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Sotheby’s / Grails Auction — Dmitri Cherniak's generative artwork, "The Goose," sold for $6.2M at a Sotheby's auction to 6529, making it the second-highest sale ever for a generative piece. The artwork is part of the Ringers collection launched on Art Blocks (🤝) in Jan. 2021. The NFT's sale price exceeded its estimated range of $2-3M, sparking momentum in the auction where many of the remaining 36 works sold above estimates. The ongoing liquidation of the 3AC’s Grails collection has generated ~$17M — more
Snoop Dogg x Transient Labs (🤝) / ‘Passport Series’ NFTs — Snoop Dogg launched the 'Passport Series,' an evolving digital tour collectible priced at ~$45 or 0.025 ETH. Powered by Transient Labs, the Passport will offer ongoing backstage content, a collection of works from selected NFT artists, and other tour benefits — more
Adidas x Fewocious / Limited Edition Sneakers — Adidas Originals teamed up with web3 artist Fewocious for a limited-edition, product-linked NFT, the 'Trefoil Flower Mint Pass,' launching June 22. The NFT entitles holders to a pair of artist-designed Campus 00s sneakers, featuring Fewocious' signature design — more
Gucci / Otherside Relics — Gucci is launching 'Otherside Relics by Gucci', an NFT collection starting with the 'Gucci KodaPendant necklace', available to Otherside Koda and Vessel holders starting June 21 to July 6. Holders with the KodaPendant trait can claim their physical item by linking their wallet and providing a shipping address — more
Rocky Horror Picture Show / NFT Initiative — ‘Online Blockchain’ is set to release a collection of 50 Rocky Horror Show NFTs on OpenSea, celebrating the comedy musical's 50th anniversary starting June 19. The genesis NFT, known as the TimeWarp, will feature the show's classic logo, with the remaining 49 NFTs launching randomly over two weeks until July 3, 2023 — more
Gensyn / $43M Raised — Gensyn, a blockchain-based marketplace protocol that enables developers to build AI systems using connected hardware while paying on-demand, raises round led by a16z, with participation from CoinFund, Canonical Crypto, Protocol Labs, Eden Block, Maven 11, and others — more
Ironforge / $2.6M Raised — Ironforge, a serverless Solana development platform that aims to improve the developer experience and streamline integration of the Solana blockchain into existing systems, raises pre-seed led by Reciprocal Ventures, with participation from Hash3, 6th Man Ventures, Alchemy, Monoceros Ventures, and Portage Ventures — more
Mnemonic / $6M Raised — Mnemonic, a platform that provides crypto and NFT data through APIs, raises seed extension led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Polygon Ventures, Orange DAO, FIN Capital, and FJ Labs — more
Connext / $7.5M Raised — Connext, a blockchain interoperability startup, raises round from Polychain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, NGC Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Polygon Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, KXVC, a_capital, No Limit Holdings, 1kx, Hashed, Factor, Scalar Capital, and Dokia Capital — more
Building Token-Powered Consumer Products / Amanda Young — “At their core, tokens are programmable, permissionless, internet-native objects. Many of the earliest use cases of tokens were as digital stores of value. But, the value that these tokens hold can often extend beyond pure wealth preservation. So, how are we starting to see tokens transform the consumer experience on the Internet?” — more
Digiphysical Goods: Bringing Programmable Utility to Physical Products / Nichanan Kesonpat x 1kx — “We see a big potential for onchain interactions to be brought to physical environments through digiphysical consumer goods, and believe that digiphysical infrastructure will soon bring programmable utility to any physical product … Chip technology coupled with onchain programmability gives wallet-like abilities (e.g. token-gated access, signing, and asset ownership) to any physical object, unlocking end consumer experiences that were not previously possible.” — more
