wow. MAJOR fail by the DAO committee and this is a red alert for anyone that owns decentraland land. from what I’ve seen on twitter this has been the most successful grant to date for new creators… to push away builders/creators is proof the DAO isn’t on the same page with what the community voted on/wants/needs
folks, this is why we can’t have nice things in decentraland. time to get my voxel and spatial profile up again.
Disgusting to see them asking for that much info.
*** a legit company walks into a bar (decentraland)
*** company gives away $120k to everyone in the bar
*** company takes 0 profit and literally incentivizes people at the bar to create anything they want to make the bar better
@TheCryptoTengu: “disgusting to see that company asking for any info.”
watching anons like this in the decentraland community destroy itself from the inside out is surreal af
By doing KYC you are associating your identity with your ETH address. On blockchain each transaction is public, everyone can see how much money you have, what you have bought, sold, etc.
It is a major security risk, what if this data was published? Everyone could see your name, surname, maybe even home address and how much money you have…
If you think that would never happen, very recently Celsius Network leaked 14,530 pages of user data and someone has even made a searchable website showing real identities and crypto holdings lost in the Celsius collapse.
simple solution is to just create different ETH wallets for different things similar to bank accounts, right? work account vs play accounts. @Shiny
of course, there will be a risk with any companies like celsius offering 20% returns… but isn’t the largest metaverse sandbox doing KYC for all players that want to earn any tokens now… i’ve seen many others doing it too now to follow the actual laws.
it’s important to remember even though we’re all in these virtual worlds… the 100% factual reality of the physical world is that humans have to follow laws where we’re physically based.
regardless of if we like the international laws or not
Appreciate your message @beanie .
Yeah you can just KYC on a secondary wallet just for the sake of these contests @Shiny . We are only asking for KYC for compliance reasons
haha here the thing bro I don’t disagree with you on that what SandStorm Marketplace wants to do is cool for the community. I even tried to sign up. I would rather then ask for money to pay them for there time then to ask for peoples personal information that gives people access to hack and steal everything from them as well as use it for identity theft lol. The reality is yes you can make alternative ETH wallets but with that personal information they are asking from you they can legit sim card swap hack you and hack ALL OF YOUR ETH WALLETS and BANK as well as ALL OF YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA accounts. Literally everything. Maybe they can create solid solutions like not get personal info and also escrow the rewards or earnings from their users until they send a w4 or whatever is relevant to their country for payout. So yes I still wish them the best since and look forward to working with them if they create a alternative solution.
it’s crazy how little people understand international sanctions laws and know your customer laws even when all the largest /legit players in the space follow them… sounds like the fear logic is based on hacks and sim swaps that happen in every industry 24/7/365.
to break it down simply - if i send you 10,000 to distribute to 100 people and those people reside in countries all over the world including sanctioned ones like russia.
based on your logic you’d ignore all those laws every legit player in the space follows, escrow the money and issue w4s? something tells me you’d be out of business pretty quick boss lol
anyways i agree its great for the community and hope to see more proposals like these
no problem @Oscom keep up the awesome work over there bro! i’ve watched the twitter feed of these submissions and it’s incredible content so far
Make sure get soundex numbers fill out i9s to fn clowns. Also have interpreters on stand by for translation and preparations. Also each states forms better yet give me your companies tax I’d I’ll report your assess. Wonder how good your security is with peoples info. You don’t need that info your farmers and I’d urge anyone going further not to support your asses if that’s where you come from and your stance especially when people in this space have been doxxed and harassed. Anon Stewart.
This thread spiraled out of control quickly. Simply drop the KYC. Its not necessary for an art competition. For the most part, the project sounds great. But you’ll want to drop as many barriers as possible for entry or it will stifle creativity because creators are very paranoid and sensetive to identity. That’s why many artists remain anonymous. It’s simply because of the world we live in today, not a big deal. You wouldnt ask a painter for their drivers license before you bought their painting off the street, right? That’s simply how this thread is seeing it. Creativity needs to be fostered and celebrated.
I do hope this proposal finds a better solution and I’ll look forward to seeing entries. It sounds like a good event many creators could really use to show the world what they can do. Especially those with less fortune than others. Cheers.
