Nike / Physical Sneaker for .Swoosh Holders — “Nike has confirmed more details for its first physical .Swoosh product. Officially dubbed the Air Force 1 Low "Tinaj," the pair is set to release Oct. 20 at a retail price of $120.” The drop is exclusive for .Swoosh members holding the Our Force 1 box NFT — more
Adidas x Moncler / New Digital Collectible — “The Explorer is an exclusive digital product crafted by Moncler and Adidas Originals: a limited-edition artistic exploration of the Moncler x adidas Originals NMD boot that evolves the silhouette for the digital context. The Explorer begins life as a unique collectible and a tradable digital product, and later evolves through the Adidas web3 ecosystem.” — more
Dirt Media (🤝) / Acquires ‘Sitting Pretty’ — Dirt Media acquired Tyler Watamanuk’s design newsletter, Sitting Pretty. The newsletter will be renamed to Prune and feature original content relating to interiors, design, and furniture. As part of the Dirt Media family, Prune will have its own Discord channels, Spotify playlists, and merch via the Dirt Shop — more
Christian Louboutin x Marvel / Digital Collectible Launch — “Marvel and Christian Louboutin join forces for one-of-a-kind limited edition capsule of shoes and accessories. A fusion of fashion and the Marvel Universe, this new capsule marks the first time ever Marvel has introduced global fashion designer, Christian Louboutin as a Super Hero.” — more
Yuga Labs / Invests in Spatial Computing Startup — Yuga Labs has invested in spatial computing startup Hadean to power its Otherside metaverse. Hadean will provide technology to scale Otherside, potentially supporting a large number of players simultaneously in the virtual world — more
Layer Zero / Powering China’s Blockchain SIM — LayerZero partnered with Conflux to integrate omnichain capabilities into China Telecom's blockchain-based SIM card (BSIM). The collaboration aims to enhance the security and interoperability of BSIM, enabling users to store digital assets and verify digital identities across different blockchains, starting with the Conflux mainnet — more
Blackbird / $24M Raised — Blackbird Labs, a hospitality tech company whose platform helps restaurants stay in touch with guests and incentivize them to dine out more frequently, raises Series A round led by a16z, with participation from QED, Union Square Ventures, Shine, Variant, and others — more
Phaver / $7M Raised — Phaver, a startup that provides a web3 onboarding experience that’s similar to existing social platforms, raises round from Polygon Ventures, Nomad Capital, Symbolic Capital, dao5, Foresight Ventures, Alphanonce, f.actor, and Superhero Capital — more
ParaFinance / $5M Raised — ParaFinance, a DeFi derivative lending platform, raises seed round led by OKX Ventures, with participation from Kosmos Ventures, Uniswap Labs, and Gate Labs — more
Convergence RFQ / $2.5M Raised — Convergence RFQ, a Solana-based trading platform, raises pre-seed round led by C² Ventures, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Israel Blockchain Association, Auros Global, and others — more
Supra / $24M Raised — Supra, a startup developing a cross-chain oracle and “bridgeless” communication network, raises private rounds from Animoca, Coinbase Ventures, HashKey, Prosus Ventures, Razer, and others — more
Fairblock / $2.5M Raised — Fairblock, a startup aiming to bring conditional encryption to blockchains, raises round led by Galileo, with participation from Lemniscap, Dialectic, Robot Ventures, GSR, Chorus One, Dorahacks, and Reverie — more
Inside Art Blocks' (🤝) Marfa Weekend, Digital Art's Latest Hotspot / Sander Lutz — “Hundreds of artists, patrons, and fellow travelers flocked to the West Texas desert last weekend to take part in the annual generative art festival, which shows no signs of slowing its ballooning expansion.” — more
Introducing the Nakamoto Challenge: Addressing the Toughest Problems in Crypto / Guy Wuollet x a16z crypto — “We’re fortunate to have a broad view across the crypto landscape and the opportunity to talk with the best builders, founders, and entrepreneurs. As a result, we hear about many interesting problems that the smartest people are working on … We’ve made a list of hard problems and open questions that we believe can and should be solved to help unlock the future of crypto.” — more
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol? / Vitalik — “From the start of the Ethereum project, there was a strong philosophy of trying to make the core Ethereum as simple as possible … This post will go into some of the philosophical reasoning behind the original minimal-enshrinement philosophy, as well as some more recent ways of thinking about some of these ideas.” — more
Fashion in Web3 / The Naked Collector — “Fashion in Web3 Industry Report" Discover: How traditional (Web2) brands are breaking into Web3? What kind of consumers hold Web2 brand NFTs? How is the industry doing as a whole based on the most recent data? What do Nike + Adidas patents tell us about the future of Web3 fashion? What is the future of Web3 fashion?” — more