Understanding Rollup Value Accrual / Sanjay Shah x Electric Capital — “One of the key stories in crypto over the last two years has been the rise of Layer 2s. In a short span of time, they have attracted billions in TVL, and transaction volume on Arbitrum alone now rivals that on mainnet Ethereum. But a key question remains. Are L2 tokens just worthless governance tokens? Or can real value accrue to these L2 tokens? In this blog post, I'll dive into the key mechanisms through which L2s will accrue value.” — more
Axelar (🤝) x Uniswap / Bridge Approval — The Uniswap Foundation recently released the “Bridge Assessment Report” which evaluated six crypto bridge providers, but only approved Axelar and Wormhole for Uniswap's specific use case of protocol governance. Other bridge providers, including LayerZero, Celer, DeBridge, and Multichain, failed to meet the committee's criteria at this time — more
9dcc (🤝) / Introducing ‘Accounts’ — 9dcc introduced Accounts — a new feature offering an enhanced user experience through profile page management, customization of POAPs, multi-wallet support, and a royalties dashboard. Accounts aim to simplify the onboarding process and unify interaction across 9dcc’s Networked Products — more
4k (🤝) x Arcade / Loans on Real-World Assets — NFT lending protocol Arcade facilitated a loan of 14,500 USDC against two tokenized Rolex watches, an early example of real-world asset tokenization in DeFi. The Rolex owner obtained NFTs for their watches using the 4K protocol and then deposited them as collateral for the loan — more
PROOF (🤝) / New IRL Space — PROOF announced Foundry — a community hub for art enthusiasts and artists in Downtown LA's Arts District. Opening this summer, the space will showcase new art releases, host an artist residency program, provide a content hub for live podcasts, and organize community meetups (starting with a Mythics x Moonbirds event) — more
Hyepshot (🤝) / Introducing Live Airdrops — Hypeshot, a crypto-enabled livestreaming platform, launched “Live Airdrops” enabling creators to instantly reward viewers in their stream with ERC-721 or ERC-1155 tokens. The feature currently supports NFTs on ETH mainnet, Polygon, and Optimism — more
Polygon Labs / Introducing ‘The Value Prop’ — Polygon Labs introduced ‘The Value Prop’ — a crowd-sourced, open database showcasing a myriad of global blockchain use cases. Spanning seven verticals, including social impact, security, education, and finance, the database aims to articulate the tangible value of blockchain tech — more
Ivona Tau / K011: Machine-hearted — “This collection explores the complex umbrella of what feels intuitive to humans yet is challenging to interpret or analyze for machines and algorithms. In scientific research, there are usually only seven emotions (happy, sad, angry, neutral, scared ...). … Emotion, the most primitive part of human essence, is also surprisingly difficult to analyze for machines.” June 17th, 101 pieces, starting price 0.48 ETH — more
crashblossom / GOLD — “GOLD is a dynamic crypto art series released in partnership with Fingerprints DAO. The artworks change in response to the series’ own live market activity. The actions of GOLD collectors are part of this ever-changing artwork, where prices, levels of activity and on-chain provenance define the art itself. How does the market affect the way we see art? Does the sale price of an NFT change our perception of it? In GOLD, market factors literally influence the appearance of the dynamic imagery.” Minting June 21st — more
Steve Pikelny / Art Blocks (🤝): Dopamine Machines — “WOW! TOP ART CRITICS AGREE: "DOPAMINE MACHINES" IS THE HOTTEST GENERATIVE ART PROJECT OF THE DECADE! HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: "EXCITING!!!", "AN ABSOLUTE MASTER CLASS IN HTML & CSS", "I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES... OR EARS!". New Stevie P dropping June 21st — more
Amanda Young / Building Token-Powered Consumer Products — more
punk6529 / The Goose — more
Sound xyz (🤝) / Now Live on Optimism — more
Digitized / Featured #07 x Async Art (🤝) — more
Chris Dixon / a16z’s Expansion to the UK — more
ApeCoin x Richclassdecor / “We Rug the Right Way” — more
Alchemy / Introducing Alchemy AI — more
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