The Storyline Newsletter - January 2023
TLDR: StoryDAO is now StoryCo, first community bounty out now, community proposals passed, PR coming soon, and new team member announcements!
Hello everyone, welcome to 2023! A whole new chapter in your life waiting to be written. You’re the author of this story, so make sure it’s the best chapter yet! We're thrilled to announce that we have big things in store for this year, and we can't wait to share them with you. From new product launches to exciting partnerships and collaborations, it's shaping up to be an unforgettable year for all of us. Let’s dive in!
🚨StoryDAO is now StoryCo🚨
We've got some big news, storytellers. We are announcing the launch of our new brand, StoryCo (www.story.co), in anticipation of the release of our platform and first production. We believe that our new brand more accurately conveys our mission of unlocking the potential of every creator and fan around the world by building an open storytelling platform.
The "co" in our name represents our values of co-ownership and collaboration, and we're confident that this approach will lead to the creation of truly innovative and engaging stories that will captivate audiences around the world.
You can read the full blog post here and see the Twitter thread here. Please re-tweet this exciting news with your community. We’d appreciate it greatly!
Also, we have switched all of our social handles from StoryDAOxyz to StoryCoHQ!
Keep an eye out for exciting announcements from StoryCo and join our Discord to be a part of the story magic.
🎨 Calling all storyboard artists! 🎨
Our first community bounty is now live. We’re on the hunt for a storyboard artist who can help bring a key part of our first production to life. This is a paid opportunity that will be taking place over the next several weeks as we prepare to launch our inaugural community project. If you or anyone you know has a solid storyboard and/or concept art portfolio, please encourage them to apply here! Application deadline 1/18.
🗞️PR is Coming The Week of the 23rd
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🎙️Podcasts
Building at the Edges - NFTs as Story Moments - with Justin Alanís
Our co-founder, Justin Alanís, sits down with Jess Sloss from the Building at the Edges Podcast to talk about StoryCo’s mission of creating decentralized IP. Justin gives us the backstory of how he got into the Web3 space, the vision that led him and his brother JP to create StoryCo, and how creators’ and fans’ involvement in franchise IP will be forever changed. The two discuss everything from NFTs to DAOs, Hollywood to IP creation, and community-built content. - Listen Here
👋New Mods
We are thrilled to announce that we’ve hired our new Community Team!
Craig (@Tree), Caroline (@SweetCaroline), and Stephen (@beaver0) are all Producer Token Community Members who we’ve had the distinct pleasure of getting to know over the past few months since forming the community. They are creative, dedicated, experienced, and have shown up time and time again. As we move into 2023, they’ll be picking up the reigns, hosting our community events, and identifying new ways to engage the wonderful team of creatives that have circled up around StoryCo. LFG, y'all!
🗳 Passed Community Proposals
Last month we passed our first 2 community proposals! One is related to our first bounty (info in the Contribute section below) and the other is about adding new members to the Producer Token Community. Huge thanks to some of our major contributors @GCal, @Yvonne, @beaver0, and all the others who added their voices to the conversation.
🔎 Community Screening of Sam Kadi’s The Citizen:
Just before the end of the year, we had a very special screening of our own Producer Token Community member Sam Kadi’s award-winning film *The Citizen* (2013), which follows the story of an Arab Immigrant who wins the U.S. Green Card lottery and arrives at JFK airport one day before the events of 9/11. Sam has been an incredible member of the Producer community since last year and we’re honored that he made time to delve back into his first feature-length film with us and share some of the incredible stories behind how it came to life.
Have a film you’ve made that you’d like to share with our community? Send an email to laika@story.co to set up a screening!
👥 Weekly Meetups Have a new Format Speed Relating:
Our weekly meetup is changing forms! We’ve been experimenting with something called Speed Relating, where we get people on the call into pairs and have them respond to prompts as a way to quickly get to know each other. Our experiments with this so far have been AWESOME and a great way to build more personal relationships between members.
Our last call featured amazing creatives from every U.S. timezone and a few folks from abroad as well. Come get in on the action with us Wednesdays at 4 pm PST. Want reminders via Google Calendar? You can add our Community Events Calendar to your schedule here.
On Twitter
On Substack
NFTs: A Recap of Non-Fungable Tokens Most Memorable Moments of 2022 / Art Plugged - “Unfortunately, by September 2022, trading volumes had plummeted 97%. An additional two months saw them dive an astonishing -99% from their peak.” - More
Zeneca / Letter 32: Artificial Intelligence — “I am not being hyperbolic. I truly believe that we are at the precipice of a world-changing paradigm being ushered in by the advent of accessible AI. I also believe that virtually everyone on earth is either unaware, or is underestimating the impact this is going to have on our lives. The closest thing I can think to relate this to is the impact that the internet had on humanity. AI is going to be even more disruptive.” — more
Dare to Dream / Fred Grinstein (Producer Token Member) - “And here we see something worth dreaming about: the world-changing potential of Blockchain technology, the engine inside of what people are calling a third age of the internet. Permissionless, immutable, censor-less public ledger-based networks of information, communication and governance - all built around a campfire of decentralization.” - More
Web3 Predictions at the World Economic Forum / David Romel - "The increased use of tokenization has the potential to revolutionize financial markets and most industries. 2023 will see continued increases in the use of tokenization, especially as more mainstream players like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs explore its possibilities.” - More
Square Enix / Blockchain Gaming — The president of Square Enix, the gaming company behind the Final Fantasy franchise, stated that “blockchain entertainment” is the investment field his team will be most focused on in the medium term and that they will devote “aggressive investment and business development efforts” to the space — more
Spread the Word: We need your help! Help grow our community by sharing our rebrand to StoryCo with your friends, enemies, family, and colleagues!
Calling all storyboard artists! Our first community bounty is now live. If you or anyone you know has a solid storyboard and/or concept art portfolio, please encourage them to apply! The application deadline is 1/18.
Let’s Get Social: We Just changed all of our social media handles from StoryDAOxyz to StoryCoHQ. We’d appreciate it if you’d share our profiles with your friends & following!
Join Discord: Have you joined our Discord? Get acquainted with fellow creatives and stay up to date with community events! — more
Help us Stay Informed: Send us any relevant articles or news that you think our community would enjoy - more