What we've been up to. Feb '25
We wanted to give you an update on what we’ve been up to - impact, technology, people and progress. It's been a wild (and awesome) few months.
Hello friends of Open Format,
We wanted to give you an update on what we’ve been up to - impact, technology, people and progress.
Since October we’ve been focused on getting our first product to market and on-boarding our first users. Currently called ‘Rewards’ and built on top of our own infrastructure, we have created a community management platform and AI agents that enable anyone (with absolutely zero code) to transform the way they engage with their community.
This isn’t just about points or badges. It’s about rethinking how value is created, recognised, and exchanged in digital communities. As one of our users put it, “Rewards is enabling communities to come alive.”
This is a first step. Turning connections into communities. What will follow is how we turn communities into economies…
🔥Real-World Impact: Amplify, Turbo, Aurora, PSG & Matchain
People are using our product. And we’re loving what they’re doing.
PSG (Paris Saint-Germain F.C.) and Matchain are using Rewards to kick start a new era of fan engagement in sports. See it in action: PSG Club Rewards.
Turbo, a community driven and fully decentralised token with a market value of $409 million, have integrated our AI-powered rewards across their community for better community engagement, and have announced it (this week!) for anyone building on their chain too, TurboChain.
AmplifyWorld announced their partnership with us “to successfully reward music fans and create meaningful Artist-fan communities” Our technology was used to build their MVP and our Agent is now live across their community: more here.
Aurora, a top 50 blockchain, has launched Rewards across their community! We have an AMA across multiple social channels coming up next week with Marco, their community leader - follow our socials to tune in.
ElizaOS: The leading open source AI framework behind ai16z approached Open Format because they saw our product and want to use it for Github rewards - a key use case we care about.
🔧 The Tech: AI Agents, Dashboards and Metrics…
‘Steve’ our AI Agent is live, listening and now also summarising… more here.
Our community management platform is live. In literally 5 minutes you can create an onchain community, token and badges, integrate your social channels, start rewarding, customise your community page, add tiers, leaderboards—all without writing a single line of code. Get started here.
We’ve expanded our chain integrations and now support Aurora, TurboChain, Matchain, Base and Arbitrum with many more coming soon. We currently speaking to Neon EVM to be able to tap into liquidity on Solana.
Our metrics dashboard has had a significant overhaul over the past 2 months - YES George!
This list barely scratches the surface of what the team has been doing. Read more from Andy about all of our latest developer updates here: Happy Hacking.
📈 The Numbers
❤️ Our (EPIC) team
I met with one of our Advisors two weeks ago who reflected back to me how lucky we are to have such an epic team. It is true and it is expanding.
Here’s a bit more about our two newest members…
Ollie, a senior product designer and UX strategist with over 25 years of experience, has been working with us for six months. He has been working with Dan to refine our product strategy and improve the user experience of our platform.
We’re excited to welcome Saadat—an engineer, marketer, and all-around creative—who joined us two weeks ago to help amplify our messaging, something we have been notoriously bad at. Check out our X account to see what he’s up to! (one week in we hit our first post with 300+ likes, woop woop!)
🚀 What’s Next?
We’re iterating our roadmap right now and will have an updated version live on our website by early next week so you can see where we’re taking the product and our core infrastructure!
Our website is getting a refresh and will be updated by tomorrow.
Lots more tutorials, live build sessions and AMAs are planned in - follow along on YouTube.
We’re launching our own L2 chain with Aurora this month.💥
🙏Our Asks!
Right now we can’t keep up. This is a good problem, we’re here for it, but we need to grow our team to make the most of the opportunity in front of us right now.
In terms of people…
We’re actively looking for a Full Stack Developer right now (Find out what we’re looking for here)
Someone to support our growth function (the spec will be live on Substack early next week 👀).
If you know of anyone who might be a good fit for us in either role please reach out.
On the investment front…
We’re actively raising right now and we need your help. If you want to see our pitch deck or know investors we can speak to - please let us know.
It’s time to run like the wind.
With love and gratitude,
Sarah & the Open Format Team ✨
Image generated by: an incredible amount of hard work and talent from everyone on the Open Format team… you’re all legends. (no AI involved this time…)