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Events in Xai infrastructure and its ecosystem, organized by what changed.
In its year-end message, the Ex Populus team thanked the community for contributions, events, feedback and participation. The team said Final Form Early Access had launched, that it had received great feedback from players, and that it had grown the team and expanded to new audiences. It also said it planned more games in the new year.
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A community notice announced the addition of the Midjourney bot to its Discord server, inviting members to create art from a few words. It suggested using /settings to switch to MJ version 4.
Read reportA Final Form community post announced the release of version ea.0.11 and said the update contained improvements intended to improve the overall experience.
Read reportFinal Form’s next-build preview named two changes: an update to the pledge user interface and to the 3D evolution animation. The community notice highlighted continuing work on features and the player experience.
Read reportA LAMO post said its gameplay would most likely include multiple combat modes.
Read reportEx Populus announced that its staff would soon stream LAMO playtests. The preview introduced a way for the community to watch testing, but did not set a stream date.
Read reportA community poll asked which wallet experience people preferred for downloadable Web3 PC games: recovering their own wallet from within the game using a private key, or having a custodial wallet managed for them.
Read reportA Final Form community notice announced build ea.0.10, describing an economics update and a card-filtering feature.
Read reportEx Populus announced that it had brought on Joseph Ganetakos. It described his previous roles as senior design staff on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs franchises and as a former Game Director at Netease.
Read reportA community post directed readers to a remote-work recruitment notice for LAMO game developers.
Read reportFinal Form announced card-power ranges by rarity: Common 1-99, Rare 250-999, Epic 1300-2999, and Legendary 4000-9999. Final Form said the ranges would soon make a big difference.
Read reportA community announcement linked an Ex Populus article and described the company's acquisition of LAMO together with a new game director for LAMOverse.
Read reportOn November 19, a LAMO post shared with the Ex Populus community promised major news in five days. A second teaser shared on November 21 pointed instead to the following morning as the start of a new era for LAMO. These notices built anticipation without describing the announcement itself.
Read reportEx Populus said it held no funds on FTX in a company post shared by an administrator. A follow-up notice reiterated that Ex Populus was not impacted by FTX.
Read reportAn administrator shared a Final Form preview of a new evolution sequence, which the post described as “work in progress”.
Read reportFinal Form previewed a planned major update with concept art for the world of the Gods. The post explained that each card belongs to the House of Machines, Beasts, Man or Gods, and signaled that a God card would be needed.
Read reportAn announcement said ea.0.6 was pushed to address a black-screen bug in Final Form. It instructed users to close the game before updating and open a technical support ticket if the issue continued.
Read reportFollowing a reported Collab.Land repair, an announcement said roles could be obtained by connecting a wallet in the Collab.Land join channel. It repeated that Collab.Land would never ask for a wallet connection by DM.
Read reportAn edited community announcement said Collab.Land would become the unified wallet-verification route for holder roles across Ethereum LAMO and Solana DAGs and Iron Pigeons. It instructed users to use “Connect” only in the Collab.Land join channel, stated Collab.Land would never request a connection by DM, and asked members to report scam DMs.
Read reportAn October 21 community notice encouraged Iron Pigeons holders to pledge cards and extract Chromos for later card evolution in Final Form. It suggested trading with other players when a card from a needed house was missing for evolution.
Read reportA notice directed LAMO and DAG holders to connect their wallets on Magic Eden to see eligibility and limits across 3 phases. An updated guide said Ethereum 0x wallets could not be checked for allowlist status. It told holders who knew they held LAMO before the October 14 snapshot at 23:59 PDT to connect when the mint window opened.
Read reportAn October 17 Iron Pigeons notice, subsequently edited, reported a snapshot of LAMO and common and evolved DAG holdings. Its text contains a 10 AM PDT header and a 10:20 AM PDT first-phase start. The notice also said no allowlist token would be airdropped to wallets and warned against scam and phishing links.
Read reportAfter Soby confirmed that the Tyson mint would be free for eligible collectors, luminray set out the per-wallet allocations: up to five claims for LAMO collectors, three for DAGs Evolved collectors, and one for DAGs Common collectors. A second phase was planned for selected existing communities.
