Founder Update: 2 Months In — Refereum Highlights

It’s been an incredibly busy two months since our token sale, we’re hiring more team members, shipping new products, and expanding our operations. Our goal is to connect streamers to gamers in order to benefit game studios at scale. Let’s take a quick look at how we are progressing:

Advertisers use our tech to increase spends on Refereum.com

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We’re already working with dozens of game studios to use our technology to help fill their user acquisition demand. Over the past 5 months, Refereum.com attracted 700,000+ users and 13,000+ streamers. Refereum’s catalog of games continues to grow weekly with new games (bought using the $RFR token).

In addition, we’re partnering with top studios to create ‘Hype Week’, the next competition to highlight games, a feature that comes highly requested by both gamers and studios.

We hired 10 new employees

Building world-class products requires a world-class team. We’ve hired 10 new employees, which includes engineers, a head of product, and a lead designer. The Refereum team is now 18 people, and we’re still growing. We plan to hire more to focus on the community and marketing (Interested? Send us a note at team@refereum.com).

Networking at Game Developers Conference (GDC)

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The Refereum team had an extra packed week of meetings with other blockchain companies and game studio to build relationships. We’ll be announcing some new business partnerships from the event in the near future.

Expanding Refereum’s plans in Asia

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Refereum is partnering with top companies all around the world, especially in Asia, where we’re making channel partnerships to expand our mission and growth.

We launched an on-chain trivia bot/game

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We launched a fully automated Telegram game (in our maxed out channel of 100,000 people) to engage and reward fans with our RFR utility tokens. Now, fans get more rewards the more they know about Refereum.

Doing regular communications and iterations with the community

We’ve always been committed to transparent communication with our community. So far, we've delivered a regular written series and live-streamed AMA’s. Every Friday we livestream with a Refereum streamer to chat directly with the community and talk about what the company is up to next (find us at #RefereumReview). We’re also publishing weekly blog digests to keep our community updated on our progress and other key developments.

By the way, Season 3 ends April 30th! Check your ETH address for your EarnDrop!

Increased financial stability and transparency

The blockchain is built on trust, collaboration, and transparency. We’re happy to announce we converted enough Ether into USD to take care of our expanding team, continue to accommodate them in our small San Francisco office, and continue company operations. As long-term believers in Ethereum, despite recent crypto corrections, we’re still holding the vast majority of our proceeds in Ether. This proactive and steady strategy has proven beneficial after the recent rebound of Ether as well.

— Lastly, you should know there are more products to come

We’ve been under wraps about a recent product expansion into more verticals. We get dozens of inquiries about how we built a 700k user community with 100k Telegram users so quickly, and this product is our answer. Refereum enterprise customers can apply for early access, but don’t worry if that’s not you, just stay tuned!

Check out the dozens of other posts and weekly updates on our Medium publication too. If you have any questions or simply want to chat, feel free to reach out to me at dylan@refereum.com.

Talk soon,
~Dylan

P.S. Here’s the team “strategizing with a view” after a company all-hands meeting: