Immutable x Polygon / Partnership Announced — Immutable, a web3 gaming firm, partnered with Polygon in an effort to accelerate innovation and adoption of crypto gaming. Ryan Wyatt, the President of Polygon Labs, said “For me, this is like the next evolution of mainstream adoption” — more
Arbitrum / Airdrop — “Arbitrum’s token airdrop started off in a frenzy that broke multiple websites, and yet more than 428 million ARB tokens are left to be claimed, according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen. Nearly 240,000 addresses still needed to claim their governance tokens late Thursday, after 61% of eligible crypto wallets had already claimed their ARB.” — more
zkSync x Matter Labs / zkEVM on Mainnet — zkSync Era’s zkEVM, an Ethereum scaling solution, launched on Mainnet today. The zkEVM aims to enable cheap privacy, uncapped growth, complex use cases, and a streamlined user experience. This is ahead of Polygon’s zkEVM which is scheduled to arrive on March 27th — more
Ethereum / Deflationary Pressure — The Ethereum network marks its second deflationary month in a row. Uniswap burned the most ETH in the past 30 days, with ~8,766 ETH, while NFT marketplace Blur (🤝) has burned ~6,535 ETH over the last month — more
Sony / NFT Patent Push — Sony’s recently revealed NFT-related patent applications point toward a continued push into web3. The application published last week and submitted in Sept. 2021, outlines “Sony’s intentions to create standardized digital infrastructure that would allow gamers to own and transfer digital NFT assets across various video game platforms.” — more
Luxury Fashion House Balmain / NFT Drop — Balmain, a French luxury fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain in 1945, launched an NFT collection consisting of 130 Unicorn sneaker NFTs bundled with physical counterparts. The Ethereum NFTs were crafted with the help of Space Runners, a digital fashion company backed by Pantera, Polychain, Jump Capital, and others — more
ChatGPT / Plug-in Support — ChatGPT announced support for plug-ins that allow its chatbot to reference new sources of information, including the web and third-party sites like Expedia, Instacart, OpenTable, Zapier, and others. OpenAI is also launching its own plug-ins, one of which will interpret code and another called “Browsing” which enables ChatGPT to access generalized info from the web — more
Coinbase / Wells Notice — Crypto exchange Coinbase was served a Wells notice on Wednesday informing the company the SEC is planning future action. Coinbase disclosed “the SEC alleged the company may be operating in violation of securities laws in the running of its exchange and staking services.” — more
Tron Founder Justin Sun / Sued by SEC — The SEC is suing Justin Sun, the Tron Foundation, the BitTorrent Foundation, and BitTorrent over the sale of TRX and BTT tokens, which the regulator described as unregistered crypto asset securities. Fraud and market manipulation allegations were also included in the lawsuit — more
Shopify x TYB / Partnership — Try Your Best (TYB), an Avalanche-based community and brand management platform, is joining Spotify’s app store. The platform has already onboarded retail brands JuneShine and Topicals, enabling them to expand their loyalty programs and provide customers with engagement-based challenges, discounts, and exclusive drops — more
Seed Club Ventures (🤝) / $25M Raised — Seed Club Ventures, a venture DAO investing in the world of Internet-Native Organizations, comes out of stealth and introduces DAO members including Collab+Currency, Multicoin Capital, Delphi Digital, Dragonfly Capital, SV Angel, and many others — more
Carbondale / $1.2M Raised — Carbondale, a startup building solutions on Starkware (🤝) to track carbon contributions and help prevent greenwashing, raises seed round led by Ethereal Ventures and La Poste Ventures, with participation from Starkware — more
CCP Games / $40M Raised — CCP Games, creators of the sci-fi MMO EVE Online, raises round led by a16z, with participation from Makers Fund, Bitkraft, Kingsway Capital, HASHED, Nexon, and others. The team aims to build “a new AAA title utilizing blockchain technology, set within the EVE Universe” — more
OP3N / $28M Raised — OP3N, a chat-based web3 social “SuperApp”, raises Series A round led by Animoca Brands, with participation from Dragonfly Capital, Galaxy Digital, Republic Crypto, and others — more
Gryfyn / $7.5M Raised — Gryfyn, a crypto wallet launched by Animoca Brands and digital asset custodian Hex Trust, raises round from Liberty City Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital Partners, Animoca Ventures, and others. Animoca Brands co-chief operating officer Arnoldo Concepcion will become the CEO of Gryfyn — more
