Thales in the spotlight: Podcasts, Olympics, community call, and more
You got the questions. We got the answers!
This last week has been anything but quiet and we are very grateful for it.
For starters, we had not one but two deep-dive interviews where Thales co-founder farmwell represented our team and expanded into our journey so far bringing Thales from idea to MVP, working at warp-speed on an ever-changing landscape, and fostering a vibrant community from the ground up.
Conversations with the Coop
While technically this interview wasn’t done last week (it was done live on Index Coop Discord on July 29th), the recording came just a few days ago and it was so good (yes, we are biased, sorry) that we couldn’t let it slip.
In this episode of Conversations with the Coop, Crypto_texan talks with farmwell for almost an hour, with some golden nuggets in between really worth your time, maybe you even pick up some alpha along the way 👀.
Where to listen?
Substack: https://indexcoop.substack.com/p/conversations-with-the-coop-farmwell
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0v5veLRT0acyTpnq7I9YtL
High definition by Koji
The folks at Koji have been nothing but amazing with their overall support.
They are part of our strategic partners, they also had one member, Jean-Luc, run and got elected for the first Thales council, and they are always supportive be it on operations, business development, or communications.
This time they invited us to share more about Thales on their podcast, High definition.
Where to listen?
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/59fDwh2tksUmgEcqSsuqij?si=9c37cc40c8ff4273
Bonus: The daily gwei refuel.
We are big fans of thedailygwei so it was natural for us to feel pretty excited when we were mentioned.
Here is the timestamp directly into where Thales is talked about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIgwND4TKk&t=1467s
Feels good man.
Some news, updates, and what comes next.
👉 Olympics markets
We’ve concluded our first trial with on-chain sports data securing Olympics results with Chainlink oracles and we are thrilled with the outcome.
We had great discussions regarding the Olympics in our #sport-markets channel where people were eager to learn and try this novel approach.
A few hours ago all Olympics markets were successfully resolved. Now those who hold winning positions have a 25-week to claim those.
We’ll keep working closely with folks at Chainlink labs to bring more sports events on-chain, stay tuned! 🏀
👉 Leaderboard
Gamification is making its way into Defi and we didn’t want to be left behind on this trend!
For now, we have a basic leaderboard that tracks and sorts by the amount of volume traded. We’ll keep adding things to it (like a PnL column) and revealing what people in the top spots can expect once we have this fully rolled out.
👉 Next Thales community call
Last but not least…
We had a blast sharing with everyone on our first community call so we are pretty excited to do it again!
When is this happening? Read below 👇
And if you wanna know the tentative agenda for this next community call, to be held in Thales’ Discord server on August 11th at 12pm UTC:
- Thales council introductions
- Team expansion
- MVP release review
- 0x related: ZRX staking pool details / 0x DAO grant
- Formalize bug bounty
- Next step: Token generation event and distribution
- Next step: Expansion to L2
- Q&A
- POAP time!
Pro
That’s it!
Now enjoy those podcasts while commuting or making dinner, join our Discord community if you still haven’t, and be prepared for Thales' next community call.
Onwards! 🚀
