Intro👋

• GM GM GM
• “Rug Radio is up on the news that we’re actually building shit” - Farokh
• GM NFT’s hosted by Mando, OSF, and Farokh is getting a lot of traction with thousands of daily listeners
• Big morale change in the Discord and seeing everyone starting to work together
  • Branigan, Jessica, and a bunch of people hosted a VC about Open Metaverse and incorporating Rug Radio into it
  • If you’re a holder, jump in the Discord, verify yourself, and get involved!
• Community Updates
  • Hosted a raffle for 100 allowlist spots for the RunEd collection
  • Running a raffle for 50 allowlist spots for Vhils drop called Layers via Premint
  • 10 art pieces from Refik will be raffled off to the Rug Radio community in the Discord
  • Mysterious buyer of 70 Rugs
• John took care of the venue for the Rug Radio event at NFT.NYC
  • The entire team is planning a multi-day event focused on media and education with more details coming soon!

Behind The Scenes👀

• Mostly a housekeeping week for Amie with a focus on hiring, contracts, and payroll
• Head of Creators has been selected and will be announced soon!
• Next, we’ll be looking for the Head of Partnerships

Partnership Updates🤝

• Bildr
  • Mark
    • First week so we’re spending time planning and setting up wireframes
    • Next week, start dropping alpha and screenshots in the Bildr channel in the Discord
      • The goal is to get feedback, build together, and educate the community
    • Super excited to lead the way with a brand like Rug Radio!
• MetaScapes
  • Article went up on Medium, Twitter, and Discord officially highlighting Metascapes and the Rug Radio partnership
  • Hosted Cath and the team on GM NFT’s on April 28th
  • Excited for NFT Iceland and helping support their mission to onboard photographers from Web2 to Web3

RugDAO Council🏛

• Working groups have been set up with each group having 3-5 council members
• Daito
  • Part on the voting committee
  • Looking a variety of voting structures such as moloch, quadratic, conviction, and vote-to-earn
• Loxley
  • Part of the Sub DAO committee
  • Vick proposed a community driven input process on how to structure it
• Mike Kriak & Berndawgler
  • Tokenomics committee
  • Mission is to work with the core team to understand the market, protect the treasury, and ensure the tokenomics structure is working within the ecosystem
• Spencer
  • Partnerships committee
  • Seeking out opportunities for partnerships with both Web2 and Web3 companies & brands
    • Looking to challenge the status quo of what partnerships look
  • “It’s not just a partnership with Rug Radio, the real partnership is Web2 & Web3 and bridging the gap between them.”
• Andre
  • Creators committee
  • Working to establish the foundations to best support Rug Radio creators

Open Metaverse🌇

• Farokh reached out to Punk 6529 and the team and this is what they told us:
  • “Tell them that we are going to work together to create a badass area for the Rug Radio community. We welcome all of you with open arms and want this to be your space, however you want to design it…with our help, of course.”
• We are going to be creating a Media District and Rug Radio will be the anchor tenant
• In the coming weeks, we’ll be able to do our shows live from the Open Metaverse
  • We’ll also be able to integrate our NFTs for access to token gated areas

Quick break for an UNOFFICIAL Dyson Advertisement from John.

Miscellaneous💬

• “A big thank you to the entire team and we’re going to keep building and building and building.” - Farokh
• Written Content
  • Ramp up and start creating solid written content in the near future
  • Branigan launched the Rug Radio Rag which is an independent news source for Rug Radio
  • Branigan and Ryguy working on notes for the Town Hall
• SLOTH
  • Award winning artist and illustrator with the best vibes

Q&A❓

• What direction will Rug Radio go as a media company? Will we be representing other Web3 companies, NFT communities, DeFi, etc?
  • Primary focus will be creators and education in the Web3 space, but won’t be restricted to one specific type of content or topic
  • Currently working on what partnerships look like within the ecosystem