What's up, Block? - November 20 to 26, 2021

Welcome to the first issue of “What’s up, block?”, our update aggregation for partners and friends. We are testing out a public update to start with. In future, we might make this private.

It has been a lovely last week for the Meta Blocks protocol.

Good:

• A fund closely connected to MonkeDAO 🦍and other famous NFT projects agreed to join the cap table 💫 (verbal commitment 🙊). Their support will make it easy to onboard existing projects as partners in the Meta Blocks universe
• In terms of seed round, there is enough interest to close right now, but we think it’s important to bring a few more strategic partners 🤝
• Sarthak is working in full swing to hire a senior 3d artist 👩🏼‍🎨 - about 10 interviews scheduled for the next week
• We already had partners to help with Smart Contract and Android app development. We have asked them to start the initial research and a proof-of-concept (We are paying them out of pocket 💸)
• Figured out a way to manage combinatoric explosion of our avatars using the awesome work done by an open-source project called comicgen (https://gramener.com/comicgen/) - Our 🤖 avatars will be built on top of their foundations
• We published two articles 📝 - one about protocol (https://metablocks.world/blog/clay-bricks-vs-legos) and other about our insights (https://metablocks.world/blog/lets-start-with-blocks) : retweets are much appreciated
• Tweet to amplify:
• We are hosting a 🐦Twitter Space with @solNFTradar on “The Metaverse belongs to YOU”. Please join us and bring your friends 🤗. Sarthak will reach out with details.

Not Good:

• India is going to ban crypto (yet again 😅) but this time it’s a bill not a draft. This means that crypto businesses will face hurdles, so we decided against an Indian entity
• We are in talks with a law firm 💼 in Singapore, a law firm in Mumbai and two online services that help setting up a crypto friendly entity. Figuring out liquidity and invoicing issues. Hope this will be done soon.

Our most immediate hurdle is to get a legal entity and receive funds. The hiring aspect is under control! We’ll be publishing a roadmap soon.

If you have any questions, please reach me on email, telegram or discord.

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