# Centuries - Always Day 1 By [Centuries](https://paragraph.com/@centuries) · 2022-02-15 --- Dear Centurians after months of preparation and hard work we are very happy to announce that we are entering the next chapter for our DAO which will be built on the foundation of our community and the blockchain. We have been having many conversations behind the scenes to build out a variety of parts of our DAO trying to create as much value for our community as possible. We have announced our plans to migrate to a community-run DAO model around a month ago and have been working hard behind the scenes to ensure effective decision-making and security when it comes to the DAO. Our core pillars at Centuries are Collaborating, Educating, and Investing. We want to be a melting pot where creatives can come together to build in Web3. Providing Resources ------------------- Designers, Musicians, Shadowy Super Coders, and marketing wizards are at the forefront of innovation in Web3 and we want to provide these people with the resources they need to succeed. Whether it’s capital, human resources, or information we want to encourage each and every one of you to venture out and build something. Education is our second pillar and has been our strong foundation since day one. We want to continue to build out educational resources for our community. The VCs will be transformed into a podcast which will be available on all your favorite streaming platforms (and as music NFTs) all while DAO members will be able to enjoy the podcast both live and recorded ahead of the public release. The Watchlist and educational channels will be combined and reimagined. Providing more accessible and comprehensive information about emerging markets (L2s, Music, NFT 2.0, Multichain, Social, …) and core infrastructure pieces (Oracles, Bridges, LPs, …). This will be one of the major changes coming with our move to Notion. Last but not least we will leverage collective Investing through our Syndicate. The Syndicate which is already set up will invest in selective seed-stage projects and protocols maximizing our impact in the industry by helping innovative projects get off the ground. Long-term value can only come through products ---------------------------------------------- We have discussed the lack of understanding regarding utility a lot of times in our community. And its clear to us that long-term value creation can only come from strong products being built for the DAO. We believe that building for our community will enable us to get ahead of the rest of the space and create instant value directly for our holders. This is why we are happy to announce that we have been working hard in the background to enable us to build data analytics Dashboards based on real-time on-chain data. This real-time data will help you to get ahead of the market by unveiling opportunities that are hidden from the naked eye. It will also help us make more data-driven investment decisions and to do forensics to prevent scams and rugs. More on what we are building will be announced soon but we are very excited to be building this in partnership with Mnemonic. Mnemonic is an early-stage NFT Intelligence platform offering its API to developers wanting to build on top of their data lake. They are completely under the radar but their architecture and product is the most sophisticated one out there. Every product we build in the future will be available for free to any token holder providing them with incredible value right off the bat. On top of that our community will be heavily involved in shaping these products through their feedback and requirements. The big unbundling - Discord to Notion -------------------------------------- In another sector of the Centuries community, we are working on using Discord Analytics to focus and align all our efforts towards a set of core metrics. These conversations have happened publicly on our discord throughout a variety of conversations. Nevertheless, this will be one of the first changes that will be voted on through the DAO. One of the first actions we are taking to improve is the member experience by redefining how we organize people and information. The activity in our discord can be broken down into three main principles: communication, storing information and organization. Discord is only optimized for one of the three: communication. Because of this issue, our server has become very overloaded and crowded. We have many valuable nuggets of information that are lost in the sheer mass of available messages. This prevents our members from accessing some of the most important parts of our community and also makes the onboarding journey complicated and messy. We are in the process of migrating the majority of our channels to Notion. This will allow us to make our resources more accessible and transparent for everyone. All our efforts will go through Notion: the resources, watchlist, podcasts, investment proposals, DAO proposals, and more. To make the notion feel like a home for each and everyone of us WE NEED YOU. We want you to get involved to help us set up the Notion and to provide feedback as well as go in the Notion and start writing yourself. What is Notion? - If Link doesnt load: [www.notion.so](http://www.notion.so/Centuries-Collective-e657fafb1a0343e3bf024c6de0b737c3) [https://www.notion.so/](https://www.notion.so/) We are also looking to use LIT protocol to make both our Notion as well as our discord Token Gated allowing for more exclusivity and safety when it comes to the value provided to our community. The Day 1 mindset ----------------- It has always been our mission at Centuries to create an open environment for crypto enthusiasts to come together to learn, build and collaborate. Now almost 5 months after our launch we are far into that process and have managed to build up a foundation to push forward. As we embark on this new journey I want to remind you to keep the Day one mindset. This is still a new frontier with infinite opportunities and we are only scratching the surface of what’s possible for Web3 and for Centuries. Centuries is an empty canvas that needs you to fill it with color. Stay open-minded and think about something that you are interested in that could be awesome for the community. We want to become a place for innovation helping a new generation of builders, creatives, and visionaries to build the future. This is still Day 1 and we haven’t even seen where we are going to go. The best thing we can do is to look forward and skate where the puck is going to be. But most importantly we need to fight for our identity for our values as we scale to maintain our Day 1 approach. Trends might pass but the level of innovation in the space is only going to increase over the coming years as the space matures. This is a trend that we can capitalize on by always focusing on what lies ahead. --- *Originally published on [Centuries](https://paragraph.com/@centuries/centuries-always-day-1)*