Diamond DAO Newsletter

Diamond DAO - Talent Network

## Welcome to Data Feed

Data Feed is back after a summer hiatus. This week’s update focuses on Chainverse Portal progress and developments with Diamond DAO’s partnerships.  

### Chainverse Portal

Chainverse Portal will be the leading data & analytics platform for understanding the networks driving value in Web3. 

With Chainverse, users will be able to enter a search, identify a community or person of interest, visualize the trust and affiliation networks of that person or community, and access context about how to engage further with that person or community.

Chainverse Portal will also feature research & analysis from Diamond DAO domain experts about the most innovative communities in Web3.

Chainverse Portal subscribers will receive $DMND token, which can be redeemed to commission research & data analytics services from the Diamond DAO community.

We envision a broad range of use cases for Chainverse Portal, ranging from lead generation for BD to market research for product designers and product marketers. 

However, our initial focus will be empowering investors and research analysts explore emerging niches, identify the most influential builders, conduct market research, and perform due diligence.

To this end, Chainverse Portal will launch with the most comprehensive graph of angel, venture, incubator, and DAO investment activity in Web3 and an in-depth analysis of the Variant Fund ecosystem.

### Partnerships

**RADAR - The Futures Protocol**

Diamond DAO completed a pipeline to ingest “signals” of emerging trends shared by curators in the Radar discord into a Radar-owned knowledge graph.

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**Protein - Developing a Framework for Good Growth**

Diamond DAO completed an ML-driven analysis of “Good Growth” definitions submitted by [Protein Community](https://protein.xyz) members. 

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### Community Gems

* Diamond DAO co-founder Jordan Olmstead was quoted in a [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2022/08/09/us-treasury-sanctioning-tornado-cash-unleashes-max-chaos-in-the-crypto-universe/) article about the implications of US sanctions against Tornado Cash. The article was written by Eric Mack, co-founder of Journo DAO, a Diamond DAO partner.
* Jordan also published an article on Blogchain about how a former F-16 fighter pilot is using DeSci [to re-invent how UFO research is funded and conducted.](https://blogchain.app/p/unidentified-funding-organizations-part-1/mMH0penQAl) 

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Diamond DAO Data Feed - Chainverse Portal, Partnerships

## Welcome

Welcome to Data Feed, Diamond DAO’s weekly newsletter.

## Chainverse Portal

Diamond DAO is preparing to launch Chainverse Portal in August, with access to our research library and **Chainverse Explorer**. Read more about this announcement in our [July 7th update](https://paragraph.xyz/@dmnddao/open-source-chainverse,-partnerships,-and-ipfs-on-the-moon).

The Diamond DAO Talent Network is busy working on deep dive knowledge graphs of the blockchain gaming ecosystem and the impact of Variant fund in web3. These are both examples of emerging uses of technology and capital that are fast moving with many interconnected themes - perfect for collective, graph-based search and discovery.

## Trend Spotting with Radar

[Radar](https://twitter.com/radarxyz), a community owned and powered “futures engine” of cultural trends, signed a contract to implement a hosted Chainverse database to ingest signals from their Discord server into a collective knowledge graph. Then they’ll build custom dashboards and KPIs using [Chainverse OS](https://github.com/DiamondDAO/chainverse-os) and data models designed by Diamond DAO.

## Multicoin, Arweave Engagements

Last month we completed two paid engagements to map ecosystems using Chainverse and deliver analytical reports. Both focused on developing a deeper understanding of the Arweave ecosystem, both for Multicoin Capital (early Arweave investors) and for the Arweave organization itself.

## Application improvements

The Engineering team has been refactoring the [Chainverse UI](https://staging.chainverse.diamonds) and upgrading our infrastructure to improve performance. We’ve also integrated the first open source component of Chainverse OS  - Search. If you’re using our application you should notice much faster load times.