Turnkey / $7.5M Raised — Turnkey, a secure private key infrastructure purpose-built for crypto developers, raises seed round led by Sequoia, with participation from Variant and Coinbase Ventures — more
Particle Network / $7M Raised — Particle Network, a middleware solution that helps developers integrate a user-friendly web3 authentication into their dApps, raises seed round from Animoca, Longhash Ventures, GSR Ventures, Hashkey, and OP Crypto — more
Building a World of Internet-Native Organizations / Seed Club Ventures (🤝) — “Ultimately, internet-native organizations combine a rich new design space for governance, ownership, and incentives with the ability to quickly experiment and learn from others who are doing the same. It is a space well-suited for emergence, and we believe it will lead to radical new approaches for creating and sharing value in our time.” — more
Our Investment in Seed Club Ventures (🤝), a Venture DAO / Vishal Kankani at Multicoin — “At the current moment, SCV is best positioned to support founders building internet-native organizations because it is an internet-native organization itself. SCV will be a power-user of the tools in which they invest and, as such, understand the challenges internet-native organizations face from first principles. Seed Club is already at the epicenter of DAOs, and the venture DAO community boasts over 60 highly qualified members that includes operators from leading crypto funds to founders to angels.” — more
Revenue? In this economy? / Seed Club (🤝) — “We’ve heard a lot of chatter about web3 not having business models. We’re here to shut that down – there are viable web3 business models, and they’re working. In this post we’ll explain them, look at what each requires to be effective, and provide examples that builders can reference when exploring how to leverage them. These models aren’t mutually exclusive and we expect many web3 projects – DAOs especially – to employ bundles of revenue streams.” — more
Multiplayer Creation: Unlocking Participatory Media / 1k(x) — “Multiplayer creation is the end-to-end process of Formation, Coordination, Production, Value Distribution, and Post-Release evolution of creative work — in which multiple parties are involved in one or more of the stages. The “multiplayerness” is the way and degree to which individual inputs into the product is influenced by multiple sources that may or may not have existing relationships.” — more
Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? / Nic Carter — “Post-collapse, financial regulators are using the examples of Silvergate and Signature to make the case to any other banks that would do business with crypto firms. Pour encourager les autres. Shoot the stallion to scatter the herd. But the collateral damage of this hunting expedition is immense. These are not examples of crypto business gone wrong. They are examples of assassinations of otherwise functional banks that dared to service a politically disfavored industry.” — more
PROOF (🤝) x Transient (🤝) / Announcing Outliers — Proof and Transient Labs have teamed up to launch Outliers — a new program for digital creators who are pushing technical barriers and innovating through their artwork. “Fifteen creators will spend six weeks designing and building the next groundbreaking projects in web3.” The initial cohort includes Ensemble, BOTTO, Fellowship, 0xdgb, and other top creatives — more
Gallery (🤝) / Mementos: Blooming Connections — “Blooming Connections" is a stunning visual representation of a white cube amidst a lush flourishing field, symbolizing the potential for fruitful new connections that inspire. This limited-time Memento can be yours by following a few simple steps to enhance your Gallery experience and share your passion for art and creativity with others on Twitter.” Snapshot March 27th followed by mint window March 27th-April 3rd — more
Zora / Auto Reserve Feature — Zora launched a clever new feature that enables creators to automatically reserve NFT mints, from their own collections, for their own wallets. For example, for every 10 editions minted 1 will return to the creator. In essence, this offers creators an alternative path to receiving ‘royalties’ that are fully paid for and distributed by collectors during the mint process — more
Magic Eden / Bitcoin x Ordinals Marketplace — Magic Eden announced a new Bitcoin marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, list, and bid on Bitcoin Ordinals. The ME team stated, “By building on Bitcoin, we contribute to the culture of trust, security, and decentralization that is synonymous with the blockchain.” — more
