Visa / Stablecoin Settlements on Solana — Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlement capabilities in partnership with Circle’s USDC and Solana. The move aims to improve cross-border money movement, with live pilots currently facilitating the transfer of millions of USDC, using Solana and Ethereum to settle transactions — more
Super App ‘Grab’ / Adds Web3 Services — Grab, a Southeast Asia super-app with over 34.9M monthly transacted users, recently integrated web3 services that allow users to set up web3 wallets and receive onchain rewards, including NFTs — more
Google / Permits Advertising of NFT Games — Starting September 15th, Google will allow advertisers to promote NFT games through its ad services, provided they do not feature gambling-related content. This move follows Google's July decision to permit Android users to download games from the Google Play store that involve in-game digital assets — more
Casio G-SHOCK / NFTs on Polygon — Casio is partnering with Polygon Labs to introduce virtual G-SHOCK NFTs on Polygon. The project will begin with the release with a 15k G-SHOCK creator pass collection, allowing users special access and the ability to vote on future designs — more
JPMorgan / Blockchain-Based Deposit Tokens — JPMorgan is exploring the development of a blockchain-based digital deposit token to expedite cross-border payments and settlements. The project's launch is contingent on approval from US regulators, and if given the green light, it could be available to corporate clients within a year — more
Justin Bieber / NFT Drop — The song "Company" by Justin Bieber, released in 2015, has been transformed into an NFT with the help of the music platform anotherblock. The NFT drop consists of 2,000 editions and allows fans to potentially earn royalties from future streams of the track — more
Metamask / Offramping Solution — MetaMask introduced a "Sell" feature, enabling users to convert their crypto holdings to fiat and deposit directly to bank accounts or PayPal. Initial support is for ETH on mainnet, with plans to expand to native gas tokens on L2’s in the near future — more
Brine Fi / $16.5M Raised — Brine Fi, a StarkWare-powered DEX using ZK tech to improve privacy, raises Series A led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Elevation Capital, StarkWare (🤝), Spartan Group, Goodwater Capital, Upsparks Ventures and Protofund Ventures — more
Gleen / $4.9M Raised — Gleen, a startup aiming to “push the boundaries of customer support using generative AI”, raises round led by Slow Ventures, with participation from 6th Man Ventures, South Park Commons, Spartan Group, Script Capital, CoinShares, Krust Group, and others — more
Story Protocol / $54M Raised — Story Protocol, a startup developing an “open IP-collaboration platform”, raises led by a16z, with participation from Hashed, Endeavor, Samsung Next, dao5, Insignia Venture Partners, and others — more
Socket / $5M Raised — Socket, an interoperability protocol that allows asset and data transfer across chains for dApps, raises round co-led by Coinbase Ventures and Framework Ventures — more
Base Ecosystem Fund / Six Investments — “The Base Ecosystem Fund, led by Coinbase Ventures, aims to invest in the next generation of onchain projects building on Base. We received over 800 applications for our Base Ecosystem Fund, and we’re excited to announce our first six investments today: Avantis, BSX, Onboard, OpenCover, Paragraph, and Truflation.” — more
The Proto-App Thesis / David Phelps — “The reason there have been no great apps in the past decade is because the great apps, as we knew them, were already claimed. The great apps as we don’t know them, however, have just begun. That’s because the next great apps won’t look or operate like apps at all—they’ll look and operate like protocols. Or rather, these proto-apps will look and operate like nothing we’ve quite seen.” — more
The State of Gamefi / Orli.eth + Brazy.eth — “With each successive experiment in on-chain games, we’ve uncovered net new experiences enabled by on-chain assets, game state and logic, permissionless extension and composability that point us towards the possibility of Autonomous Worlds as next generation crypto platforms.” — more
