer, a brand manager, and an industry analyst all in ONE. Your typical day involves studying what delights and what hurts through hard metrics, writing long-form narratives on the why's and the do's, or scrumming tasks for a product launch to iterate with millions of users. Building a community is like sharing your blue heart while keeping the culture alive for decades – but, if this is your dream of 50 years, start NOW?

1. 4/30 and 5/31 and 6/30: Manager (optionally peers) write feedback and “areas of improvement”.
2. 6/27 Mon: Write ownership percentages, self-assessment on impact, and 3+ peer reviews.
3. 6/30 Thu: 4 strong yes quarterly from core team to retain a fellow and 2 monthly for a contributor.

Guidelines

• Everyone must self-assess quarterly achievements along with their 3 areas of focus and resource allocation. e.g.

• 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.

• 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.

• Everyone should include a review of their own manager and ask for help in specific areas. e.g.

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 ☁

🛹 Peter Abilla 🎽: 70% GameFi, 20% partnership, 10% community

🎸 Jenya Piskunov 🏏: 50% explorer, 30% indexer, 20% multisig

Q2 is noticeable: multisig and explorer indexer do not go out of sync anymore. thanks to protocol team and improvements we made with Artem.

🌲 Sam Harrison 🎽: 85% Games, 10% DAOs, 5% Operations

Q2 was a difficult quarter for me. I transitioned from running the DAO Operations team - who were able to stand up the 1DAO Alliance, reformat the DAO grants guidelines, launch multiple DAO tools, prepare and launch DAO Relations programing and continue to engage the DAOist community - to setting up the Game Guild and GameFi program. This included aligning team vision on “Why Games?” at the off-site, interviewing and preparing the DFK Case Study, creating and managing the Game Pipeline, and preparing a document full of DAO learnings.

☁️ 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.

⚔️ Nita "Soph" Neou 🏃: 25% nodes, 50% services, 25% network releases

In Q2, v4.3.9 was released with a major feature (Proposal 16) to secure the network and improve decentralization, work usually involves working the eng for the initial testing moving to testnet then a safe and secure release to mainnet. Being one of the technical contact with thegraph, I’ve troubleshooted and deployed v4.3.10 containing the last piece of integration required to have thegraph to support Harmony on their hosted environment, it allows us to retire our internally self hosted graph node I also contributed to reduce the cloud cost from $30K to $15K monthly with more plan to reduce the overall cost further in the month to come. We had 3 devops/1 blockchain new engineer joining us and they attended 4 very well received training sessions on Harmony network/tools/services/oncall I conducted. Engineers often reach out to me for advice and helps during their oncall or on on during normal ops with question. One example of help led to the the storJ integration saving us more money in data transfer cost that was higher than 10k USD a month

🐉 Jack Chan 🎽: 20% grants, 50% partnerships, 30% cloud ops

Q2 goals on Grants (and Venture) are to operationalize a new Grant operations team while figuring out how to start spinning the flywheel for the Accelerator program especially with the Venture team (Rocket Monsters, Jia & DeepWaters). We now have a lean Grant team with specific verticals specified in the Ecosystem Group page. Meanwhile, established and launched partnerships especially in Infrastructure with Ankr, QuickNode while strengthening relationships with Chainstack and POKT Network. Partnerships on DeFi (OpenOcean) and wallets (Bitkeep) but the impact was low. Exchanges (B******* & A****) was held up on Marcom and the recent bridge incident.

🎥 Adrian Robison ☁️: 50% Content, 30% Events, 20% Branding

In Q2, my monthly deliverables in all categories changed week by week due to a constant shift in strategy. While many things got done, the focus in what we were doing kept evolving and so did the content strategy (I would say for the better). I did a ton of planning and scouting for the end of year ONEConference, both big and small in scale (as well as domestic and international). The goal posts kept moving regarding what the show would be and I adapted to keep up with the changing dynamics. In the end we settled on a smaller production, currently awaiting funding. An approval for a 1Wallet commercial concept was my quarterly goal, and collectively I presented many different concepts to the table in a variety of different tones and feels. While I feel like the June concept came the closest to final approval, I am still waiting for the official green light to begin production. I helped negotiate our Coachella strategy before it was scaled back, and I was also able to fulfill our first content initiatives in Ghana, Africa. I would say that my biggest accomplishment this quarter has been to transform my team into a content machine. We embraced a workflow with Trello and got ahead big time on content because of it. We got ahead by one to two months worth of social media content (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) by onboarding the scheduling platform Later that we built out and have gotten to the point of posting about twice a day on all platforms (minus YouTube). We have seen our analytic numbers grow across the board, even more so when we jumped posts to twice a day. In addition, I have created a new channel that should go live in Q3 that effectively moves all non-produced content to an “uncut” channel, hopefully with the effect of fueling the algorithm positively (all content has been uploaded awaiting launch). I have directed my team into rebranding Harmony with fresh graphics, thumbnails, landing pages, etc., including directing the completion of the newest version of the Harmony brand bible. I also directed the content team to better brand and present the ONEWeekly video series, helping assist in all the visual elements involved in producing the series. I was originally in charge of making sure that our Paris ETHCC event was big, but effectivley that event got scaled back to no venues and just 3-4 people attending. With that event was an entire high end merch line that I was directed to produce, only for the event to effectively be cancelled and that merch to be used for consideration for our year end event. We do have samples approved from Paris, so in the event we do want to proceed with production we can with shorter windows, effectively bypassing the 3-4 month design window that overseas manufacturers require. I have been back and forth with suppliers regarding a drop ship merch store, but that launch will have to be a Q3 item due to storefront issues on the supplier’s end (our end of the job is done). In addition, I filmed all the content related to our Q3 launches, and have been slowly releasing them when the time is right in coordination with our communcations team. Filming this content included helping write and edit scripts, which helped hone in our message and got amazing community feedback across all platforms because of it. Essentially our content team hit the reset button with new directives, phasing out older “top down mandates” in favor of a cohesive content strategy in tune with the 10x style of content I started with when I first joined Harmony. Lastly, I helped with the crafting our music strategy with 1Music (currently under consideration for a Q3 launch). 💙

