Hello everybody.
Welcome to Sandow podcast number 18.
Today, I'm going to be doing a reading reaction and analysis of sip number 11.
I wasn't able to schedule a podcast with the writers of the ambassador program sip.
They haven't seen them respond for over a week now, I think.
So I'm going to do now that it's live for vote.
I'm going to do a reading of it.
I'm going to analyze it just like I did sip seven and eight back in which one was that
podcast number five back in sand sand out five.
We did a review of six, seven and eight.
They too were were sip sips from the sandbox team, the landowners and the parasitic jam.
So I'm gonna be doing the same thing here.
And today's scope of the talk is review analysis, as I mentioned.
And the disclaimer is that I do not represent the sandbox game or the sandbox foundation,
which is the Dow.
We are not your financial or legal.
I am not your financial or legal advisor.
Nothing I say should be taken as financial or legal advice.
So introduction.
I am Lancer.
I am the founder and president of the meta world's team.
We are a team of crypto enthusiasts and gamers.
And right now we have land that we've been publishing experiences to, Lord droppers,
which plays seventh in Build a challenge one.
It hasn't placed I think it's top 500 or something for builders challenge to we been pretty much
spending most of our, our time and effort and energy on the Dow as of late.
So I let the builders challenge to go.
And so that we could focus on the Dow.
We are we have a deep background in things like contract negotiation, contract writing,
program management.
So the Dow fits perfect in that intersection between business, community and gaming.
And I am absolutely thrilled.
I am excited.
Stuff like this because I think the Dow represents all the sort of things that I love that I
want to pursue.
And I think I mentioned my name is Lancer.
I've been in the sandbox since mid season one.
So all the alpha season passes and number of avatars.
I love my world of women avatar running around with her all the time in the sandbox and rabbits.
Those are my two favorite.
So been in ever since then been slowly ramping up as I saw more sandbox reach more and more
gates, which was expanding its partnership.
See how involved Seb and his team was just traveling to every conference I could see.
The sandbox was there.
And then the continued development on the sandbox game.
And it's just been just been nothing but the sort of signs I would look at and want to
see in order to say this is a worthwhile project to invest all my time and energy into.
So that's where that's my motivation is I want the Dow to be something that enables
the sandbox game in the sandbox community, the sand fam.
I'll do everything I can to build it up.
So next slide is a scoreboard.
So as of actually should say as of today, as of August 25, 2024, there are currently
one sip and draft on the forums that see NFT evolution, crafting and NFT drops by crypto
Diplo.
So I have we just secured an interview with him on the books.
It's going to be September 8.
So Sunday, September 8, we meet with crypto Diplo.
And we'll be going over his sip.
It's fairly straightforward.
So if you watched my podcast 19 with Matt with with pickaxe and send out 18 with Pepe
from Magic Palette, both of them commented on this and they they positively responded
to it.
So it reads pretty straightforward.
There's something that don't understand about it, but it's more technical.
So I realized I don't really have to understand all of it.
Just the fact that other people that I trust say that this is good for them as creators.
I buy that.
So there's some questions, some normal analysis and investigation stuff I'd like to pursue
with crypto Diplo and give crypto Diplo the every opportunity to explain the rationale,
the narrative and the reason behind the sip.
So that's going to be coming up to sit open for voting.
Sip number 11, which is a sandbox academy in the Philippines by Mark Baggo.
And sit 12 sandbox ambassador program by the sandbox team.
That's the one we're going over today.
Sit 12 and sip 11 was sandow.
Was that sandow episode 12 was the interview with Mark Baggo for the sandbox academy in
the Philippines.
I after speaking with Mark Baggo, a very well spoken individual has been in the sandbox
for I think four or five years now and been running sandbox academy for about that long,
teaching people boxed edit and game maker and onboarding them into the sand fam.
So read it and please watch it and vote.
I already made my intentions on that very clear.
I support and I think it's a worthwhile effort, but please read it and vote it and decide
for yourself.
And let's take a look at where we sit right now.
How do they stand?
So sip number 11 right now, so it's the one we're about to go over.
It is currently at 7.2 million voting points on yes and 512 voting points on no.
So it's 92% yes.
However, like the past three sips that failed to get quorum and we're ultimately not able
to be accepted.
Quorum right now is 7.7 million out of 30, which brings it to 25.8% quorum needed.
That let's see, when did it start?
Start just four days ago.
So it's not terrible.
That's not a terrible start.
And we'll get into this toward the end of all the yeses and nos after we've done our
assessment.
Let's take a quick peek at sandbox.
Sip 10.
So right now sip 10, which is not that one, excuse me.
Sip 12.
So sip 12 is 4.4 million voting points on no and 3.9 million voting points on yes.
So it's a 52% no and a 47% yes.
Quorum is higher actually, 8.3 million out of 30 million.
So it's 27% quorum.
And okay, so it's about neck and neck on the nos and the yeses.
And since I already did that one, let's take a look and see what's being said.
Yes, I did my yes based on my Sandal 12 interview with Mark.
I support it.
He's been doing this for years, paying it out of pocket himself.
And this seems like a worthwhile investment for the Dow.
What else?
Let's see.
I don't see a lot of explanations for nos.
Let's just punish that lens.
Reason yes is punish loves this one.
Okay.
What else do we have going on here?
This one voted no.
The requested budget makes no sense.
Higher spending on pieces of marketing, for example.
That's because as Mark said, the pizza is to feed all 200 people who he's going to be
teaching.
So it doesn't have a lot of marketing because a lot of his connections are inside the Department
of Education.
So unless you're talking about like bribes or something, there's no need for like billboards
or anything.
They like you would go to the university, Department of Education Dean would send out
an email to everyone or put up a flyer and then people would come as they as they would
like to.
There's no like online advertising and Facebook or anything like that.
So you're spending more on pizza because you're feeding people versus spending money to get
people when you don't need to in six or seven universities that he's going to go around
to.
But I understand.
I get it.
And that is all the there's a no with explanation.
Maybe create a better digital training program so it can be used around the world and not
only focused on Philippines.
He lives in the Philippines though.
And if someone else want to do this and elsewhere, then they could do that elsewhere.
And as we did our podcast with Mark Baggo, there were people like Rocky's Miguel from
Ecuador.
Oh, he's in the chat.
Hey, Rocky.
What's up, Miguel?
Como esta mi amigo?
So Miguel said that he would love for it to come to the to Ecuador.
And Mark said, Sure, let's let's get together.
So Mark is definitely open to and that was one of my questions was, are you open to it
being elsewhere?
He said, Absolutely.
But he's only, you know, one person and he runs this by himself.
So if he gets the Dow money, and that's proved successful, which he has every expectation
that it would be, then he could easily export it to other universities around the world.
But he lives in the Philippines.
So yeah.
And there's another yes, Ilias sandbox has grown all this time because of the communities
around the world.
If you have a good product, if you don't have followers, great.
So that's where we sit on SIP number 12.
Just run a sandbox Academy in the Philippines.
So let's go ahead and roll on back to the reason why we're here.
Reason why we're here is SIP number 11, the ambassador program.
So here's what we're going to do.
So for this one, we're going to run it similar to what we did in Sandow for where we ran
we read through SIP 7 and 8.
And I forgot about the checkbook, right?
The checkbook didn't change because the last two SIPs did not pass.
So we're still sitting at 13% spent, but 1.9 million Sand.
Dowbase.ai I'm going to start showing that slide now.
It currently shows that there are 1808 voters within the sandbox Dow and 211,000 token holders
of Sand.
I love Dowbase.ai and the metrics that it's showing.
So definitely going to be and we just just interviewed Mia Bao not long ago.
She was Sandow episode 18.
So she co founded Dowbase.ai.
She's an advisory board member of the sandbox Dow and really love the fact that she is bringing
data and analytics to over I think it's over 160,000 different Dows of which the sandbox
is listed.
So cool.
Let's switch our little thing around so that we can start doing what we need to be doing.
Just talking through the SIP.
Alright, so SIP number 11, I'm just going to read it straight from the sandbox Dow forum
on that forum, excuse me, the sandbox Dow proposal.
So it's sandboxdow.com slash proposal and then you click on SIP 11 and then you will
see what it is that I see.
So if you'll follow along, I will read it and then I will comment as I go through and
note my observations and my second window here that that we can talk about the analysis
as we go through this.
Okay.
Maybe.
Oh, it's a little bit different.
I did learn from Pepe's stream that I can just kind of move this window up and down
as I need to.
It's actually surprised even me.
