Sotheby’s / Launches Generative Art Program — Sotheby's is launching the Gen Art Program powered by Art Blocks (🤝) Engine, featuring generative artists and fully onchain auctions. Going live on July 26th with a tribute to generative art pioneer Vera Molnar, the works will be sold via a Dutch auction format, marking a first in the auction house's 300-year history — more
Warner Music Group x Polygon Labs / Music Accelerator Program — Warner Music Group and Polygon Labs joined forces to launch a music accelerator program aimed at supporting decentralized music initiatives on the Polygon network. The program focuses on projects building solutions for decentralized music distribution, artist-fan communities, onchain ticketing, and music-related collectibles — more
Tokenized Teslas / Hit Vienna Streets — Vienna-based car-sharing service company Eloop, in collaboration with web3 ecosystem Peaq, aims to tokenize a fleet of Teslas. The project attempts to give users the opportunity to own a fraction of the fleet through tokens, allowing them to share in the profits from daily ridesharing operations — more
Hermès / Finalize Trademark Win — Hermès recently secured a permanent ban on the sale of Mason Rothschild's MetaBirkins NFTs after winning a trademark infringement case earlier this year. While Rothschild can retain his NFTs, he is required to airdrop the court order to holders and faces restrictions on the future use of MetaBirkins — more
Lacoste / UNDW3 Expansion — Lacoste introduced UNDW3 last June — a PFP collection centered on the brand’s crocodile logo. This week, the team announced a gamified and tokenized ecosystem that allows users to accumulate points on their UNDW3 card, tied to their crypto wallet, Discord account, and NFT rarity level — more
Hook (🤝) / $3M Raised — Hook, the NFT-native options protocol, raises round co-led by Collab+Currency and Lattice, with participation from Slow, Sfermion, Maven11, Contrary and angels including gmoney, jdh, Salvino D’Armati, Flamingo DAO, Neon DAO, and The LAO — more
Mythical Games / $37M Raised — Mythical Games, the web3 game studio behind titles such as NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party, raises Series C1 funding led by Scytale Digital, with participation from ARK Invest, Animoca Brands, MoonPay, Proof, and Stanford Athletics — more
Pixion Games / $5.5M Raised — Pixion, a web3 gaming studio building a new game called Fableborne, raises round from Avalanche Foundation’s Blizzard Fund, Shima Capital, ReadyPlayerDAO, and others — more
Mind Network / $2.5M Raised — Mind Network, a platform building web3 data security and privacy systems, raises round from Binance Labs, Comma3 Ventures, SevenX Ventures, HashKey Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Arweave SCP Ventures, Mandala Capital, and others — more
AlloyX / $2M Raised — AlloyX, a DeFi protocol launching a real-world asset vault, raises pre-seed round led by Hack VC, with participation from Circle Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Stratos, Lecca Ventures, MH Ventures, and others — more
A Place For Music and the New Internet to Crash Into Each Other / Frances Miller x Songcamp (🤝) — “I mean, super exciting. Just this, like, giddy electricity… You know, being kind of still in the woes of COVID… I think everyone needed a place to channel that energy and still channel their creativity… It seemed to create this perfect melting-pot/crock-pot type situation with the Songcamp Heartbeat calls where everyone was both curious about the technology, interested in ways to collaborate with each other online, and interested in (the) new tools that they could use in general to release music.” — more
AI + Crypto: Best and Worst Cases / Nick Grossman — “I think of AI and crypto as two very different, but very much related, elements of society moving from the industrial age to the digital age … AI is digitally-native knowledge, and crypto is digitally-native “proof”. The two can and will work together in many ways over time. Major transitions are powerful and scary, and so are both AI and crypto. I have been struggling to calibrate between what I view as two poles in thinking about them together, kind of a best case hope and worst case fear.” — more