⚽️ Abhishek Purushotham 🔭: 50% social media, 30% content marketing, 20% newsletters

• Started this quarter by attending Paris blockchain week and ETHAmsterdam where we engaged with potentially high value gaming projects like Moon Robots and Footballnet. Apart from monthly deliverables like social media content and newsletters, worked on data visualisations showcasing highlights in our ecosystem.
• Since the community sentiment surfaced and the strategy taken after off-site, my focus has specially been on ecosystem updates on the technical side with the aim of doubling down on our SEO efforts. Wrote a few technical articles on ecosystem updates out of which two are trending no.1 on google searches Multisig Staking and Cross Shard Messaging.
• Shared weekly snippets to the community on technical updates within our ecosystem to show that we don’t stop building. Transaction Spamming, ETH-Trustless Bridge Relayers, Crosslink heart beat, Trustless Bridge UI, BTC Bridge Dark Theme, RPC
• Worked with Daniel and team on disseminating the ONE Weekly recaps on our social channels I am responsible for (Twitter, LinkedIN and Facebook)
• Focused on Co-marketing efforts for 1Wallet (waitlist, newsletter, UI, DappRadar, Overview)
• Broke down high value reports from our content partners like dappradar with the focus on Gaming (GameFi Ecosystem, Onboarding gaming Dapps)
• Worked with Hakwan and team on marketing ZKU initiatives: Articles, Threads and Newsletters 💙
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4️⃣: 🔭 Demo: ETHAmsterdam with 5 side events & 10 grantees, 5 media from Paris Blockchain / ETHAmsterdam, 10 data visualizations. 100/75/80%
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5️⃣: 2 medium articles (cross shard msg & ZKU), Twitter recap on ONEWeekly (roadmap & offsite, DEXes, 2022 roadmap), Co-marketing for 1Wallet (waitlist, newsletter, UI, DappRadar, Overview). 100/100/100%
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6️⃣: 4 ONEWeekly recap threads (The Graph, Mid-Year Roadmap, Open Ocean), 6 engineering update overviews (Transaction Spamming, ETH-Trustless Bridge Relayers, Crosslink heart beat, Trustless Bridge UI, BTC Bridge Dark Theme, RPC), Publish 2 technical articles (Multisig Staking, Harmony’s EPoS). 80/100/100%

🔭 Daniel Pagan ☁️: 30% Community, 40% Technical Content, 30% Ambassadors

My time in Q2 was spent primarily on bringing communication and content to the community in an effort to shift sentiment to a more positive light. I also make sure to keep tabs on community sentiment through 1:1 interviews, group conversations, and surveys. In this quarter, I also make sure to encourage my colleagues and direct reports to pivot our external communication to be more focused on technical and ecosystem developments, based on feedback from the community across all social media channels.

Some of the efforts I put forward involved:

• Forming a community sentiment group with trusted moderators, DAO members, and others heavily involved in the Harmony community. This group was formed to stay better informed about community sentiment and to ensure I receive it from multiple perspectives. Here it’s important to receive both the positive and the negative while always encouraging a constructive conversation. The formation of this group has been very helpful in staying in tune with sentiment and in soliciting feedback on new initiatives and ideas. 💙
• Community Start / Stop / Continue — I created and ran a Start / Stop / Continue survey for key members of the Harmony community. This survey was to understand what Harmony should start doing (new efforts), stop doing, and continue doing (existing efforts) from an external communications perspective. Here’s where the idea for ONEWeekly and more push for technical content came from.
• Created the ONEWeekly video and newsletter series. This idea originally came from the community’s desire for the return of Harmony Garage as mentioned in my Start / Stop / Continue survey (above) and comments from community members on Reddit and Twitter. I recruited Logan for the video series and Matthew B. for the newsletter. Some weeks later, I also began to mentor Jeremy S. and requested he begin working alongside Logan and Matthew B. to help co-market our ecosystem partners and to create the pipeline and process to go along with it.
• The ONEWeekly has been a huge success with the community, averaging over 1,000 views per video on our 18,000 subscriber channel, and each video earning an average of 99% likes on YouTube.
• The series and newsletter have both matured over time and we’ve covered a great number of projects and topics since our first episode, again with the great help of Logan, Matthew B., and Jeremy S. Below is just a handful of topics and projects we helped market using ONEWeekly
• iToken, 1Wallet Web and general wallet security.
• Cross Shard updates, EvoVerses, Katelyn Ohashi, Mars Colony, DeFira, Cosmic Universe.
• The Graph, Speed Star, Crypto Arcade, DeFi Kingdoms, Wonder Game
• The Q2 off-site initiatives.
• My work on the ONEWeekly, after its conception, involves assisting with script writing, brainstorming topics of the week, video copy (description, title, timeline, links), thumbnail suggestions, and quality control which itself involves review and edit requests for each video and modifications to the newsletter before publication.
• I also recently began working more closely with Adrian’s team with YouTube shorts. This involves coaching Logan on our shorts (suggestions, script, topics) and posting them with copy to YouTube.
• Organizing all this led me to creating and sharing the Content Guild share Google drive to help the communications and content guilds upload and share our work. This was before content was relabeled comms and vice versa.
• On the management level, I’ve helped my colleagues pivot their priorities to be more focused on pushing technical objectives and accomplishments to the forefront of our external communications. I was also very vocal internally about the importance to reduce our push for DAOs, Blue Apes, and the metaverse, and instead to push more technical content externally and remind everyone that we’re a strong and resilient blockchain with leading technology.
• Once again, the community was thrilled to know that we are technology-focused as seen in our community comments, Twitter, and replies on our ONEWeekly series on YouTube.
• In this quarter, I also initiated co-marketing efforts with our ecosystem partners. The general sentiment was that Harmony was doing a poor job helping projects promote themselves. Taking this feedback, I helped recruit Jeremy S. and laid out the objective and the avenues we can use to help them co-market. Jeremy ran with this and knocked it out the park. We’ve since helped co-market 15 projects this quarter.
• The Q2 Off-site report was written to assure the community that we’re not only listening, but also making adjustments to our priorities. The Q2 off-site had us discuss a number of things but, in the end, we must have a comprehensive list of take-away action items. I wrote the Q2 report after providing feedback, during the off-site, that documented action items were urgent. I sat and spoke with initiative leaders on the last day of our off-site, took detailed notes, drafted the report, and posted it to the community who provided positive feedback. The report highlighted the technical and ecosystem take-away action items and wasn’t just published to our talk forum, but make its way into the ONEWeekly as well.

