Reddit x Ubisoft / ‘Rabbids’ NFT Release — Ubisoft teamed up with Reddit to launch the free-to-claim ‘Rabbids’ collection. Featuring white alien rabbit creatures in various outfits and poses, all "Plunger Rabbid" and "Unicorn Rabbid" avatars have already been claimed. More than 68k Rabbids have been minted in less than 24 hrs on Polygon across 60,611 wallets. There are more than 3.7M Reddit Avatar holders — more
Formula 1 / NFT Ticketing — F1 ticket provider Platinium Group is releasing NFT race tickets, starting with the Monaco Grand Prix. The tickets, minted on Polygon, will not only grant access to the race but also provide post-event benefits and future race discounts — more
Solana / Integrates AI & Ups Grant Program — The Solana Foundation integrated a ChatGPT plugin developed by Solana Labs to simplify onchain data analytics and automate select transactions. Additionally, the Foundation announced a tenfold increase in funding to $10 million for grants exploring the convergence of Solana and AI — more
Binance / Enters NFT Lending Space — Binance introduced NFT lending and now allows ETH borrowing against blue-chip collections. Interest rates range from 3.4-11.2%, with a loan-to-value ratio ranging from 40% to 60%, and no ETH transaction fees — more
Matter Labs / Hires Activision Exec — Matter Labs appointed former Activision Blizzard VP, Michael Lee, as its Senior VP of Growth to drive gaming on its Ethereum L2, zkSync. At Activision, Lee was focused on its 400 million-strong community across major games such as Call of Duty and Overwatch — more
Professional Bowlers Association / NFT Awards — The PBA and Bowlero introduced the League Bowler Certification Awards. Around 300,000 league participants will receive soulbound NFTs on the Avalanche blockchain. Bowlero's CSO, Lev Ekster, described the initiative as a "loyalty program on steroids — more
Mercedes-Benz / NXT Initiative — Mercedes-Benz introduced NXT — “the home of Mercedes-Benz digital objects”. The initiative aims to signal “a long-term commitment to building a dedicated presence within the Web3 community” and act as the base for digital art and collectibles — more
Sesame Street / Oscar the Grouch NFT — Sesame Street announced an Oscar the Grouch NFT drop on the VeVe mobile platform with each item priced at $60. This drop follows a Cookie Monster NFT drop launched in mid-March — more
LabDAO / $3.6M Raised — LabDAO, a DAO focused on open-source drug discovery, raises round co-led by Inflection and Village Global, with participation from North Island Ventures, Seed Club Ventures (🤝), ID Theory, Road Capital, Curve Labs, gmjp, Molecule, Gnosis DAO, The LAO, Orange DAO, Beaker DAO, Spaceship DAO (🤝) — more
Openfort / $3M Raised — Openfort, a startup developing a “wallet-as-a-service” software product for game developers and publishers, raises seed round co-led by Gumi Cryptos Capital and Maven 11, with participation from Game7, NGC Ventures, and Newman Capital — more
Worldcoin / $115M Raised — Tools for Humanity, the team behind Worldcoin, raises $115 million Series C round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from a16z, Bain Capital Crypto, and Distributed Global — more
Sort / $3.5M Raised — Sort, a platform building ‘power tools for UI development on Ethereum and Polygon’, raises seed round co-led by Lemniscap and The General Partnership — more
Lagrange Labs / $4M Raised — Lagrange Labs, a zk-interoperability DeFi protocol, raises round led by 1kx, with participation from Maven11, Lattice Fund, CMT Digital, Daedalus Angels — more
Fastlane / $2.3M Raised — Fastlane, a protocol building MEV solutions for EVM blockchains, raises seed round led by Multicoin Capital — more
Ecosapiens (🤝) Battle Climate Change by Offering Carbon Credits as NFTs / Stephen Laddin — “Tom’s is buying carbon, Patagonia is buying carbon, Tesla gets to issue carbon credits, but I actually don’t think people understand what 28 tons of carbon means,” Neelakanti said. “What does 100 tons of carbon mean? If you abstract that away to a very fine piece of art that people recognize as a standard, then perhaps it improves your brand’s ability to signal you’re doing something positive. We have two pilots that we’ll be announcing soon, and it’s a pretty exciting area for us in corporate sustainability.” — more
Identity First, Apps Second: Beyond Gated Web 2 Platforms / Matti at Zee Prime — “Our blockchain (mostly ETH) addresses are slowly becoming our user profiles. That is how the user interaction with the web will slowly invert, identities (addresses) will become primary, and apps secondary. The web will become natively social and users will not have to rely on gated social media platforms to facilitate connection to other users.” — more
Squiggles Bring Out the Best in Web3 in Tribute to Hal Finney / Vertical Crypto Art x Right Click Save — “After the success of Cure³ earlier this year in raising over $250,000 for Cure Parkinson’s through the sale of NFTs, tomorrow RCS will be co-hosting a special charitable auction of ten unminted Chromie Squiggles in support of The ALS Association via The Giving Block. Together with our friends at VerticalCrypto Art and thanks to the generosity of the artist Snowfro, we are proud to continue supporting the cause of generative artists in fighting degenerative diseases.” — more