## Data Feed

* Twitter user [@solanobahn](https://twitter.com/solanobahn) writes an [interesting thread](https://twitter.com/solanobahn/status/1547604262527463424?s=20&t=MlEHu6MrJL7CynW3wqW_Bg) about the centralization of infrastructure supporting the decentralized Ethereum network
* [The Metagovernance Project](https://metagov.org/) teamed up with [verses.xyz](https://twitter.com/verses_xyz) to analyze various DAO constitutions and [recommend five best practices, along with templates for writing your own](https://constitutions.metagov.org/)

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Chainverse Portal, Trend Spotting with Radar, and Completed Engagements

## Welcome

Welcome to Data Feed, Diamond DAO’s weekly newsletter. 

## Chainverse

Diamond DAO is busy preparing for the August launch of Chainverse Portal.

Chainverse Portal Subscriber NFT  unlocks Diamond DAO's research library, research requests to Diamond DAO’s talent network, and access to **Chainverse Explorer**, the most powerful Web3 search engine. 

Chainverse Explorer is one of several components we are building to help Web3 communities collect, organize, explore, and ultimately make better decisions with their collective knowledge.

The Chainverse engineering team will be open-sourcing many of these components so communities have the flexibility to incorporate them within their own applications.

If you’re interested in following our open-source development check out the [Chainverse OS Github repo](https://github.com/DiamondDAO/chainverse-os).

## Partnerships

**Radar**

[Radar](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=radar+futures+protocol) is building Futures Protocol to identify emerging cultural trends and incubate projects that capitalize on those trends. 

Diamond DAO deployed an [interactive dashboard](https://radar-354805.ue.r.appspot.com/) to help Radar make sense of “signals” shared by Radar’s curators.

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ecbe6729391c89d6608533c02df2cda1)

The Radar community is [reviewing a proposal](https://www.notion.so/chainverse/Radar-Proposal-71b185ebd8844d3b89cb3e159d76f261) to implement Chainverse to advance several data & analytics initiatives.

## Data Feed

**Protocol Labs goes to the moon and back**

* Protocol Labs Research [announced an RFP](https://research.protocol.ai/blog/2022/new-open-problems-in-private-data-retrieval/) to develop “protocol-compatible primitives allowing people to interact privately with Web3 content.”
* Lockheed Martin and the Filecoin Foundation [partnered](https://payloadspace.com/lockheed-and-filecoin-foundation-partner-to-deploy-ipfs/) to deploy IPFS “for future use in lunar communications.”

**Arweave launches pilot program for Arweave Name Services (ArNS)**

* [Arweave Name Service](https://twitter.com/ar_io_network/status/1542187275211214852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1542187275211214852%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.securities.io%2Farweave-announces-the-launch-of-the-arweave-name-system%2F) will enable users to access content on the Arweave Permaweb with human-readable domains. 

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Open Source Chainverse, Partnerships, and IPFS on the Moon

*Apologies for re-sending. We forgot to store the original on Arweave!*

## Chainverse

**NeoDash fork accelerates product development & customer outreach**

Diamond DAO data engineer Rohan Bansal shipped a fork of NeoDash, a an open-source Neo4J tool for building no-code dashboards.

The fork includes detailed deployment steps, empowering Diamond DAO contributors to quickly spin up interactive dashboards powered by Chainverse data.

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Learn more about how NeoDash accelerates Chainverse product research and business development outreach [here](https://www.loom.com/share/959b351a2fe1445891aab8cf7f03b3e5).

**Artists and engineers collaborate on NFT for Chainverse Portal subscribers**

Diamond DAO artist Jung Bourbon collaborated with the Diamond DAO product team to create an NFT for Chainverse Portal subscribers.

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Portal NFT holders will enjoy special priveleges within Chainverse Portal, including exclusive research & analysis, access to tools for exploring Chainverse data, and the ability to submit research requests to the Diamond DAO talent network.

**Full of excitement for our full-stack engineer**

The Diamond DAO engineering team welcomed Jose Zena as a senior, full-time, full-stack engineer. Jose will initially focus on improving Chainverse search.


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## Partnerships

* Finalized terms on JournoDAO partnership. Meeting Tuesday June 28th to begin work on first investigation for Chainverse Portal.
* Preparing to onboard first cohort of users from Protein Community to landscape communities relevant to their exploration of Good Growth.
* Preparing to expand Arweave partnership based on feedback from pilot.