Letter 41: ERC-6551 & The Future of NFTs / Zeneca — “At a high level, ERC-6551 (also known as Token Bound Accounts) makes it possible for NFTs to have their own wallet. Rather than a person owning assets, the token itself can hold custody of the assets. Basically, every NFT can now own / store within it ETH as well as ERC-721, 1155, and 20 tokens. Actually an NFT can store an NFT which itself stores other NFTs. It’s NFTs all the way down.” — more
Transient Labs (🤝) / Introducing the Lab — Transient Labs introduced The Lab — a platform that empowers creators with an “open canvas to showcase the limitless potential of your imagination”. The Lab will offer features like Synergy and Story, allowing artists to securely update their NFTs and weave compelling narratives. Customizable storefronts and cost-efficient batch minting will also be available via The Lab — more
fxhash / Multichain Expansion — fxhash announced fxhash 2.0 — a platform expansion integrating Ethereum L1 and onchain minting. With fxhash 2.0, users have the flexibility to choose between Tezos and Ethereum, while leveraging the full suite of fxhash tooling — more
SYKY / Launches Web3 Fashion Incubator — Digital fashion platform SYKY launched The SYKY Collective — a year-long incubator program designed to support emerging digital designers. The inaugural class of 10 designers includes Pet Liger, Stephy Fung, GlitchofMind, Calvyn Dylin Justus, Taskin Goec, Fanrui Sun, Nextberries, Gustavo Toledo, Felipe Fiallo, and Jacquelyn Assar — more
Magic Eden / Support for BRC-20 Tokens — Magic Eden expanded its offerings by adding support for BRC-20s, allowing users to trade and create tokens on top of the Bitcoin network — more
Coordinape / Introducing CoSoul — Coordinape is launching CoSoul — a soulbound NFT that tracks users' onchain work history. The NFT, free to mint on Optimism, collects participation data and onchain accolades, which are then displayed in a generative artwork that reflects a holder's unique activity — more
Alkan Avcıoğlu / FellowshipAI: Overpopulated Symphonies — “Overpopulated Symphonies is a collection of AI post-photography that immerses viewers in a commentary on the contemporary human condition. Through sprawling images of densely populated urban landscapes and human gatherings, the collection reduces individuals to minuscule points, forming an overwhelming sea of indistinguishable dots. Beyond the literal portrayal of overpopulation, this collection utilizes the metaphor of crowd density as an analogy for the inundation of information in our modern era.” Dropping July 14th, 300 pieces — more
Rahul Iyer / Art Blocks (🤝): Semblance — “The collection draws inspiration from my childhood as an Indian-American growing up in Atlanta, where I felt pressure to conform to the cultural norms and expectations of those around me. This nurtured conflicting perceptions of my public and private identify – a dilemma depicted in Semblance through a reimagination of the weavings and textiles from my childhood home.” Dropping July 11th, 185 pieces — more
Asaf Slook / Art Blocks (🤝): Backwards — “Imagine holding a pen and drawing with it backwards, as if each layer of ink would lay under the stroke before, a dance between past and present, a fusion of childhood wonder and adult mastery, forevermore.” Dropping July 13th, 300 pieces — more
Michael Bouhanna / Sotheby’s Gen Art Program — more
Digitized / Featured #09 x 9dcc (🤝) — more
Arbitrum / The Lab by Transient (🤝) on Arbitrum One Soon™ — more
Azuki / Delegate Cash (🤝) Integration — more
Arcanic / Azuki Community Call Recap — more
Glass Protocol (🤝) / Apple + Google Pay Integrations — more
Grant River Yun / “Park” Sells for 50 ETH — more
Ben Roy / ser 🙏 — more
Rainbow (🤝) / Rainbow Zorb Energy on Zora — more
ALTS by Adidas / Chapter 2: Rift Valley Motel Vending Machine — more
Dior / ‘B33’ Sneaker Drop — more
Giancarlo / Yuga’s HV-MTL Voting System — more
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