Chainforest Weekly Recap (9/15/22)

Greetings Rainmakers! ⛓️🌴

Welcome to the latest edition of the Chainforest Weekly Recap, where you’ll find up-to-date information on upcoming events, member accomplishments, and a round-up of the most exciting happenings in our Discord this week.

In the past week, 5 new Rainmakers have joined the forest.

The top three channels were:  🔵│Ethereum, 💬│general-chat, and 🦄│gen-nfts.

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Discord Highlights 👀

• Congratulations to MagnaTokens, a token distribution platform that raised a $15M seed round (Chainforest is a proud investor!) ⭐

• Happy Merge Day! 🥳 ⛙

  • Four reasons you should be excited about the ETH merge by Amit! 🔥

  • Yousuf shares his four biggest notes post-merge ✨

  • Nick notes the merge takes the second largest POW chain and upgrades it to POS. There are several advantages to ETH being POS

• Google Cloud partnered with Sky Mavis (Creators of Axie Infinity) to become a Ronin Network validator. Check out the reaction from Rainmakers 🎮

• Rainmakers react to Doodles announcing they raised $54 M at a $704M valuation 📈

• Need a podcast to listen to on the way to work? Listen to fellow Rainmaker Greg’s interview with the Co-Founder and CEO of Flyfish Club - the world’s first member’s only private dining club where membership is purchased on the blockchain as a Non-Fungible-Token (NFT) 🎧

Upcoming Events 🗓️

• Mainnet - An immersive, agenda-setting summit held annually by Messari

  • When: September 21-23, 2022 in New York, NY

  • RSVP: Register here

• LedgerFest 2022 - Columbia’s annual crypto conference aims to educate and inspire students in the broader web3 community

  • When: September 23, 2022, in New York, NY

  • RSVP: Register here

  • Note: Chainforest Founder, Amit Mukherjee, will be speaking on Why DAO’s

    • When: September 23, 2022, from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (local time) in The Forum

• Token 2049 Singapore - a premier crypto event organized annually in Singapore, where founders and executives of the leader Web3 companies share their views on the market

  • When: September 28-29, 2022, in Marina Bay Sands

  • RSVP: Register here

New Members 🎊

• Ana-Maria Yanakieva | Outlier Ventures

• David Heetderks | MBA Student (University of Chicago Booth) & Marco Polo

• Debparna Pratiher | Quest Protocol

• Varun Suresh | Leap Finance

• Will Lewis | SUPEROWN

Interested in joining Chainforest? ⛓️🌴

• How to apply: You can apply to become a member by completing our application on Typeform. We will review your submission and grant access after approving your profile.

• Apply here: https://chainforest.typeform.com/apply

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I hope you enjoyed this week’s edition of the Chainforest Weekly Recap!

Till next week,

Sloan (sloan#5762 / @sloan0_0)