Jan 31, 2025
“What did you ship this week”?
This is a call for showing off what we are proud of from this week. What we got done.
An important ritual: Momentum begets momentum, and we want to build a visceral sense of momentum around Allo. So, every Friday we rally around this post and share our work and use this cross-polination of research, exploration, and energy to advance our work further on.
So, what did we ship this week, week ending January 31?
Carl
- AlloBounties
** Finished draft and sent to Vitalik for feedback - Drafting a frontend and contract on AlloKit where projects can claim partial bounties by showing an attestation (discovered a simple way to use an EAS attestation as both a review + approval of partial bounty release - this would enable anyone to query a projects bounty application + review directly on EAS - creating a reputation registry)
- AlloKit
- Bug fixes in SimpleGrants
- Bliss suggesting using codegen to generate the indexer hooks (haven’t implemented yet)
- Nextra Documentation site (https://allo-kit-docs.vercel.app)\
Sejal
- Finalised Research Scope and Grant
- Futarchy Use Cases: Fleshed out a few use cases for Futarchy. alo_rfp_ideas · GitHub
- SP Outreach: Initiated the outreach for SP.
- Lit Review for DeepFunding Paper: Progressed on the literature review for the Deep Funding paper. Source: DeepFunding - Google Drive
- Jury Voting Follow-ups: Followed up with the jury regarding voting for Deep Funding.
Eason
- Tweaked PoTB mechanics for a project
- PoTB threshold calculations
- Added 1% tax on Allo transfers
- Added implementation to work with proof of flow. Still pending changes from Bliss
- Deployed mock Allo to base sepolia
Rena
- Strawman shipped for DAO design [DRAFT] Allo DAO Design Submission - Google Docs
Syntropic
- Animations (on the Meme channel)
“Doodlebugger finds the water” 90% (missing the last upgrade for backgrounds text and logo)- “Builders crafting the fountain” 80% (missing animation details, text and logo)
- “Funders watering ecosystems” 80%
- (Missing animation details, text and logo)
- Drafts and visual explorations on the user journey illustrations and how they converge into a single piece (world map)
Doodlebuggers journey- Builders journey
- Funders journey
- Full map view
- Coordination and inspiration conversations with @slojoz
- Next week:
- Finish details of animations
- Full journey/world map focus
- Initial draft of the underground lore map
Bliss
- “Proof of flow” contracts & UI improvements and deployment (https://allo-garden-production.up.railway.app)
- “My stakes” view implementation
Tim
- Made some UI update to gas.money to make the process more streamlined
- Completed the initial plugin infrastructure for allo.gold which is documented here: https://github.com/allocapital/allo-gold/tree/main/app/plugins
- Completed an end to end flow of creating a Direct Grants round from allo.gold
- Completed an end to end flow of creating a Quadratic Funding round from allo.gold
- Deployed allo.gold to https://allo-gold.vercel.app/ and improved the UI
- WIP prototype of intelligent auto fill of the round creation form from an LLM
Travis
- Summoning Ceremony Strategy
- Scoped and priced out interior furnishings and materials for the event.
- Met with and confirmed participation from sound designer and video projectionist.
- Conducted research and ruled out unfeasible fountain installations (both physical and digital).
- Reworked a new conceptual plan for an inflatable fountain.
- Research & Intelligence Gathering
- Scheduled multiple research interviews for next week (Vengist, Victor, Dekan, peth) for Allo-related topics.
- Revised research outline and compiled project summaries for each interviewee to highlight issues relevant to Allo.
- Edited MD interview and prepped to share.
- User Journey Infographics & Cartographer’s Table
- Coordinated with the Lore Team, who are now pushing on hot infographic illustrations.
- Revised the Researcher workflow SOP, striving for a minimally viable form.
- Created fast and dirty visual flows for each user journey.
- Created a detailed world map diagram in FigJam, structuring Allo’s ecosystem and key user journeys.
- Defined next steps for technical execution of the Cartographer’s Table into an interactive installation for 2/26.
- Tome of Common Knowledge (ToK) Compilation & Dissemination Strategy
- Consolidated all Allo documentation into an updated, centralized ToK v2
- Explored options for open-source and collaborative documentation (Docusaurus vs. Gdocs+GHpages vs. AI-generated docs with prompt interface).
- DAO Design Contest & Tokenomics Research
- Organized working groups to submit strong proposals for the DAO design competition.
- Developed an initial DAO design framework, incorporating a provisional Steward journey for progressive decentralization.
- Ideated on a prompt from Kevin regarding the economic flywheel and organizational sustainability model.
- Attended a team meeting to discuss the NFT launch strategy. Gathered information on the current approach and economic potential.
- Provided technical notes and recommendations on NFT mechanics and Funder’s journey considerations.
- Moving into next week:
High Priority- Finalize and begin executing the Summoning Ceremony plan by EOD Monday.
- Conduct scheduled research interviews and extract actionable intelligence to inform the DAO design contest.
- Refine and complete the Comic Book script to move into art production mode by EOW.
- Finalize the Cartographer’s Table and Allo World Map project, ensuring it is ready for interactive engagement at ETHDenver.
Medium Priority- Iterate upon and determine the best method to present the Tome of Common Knowledge by 2/26.
- Support finalization of User Journey Infographics, if needed.
- Continue iterating on memetic messaging and Allo’s narrative wherever requested. Review current state of our Allo “meta” memetic and push out some fresh spicy deep cuts.
Low Priority / Ongoing- Continue DAO Design Contest research and tokenomics modeling, gleaning data from DAOs I’ve worked with last cycle and pushing towards a strong proposal submission.
- Support Patron NFT launch strategy, especially with Lore/narrative crafting.
Carey
- Catering contract signed for Summoning event
- Coffee and AV quotes in hand and should settle those in the coming week
Cristina
- new website backend changes
- front end integration for demo
- planning for NFT landing page
Sebastian - Fund the Builders final audio
- Allo.Garden audio
- Meeting with syntropic and pedro re: Allo World Map
- began Allo Patron Sale screenplay
- beams of love
- update on Fund the Builders animation
- fund the builders will be ready this week!
Cici
- concepting + first sketches of the nft artworks
- allo IRL wireframes
- most of the deep funding site in web flow
Octavian
- 90% completed website flow
More visual assets- Design clarity