I didn't know.
It's pretty cool.
So this works.
It's gonna work out just fine.
Alright.
So the analysis, start reading through it.
So the council recommendation is positive and as Seb explained and the forums explained,
positive means that this special council believes that it will have a good impact on the way
forward for the Dow if it were to be implemented.
So here's the what.
The sandbox ambassador program is a collective of individuals who are tasked by the sandbox
to complete a set of functions that support the development and growth of the platform.
As our platforming community continues to grow and evolve, so do our needs in response
for welcoming new ambassadors to help us support and contribute to the sandbox ecosystem.
Okay.
Strong opener.
Not at all.
Not at all opposed to that.
It's kind of big wording.
So if you're not familiar with the sandbox ambassador program, they are individuals who
the sandbox, they're volunteers, by the way, who have applied to be part of the sandbox
team.
They are not sandbox employees.
So that was surprising to me for me to learn.
So Vision X, Joseph, he is a sandbox ambassador.
Monkey, Deluffy is one.
Uncle Grumpy is one.
Oh, I'm missing so many.
There's a lot of different ambassadors.
Forgive me.
If I don't list you.
Who is monkey Deluffy?
I know I'm missing one that I talked to fairly.
Oh, Candley, Kristen.
So Candley, Kristen and Uncle Grumpy were the first ambassadors I ever met in the discord.
And they were the landowner chat moderators there.
And I learned a lot about sandbox just by seeing them interact with people.
So yeah, and because they're not sandbox employees, they also are able to formulate their own
opinion.
And you're seeing that play out right now.
If you're in the Dow discussion on the sandbox discord, or you are in looking at Twitter,
where you can see some of those sandbox ambassadors, they have some criticisms and critiques of
what they're seeing from the Dow.
So the Dow is separate from the sandbox.
And the sandbox ambassadors are not employees of the sandbox.
So there's kind of like a few degrees of separation going on there.
But as you'll see later on, when I start reading the q&a that I did with the few times that
they responded to us on the forums for the SIP authors, you'll see that that's going
to change.
I asked that question about the degrees of separation.
And as you will see, it's going to change.
So we'll get into that.
Okay, so that's the the what and what are the sandbox ambassadors do?
They facilitate they enable they support they collaborate.
They're streamers.
They are discord moderators, they're twitch replyers, they're on boarders, they they are
people who the sandbox has identified as good community members of the sand fam, sand fam
being the sandbox family.
And quick note on San Fam, I didn't realize the history of that.
And Batman helped me understand that the West helped me expand on that.
And in the last sandbox episode, sand out 1918 17 sand out 17 with pickaxe Bruno from
San Fam Cafe, we got into that conversation a bit and and received the blessing from some
of the people who helped push that term forward since it was first used in December of 2021.
By I just was looking at that who used that the first tweet we found by bunker collective
in December of 2021 bunker collective tweeted out keen to check it out.
Hashtag San Fam.
And ever since then, a month later, everyone started using San Fam in January of 2022.
So that was good.
That was cool.
That was cool to see.
We're trying to figure that out.
And see there it is right now showing it on screen here, December 2021.
And it was in response to the sandbox game who made a post in December 2021.
Look how look at that that is just back in time right there.
And then bunker responded back with keen to check it out.
So it was like a lifetime ago.
And December 2021.
I think that's when I joined to was December 2021.
So anyways, let's go back to the sip.
We just went through the what sandbox ambassador programs collection of individuals.
Why is this sip needed?
The sandbox needs an ambassador program to help support the growth and development of
the platform and ecosystem it serves.
Ambassadors will play a crucial critical role in raising awareness with new and existing
audiences about key initiatives.
Furthermore, this program will allow the sandbox to incentivize and reward community members
for their efforts and helping to push the platform forward.
That's the why section.
Okay, help support the growth and development of the platform.
So let's let's put some keywords right there.
So the why here is to help support the growth and development of the platform and ecosystem.
Okay, so that's some key phrases there.
And what else?
I'll play a critical role okay with new and existing audiences about key initiatives.
Key initiatives is something I keyed in on no pun intended.
Program will allow to incentivize and reward community members for their efforts.
So that's another key phrase.
So specific to the funding is to incentivize and to reward.
What are they incentivizing rewarding?
We'll find out later.
And how by how much you're about to find out in the house section.
The how the sandbox ambassador program.
SIP, which stands for sandbox improvement proposal sip, proposes allocating up to 400,000
sand.
400,000 sand.
Okay, let's see how much sand is trading at right now.
Go look at the token.
There's some reason why not showing up token sand.
Token tracker.
Let's take a look.
Where are we trading at right now?
Right now we're trading at 29 cents.
Okay, so let's do a little math.
Calculator.
So what do we got 400 400,000 sand.
Times point to nine is.
I can't be right.
Oh, I put in 4 million.
Let's say it cannot be over a million, there's no way for six or five zeros.
Times point to nine.
$116,000 US dollars.
Okay, so they're proposing 116,000 US dollars or 400,000 sand.
The allocated to cover costs for paying ambassadors in the program.
We believe this approach to the budget will allow us flexibility.
We need to scale the program over the coming months.
That's a key phrase.
Budget will fluctuate depending on the number of the ambassadors accepted in the program.
I don't know what that means.
Does that mean that it's going to go down if they don't hire as many people as they
thought?
I'm not sure.
Current needs of the sandbox at this stage.
It depends on the number of ambassadors involved.
Oh, there we go.
This budget will help pay for the expansion of the program, including more ambassadors
to fulfill the rules and new tracks and SIP details.
You will see the four ambassador tracks.
Okay, cool.
So what did we learn from the how we learned that 400,000 sand.
That's your point trading at 29 cents per sand as of 25 August 2024 equals 116,000 USD.
Right?
Yeah.
116.
So that's the first thing we learned.
The second thing we learned was this will allow us the flexibility we need to scale
the program.
So they're looking to add more people.
I'm sure at first, when I first read this, if they were just trying to beef up the current
compensation, which I as far as I understand, and I've seen from the other ambassadors is
very minimal.
I don't know what minimal is.
Maybe it's the thousand sand can't be too much when they say very minimal.
So I thought that maybe this would go to them.
But it sounds like what they're trying to do is onboard more ambassadors over the coming
months.
So the budget will fluctuate.
So it's going to go up and down.
I suppose I assume up and down up means they would have to come back for more.
But down means that they would be less than 400,000 sand and cost.
And they want to expand the program.
Okay, cool.
So that's good to know.
And then it mentioned a four ambassador tracks.
What are those?
It says in SIP details, we will find out.
So see SIP details, I realize you guys can't see them.
See SIP details on mark that one red so that I can know to come back to it later.
So it's a pace without formatting and in SIP details, mark that red.
Cool.
All right.
Now the win ambassador program has been launched on Monday, July 19.
See the medium forum.
Oh, those are two different links.
So there's a medium article and probably a forum post.
Yeah, so there's a forum post.
Embarrassingly enough, I didn't know that the sandbox had a forum.
It's been out for a long time.
You might know.
I didn't realize that.
And I see it uses the same technology that the sandbox DAO forum uses.
So whoops, big time whoops.
So I did not know that.
But let's look at this medium article.
Bringing together passionate individuals eager to help us support and grow the ecosystem.
Okay.
We're thrilled to announce that we're relaunching the ambassador program.
This is the medium article I'm reading.
As our platform and community continues to grow and evolve, so do our needs in response
for welcoming new ambassadors help us support contribute the sandbox ecosystem.
Continuing or learn more clear to apply.
I did apply to this.
So Lancer did apply.
And I applied for a number of positions.
One was key opinion leader, I think KOL.
There are a couple others that looked like I was suited for.
Just on the answers that they gave in the chat, I'm still mulling it over.
Still mulling it over.
They gave some interesting answers that were different than what I expected in the very
beginning of the what I heard other ambassadors explain explain was their role.
Their role being not as employees.
So don't know.
But we'll we'll see.
We'll just keep on going as our analysis unfolds.
Okay, become a part of something bigger.
I want a community for everyone more ways to contribute.
Oh, there's the four tracks.
Community manager, content creator, key opinion leader, in game leader.
So I didn't do in game leader because I'm in the sandbox game.
Sometimes I'm also I build experiences.
So I'm in game maker probably more than I'm in than actual sandbox game.
But when there are events, what was the last one I just did?
Mocha verse.
I just did the mocha verse event.
So I was in there for quite a bit doing that.
Mocha run and all that stuff.
That was kind of fun.
So community manager, content creator and key opinion leader.
