The team has done a great deal of reflection. What they expected was that not ALL holders of Moonbirds would have nested and that we would have a couple dozen or hundreds birds reaching the gold nest level. Reality is that almost all holders nested from day 1 and aren’t un-nesting. Now the team has a rolling 8k eligible recipients for rewards hitting on the same day and this very quickly adds up. As KRO said, “I rather spend $1MM in 5 engineers who will help us push product development years into the future than sending merch to that many holders”. And this was honestly great to hear. I personally prefer more work on Highrise and Grails projects than meetings around Cotopaxi fanny pack color selection. The date is now 8/30 for Future PROOF, this is the meeting where the public will peak into the roadmap much deeper;  as promised we’ll see a bit more of what Highrise will actually be.   Which leads to a comment on those fanny packs. Justin knew they were going to be controversial; like Pineapple on Pizza, you either Love it or Hate it. Justin loved them and they moved forward as they didn’t want what is common like branded Hoodies. But after that community reception they are more aware that when making controversial choices it might be best to leave options to the recipients. A quote from the team “if something in the future might have a strong opinion, maybe give options“. We’ll see what this means for Gold nest level in a few weeks.   When asked about access to content ahead of the public, KRO mentioned this is something they want to ask the PROOF pass holders. They currently get this and 4 days is a tangible edge in the NFT world. They will report back but are open to it.   As mentioned last week when we discussed the disappointing part of the oddities reveal is that these were paired to their Moonbird (including the rarity) but when asked this week if there was any benefit for holders to have their matching oddities and Moonbird the answer was No.   There will be more merch at propaganda.xyz in the future this won’t be the same merch as nesting levels though. Team talked about Tyler Hobbs and how fun it is to have him and artists doing live sessions at events but also said he’s too busy to be part of Grails 2. So No PROOF Fidenzas for us folks :-P    More townhalls are expected, the whole team listens to these and will help steer the direction as feedback is discussed.

Weekly Parliament:   After the Events Coordinator hire last week this week we’ll hear about additional hiring on the data analysts side. Hopefully we’ll see this content into podcasts and other assets in the near future.   Grails 2 is coming; PROOF holders will benefit but also Moonbird holders with Grails cup on top of their head will have a chance at mint passes. The rest of us humans will need to buy the pass on secondary to get in. No news on artists yet for Grails; except for Tyler Hobbs not being one of those (as mentioned in the Townhall).   The team will be sending (on Discord) an anonymous survey soon to listen in to more feedback from the community.   The team is excited for more IRL events and how they can support the community and subparliaments to create more. An example is an “LA Moonbirds Meetup in Silverlake this week organized by @brianyooner”. The team has also confirmed their attendance to Art Basel in Miami this December and will be sharing details soon for those who want to be able to book travel soon.

The biggest chunk of time from Parliament this week was spent talking to the recipients of the Oddities giveaways. The amazing @akaStevey did all the amazing work researching and selecting the recipients and we are incredibly happy to see that list.   1: @unicorndao_xxx 2: @50mmCollective 3: @Blackatxyz 4: @humanDAO 5: @0xDecaArt 6: @MyBFF 7: @endaomentdotorg