Welcome back for another issue of The Bulletin Bored, where I provide news, analytics, and other information on the Apecoin DAO. Last week consisted of meetings with existing and new team members as the new members were onboarded to their positions. I was encouraged by the fact that one common theme of the week was collaboration. Yes, we have people spread out across various groups and time zones now, but it was great to see each group finding ways to collaborate with each other.

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• Starting this week, AIP live voting now lasts 14 days

We have two updates from the Secretary Corner this week. To start, I posted the first edition of the “Annual DAO Progress Report" last week. It includes analytics, a consolidated list of approved AIPs, and other background information on working groups. You can find it below.

Second, the new MarComms and Metaverse groups hit the ground running in their first week. Here are the notes from their first two meetings.

With the DAO transitioning to the new year, let’s take a look at historical voting power over the past 22 months. Both total (blue bars) and delegated (orange bars) voting power has been on the rise the past couple months.

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There are two proposals in the Live Voting stage this week. This is the first instance of the new 14-day AIP voting timeline, which means voting ends at 6 PM PST on Thursday 1/18. You can view the proposals and vote on Snapshot here.

AIP-365: PKing - 3D MOBA mobile game: YugaNFT+ApeCoin as game currency 

This proposal is requesting funding for a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) 3D pixel racing metaverse game created for Meebits and Apes. Players would transform Meebits into PKing racers, build cars, and compete with global players online in a racing collision game.

The game would utilize two tokens: 1) the PKing token to participate in platform decision-making and governance and 2) ApeCoin to purchase limited game props, vehicle upgrades, and skill enhancements.

This proposal is requesting 30,000 ApeCoin, broken down as follows:

• Marketing Expenses: 10,000 ApeCoin

• Competition Bonus Pool: 10,000 ApeCoin

• Research & Development Expenses: 10,000 ApeCoin

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

AIP-366: Rules and Framework for Temperature Checks 

This proposal suggests a framework and rules for polling the community, calling them Ape Temperature Checks (ATC). The following categories would be added to the Forum to display ATCs:

• ATC Idea

• ATC Draft

• Live ATC

• Finished ATC

Below is the ATC draft template that would be used.

The same Snapshot voting space used for AIPs would be used for ATCs. Single choice voting would be the default method used and one wallet would equal one vote. Authors would have the option to choose other voting methods, such as rank-choice or weighted, if a viable reason were to be stated.

This proposal would include no grant request. You can find the full proposal here and the current voting results are below.

There were no proposals that completed the voting process last Wednesday.

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