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## Community Gems

* Diamond DAO investor and contributor Sky joined [DAO Talks](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-dao-it-a-podcast-for-people-starting-daos/id1630815761), a podcast designed to help people who are starting DAOs.


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## Data Feed

* **DAOn the Rabbithole** podcast [dived into delegation](https://twitter.com/samanthajmarin/status/1540084825524015110?s=20&t=pN9Gk5y2pI6sIZIgg5ACvg). One finding: 75% of Compound delegates have never voted!
* **Uniswap** [acquired](https://twitter.com/scott_eth/status/1539308321919754241?s=21&t=lKlg9OpVUnvfg_bUKKMo2g) NFT marketplace aggregator **Genie XYZ.**
* **Lit Protocol** [published a guide](https://blog.litprotocol.com/?p=lit-x-bundlr-x-arweave-guide) to storing and retrieving access-controlled data with **Lit Protocol**, **Bundlr Protocol**, and **Arweave**.
* **Chainalysis** published an analysis of DAO governance trends -- [apparently many DAOs aren’t actually that decentralized](https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/web3-daos-2022/)?
* Vietnam-based **Vinacapital Ventures** [acquired a stake](https://technode.global/2022/06/27/vietnams-vinacapital-ventures-takes-stake-in-web3-data-analytics-firm-m3ta/) in Web3 data and analytics firm M3ta, which aims to help token networks understand their communities.

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Diamond DAO Data Feed - June 28

## Chainverse

**NeoDash fork accelerates product development & customer outreach**

Diamond DAO data engineer Rohan Bansal shipped a fork of NeoDash, a an open-source Neo4J tool for building no-code dashboards.

The fork includes detailed deployment steps, empowering Diamond DAO contributors to quickly spin up interactive dashboards powered by Chainverse data.

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6f9013e8009749664f6e9213f56af100)

Learn more about how NeoDash accelerates Chainverse product research and business development outreach [here](https://www.loom.com/share/959b351a2fe1445891aab8cf7f03b3e5). 

**Artists and engineers collaborate on NFT for Chainverse Portal subscribers**

Diamond DAO artist Jung Bourbon collaborated with the Diamond DAO product team to create an NFT for Chainverse Portal subscribers. 

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c652c282e78885c54038cc310db986c5)

Portal NFT holders will enjoy special priveleges within Chainverse Portal, including exclusive research & analysis, access to tools for exploring Chainverse data, and the ability to submit research requests to the Diamond DAO talent network.

**Full of excitement for our full-stack engineer**

The Diamond DAO engineering team welcomed Jose Zena as a senior, full-time, full-stack engineer. Jose will initially focus on improving Chainverse search.


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## Partnerships

* Finalized terms on JournoDAO partnership. Meeting Tuesday June 28th to begin work on first investigation for Chainverse Portal.
* Preparing to onboard first cohort of users from Protein Community to landscape communities relevant to their exploration of Good Growth.
* Preparing to expand Arweave partnership based on feedback from pilot.


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## Community Gems

* Diamond DAO investor and contributor Sky joined [DAO Talks](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-dao-it-a-podcast-for-people-starting-daos/id1630815761), a podcast designed to help people who are starting DAOs. 


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## Data Feed

* **DAOn the Rabbithole** podcast [dived into delegation](https://twitter.com/samanthajmarin/status/1540084825524015110?s=20&t=pN9Gk5y2pI6sIZIgg5ACvg). One finding: 75% of Compound delegates have never voted!  
* **Uniswap** [acquired](https://twitter.com/scott_eth/status/1539308321919754241?s=21&t=lKlg9OpVUnvfg_bUKKMo2g) NFT marketplace aggregator **Genie XYZ.**


* **Lit Protocol** [published a guide](https://blog.litprotocol.com/?p=lit-x-bundlr-x-arweave-guide) to storing and retrieving access-controlled data with **Lit Protocol**, **Bundlr Protocol**, and **Arweave**. 
* **Chainalysis** published an analysis of DAO governance trends -- [apparently many DAOs aren’t actually that decentralized](https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/web3-daos-2022/)? 
* Vietnam-based **Vinacapital Ventures** [acquired a stake](https://technode.global/2022/06/27/vietnams-vinacapital-ventures-takes-stake-in-web3-data-analytics-firm-m3ta/) in Web3 data and analytics firm M3ta, which aims to help token networks understand their communities.