There are a number of other side projects / other tasks that I’ve performed in the quarter, but these stand out as the most impactful. My efforts were primarily geared towards communication and content that speaks to the Harmony community and ensuring that our voice primarily speaks to the technology and ecosystem we’re known for at Harmony.

🎬 Danny Carranza ☁️: 40% Content (video/photos), 30% Community, 30% Events

Q2 was a quarter of many changes for the content team. In April I personally focused on posting more frequently on our social media, helping double our audience reach from 3K to 6K accounts on Instagram. Furthermore, we were able to capture our first content in Africa, including some of our best footage in unreleased video with locals that has yet to be posted due to shifting initiatives. As we strategize in the upcoming weeks, this content may be posted soon. In May, me and Adrian re-strategized our content plan after the offsite, thus I developed a Game Shard video treatment for our gaming initiative, and helped with the production of our latest roadmap video – both videos outperformed anything we did in the previous two months. Additionally, I helped with venue research and scouting for our ONE conference and began developing a run of show, as well as worked with Adrian and Zi on developing several treatments for a 1Wallet video, however we are waiting to get the go ahead to continue on both initiatives. In June, my efforts were largely focused on developing the right systems and workflow for our content team, implementing new tools like content boards on Trello and a scheduling calendar on Later which has helped our team turn into a well oiled content machine.

What I am most proud of in Q2 is the role that I stepped into as a Content Lead. With Adrian leading the helm in creative vision, I have stepped up to direct the editing team that we have assembled by making sure that videos are edited in a timely manner and on schedule with our initiatives to post content with better strategy and rollout. Furthermore, I have been in the thick of strategizing as to what content we should be creating, giving notes and feedback to editors for quality control, and defining what technical specifications (vertical video, horizontal) are needed for respective social media platforms. Additionally, I have been in charge of scheduling and captioning all posts for Instagram and Facebook in a strategic manner (both in message and aesthetic), where we have been seeing steady growth within the last month. Although I haven’t been able to work with as much of the team in other guilds this quarter, I have been instrumental in helping coordinate and operate the content team as a system and by being the point of contact between our editors, our core team, and our strategy. 💙

⛵ Hakwan Lau 🏏: 30% zero-knowledge, 50% university, 20% fixed-income

⛵ In Q2, as planned, we have grown ZKU to the capacity needed for delivering 100s of products and retaining 100s of devs per quarter. Unfortunately, due to market conditions, we needed to scale back down a bit. However, with our current DAO membership approaching 100, we’re ready to repivot to deliver investment-worthy ZK products with meaningful traction. We continue to think that our approach of gathering a sizable group of zk-developers is correct; this will become an asset for our ecosystem for years to come. For this promise to materialize, I have also been in close contact with different VCs, incubators, and investors. We are ready to showcase what we have built so far, as soon as within Q3, not just as student projects but as business products with market potential. 💙

🎤 Matt McDonald ☁️: 50% biz ops, 50% gaming (50% people ops, 40% events, 10% DAOs prior to June 1).

In Q2, I initially focused on improving our people and event operations. I oversaw the creation of our people ops playbook, which included orientation and HR standards to help our team become more aligned with our operations and culture. Along with a great HR team, I improved and standardized the onboarding process for our contributors and fellows, ensuring that existing employees were brought up to speed on all people ops related items including monthly deliverables, managing notion, timesheets, payroll, benefits, and other team processes. I oversaw the onboarding process for all new contributors and fellows hired in Q2. Additionally, I hosted weekly (sometimes daily for individuals in need) AMA meetings to assist everyone through any pending issues. Prior to our hiring freeze, I authored the BasicDAO proposal and identified 9 signatories that will allow our contributor program to scale and improve how we support our core DAOs on Harmony. For events, I kickstarted the new event operations playbook as we restructured our events team and focus. In addition to my role in operations, I joined the Grants Ops team and managed our inbound hackathon, bounty, and income proposals as well as existing partnerships between Encode (hackathon and accelerator) and DoraHacks (hackathon with quadratic funding). In June, I joined the gaming team and have focused my attention on building a roster of current games on Harmony, a list of top games on other chains to port, and managing our inbound grant proposals and ongoing relations with existing gaming grantees.

