August's QF Round will help jumpstart MetaCulture in the following ways which lay the essential groundwork for a successful Cult DAO QF Round in September.  

(a) Cultural Development:

1.  Excitement and network effects will help spur a successful discussion series between Solarpunk, Lunarpunk and other (x)Punk communities in the form of Twitter Spaces and other social media platforms. Wastelander is in discussion with folks from DarkFi, LunarDAO and Kevin Owocki's team in coordinating initial dates for these Spaces. 

The Spaces and/or other events Web3 discussion will seek to address how various subcultures can best combine or re-envisioned in fruitful ways. While the primary purpose of this series is to ignite sustained social interoperability between Cult DAO and the broader crypto ecosystem, it will also be interesting to see whether MetaCulture can spark new ideas and introductions. For example, Solarpunk is associated with pure transparency, whereas it is perfectly valid that anonymity tooling be integrated within Solarpunk building in the right ways. On the other side, we will explore potential vulnerability to collusion which Lunarpunk DAOs may have vis-a-vis being completely anonymous, and how to solve for this without sacrificing privacy and censorship resistance.  

We will ascertain post-series our successes, any negatives, and development changes and further ideas to implement from participants. Our purpose is to sustainably contribute to Web3 education and subculture synthesis rather than creating flash-in-the-pan moments which do not build sustained progression.  

2. A Medium article or series by Wastelander, potentially co-authored with others from aligned communities taking part in the discussion series. 

(b) Financial: We hope to raise at least $5,000 to be earmarked for our contribution to a Cult DAO: MetaCulture matching pool in September. This is where things really heat up, with much more time and energy going into developing MetaCulture as a protocol and accelerating education programming leading into 2024 and beyond. 

In general, I think that our objectives are currently best captured in these open-ended qualitative terms given that the project is now accelerating under public attention yet still in exploratory phase and, in all likelihood, will undergo some degree of change over the next few months. 
 
Over time, as the project's pace increases and patterns in activity emerge, it is also completely conceivable that quantitative metrics will reveal themselves in trackable and helpful ways.  