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# Website and Lore meeting May 19, 2022

Keep:

- [In a galaxy a short while ago...](https://www.metacartel.org/folklore)
- peter's first tweet - the start of it all
- timeline with messages (to see how small it started)
    - may not need to cover all of it, but convey the journey
    - succinct
    - preserve the original version and link out to it
        - it's part of the history
        - developing the original lore page was part of the journey
    - museum (origin story)
        - original lore
        - white paper (black paper)
        - individual images
        - save on IPFS

TLDR lore - one pager

Use the record (museum) and transmute into story
- like the [coming of metagame](https://wiki.metagame.wtf/docs/wtf-is-metagame/origin-story) *poignant*

lore from scratch, but honor the origin story!

Timeline structure for story
- include new lore: metafactory, daohaus (2020)
    - demonstrate horizontal scale
- chapters
- metadreamer has videos and photos from EthDenver 2020 (last/first moment where many of us met for first time, but then pandemic hit)
- scaled during pandemic

*[Directus](https://directus.io/): CMS style way for everyone to share content, like photos, and open source.*

Timeline:

2019:
- 3/2019: Origin (metatx working group w/link to og lore)
    - conversations at ethberlin
    - tweet
    - telegram working group
- 6/2019 MetaCartel DAO formation (grants)
- 8-12/2019 MetaCartel Grant Waves, 
- MCON 0: Sept/Denver 
    - MCON came from realizing that there needs to be a place for everyone in the ecosystem to come together. stemmed from realizing that there is an ecosystem.

2020:
- 1-3/2020 First horizontal scaling of cartel
    - communities that started from or adjacent, such as metafactory, metagame, daohaus, raid guild, etc
    - funded/curated hackathon projects that succeeded (aave, gelato, zapper, etc)
- MetaFactory Jan 2020 - genesis sale EthDenver 2020
- Pandemic didn't affect ability to coordinate.
- Community first manifesto April 2020
- Heads down building out the ecosystem.

2021: 
- realization of 'ecosystem', starting adding daos as viable grant recipients as well as dapps.
- Continued grant waves, scaling of projects, becoming more healthy.
- migrated to gnosis on March 3, 2021
started using polygon also a few months later
moved off mainnet cuz they were actually doing governance
- ETHCC Paris 7/21, big cartel hang, first irl event after pandemic (reawakening, reascension)
- MCON 1

2022: 
- shared initiatives with other daos and communities, along with IRL events
- MetaCamp
- MCON 2

Conclusion: invite to help us next to build next chapter

Comic series - Yearn Blue Book
- alternative side project
- potential deliver for MCON2 (sept)
- gitcoin - get help from that team?

Point of the Lore is to signal what were doing so people want to coordinate with us.

posterize images - turn images into comic book style

museum can be just links in the website for now

Deliverable: One pager for the website 
first rough draft May 27
June 10 95%

Non fiction - Overwhelming Flavor - look at Peter's initial lore

book - can emerge later

Reference: https://medium.com/metacartel/a-story-of-meta-txs-483cdcfbcb4b

## First Rough Draft
- (407 words)

In the beginning was the tweet, [an imagining of ecosystem-wide coordination.](https://www.metacartel.org/folklore)

The tweet begot a Telegram working group, focused on *a standard for delegated Txs that are communicated using the same protocol so that there can be an ecosystem wide pool of Txs for anyone with a relayer client/node to execute and earn*, also known as MetaTxs. The working group hacked all around the world and you know it was good, because they kept coming back, bringing new friends with them.

From the working group, came the DAO, le cartel de Meta, vagabonds with a penchant for spice.  Have you seen the logo?  

MetaCartel DAO gave out grants in waves, scanning hackathons for winners who aligned with the chili vibe: *If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.*

Successful products grew from those grants, like Aave, Gelato and Zapper, as well as dynamic communities, like MetaFactory, MetaGame, DAOhaus and Raid Guild.  Meta Cartel was now much more than a working group; it was an entire ecosystem.  The ecosystem was so good that they realized a need for a place for everyone to come together.  Thus, MCON, the conference about DAOs, for DAOists.

After MetaFactory’s Genesis sale, MetaCartel got to building out the ecosystem.  When the pandemic hit, they weren’t affected.  Everyone was already working remotely from all over the world.  gm friends; crypto never sleeps.

Grants were still going out in waves, now including DAOs as viable recipients.  With the rise in mainnet gas fees, the DAO migrated to Gnosis chain, because they actually wanted members to participate in governance.  Yeah, that was good too.

Paris, July 2021, the cartel emerged from pandemic lockdowns and gathered at ETHCC for what may have included a roof and mistakes that were not regrets.  MetaCamp was an unconference in Costa Rica in April 2022 and MCON is now on its third iteration.

The cartel saw that it was all good, even the challenges, but what makes us most proud is the impact on grant recipients, beyond Eth.  A grant from MetaCartel is a signal to a growing ecosystem that an individual or a team has the esteem and support of a discerning community.  For a good time, add spice.

Ecosystem wide coordination doesn’t happen on its own.  It requires care and energy, but the rewards are immense.  Are you ready to contribute to our next chapters?