Read reportAt 03:15 UTC on October 12, still October 11 in Pacific time, an announcement scheduled Final Form early access for October 12 at noon Pacific. It limited first-week play to DAG collectors and announced a planned October 19 free Iron Pigeons claim on Magic Eden, with LAMO and DAG collectors to be automatically allowlisted for its first 5 hours.
Read reportEx Populus scheduled Final Form early access for October 12 at noon Pacific. In a separate post, the company described it as the first Solana game with all game logic on-chain and invited comments on the launcher icon.
Read reportFinal Form’s early-access gameplay preview described upgrading a card to a higher rarity by burning Chromos and four cards of a lower tier. The shared video focused on the evolution process rather than merely showing card artwork.
Read reportThe October 3 Final Form announcement said Mike Tyson’s Iron Pigeons would be playable on October 16 and directed collectors to the Magic Eden launchpad. This was the availability plan presented at that point, before the later mint announcements.
Read reportEx Populus opened a question-submission channel ahead of Final Form early access and the Iron Pigeons drop. Members were asked to submit questions by noon Pacific on October 4 for possible answers in a later article, while keeping discussion in a separate channel. The team said it might not answer every question.
Read reportFinal Form shared a gameplay video showing what claiming Chromos would look like. The accompanying explanation described Chromos as the substance used to evolve trading cards, linking the claim process to card progression.
Read reportEx Populus shared a short Final Form gameplay teaser from the game’s account and invited the community to circulate it.
Read reportEx Populus described the Iron Pigeons drop as approaching and linked Mike Tyson’s post. It invited DAG collectors to show their cards in replies as a community show of support.
Read reportA community notice shared “Can You Reach Your Final Form?”, describing it as an overview of some game mechanics, expectations for the first early-access release, and progress on Mike Tyson’s Iron Pigeons.
Read reportEx Populus reminded members to register on its website and subscribe to the newsletter for project updates, including early-access news.
Read reportOn September 6, a Discord notice presented the first Final Form trailer and said early access was coming soon. The linked trailer preview gave an October window and invited early-access signups.
Read reportThe weekly “Introduce your DAGs” quest invited members to create lore for their own cards. Diablo shared an example about Garry Bottle, a wizard seeking Chromos and the Obelisk to reach his final form.
Read reportSoby shared an Ex Populus announcement naming Farokh and Deeze as incoming advisors. The company invited readers to join its Discord for further updates over the following months.
Read reportDuring reports of Solana wallet drains, Soby urged members to revoke trusted-app permissions in their wallets. A separate community notice shortly afterward asked members to revoke Solaland authorization in Discord. These were precautionary instructions issued during the unfolding incident.
Read reportDiablo reported that the community ranked 13th among hundreds of Web3 communities for activity on Crew3. A leaderboard Sprint was planned to reward top contributors, with prizes still under discussion.
Read reportEx Populus shared co-founder Soby’s article about Web3 games and why they matter. A second community notice introduced an update on the company’s first game, teasing early access and inviting feedback on the linked post.
Read reportEx Populus integrated Crew3 for activity tracking, letting members earn experience through quests and climb a leaderboard. Some quests had time limits; leaderboard rewards were still to be announced. A later message that day shared the current ranking and noted early participation.
Read reportSzef shared a creative-team preview showing different states of the substance intended to evolve trading cards. Members were invited to comment on the visual designs.
Read reportA townhall invitation announced a discussion of the game’s release with special guest Jerod. The next day’s reminder identified Final Form and supplied an RSVP link. On July 21, Diablo posted the same event link and said the meeting would start shortly.
Read reportAfter earlier progress previews, Ex Populus presented what it called the Obelisk’s final form. The accompanying post invited the community to interpret what the object was.
Read reportResponding to community feedback, Ex Populus announced a DAG visual refresh intended to make cards easier to view in Phantom wallets and secondary marketplaces.
Read reportA community recap shared event highlights featuring Soby alongside former NBA player Baron Davis at NFT NYC. It described Soby as representing Ex Populus as a co-organizer.
Read reportEx Populus shared an experiment with an alien-looking substance considered during early development of card-evolution effects. The team asked for reactions to the preview.
