Intro👋

• LIVE FROM VeeCon🔥

“The Rug Radio team is hard at work. I’m very excited about what we have coming up and I’m very happy and confident in the team that we’re building” - Farokh

Bildr Updates🏗

• Drew posted a video and more screenshots in the Bildr channel in the Discord showing the progress of the Rug Radio platform!
• They have the database built out with hosts and episodes along with dynamic show pages with upcoming and past shows
• Implementing server sided token-gating that checks each for the type of token within a wallet and provides a personalized view
• Next Steps
  • Onboard the hosts and start creating host profiles
• Feel free to hop in the Bildr channel in the Discord to check it out and ask questions!

Team & Content Updates✍️

• Added Kristina to the core team to onboard writers and lead written content!!!

“The goal is to produce content that is topical and timely and filter it out through social media channels.” - Patrick

NFT NYC🔥

• June 20th - 22nd from 10am - 7pm everyday at the SuperChief Gallery, but we’re looking to go bigger!
• June 20th
  • Photography event in partnership with TIME from 10am - 4pm with cocktails and vibes from 4pm - 7pm which is open to the public
  • Curated about 100 artists and they will be able to choose their own artists for a total of 200 photographers showing their work
  • The goal is to include all kinds of photography as well as the community and give a voice to underrepresented artists
• June 21st & 22nd
  • 10am - 4pm will include a small, curated group of speakers with cocktails and vibes from 4pm - 7pm
  • Rug Radio holder only event and we’re working with tokenproof.xyz and Fonz to token gate the event where entry will require holding a Rug Radio NFT (Website coming next week!)

“Day 1, for me, is so important because I’m able to give so much space to these photographers that really have been pushing and haven’t really been recognized.” - John Knopf

RugDAO Council🏛

• On Tuesday and Wednesday, Farokh met with each of the DAO committees and the council has been meeting every Friday
• Timeline
  • June 10th: All framework proposals are going to be finished internally
  • June 17th: All proposals will be finished in the form of a draft and ready for the community to review
  • July 1st: Deadline for the community to submit feedback
  • July 8th: The proposals go into SnapShot for voting by the community
• Once the governance framework is voted on, holders will then be able to submit proposals to help build and drive value to the project

“Not only am I freaking grateful for how hard working this council is, but I’m so impressed by how far they’ve come already.” - Farokh

“The DAO has to be launched properly for the entire project to actually survive and exist over a long period of time” - Mel / Farokh

“I was late to a meeting with the head of sales because I was in the Rug Radio meeting…That’s how important it is to me.” - Daito

“As many community members that feel like they want to contribute, please come forward and help us.” - Vick

“Community, diversity, and inclusion is so important me and I think it was just really reiterated in the meeting today and it’s evident that it is a priority among everyone.” - Kristina

“It’s exciting to see, on the back-end, all the building and coordination happening and how well everyone is assisting each other and working together asynchronously across so many different time zones.” - KΞnobi