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## Chainverse

This sprint the Chainverse engineering team will focus on shipping an MVP portal for Chainverse “subscribers” this week.

Chainverse Portal will be a token-gated area where subscribers can review Chainverse research & analysis and make research requests to the Chainverse talent network.

The engineering team will also be on-boarding a senior full-stack engineer who will initially focus on improving the Chainverse UI’s search functionality.

## Partnerships

* Diamond DAO is partnering with [JournoDAO](https://journodao.xyz) to fund research and analysis of fraud in Web3 communities. JournoDAO will leverage the Chainverse UI and Chainverse data to supercharge their research.
* Diamond DAO attended two workshops to learn more about [Protein Community](https://protein.xyz)’s Good Growth research agenda. Protein Community members will use the Chainverse UI to landscape opportunities for Good Growth within Web3 and beyond.

## Community Gems

* Knowledge graph specialist [Omar](https://twitter.com/Ozhar) published a [framework](https://diamond.mirror.xyz/HEaF6fYZi9-GrPDpHOv12zPmp8Yfg-Mn1sPLGoJWd9E) for applying Neo4J Graph Data Science (GDS) algorithms on the Chainverse knowledge graph
* Diamond DAO co-founders Christian and Jordan published an [article](https://diamond.mirror.xyz/pCavQfP-DvJ1fjsXXPjFI0dOVB7ouCSvL99C6XMcR_s) summarizing and categorizing each article included in the Mirror Writing NFT launch on Optimism.

## Data Feed

* Chainalysis announced its annual “State of Web3” report. You can reserve your copy [here](https://go.chainalysis.com/2022-web3-report.html).
* Music NFT analysis platform Neume Network [launched](https://twitter.com/timdaub/status/1537449428147003392?s=21&t=E99gS9OOS4jTRI_m81klhg) its v 0.0.1, which ingests all Music NFTs and related transactions from Catalog, Sound, and Zora.
* ZachXBT published an [on-chain analysis](https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1537438141321056257?s=21&t=E99gS9OOS4jTRI_m81klhg) exploring how a prominent figure in the Machi community *allegedly* embezzled over 22,000 ETH.
* Flur.ee, a blockchain-powered semantic graph database, [discussed its platform](https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fluree---the-web3-data/register) at an Austin blockchain meetup.
* Web3 data & analytics platform The Tie is [hiring](https://web3.career/data-scientist-crypto-thetie/30389) a “Web3 data scientist.”
* [Holder.xyz](https://www.holder.xyz/), a Web3 CRM platform for “NFT projects and token communities” launched. Holder integrates on-chain data with social media data to help clients understand their customers and find leads.
* [Nansen](https://decrypt.co/102958/dump-discord-nansen-launches-messaging-app-for-web3-communities) launched a messaging service for Web3 communities, taking on Discord.


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Diamond DAO Data Feed - June 21

# May / June Update

## Summary

Diamond DAO on-boarded its first two customers to Chainverse in June.

In response to customer interest in data on Web3 ecosystem partnerships, the engineering team shipped  functionality to the Chainverse UI enabling analysts to quickly add data on different types of partnerships -- ranging from joint marketing initiatives to product integrations.

Our biggest priority for July is launching Chainverse Portal, a token-gated area for subscribers to access research & analysis on emerging Web3 communities. Subscribers will also use the portal to submit requests for research, analysis, and data product proofs of concept.

The Chainverse Portal will be "top of the funnel" for other UIs and data products built off of the Chainverse Knowledge Graph.

## Token Updates

We delivered our first allocation of [DMND token](https://etherscan.io/token/0x7ad50d8E0FD4c53648D71f66e4D7FcDf423D6e61) to Chainverse Genesis Cohort participants.

We will compensate past and existing Diamond DAO contributors with an allocation of DMND token in mid-July.

The DMND token will have utility in the Chainverse Portal; holders will be eligible to create and vote on requests for research, analysis, and proofs of concept.

## Partnerships and Community Engagement

Diamond DAO held a workshop with [Protein](https://www.protein.xyz/) a Web3 community focused on promoting "good growth" in distributed communities, to brainstorm how Protein members can use Chainverse to develop and promote good growth indicators.