I am both a content creator.
I've been a community manager before for different places, different games, and then a key opinion
leader.
I suppose I am talks about wielding influence within your community.
For what it's worth in the community right now.
I mean, sure, I published my content.
So here I am.
And rewarding work talks about ambassadors play a critical role doesn't really talk too
much about what rewarding work it is.
Oh, they're saying it's rewarding to be an ambassador because you play a crucial role
supporting the platform.
If interested, apply now.
And then there I'll put the apply link in the chat.
So ambassador program application link.
Oh, go there.
If you'd like to.
Hey hodl.
What's up?
I am reviewing the latest sip, which is the ambassador program sip number 11 is on the
floating floor right now.
It's at 92% Yes, 6% No.
But it hasn't even reached.
I mean, it's that seven 20% quorum.
So it has a long way to go for which is quorum.
Alright, so what did we learn about the wind section in the wind section, we learned that
there was a medium forum.
And so medium article right there.
Talk some good stuff.
Form article.
Let's take a look at the form article.
And it's pretty short.
Sweet and to the point, it looks like it's kind of a rehash.
And then all my friends here, these people, they also create an account and we're the
SIP authors, but they are a collection of people.
And when I found out they're not ambassadors.
So I confirmed that in the Dow discussion on the discord, the ambassador said that they
had did not play a part in this sip.
So it must have been someone within the sandbox team.
Not ambassadors that that wrote all this up.
So cool.
So the TLDR section.
And let's keep going.
What do we have left?
That is the end of the TLDR.
So there we go.
TLDR.
Let's go to the next slide.
And now we want to go into the SIP details.
And what do we learn in SIP details?
Right, let's go.
Let's talk about the four ambassador tracks.
Not talk about let's list them because we did see it in the medium article.
So we already know the answer to that one.
Four ambassador tracks are community manager, so CM content creator, CC, key opinion leader,
KOL, and then end game leader, IGL.
Yeah, HODL, you should definitely apply.
Absolutely.
I apply too.
Doesn't mean you're going to get selected.
And if they offer to you doesn't mean you have to accept but it'd be nice.
See what it's all about.
We are already kind of delved into it.
I mean, you are very active.
I think you should.
Yeah.
You could be a great ambassador.
Okay, so we talked about all of that.
Move on to the details.
Dankoi just to be clear.
So Dankoi just post the chat.
Just to be clear, the ambassador articles in the corner was created in the staff channel,
meaning that person despite not having staff tag, has staff permission in the creators
forum.
Dankoi, I don't think I fully understand what you mean.
Would you mind expanding on that?
Okay, let's get to SIP details.
What's the first thing?
Why does TSB need ambassadors?
Great question.
Why do we need ambassadors?
So we need ambassadors because bringing from the SIP sandbox is relaunching the sandbox
ambassador program in order to increase the number of ambassadors within the program by
introducing new roles to support the platform's ongoing growth and support.
In order to support the growth of this program, the sandbox is seeking funding support from
the DAO to compensate the ambassadors within the program.
Initially, our ambassador focused on community engagement through key channels like Discord
by answering questions and helping users learn how to use tools like Game Maker and VoxEdit.
Cool, okay.
Now, in addition to those critical functions, ambassadors could be tasked with creating
content for the sandbox channels, fostering a fun and engaging in-game environment with
players and more.
By expanding our program, we can partner with more of our community, bringing in fresh perspectives
and diverse talents.
Let's dive in how the new program works.
Great idea, SIP author.
Let's dive in.
So one of these things caught my eye and it was one of the questions I asked in the forum
during the two-week public comment period, which was ambassadors could be tasked with
creating content.
So one of my questions was, is what does that mean?
Does that mean that they have to?
Or does that mean that that's like if they're in this content creator track, they would
do it?
Or, or what?
And they gave some answers to that one.
So let's keep going.
Oh, right.
Let's write down.
What did we learn?
They're relaunching.
So I suppose they by relaunch, they mean they have allowed it to return.
I guess they had turned off the new applications.
Till now, so they're seeking funding to support.
We know that.
Focused initially, our ambassadors focused on community engagement through key channels
like Discord by answering questions.
Like I mentioned earlier, Christ, candidly, Kristen and Uncle Grumpy.
And helping users learn how to use tools like Game Maker and Voxit.
So that's a good one to know.
So that is, that was the original intent of the program.
So they want to expand that now into what errors next.
Ambassadors could be tasked now says now the new intent ambassadors could be tasked with
creating content fostering a fun, engaging in game environment and more.
And more.
So we'll just highlight the most important parts there.
Okay.
What else?
By experiencing a program, we can partner with more of our community.
I don't know what that part means.
Probably that probably what they mean there is that we can engage more of the community.
Whereas it felt that they probably feel like they're spread thin, which is which I'm as
a consumer as a gamer and all that I would probably agree with that.
They already did a lot of fun engaging in game stuff, though I remember during seasons
one and two and three, they would be doing they would just end game people in game admins
would show up to the new experiences that unlocked in zero zero sandbox map, and they
would do ad hoc contests like whoever could do the parkour jump all the way to the end
block, whoever got there first would win a prize.
So they frequently did that I remember trying very hard to win, and then getting beat out
by people who are better at it than I was.
Okay what's next?
The sandbox ambassador program overview.
So we're in a new section of the sub details.
Okay, a community for everyone.
This looks like a like a like a mission statement, we'll see here in a second.
So a sub sub header called a community for everyone.
The sandbox Oh wait, let me look at the chat.
Dan Koy, you said reintroducing the same article in creative forms.
So all my friends is from staff, or a promotion promotion post there.
So this sip is a TSB sip.
Dan Koy, yes, that's correct.
And you can tell when you look at Cyril's weekly posts of the sips, one of the ones
previous it said sandbox.
So he shows what sips are coming up and then are they by community or by the sandbox, that
sort of thing.
HODL you checked out the form earlier.
And the first question was full name and you just stop there.
True.
Maybe just try putting your first name in.
See what happens.
What I mean?
It does take a little bit to go through though.
It took me.
I don't know.
It was longer than I thought.
But that's probably because I tried to apply for three different tracks.
That's probably the reason.
But yeah, just put, put your first name and leave it there.
If they don't like it, the worst they can do is just, you know, not ask you to join.
But because you are who you are, they probably already know who you are.
So maybe they don't need to know your full name right away.
No, no, give it a shot.
So community for everyone, the sandbox ambassador program brings together a diverse group of
people connected by a love for gaming, having fun, orgy, meaningful connections, and of
course, the sandbox.
It continues the sandbox ambassadors have the opportunity for real meaningful impact
throughout our global community from helping onboard new players to producing engaging
content and as far as creators, ambassadors foster a welcoming and inspirational environment
for existing and new community members.
Okay, I don't really see anything there that I need to really highlight or note.
Let's keep going.
More ways to contribute another sub sub header.
It explains with this relaunch, we will be increasing the number of ambassadors and introducing
new roles to support the platforms ongoing growth.
This was probably answering what question I had earlier about the four tracks.
Initially, our ambassador focused on community management through discord by answering questions
and driving conversation.
Oh, this is a copy and paste from the media.
Now we will be expanding the coverage of community manager CM, two additional channels as well
as introducing three new tracks content creator CC in game leader IGL and key opinion leader
KOL.
By expanding our program, we can partner with more of you our passionate community, bringing
in fresh perspectives and diverse talents.
So let's copy pasta over the new tracks.
Cool, cool.
So we're done with this section.
Alright, next sub header or sub sub header is rewarding work.
I really don't have much to say about the section we just did.
Good new tracks.
Cool.
Give it a shot.
HODL you guess you KYC.
So kind of the same.
Yeah, yeah, that is true.
Kind of the same.
Rewarding work, our ambassadors play a crucial role in supporting the sandbox platform and
broader ecosystem, all while being recognized by the community and rewarded in sand for
their work.
Okay.
So I guess rewarded in sand for their work, maybe kind of just denotes that they're getting
paid in sand.
Okay, goals of the program.
Here we go.
This ought to be good.
The goal of the sandbox ambassador firm is to leverage members of the community to help
push brand and business objectives forward.
Oh, alright.
So you start introducing words like brand, business objectives, you start, you start
bringing in, you start.
I'm going to say you start really indicating what it is they're going to be doing.
Brand and business goals, objectives.
So normally business objectives are profit motive or market penetration, market cap.
Those are usual business objectives.
Daily active users, the DAU.
Brand would be intellectual property.
It would be brand awareness.
