November is the month that the majority of engineers from ShapeShift AG were released from full-time employment, and started earning pay through the DAO’s Engineering Workstream. We lost about half the engineering team as a result - some just were not interested in continuing on with the DAO. Also, infrastructure is not under the purview of the workstream, so any updates on infrastructure will not be included here.
Hit bounty target of go live on Nov 18 for a soft launch of web v2, including:
BTC send/receive
0x Trading
Yearn Integration
Charts and Balances
Native wallet, KeepKey, MetaMask (and Ledger through MetaMask)
Up to Nov 18, that was the sole focus
Since Nov 18, did a lot of clean-up, performance improvements, and bug fixes in web v2 and unchained
Started planning for:
Bigger Unchained changes, to make it more extensible, easier to add additional chains
Market Data Service, which will allow coin market data from more than one source
Worked on Yearn router smart contract. This needs to be deployed and implemented so that Yearn deposits made through v2 are attributable to the DAO, and earn revenue for us. (in full transparency, this is more the work of 0xcean and MrNerdHair, neither of which are actually in the workstream)
Had discussions about recruiting and vetting new engineering workstream full-time contributors
Reached out to other DAO engineering teams to discuss best practices