💃🏻 Esther Arey 🐉: 50% Events, 30% Operations, 20% Grants

In Q2, I refocused my efforts primarily on events, began efforts in grants, and continued efforts in operations. Throughout the quarter, we structured the events playbook and the Avengers team. With this initiative, I delegated specific tasks and roles to each team member. In my experience with events, I found several missing pieces in our execution and hoped to prevent jobs from "falling through the cracks." Initially, the disorganization and transition were not easy for the team to coordinate, as our team had several members. However, over time our team began working more closely and found their comfort with each other, proving the steps helpful. There is much to be done when events start again. However, I'm confident that we will succeed in reaching builders through events with the right operational strategy in place. A heavy piece of this initiative is tools and resources for our builders and developers--beyond attending the event itself, we must provide resources to teach them how to build. In my work with grants, I focused on proposals for events. My overall goal is to work closely with Ambassador DAO. I believe that our best approach to scalability needs to move beyond the core team itself and utilize the community. Working together would involve ADAO being present at events sponsored, hosting educational meetups, and attending local events to represent our ecosystem and community. With this approach, the local community, or focus, would not be left behind; but continue to build with one another to grow in knowledge and building. In operations, we focused on HR, accounting, and general operations. In Q2, we created several spreadsheets, guidelines, and templates to assist the team through their jobs and expectations. Though there is still much to be done, I hope the operations team continues to structure an efficient strategy that will provide more security and organization to the entire Harmony team. Our team is our greatest asset, and I want nothing more than to make sure they feel safe, valued, and encouraged during their time with Harmony. 💙

🛰️ Max Mustermann: 40% staking, 35% consensus, 25% sync

In Q2, I focused on solving a bunch of QoL problems for the core protocol, for example, time-based transaction ordering which significantly reduced the network spam, and a fix for the network abuse reports from cloud providers received by our external validators. Both of these features were well received by the community of users and validators respectively. Along the same line, I helped introduce minor improvements to the explorer, the watchdog and an internal devops process during my on-call weeks. 💙

Looking deeper into my work, I introduced the cross-shard native token transfer precompile, which has been merged, to help launch the game shard. This follows on easily from my introduction of the staking precompile which helped launch Metamask staking and paved the way for non-custodial staking derivatives. As a follow-on to that, I have been working with a bounty hunter to introduce a read-only staking precompile (which I plan to close out in June) which will help make possible staking derivatives without any outside information / oracles. Meanwhile, I have been working on block sync by replacing the existing database backend with a faster version which is known to have reduced the time required for Ethereum syncing by ~40%. My benchmarks for syncing Harmony are close (~38%) to this assessment although I continue to test a localnet for long-term stability. Besides these specific tasks, I have worked on bug fixes, reviewed code across all of our repositories and security alerts (privately with RJ).

🦒 Brian Felsen ☁️ 30% gaming, 30% music products, 40% NFTs

While new market conditions and learnings have led to changes both in my position and my Q2 deliverables, my having to dive deep into metaverse, games, and NFTs/music in a compressed timeframe has proven fruitful as we aim for a better product-market fit. Direct conversations with over 60 of our game developers and proto-metaverse projects have resulted in several of them into launching on mainnet, and I was able to help them clear blockers and confusion, state and improve deliverables for grants, and gain confidence in our chain. After I switched to the gaming guild, I spoke with several prospective new games and metaverse partners and an incubator/investor; my metaverse experience helped me helped me craft an offering to web2 developers to migrate to our chain, and to communicate the real strength of the ecosystem as being not one of conceptual potential, but as a social space where people can participate in the economy. While establishing the NFT guild, I helped the team state what our deliverables would be with onboarding, partnerships, marketplaces, cross-chain opportunities, utility and tooling, and games. For music, I helped reshape the 1Music proposal from a DAO requiring front-end traditional artist development resources to later use web3 to overhaul the music industry, into one interleaving web3 initiatives and where every tranche of funding would come after delivering a direct benefit to the Harmony community. My extensive research in music NFTs came up with some quite promising opportunities for a strategy. Finally, I helped with ops and metrics for Harmony, taking on 7 contributors with whom I've had regular meetings to state, realign, and meet deliverables, interviewing two candidates for possible positions, and working with the entire team to track and gather metrics in a consistent fashion way that one day hopefully could be automated. 💙

♏️ Gheis Mohammadi 🛡: 10% consensus, 70% core protocol, 20% virtual machine

I joined harmony in 2022, April. new opportunity, new people, process, work flows and all, I was trying to perform well and trying to learn every process. I was working hard on my tasks. RJ and Soph helped me a lot during this period.

I and Soph fixed the Prometheus metrics issue which for a long time was unsolved there. On May I have done a few more tasks after I finished all my assignments in two weeks. Recently I am dedicated mostly on Syncing module. 💙

I have worked on a few bug fixes and code reviews as well and last week for first time I was on-call for maintenance and security alerts.

18 Full Fellows (max 30 hours) 🦒

🧑‍🍳 Victa Phu ☁️ : 50% DApps, 30% Integrations, 20% Dev Support

Q2 was spent enhancing our explorer, contract verification and gnosis safe. I had a lot of challenges setting up the safe since our chain was not fully supported. I spent a lot of time optimising our explorer APIs and contract verification to support requirements from the community. I also spent time supporting the integration efforts for our DAO tools and TheGraph integration. Overall I’m ok with Q2 results, and look forward to challenges in Q3 where we focus on making onboarding non-crytpo users more seamless. My major challenges is being impacted by the headwinds in the crypto-space. I should stop looking at charts and focus more on building out products that our users find a joy to use. 💙

📱 Tejassvi Kaushal 🏏: 70% Bridges, 20% Testing, 10% SDK

In Q2, my primary goal was to build the new btc bridge features such as vault incentive, vault staking and vault retire so that we can get a high volume. The vault incentive feature was deployed on the mainnet. There is no issue found so far and it worked fine. The vault staking feature was finalized and it’s in review. The vault retire feature is in progress now. While working on the btc bridge, I mainly focused on the bridge security as well as the correct implementation. And I really enjoyed the collaboration with the mates. I’d like to bring more value to Harmony by committing my ability. 💙

