DOGAMÍ Community Update #7

5 min readApr 4, 2023

Greetings, dogamers! With the arrival of spring, we welcome you to the 7th Community Update!

TL;DR

We shouldn’t wish the time away, but we are edging ever closer to Q4 (the MVP of DOGAMÍ: Academy). In the meantime, March has been pretty jam-packed — DOGAMÍ was announced as 1 of the 7 winners of the 120 companies selected for the 2023 UNLEASHED Program by Purina.

Secondly it’s been a great month for integration — we integrated card payments on the marketplace enabling you to purchase NFTs with your debit/credit card, whats more, OBJKT now also accepts payment in Ethereum!

We held our first AMA with the DOGA Council, Dogamí are raring to go in the DOGA Races on Discord with our new bot, and last but not least, we’ll be providing a recap of $DOGA staking — have you staked yours yet? 👀

Well, you’ve come this far, you might as well keep reading! 👇

DOGAMÍ ANNOUNCED AS A PURINA UNLEASHED WINNER 🏆

We are very proud to announce that DOGAMÍ is one of the seven winners out of 120 companies selected for the 2023 UNLEASHED by Purina program!

This year, DOGAMÍ will participate in the fourth edition of Purina Unleashed, an annual program designed to support and propel the next generation of disruptive pet tech and pet care start-ups!

The class of 2023 in Vevey, Switzerland — Can you spot us?

Seven pet tech startups will receive CHF 50,000 (50K EUROS) in funding each and be accelerated by pet industry experts and coaches for a period of 20 weeks. The purpose of the acceleration program is to help startups achieve predetermined KPIs and meet key business objectives with the assistance of Purina Unleashed Champions and Industry Experts.

NOW YOU CAN BUY DOGAMÍ & ACCESSORIES WITH A CARD! 💳

We added a card feature to the marketplace enabling users to purchase a Dogamí NFT or GAP accessory directly with a debit/credit card through a payments provider — WERT.

This integration helps onboard more traditional web 2.0 audiences by removing some pain points for beginners unfamiliar with purchasing NFTs without a fiat on-ramp.

Not a dogamer yet? Adopt one here 👉 https://marketplace.dogami.com/

OBJKT OPENS THE DOOR TO ETH WHALES?🦊

You read that right! OBJKT has now integrated ETH payments!

In mid-March, the largest digital art & collectible marketplace on Tezos tweeted that alongside XTZ, they would accept payments in Ethereum for NFTs.

If you’ve had your eye on a Dogamí for a while and you have some ETH to spare… you know what to do!

THE COUNCIL SPOKE WITH KRIS, DOGAMÍ: ACADEMY IS COMING ALONG🎙️

This month we modified the format of our regular AMAs to have a more campfire-style informal chat with the 22 members of the DOGA Council. Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer Kris was able to answer the questions and concerns of the community members with the DOGA Council acting in their interests.

Whilst we’re unable to share all of the issues discussed during the AMA, we spoke about:

Modification and rebalancing of statistics in accordance with the upcoming game
The Game design document, whitepaper, and the production phase
Effect of personalities that will result in some possible visual differences animation-wise
Comic book (some sneak peeks were shared) and the team behind it
Cross-platform compatibility is planned but the focus is on mobile
Dogamí to appear in The Sandbox in Season 4

We also shared a few sneak peeks with the DOGA Council but they are sworn to secrecy! Thank you once again to the DOGA Council for their questions and time!

RACE YOUR DOGAMÍ ON DISCORD 🐕

On your marks, set, GO! Whilst you wait patiently for the release of DOGAMÍ: Academy, you can participate in the DOGA RACES bot game on Discord! Here, community members race their Dogamí against others in 8v8 battles in a bid to win prizes and take part in raffles.

The DOGA Races are only open to holders, so if you haven’t picked up a Dogamí yet, go here first!

All holders must first register their Dogamí via a pre-registration form. Only Dogamí with a name can enter.

In each race, 8 Dogamí are chosen at random, and players vote on who they think will win! 🏆

The owners of the winning Dogamí receive $DOGA prizes, and the pundits (those who voted), win a role if they select the winning Dogamí, enabling them to enter a raffle each week. Sessions are held on Wednesday and Saturday! 📅 Hope to see you there!