Summary

The AladdinDAO’s in-house media channel, The A-Team, is requesting a renewal of funding to continue operations for a new 6 month period.

Motivation

For the past 6 months, 6 AladdinDAO community members (MetaCVX, Tao, DefiAdvisoor, Cryptoprophet, Cryptovestor, and Kmets) have continually produced content in various formats in a consistent manner to promote AladdinDAO through the in-house media channel known as “The A-Team”. This group’s goal is to produce consistent media content with the expectation to grow the awareness of Aladdin’s core products and on-board new users to the Aladdin ecosystem.

Over the past 6 months, the A-Team has accomplished the following goals:

• Defacto on-call media team to Aladdin DAO to interview a variety of guests and protocols on X spaces. This has lead to an increased frequency of twitter spaces, and included notable guests outside of Aladdin and within the Curve ecosystem…such guests included:

  • Convergence
  • Curvance
  • Asymmetry Finance
  • Napier Finance
  • Gravita (hosted by fx/AladdinDAO)
  • Redacted Cartel (hosted by fx/AladdinDAO)
  • Lido (hosted by fx/AladdinDAO)
  • EtherFi (hosted by fx/AladdinDAO)

• Became an integral part of outreach and educational opportunities by speaking about the new f(x) Protocol on such defi shows as:

  • Flywheel Defi
  • DefiDad’s The Edge podcast
  • Leviathan News
  • The Llamas Graze
  • Reserve Community Call

• Attendance at ETH Denver to promote fxUSD (Tao)

• Partnership with The Llama Market to set up an AladdinDAO merchandise shop and also assist with Monthly giveaways

• Continued output of material in regards to articles, newsletters, and uploads of twitter spaces to youtube

As the team has started to “find its niche” to reach defi audiences and expand awareness of AladdiDAO products, the A-Team is motivated to continue their efforts to promote AladdinDAO and work to expand the awareness of the core protocols through a new funding proposal.

Proposal

The A-Team is committed to creating consistent and meaningful content for the Aladdin DAO and continuing to be the outreach arm of the AladdinDAO for various media opportunities. To do so, the A-Team will not only consist of it’s current 6 members: Kmets, Cryptoprophet, DeFiAdvisoor, Tao, Cryptovestor and MetaCVX, but will also onboard one new member: Cyrille. Kmets will be stepping into a more managerial role this funding period, as he has double duties with being a core contributor as well, thus his compensation as an A-Team member will not be included in this proposal, but he will continue to receive his normal compensation as a core contributor to the DAO.

With this team in place, The A-Team will set itself to commit to the following for the length of the term:

• On-Demand Twitter Space Interviews for the DAO
  • At least one space per month featuring Aladdin-complimentary DeFi participants
  • One space per month will be for Chinese language participants
  • Possible Spanish language space can be produced once per month if desired
• Monthly Merchandise contests and X account content/memes.
• Videos on X with soundbites from related X Spaces to serve as marketing material.
• Speaking on various podcasts and live at various defi conferences/community events
• A newsletter, produced as needed and as community content is produced.

Additionally, the A-Team, in partnership with The Llamas, will also begin to explore the feasibility of launching a community built and managed website that will serve as a “Grand Central Terminal” for all of AladdinDAO’s products. This front-end aims to serve as a “llama airforce + curve monitor + defi llama” for Aladdin and its products. Features this website could possibly include:

• A dashboard that depicts the user’s tokens and positions within the AladdinDAO ecosystem.
• Centralized location of all current governance voting opportunities for all AladdinDAO protocols, along with additional features to streamline forum proposals and voting on proposals.
• Centralized location listing all current yield/investment opportunities that are offered on various defi platforms for various AladdinDAO tokens/positions.
• Batch transactions to claim rewards from any AladdinDAO positions

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Terms of this proposal are as follows:

• Duration: 6 months. Subsequent extensions will require additional AladdinDAO approval.
• Compensation: A split of $29,360 in fxUSD and $39,600 in ALD tokens (most recent 30 day average price) for a total of $68,960 combined. The fxUSD will stream linearly over the duration of the period, and the ALD will be vested over a 12 month period.

Poll

For - The A-Team funding is renewed and compensation methods begin streaming Against - Nothing