Release Thread for the week of 1/17/2025

Week of 1/17/25 - 6 Releases - 50 Commits - 1 ephemeral environment test

Operational Notes:

As many features went out of the last few weeks, there has been an uptick in follow up work, last minute bug fixes, and additional feature buildout required to keep the app happy. Operations and Product are talking about setting up Feature based follow up meetings to close the loop on features after they have seen use so feedback has an arena to turn into actionable tickets.

Features that could have benefited from this are: SOL support, Jupiter, Chainflip, Chainflip DCA, and Limit Orders

Limit Orders as a feature is live in the swapper now, FOX props to big woody for all of the work to get this monster feature out.

With the new swapper flow lots of UI tweaks and bug fixes were shipped, many more are documented to be fixed in priority. Additionally, lots of love was also given to more precise rate calculations and route displays, as well as swapper flow improvements.

BASE on Thorchain support is live.

FOXwifhat work has started behind a flag.

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Marketing and Growth

THORChain Base GTM :white_check_mark:

  • Got some love from Jessie + Erik
  • Should out ThorChainUniversity for some love

Chainflip DCA :white_check_mark:

Limit orders :building_construction:

Solana :oncoming_automobile:

  • Highlighting new pairs through Jupiter in the coming week
  • Player1Taco Podcast on Thursday the 23rd—complete live demo and walk-through of our application (super exciting)
  • X Space on the 30th with Lambos for Virgins

FWIF :building_construction:

  • Doc finalized w/ product & eng.
  • Snapshot being taken next week
  • Chatting with relevant communities and KOLs to help with distro + awareness for launch date

Website🏗️

New Website is underway—Shout out to the MoM team for being stars on executing on this. View a mockup of the new website here: https://www.figma.com/design/08nGlNBggNqLFE1r6aLiqn/ShapeShift?node-id=30-6&t=p0RvzcuAtHqP6IZQ-1

Discord✅

  • Two Discord channels added:

The goal is to have all full-time contributors yap on socials to develop their own personal brands while sharing things they are working on/problems they are facing/things they are thinking about as it relates to the broader crypto ecosystem (and hopefully ShapeShift). This channel is a great way contributors can post, engage easily with other community member’s posts, and have a larger visibility into the day to day social grind (that is really important—trust). This is also a great place to have your content posted where the main can then go and QT your content. We are reserving a day or two a week to highlight user/contributor thoughts and what y’all are working on.

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Welcoming marketing to the “what did you get done this week” thread. We’re going to start testing apps post release too, making sure we deliver and are accountable. We’ll then open it up for DAO members once we have a reliable cadence. :handshake:

General & Strategy

It’s been a banner month so far, we’re topping the Thorchain charts, Chainflip is doing volume, 0x had a single 100K day, and we’re climbing upwards. If Q4 ended with a whimper then the bang is here week by week. Slowly but surely each addition retains more people, and converts folks.

Shapeshift is super handy and we’re really proud of how far we’ve come.

Collaborating with marketing on a unified strategy, goals, and vision doc. This unification draws inspiration from feedback about the roadmap and vision’s lack of clarity. working on adding more clarity/cohesion and ambition. In our last release thread we mentioned where we spike in a cohesive narrative. The time for learning and smoothing up those gaps is now.

Allfox included a premier into the new strategic focus:

  • Connect: Aggregate the best of DeFi
  • Evolve: Pioneer through side quests
  • Transcend: Foundation for bridging into an AI-native future

More on these in goals and another FBL memo. This is the year for DAO controlling it’s own destiny.

Process & Research

More on the theme: I’ve personally been evaluating/researching AI agentic tech since October, the time has come for distillation into a coherent spec & next steps. Quite convinced that the big pivot, or big feature we build is agents that work for you with some innovative mix of a few technologies we know very deeply.

Our side quests flow into this perfectly too:

  • OG evolves into awareness ⇒ The sweeper continues evolution and grows more awareness ⇒ We transcend by using the sweeper as the gate to an AI app experience.

Looking at onboarding more too, we may have a building opportunity here. Depends on bandwith for other priorities but as we connect the best of DeFi our onboarding needs focus and craft.

Spec updates:

  • Spec Ratio is at: 7/26 (3.71)
    • No motion on new specs this week, allfox ate the energy.
    • Limit orders and keystore though, they are DONE! :clinking_glasses:
    • OG is up next

Backlog
In progress

Other feature process:

Onwards and upwards!

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