Diamond DAO held a workshop with RADAR, which is building a protocol to identify emerging cultural trends, to brainstorm how [RADAR](https://mirror.xyz/0x149D46eC060e75AE188876AdB6b24024637003C7/2uT8eKm8a_-XLzbMIxKW76vH_21yzm6QcScJNGlIN_M) can use Chainverse to track and analyze member contributions.

Diamond DAO co-founder [Jordan Olmstead](https://twitter.com/amphib0ly) and Electric Capital engineer [Enrique Herreros](https://twitter.com/eherrerosj) [won a 2 ETH grant](https://prop.house/proposal/410) to conduct a "Know Your Community" analysis for Lil Nouns, a Nouns Ecosystem project. Diamond DAO plans on using the project as a proof of concept for a more expansive data & analytics project for the Nouns ecosystem.

## New customers

* Multicoin Capital commissioned analytics on a leading L1 blockchain via Chainverse
* Arweave commissioned a pilot to use Chainverse data and the Chainverse UI to power their ecosystem page

## Content

* [Good Citizens, Good Customers](https://mirror.xyz/0x6B431d4c7Fe98825873c70d5c89Ea5FeF5E3Aa6C/keIwbMRscgFokQ7U-x8CM8vq0K1SAR9bqYHb7M_g7Jk) explores how Chainverse data can help NFT marketplaces understand creators and collectors

## By the Numbers

It can be difficult to keep up with what's going on at Diamond DAO, with activity spread across Twitter, Discord, the Chainverse application, email newsletters, and (of course) multiple blockchains.

Here are some metrics to get acquainted with Diamond DAO's growing community:

* Treasury size: $620,000
* Estimated June spend: $35,000
* June revenue: $7,500
* Chainverse Talent Network Members: 15
* DMND token holders: 12
* Newspaper subscribers: 38
* Communities covered by Chainverse Knowledge Graph: 6,788
* Wallets covered by Chainverse Knowledge Graph: 495,590
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dmndDAO) followers: 746

## How to help


1. [Subscribe](https://paragraph.xyz/@dmnddao/subscribe) to our newsletter
2. Refer engineers, data scientists, product managers, community specialists, and other Web3 domaine experts to our Talent Network to access paid research & analysis opportunities
3. Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dmnddao)!
4. Join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/85R3EQDzFz)!

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May / June Community Update

## This week in Diamond DAO

## Chainverse

The market might be down, but Chainverse is heating up, with analysts adding research & analysis on over 100 Web3 communities in the last two weeks! 

**Building Blocks**

When we first launched Chainverse, the only way curators could add context and relationships to our knowledge graph was through *Note* blocks.

Note blocks enable users to associate context and tags with entities in the Chainverse knowledge graph. 

For instance, the *Note Block* below associates Arweave, Arweave ecosystem company Ardrive and the NFT video game company Gridacity with the “video game” and “custom NFT video game Pulsar 79 with the “video game” and “customer” tags.

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9f15f17d781006f22f37db286634794f)

For instance, a user interested in exploring companies using Arweave can search for “Arweave customers” and view a graph of Arweave customers and partners.

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6fe17c6a40ccb9b4dabe522950de67f9)

We received feedback from early users that adding more specific block types would be helpful to guide their research and analysis.  

So we shipped the first two (of many) new block types: **Partnership Blocks** and **Entity Blocks.**

 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7d43b8ea243cdb01af6fe44f7b889c0e)

**Partnership Blocks** empower users to represent partnerships (commercial or otherwise) between two entities:

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**Entity Blocks** empower users to associate key identifiers (like wallet addresses and websites) to entities in the Chainverse knowledge graph.

## Community Gems

* Diamond DAO co-founder Christian Lemp [wrote the]() [first](https://www.emergentoutcomes.xyz/p/simulation-storytelling-impact-and?s=r) in a series of articles about simulating impact and value dynamics for tokenomic design.