Read reportAn Ex Populus community post reported that co-founders Soby and Clement attended NFT NYC and met members of the community there.
Read reportFollowing the concept previews, an Ex Populus notice addressed all its trading-card collectors and invited them to pledge fealty at the Obelisk through the linked project post.
Read reportEx Populus shared a post labeled “LAMO x DAG experiment” and asked whether community members wanted it. The invitation presented a creative experiment, rather than a dated product release.
Read reportA new early Obelisk concept described it as the place where collectors would pledge fealty. Ex Populus asked the community for feedback on the concept.
Read reportEx Populus shared early concept art for the first game using its trading cards and invited members to comment on the linked project post.
Read reportEx Populus shared a Jim Henson article as part of a discussion of the creators who inspired its team to work in entertainment. A separate announcement scheduled co-founder and CEO Tobias Batton for a Consensus 2022 panel on self-sovereign data and Web3 identity on June 10, from 19:40 to 20:25 UTC.
Read reportEx Populus invited members to a Discord townhall to discuss updates. A later notice at 18:00 UTC confirmed that the session was live and directed listeners to the server’s stage.
Read reportluminray shared Ex Populus’s article about the making of Cryptogram with the community, offering a production-focused companion to the earlier artwork preview and Aegis distribution notices.
Read reportEx Populus said its website and store were undergoing a major redesign. It described the LAMOverse and DAGs TCG teams as working toward completion, stressing the importance of final fine-tuning, and shared a LAMOverse preview. More details were promised when progress became more concrete.
Read reportEx Populus planned to remove unnecessary Discord channels after members and newcomers described the server as too complicated. A new explanatory channel would describe each channel’s purpose. The team expected the changes over the next few days and invited further suggestions.
Read reportAn April 26 reminder scheduled the first Aegis event for April 28 at 19:00 UTC and tied eligibility to the card archetypes held. On April 28 at 18:15 UTC, Diablo announced that the event was already under way and Cryptogram distribution was in progress. The announcement preceded the previously stated time; it did not establish the first on-chain transfer time.
Read reportAfter registration and countdown notices, Diablo announced that the free DAG Common card mint was live at 19:00 UTC. The reminders said Legendary cards remained available to mint. The opening notice also scheduled the first Aegis event for April 28 at 19:00 UTC, with the airdrop depending on the holder’s archetypes.
Read reportThe preview notice credits Mark C. Harris as its creator.
Read reportmoramen and Diablo invited the community to visit the Ex Populus booth in the Omniya virtual world. Their notices shared the venue and a project post showing the booth.
Read reportAn April 12 notice announced a Discord townhall with LAMO founder Rainer. On April 14 at 17:01 UTC, Diablo said the session was live and described its subject as a deep dive into LAMOverse.
Read reportThe LFG Web3 gaming show announced Yoon, also called locodoco, from Magic Eden games as Soby’s guest for April 7 at 18:00 UTC. The introduction cited his professional League of Legends play with TSM and coaching with Team Liquid. On April 7, moramen supplied a replacement Twitter Spaces link after technical difficulties with the original.
Read reportEx Populus shared a podcast recorded live at GDC, featuring its CEO, identified in the notice as luminray, and Upptic discussing Web3 gaming.
Read reportA community notice invited listeners to a Twitter Spaces conversation with Soby and Justin Woodward, scheduled about one hour and 45 minutes after the 16:16 UTC announcement.
Read reportEx Populus and The Tiger Archives invited members to a Los Angeles party planned for March 29 alongside NFT LA. The invitation advertised drinks, tacos, a beer-pong tournament and NFT giveaways, with registration closing at 8 p.m. Pacific on March 28. Attendance was to be confirmed by emailed invitations.
Read reportAt 18:00 UTC, Diablo announced that the weekly townhall had started and linked its Twitter Spaces room.
Read reportThe weekly XP Townhall invitation said this session would take place on Twitter Spaces. The change gave the community a different venue from the preceding Discord meeting.
Read reportEx Populus announced that the DAG Common collection was live on Magic Eden and shared its collection page. This was a listing for the Common series, distinct from the DAG marketplace link circulated in February.
