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title: 'WhalerTalk Agenda -- October 23, 2020'

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# WhalerTalk Agenda -- October 23, 2020

Time: 8am-9am on Fridays (Pacific Time)
Location: [WhalerDAO Discord](https://discord.gg/CHxxasF)

Add things to the agenda if you want 👇

1. Mingle (15 min)
2. Planning (45 min)
    * TREE
        * Audit
            * Talked with Quantstamp on Monday
            * If we go with them for an audit we'd have to wait till early to mid November
            * Will cost $3-4k/day for a security review (not a full audit)
    * Impact Certificates
        * Haven't written the call for contributors post yet
        * Staged building?
            * The IC platform is quite ambitious and has multiple loosely-connected components ([specs](https://hackmd.io/@zeframlou/S1oE_Jgvv/edit))
            * If we built everything at once, it likely will take a long time before we have something launchable. We might lose momentum this way.
            * Building it piece by piece and launching each component individually can get us into a good build-launch-traction loop.
            * Can start with Merkle drop tool
                * Many folks are doing retrospective drops right now
                * Each instance is using their own forks of the Uniswap drops, which is reinventing the wheel
                * We can build Merkle-drop-as-a-Service (MaaS)
                * Basically no smart contract work  needed, so no need for audit

## TODO
1. Chat with Dekan about Merkle drop tool
2. Blog post about Merkle drop tool ( benefit to community)
3. Apply for Gitcoin Kernel