Looking forward to the Social Hub 
Love the work of Polygon Mind
This could be useful if it was on rotation each week like a “pop-up” event. It would bring visibility to different POI within the space and negate the need for another proposal in the future to establish your own space on Land. And hopefully entice active users to explore the already existing, and many stunning, creations throughout DCL. Something to consider.
DCL DAO Update #3
Dear DCL DAO and DCL community,
We are very pleased to get back to you with another update in regards to our activities within Decentraland and a deep dive into what we have accomplished since the last update (Sept 28th, 2022) till today (Oct 12th, 2022).
Highlights
Since the last update, we closed DCLcontest #3, and opened / closed DCLcontest #4.
Check out all DCLcontest #4 submissions here and support your fellow DCL Builders: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dclcontest4&src=typed_query
We also did the results streams for contest #2 and #3 + payed out the winners of the respective competitions. Check additional linked below where you will find the TXes.
Show replay links - DCLcurations & Oscom (hosts) :
Blockers
As you can see within the forum thread, after a long back and forth with Zino and the Support squad, our team got in touch with @HPrivakos and @Yemel and got the chance to address the situation again. Considering we delivered on time on all expectations, they agreed to unpause the vesting contract that will resume vesting on the 1st of January over the course of 6 months.
For the reasons mentioned above, we tentatively paused on launching new contests due to the confusing situation in order to take the best possible decision.
We are waiting for a final approval from the DAO committee who will sign the contract and send an update within the forum thread.
To clarify one last time:
We started doing contests on the 15th of August after 1 month of preparation, organisation and market research to understand the Decentraland community and approach it in the optimal way.
Since then, contest 1-4 have been launched on time, bi-weekly, and according to the set schedule that was shared to the support squad.
Most assets on contests 1-3 are DCL compatible, we are in touch with the creators to edit the submissions that aren’t. More on that in the “next steps” section. All assets on contest 4 are DCL compatible and we clarified the importance of this condition for any future contest.
Voting streams happen within 2-4 weeks after the contests close to give enough lead time to invite creators of the community who act as judges for that specific competition.
We had a lot of key guests on the show so far (view above). We are always open to collaborate with other creators in the space and give them more exposure!
Finally, payouts happen within 48h after the contest closes and results are announced.
Next steps:
Considering recent events, as stated above, we put our operations on hold waiting for a public statement by the DAO committee before launching our DCL competition #5.
In order to stick with the schedule while maintaining the same pace for contests, the next contest will last longer and have double the cashprize (10k $USDC). Announcement is ready and going out as soon as the official statement by @HPrivakos is sent in this thread.
Important to note we own the 4th largest Blender community on Facebook and are excited to onboard new web2 creators in web3 metaverses through these contests and initiatives.
Finally, based on a suggestion by the DAO Committee, we are looking into open sourcing all asset submissions in these contests. This way, anyone will be able to import the created assets in their own land plot. We are still working out how that process would look like and plan on giving more in depth details on that specific subject in our next update.
As agreed with sandstorm. The new vesting contract has been deployed. Please proceed with regular operations.
https://vesting.decentraland.org/#/0xD5CBeF688CB527Ce19544D55337F8Cf99B280C3e
Thank you very much @yemel!
We will launch the new contest tomorrow in accordance with the comments made above
DCL DAO Update #4
Tagging for visibility @yemel @HPrivakos @Zino
Hey all!
We’re here with a new update that will cover progress since october 12th
Just after the last update, we launched contest #5 with a higher cashprize and bigger timeframe / scope in accordance with our prior statements. It was the first contest where requirements were much harder, since builders needed to create multiple key items as well as an emote.
In this contest specifically, the top 10 creators are rewarded with USDC! The goal in the upcoming show will be to teach them about how to deploy emotes on the Decentraland marketplace, which would be a big step towards contributing to Decentralands creator economy!