So closely affiliated with market penetration, which is how recognizable is your brand.
Sandbox is very recognizable because it goes everywhere and talks about the sandbox all
the time.
So in the metaverse, the sandbox is very well known.
It's just how big is the market cap.
It's not huge, but as Seb says frequently, notes, it is a top 100 cryptocurrency and
top 10 gaming tokens.
So that speaks for itself.
It's just in terms of if you start comparing it to say Roblox, which is not blockchain
enabled by the way, but Roblox has many millions of people who play its games versus sandbox,
which has considerably less.
So but this is starting to kind of specify that the ambassadors who we just learned will
be paid some sort of mixture of 400,000 sand will be pushing brand and business objectives.
So it's not just business objectives and brand will transcend some of the, hey, we're here
for the community and we're here to foster in game stuff.
Business objectives start talking about cost schedule and performance metrics for a company
to survive and earn revenue.
So that's a fascinating turn.
So let's keep reading.
A sub list of the business objectives and brand is acting on behalf of the business
and fulfilling core job functions, i.e. customer support.
Okay, that's normal.
Distributing key information to the wider community in which they have influence.
That is something I had a question on and that they clarified.
What does, under what conditions would we say we would the ambassadors need to distribute
key information?
I got that one answered.
Next bullet point was produce content for the sandbox and the sandbox down.
I also had a question that something that you would be compelled to do that something
that you would just do on your own.
I got that question answered.
Next bullet is facilitate in live ops during platform events, which is the season.
So next season four is coming up.
So imagine they would be participating quite heavily in that to ensure players have an
engaged populated server.
So driving engagement.
And what that means if you're played, you, you normally run in to an experience, you
play the quest and then you log out.
Because most of them up to this point have mostly been one time use RPG like games.
It's a story, but the story doesn't change.
It's the story every time you log in.
So once you play it through once, you really don't need to continue playing it because
the story you already know what the story is versus a mini game like floor droppers.
I do mini games mostly when I publish the sandbox, which is repetitive.
You can play with parties and groups.
It's meant to be played over and over and it's got like a persistent game mechanic
like in floor droppers, you, you run across a platform and you try and survive for as
long as you can as the floor disappears underneath you block by block.
So that will just continually loop, loop and loop and loop.
So in this, the ambassadors, the end game leaders, I suppose they are to facilitate
during the season when season four opens again sometime later this year and ensure players
have an engaged experience.
So kind of what they've been doing really, I guess maybe more of them this time.
I'm sure they seem like they did a pretty good job first two seasons.
Every time I logged on, they always seem to be there doing something, whoever they were
on TSB staff.
Alright, next section.
Thus the ambassador sandbox ambassador program allows us to foster positive brand affinity
and trust through community engagement, communicate key brand messages more broadly and effectively
to new and existing audiences and ensure optimal user experience.
Hey, Sebga, what's up?
Welcome.
Hello, you will see the four ambassador tracks, CM, community manager tasked with interacting
with the community on the sandbox, social and community channels.
CC content creator tasked with making contact for the sandbox.
Content that's when making content for the sandbox to publish on our channels.
Key opinion leader, KOL tasked with wielding influence within their communities by making
and publishing content on their channels.
End game leader, IGL tasked with interacting and driving engagement within in platform
experiences.
Cool, good explanations.
And so let's talk about let's just copy paste them right in.
I think we just do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good.
So those are the goals of each of those new positions.
Okay.
Currently just modifying one of the future slides that we can have this conversation
later.
Let's roll back now to.
Alright, so the next section is who can apply?
Who can apply?
Let's find out.
Anyone is welcome to apply and acceptance into the program is up to the sandboxes discretion
based on number one qualifications of the applicant number two standing within standing
within the sandbox community cannot violate terms of use, etc.
Number three needs of the sandbox team which can fluctuate depending on a variety of factors.
And then hello says.
However, filling out this application does not represent any guarantee of becoming an
ambassador of the sandbox and or receiving any form of compensation from the sandbox.
Wait, what if you hold on, let me reread that filling out this application does not represent
any guarantee of becoming an ambassador of the sandbox and or receiving any form of compensation
from the sandbox.
Okay, because I said and or now I've got to I didn't realize it's the first time I read
it.
I've got to kind of pick it apart.
So I think this is saying that even if you become a sandbox ambassador, you're not entitled
to compensation.
And I can say that with fair amount of confidence because it says and or.
If it had said and so filling out this application does not represent any guarantee and receiving
then I'd be like, okay, so what that's saying is just because you fill out a form doesn't
mean you're going to get paid for it doesn't mean you're going to become an ambassador.
But because I said and or they're kind of covering all their bases there.
So if I become a sandbox ambassador, I might not be compensated for it.
And you're requesting 400,000 sand.
Okay, I did not.
So my question there would be under what conditions would someone who is accepted to be a sandbox
ambassador not be compensated?
Alright, so that'll be a question I'll be asking back in the forums.
So question who can apply, let's first get that one underway here.
Oops, I realize I'm not sharing.
Okay, so who can apply?
And my question here was under what conditions would an accepted ambassador, a newly accepted
ambassador not receive compensation?
Market red so I can remember to ask that question in the forums later.
And HODL says I think if they didn't do anything, payment was always based on participation.
Oh, okay.
That's if that's the reason why they put that there, then okay.
Makes sense.
But is that the reason why it's there?
So I'll ask them anyways.
But good good point.
Oh, that might be it.
Okay, let's keep going.
Next section is benefit to the sandbox ecosystem.
Now I've done I've submitted four sips as an aside I've submitted four sips or five.
How many of us submitted?
I have submitted 12345.
I submitted five sips to the sandow, the sandbox Dow administration team.
And I'm surprised at how short this is already, by the way, because my the input that I got
back from the sandbox Dow admin team had me filling out these sections a lot more than
what I'm seeing here, especially the benefits here.
And it budget requested.
So it just requests 400,000.
I just finished a couple days ago, responding to a sandbox admin sandbox Dow admin team comment,
where I had to itemize all of my expenses.
All of them itemize.
So I had to go down to a very, like I had to show how much that I wanted to pay a podcasting
audio engineer, you know, like, I would hire them through Fiverr, and I would pay I would
get I was sending the file after I'm done with podcasts like this, and they would apply
their stuff to it to a much more professional degree than I am right now.
And then I had to I had to end my sip, I had to list out how much I was going to pay them.
So this just gives one big old wrapped up number 400,000.
I tried doing that when I first submitted this what three weeks ago, four weeks ago,
almost.
And a lot of the comments back and forth eventually that we need more.
We need we need more numbers behind this, we need to explain yourself a little more.
So I did.
But it seems like that's not the case here.
They just put the full amount without any explanation of distribution.
And that was one of the things that the community noted in the chat, the doubt discussion and
in the in the forum post responses.
We're almost there.
This is we're pretty much almost at the end here of this sip proposal.
So benefit to the sandbox ecosystem.
What is the benefit?
We believe that the sandbox style should fund this program because number one, shared and
aligned goals.
The purpose of the ambassador program is to foster development and growth of the community
and platform, which in turn impacts the sandbox DAO community.
Sure, sure.
I don't disagree with that.
That I wouldn't say that's a leap.
But that's let's call that an assumption.
Let's call that an assumption.
And only because the DAO is so new, we still don't know what we want out of it.
But that might not be true in the future.
I can think of some situations where the sandbox DAO community would evolve into where the
growth and development of the community platform.
While it does impact the DAO community, it's no longer aligned quite so A to B like it
is here.
Apecoin chain and Apecoin DAO is a good example of how the divergence between the ape profile
pictures and the Apecoin holders and now all of the initiatives and programs that have
been funded.
So like there's like bagel apes.
So like a bagel shop, there's laughing ape, which is like a comedy show.
Some of those interests are diverging from what you would call the profile picture apes,
the NFT people, and then even Apecoin holders.
So that's a fascinating thing to watch.
And I'm in a couple different Twitter spaces a week where I can listen to how that unfolds
so I can stay apprised of other DAOs and how they do things.
I just got in touch with someone from City DAO, which is a meta, a DAO about how to
on chain a city with like real estate.
So I'm looking forward to doing that interview here in the next few weeks to learn some lessons
from them.
And so yeah, that's interesting.
But true for now, I'd agree with that.
It's true for now.
The second one is second benefit.
Community first always.
Many of the sandbox ambassadors are active members of the community.
Very true.
Canley Christian, Grumps, which is Uncle Grumpy, Michael DeLuffy, Monkey DeLuffy, and others.
