OVERVIEW
Reflecting on the highs, lows, and learnings 3 from Season 3 and the results from Olivier's audit, we propose to make Season 4 about bringing our glorious Community and Protein Ecosystem together under a unified Call to Adventure.
As our $PRTN token celebrates its 1st and Protein celebrates its 25th journey around the sun, it also feels the right time to align our collect teams, budgets, and resources around a single mission in order to flex for a better future … whilst giving our members new opportunities to learn, earn and grow 🌱
We will use Season 4 to bring everyone together through a series of workshops and group discussions that will be facilitated by a trusted external consultant, Letesia Gibson from New Ways.
INSPIRATION
Our inspiration for this Season comes from three sources. Firstly, this (slightly tweaked) passage written by Matt Klein, is a beautiful observation on our current life and times and resonates deeply on multiple levels:
https://snapshot.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmUxSJdzxYEBqwC4is9ScJtVkWQJejx3WBe9HuAHP3NfVZ
The second was from the 2017 Protein Futures* presentation which introduced the ME / WE / US concept and the ambition of “growing a community that far great than all of us”. We’re now exactly 5 years into that mission, so feels the right time to bring it back into the Protein Ecosystem.
https://snapshot.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreieh2kxlxhppjdx6zgjalfk4omg4e7idxca5s7j3xpiy4czb77t4pq
Thirdly are Protein’s values, which we cocreated in 2020 with Letesia that we haven’t actively shared with the Community, but feel very relevant to this conversation:
https://snapshot.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreidwlnpeihhgqhp6rkykwz2xeiqanvfj35wvqrs5pm6ntu2ipmsjdi
CONTEXT
When we set up the latest iteration of the Protein Community and launched our $PRTN token this time last year, we intentionally made space for it to exist on its own. This included a clear mission, a separate legal entity (Protein DAO Ltd.), and an initial £80k investment from Protein Holdings that paid for the team and overheads until we closed our pre-seed funding last November.
We’re still very much at the beginning of our journey towards Progressive Decentralisation, so it’s important to recognise where and how the Protein Community came from and its relation to the Protein Ecosystem.
SEASON 4 OBJECTIVE
How can we, Protein Community, working with the Protein Agency and Studios teams and members help to future-proof the Protein brand and ecosystem; transitioning it from a dominant system (where we currently sit) to something more emergent?
https://snapshot.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreifdppmnr7whnufv4peqhwnbq3dcwx7lpvb25hzjusv4vjhhg3bipm
CONSIDERATIONS