📖 Devin Marty 🌲: 10% Business Development, 70% NFT Partners, 20% NFT Products

In Q2 my primary goal was to enhance the infrastructure for DAOs via tooling solutions, token marketplaces, compliance solutions, and operational frameworks. While I am no longer serving DAOs directly, there is suitable infrastructure in place for future DAOs, such as our 10+ DAO Tooling partners, 1DAO Alliance, and soon MAD NFTS, Kalamint, and Opolis. Further, these tools are now serving dual purposes for the internal team and our new direction with NFTs. I am proud of the work I put in over Q2, not just with the work produced but the way I spent my energy was collaborative, communicative, and time-efficient. I am eager to take my leadership skills and learnings from the past 6 months at Harmony into Q3 for some big wins. 💙

🏓 Xiaopeng Li 🏃: 40% Decentralization, 40% System Optimization, 20% EVM

In Q2, I have been working mainly on protocol improvements and trustless ethereum bridges, and also have ported a ZKP protocol. CPAE is a ZKP protocol I have ported, it's a universal privacy token protocol and can be used with existing tokens, but the ease of use and gas costs needs to be improved. I also did a lot of optimization of the trustless ethereum bridge, mainly MMR integration and contract optimization. I think we can finally reduce the proof cost of a cross-chain transaction to less than $5, or even lower. 💙

🌀 Bruce Darcy 🏏: 50% Bridges, 30% Security, 20% DApps

I joined Harmony partway through Q2, and its been a pleasure being able to tackle the challenging and interesting problems I have been working on so far. The main area of my focus since joining has been preparing new features for the trustless ethereum bridge, as well as doing some internal auditing on the existing code. The new features in code I have been responsible for include canonical chain tracking for the eth light client, arbitrary message passing across the bridge, and nft bridging support including both ERC721 and ERC1155 tokens. The codebase has been a pleasure to work with, and I’ve enjoyed learning lots of the interesting mechanisms of the ethereum and harmony protocol level stack. My time in the office at the onsite was also great, a lot of good conversations and people. 💙

♒ Nick Vasilich 🔭: 40% Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 40% app partnerships, 20% regional dao

The Q2 market change and cutting our grants program have changed growth initiatives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia led by me. Additionally, changes in structure of our sub-teams to guilds made me totally rethink and re-find the new way on how to work and engage with the projects form the area of responsibility when we don’t pay anything but provide our potential partners (NFT, Game Studios) with technical, marketing support and accelerator program. 💙 The main focus for the first half of Q2 was to engage communities are physically distanced form the US, building Regional DAOs and onboard new promising web3 app to our ecosystem: Despite we stopped funding regional DAOs this initiative created a great harmony boom in many countries among people who are eager to explorer new ways of cooperation in web3 and as a result, we have attracted numerous local supporters, who were helping with many things related to organisation events, spreading word of mouth about harmony that created a flow of inbound applicants for grants. Thanks this our tech advantages as PoS sharding blockchain has obtained a strong position in that regions. Migration to guilds (NFT partners guild in my case) smoothly moved me to the new area of abilities brining classical game development to blockchain. Outcome of that is coming in a shape of different negotiations with huge and tiny gaming studios/teams that are looking to a tech for the integration and implementation gaming mechanics on chain. Their expertise and vision on gaming can evolve us to the leading blockchain company launching #p2e, #gamefi strategies for a wide gamers audience which is coming together with a trusted game-developing industry. cc @Brian Felsen @Peter Abilla

• Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 40%

The estimation of teams form these regions shows that they’re still way behind of industry evolution, but especially this makes them a great area of opportunities for harmony to become the main chain for apps there. Their interest in catching up and running quality products in NFT and gaming on the blockchain is simply colossal - we only have to give them a push! There’s a bunch of projects are looking to cooperate with harmony to launch their projects related to filmmaking, NFTs, Games and educational programs showcasing main trends (NFT, DeFi, p2e) on harmony's real examples even w/o a direct funding from us. This is what I personally am looking to continue working on w/ our gaming and NFT guilds in the next quarter.

• App partnerships - 40%

In Q2 I led hundreds of conversations w/ various teams (online and by attending ETH events in area of responsibility) helped me to supply our grants flow with the welcomed launches and ports that had a great success within our community and attracted new regional blood to our ecosystem (one of them is MoonRobots, who really devoted to us and keep building despite the circumstances).

I contributed to make onboarding process easier and seamlessly working on this together with @Giv Parvaneh, @Jack Chan and @Daniel Pagan

• regional dao - 20%

Regional DAOs set a great basis for evolving regional presence for harmony, in spite of this initiative was paused, but it’s not over and I can assume that we still have a great local presence. The most active regional DAOs governors migrated to our main DAOs which kind of success because we’ve got local voices spreading Harmony.

🐇 Rachel Brissenden 💃🏻: 50% DAO Operations, 30% Business Development, 20% Community

For Q2, many things have changed & pivoted, and I have done my best to consistently adjust and follow through on my deliverables. For a majority of this quarter, I worked on the DAO Operations team, specifically focused on improving our DAO tooling infrastructure. I helped to launch multiple DAO Tools, and coordinated 15 events internationally through Ambassador DAO. This was no easy feat, and took extensive hours of working, planning educational material, onboarding ambassadors, and helping to get merch out to ambassadors with the help of @Miguel Velasco (and other ADAO signatories).