In some cases, the most active members and should this SIP be approved, we can expand
the program to welcome in even more members of our program.
Big obvious question I didn't think about until now.
What was stopping them from doing that now?
Did they run out of budget?
I find that hard to believe because sandbox has a huge budget, a huge budget.
And from what I understand, they're not paying the ambassadors very much.
And the value that they're getting out of the ambassadors is far outweighing what sounds
like how much they're receiving in compensation.
So I think they did answer that though, indirectly when I asked a question, and I'll point that
out when I read it.
They basically said that they feel it should be the Dow that pays for the ambassador program
now.
So, but that was a question that kind of pops up in my mind now again, which is what stopped
TSB from welcoming in even more members?
This SIP.
Right?
That's a follow up question to my follow ups that I already have that I'm hoping all my
friends will respond to.
All my friends being the user that was tagged as the author, which seems like a collection
of sandbox team members.
Okay.
Benefit number three, benefit number three, creating more opportunities by expanding our
program we are creating new roles and jobs for our community so that they can shape the
present and future of the platform and get paid for their work.
Okay.
Budget requested.
Always a fun one.
We kind of already talked about this one.
400,000.
Okay.
And let's just copy and paste it from the other one.
We did our little math.
Alright, so 400,000 budget requested.
Trading at 29 cents per sand as of today equals 116,000 US dollars.
Okay.
No questions there.
Except how is compensation determined per ambassador?
As you'll see in the next slide, when I pulled together some comments from the community,
that question was already asked.
They haven't answered yet.
They being the SIPP authors.
The exact number of ambassadors can't be determined at this moment.
Okay.
Why?
Why don't you know?
You know you want five 400,000 right?
So is that just a number you said we want 400,000?
Like just because or why isn't this known?
Or no, that's the wrong question.
Let's say what stops you from knowing this?
What causes you to not know this, I guess?
But what cause what about this does not allow you to project the exact number of ambassadors?
Alright, that's my question.
Alright, implementation plan.
Fascinating.
I'm comparing in my brain all of the back and forth that's going on between our team,
the MetaWorlds team, and on our five SIPPs that we submitted, and the Sandbox DAO admin
team, admin team.
And we are we are being asked to provide a lot more information when I'm seeing in these
SIPPs.
Yeah.
Not, not really a complaint.
But it is an observation.
I wonder why that is.
So the TSB marketing team will manage directly relationships with ambassadors.
Oh, that was a big question of mine.
That was a big one.
And that spawned its own podcast.
Coming up podcast number 20.
I think it is number 19.
Maybe it's number 19, which is the rules for DAO money.
And so far, I've locked in Joseph as a guest on that one where we can talk that one.
So what does it mean for the DAO to fund things?
Should there be some sort of extra external relationship where the DAO doesn't have a
say in the people that it funds?
Don't know.
But I got a very interesting answer from the ambassadors from the SIPP authors when they
responded in the DAO forums during the public comment period.
All right.
So what's milestone number one for the implementation plan?
Round one is selecting ambassadors on boarding first set of ambassadors.
How do we measure success?
The number of individuals accepted in the program?
What?
So you measure success by onboarding some unknown number of individuals that are accepted
in the program.
It's very nonspecific.
And now that I've been experiencing the specificity required by the sandbox DAO admin team, that's
definitely at odds with the level of specifics that they require of our team of MetaWorld
SIPPs.
I'm having to project out exact numbers almost.
And here they're explaining that it's just some number that they can't determine at this
exact moment.
Okay.
So milestone number one is selecting ambassadors and onboarding them.
Okay.
Milestone number two.
Oh, the completion date for milestone number one is from September onwards.
Okay, so no specific when they're going to do it.
And it unlocks a payment of 200,000.
So 50% of the 400,000 sand.
Milestone number two, reporting on first batch of ambassador work.
Okay.
How do we measure success?
Sandbox team, the sandbox team, the sandbox marketing team will share with the DAO key
metrics about the program.
What does that mean?
I don't know what that means.
Does it know what key metrics is wants to share and it doesn't know?
It doesn't know because and that's why it's saying it the way it's saying it right now.
You'll share key metrics.
Like you know what each role wants to do.
You have them explained.
So what key metrics?
So like the content creator, what one key metric could be?
How much content are they producing?
How many YouTube videos?
How many hours watched is that?
How many views did they get?
Community manager could be how many messages were moderated, I guess.
How many messages were posted by ambassadors?
Key opinion leaders.
I don't know.
I don't know how wielding influence maybe that's how many likes that key opinion leader
tweets get.
Endgame leaders, which would be how many hours spent in the in the sandbox game, how many
contests were run and how many prizes were given.
So there's some key metrics right there.
But the how do we measure success is, you know, in second reading, it's I'm surprised
that it's as vague as it is given the amount of of specifics that the past few community
sips have given that went to vote.
And then the five that I have the sandboxed out admin team.
The completion date for milestone number two is end of 2024.
And the payment in sand is to unlock the remaining 50%.
OK, so there's there's no round three.
It's just.
It's just reporting the first batch.
OK.
And my question there would be.
Right.
What key metrics?
I might have already asked that one.
Can't recall at this exact moment.
Fine, figure it out.
OK, and then the appendix alternatives considered the sandbox funds the ambassador program fully.
Not with this 400000 sand you won't.
And that's only technicality because the sandbox sandbox Dow funds came from the sandbox.
But once it went from the sandbox to the sandbox Dow, the Dow is a separate legal entity.
So it's it's now legally separated from the sandbox.
Company so the sandbox funds the ambassador program fully.
We choose to not proceed with this option because we felt that since the ambassador
program is tasked with fostering and growing the community, the Dow should fund the program.
That is.
That is a.
That just warrants discussion.
I don't necessarily disagree with that.
I don't know how I feel about it right now.
There's a lot of discussion.
And one of the one of the things that we will be talking about with the next podcast on
the rules for Dow money.
That Joseph and I'll start discussing and anyone else he really wants to is just he's
one of the people I thought of.
So.
But ultimately.
Yeah.
Alternatives considered.
OK, so that's the end of the sip.
The read through.
Add some questions.
So for this one, the appendix, which you all can't see, let me move that up so you can
see.
So for the appendix would be warrants discussion.
Is around the Dow funding.
The sandbox.
Functions.
Responsibilities.
I guess.
I think it just needs discussing.
Maybe I really don't have a problem with that.
I just don't know what I think about it.
Because there's something about it that I need resolved in my brain.
I don't know how to articulate it right now.
So that's one of the reasons why I thought Joseph he's like just like the Aristotle of
of the sandbox deep thinker.
I appreciate listening to his thoughts when he talks about it stuff.
So that's the whole read through right there.
Let's now go to the forums.
It says on the forums some healthy discussion was had.
All right.
So when they posted this on definitely not January 29th.
19 days ago on August 7th when this was posted.
All right.
So let's look at the first response.
Who was it?
Was it me?
Might have been me.
That was me.
So they posted it 18 days ago and a day later I posted my questions.
Right.
So discussion board link.
Now we're over here.
Right.
So we're here.
So here's now we start the discussion.
So I had a list of questions after I read it.
And I said, Hey, sit down.
Your team where it's very interesting sip.
And I thought it was I think it's very interesting.
I'm happy to see that we're able to discuss this.
I really like the idea and there's more I need to know to form a voting decision.
Would your team representatives be willing to come on the standout podcast, give your
perspective and expand on the sip?
So it was 18 days ago and they did not respond on to that.
They just answered my questions and I asked a bunch of questions.
Starting from which budget would this come from?
Can you give a full list of what creating content entails?
What new roles were you thinking of introducing?
Some of these things I guess I just didn't fully comprehend or connect the dots because
they did answer some of these questions already in the sip.
And what else did I ask?
Does this mean that ambassadors would have an employee employer or freelancer relationship
with the sandbox?
Is there ever a situation where ambassadors would be required to distribute specific key
information?
And I also asked a question for myself because I had submitted an ambassador application.
I asked if I were to be selected and accepted as a key opinion leader, what sort of wielding
influence would be expected of me and other KOLs?
Then I asked what is the $400,000, $300,000 sand funding, funding compensation, onboard
fees, something else.
I also asked how many individuals total this $400,000 allow you to accept?
And then I asked if the Dow ends up paying the $400,000, does this mean that ambassadors
would then answer to the Dow instead of the sandbox?
That's where I said in the previous section that I didn't know what I thought of that
part about the Dow being tapped to fund this instead of the sandbox team and company.
