QiDao Weekly Updates — Week 19 (9/6–9/12/2021)

Recent Announcements

• We launched our new liquidity mining program with Quickswap. Through this partnership there are now 6 incentivized pools.

• MAI can now be bridged to Avalanche and Fantom. To bridge MAI to Avalanche you can use Relay Chain. To bridge MAI to Fantom you can use AnySwap exchange.
• We have partnered with Trader Joe, the largest DEX on Avalanche to have an incentivized MAI-USDC pool. Within the first few days of the pool being live we hit over $5 million in liquidity.
• Amount of Qi staked 5,386,959 (22.31% of circulating supply; 0.31% increase)
• 6,342 addresses holding Qi (1.65% week-to-week increase)
• QiDao Improvement Proposal results: We will not move forward with QIP024 — Listing QI and MAI on AscendEX. Our team will address the community’s concerns with AscendEX. The community voted in favor of QIP025: Partnering with Amun / 21 Shares. Our team will proceed with the partnership discussions.
• The Saber MAI-USDC pool reached over $40 million in liquidity
• Events of the week: AMA with Index Coop
• Weekly reward vaule from QiDao and partners is over $600,000

Upcoming Activities

• Vault incentives set to launch next Monday
• Vault UI updates to be released this week
• DAI and USDT will be added to Anchor
• New collateral QIP
• Polygon hackathon bounty — “How might we use automation within Mai.finance to improve the user experience?”
• Instadapp bounty

Things in the works

• Continued Improvements to app site UI
• LPs as collateral
• Paid marketing ads
• Marketing campaign

Community things in the works

• Cam vault zappah — Royalaid
• KPI Options — Wraithers, 0xEvan, Geekvine, Sisuspeed
• Mai Unofficial Guide — Pingu1

Most Recent Fireside Chats

• Index Coop Core Contributors
• Balancer Labs Baller
• Bobby Goodlatte
• Beefy Finance Head of Marketing
• UMA Growth Strategist
• DODO C-Founder and CMO
• ChainLinkGod
• Gnosis Safe Business Development
• Quickswap — Tyler
• Fireside Chat with Balancer- CEO & Founder

You can find them all on our YouTube channel

You can also listen to our fireside chats and AMAs on our podcast channel on Spotify

Community growth

• Lao Zi Twitter: 4,763 followers (1.49% increase)
• QiDao Protocol Twitter: 3,211 Followers (8.52% increase)
• Telegram: 1,598 members (3.90% increase)
• Discord: 3,747 members ( -1.03%decrease)
• Youtube: 301 subscribers (increase 1.01%)

Asks for the the community

• **Big push is marketing. Please help where you can by sharing and liking content & tweets. Feel free to share marketing ideas on our community suggestions channel on Discord.
• Vote — The next few weeks will be important in crafting the future of QiDao. We have enabled the Qi Powah boost to give you more voting power.
• Partnerships — If you think of partnerships that can help with the following please suggest them or introduce us: Increase use cases of MAI, Help MAI peg, Increase protocol value.
• Ask in Discord how you can help.
• Retweet and tag us on Twitter.

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