The core of the VestaDAO community has existed since November of 2023,  when it existed as the memecoin, $VBD.

Cobi took over the project in February 2023 at the request of the community, and was joined by Kehmor shortly after.

Since then, we have spent most of the time creating the infrastructure for our upcoming learning centre, but have also contributed to the Metis ecosystem in multiple key ways:

1.  Promoted Metis events and added to accessibility.

The best example of this is the Metis Champs event; the content on our site achieved fantastic reach and was used by every one of the top six performers in the event.

2.  Collaborated with new Metis projects in spaces/articles to break down the complicated aspects of their docs. 

An example of this is our [First Impressions article on Stablis](https://vdao.online/first-impressions-stablis-protocol/) that not only inspired clarifications in their docs but also led to a mutually beneficial twitter space.

3.  Voiced community sentiment in an effective way

As an example our [Metis Deep Dive article](https://vdao.online/metis/) led to not only a positive response from sources in Metis, but also change in policy; a relevant example would be adding more accountability to the EDF process.

We applied for CVP on July 2nd, 2024 and were unfortunately unsuccessful; we believe in part due to slow market activity at the time. Despite being the smallest project in terms of staff and funding, we came the closest to passing out of any project that week. We passed the token requirement quorum and were 20 wallets short of total wallets quorum. We will be attempting again after the Gitcoin funding round.

We have currently received no financial support of any sort, including no token or product sale of any kind.