That was me trying to feel my way through what is it that bugs me about that statement?
I don't know.
I don't fully yet know.
That's what I'm hoping to explore in the next podcast with Joseph.
All right, so I asked that question 18 days ago.
And then later on that day, Geraldine, Props to Geraldine, I love how active you are in
participating from the sandbox Dow team on the forums.
Thank you very much for what you're doing there.
Geraldine said, Hey, Langer, thanks for questions.
I can already assist answer some of them as they're answering the SIP.
Fair enough, Geraldine.
And then under the how section, which budget would this come from is what I asked.
And it would be under the Sand Initiative budget.
So let's take a gander here at in the slides here, the Sand Initiative budget at 3.6 million
sand.
All right, so that's how much of the 15.5 million sand is for sand initiatives.
Let's look at the checkbook.
How much is left?
So as of right now, zero SIPs have taken from the Sand initiatives.
The ones that would have didn't pass to SIP 10, which was the blockchain events.
2024 did not reach quorum, only reached like 51% quorum.
It would have it would have spent 337,000 sand it did not make quorum so it didn't it's
not going to deduct from the Sand Initiative.
This one will take out 400,000 I have that in the wrong place.
Let's go ahead and change that.
So we want 400,000.
We're going to change that 400,000 to over here.
That then should be good.
Okay, update it.
There we go.
Alright, so moved it over.
Whoops, looks like I didn't lay out a zero.
Alright, so there's my.
And let's put one more time.
There we go.
So if this does take, then we'll have spent.
We'll have spent.
If these two SIPs pass, both of them are in Sand initiatives column.
So we'll have spent 453,000 of the 3.6 million sand.
So not not a not a terrible dent in the budget.
That's that's doable.
I'm not opposed to that.
Seems pretty reasonable.
Oh, okay.
Well, it's I had this all wrong.
Okay, cool.
So there, yeah, let's go back to discussion post.
There we go.
Alright, and then under implementation section when I asked what is the 400 funding?
Oh, Geraldine said compensation only for the ambassadors.
Okay, fair enough.
And then where I asked how many individuals does a 400k allow them to accept?
And Geraldine said, as was noted, exact number of ambassadors can be determined.
Fair enough.
Okay.
And then all my friends answered.
How many days after that?
Six days.
So a week later, all my friends answered my remaining questions.
So where I asked, can I give a full list of what creating content entailed?
They said content creation can vary based upon needs of the marketing team at the time,
but typically will involve game capture rendered scenes, box edit assets or motion design work.
Okay, so kind of like what what Lucas and forgive me, frequently co host Lucas on the
sandbox Twitch and cyber dragon and and Panda Pops what they do right now.
The next part is under the goals and where I said, acting on behalf of the business does
this mean that the ambassadors would have an employee-employee relationship?
And they said ambassadors will have a contractual agreement with the sandbox based upon their
agreed track and commitments.
The contract auto renews on a monthly basis.
Okay.
So have they answered anything so far that I asked you today?
Let's take a look.
Who can apply?
No, no answer to that one yet.
Next one was what stopped TSP from welcoming and even more members?
They didn't ask that one.
House conversation determined didn't ask that answer that one.
What about this not allow you to project the exact number answer?
What key metrics didn't answer?
These discussion did not answer.
Okay, so we're still still good on the new questions.
Alright, the next one they answered for me was when I asked, is there ever a situation
where ambassadors will be required to distribute specific key information?
This is a, when I said earlier, this is one of the key questions that popped out when
I first read this.
It said, yes, we may leverage ambassador to distro or distribute information for a launch,
i.e. game maker update, support a partnership launch, promote a SIP and more.
So with this new price tag, 400,000 SIP, 400,000 sand that they will distro the unknown number
of new ambassadors within an unknown distribution schedule.
They will leverage this to to require that ambassadors distribute information to include
content creators.
So if I were, the way I interpret this, if I were to be accepted as a content creator
or key opinion leader, and I was doing standout podcast, I think what I'm hearing them say
is that they would ask me to support a partnership launch.
So they would, I would go to commercial break, and it would be brought to you by finance.
This is launching on X date, tune in on X date at X time on the Binance website to see
the launch of finance and then the rest of the pitch or any new partnerships that come
about.
Now the sandbox, the sandbox has been pushing out a lot of new partners.
I think they have over 80 at this point.
80 new partners.
I say new 80 partners, some of which are big names like Forbes, The Walking Dead.
What else?
Atari, big names.
So they could, they could request that their whole ambassador team read a prepared script
or pitch or promote a SIP of which there are over 20 I think in the queue right now.
That would be funny if I were to promote my own SIP because I was required to by the by
the sandbox team.
That would be interesting.
But yeah, that's what I gathered from this one.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I'm still mulling this one over.
That's why I haven't voted yet.
Under the four ambassador track sections.
Oh, this was my selfish question.
I asked if I were to be selected and accepted as a KOL, what sort of wielding influence
would be expected of me and other KOLs?
They said we are looking for KOLs who have a certain number of followers and demonstrate
the engagement and other metrics that are engaging with their community.
I'm not sure if they put the certain number of followers as a thing to say that we're
not sure you're for us.
I don't know.
I'm going to get into it a little bit because the sandbox is not, while it's well known,
it's not well trafficked.
Let's call it.
Let's take a look here at Panda Pops, right?
How many followers does Panda Pops has?
She's been one of the mainstreamers.
Panda Pops has 36,000 followers.
And so I'll blow that up a little bit.
All right, so she has 36,000 followers.
What do I have?
I don't even really, really know.
I have 523 followers.
So far less.
So does that mean that they didn't say what their bar was?
How many do I have on Twitch?
So let's look at Panda Pops.
I'm going to just she has 1.9000, 1900 followers on Twitch.
Alright, so let's look at myself.
I'm live right now.
No, no, no, no, no, no, just chill.
Where's my follower count?
170?
Oh, 170 followers.
Okay, so far less than her on every front.
I wonder if I don't meet the definition of, you know who else I should look at?
Let's look at crafter.
He's not an ambassador.
And so Panda Pops has enjoyed 367 followers.
Okay, so I have half of crafter.
And let's look at what was I looking at?
Twitter, right?
Or X.
X now.
So was it crafter?
Yeah.
How many followers do you have crafter?
4465.
So crafter has quite a number of followers.
So I would imagine that he at least he would make he would meet the bar there.
Whoa, 34 views.
That mean 34 people are watching?
I can't.
I'm looking at my broadcast on Twitter right now.
34 views mean 34 people is watching?
That would be.
I actually did not realize that's happening.
I know I was using the multi stream on the new stream labs.
And let's see.
Okay anyways.
So not sure what their bar is.
They might not know themselves yet.
Don't know.
So influencers will be expected to drive impressions, engagements across their posts, in some cases,
down funnel metrics.
Down funnel metrics, ie.
Traffics to the platform.
I think that's a wording to say that I would need to raid the sandbox game after I'm done
with my podcast, which I already do that anyways, or maybe advocate for the sandbox twitch.
Not really sure.
Okay, then my last question was, if the Dow ends up paying the 400,000 does mean that
the ambassadors would then answer to the Dow instead of TSB?
Their answer was the program will be owned and operated by the sandbox.
This SIP is purely to fund the program as we believe this program delivers a similar
mission as the Dow, which is to grow and foster the sandbox community.
And that didn't really, it didn't really quench the thirst that I was looking for.
And what is it that I'm really bothered about?
That statement under the appendix that said the sandbox used to fund the ambassador program
fully and they're looking to not proceed with that in the future because they believe the
Dow also shares that responsibility, maybe.
I guess it's because the sandbox is there as a sandbox game.
The team is there to further the sandbox game.
And the Dow represents more than just the game.
The Dow is not only the ecosystem, but everything about the sandbox and more.
And the sandbox isn't just a game.
It is how you interface.
It's the core product.
But as we're seeing with 8coinDow, Citidao, MakerDow, Dows are becoming very creative
in how they outreach, how they fulfill their purpose, how they build community.
And maybe if we spend $400,000, it will go to a sandbox company specific expense that
the sandbox game should be picking up as part of their product.
I don't know.
I'm just thinking off the cuff here.
But some things I'm going to have to go back on as I prepare for the next podcast with
Joseph where we discuss this in detail.
I'm still not quite sure what my issue is with it.
Okay, so then I say my response back on the forums a few days later was, or one day later,
whatever it was, was thank you.
And again, reiterate, can the authors make themselves available for a Sanandale podcast?
