February
tl;dr
- We have completed our audit report from OxMacro
- ChainSecurity report has been delayed twice, but should be available before the end of March
- Aiming to Launch in April considering audit delays as well as front end to dos
- Lots of momentum at EthDenver
General
For as long as I can remember, our north star has been to complete the code and start audits and launch. Now that we have hit that milestone, and have a preliminary audit report, a whole new set of tasks have surfaced. The dilemma now is to launch as fast as possible, but we are building the bridge as we cross it, and need to make sure we have all the pieces in place to launch successfully. We are prioritizing the things that have to happen before launch. These fall in the category of getting sufficient LP commitments for launch and front end improvements to make sure the user experience is solid.
Development
The fixes for the first audit are not difficult. We may have more time-consuming work to get our primary contract to fit in the allotted size allowed in the EVM, but we have gotten quite good about finding ways to squeeze more in, or finding something to move out.
We don’t yet know what will come out of the second audit, so still can't say for sure that there will not be delays on that end for sure, but we are hopeful that there will not be any major delays.
We still have work in the front end, the validation logic that happens in the core contracts needs to be replicated in the front end to make sure users can’t ask the front end to create a transaction that the contracts will reject. The complexity of this development is not trivial.
We have gotten a bunch of use due to Monad extending access to their Layer 3 campaign, and it has been great to see that all the things I am worried about fixing are not the issues we are getting feedback about. The biggest friction was that users needed a back button to put in a different code. Still waiting for someone to give quality feedback on the real issues, which might signal to the quality of user we are seeing.
Marketing
- Co-hosted ETHDenver side event with Botanix, +700 registrations
- Announced partnership with Botanix
- Ambassador program launched (~1800 applications, ~100 accepted https://form.typeform.com/to/IjBIIBPU)
- Monad launched and integrated, listed under Monad’s ‘featured apps’ and their ecosystem page (https://testnet.monad.xyz/ & https://www.monad.xyz/ecosystem?page=2)
- Monad campaign launched on Layer3 this week (https://app.layer3.xyz/quests/monad-explorer-ammalgam)
- Hosted 3 different competitions for the community (X thread competition, Quiz night, Art competition)
- Averaged 7+ posts per week across socials during February