📢 RnDAO Newsletter 2025/19

RnDAO News

📝 What do you want to see from RnDAO?

We’re committed to delivering content, events, and updates that resonate most with you. This quick 3-minute Harmonica survey is your opportunity to tell us:

• What topics interest you most

• How you like to engage with RnDAO
• Where we can improve

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Your feedback ensures we focus on what matters most to the community. Thanks for sharing your thoughts—we really value your input!

👥 Monthly Community Call

Last Thursday’s Community Call brought together over 35 participants, featuring updates from eight RnDAO ventures, engaging discussions, Q&As, and a fun speed networking session.

If you weren’t there, catch up on the slides from the call here to get the latest from these builders.

Don’t miss the next one on June 5th, where you can meet RnDAO ventures and connect with the broader ecosystem. We're also excited to highlight one of our new community partners during this event!

Save your seat—we’d love to see you there!

📊 Hackathon Continuation Report

We’ve published the Month 2 Progress Report for the Arbitrum Hackathon Continuation program on the Arbitrum Forum.

Key achievements from our selected ventures:

• Ran successful outreach campaigns & user interviews
• Validated their problem statements
• Refined their value propositions
• Launched public-facing updates ("Building in Public")

Next points of focus for the program participants include competitive landscape analysis & market sizing.

Read the full report here.

💡 Updates from RnDAO Ventures

TogetherCrew

SingularityNET Grant to Build Reputation System for DAOs

TogetherCrew has been awarded a grant from SingularityNET’s Deep Funding program to develop a powerful new Reputation & Voting Weight System designed specifically for decentralized communities and DAOs.

This system will enable communities to move beyond flat voting models by introducing dynamic voting weights based on members' reputation, contributions, and trust signals. The goal is to make governance more representative, resilient, and merit-based, without compromising decentralization. This milestone marks a significant step forward in TogetherCrew’s mission to foster healthy coordination and fair participation in Web3 ecosystems.

The team extends sincere thanks to the SingularityNET community and expert reviewers for believing in their vision and supporting innovation in decentralized governance.

🔍 Curious to know more? Explore the full proposal here.

Meetwith

Meetwith is still researching ways to make group scheduling easier and more time-saving for teams.

Has your team ever faced challenges with coordinating group meetings? The Meetwith team would love to understand your group scheduling needs and see if what they’re building can help, over a 15-minute call.

If you're interested in speaking with them, kindly reach out on X or schedule with Patrick.

They’d greatly appreciate your time!

Collabberry

More Flexible Than Ever!

Collabberry has rolled out and fine-tuned Manual Allocation for extraordinary rewards accounting, and Material Contributions to recognize expenses like software or travel. Last week, the team focused on enhancing the admin panel for a seamless user experience.

Get started here.

🧑‍💻 Hackathon Continuation Program Updates

FairAI

Increased Connections from the Manufacturing Industry

FairAI has generated five new leads from the manufacturing industry. The team has already held a productive call with one of the leads and has two in-person meetings scheduled. Meetings with the remaining leads are currently being arranged, as the team looks forward to exploring potential collaborations that address key challenges in manufacturing.

In parallel, FairAI’s “learning in public” initiative on LinkedIn is gaining strong momentum. Engagement has been excellent, and the conversations sparked have been highly encouraging. Those who haven’t seen the latest post are invited to check it out and join the discussion.

WE.LIVED.IT

WE.LIVED.IT conducted an exploratory data analysis on Arbitrum’s general chat using various NLP methods. The aim was to understand community toxicity and assess alternatives to large language models (LLMs).

Key observations:

• There was a considerable change in the type of toxicity over time.
• In 2022/2023, there were cases of slurs, threats, and sexual harassment with significantly higher intensity than in 2024/2025.
• In 2024/2025, the main type of toxicity shifted to scams and bots.
• An interesting method used by the team to explore toxicity involved pairing sentiment analysis with topic analysis—a technique that can yield valuable results across a variety of language models, not just LLMs.
• In 2024/2025, the messages with the strongest negative sentiment were associated with topics related to scams, bots, and technical problems.

Next, the team will explore how these findings can inform feature development.

CONTRIBO

This week, Contribo synthesized insights from an extensive user research phase, including interviews with technical leaders and developers across both Web3 and traditional tech. The findings reveal strong validation: founders are frustrated with existing talent platforms due to issues with quality and cost, while developers spend excessive time sifting through irrelevant opportunities. Notably, there is a clear willingness to pay and strong demand for progressive engagement models that begin with bounties and evolve into long-term relationships.

The team is currently developing their pitch deck based on Guy Kawasaki's template and will focus next week on refining the competitive landscape and MVP specifications. Contribo is open to connecting with technical founders facing outsourcing challenges or developers seeking more meaningful opportunities. You can reach out to @JuanRah or @alexusnavas on Telegram to connect.

👥 New Faces at RnDAO

This week, we had nine new members join, including:

• A community builder
• A content creator
• The Lead Steward at Unlock Protocol DAO
• A Web3 developer
• A Web3 veteran and founder
• A product marketer
• A traditional marketer
• A grants steward managing funding programs
• A decentralized systems engineer

Want to join our growing startup ecosystem? RnDAO is looking for:

• Business Developers | Grant Writers | Researchers | Developers | Marketers

Even if you don’t fit these roles but are passionate about CollabTech, we’d love to have you!

Join our Discord and introduce yourself today.

🚀 RnDAO Events

RnDAO Monthly Community Call

Thursday, June 5th at 17:00 UTC - 1hr

Curious about what’s happening in the RnDAO ecosystem?

Join our Community Call to hear updates from our ventures and projects, ask questions, and take part in a speed networking session to connect with others shaping the future of CollabTech.

Together, we're shaping the future of CollabTech, uniting diverse perspectives and initiatives under one roof. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow together!

Reserve your spot now!

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