PLAY! Clubs Newsletter - January

Hi Clubbers! This is our first Community Newsletter of the 2024! As we noticed that many members of our community are keen to know more about the Clubs’ progress and functionality releases, we decided to slightly change the structure of our newsletter by focusing more on the product team endeavors. Hence, if you want to know what novelties we are bringing to the table, you have to keep reading.

Check January’s progress

• During 2023, 230K DEV tokens were staked.

• Clubs grew by 5% last month surpassing the 600 opened Club.

• so far, 170 individuals joined a published Club as members.

• On X, former Twitter, we reach a 12% engagement rate.

The verdict of this month is: Positive

Know about what we were up to

Founders

The founder team kicked off the year strongly as they were planning the next moves of Clubs, setting milestones, and reviewing the performance. To avoid one of the common reasons a startup fails, founders engage in conversations with investors to plan the fundraising path of Frame00 Inc., the legal entity of DEV Protocol. Particularly, Mayu, the CEO, has been busy leading the communications and PR strategy, and Aggre, on the other hand, is developing some topic-specialized Clubs to diversify the existing categories of active Clubs.

Business team

In Bolivia, a Spanish-speaking country, we have a saying: “La rompió” (He broke up it) when someone performed an outstanding work or achieved. This month, our senior business developer, Kaoru Kimura, la rompió as he closed a partnership with a key infrastructure company. The agreement is solid proof that Clubs is a versatile product for enterprises where the limit is only the imagination. A featured article will contain more details about it in a couple of weeks. Wait for it!

Governance team

Last January 25th, “Masaaki Taira, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's web3 project team, announced that his proposal regarding the creation of rules for DAOs was approved by the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council on the same day.” His proposal, in short, will create a regulatory framework to accelerate the use of DAO safely. The governance team, led by Mariko - COO, has the same intention. The strategy, which began with Clubs eKYC, will have its second milestone by releasing a series of four articles describing Web3 governance and its regulatory landscape. These reports will be available exclusively for creators with an activated Club, for more details enter here.

Discover what is new in Clubs

There were two major improvements this month, Clubs Shop and Posts. With the prior, creators can now easily create their collections by using different functionalities like timed exclusives and sales quantity restrictions. The latter, Clubs Posts will add exclusivity to creators by including a dedicated feed to membership-only fans.

Additionally, the product team is adding a localization feature to detect and adjust the language of Clubs webpage to Japanese (more languages are coming soon!). On a lesser exciting news, We found some users were abusing the ability to pick any subdomain. Hence, some safeguards were added at the moment to setting the domain.

The never-ending debugging task was also present this month as the product team dealt with some dependency-related bugs, which affected the released features.

Finally, there are, on the developing pipeline, two major functionalities. 1) An admin-only area (currently everyone can access it so that an opt-in permission will be installed) and 2) Free claimable memberships (perfect to attract and retain new fans).

Meet a DEV member

Yash Agrawal is one of our core developers. He joined the team in December 2022. He comes from Mumbai, India- the Island City is known for its nightlife and distinctive street food. Yash enjoys traveling and exploring, however, he is still planning his backpacking trips across Europe. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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

The DEV Protocol team