Reddit / Gen3 Collectibles Drop — Following its Gen1 and Gen2 Avatar collections launch in the summer of 2022, Reddit recently launched its Gen3 Avatars on Polygon. Gen3 has ~24k total collectible avatar holders and over $960k of volume at the time of writing. The total market cap for all three collections exceeds $74M across more than 7.3M holders — more
Uniswap / Mobile Wallet Release — Uniswap announced its new mobile wallet is available for download on the iOS App Store. The self-custodial and open-source app is built to serve a wide range of transactions across Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and others. The app also enables users to buy crypto on any available chain using a debit card — more
Nike / Our Force 1 NFTs — Marking the 40th anniversary of the Air Force 1, Nike’s “.SWOOSH” is preparing to launch its Our Force 1 (OF1) collection. “OF1 posters will be distributed at random to select .SWOOSH members, giving them First Access to purchase. Soon after, all members will be able to secure their own OF1 box, which can either be kept sealed or opened to unveil its contents.” — more
Adidas / ‘ALTS’ NFT Collection — Adidas continues its push into NFTs and immersive environments with the “Into the Metaverse” initiative. The brand recently introduced a dynamic NFT collection called ‘ALTS’ on Ethereum, with plans to “unveil enhanced holder benefits and additional functionality in the coming months.” — more
Twitter / eToro Partnership — Twitter teamed up with social trading company eToro to offer users the ability to buy and sell stocks within the Twitter app. Elon Musk previously noted he hopes to turn Twitter into a “super app” and many viewed this partnership as a move in that direction — more
Canon / Photography NFT Marketplace — Canon, the global imaging and optics company, announced it will launch an Ethereum NFT marketplace focused on photography. The platform, called Cadabra, will offer “photos across various categories, including wildlife, sports, lifestyle, and landscapes, among others.” — more
Mastercard / Music Pass NFT — Mastercard dropped a free ‘Music Pass NFT’ during NFT NYC as part of the Mastercard Artist Accelerator program launched in January. The Polygon-based NFTs can be minted for free until the end of April — more
Avalanche / Spruce Subnet — Avalanche recently launched a new Evergreen subnet called Spruce that aims to make trade execution and settlements more efficient for traditional finance institutions. The initial list of firms testing the subnet includes T. Rowe Price, Wisdom Tree, Wellington, and Cumberland — more
Sei Labs / $30M Raised — Sei Labs, an open-source layer 1 blockchain designed to allow DEXs and trading apps a streamlined way to trade assets, raises $30M across two funding rounds from Jump Crypto, Distributed Global, Multicoin Capital, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Flow Traders, Hypersphere Ventures and Bixin Ventures. “The post-money valuation stands at $800 million” — more
CAT Labs / $4.3M Raised — CAT Labs, a start-up building forensic and cybersecurity tools to fight crypto-enabled crime, raises pre-seed round co-led by Castle Island Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, and RW3 Ventures, alongside participants Newark Venture Partners, Hash3, Borderless Capital, Cryptoverse Ventures, and Outshine — more
CryptoGPT / $10M Raised — CryptoGPT aims to develop a “ZK rollup layer 2 blockchain and a data-to-AI engine, which collects, encrypts, and transfers data for commercial applications.” Market maker DWF Labs led this Series A round — more
Fire / $3.5M Raised — Fire, a web3 fraud prevention startup aiming to simplify and secure user transactions with its browser extension, raises round led by Atomic — more
Huddle01 / $2.8M Raised — Huddle01, a US and India-based company building a decentralized real-time communication network, raises seed round led by Hivemind, with participation from Superscrypt, M31 Capital, Protocol Labs, East Ventures, Longhash, Good News Ventures, angel investors Balaji Srinivasan, Stani Kulechov, and others — more
You’re Sleeping on Crypto Art / Derek Edws + Stephen McKeon — “Over the coming decade, we believe verifiably scarce and boundary-pushing digital works will power one of the internet’s most valuable industries. Crypto art is a natural evolution of the perpetual question: what is art? But in a natively digital medium, art takes on a more expansive role, intersecting with virtual worlds, decentralized finance, and the social experience.” Published September 10th, 2020 — more
Punks, Squiggles, and the Future of Generative Media / Derek Edws + Stephen McKeon — “In many ways, generative art is the tip of the spear to much larger trends related to digital art, NFTs, and digital property. Generative art is a category of digital art in which artists use a computer to intentionally introduce randomness as part of the creation process, producing both expected and unexpected results. In this article, we’ll take you through the past, present, and future of the generative art movement.” Published April 13th, 2021 — more
