Collab.Land - Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Jaris James
About the event
- Project: Collab.Land
- Guests: Anjali Young, Co-Founder and CCO of Abridged, proud makers of Collab.Land
- Topic: Serving Tokenized Communities
- Event schedule: March 8, 2022
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Anjali Young (Twitter: https://twitter.com/damaderoca ) (Discord: Anjali | Damaderoca#0001)
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Anjali is currently taking improv acting classes, and has been an improv actor for 2.5 years. Prior to working in web3, Anjali has been an online community manager since the dial-up BBS days in 1993. Anjali spent 25 years as a community manager on LiveJournal (focused on Adoption) and Facebook. Anjali’s Facebook community had roughly 60,000 members.
- James, Anjali’s Husband and founder of Abridged, the company that creted Collab.Land has been in crypto since 2016. Anjali, recently got involved in crypto in 2019 by contributing to Abridged & Collab.Land as the CCO (Chief Community Officer). Anjali and James Lived off of ETH since 2016, by selling at every price imaginable.
- Anjali realized that community is translating to crypto assets. People are becoming more and more involved in the digital world, than the physical world, but people still needs to express themselves, and showcase their status. Anjali’s 25 years of community management experience was put to good use by becoming the CCO of Collab.Land.
- Anjali’s greatest achievement in web3 was co-finding the first bot integration that verifies credentials on the blockchain (currently 3.4 million connected wallets). Collab.Land is working towards a future where users own their own data, she is helping to forge a new path, she is passionate about transforming the internet into what is should’ve been since its inception.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- Verification layer for crypto communities/Community management tool. Collab.Land services DAOs initially, now the NFT Community, and assists with governance as well.
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- First project for token granted access. Abridged, the company that created Collab.Land is a no-code tooling platform that focuses on bridging web2 to web3. The first implementation of their no-code tooling software is Collab.Land.
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Collab.Land benefits the community by providing token granted access. This allows an escape from trolls, and Improves tokenized online communities. (been around for about a year).
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Serves community on multiple chains. Reads public blockchains as a source of truth. Collab.Land is currently functions on Discord and Telegram, but will possibly be on Reddit and Twitter in the future.
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- Collab.Land is the first project for token granted access, and remove trolls from online communities.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Collab.Land improves the web3 ecosystem by removing trolls from web3 communities. Collab.Land allows community members to get into a room with stakeholders of a specific project, and to build a community from the ground up. Verifiable credentials is on the roadmap. Gatekeepers will be removed once the platform becomes fully decentralized, the current gatekeepers are the Collab.Land team. The project will be community owned, and the DAO will be launched March 8th. Working towards full decentralization.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- Collab.Land uses signed messages to link a Discord account to an Ethereum address, verifying that the Discord user owns the account that they say they do. Once a user is verified as owning the required digital asset(s) for roles and channels within a discord, Collab.Land automatically grants them access. Collab.Land constantly checks whether the account that a user is linked to still owns the required digital asset for a gated role or channel, and if that ceases to be the case (the asset was sold or otherwise sent away from the address) those permissions are revoked.
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- Collab.Land provides token granted access, thus removes trolls, by only allowing members in to a community, that has an incentive to see the community prosper.
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Managing a community of thousands of people is challenging. Having to manually manage roles and channel access is a massive amount of work. Collab.Land allows community managers to leverage digital assets to programmatically manage permissions for channels and roles, resulting in a scalable and highly configurable solution to these challenges.
- Results of the product so far
- As of 02/12/2022 Collab.Land is installed in over 20,000 Discord communities and 1,500 Telegram communities, with over 3.4 Million wallets connected.
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- Verifies whether a user owns a given digital asset necessary to enter a given channel or have a certain role, and if they do, Collab.Land gives them access. The bot automatically kicks a user out of a gated channel or role if they sell or otherwise get rid of the token required to be in it. The bot also allows tipping to other users within a server, but Collab.Land does not have its own token at this time.
- Current and potential use cases.
- Token granted access, tipping, troll avoidance, and verifiable credentials (coming soon).
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Download the bot, go through walk through., about 15 minutes (so simple). Get a crypto wallet, and asset (no brainer). Even simpler version coming out in a few weeks. Web portal interface for admins. (command center) even easier to create roles and (sub-roles) from metadata.
- Token economy.
- n/a (no token at this time)
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- New wallet onboarding. Anti-scam features. Command Center (role creation).
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- Verifiable credentials (coming soon), and Gatekeeps will be removed, working towards full decentralization.
- Community updates or changes
- Working on Reddit integration, and their DAO is coming soon, March 8th, 2022.
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- “What can’t we do! What can’t we accomplish in crypto! Financial relationships can grow into much more! Nothing is impossible. Climate change is also an important problem, that should be tackled in web3, and crypto can incentivize these great changes!”
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- Collab.Land contributes to the evolution and adoption of web3 by allowing users to own their data in the web3 space through verifiable credentials. People can use the assets in their wallets to gain access into web3 communities, this creates a space without trolls, because everyone in the community is incentivized to help the community scale.
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
- Just blockchains and wallets, and communities on Discord, and Telegram. (reddit soon).
Anything else?
- James, the founder of Collab.Land is a DAO developer. Launched Metacartel and Moloch DAO - one of the first popular DAO platform.
- Abridged Inc. is the backbone of the Collab.Land service which supports and enhances Web3 communities through on-chain asset verification, balance checks, and layer2 tipping
Resources
References
- Website: https://collab.land/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Collab_Land_
- Anjali Twitter: https://twitter.com/damaderoca
- Anjali Discord: Anjali | Damaderoca#0001
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