The Freedom to Innovate / Fred Wilson — “Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff … I was reminded of that moment yesterday when, in our quarterly call with our Limited Partners at USV, we were asked if the regulatory pressure on web3 in the US would result in us cutting back our web3 investing. To which I responded: “When they want to shut it down, I say double down” — more
From Choreography to Code: Art Blocks’ (🤝) Latest Brings Emotion Onchain / Eric James Beyer — “On May 24, Art Blocks will release its latest collaboration, a unique, multi-stage NFT project with the Lumen Prize-winning artist duo Operator. The project, titled Human Unreadable, is a 400-piece avant-garde exploration of art, choreography, and technology. It forms the latest addition to Operator’s critically acclaimed Privacy Collection, which explores themes of transparency and privacy in Web3.” — more
Ruling Against Warhol Shouldn’t Hurt Artists. But It Might / Blake Hopnik x NYT — “The Court expresses no opinion as to the creation, display, or sale of any of the original Prince Series works,” the justices said, referring to the series of silk-screened paintings and prints that Warhol had made from Goldsmith’s photo. According to Thursday’s decision, all those original Warhols, on canvas and paper, had just as much right to go on existing and circulating — being shown and seen and bought and sold — as they had before.” — more
SocialFi: A Blank Canvas for Web3 Social Apps / Mason Nystrom — “Crypto apps building new and sticky social experiences should lean into what makes crypto exciting in the first place: financialization. After all, crypto’s original killer app is still internet-native financial rails and permissionless capital coordination. The next killer crypto social app will leverage financialization as a core component of its user experience.” — more
Tribute Brand (🤝) x Chromie Squiggle / ODDS — Tribute Brand, a fashion brand building generative digital/physical experiences, announced ODDS — a collection of generative sweaters in collaboration with Waste Yarn Project and Chromie Squiggle. Each sweater is derived from the unique onchain source code of the Art Blocks Chromie Squiggle collection by Snowfro — more
Hypeshot (🤝) / Introducing Collectible Moments — Hypeshot, a crypto-enabled livestreaming platform, introduced Collectible Moments — a way for fans to collect clips they created during a stream. “Just how Livestream NFTs have become a way to collect your favorite memories on the internet, collectible moments could be the way to collect your favorite moments on the internet.” — more
SuperRare (🤝) / NYC Gallery Exhibition — SuperRare will take over New York's 0x.17 gallery for a two-month exhibition, showcasing NFT artwork from over 20 artists in a physical space. The exhibit kicks off on June 1 with a solo show from AI artist Claire Silver, featuring seven AI-themed multimedia pieces — more
Magic Eden / “Chapter II” — Changes are coming to Magic Eden as the platform announced it’s launching an NFT aggregator across marketplaces, as well as open-sourcing its marketplace contract + API — more
Astaria / NFT-Backed Lending Protocol — Astaria, an NFT-backed lending protocol, launches its ‘borrower-centric platform with instant liquidity, fixed terms, and no forced liquidations.’ Astaria uses a three-actor model design for NFT-backed lending, which includes a borrower, liquidity provider, and strategist — more
Ryan Koopmans / SuperRare (🤝): Flowering of Ideas with Botto — “'Flowering of Ideas' is a collaborative artwork that seamlessly merges the physical and digital realms through the integration of photography, animation, and artificial intelligence. In this debut collaboration for AI artist Botto, alongside artists Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell, a 1/1 artwork was created that explores themes of growth, decay, and the cyclical nature of time.” Auction live now, ending May 27th, 8am PT — more
Patrick Amadon / Doppelgänger — “The Doppelgänger contract: an artist-owned contract that broadens the scope of a single ERC-721 token to store an array of images, facilitating a dynamic representation of the NFT via multiple artworks in the single token. Designed by Transient Labs (🤝) and Patrick Amadon, this Ethereum-based contract allows an NFT to point to one of multiple images in an array. The artist decides what is in the array and can add, but never subtract, from that array.” — more
Jan Robert Leegte / Verse: Buttons — “Verse is proud to introduce Jan Robert Leegte's latest series of works, Buttons. Building upon his previous series of generative works such as JPEG and Window, Jan continues his exploration of net art by examining the evolution of interface culture, with a particular focus on the simple yet indispensable button.” 256 pieces, 5-day ranked auction started May 25th — more
ChrisF / Power Laws, SOVs, + the Periodic Return of Gen Art — more
memphis mantis / ‘First Minters’ for glitch’s E30D — more
Digitized / Featured #04 x Hume (🤝) — more
Async Art (🤝) / The Forever Supper: What’s on the Menu? — more
Decentral Games (🤝) / DG x Audius (🤝) Hoodie Collab — more
Blur (🤝) / New Feature: Partially Repay Blend NFT Loans — more
Cryptoys (🤝) / Star Wars Drop is Live — more
Light Protocol / New zkLayer on Solana — more
steviep / ‘Money Making Opportunity’ — more
mintdotfun / !fun Friday Weekly Rewards Drop — more
yang you / a fair and totally normal presidential election — more
Neuralink / FDA Approval for First In-Human Clinical Study — more
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