01-15-26 Community Call recap + discussion

Ideas & suggestions
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Thank you to everyone who showed up for yesterday’s community call. A full recording of the call is available here and embedded below.

It was a dense one… nearly two hours covering three major topics (ish):

  1. DTF product-market fit: the main priority for 2026, including how we’re thinking about which DTFs to launch and why
  2. RSR economics and emissions: 2025 numbers, the decision to pause unlocking, and ideas being explored for the path forward
  3. UglyCash: how it connects to Reserve, the BFF partnership agreement, and growth metrics

Catch up:

Community call recording:

  • 00:00 – Intro
  • 07:30 – 2024–25 recap: Index Protocol development timeline
  • 14:24 – Leadership transition: Thomas → Nevin as ABC Labs CEO
  • 18:15 – Project status: solid/mid/tenuous framework + analysis
  • 31:34 – 2026 focus: finding DTF product-market fit
  • 45:00 – Go-to-market strategy + DTF idea pipeline
  • 59:00 – RSR economics: 2025 numbers + treasury operations
  • 1:04:51 – RSR unlocking paused + milestone-based model ideas
  • 1:14:00 – BFF/UglyCash partnership agreement explained
  • 1:20:25 – UglyCash update: growth metrics and path forward

If you have thoughts on anything covered in the call, drop them below. For RSR emissions specifically, the discussion continues in the RSR Health thread; @nevin.freeman is also planning video calls for higher-bandwidth conversation on that topic.

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