## Data Feed

* [Filecoin announced](https://twitter.com/filecoin/status/1536020252110225409?s=21&t=lMUVxQ9LnPP3x2z6fOG-Qw) a course on building Web3 application with Filecoin and IPFS
* Forefront released the [Terminal](https://www.terminal.co/) [dashboard](https://www.terminal.co/), which provides data & analytics on a set of prominent token communities
* Blockdaemon is [hiring a Senior Product Manager, Data](https://web3.career/senior-product-manager-data-blockdaemon/10111) to “to bring measurable product and business insights to our product management practice, and to partner with engineering to build out new, crypto/blockchain data related products and services.” 
* Rplust wrote an [analysis of Writing NFTs](https://mirror.xyz/web3datadegens.eth) for Web3 Data Degens on Mirror.

Join us on [Discord!](https://discord.com/invite/GrJvYscs2M)

Apply to the [Talent Network!](https://chainverse.notion.site/Talent-Network-Invitation-46a27c02fcd740d9adf655dbd765ec38)

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Diamond DAO Weekly Update - Edition 4

# Lots of news

Welcome to the Chainverse newsletter -- much to share this week, including two new sections:

* Community Content, featuring writing and analysis published by the Diamond DAO community
* Data Feed, featuring updates around the Web3 data ecosystem relevant to investors, builders, and collectors

## Chainverse

After several weeks of intense engagement with potential customers, it has become clear that their data needs revolve around growth:

* Protocols need better data to understand and cultivate their ecosystems
* Asset managers need better data to intelligently direct capital
* Marketplaces need better data to increase sales by through better discovery & recommendations tooling and more context around creators and collectors

Counter-intuitively, the bear market creates an opportunity for Diamond DAO and Chainverse; as budgets tighten, Chainverse will provide data and analysis empowering with them with a better understanding of the communities that matter to them.

We are piloting three offerings to take advantage of this opportunity:

**Chainverse for Community**

Newcomers often struggle to find their place in large communities, driving churn and burnout.

Community documentation generally lacks the context potential community members need to understand what the &#$% is going on and find opportunities to contribute. documentation is generally limited, out of date, and unengaging.

Large communities can use the Chainverse UI as "map", enabling community members to explore key entities and relationships within the ecosystem.

This week we booked our first deployment of Chainverse for Community with Arweave.

Pursuant to our agreement, researchers in the Diamond DAO talent network will landscape the Arweave ecosystem, and the Diamond DAO product team will design a prototype for a "white label" version of the Chainverse UI for Arweave to host its upcoming "ecosystem" application.

Diamond DAO members can review additional details about our agreement [here](https://litgateway.com/files/view/8f0785eb-eae6-4ded-96c9-9109fc98f2a4).

**Chainverse Research**

Investors and protocols are struggling to navigate a fragmented, incomplete, and dynamic information environment.

Ultimately, Diamond DAO will build UIs for power users to directly query Chainverse data for discovery, due diligence, and market research.

We are starting with mixed-method (i.e. qualitative and quantitative) research engagements to develop a better understanding of what data investors and protocols need and how it should be delivered to them.

Diamond DAO is connecting DAO members to research assignments relevant to their areas of expertise -- whether DAO operations, Web3 data & analytics platforms, or the use of ZK proofs in Web3 games.

Diamond DAO researchers can leverage Chainverse data and the Chainverse platform to efficiently address client research requests.

By connecting clients to talented & well resourced researchers, we save both time for both -- clients get answers quicker, researchers find paying work quicker.

We are putting the finishing touches on two Chainverse Research engagements -- a due diligence report for an investment fund and sectoral research for a DeFi protocol.

**Chainverse Analytic Consulting**

Two of Diamond DAO's biggest assets are its knowledge graph, covering over 6,000 Web3 communities, and its community of data analysts and data scientists.

Diamond DAO is exploring opportunities to apply Chainverse data and analytics to NFT marketplace growth challenges -- specifically discovery & recommendations and audience insights.

Right now, Diamond DAO members are ingesting datasets from niche marketplaces -- ranging from Catalog to PartyBid -- to develop insights positioning Diamond DAO to consult a marketplace on the challenges outlined above.

We are still in early stages here, so please reach out to Jordan or Christian with leads!

