Education nominations for RPGF2

The Project’s Name:

BanklessDAO projects: Bankless Publishing, Newsletters, International Media Nodes, and The Rug

A description of how the project has supported development and usage of the OP Stack:

BanklessDAO’s mission is to create user-friendly onramps for people to discover decentralized financial technologies through education, media, and culture. To further that mission, BanklessDAO produces educational content via its newsletters and Bankless Publishing on various crypto-related topics, including Layer 2 scaling solutions such as Optimism. In addition, a number of our projects and contributors publish on Mirror, and make use of the Optimism-enabled mint function.

Below is a list of Optimism-related content produced by our various projects:

Bankless Publishing

Bankless Ukrainian:

Newsletter 1 [Топ 5 способів заробити токен OP на Optimism]

Newsletter 2 [Посібник з Optimism для початківців - BanklessUA]

Newsletter 3 [Як підготуватися до токенів L2 - BanklessUA]

Bankless Spanish:

Newsletter 1 [Donde Cripto sigue creciendo - by CryptoReuMD]

Newsletter 2 [Resumen del año L2 - by CryptoReuMD and BanklessDao Español]

Bankless Bulgarian:

Newsletter 1 [Къде има растеж в крипто - Bankless DAO Bulgaria]

Newsletter 2 [Optimism и NFT-та 🎈 - Bankless DAO Bulgaria]

Newsletter 3 [Optimism ръководство за начинаещи]

Newsletter 4 [Да живее Оptimism & Top 5 еърдропа (и как да ги получим)]

Bankless German:

Newsletter 1 [Ein Anfänger*innen-Guide für Optimism - by Lany]

Bankless Malayalam:

Newsletter 1 [Optimism-മിനെ കുറിച്ച് ഒരു തുടക്കക്കാരൻ അറിയേണ്ടതെല്ലാം]

Bankless Japanese:

Newsletter 1 [2022年のL2の振り返り - Bankless JAPAN]

Newsletter 2 [オンチェーン版Minecraft - Bankless JAPAN]

Newsletter 3 [Apple、App Store経由でNFT取引を開始 - Bankless JAPAN]

English Newsletters

The Rug:

The Rug is a crypto-comedy project (like The Onion) that uses satire to educate and help onboard people into web3. The Rug publishes at https://therug.mirror.xyz/. To date, supporters have minted over 180 articles on Mirror through its partnership with Optimism.

How will these funds be used?

These funds would be distributed to the above projects to use as they fit within the scope of their mission, with encouragement to delegate any available OP voting power to BanklessDAO’s meta-governance group, DAOstewards, who will be active in OP governance.

Our reach:

All content is shared on our socials, which have the following metrics:

English

Twitter: 61k+ followers
Newsletters: 19,000 subscribers, averaging a 40% open rate
Instagram: 5,250 followers
TikTok: 1,000+ followers
LinkedIn: 2,000 followers
Telegram: 600 followers

Multi-lingual: [15 languages]

Social Media: 17,000 combined followers on socials
Newsletters: 4,500 combined subscribers, with average 15,000 views/month

A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter:

https://twitter.com/banklessDAO

https://twitter.com/BanklessPub

https://twitter.com/IMNbankless

https://twitter.com/TheRugNews

Contact info for the project or project lead:

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