Exploring the Design Space for Dynamic NFTs / Nich at 1kx — “Dynamism brings NFTs beyond static links and media, to behave more like software that responds to external factors. This creates new layers of interactivity around digital goods and media, enabling greater individual and collective expression, dynamic utility, and ongoing innovation around digital objects.” — more
Overview of On-Chain RWAs and the Forces Propelling their Growth / Zack Pokorny x Galaxy — “Real world assets (RWAs) are the fastest growing category of assets in decentralized finance (DeFi). Total value locked in RWAs has nearly doubled in 2023, growing from $1.44bn to $2.5bn as of September 30, 2023 … This report is the first in a series on RWAs and their growth.” — more
In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps / Gaby Goldberg x TCG — “Infrastructure and app needs constantly evolve off each other. Just like the move from dial-up to broadband to Wi-Fi, or the transition from calling for delivery to Seamless to DoorDash, the direction towards success isn’t linear — it’s adaptive on both sides. In crypto, we often like to anchor on existing technologies or use cases, but building in the space fundamentally requires being comfortable with the fact that it all may change.” — more
Introducing Fountain (🤝) / OTC Desk for High-Value NFTs — Fountain is a purely peer-to-peer OTC desk for high-value NFTs. Incubated by FlamingoDAO and backed by Collab+Currency, Sfermion, Von Mises, 6529 Capital, and Cozomo Medici. Fountain caters to members of the crypto art community and the traditional art world, providing competitive bids and asks on major art pieces through an OTC desk — more
Squads (🤝) / Introducing v4 and the New Squads App — Squads Labs has been building on Solana for over two years and is supporting more than 100 teams and securing over $500M in value. The team launched the next iteration of Squads Protocol v4 and also introduced SquadsX — the first multisig web extension wallet on Solana — more
Seed Club (🤝) / Podcast: Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06 — “A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club’s Consumer Crypto Accelerator." — more
Bonfire (🤝) / Introducing Bonfire Wallet — “Today we're delighted to reveal a significant upgrade aimed at simplifying the journey from web2 to web3: the Bonfire Wallet. This email-based embedded wallet is designed to offer a seamless onboarding experience for creators and more importantly, their web2 fans, virtually eliminating the hurdles commonly associated with web3 adoption.” — more
MoMA / Introducing Postcards — “Launching this month, MoMA Postcard is an experiment in collective creativity on blockchain, inviting anyone to learn, experiment, collaborate, and create value together with web3 technologies … With 15 blank stamps ready to be designed and signed by you and your co-creators, each postcard is an interactive blockchain adventure waiting to be unlocked.” — more
Theta Labs x Pet Collective / Free NFT Drop — Theta Labs has partnered with the Pet Collective, known for its popular dog and cat videos, to offer a free NFT drop that provides fans with access to exclusive content. The Pet Collective has around 5M subscribers on YouTube and TikTok — more
OpenSea / Launches Creator Studio — OpenSea has launched OpenSea Studio — a platform for creators to manage and launch NFT projects on its marketplace. It enables creators to manage their NFT drops, from allowlists to minting and launching, with support for various blockchains. Collectors can also use credit/debit cards — more
Group Exhibition / Unit London x Grailers DAO: Uncomputer — “Inspired by Alexander Galloway’s eponymous essay and the pioneering work of Marcel Duchamp, Uncomputer celebrates the creative potential of error, indeterminacy and randomness, and demonstrates the centrality of these qualities to our understanding of code-based systems, both within and beyond the art world.” Oct. 4-7th — more
Aaron Boyarsky / Art Blocks (🤝): because unless until — “In our day-to-day lives, it’s natural for us to fix a conceptual view of the people, places, and things around us in our minds. We might think, “that is the tree outside my window. This is my house. That’s my friend. I’m me.” In fact, this type of abstraction is necessary for us to make any sort of sense of our world. But is the tree outside your window today truly the same tree as it was yesterday?” Dropping Oct. 11th — more
Group Exhibition / Feral File: Truth — “Truth is a show about finding a common underlying philosophy behind the works of seven very different generative artists working in abstraction. Here, each artist has created a new series that explores the building blocks of our universe at different scales, ultimately accentuating the relative sameness in what they represent.” Viewing Oct. 12th, minting Oct. 19th — more
Le Random (🤝) / New Acquisitions
Farcaster / Top Delegate (🤝) Addresses Eligible for Early Sign-Up
Digitized / Featured #23 x Ensemble (🤝) x IYK (🤝)
PROOF (🤝) / Pace Gallery x Joy Division x Peter Saville Drop
Grant Yun / Display Tech x glitch marfa
wayne simonetti / Full Set Holder Update x glitch
Marc Boiron / The Polygon CDK
mint dot fun / New Creator Toolkit
The World’s Largest / Mint Experience + 35 ETH Giveaway
Mathcastles / ZK Tech x Digital Art
Zora / Create For Free
Battle for Goblin Town / New Game from Forgotten Runes
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