Presearch Weekly News & Updates #150 — December 15th, 2023

3 min readDec 15, 2023

This Week in Review

Find out about the latest progress with Presearch this week! Let’s start with the highlights…

We make great progress every week, but these are the Weekly Wins we’re most excited about!

The Web3 Privacy Browser of the future — powered by a decentralized VPN

Meet Kauri Hero, Project Lead
Kauri is here today to tell us about MASQ.
dMeshVPN = security & privacy
Designed to provide secure, private access to Web3 and Web2 resources through a distributed VPN network.
Supported platforms
MASQ has pre-compiled versions available for MacOS, Linux and Windows, but because it’s based on Rust, it can run in almost any environment.
$MASQ token
$MASQ is the ERC20/Polygon utility token that powers the network — earn MASQ when you share your connection.

We’re spreading the word to drive more users and increase the number of searches!

PTAs for promotion
Attention community members: Know of an influencer aligned with the Presearch mission? We are doing a a PTA for promotion swap campaign and will provide qualified influencers with PTAs if they introduce Presearch to their audience.
StakingRewards calculator
People can now learn about staking PRE on StakingRewards.com! Check out this great resource on search staking.
Presearch keyword: “Prestaking”
PreMerch
Jefferson and Brad from CoinMonster.store have set up some cool customization functionality for Presearch merch, including the ability to have a QR code added with a link to your affiliate URL.
Presearch keyword: “Presearch shirt”
PTA outreach ramping up
The Telegram outreach team, lead by Darwin, is ramping up outreach to crypto projects about Takeover Ads. Contact darwin@presearch.io if you’d like to help. We are also ramping up email-based outreach using the automated Al platform.
Traffic stabilization
Traffic continues to stabilize after the issues experienced the other week. We continue to take action to stop scraping of the network and bots, with traffic in the 2m daily search range this week.
Growth marketing team
We’re continuing to align the growth marketing team and are wrapping up some of the major foundational improvements needed ahead of real growth marketing.