PLAY! Clubs Newsletter - December

Happy New Year to all our beloved Clubbers! The DEV Protocol team wishes you a 2024 full of creators’ prosperity and a happy decentralized economy!

According to some Eastern civilizations, 2024 is the Wood Dragon year, which may influence our wishes to come true. The dragon symbolizes leadership and wood spring. Together have the meaning of by cultivating strong leadership skills as roots of personality, success is guaranteed if the person can seize the right opportunities. With Clubs, creators can not have capacity-building on leadership matters (Or they can?🤔), but they can have many plug-ins and features to enhance their projects with Web3 superpowers.

Before thinking about the future, let’s take 4 to 5 minutes to know how we ended the last month of 2023, shall we?

• As a global product, Clubs must be democratized for all its users. Even though English is the most spoken language in the world, Mayu, our CEO, decided to develop and add a localization feature to Clubs’ webpage. This functionality will detect your language, currently only for EN and JA, and automatically translate the content into the language of your country of residence. On the other hand, Aggre, the CTO, experienced a heavy load of work these past weeks, doing the technical side of business proposals (partnerships with an experience-centric restaurant and big entertainment company should arrive any moment!).

• The business team is preparing a home run for 2024 with the next featured Clubs and partnerships. The release of ANIJINJA, led by Aggre, is part of a strategy to show Clubs’ use cases to make creators aware of our product scope. Also, Kaoru, the Senior business developer of DEV Protocol, delivered a lecture at the TSM focusing on the practical usages of Web3 to the industry, having activated a Club for the occasion (more details about it in the next days). There will be additional news to come related to Japanese local governments, an infrastructure company and more!

• As many of you may know, the second release cycle was deployed last week, and with it, the features of Withdrawal, Clubs KYC, and Clubs shop are live for creators like you! However, the product team has enough time to take care of side tasks like refactoring posts and automating mailing follow-ups. The team had challenging weeks, full of UI/UX feedback and improvements, but the members managed to have everything on time. A round of applause for them! 👏🏼

• The startup world is full of jargon like Boot-Strapping, Ramen Profitable, and, a favorite, Low Hanging Fruit. One of the terms that best describes the governance team is generalist. Contrary to a specialist, a generalist is a person who can practically know a lot of subjects but does not master one in particular. This month the governance team, led by the COO - Mariko, performed some Quality Assurance (QA) tasks, helping the product team to thrive with the release and earning the generalist title by also developing some Social Media content.

Allow us to introduce you to…

Shubham, a member of our Product Team since January 2022, brings a diverse perspective from India. With a range of hobbies that include playing chess, reading books, and recently exploring anime, he embodies versatility. Passionate about building, Shubham actively engaged in hackathons and was notably a finalist at ETHIndia 2023.

Stay tuned for more updates, events, and opportunities to connect and learn in the PLAY! Clubs community!

The DEV Protocol team