**UI should not be a blocker**

In the past, we made the mistake of building UIs around hypotheses, not solutions. Chainverse Community, Chainverse Research, and Chainverse Analytic Consulting are all ways for Diamond DAO to design generic data delivery mechanisms - whether APIs or UIs -- aligned with real customer problems.

that helps protocols and marketplaces reduce analysis Web3 stakeholders to make data-informed will be an opportunity to reduce marketing spend
Over the next two months, Diamond DAO will pilot two Chainverse offerings to develop a better understanding offerings with protocols pilot programs with protocols, investment DAOs, and NFT marketplaces

## Community & Governance

Diamond DAO's talent network is growing. The talent network is carefully curated to represent the diverse range of skills and perspectives needed to execute on client research engagements -- ranging from journalists, consultants, product managers,  artists, educators, and data scientists.

We are recruiting for the talent network with an eye to support three research initiatives:

* Web3 data and analytics infrastructure/tooling
* DAO operations best practices
* Blockchain gaming

If you're interested in researching answers to real problems faced by organizations at the leading edge of Web3, apply to our talent network [here](https://chainverse.notion.site/Talent-Network-Invitation-46a27c02fcd740d9adf655dbd765ec38)!

## Data Feed

**Llama digs deep into contracts to produce TribeDAO Quarterly Financial Report**

> As Llama prepared the Quarterly Financial Report for TribeDAO, it became apparent that some of the data was going to be very difficult – or even impossible – to get via our Dune dashboards...Dune only had 200 assets showing in the tables, and there was no table available which mapped Fuse Pools, cTokens and underlying assets... By writing custom code to query an Ethereum archive node, we were able to build a picture of the platform fees accrued in each Fuse Pool over time

Read the full article [here](https://llama.mirror.xyz/n02obRhyoPPebqMGBUNORRB6pXegZh8OpVh33aOkmcQ).

**DIYgod launches Unidata to make sense of messy NFT data**

*[Source](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/unidata)*

> The EIP-721 standard ETH NFT used has a very "flexible" format. An NFT image may use various fields, such as image image_url or animation_url. Depending on the publisher's preference, it might not even be an image at all; it could be a video, a 3D model, etc. The inconsistent formats cause a lot of problems for its front-end presentation...Unidata has designed a series of user-friendly and uniform data specifications, divided into four sections - Profiles, Links, Assets, and Notes, and Ethereum NFTs fall under the Assets specification. With a fixed data format returned by Unidata, the front-end no longer has to do the troublesome work of adapting a confusing data format

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**HiFi Labs offshoot Neueme Network launches to provide data layer for Music NFTs**

*[Source](https://neume.network/posts/hello-world)*

> neume is tasked with indexing all activity within the emerging Web3 Music industry. It will provide the infrastructure needed to easily spin up platforms that experiment with showcasing Web3 Music and the endless potential of deeper connections between Artists and Fans.

If you're interested in contributing to Neume (we are!) check out their [Git](https://github.com/neume-network).

**Data Wizard Andrew Hong launches creates repo with practice problems for aspiring Web3 data analysts and data scientists**

*[Source](https://github.com/andrewhong5297/web3-data-practice)*

### Community Gems

* Jordan, Diamond DAO product lead, published an article analyzing whether authors on Mirror who frequently vote in DAOs publish more frequently -- the answer was no. You can read it [here](https://mirror.xyz/0x6B431d4c7Fe98825873c70d5c89Ea5FeF5E3Aa6C).
* Angela, Diamond DAO design lead, published an article with an [insider's view](https://paragraph.xyz/notes) of Diamond DAO's approach to product design.

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Diamond DAO Weekly Update - Edition 3

*This week we’re sharing an inside view into the product development process for Chainverse written by [Angela Liu](https://twitter.com/angelaliu22), the Chainverse design lead.*

**The Genesis Cohort**

During the month of April, DiamondDAO invited a group of 11 web3 founders, researchers, and enthusiasts to participate in a closed beta release of Chainverse’s MVP. We called this early group of users the Genesis Cohort, and they provided invaluable feedback for the direction of the product. 

As a team we had a few core questions we wanted to answer with the MVP, so over the course of three weeks as the Cohort dove in, we collected feedback through user interviews, observation of app usage, and exploration of the data they were adding to Chainverse. 