Read reportA three-hour reminder invited members to the weekly Discord townhall. At 19:00 UTC, Diablo posted that the session was live and shared the same event link.
Read reportEx Populus announced Grape verification in its Discord server. DAG holders were invited to connect a wallet for verification, with special roles assigned according to their holdings.
Read reportA community invitation scheduled a session with XP and Rogue Sharks for 5 p.m. Pacific and linked the Rogue Sharks event post.
Read reportAt 19:00 UTC, Diablo announced that the weekly townhall was live and invited the community to join.
Read reportluminray shared the Magic Eden marketplace page for Decentralized Autonomous Gigaunits with the community, giving DAG collectors a direct route to the collection’s secondary-market listing.
Read reportShortly after midnight UTC, Diablo warned that scammers were circulating phishing links and told community members not to open them. A later notice invited collectors to tweet their DAG cards with #expopulus or tag @ExPopulus.
Read reportA trading-card overview and mint guide preceded the opening. The announcement sharing the guide advertised 10,000 Rare cards, 900 Epic cards and 380 Legendary cards, on a first-come, first-served basis. Countdown notices were followed at 23:00 UTC by a message announcing that pre-mint was live and participation required being allowlisted.
Read reportWith mint-pass distribution under way, Diablo told recipients to check the update authority and creator address on Solscan. The notice specified one pass per wallet and a maximum of 50 cards per wallet. Passes were for people without the earlier website registration or LAMO-holding eligibility; participants from other communities were directed to the managers collecting their wallet lists.
Read reportAn Ex Populus community notice pointed members to a Catapult mint-pass opportunity and linked the event instructions. It gave people who still needed a pass another participation route ahead of minting.
Read reportXP Quiz #26 offered allowlist NFTs to its top five scorers, skipping participants who already held the designated role. The day’s Gartic notice also offered roles to the top five, with at least five scoring participants required for a valid ranking.
Read reportDiablo reported 13,000 community members and directed support requests to the ticket channel, reiterating that staff would not use DMs. The notice explained how to disable messages from server members through Privacy Settings. A separate reminder invited members to that day’s weekly townhall.
Read reportA double-XP weekend notice offered a DAG allowlist opportunity through Gartic, a drawing-and-word-guessing game. The top five scorers could receive the designated role, but at least ten people had to score for the ranking to count.
Read reportA community reminder scheduled a Twitter Spaces session with XP, Gigaunits, Pigeons and other participants about 25 minutes after its 18:36 UTC posting. Members were invited to set a reminder and share the event.
Read reportThe server redesign replaced five general roles with the House of Gods, House of Machines, House of Beasts and House of Man. Members would need to choose a house to see general channels, and the choice could not be changed. A January 26 follow-up announced removal of the old roles ahead of house sorting.
Read reportEx Populus listed three alternative routes to the DAG allowlist: registration at dag.expopulus.com on or before December 6, 2021; holding a LAMO at the drop; or holding a special DAG allowlist NFT at the drop. It identified dag.expopulus.com as the mint site and warned that the team would never send DMs. A separate recruitment notice sought developers, designers, product managers, artists and marketing staff.
Read reportDiablo directed members to a live Outlier Ventures AMA with an Ex Populus co-founder. A separate notice scheduled a WWVentures AMA for January 23 at 18:00 UTC and advertised a 1,000 USDC prize pool.
Read reportEx Populus announced a collaboration with Mike Tyson and 1ofOne for the Iron Pigeons art and trading-card collection. The release was provisionally scheduled for March, without a specific day.
Read reportEx Populus announced the Season of the Beast after the pre-season, resetting levels and some roles to match the new theme. A role-emoji contest offered 0.2 SOL for each selected design. The same notice said the tipping bot was disabled and rewards would wait until it returned.
Read reportA reminder for the weekly Ex Populus townhall said the DAG mint date was approaching and invited members to hear more. It announced the discussion without fixing a mint date.
Read reportDiablo announced that community members no longer needed to hold LAMO to earn activity-based levels. The minimum Discord account age remained three months. The notice linked the change to the LAMOverse team prioritizing the game and the limited number of collectibles in circulation, while retaining rules against spam and abuse.
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