Storing Value in Digital Objects / Derek Edws — “While the digital asset ecosystem is still only a decade old, I believe we’re in the midst of a fundamental, once-in-human-history transition from physical stores of value to digital stores of value. And a growing number of unique digital objects may start to serve this important role, acting as trust-minimized wealth preservation for a global, 24/7, internet economy.” Published February 6th, 2023 — more
Deca (🤝) / Introducing Artist Profiles — Deca announced the launch of Artist Profiles, allowing artists to show a comprehensive display of their art, aggregated across marketplaces OpenSea, Manifold, SuperRare, Foundation, LooksRare, Rarible, X2Y2, Punks Marketplace, Zora, Sansa, and Art Blocks Marketplace. Artists can reserve their Deca username now… there are already more than 2,000 Artist Profiles on the platform — more
Podcast: The Scoop / Inside Sky Mavis's (🤝) strategy to help build multi-billion dollar games on Ronin — “Jeffrey Zirlin is Co-Founder & Growth Lead at Sky Mavis — the studio behind the popular blockchain game, Axie Infinity. In this episode, Zirlin explains why the first wave of game studios building on Ethereum's Ronin sidechain have easy access to a "golden cohort" of initial users, and how a recent network upgrade puts Ronin's destiny in the hands of gamers worldwide.” — more
Soundxyz (🤝) / Open Platform — Sound announced that every artist will soon have access to Sound and its full suite of artist tooling. The open platform launch is expected to go live within the next three months — more
PROOF (🤝) x Moonbirds / New NFT Collection — PROOF announced an exclusive NFT collection for Moonbirds holders called the Diamond Exhibition. The collection will feature 10,000 pieces from 22 artists, including Beeple, Daniel Isles (aka Dirty Robot), Terrell Jones, Summer Wagner, and Michael Sidofsky. The drop will be available to Moonbirds holders who have achieved “Diamond Nest status” by staking their NFTs for a certain period of time — more
Hypeshot (🤝) x PROOF (🤝) x Delegate Cash (🤝) / Beeple Event— Hypeshot, a platform offering crypto-enabled livestreaming, partnered with PROOF to livestream the Beeple LIVE Everyday Party at NFT NYC. The stream was token-gated and compatible with Delegate Cash — more
Push Protocol / Privacy-Focused ChatGPT Clone — Push Protocol launched a privacy-focused ChatGPT clone that uses Metamask and other wallets to create an encrypted chatbot. “The idea behind Push Protocol and the Push app, co-founder Rajat said, is to start with a combination of wallet activity and AI that can later expand to encompass chat-based payments and a personalized user experience.” — more
Gremplin / Nakamigos Collection Burn — NFT artist Gremplin created a burn-to-redeem event with Nakamigos. Following speculation that Gremplin was behind the popular Nakamigos collection, the artist surprised holders with a stealth drop called "AN EYE FOR A FRY." The drop consisted of 69 pieces, minted out in two hours, and required Nakamigos holders to burn their NFT — more
Claudia Hart + Andrew Blanton / Art Blocks (🤝): Systems Madness — “Together Hart and Blanton reconstruct the pattern language of romantic era wallpapers using warm, off-primary colors, noises, gradients, blurrings, layerings, and apply different fractal formations, repeated irregularly, pushing beyond the human desire to create order out of chaos. 'Systems Madness' is a mesmerizing interactive artwork that extends ‘beyond the wallet’ into our domestic spaces.” Dropping April 14th, 10:00am PT, 444 pieces — more
Rick Silva / Feral File: Bloomcore — “Opening on Feral File on April 20th, Bloomcore is an exhibition of a new series by Rick Silva, curated by Claire L. Evans. Last year, Silva 3D-scanned hundreds of blooming plants throughout the Pacific Northwest, which he later grafted and pruned into a hyper-flora. In 30-second looping videos, eerie vegetal forms rotate and slice through a fog of atmospheric lights. The series, also titled Bloomcore, will be available in a series of 55 artworks, each priced at .25 ETH” Dropping April 20th at 7:00am PT — more
Seth Goldstein / On AI Art as a Store of Value — more
Art Blocks (🤝) / Fourth on Fortune’s Crypto 40 List — more
cutbank / gm Chromie Squiggle #1922 — more
R. Mallozi / 9dcc (🤝) x IYK (🤝) x POAP (🤝) — more
PROOF (🤝) / Evolving Pixels: Sold Out — more
NFTfi (🤝) / Snapshot Taken 👀 — more
CyberBrokers / Toward an Open Metaverse with Mona (🤝) — more
0xdgb / Dynamic Concept with PROOF (🤝) x Transient (🤝) — more
basti / 9dcc (🤝) Goods for DeGods + y00ts — more
Cultural Tutor / How Photography Changed Art — more
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