For the month of June, a lot of things have changed. I started the month working on educational content for our DAO tools to encourage adoption and usage (see DAO tool guides) writing scripts and scheduling calls to record with our partners to highlight each project with a demo. I assisted our DAO Operations team in conducting weekly 1DAO alliance calls, and working to guide our DAO community to a better place. We worked on a strategy for us to get 15% user growth in the DAO vertical (however we ended up needing to pivot on this once our DAO Operations team dissolved.) This month I heavily focused on our Opolis partnership and being consistent with our partnership relations and getting workers in Harmony set up with benefits. This will carry into my deliverables for next month as I aim to get Harmony fellows & contributors set up to be tax compliant, having benefits, and be able to show proof of work! I also wrote a script to interview the founder of Opolis, and Adrian’s content team really helped to execute on this initiative.

In these past few months, I’ve grown increasingly passionate about business development and nurturing our partnership relations. Finishing out this month, I am now beginning to work on NFT Partnerships initiatives and market research for NFTs & games. I am eager to grow and continue to learn in these new areas of focus. 💙

🥤Jeremy "Globey” Straughan 🔭: 40% Ecosystem, 20% Partnerships, 40% External Communications

Q2 represented my first quarter officially working within the team structure as a fellow, and what a quarter it has been. My distribution of ecosystem, partnerships and external communications are fairly balanced and I believe represent an accurate breakdown of the last 90 days. Beginning in May, I was tasked with taking stock of our co-marketing efforts and designing a process to onboard our native projects in a way that can highlight new developments, promote organic growth, and provide “love” to projects that have felt neglect in some way.

• (Ecosystem - 40%) Create Co-Marketing pipeline for existing On-chain Projects - Development of Co-Marketing started in earnest in May, running alongside Daniel, Matt, and Logan to promote our existing on chain projects, while collecting feedback about what processes work best for each of our native projects. Development completed in June with a complete and applicable Co-Marketing Playbook that can be used to officially onboard our builders into a relationship between the Protocol and their developers. (The official rollout of this announcement was tabled due to the Horizon Bridge incident and represents a strong piece of ammunition to deploy when we enter into the “rebuilding” portion of our roadmap following the investigation. This represented more than 40% of my time, but as Q2 continued, time optimizations led to a more fluid process and a much more engaged list of partners by the end of June. (see Library for list of highlighted projects) I am most proud of assisting in this effort, as prior to this our personal touch with projects was either limited, or non existent due to bandwidth among other issues. Being able to touch base with projects and their builders and offer assistance, even in non monetary ways, represented a large sentiment shift internally, even if it was not enough to completely mend all relationships in the short time, something I wish I could have done more during the quarter. 💙 Extra proud moment was working alongside @Adrian Robison, @Daniel Pagan, @Kelly Tigera and @Giv Parvaneh in assisting during the last week or so in various capacities.
• (Partnerships - 20%) Ventures Network, Grants V2, Project communication - Initial onboarding through Jack represented early conversations around ways to improve Ventures relationships and quickly led to working with Daniel where approximately 90% of my time during the quarter was spent. A few highlights that represented less than 20% of my bandwidth, but things proud of nonetheless, were contributions to both Grant V2 (during onsite with Al, Richard, Demetri and others) in consideration of quadratic voting, exclusivity, and other notable changes making in the final versions of both documents. Integrating The Ventures network roadmap into the co-marketing pipeline was also a point of focus, although optimizations can still be put into place for both sides of the ecosystem.
• (External Communications - 40%) Every-where and Back Again - The Quarter provided opportunities ranging from working with Kelly on Website redesign content (since paused) and leading User experience interviews, to running emergency comms alongside various members of the team. I believe 40% is an accurate representation of the time commitment and feel it was utilized to its fullest capacity. Proud accomplishments from this period include applying feedback from multiple community members in interviews and preparing immediate feedback for website redesign and drafting both our initial Medium article and hub graphic during the past weeks communications, among other minor emergency comms. Things I would have improved were better preparing a buffer of time to handle shifting focus and initiatives while balancing pre-committed goals.

🧙🏻Francisco Egloff 🚗: 80% Front End, 20% Trustless ETH Unit Testing

For the Fixed Income Product App I completed all the tasks that were assigned to me by my manager (Boris) also have the opportunity to work with Giv and Darren to help them deploying the app for beta testing before we reached the deadline. Sadly, Luna-Terra crash put on hold this project.

Immediately after that, I was requested to work with Unit Testing for Trustless ETH Bridge project. I was able to implement Unit Tests for some of the smart contracts (BridgedToken, FaucetToken) and identified some possible improvements to existing test cases and to the contracts themselves.

☕️ Cathie So 🏏 (since 5/3): _% quantum computing, _% zero knowledge proof, _% circom

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🐐 Michael “Mikey” Benson 🦒: 50% DAO Ops, 30% Grants, 20% Comms

Q2 was a whirlwind. I spent the bulk of Q2 in DAO Operations. My focus has had to shift time and time again. I am impressed with the speed and intensity that I was able to adapt. I am fortunate enough to have 3 strong yes for the month of June to retain employment. I’m grateful that Sam, Matty, and Brian were able to see my value during a volatile month. I believe my positive attitude and my resolve for Harmony are major players. For the next quarter I am excited to continue with The Tiger Team led by Stephen. It is my mission to help Harmony build our way out of this unfortunate market and perception we find ourselves in. 💙

🌳 Al Cheung 🎤: 40% Grant Ops, 30% Venture Partners, 30% Ecosystem Events

In Q2 I led Grants and Investments while scouting for investors to Harmony Ecosystem. There has been of many start, stops, and pivots. Very much a full plate tackling Grants Ops, Ventures Network, and Event Ops. I began at Harmony with primary focus on Grant operations for the day-to-day review (inquiries & follow-ups). Which lead to scouting for value-add projects and investors to our ecosystem at events (NFTNYC & Permissionless). While maintaining my goal to operationalize the Grant Ops, creating a CRM for Investor contacts, maintain healthy relations between project owners and investors, and scout value-add partners to Harmony Ecosystem.

