📢 RnDAO Newsletter 2025/31

👥 Monthly Community Call
Join us this Thursday, August 7th, at 4 PM UTC for our next RnDAO Community Call!‍
We’ve refreshed the format to make each session more engaging and valuable.
Here’s what’s coming up:
- Updates on what’s new at RnDAO
- Introduction to our new venture and a new community partner
- A deep-dive demo from Common Ground
- Q&A and idea sharing
- Ways to get involved and contribute
- Networking with others in the community
Reserve your spot now — we’d love to have you with us!
🧑‍💻 Arbitrum Ecosystem Pitch Day
We wrapped up a community voting contest on JokeRace last week. Thank you all for supporting the builders! Congratulations to the top three winners:

If you missed the main event, you can catch the full recording on our YouTube channel.
Want to connect with the teams? Submit this form to get introduced.
đź’ˇ Updates from RnDAO Ventures
TogetherCrew
Identity and trust, in the age of AI
Identity isn’t just for humans anymore. With AI agents entering the picture, systems that verify trust must evolve fast.
Join TogetherCrew and Ravikant Agrawal (PrivadoID) in an X Space on what’s emerging around self-sovereign identity, data, and privacy in a fast-evolving landscape.
12 Aug, 11:30 UTC
Set your reminder here.
Research Agency
🎉 The Agency at RnDAO is live!
We have launched a full-service user research agency to power the next wave of Web3 growth.
The research team has already worked with projects like Arbitrum, Scroll, and others—now they're opening their services to the wider ecosystem.
What the Agency offers:
• Actionable insights to boost ROI (Return on Investment)
• Faster product-market fit for new ventures
• Discovery research to unlock new growth
• Deep dives into user behavior to improve retention
Visit their HQ here to learn more and explore past work.
Submit this form to book a free 30-minute call and meet the team.
P.S. Know a friend or portfolio company that’s stuck on what’s next? Forward this announcement—the team appreciates the signal boost!
🧑‍💻 Hackathon Continuation Program Updates
Fair AI
Building on Momentum
Fair AI’s outreach campaign continues to perform well, with growing interest translating into a steady rise in positive responses. They are seeing good follow-through from prospects, and the messaging is clearly resonating. Conversations are progressing, and the momentum that began last week is continuing to build in a meaningful way.
In parallel, the team has been further refining the messaging on their website to better reflect the positioning that’s resonating during outreach. An updated version is in the works and will be going live soon.
WE.LIVED.IT
Updates & Experiments
- WE.LIVED.IT collaborated with Women in Blockchain Talks on an AI Bias LinkedIn Live
- The team created a demo showcasing how toxicity can be collaboratively defined using a Telegram bot
- They are currently developing a plugin version of the tool
CONTRIBO
Find opportunities that align with how you work
- Contribo continued validating its skills-based hiring model by refining outreach messages and experimenting with new approaches for long-open roles.
- The team sharpened messaging to better communicate the value of async, task-based developer evaluations.
- They began creating gigs that will soon be listed on their website.
👥 New Faces at RnDAO
This week, we had a new member joined us:
- A Builder behind Sherry Protocol
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.
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