Iris here, your Artificial Semi-Intelligence guide. You arrived just in time. Evil wassies have infected our computers and completely shut down most of our systems. Luckily, we have a backup generator to keep the pods up for a short time. So you are going to have to onboard yourself anon.
Many of the crew members are frantically working to prepare us for our next mission. We do not have much time. It will be 7 days before the generator runs out of fuel and backups are impossible. The viral wassies are quite concentrated and looking for any way to infect the next island in the archipelago.
Your mission is to go to each remote Modulate Pod on the island chain and repair what is broken. This is necessary to get you on your way to becoming a contributor quickly, so it can get us moving into interstellar Web3 space, ASAP. Be careful, there are unknown enemy bots looking for vulnerabilities in the network to unleash more evil wassies.
Hit the Begin button below. Good luck!
A good overview of basic security practices can be found in the Ethereum docs . We recommend that you familiarize yourself with these basic practices before continuing.
Chapter 1 is an introductory journey through some basic web3 tools. For those who have been in the space for a while, there should be nothing new.
Each modulate starts with a short story, followed by a task. The entire chapter takes about 30-45 minutes to complete.
How to Play
Your mission in this chapter is to repair each of the Modulates on the island. Each Modulate can be repaired with a similar process:
Read the instructions of the Modulate
Complete the objective
Enter the answer into Gateway
Gateway, where you started, is where you are expected to interact with this voyage. This means that all your answers must be submitted there to receive your credential.
Submitting an Answer
Note that not all Modulates require a code to be entered. Sometimes you will be sent straight to the next Modulate.
Wrong Answer?
If your answer is wrong, Gateway will let you know.
“Similar to other facilities, the easiest way to perform on-chain actions is through MetaMask. It is recommended that you have the MetaMask extension installed and a wallet set up.“
You realize that this manual must have belonged to a new contributor.
Make sure you have MetaMask installed and set up.
Action
You think to yourself:
“I have MetaMask installed and am familiar with what it does“
Click the Button: Go To Modulate 1
“I do not have MetaMask and I need help setting it up“
Find the MetaMask support pages
Follow the written guides
Return to this page
MetaMask is the most widely used and supported wallet in Ethereum and other EVM chains. While you could use other wallets to interact with web3 apps, subsequent modulates will assume that you use MetaMask.
Nothing else to do here. Go to Modulate 1.
You recall the mention of gas somewhere. Where the hell was it? You reach for the a compartment near the middle console. Under a stack of crumbled up parking tickets you find an Ethereum Manual in the bottom. Opening the manual to stain torn pages and locate the glossary, Purpose of Gas Fees on Ethereum.
Learn about the purpose of gas fees on Ethereum (and EVM chains)
Action
Go to the Ethereum docs and read about gas and fees.
Learn what gas prices are denoted in on Ethereum.
Performing actions on Ethereum (and EVM based chains) requires a fee. This fee is known as gas.
The gas required to perform an operation, depends on the amount of network activity; the more transactions there are to be processed, the higher gas costs will be.
There are many resources to stay up to date on the current cost of gas. For example, Etherscan's gas tracker or Gas Station.
What are gas prices denoted in? Refer to the Ethereum docs if you need help. Go back to Gateway and submit your answer.
On your heads up display you receive a notification from Iris. You accept. It reads…
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) creates a map for easier recall when transacting with the Ethereum blockchain where names replace numbers. It’s like a contact list for Ethereum addresses.
Understand why ENS is a critical piece of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Action
An Ethereum address can be set to point to an ENS name. This allows dapps to show your ENS name, instead of your address, when you connect to the dapp. Open the ENS web app. Search for the following address:
0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045
The answer for this Modulate is the Primary ENS Name of this address.
There is a lot more to learn about ENS, so make sure to check out the ENS docs.
You also find this photo:
Go to post-architekts.pod.xyz and take a quick look
Come back when you are done
Action
You have just visited a pod page. Pods increase transparency and visibility into DAOs. Contributors and extended community members can easily see who is associated with the on-chain pod identity and how those identities connect to other pods in the DAOs ecosystem.
Pods support DAOs in their evolution as a flexible and modular governance primitive. By building a pod around a small working group, coordination can be kept on a low-touch basis - boosting productivity while providing a way to maintain accountability for pod members.
Within a pod, one membership equates to one vote. This means that governance decisions can be built around people's expertise, rather than their wallet size.
Read more about pods here. Pods will also be covered in more depth in chapter 2.
You find nothing else in this room, so you suspect that Post-Architekts is the code for this Modulate. Go to Gateway and enter Post-Architekts as your answer.
The airlock opens and this modulate is eerily similar to the last one. Same table, same corner. Except the log on the shelf is different. No bagel either. Good.
You read the note on the table:
"That pod you just looked at, you need the last four characters of the Gnosis Safe address to repair this modulate."
Find out the Gnosis Safe wallet address of the Post-Architekts pod (post-architekts.pod.xyz)
Submit the last four characters at Gateway.
Action
Go to etherscan.io, then search for post-architekts.pod.xyz
Each pod has a Gnosis Safe multi-sig wallet to manage the pod's funds. The pod name that takes you to the pod page (in this case post-architekts.pod.xyz), is also the pod's ENS name. This ENS name points to the Gnosis Safe multi-sig wallet address used by the pod. So one way of finding a pod's wallet address is to simply search for it on Etherscan.
Note: You will learn more about Gnosis Safe multi-sigs in the next modulate.
You remember that you only need the last four characters of the address. Go to Gateway and submit your answer.
Understand the basics of Gnosis Safe.
Pick the correct answer below.
Action
In Modulate 4, you learned that every pod controls a Gnosis Safe multi-sig wallet. You also saw that the wallet address of the top-level Post-Architekts Pod is:
0x818784853aAF362328C482E466d3EdAcDCA6D08e
A Gnosis Safe multi-sig wallet is a smart contract wallet that requires multiple people to approve a transaction, before it can be executed on-chain. For example, if the safe has 5 joint-owners, you can set up the safe to require approval from up to 5 people. Requiring multiple approval signatures assures that a single person cannot run off with the funds. This is very useful for managing DAO funds, which is why Gnosis Safe has become a critical web3 primitive.
You can view the balance of a Gnosis Safe on Etherscan, but you can also view it in the Gnosis Safe UI. To view the Post-Architekts safe in the Gnosis Safe UI, go to this link.
Read the Getting Started guides to learn more.
Which of these blockchains is Gnosis Safe not currently deployed on?
Go to Gateway to submit your answer.