🎞 Andrew Nunes 🎥  (from 4/13):  Editing for Instagram + TikTok 80%, Editing for YouTube 20%

💿 Kelly ☁️: (from 12/18/21) Graphic Design, Content Communications, Media Strategy

The past few months were marked by a number of starts, stop and pivots.  Overall, I think Giv, Daniel and I are on the right track to set up systems and develop to professionalize Harmony’s communications and support growth. It’s been great to work with them both.

Here are the ongoing initiatives I’ve been working on:

• Website:
• Core Leadership Interviews and Alignment: I interviewed all Core Leadership team members to align Harmony’s growth and business priorities into a larger communications plan and content structure for the new website. The Core Leadership’s team was positive and they were happy with the direction of the website development.
• Content Structure: Sketched out 4 options for content structure, reflective of Harmony’s growth priorities and audience. Collected feedback from the leadership. Identified areas needed for content development
• Concept Design Development: Worked with two designers to align messaging and content strategy with design concepts. We had developed 4 options and were receiving feedback from the Core leadership team when this was put on hold. Anh and Thanh were great to work with.
• Community UX interviews: We were in the process in interviewing several community members to garner different perspectives when this was put on hold. Globey and Thanh were great to work with on this.
• Content Development: Created a plan to work with Globey, Daniel and the Developer Growth team to produce content needed for the website. We had developed a plan and had begun writing sections of the website when this was put on hold.
• Communications Strategy & Planning: I synthesized leadership interviews into a centralized communications plan in order to coordinate content production, messaging and scheduling for upcoming product and partnership launches. Giv, Daniel and I worked closely to review the strategy for key announcements weekly and coordinated with project teams to be sure to get maximum impact. I also built a planning tool in excel (soon to be migrated to Asana/Airtable when time permits). Leadership team members appreciated the visibility into the communications planning and upcoming announcements. I hope we can continue to build this out going forward.
• PR firm:
• Gathered referrals, Interviewed 4 potential firms, gathered feedback from Harmony’s internal team and recommended the final selection. I think we found two great consultants that will provide value with Harmony if we can continue those relationships.
• 1 planned Announcement was in process for early July, working in collaboration with the PR consultant and the DAO team. We placed a story in Bloomberg, but the strategy and outreach has halted due to Harmony’s current situation.
• Crisis Communications: Since the hack in late June, all other marketing and communications efforts have stopped to triage the most important problems at hand. I’m working closely with Daniel and Giv to be as transparent with the community as possible, while also being sure we’re following legal counsel. 💙

♠️ Wanhi Lee 🎥 (from 4/1): 70% Video Editing, 30% Visual Effects

Last three months was a quite interesting beginning of the journey for me. Initially my main job was to edit event videos for social media contents so that all the video release can be processed in better and smoother way. The first month of Q2 for me was to adjust myself in Harmony’s echosystem and the visual/audial vibe of the company. I could adapt myself to the guideline of the contents fairly easily and I tried my best to bring out some different creative look without violating the style that had been set up on Harmony. As the direction and strategy changed, I shifted a little bit into visual graphic design for ONEWeekly and 1DAO contents for YouTube. It was interesting and worthwhile process with other members in Harmony other than the video content team. Towards the end of Q2 I could gradually participate more on contents development for 1Wallet commercial project. Bringing creative input on the bigger scale project paid me off with much satisfaction and hope working in Harmony. It is why I am expecting more adventures and challenges in Q3 even in the cloudy and dark situation at the moment. 💙

🎮 Matthew Barrett 🔭: (from 4/1) 70% ONEWeekly, 30% Community Engagement

My time at Harmony started at the beginning of Q2 and has centered around community communications. Beginning as a Harmony investor and loving the technology behind our product, I have always believed that educating the community on Harmony’s technology, ecosystem growth and the general knowledge of our user base are critical factors in developing the Web3 space. This began with our ONEWeekly newsletter series and has expanded into our weekly Video series in a collaborative effort with community member Logendetty. Throughout this quarter, I believe we have seen incredible feedback from our community members as well as partners that we have highlighted in bringing awareness to their platforms.

• Throughout the launch of our ONEWeekly news series, we have been able to successfully highlight numerous ecosystem partners, tout our technology updates as well as bring more team members individual work to the forefront. 💙

I have been pleased with the work we have done throughout Q2 and look forward to continuing that drive as we begin Q3. Improving relationships with project managers, teams and community members are how we create a sustainable ecosystem and I look forward to being an active member in accomplishing this goal in the months ahead.

Personal Q3 goals: I aim to improve my writing skills with a focus on technical writing in addition to being a little more timely with publishing my Notion documentation

🕸️ Amanda Bancroft 💃🏻: 100% Ops

🕸️I joined Harmony at the beginning of Q2, and I have learned from many fantastic individuals on the team. My area of focus began in accounting and events. I developed the bookkeeping structure for event finances, designed the proposal for event budgets and planning, and produced an educational presentation about women in web3. I was invited to join the HR team, where I published the travel expense policy, event conduct guidance, and wrote scripts for HR onboarding videos. Since restructuring the guilds, my area of focus has been business operations. My time working in operations has led me to interact with the entire team, encourage productivity and unity, and assist in necessary daily functions. This past month, I have supported the team in maintaining deliverable updates and communicating review deadlines and guidelines. I have taken on projects beyond my monthly deliverables including logistics for weekly TGI Wednesdays, coordinating the May offsite reservations, paying vendors for event needs, and developing a structure for internal monthly expense reports. I enjoy my time with Harmony and look forward to learning, growing, and thriving with the team. 💙

🦠 James “Flu” Griffin 🌲: Ecosystem Advocacy 25%, Games 40%, NFTs 35%

Q2 has been an interesting time. I have focused heavily on getting a good set of resources together for ongoing communications with developers on chain, and another set of resources for dealing directly with retail investors. I have continued to grow my Harmony specific audience, and have shown, through the time of extreme stress during the recent negative events, to have developed a massive amount of resistance to negative sentiment. Such sentiment is limited on my own socials. I credit my mixed approach (providing criticism publicly as well as praise) for this level of community trust and favor. 💙 I have helped many Core members to gain a communication channel with specific projects, and have prevented several issues from blowing up with quick and early warnings to people like @Daniel Pagan, @Peter Abilla, @Devin Patrick Marty, @Giv Parvaneh, and @Sam Harrison.