We loved watching the Cohort explore topics ranging from the sports DAO landscape to the DeSci community. At the end of this period, on top of a wealth of UX improvements, we had some good insights on our primary questions:


1. **Question:** Would the average retail user enter Chainverse and conduct unprompted, open ended research?
   **Insight:** Starting with the casual retail user is not the best path because we can’t make our datasets robust enough to solve for most retail use cases via one off additions from casual users. Spoiler alert, instead we attain research proposals and cultivate a talent network to contract research out to.
2. **Question:** How can we structure the data to be digestible for users of the app and users of a future API?
   **Insight:** We need a more developed approach to privacy and permissioning. We had wanted everything to be open but we will need to work with users to develop policies for controlling access to their research and implement these at the app/data layer through tools like Lit Protocol.
3. **Question:** Is a visual representation of the knowledge graph (a la Roam or Obsidian) the most effective format for answering users’ questions?
   **Insight:** We envisioned users having open ended exploration of the knowledge graph to create opportunities for discovery. However, what we heard was a desire to understand the data in a more opinionated way, where important relationships between organizations was more clear, their context to the rest of the nodes was apparent, and details could be selectively explored.

We each marinated on these takeaways, took our pages of notes and flew to Santa Fe for a collocation to dive into the information.


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**Santa Fe Summit**
Day 1, Jordan, our product lead, guided us through a multi hour strategy session around product questions, philosophies, and concerns. He framed a roadmap laid out across three phases that would allow us to create a set of progressively ambitious product hypotheses.

With each phase, we identified a focus, core user, and core stakeholder. We had some fascinating conversations around opinions vs. research, user vs. customer, data storage, and more.

Day 2, I led a modified affinity diagramming exercise to help us navigate through all the feedback we received, within the framework of the strategy laid out the previous day. We generated primary user stories for each Phase - what are the minimal required capabilities to prove the hypotheses of this Phase? 

We then moved into heads down time writing down prominent pieces of feedback and our own out of the box ideas. Round robin style, we discussed each unique sticky and categorized them under a sticky - if it didn’t fit, it was descoped from a “needs to have” to a “nice to have” for their relevant phase. 

We discussed in highest fidelity those items in Phase 1, and intentionally left Phases 2 and 3 light on details as we expect to learn and iterate a lot from Phase 1.

Our last activity was led by Christian, our engineering lead. This discussion revolved around protocol design for Chainverse. How do we store the data? How do we create a protocol design with tokenomics that incentivizes behavior and growth that fit within the priorities of Chainverse?

After a supercharged two days, we concluded the summit with a chef-grade (seriously, Christian was a chef in a pre-DiamondDAO life) meal. With an aligned direction and roadmap artifacts, we flew back home to execute on these plans.


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**Impacts on Chainverse’s Phase 1 design**

All of these learnings directly impact how (and for who) we design Chainverse. Here are some of the biggest changes and the decisions that led to them:


1. **Direction:** Focus on researchers and analysts.
   **Design impact:** By focusing on a specific user for Phase 1, we can prioritize one set of user workflows to begin with. Rather than attempting to find the right optimization of two use cases (exploring and content creation), half-baking both as we’re still learning, we will prioritize efficient content creation. Tangibly, this means building explore as a feature to be leveraged while creating content, rather than a standalone workflow (for now!).
2. **Direction:** Focus on fulfilling research proposals.
   **Design impact:** We had extensive discussions on the nature of these proposals, what types of research and data would be conducted and added to Chainverse, and
3. **Direction:** All data should be entered in structured ways.
   **Design impact:** We define a Block as an isolated piece of information. Each block should follow structured templates (i.e. *Investor* block, *Partner* block)  and reference relevant sources (i.e. HTML links, TX hashes, wallet addresses, etc).

We embrace rapid proofs of concepts, so we plan on continuously testing these assumptions and iterating from the feedback. If you’re interested in getting involved, join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/uySFJa8zYr) or apply for the [Talent Network](https://www.notion.so/Talent-Network-Invitation-46a27c02fcd740d9adf655dbd765ec38) if you would be interested in fulfilling one of our research proposals.

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