And then, oh, I further ask, is there ever a situation where ambassadors will be required
to distribute key specific information?
Oh, no, no, I'm just repeating myself so I can because I had a follow on question.
My follow on question to their yes that we may leverage them to distribute information
is my follow up question.
What is your position on the conflict that may emerge between ambassadors on the key
opinion leader track and the expectations that they push specific content?
And then I quoted a Medium article where it talks about wielding influence by making and
publishing content.
And what I noted was that if I'm there as a key opinion leader, my key opinion leader
role, the wielding of influence in my community isn't based on my advocating, forced advocating
of the sandbox game.
It is based on my observations, my assessment, and my interaction with the community.
Not that I am reading a script prepared by the sandbox marketing team that I am to then
promote to my audience.
So that struck me as fair enough that you're paying them.
Although we don't know how much we don't know how many.
Fair enough.
And if you have a contractual agreement and that your contract states that then okay.
It still strikes me as don't I don't know I don't know how I feel about that doesn't
make me feel good.
And probably because it's still that elusive thing I'm trying to think about is why is
the Dow paying for it specifically?
Okay, and then my next follow up question was when they answered my question about does
this mean TSB would answer or the ambassadors answer to the Dow instead of TSB, they said
they'll answer to TSB.
And I said what was the reasoning behind not including any tracks for the Dow ambassador?
Yeah, I noticed that they didn't have an ambassador a Dow ambassador track.
Why not?
I would love to be a Dow ambassador.
The only reason didn't go for community manager was because one crafter said he was going
to go for it.
And then Joseph also was going for it.
But it was very heavily centric on social media.
And I did not feel like that was something I wanted to divert my attention from podcasting
for the sandow and sit building for governance.
I really wanted to focus on those two things and didn't want to spend my extra hours curating
Twitter posts.
As important as that is for that position.
What I didn't realize is that this is actually a full time position, not part time.
So if I had gotten it, then I'll be doing it full time like I'm doing full time now
as my program manager job, program managing software development.
For Yeah.
So interesting thing, but I'm glad I'm glad they well, Joseph is no longer the ambassador
right now.
I think they're still trying to figure that out.
The L team is trying to figure out who's gonna be the real ambassador, community manager,
excuse me, manager.
Okay, so they answered.
That was 11 days ago, right?
And then they didn't answer.
So six days ago, on August 19, I began reiterated, can we do a podcast episode, please?
And Candidly Kristin, who is an ambassador right now, four days ago, she comes in and
articulates her reasoning for voting no.
And Candidly Kristin has said many times since the beginning that she will continue to vote
no until the special counsel has someone from the community on it.
Because she feels that the way it was introduced, the Dow she's talking about that introduced
was improper.
And I'm paraphrasing, but I'm pretty confident that I'm paraphrasing that correctly.
So she said currently, there's still no one on those still no one on the special counsel.
And they have not done much to try and interact with the community outside of their AMA, which
they've already used.
I'm going to skip over that part because I don't fully agree with everything she's saying
here.
But talked about how detached they are, which is completely unacceptable, in her opinion.
So she doesn't want to change her principles, even though her this this SIP fund, this ambassador
SIP would theoretically also benefit Kristin.
So she's still voting no, even though.
So I respect her greatly for that.
What's up, Batman?
Good to see you in chat.
So currently, it states there is no limit to the number of bastards.
She said so if they have 400 bastards, and that means each could be eligible for 1000
sand until the rest of the year.
And that's nowhere near enough for the work ambassadors do.
Fascinating.
Okay.
She then said I do not see anything spelling out how these funds will be distributed.
And I feel like this is an important aspect of the proposal.
So let's go ahead and go to our next slide here.
So I already started putting some of this down.
Distribution schedule, the 400,000 sand is unknown.
Right?
Expectations of the ambassadors is unknown.
Report eligibility of the ambassadors is unknown.
Budget estimate of 200,000 sand being distributed to the ambassadors over 200 months.
So assuming 50 ambassadors would be $250 to $300 per month.
We'll only have four months budget left assuming the same distribution schedule.
That was something that someone who mapped it out showed.
And I think it was in this exact form.
So I won't share who that was.
I am okay if the funds come from the sandbox DAO.
That was already decided when everyone voted for step one, but I don't like how they didn't
specify at all how the funds will be allocated.
I am voting 100% no.
My views can be found here.
This was part of Candley Christen's response.
It was down here at the bottom.
Currently I believe there are over 50 ambassadors and bringing on new ambassadors would combining
all combine the old potentially would potentially truly potentially I should limit each ambassador
500,000 for the year based on this budget.
Okay.
So what I'm seeing is that this is not enough for what it is that they are asked and would
be asked to do.
Okay.
She says there are many obvious questions that were not addressed and should have been
I will be voting no.
And she explains elsewhere and on Twitter X that similar to which what she posted here
in the forum.
Some of the questions that she asked is there cap per ambassador that they can be awarded
a certain time?
Will they be required to?
Will they require work to actually be performed for these rewards?
Are these sets amount per task?
Will this only be for new ambassadors or would old ambassadors be forced into this budget?
Excellent question now that we know that to become stated means you'd be compelled to
do all this stuff.
And right now the ambassador seem like they have a wide degree of flexibility.
But these new ambassadors the way that all my friends responded in the first Q&A round
sounds like they would be far more restricted and controlled.
Actually this is copy and paste her questions.
So we're copying pasting the questions that we just asked from Kristen.
So from Lanza I asked.
She asked a lot of questions.
So that's good.
Good questions.
And then I asked what was the reasoning behind not including the administrator?
So I'll self-idea myself but I won't self-idea other people unless they post publicly.
And then I said what's your position that may emerge on the conflict?
Right.
And then what happens after that?
Escape room artist.
Hello the escape room artist.
Thank you for frequently popping into the Sandel episodes.
Escape room responded to Kristen saying he was proud of her for staying up for her beliefs.
Okay.
Kunta MC.
Oh, Kunta is also an ambassador.
Awesome.
Cool.
So I did not list you earlier Kunta but thank you for being an ambassador.
Kunta agreed that this SIP needs to be clear about sand allocations.
So where's the sand allocation one?
Okay.
So there was a plus one by Kunta.
Let's just say plus one by another user.
You raise good questions.
We need to empower and incentivize.
Look forward to learning more.
Hi gaming hub.
Responded to Kristen.
This is exactly the feedback the Simox team needs to hear.
Talks about how the special members were chosen.
They're not really part of the core boots on the ground community.
They seem disconnected.
A one payment fits all approach doesn't work here.
Compensation should be based on hours worked or task completed not a blanket payment says
I gaming hub.
I suggest considering a senior ambassador or ambassador plus role for those who could
be a part.
Okay, so let's add that one from the community.
During time people in task will be crucial bringing this and a proven system.
This isn't just a one time SIP.
It's procuring forever type of SIP in the future.
This could lead to demand for raises by these ambassadors employees or any more complexity.
Fair true point.
Candley Kristen then responds.
This is a big one to me even if I wasn't in the middle of my protest vote, which I said
earlier she was committed to voting no until a community member was able to join the special
council.
And she said how can I vote.
But I have no idea how the sand will be spent.
Oh, this is where she said the if they decide to have just 40 ambassadors that's 10,000
sand a year each 400 ambassadors is 1000 sand.
So put that one here as part of the explanation.
Okay.
Thank you.
During the chat earlier.
Thank you.
The framework of this dial the same as a framework of the creators forum in the creators forum
we have an important public tool called users.
Oh, I like this one a lot.
Thank you.
I didn't know.
Like I said, I did not really know that there was a sandbox forum that use the same discourse
software as this dial forum does.
But he's right.
He showed the picture here.
In the picture you can go down and click click users and users allows you to monitor trends.
The number of posts that people make.
So you can see Dan Koy has received 238 likes has given out 305 likes.
That's awesome.
Always disease that people giving out more likes than they receive.
That's cool.
Create 20 topics, applies seven posts at 57.
Tots for viewed has been 145 and toast read 712 and it goes all the way down.
Pickaxe master who we just interviewed and podcast number 17 escape room artists to say
the Legion V Pire, the Joan, the John Crow PJ.
Some of these are staff members looks like.
But I see a number of well known community members in there as well.
So we don't have that option here.
I've never seen that.
Yeah, never seen that.
That's pretty cool thing.
So that'd be great if they could enable that.
I am.
I'm willing to put money.
I am probably I'm probably the one that has posted the most because of how excited I am
about the Dow.
I'm just I constantly look at it.