🚜 Demetre Gostas 🐉 (from 5/13): _%

I joined Harmony in Q2 and immediately jumped into the DeFi ecosystem on Harmony, reviewing current needs and analyzing cross-chain ecosystems. I worked with existing partners helping test their products and advise them on tokenomics. I joined communications with CEXs for listings and expanded capabilities, like stablecoin on/off support, marketing strategies, fiat card support and staking delgation neogtiations. I chipped in wherever needed, from website, to DAOs, to bridge value props, to treasury management. I helped architect a tailormade liqudity protocol for Harmony called Pipe, which combined the most effective defi pieces from bluechip products on Ethereum to help kickstart TVL. As market conditions changed I pivoted with the team to tackle NFT initiatives. I’ve set up a creator pipeline through Nashville and actively working on NFT product. 💙

📢 Jose Couto:

In this Q2 I joined the team to attend ETH Amsterdam. I scouted, coordinate and manage the access to side events for our team. Also, I reached out several projects from Europe and Latam. During this quarter I worked with the Spanish and Latam community. I had several meetings, both IRL and online with new projects, grantees and DAOs. 💙 I presented a plan for WEF at Davos with others Core Team members, Fellows and Contributors. Found a local event planner with experience in this summit. Finally, our event was suspended, but the plan advancemany considerations for next opportunities. PR and comms experienced several changes in Q2. During this time, I worked in the transition with former colleagues. Preparing for the relaunch I started a translation playbook, did a research on Latam and Brazilian PR agencies and prepare a document with guidelines for comms and PR for Spain and Latam. During this month I assembled local teams in México City and Buenos Aires and prepare a plan for ETH Latam and ETH Mexico. Currently this is a standby plan.

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⌛ Haodi Jiang 🏃: 20% identity token, 30% elastic rpc cluster, 50% game shard bridge

In Q2, as planned, i finished building the identity token mapping system, which can map users' NFT on Ethereum to Harmony, advancing the metaverse ecology. DFK has completed integration as the first batch of partners. At the same time, I worked with Lutty to build Elastic RPC cluster, which realized the automatic scaling and performance improvement of explorer node, reduced the storage space and the number of servers of the original RPC cluster, and greatly saved the investment cost on AWS. Finally, Lutty and I cooperated to finish the integration of Game Shard in Horizon bridge, which is convenient for dApp developers and users to move the token of HRC20 and HRC721 between shard0 and shard1, laying a good foundation for the ecological construction of Game Shard. 💙

⌨️ Lutty Yang 🏃: 70% elastic rpc cluster, 30% game shard bridge

Q2, Haodi and I worked together to implement an Elastic RPC cluster from architecture to design to coding, allowing explorer nodes to automatically scale and bring a lot of performance improvements, reducing the storage space and number of servers of the original RPC cluster, saving a lot of money. The cost of AWS, and then, Haodi and I cooperated to complete the deployment of Game Shard on Horizon bridge, which is convenient for dApp developers and users to transfer HRC20 and HRC721 tokens between shard0 and shard1, laying a good foundation for the ecological construction of Game Shard . 💙

🧩 Yu Yi 🏃: 40% Promotion, 40% Community, 20% business development

In Q2, I started to sync a lot of Harmony's official content to the Chinese community, including the ONEWeekly series of videos and articles on Medium and DappRadar translated into Chinese to promote to CN community, interviewed by Chinese blockchain medias and invited Giv to accept ChainCatcher's interview.

Meanwhile, I guided Chinese dapps to launch Harmony ecosystem, including the cooperation with Go+, a domestic start-up in the field of decentralized security, etc., and promoted Huobi Staking, bybit, and ONTO Wallet to participate in our staking nodes. 💙

Finally, I continued to promote ZKU plan, invited Peking and Tsinghua students to participate in ZKU, communicated and cooperated with metajam and KuCoin, and plan to hold a university hackathon in China in Q3.

👩🏻‍🚀 Kayla Cho 💃🏻: 50% Events, 30% Operations, 20% Community

I joined Harmony’s events team in Q2 where I had the unique opportunity of working with Essa and Amanda. Throughout my web3 journey, Essa is the best mentor I have had and am grateful that she has taken me under her wing to showed me the ropes. My job consisted of up-keeping events on the notion page(s) and making sure that previous events had consistent layouts. I also updated Harmony’s U.S census bureau survey, created spreadsheets, analytics for the ONEConference, made iterations to operations and was involved in partnerships. Through these tasks, I was able to learn the day-to-day intricacies of how Harmony operates. One of my highlights of being part of Harmony is virtually meeting and interacting with genuine, insightful, and hilarious team members. It was no different when I had the opportunity to meet them in person while working at the NFT NYC Harmony x W3BTHR33 Lounge. The past two months have been a net positive experience and I am looking forward to learning and growing to be an asset to Harmony. 💙

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🥑 Miguel Velasco 🎤: 50% Events, 20% Operations, 30% Community Engagement

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