PleasrDAO / Burning Unisocks — PleasrHouse held a 24-hr auction around Unisocks (SOCKS) — a historic NFT that originated from Uniswap in 2019 that sells for ~$40k on the market today. PleasrHouse minted its own NFT collection called Uniblocks with a supply of 2,000 and burned a Unisock IRL for every 666 Uniblocks sold — more
Aavegotchi x Polygon / Gotchichain Supernet — Aavegotchi, an open-source community-owned NFT gaming protocol, launched a new dedicated chain called Gotchichain powered by Polygon. The chain is an early example of a Polygon Supernet — a “permissioned offshoot of the Polygon POS network where any user can transact, but only certain developers can deploy contracts.” — more
Punk9059 x Roope Rainisto / PROOF (🤝) Artist Spotlight — “Sam (Director of Research, PROOF) chats with artist Roope Rainisto about AI art and the making of his iconic Braindrops collection, Life in West America. They also discuss how to curate a collection, AI art as a genre, and how he got started in digital art. Plus, we learn more about his upcoming project REWORLD.” — more
Superfluid / Stream Scheduler — Superfluid, a real-time asset streaming protocol, launched “Stream Scheduler”. The new feature enables users to specify start and end dates for money streams. Relevant for crypto-native organizations looking to stream payments, this new feature could be used to automate salaries, vendor payouts, or bounties — more
Solana Mobile / Saga Launch — Solana Mobile announced the upcoming launch of the Saga mobile phone. The launch event will take place on Thursday, 4.13.2023, at 10am PT and users can pre-order ahead of the date — more
Uniswap / Avalanche Deployment — “Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange by trading volume, is set to launch its V3 iteration on Avalanche, an Ethereum-compatible Layer-1 blockchain with over $1.5B in total value locked. LayerZero has been chosen as the bridge for the Avalanche deployment as it supports both the Ethereum and Avalanche networks.” — more
Avalanche / Cortina Upgrade — Avalanche launches the testnet of the Cortina upgrade, which will migrate “the X-Chain to Snowman++, meaning the entire network has moved to a single consensus engine. This reduces the size of the trusted computing base and increases the leverage of existing R&D efforts, which will enable faster development and more broadly-applicable innovation.” — more
Kim Asendorf / Art Blocks (🤝): Cargo — “Cargo is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity …. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.” 1,000 pieces, minting March 29th — more
Sofia Crespo, Memo Atken, Helena Sarin, & others / Unit London: Perfect Error — “The Perfect Error presents works by nine pioneering artists who have defined the aesthetic of the AI art genre for several years, owning datasets, developing custom models and shaping our understanding of the technology and its artistic potential. In a world of increasingly convincing AI outputs, this exhibition celebrates the misalignments and glitches which make AI art even more human.” Exhibition is live — more
Lee Mullican / Feral File: Relentless Experimentation — “As a pioneer of computer art, Lee Mullican has devoted his life to finding new ways to create images. He embraced new technologies and tools of the day. In the fall of 1986, Lee Mullican participated in UCLA’s Advanced Design Research Center’s Program for Technology in the Arts. The program allowed the then 66-year-old Mullican to start exploring the digital realm. The exhibition LeeMullican.PCX, presents 12 NFTs that demonstrate the artist’s relentless experimentation.” Dropping today, March 24th — more
Derek Edws / Chromie Squiggle Letterman Jacket 🤯
IYK (🤝) / Bridging the Physical and Digital at SXSW 🔥
Tribute Brand (🤝) / PUNK Store x Mona (🤝) Space
amanda0x / Consumer Crypto’s Market Segments
memphis_mantis / The Devil Wears Prada
Headless Chaos x Songcamp (🤝) / IP Rights for Chaos Creators
aventurine / Art, Blockchains, and Culture Panel at Outer Edge
Mona (🤝) / Delegate Cash (🤝) Integration
Delegate Cash (🤝) / MYTY (🤝) Integration
9dcc / Introducing the ITERATION-03 Baseball Cap
Tony Fadell / Storing The Value of Attention in Digital Objects
Fitch / Quote from the CEO of Epic Games 👀
Loopify / Fortnite’s Creative 2.0 Announced
Jorge Valle / First NFT in Fortnite 👀
OthersideMeta / Otherside 2nd Trip Soon™
Conor Moore / NFT Lending Income on the Rise
Stealcam / Stats from Stealcam’s Beta
Sam Altman / ChatGPT Plugins
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