And I have the little phone app for discourse so I can see when you people post things and
I'm just I'm excited.
So I love to to participate.
But and as you'll see later on that that brought me into some conflict with another forum post
member.
So I said that's cool.
It's definitely enabled then koi for sure.
And then I just reiterated my questions which they hadn't answered yet.
That was four days ago.
So August 22nd.
So that the last time all my friends responded was.
Up up up up up up.
Last time they responded was August 13th.
And
and by my second follow up to to the questions I originally posed August 12th almost almost
a week later.
Seba also in the in the chat on Twitch here to see Seba.
Indeed Seba says the frequency and quality of the content is essential.
Also note that an ambassador must act with a moral sense by which I mean that ambassador
cannot orient 50 percent of his or her content on play online discover my experience.
Completely agree.
I think the ventures type stuff going on there if if an ambassador were to do that.
However if an ambassador wasn't paid and was strictly a volunteer.
Is it really so wrong anymore.
I'm not sure.
I don't know to what degree current ambassadors are given any sort of preferential anything.
I don't really know.
I'd love to get that need to ask that question.
But if they were being paid thousands of sand to do that job then yeah it could be a conflict
of interest or an improper self promoting activity for them to advocate for their own
stuff using official.
Resources if they do it on their own.
Then well as far as the dial is concerned they're a private citizen.
But if they somehow use the main Twitter X account to promote their own stuff exclusively
then that would give them a leg up especially in something like builders challenge where
the more people who play your experience the more you rank on the leaderboard.
So if that could be a very big abuse.
People who get who get pushed to the highlight reels on both the newsletter and on the website
they tend to get a lot more plays.
Yep.
Amount equals time.
That's what I guess says in the chat.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Yeah.
Vengeance much palette game maker box said it.
Okay.
So Candley Christen says I completely agree.
To you Seb go as someone who cares so deeply about the sandbox and the sand fam.
I find it very difficult to support the current sandbox Dow.
That's that's why when Kristen said earlier about her protest vote she wants more representation
from the community.
So Kristen if you're watching this please come on the sand about podcast.
You don't have to sugarcoat anything and if you want to make sure that you don't get yourself
in trouble then we can always keep it within the bounds of whatever it is you feel comfortable
with.
We don't have to talk about anything.
Let's just talk because I feel like your perspective is one that so many people agree with and
they and they say that they say they agree with you and you are that they believe in
what you're saying and I would like I would like there to be a podcast on this.
I'd like people to hear your perspective in whatever way you're willing to share it.
Okay.
Justin DeRuth a human comes in says as a brand new landowner and a lifetime creator.
So get the lay of the land.
It seems obvious that it needs to be more individuals working to the market working
to market the sandbox find ways to fill the need for creators developing the creative
tools to make the sandbox accessible to non creatives expanding the sandbox to mobile
creating more educational content and ideally some kind of director.
There seems to be a divide between the creators and investors as a nerdy as a person who's
nerdy and artistic.
I hope to help bridge the gap.
Okay.
He goes on further to say sandbox is an investment opportunity sandbox not separate and sandbox
Dow.
Oh.
Oh he says the sandow is not a separate entity.
No no no no.
Do Ruth.
I'm send out this podcast called sandow the sandbox Dow is a separate entity.
That's why he said that I was wondering why how he got that mixed up later on in his post.
Okay.
So DeRuth if you're if you're watching this the sandow was me just smashing the word sandbox
and Dow together to create a name sandow.
That's what I call the podcast.
The sandbox Dow Foundation is the company that runs the sandbox Dow.
They're the stewards of it.
So I did not notice that in his post.
It is one of the things I was waiting to see if this will be a full blown NFT project and
the sandbox delivered this the sandbox Dow is the most critical part of this project
because it determines the longevity of the project.
However it isn't truly a decentralized autonomous organization if it is centralized by the council.
I agree with that.
I do agree with that.
If there is a centralization by the council then is it really a Dow.
Well if the if the the council is elected similar to how eight coin Dow has governance
working group that's elected and they help funnel and facilitate stuff.
Well that's that is a participative democracy.
It's a I guess reasonable people could disagree on the word decentralized but it is organized
and they have a leading body that is elected and the Constitution currently caps the number
of people the number of times you can reelect into the council.
I think it's four times right.
So if you have the tuition let's take a look to the Constitution.
Right here it is Constitution.
Where is it?
Four four times reelect members they reelected upon expiration.
Pretty sure it's four times.
All right so maybe let's go with election.
No.
There's a Max.
Well there is members may be reelected but may not serve more than three consecutive
terms.
Consecutive being the keyword there.
So if you take a term off which looks like it's annual so you'd have to take it.
It's called a cool off period.
So if you have a year of cooling off after you serve three in a row then you can serve
a fourth a year later.
So two years.
I didn't realize that the first time I read it.
Good thing I'm reading it again.
Let's find my way back.
Okay there we go.
Okay so DeRuth talks about all that.
It had a lot to say and it was cool reading that.
Talks about organizing stuff like that.
And then I go back to what did I do here.
Just kind of oh this is where this is where the podcast episode started to take hold for
the next one.
Where I invited Kristen on as well as Joe Siff at the time.
What I started asking this was the appendix thing that was bothering me still.
Should we accept that SIP funds go to creation of an employee relationship that doesn't answer
to the Dow members.
I've been mulling that one over.
Because that's what I want to explore in the next podcast.
Okay and then DeRuth talks.
Then I talks about paying out of the sandbox fund.
Then I again yesterday asked all my friends if we could do a podcast episode.
And then DeRuth responds back and says expressing solidarity with Kristen and will be voting
no on any SIPs that are not for the purpose of developing the creator tools of the sandbox.
And then DeRuth and I have a little bit of a disagreement and I won't need to.
I'll just skip right through that.
You all can read it if you really want to but it's not relevant to SIP number 11.
So yeah.
But DeRuth if you'd love to do a podcast interview.
Whether you interview me or I interviewing you.
I would love to do that.
So that's it.
That's where we stand on SIP number 11.
Two hours in.
I'm going to go ahead and cut it here in a second.
But that's that's where we sit.
SIP number 11.
There are still some questions.
All my friends we request your answer on this because right now you are you don't even have
a half quorum yet.
50% quorum.
And the last three SIPs were did not go through because it didn't reach quorum.
So the the way things are looking right now it's not looking good.
There are a lot of even ambassadors saying that they voiced their objections to this.
So I think it's in your best interest to at least answer the questions on the forums.
And if possible please jump on podcast with me.
Like the the previous SIP owners have done.
And we'll just talk it out.
Let's talk it out.
That's all we'll do.
No no traps.
No gotchas.
Just working through the questions and what the perspective is of the SIP owners as you
all wrote this.
So let's go ahead and move on through the rest of the agenda.
So that was our analysis.
I'll post these questions as a follow up in the forums of the forum post and then let's
look at future episodes.
So future episodes.
That's a nice.
Okay, there we go.
Okay that's not what you want.
It's for you to post.
There we go.
Cool.
Future episodes.
So we just fit.
We're about to finish SIP number 11.
Ambassador program review which is podcast Sandow number 18 and 19 is scheduled for September
7th where we talk about rules of Dow money.
And I'm still struggling with how to phrase this one.
Maybe the change title will change but with Joseph who is also known as the Vision X and
then a day later we'll be interviewing what will become SIP number 13 which is the NFT
crafting and drops SIP with crypto Diplo and that one is currently in the SIPs draft which
is the 14 day public comment period before it goes into SIP active where the two SIPs
awaiting vote currently sit.
Alright Sandbox spaces.
Discord so if you want to connect to the community go to the Discord the Sandbox Discord there's
a lot of conversations going on there.
Go to the Sandbox Dow forum Discord.
Go to Twitter hashtag Sandfam hashtag the Sandbox Dow hashtag the Sandbox game.
There are also Twitter spaces.
I say X Twitter spaces throughout the week.
So Mochaverse Hall is on Monday.
Bulls on the Block is on Saturdays.
Coffee with Captain is Monday through Friday.
That's at Chris Jordan.
J-O-U-R-D-A-N and he does that every day.
That one's powered by Apecoin but they also will talk about Sandbox from time to time.
Whale members on Tuesday they have what's called natively digital and that's at Whale
members one word and then Sandfam Cafe.
We did that one that podcast just a few days ago podcast number 17 and that was the Sandfam
Cafe which is monthly done by Pickaxe Master.
So thank you all for your time and I'm going to raid someone.
So awesome.
Have a great day.