Welcome back for another issue of The Bulletin Bored, where I provide news, analytics, and other information on the Apecoin DAO. A lot has been happening the past few weeks. Three proposals were approved last week, four more are up for a vote this week, the Ape Assembly now has two active representatives, and elections for the Metaverse and Marketing & Communications Stewards are starting in a couple months. This week’s issue covers each plus a few additional updates across the DAO.

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• Elections for Metaverse and Marketing & Comms Working Groups will begin on 11/30; full details are below

The Approved AIP table now includes a separate View Deliverable column that links to the deliverable of the project. For instance, if there’s a website or report associated with a proposal, the pink button below will link to it. Please reach out and let me know if there’s anything you think could make this table better.

The UK Apes are planning another meet-up on September 22nd.

Mutants Beer sponsored the latest monthly meetup for the French Ape Yacht Club.

The Ape Assembly held its seventh meeting last Wednesday, the first with BigBull and BojangleGuy as the Assembly Spokesperson and Coordinator. Here are the meeting minutes taken and posted by BojangleGuy.

I wanted to take some time this week to recognize the Community Facilitators for the efficiency they have brought to the AIP Process. The AIP Draft phase took over 50 days on average last year but the Facilitator group we have now has helped trim down the overage down to 16 days while they’ve been in that role.

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There are four proposals in the Live Voting stage this week. Voting ends at 6 PM PST on Wednesday 9/13. You can view the proposals and vote on Snapshot here.

AIP-292: Inclusive Governance: Delegate Community Program

According to the AIP, this proposal “seeks approval to establish a process and framework to build out a ‘Delegate Community Program’ for the purpose of fostering inclusivity, further decentralization of cultural governance, and encouraging collaboration with ApeCoin from diverse web3 communities.”

These ‘Delegate Communities’ would receive a TBD amount of ApeCoin tokens on a TBD frequency for participating in a TBD percentage of AIPs. This proposal would include no cost. It would serve as an initial concept AIP and if approved it would be followed by a formal AIP that would establish the following:

• Implementation

  • Period covered: fixed, rolling, etc.

• Vote Delegation

  • How many votes to ring fence and delegate

• Delegate Community Selection

  • How many

  • Qualifying criteria

• Rewards/Incentives

  • Amount of ApeCoin tokens for the rewards

  • Frequency of rewards

  • Qualification/KPIs

• Administrative Oversight

  • People - who is managing this stream

  • How are they incentivised

  • How is success (theirs and the proposal) measured

  • Detailed overview of the deployable process including systems, transparency and community engagement

You can find the full proposal here and the voting results as of 9/10 @ 10:35 PM PST are below.

AIP-303: Bored Ape Yacht Club Documentary

This proposal aims to fund a documentary film titled BORED AS F*CK, which is a feature-length documentary directed by Francis Bored Apela (BAYC #9081) that tells the story of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the world of web3. It has been in production since May 2021.

The team is requesting $400,000, broken downs as follows:

• Additional Production (travel / studio rentals / crew hires / etc) - $30K (7.5%)

• Post Production (additional picture editors, motion graphics, compositing) - $100K (25%)

• Full Color Animation (2D and 3D - includes character design, animatics, etc.) - $150K (37.5%)

• Voice Talent (includes recording studio, pick-ups) - $10K (2.5%)

• Music Licensing - $15K (3.75%)

• NFT Licensing - $10K (2.5%)

• Archive Footage Licensing - $15K (3.75%)

• Additional Hard drives $5K (1.25%)

• Legal (Clearances / Fair Use Attorney) - $25K (6.25%)

• Color Grade -$15K (3.75%)

• Sound (includes sound design, music editing, full channel 5.1 and stereo sound mix) - $15K (3.75%)

• Delivery (includes online / conform, DCP creation, textless versions for broadcast, etc.) - $10K (2.5%)

You can find the full proposal, including a detailed cost breakdown, here and the voting results as of 9/10 @ 10:35 PM PST are below.

AIP-306: ApeCoin Price Tracking Bot

This proposal aims to fund the development of a Discord bot dedicated to real-time tracking of ApeCoin prices. If passed, it would provide information on the current price, daily, monthly, and annual percentage changes, trading volume, market capitalization, and changes from the all-time high price.

This proposal would include no costs. You can find the full proposal here and the voting results as of 9/10 @ 10:35 PM PST are below.

AIP-313: Preserve Privacy During Voting Period

This proposal aims to hide individual vote choices and totals while Snapshot votes are in progress and display them both after the vote closes. If approved, the DAO would adopt this “Shielded Voting” method for two months and return back to the current voting strategy after the trial period ends.

This proposal would include no cost. You can find the full proposal here and the voting results as of 9/10 @ 10:35 PM PST are below.

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

Thanks for reading this week’s edition! As mentioned above, a lot of ideas are being proposed on the Discourse 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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