Hello, friends of Moonbeam. It’s Anthony! I’ve had a busy, fun-filled week in Florida visiting family and friends. While I was down here, I also met up with part of the Moonbeam team (right now, we all work remotely), and we discussed the bright future of Moonbeam together! Seriously, the team is excited beyond belief about the next steps we’ll take with Moonbeam, thanks to you and your support!

Tomorrow morning, I fly back home and then immediately get on a plane to go to Gen Con! I’ll be there all week, so if you see me, say hello!

I wanted to give you all a few updates:

Lastly, when we began this journey over 18 months ago, we knew that we could not only challenge the dominant live streaming platforms in the space but also completely reimagine what it means to be a live streaming platform. I’m excited to say that we are on this path, you are part of the live streaming revolution, and recent news that came out today validates the need for this fundamental change in the live streaming space. Below are a few recent articles that validate the need for a new live streaming platform with innovative solutions. You are helping Moonbeam create a new type of live streaming platform to help solve many of the problems the live streaming community is currently facing. For this, we thank you! 

We want creators and communities to thrive on any platform they can, including the ones that exist now! In an ideal world, many platforms would allow creators and fans to thrive and grow. We decided to create Moonbeam because we felt this wasn’t happening, and all our solutions to these problems exist because we want to use new technologies and techniques to help creators and their communities succeed. 

I look forward to meeting some of you at Gen Con!

- Anthony

Moonbeam Revolutionary

Hello everyone! Tonight, we have a special live stream for you at 9pm EDT / 8pm CDT / 6pm PDT!

Pat is going to be showcasing Pyxis and working on it live on stream here on BackerKit and on our Moonbeam Secret Rebel HQ on Twitch! This is going to be an interactive live stream where you can ask Pat questions about Pyxis or Moonbeam in general.

A lot of you have asked some great questions about how Pyxis works and how it is built, so Pat wanted to hop on a chat with you all as he develops Pyxis, a breakthrough moderation tool that you've helped fund and support.

This is going to be a 30-minute live stream, but Pat will stay on to answer any questions you all might have, so it can go over if you all want.

We hope you enjoy this special behind the scenes live stream with Pat! Cheers!

- Anthony
Moonbeam Revolutionary

Greetings from sunny, humid, and hot Florida!

As promised, I am here to talk to you about reaching our first stretch goal. I want to use this first milestone to establish a few things we strongly believe in at Moonbeam: transparency and valuing what you want out of Moonbeam.

So, for our first stretch goal, we will actualize these beliefs by having a candid and open discussion with you and the Moonbeam team to help shape Moonbeam's future in the way you want!

This will happen over the course of a few steps, and we encourage you to engage with us and the community as we complete each one. 

This will be accomplished via a poll on BackerKit that ends at 11:59pm PDT on July 30th. The poll is attached to this update at the end! Most live streaming platforms bucket their platform features into two categories: features for creators and features for viewers. At Moonbeam, we want to be the most creator-obsessed platform on the internet, and we fundamentally see creators as an essential element of Moonbeam. What sets us apart from other platforms is that we don’t see the other individuals as just “viewers”; we see them as “fans.” Many fans might start off just checking out streams or chatting in a Realm, but we believe many fans will run communities, write posts, chat about engaging topics, and become creators themselves, but in new and novel ways. So, we want to gather data transparently to see what features you and the community of Moonbeam want us to prioritize initially. To do this, we ask that you answer a straightforward question, “What type of feature should Moonbeam prioritize? A feature for creators or a feature for viewers?” With this question, we purposefully use the creator/viewer paradigm to get to the root of the Moonbeam community's needs. This helps us gather data to build our team and establish specific departments within Moonbeam to focus on different aspects of the Moonbeam community and ecosystem.

Once you let us know if the first prioritized feature should be creator or viewer focused, we will present several feature choices to you and explain them in detail. You and the community will have time to discuss these with us, and then we will put them up for a vote. Once the community votes on the feature they want, we will prioritize the one that gets the most votes.

From here, we rinse and repeat as we hit stretch goals or when we come to certain milestones during the alpha or beta phase. The intent is that together, we create a feedback loop to ensure we intimately understand our community and your needs. It would be easier for us to make these decisions and roll out features randomly, but we have the luxury of being a new platform and getting to know you all before Moonbeam becomes home to millions of creators and fans worldwide. We’ll use this method as long as possible, so let’s take advantage of it!

So now it is discussion time! Let's work together to create the best live streaming platform ever created. 

Cheers!

- Anthony 

Moonbeam Revolutionary

A huge thank you and congrats, you did it!! You’ve helped us unlocked our first stretch goal and are taking your first step to define Moonbeam’s future!!

I’m in the air on an airplane writing this update as I fly to Florida with the fam to visit family and friends!



For now we celebrate this historic moment for Moonbeam! Tomorrow, we will send out an update with next steps for you so you can get directly involved in voting on what direction Moonbeam prioritizes for our  roadmap—and more!

See you all soon, and thankfully the airplane gods smiled on me thus far, no wild delays or anything. Cheers!!

P.S. Seriously, thank you! We are going to be able to do some amazing things now that we’ve reached this point. Your support for a better live streaming platform is not only invaluable, you’re helping ensure others have a better experience online and are able to thrive.

- Anthony
Moonbeam Revolutionary 

Happy Monday everyone, Anthony here with a few updates about things to look forward to this week!

Live Streams:
Monday: Tonight at 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT / 5pm PDT, I join Cameron from the VOIDSTREAM to discuss TTRPGs, actual plays, and the horror genre!



Later this week: Pat will live stream his work on Pyxis. He'll make these streams engaging so you can participate and mess around with Pyxis yourself! I'll be visiting family in Florida, so I'll cheer Pat on from afar!

Next week, I'll be going to Gen Con, so if you're there, I hope to see you around!

Besides live streams, the engineering team is hard at work continuing to build Moonbeam. A large part of the team is focusing on Pyxis—Pyxis is getting close to living off Moonbeam, too, so you can use Pyxis in other places to help give you the comfort you need to create in peace or use it within your own communities on other platforms!

See you all tonight if you can make it! Cheers!

- Anthony
Moonbeam Revolutionary