Cryptoys (🤝) / Disney Collaboration — Cryptoys partnered with Disney to expand its digital collectibles with Mickey and Friends NFTs featuring Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pluto. These NFTs will be available through a blind box mint in September and follow Cryptoys' rarity structure — more
Adidas / Residency Program for NFT Artists — Adidas unveiled "Residency by Adidas" — a global digital artist in residency program in collab with Adidas /// Studio. This initiative, starting in September during Korea Blockchain Week, aims to collaborate with NFT artists for drops that bridge digital and physical objects — more
Lufthansa Airlines / NFT Rewards Program — Lufthansa, in partnership with Uptrip, is expanding its NFT rewards program to offer Polygon-based NFTs to all passengers. Frequent flyers can collect full sets and redeem them for benefits such as airport lounge access, flight upgrades, and miles. Over 200k NFTs have been issued to 20k registered users since its soft launch — more
Polygon / Chain Development Kit — Polygon introduced its new Chain Development Kit — an open-source codebase designed to facilitate the creation of ZK-powered L2’s on Ethereum. This toolkit allows for the deployment of interoperable L2 chains with access to unified liquidity across all Polygon chains, with a modular design that enables developers to tailor networks to their requirements — more
MoonPay / Launches Venture Arm — MoonPay launched MoonPay Ventures — a venture arm focused on investing in early-stage startups in the web3, gaming, and fintech. The fund aims to support projects with investments ranging from $100k to $1M for seed and Series A rounds — more
FirstMate / $3.75M Raised — FirstMate, a startup aiming to equip NFT creators with digital storefronts, raises round led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and NextView — more
DeForm / $4.6M Raised — DeForm, a crypto-native CRM solution, raises seed round led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Elad Gil, Scalar Capital, A.Capital, and others — more
Neynar / $1.3M Raised — Neynar, a project building hosted Farcaster hubs and APIs, raises pre-seed from Zee Prime, Hypershere, Coinbase Ventures, Orange DAO, Social Graph Ventures, and others — more
Tako Protocol / $2M Raised — Tako Protocol, a startup building an open social recommendation layer for web3 social, raises pre-seed from UOB Ventures, DWF Ventures, Mask, Signum Capital, and others — more
Ceci n'est pas un œuf / Hannah van Well — “An exploration of digital fashion in collaboration with Tribute Brand (🤝) and why technology has the power to radically change the fashion system.” — more
Criticism and Community / Brian Droitcour x Outland — “Why have art critics been so hostile to generative art? Outland organized a writing workshop with Art Blocks to improve the discourse, and essays by participants are featured in our new special issue.” — more
Volatility as a Service / Joel John x Decentralised .co — “Most products in the crypto space today rely on volatility to be relevant. This is a feature, not a bug. Crypto’s core value proposition has been the trustless movement of money over the last decade. And we have delivered on it. The entirety of the DeFi ecosystem was built, grown, and capitalised on during a bull market because of the volatility we were in at the time. But times have changed…” — more
SuperRare (🤝) / Rare Protocol and Curation Staking — Rare Protocol launched on Ethereum mainnet, providing an open curation protocol for NFTs. At its core is Curation Staking, allowing individuals to vouch for authenticity by staking RARE tokens towards artists and being rewarded as they achieve success. The protocol enables a social graph that enhances discovery and connection within the web3 creator ecosystem — more
NFTfi (🤝) / Loans Against Streams — NFTfi enabled the first loan against a token streaming NFT that secured an 8,000 USDC loan against 15,000 USDC of future income using the Sablier protocol, which offers real-time token streams. Future use cases for token streaming and lending include various use cases like payroll, airdrops, and token vesting — more
Pudgy Penguins / IGLOO Clothing Line — Pudgy Penguins introduced its branded clothing line called 'IGLOO' with a Spring/Summer 2023 collection. The apparel includes items such as logo T-shirts priced at $45, hoodies at $120, and sweatpants at $80 — more
OpenSea / New Open Standard — OpenSea is introducing ERC-7498 as a new standard for NFT redeemables to improve the functionality and interaction with NFTs that enable redemptions of digital and physical goods — more
Fahad Karim / Ensemble (🤝): Archaeology of Aesthetics — “Fahad Karim creates living systems in his art, drawing from a nomadic lifestyle and centuries old cultures. We spoke with Fahad about his life sabbatical which turned into a full fledged career as a professional artist, exploring the inspiration and process behind his work.” 1/1’s and artifacts live on Ensemble — more
Jeres / Art Blocks (🤝): Torrent — “Inspired by residual evidence of torrential downpours, floods and derailed rivers as well as thrown paint and ink, cathartically applied for the purpose of merely having watched it land, streak, smear and drip; just to leave a mark … A nostalgic and possibly misguided love song fusing frantic rhythmic action, erosion and history...” Minting September 6th — more
New-life, to Still-life / Verse: cydr — “New-life, to Still-life exudes a nostalgic charm reminiscent of old video games, capturing the essence of a bygone era while embracing modern digital techniques. Using fruit as his focal point, these works provide a commentary on the juxtaposition of natural forms and digital aesthetics.” Minting Sept. 15th — more
BasedAF (🤝) / Marques Brownlee Fortnite Map by BasedAF
Digitized / Featured #18 x Tribute Brand (🤝) x Art Blocks (🤝)
Snowfro / Tribute Brand (🤝) x ODDS
Vertex (🤝) / October 2023
Seed Club (🤝) / Eyewitness Live at FWB (🤝) Fest
XCOPY / On-chain Curation x SuperRare’s (🤝) Rare Protocol
Cito Zone / Axelar’s (🤝) Transfer Volume Surpassed Stargate
Uri Kolodny / Starknet Breaks 100 TPS Mark
Dan Romero / Farcaster v3 Rollout
friend tech / Key Holder Metrics
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