The Evolution of the Interoperability Stack / Nick Pai + Katie Chiou — “The technical stack for blockchain infrastructure has changed drastically over the years, demanding that frameworks for understanding interoperability adjust as well. With this post, we want to reflect on the evolution of the blockchain interoperability stack, unpack each of its components, and share our mental model for thinking about what comes next.” — more
The Potential For Crypto Art / Kel x Messari — “The biggest opportunities are in places where reality and perception are most mismatched. Crypto art is dead by volume and certainly by perception, but simultaneously seems to be gaining traditional art world clout and slowly, silently increasing in price, especially at the top end. Any thesis in the relative depths of the bear comes with a low probability of success. However, if crypto is successful on medium to long-term timeframes, crypto art may be an overlooked beneficiary worth further consideration.” — more
Arcade x 4K (🤝) / Supreme RWA’s as NFTs — Arcade teamed up with physical NFT minting and logistics company, 4K, to facilitate a $1.1M loan with a 60-day term on The Supreme Box Logo Collection, featuring T-shirts from 1994 to 2020. The shirts were used as collateral and have been minted as NFTs to access global liquidity — more
nftperp / Introducing v2 Paper Trading — nftperp introduced v2 and launched its paper-trading feature, introducing a FusionAMM model that combines elements of AMM and Limit Order Books — more
Arbitrum / Introducing Stylus — Offchain Labs introduced Arbitrum Stylus — “a new tool that enables smart contract development in multiple programming languages like Rust, C, and C++ on Arbitrum’s Layer 2 network, alongside the already adopted Solidity language" — more
Château Edmus / NFT Wine Allocations — Château Edmus will distribute its wine as NFT wine allocations for its wine club members. This approach aims to satisfy a demand for limited bottlings and foster direct contact points with customers — more
Mirror / Introducing Discovery — Mirror introduced "Discovery," a feature that allows users to explore curated onchain content and receive new entries from subscribed creators directly to their inbox — more
genlight / gm studio: A Daydream For Libby — “A Daydream for Libby is a longform generative art collection exploring fairy tales, imagination, story-telling, and childhood wonder. It's a wish and a dream for my kids - that they be filled with curiosity, agency, and meaning throughout their lives. It's also an attempt at a new, digitally-native, collectively experienced book which fuses one of the world's oldest and innate artforms (storytelling) with its newest technologies (generative art and blockchain).” Minting Sept. 11th — more
William Mapan / Cactoid Labs: Distance — “Cactoid Labs + The Los Angeles County Museum of Art are pleased to present William Mapan: Distance, Vol. 5 of the Remembrance of Things Future initiative. Selecting Paul Klee’s In the Kairouan Style, Transposed in a Moderate Way (1914) in LACMA’s collection as a touchstone, Mapan has created an ambitious new body of work.” Minting Sept. 12th — more
Maya Man / Verse: I'm Feeling Lucky — “I’m Feeling Lucky focuses on the contemporary culture of astrology and how it asks us to make sense of ourselves through its structures. Barthes calls astrology a “confirmation of the real” and that’s what’s become enticing about it to me. There is comfort in the promise of realness over fantasy. Even if it's influenced by randomness, confirmation bias gives way to some kind of feeling of faith.” Minting Sept. 14th — more
Daisy Alioto / Dirt (🤝) Signs with WME
Digitized / Featured #19 x Dirt (🤝)
Deca (🤝) / New Decal x Marfa x Donald Judd
imhiring.eth / Rainbow (🤝) x New UI Themes Based on NFT Ownership
Metaversal (🤝) / Metaverse Gen Art Award Shortlist
Otherside Meta / LoTM Open Beta Soon™
Nicole Sales Giles / Keith Haring NFTs at Christie’s
Yuga Labs / TwelveFold Cipher Puzzles
Solana / Hyperdrive Hackathon
cartridge / Introducing Cartridge Gaming Co.
RSTLSS / On the Roblox Marketplace
Rune / Maker’s Native Blockchain with Solana Codebase
Lore / Announcing V2 of Lore
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