Monthly Update - January 2023

Happy New Year, Lunar Crew!

Silverdust here. Just when you thought we couldn't top last month, the Lunar Foundation wanted to start our 2023 with a bang, and we delivered. Get all the details below.

⚖️ Governance

1. ✅ Proposed and passed a LIP to modify Lunar Crystal NFT metadata and sell Foundation-owned NFTs on OpenSea
2. ✅ Proposed and passed a LIP to allow the Foundation to execute OTC transactions‍
3. ✅ Proposed a LIP to modify the pricing methodology of OTC transactions
4. ✅ The Foundation has completed its move from Slack to Discord for coordinating efforts between employees & contractors

💰 Finance

1. ✅ Submitted an application to the Binance MVB 6 accelerator
   - We submitted Lunar Mint and Lunar Escrow under the "NFT and Others" section to give us an advantage over everyone who submits under the DeFi category
2. 🟪 Continued wait for a response from Binance about our Industry Recovery Fund application
3. 🟪 Continued to review the Facility Deal
   - ✅ We published the LNR Volume Improvement Plan to help LNR holders understand how we're working through their next set of requirements

📈 Markets

1. ✅ Continued to make updates to our BSCScan, CoinMarketCap, and CoinGecko profiles
2. ✅ Continued to combat an inordinate amount of FUD and harassment on our CoinMarketCap profile
3. 🟪 We applied for Telegram Verified status
4. 🟪 We started evaluating market makers firms to find one that better aligns with the needs of Lunar DAO

📢 Marketing

1. ✅ We announced Lunar Mint™️ and completed the following work to support that task:
   - ✅ We worked with DarkPxl to finalize the core Lunar Mint™️ brand
   - ✅ We deployed a new teaser marketing site at lunarmint.com
   - ✅ We launched our new Twitter handle @LNRMint to support our Twitter marketing efforts
   - ✅ We updated the Living Roadmap with both components of the platform and wrote up a separate Announcement post
   - ✅ We announced the first utility for the LIP-passed Power Points metadata change: Power Points-based discounts on the Lunar Mint platform.
2. ✅ We announced Lunar Escrow and completed the following work to support that task:
   - ✅ We updated the Living Roadmap and wrote up a separate Announcement post
   - ✅ We launched our new Twitter handle @LNREscrow to support our Twitter marketing efforts
3. ✅ We shipped the 2023 Lunar Ecosystem Preview to help Lunar token holders understand the roadmap while we revamp lunar.io
   - [EDITOR'S NOTE: Now that the website is updated with the latest information, we no longer have need for this document, and have since taken it down]
4. ✅ We officially added two new members of the Lunar Foundation's Marketing team:
   - Mskilunartic is our new Social Media Coordinator
   - Andrei is our new Social Media Designer
5. ✅ @LNRDAO Twitter account is now Verified
6. ✅ @LunarDAO YouTube account is now Verified
7. ✅ Our new Linktree is set up and ready to be used for all of our social bios
8. 🟪 We are working on a major cleanup of lunar.io
9. 🟪 We are working on a major cleanup of lunarcrystals.io

💻 Dev Team

1. ✅ Shipped the first FOUR Lunar Portfolio Beta builds to Lunar Crystal NFT holders
   
2. ✅ Published an article on Medium showing other crypto projects how to token-gate Circle communities using our Web3 for Auth0 Actions package
3. ✅ Wrote and published our first public Requirements documents for both managing public repos and the changes required for our next set of smart contract improvements
4. ✅ Completed primary work on the ERC-20 and ERC-721 contract updates
5. 🟪 Worked to expand the smart contract test suite and understand upgrade corruption issues on both contracts

We hope all of our Lunar Ecosystem token holders continue to enjoy the new utility we are delivering week after week. See you next month!