October 7th, Community Update

cstreet · October 8, 2021, 2:31am

We raised $4 million in venture funding from a handful of VC firms and DAOs along with angel investors from the crypto and media industries. Read more about it here.
Unlock was featured in a TechCrunch article and a VentureBeat article last month!
We launched a retro-active airdrop this week & the reception (and delegation/token claims) has been amazing! Click here to learn more about how we set it up and why.
If you need to delegate and claim your airdrop or see if you qualify, click here and get started!
Some of our team attended MCON in Denver in mid September and made all sorts of connections with the community, participated in amazing web3 conversations and dove deep into the DAO world with the attendees!
Our strategic advisor will be speaking at ETHPortland later this month! Be sure to attend if you’re in the area— and sign up soon as they’re running out of space!

Maskbook integrated the protocol in their encryption Mask network. You can now encrypt your tweets so only members/subscribers can see them!
SwordyBot, the Discord integration created by Pat (pi0neerpat on Discord) is now listed on Product Hunt, so please head over there and vote for it! Pat will also be sharing SwordyBot on our next Contributor’s Meetup, so mark your calendars for October 20th at 1pm EST!
Austin Robey wrote this amazing blog post on integrating Unlock for musicians. Be sure to check this out and pass it along to your musician friends looking to dive into the web3 world!
And Austin was on a roll with the Dinner DAOs! Here’s an article on his Dinner DAO experiment! Amber is also doing a Dinner DAO in Portland, so please reach out to either Amber or Austin on Discord if you’re interested in launching your own.

We launched our retro-active airdrop to allow more of our community to participate in the Unlock DAO and to celebrate our early adopters and supporters. Details and how to delegate and claim your tokens are on the blog. (Yes, we put this in the update twice— that’s how excited we are about it!)
Our DAO became official and fully funded last month! The Unlock Inc. team has allocated 10% of the pre-mine to the DAO. Read more about it here.
Please DELEGATE YOUR VOTES if you’re participating in the DAO. You can self-delegate or choose a community member, but please delegate! Here’s the details on our community site.

Our grant committee is meeting next week to select the new recipients. We currently have 6 new submissions to review. If you’d like to submit before the committee meets, go here ASAP!

From 9/7/2021-10/4/21 we saw a 3.3% audience growth on Twitter and LinkedIn and the engagement rate increased by 30.1%.
Our emailing list is live and growing every day! Sign up on our homepage!
We’re about to hit 1000 Discord members!!!
Our recent Reddit AMA with our CEO was a smashing success! Read the QAs here!
Our strategic advisor, Amber Case held a Twitter Spaces AMA last week and it was fabulous. We’ll be doing these on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month! Please follow Amber on Twitter so you don’t miss the next one or hop into our Discord as we’ll post reminders in the Announcements channel!

As of October 4th, 2021, here’s the core metrics:

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