Presearch Weekly News & Updates #167 — April 12th, 2024

Presearch

4 min readApr 12, 2024

This Week in Review

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

353.3 million PRE staked!
PRE value ~$0.021 / 0.3 bits
CMC = 1.175, CG = 1,425
78,900k staked / 60k active nodes (1k planned reduction)
Dev: PreGPT, BASE layer2, monetization, Cosmos
Weekly Wins
PreGPT progress update
Marketing, traffic & monetization update
Community connection

Weekly wins

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

PreGPT1 now in production!
Another PTA campaign through Coinzilla confirmed!
Basescan verified contract source, Native Pre Platform Base
Bridge UI components being built and Base Superchain List official submission executed
Presearch.io team page updated
Tim visited El Salvador to evaluate operating landscape and crypto opportunities
Changes to way advertiser clickthroughs are tracked
Last week’s traffic increase verified as legitimate

Marketing & Monetization update

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

Continuous progress in PTAS
Latest advertiser campaign feedback has been very positive!
More new advertisers coming inbound.
New case studies in the works.
More repeat campaigns confirmed.
Outbound marketing
New community group is active — please join on Telegram-t.me/presearchmarketing
New X engagement strategy is now in use-looking for additional
New X engagement strategy is now in use — looking for additional
Working on plan for influencers and X ads once additional funding is secured
PreGPT marketing
With PreGPT now functional in production, we are preparing the marketing campaign for the service and will formally launch within the next month. Date TBA.
Final improvements to sign-up process and user experience and preparing for mass marketing campaign to drive usage and awareness.
AMA on April 24th at 2pm ET
Continued adoption of consumptive keyword ads
Ability to move ads back to the top of results and pay a consumptive fee for priority placement is live and adoption is growing-up over 450 paid keywords now, including a new campaign for OKX.
Traffic update
Increased traffic to more than 800k searches per day, confirmed to be legitimate.
Influencer outreach & Ambassador program
Rice has taken a more active role with the project, and is now leading influencer outreach and actively handling inbound leads, as well as the Ambassador Program.
Tagline / slogan survey
Working to finalize top taglines/slogans based on
community feedback.

Community connection

As a community-driven project, Presearch thrives with your feedback and input — check out https://community.presearch.io to participate

New Telegram groups
Please check out the new Telegram groups for organizing community efforts and discussion on Marketing, Development and Tokenomics:
https://t.me/presearchmarketing
https://t.me/presearchdev
https://t.me/presearchtokenomics
Will integrate community.presearch.io with this groups to drive engagement and organize efforts.
Ad discussion
We’re preparing to launch another Telegram group dedicated to advertising on Presearch — https://t.me/presearchads will be online and active soon!
Roadmap feedback
We’ve posted the latest version of the roadmap on the community platform for feedback.
We appreciate your thoughts and help prioritizing initiatives.
Some developments are contingent on fundraising, wich is actively underway
Tagline / slogan feedback
We’re wrapping up the survey to help narrow down the options ahead of a more focused effort to choose the new tagline/ slogan.