Welcome back for another issue of The Bulletin Bored, where I provide news, analytics, and other information on the Apecoin DAO. There’s just one proposal, about Augmented Reality, currently in the live voting stage. This week’s issue includes an overview of it, a preview of upcoming events in August, and a two-year anniversary celebration for one of the DAO’s delegation groups.

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• The ApeCoin DAO Governance & Operations Budget AIP has moved into the Draft phase. It received AIP number 317

• Voting on two new positions within the Ape Assembly (Coordinator and Spokesperson) is currently being held from now until Sunday (8/27) @ 11:59 PM PST

• The final round of Mission Statement voting is still to come; a Twitter Spaces is being held tomorrow to discuss the finalist submissions

• The BAYC community will be hosing a series of community events in Miami this week (8/25-8/27)

Here’s an August preview of the DAO Community Calendar that can be used to track meetings, Spaces, and events. I will continue to build this out as the other Working Groups are established. You can use this link to view the calendar below or this link to sync it to your external calendar.

Voting is now open for two new roles within the Ape Assembly. Members of the Assembly can now head over to Snapshot to case their votes. Make sure to do so before the polls close on Sunday (8/27) at 11:59 PM PST.

Congratulations to the Elite Apes of Hong Kong, who celebrated their 2nd anniversary last Thursday. 🎂 They are one of the many delegation groups that have surfaced in the ApeCoin DAO over the past 18 months.

Do activity levels on the Forum seem higher today than they did earlier in the year? The amount of daily engaged users the past couple months has been around 50-60 with a peak near 100 in June and a valley under 20 back in February.

For more analytics like this on the ApeCoin DAO, please check out my Dune Dashboard here and subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

There is one proposal in the Live Voting stage this week. Voting ends at 6 PM PST on Wednesday 8/23. You can vote on Snapshot here.

AIP-283: Ape AR: The AR Launchpad, Powered by ApeCoin

This proposal aims to create an Augmented Reality (AR) Launchpad to empower artists and entrepreneurs in the community to launch augmented reality collections and products, powered by ApeCoin.

Once a quarter, there would be a call to action for artists and entrepreneurs to submit an application explaining how augmented reality would be used in a new collection or drop. The process would begin in Q4 2023 and someone would need to hold at least one ApeCoin to be eligible to submit an application.

The team behind this proposal would select three winners each quarter and provide them with AR technology, tools, and advisors to help develop their project. The products would then be released on the AR website and be exclusively sold in ApeCoin.

This proposal is asking for $300,000, broken down as:

• Community & Outreach Director: $50,000

• Web Designer: $30,000

• Program Coordinator: $40,000

• Lifetime AR Licenses: $15,000/project x 12 projects = $180,000

You can find the full proposal, including a detailed cost breakdown, here and the current voting results are below.

There were three proposals that completed the voting process last Wednesday. Here are the final results for each:

AIP-266: Authorise Special Council to issue Directives for more efficient DAO operation

AIP-268: ApeCoin DAO Voting Adoption Driven by Good Month Labs

AIP-289: Designing a Mascot for Apecoin

Thanks for reading this week’s edition! As mentioned above, a lot of ideas are being proposed on the Forum nearly every day. If you have one of your own and are unsure where to begin, please reach out to me so I can help you get started.

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