Results stream for contest #5 will happen tomorrow / today (depending on timezone) with new guests: Koshi & srJH
DCL contest #4 replay:
DCL Educational shows replays:
Creating and publishing wearables for Decentraland - Building in Decentraland /w DCLcurations: Creating and publishing wearables for Decentraland - Building in Decentraland /w DCLcurations - YouTube
Metazoo cofounder and creating more wearables - Building in Decentraland with special guest Sango:
Metazoo cofounder and creating more wearables - Building in Decentraland with special guest Sango - YouTube
DCL exploration show:
Overview of payouts to builders so far:
Total - 20k $DAI (We transferred DAI to USDC prior to transferring to builders)
Contest 1
9/19/22 guillame 150 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
9/19/22 Juek 350 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
9/19/22 Erikagloom 750 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
9/19/22 CinziaGabrielPH#8960 1250 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
9/19/22 Virtewel 2500 USDC DCL Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
Contest 2
10/4/22 Rizkgh 150 USDC DCL Contest #2 Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
10/4/22 Juek 350 USDC DCL Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
10/4/22 Yuriybx 750 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
10/4/22 MaryanaDCL 1250 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
10/4/22 VVCryptos 2500 USDC Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
Contest 3
10/12/22 Comintedlabs 150 USDC DCL Contest #3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x50bd9655044f428e01ef1ea831c2e53763f55729b29d1dc4f62866e14a4e6d56
10/12/22 Yuriybx 350 USDC DCL Contest #3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2519f3aca0942f47bc058b153737d893dd1935bb32cc9faef5c67fe9ccb5ea41
10/12/22 Rizkgh 750 USDC DCL Contest #3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xea30c0ed6e00f5e04f02b459a4df0712f0d293c07a614e028a2cdef1b21e610b
10/12/22 Virtewel 1250 USDC DCL Contest #3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x65ee7fa176b6f21dc8e57f096cef6f434f9a12a13336ba7f6d1a8382bec18515
10/12/22 Rub.qbe 2500 USDC DCL Contest #3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf216eb731ac82cdfffb31cf244a3852e597cdd8d926995b7e59a61fc59573bdc
Contest 4
PLACE #5 - erikagloom 150 USDC DCL Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
PLACE #4 - zCayel 350 USDC DCL contest #4 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x530897c358c65a6941b99300492bc456af79c1bc755159a53c463aed1d1e6cea
PLACE #3 - yuribx 750 USDC DCL contest #4 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x057d15a220822aa0c0c916d1c0ba8425b64278e300d48824294fd95e0b34703c
PLACE #2 - Rub.qbe 1250 USDC DCL contest #4 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x40389c2a4ff3bf1a7aa78c251872c61287efe2e1d4371b321fbb2abb1d8186c3
PLACE #1 - Virtewel 2500 USDC DCL contest #4 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x97c367fafa549aa8f1422e8b3f1560b57f2841f4a88766e94cf1dad6f4e399df
2 other major updates:
1/ Sandstorm HQ build
First of all, the Sandstorm HQ build is almost finished and will be deployed on our land very soon! We will of course market it accordingly and hope to onboard brands in Decentraland in a similar way to what we did for The Sandbox!
This also means that we will be able to host all our Sandstorm shows from there, as well as rehost any sandstorm stream in Decentraland. A huge step to have our own little hangout spot! More community events to come!
2/ Sandstorm Github repo
Following the great recommendation of @HPrivakos, we started setting up a repository for contest submission:
Problems we had to solve:
We have contacted all creators from contests 1-5 with new submission forms in order to filter assets, make sure they are deployable within decentraland and fill up the github account. More updates on this to come in the next few weeks.
We will actively promote our github repo and the creators contributing to to further incentivise collaborative work while shaping the metaverse even outside of Sandstorm builder contests.
Finally, we are about to release our new contest feature, which will make the entire submitting experience for Sandstorm contests WAY more enjoyable and with less friction steps. We took your feedback very seriously and worked on this new feature over the course of the past months, hopefully you will like it!
Best, Sandstorm Team
$120,000 grant to be approved to fund Builder Competitions for DCL creators.
This proposal has been ENACTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xfe91c0c482e09600f2d1dbca10fd705bc6de60bc)
Vesting Contract Address: 0xD5CBeF688CB527Ce19544D55337F8Cf99B280C3e
Where can i download the free buildings??
Hey am still in talks with all creators, you can currently DL the podium on the Github in the “misc” folder