Google x Coinbase / Strategic Partnership — Google will allow select web3 focused customers to pay for cloud services using crypto payments powered by Coinbase’s Commerce product. Agreements for services related to Coinbase Cloud Node and Coinbase Prime are also outlined in the partnership — more
Yuga Labs / SEC Inquiry — The SEC launched a probe aimed at Yuga Labs, creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, reportedly over whether Yuga’s ecosystem tokens trip up any laws related to the 1933/34 Securities Act — more
DeGods / Removing NFT Royalties — The founder of Solana-based NFT projects y00ts and DeGods decides to switch to a 0% royalty model, prompted by the belief that NFT marketplaces will move towards a royalty free model to remain competitive — more
Meta / New VR Headset — Meta reveals new Meta Quest Pro VR headset with a price tag of $1,499, possibly signaling a move towards a more corporate customer base. Partnership announcements with Microsoft, Accenture, and Zoom suggest Meta’s focus on bringing VR into the workplace — more
Avalanche x OpenSea / NFT Marketplace — Avalanche, a layer-1 blockchain, is partnering with OpenSea to launch new NFT marketplace. Avalanche has facilitated $400M+ in all-time sales volume, making it the seventh-largest by NFT sales volume — more
Oldest Bank in America / BNY Melon x Digital Assets — BNY Melon, a bank with ~$43T under custody, has been approved by New York’s financial regulator to receive BTC and ETH from “select customers”. The bank’s custody solutions will be powered by Fireblocks software — more
CNN / Rugs — The multinational cable news channel announces the closure of their web3 project, known as Vault, which offered collectors the ability to purchase NFTs commemorating major news events — more
OpenSea / CFO Steps Down — Former Lyft CFO, Brian Roberts, has stepped down after 10 months in his role as CFO at OpenSea. He will continue on in an advisory role and is still “incredibly bullish on web3.” — more
Mango Markets / $116M Hack — Mango Markets, a Solana-based decentralized trading platform, has been hacked for $116M. The attacker is asking for a $70M bug bounty reward, after which they’ve promised to send back the remaining ~$50M — more
Zerion / $12M Raised — Zerion, a crypto wallet dashboard and DeFi platform, announces Series B raise led by Wintermute, with participation from Mosaic, Coinbase Ventures, Alchemy, and Placeholder — more
Uniswap Labs / $165M Raised — Uniswap, a DeFi protocol that has facilitated ~$1.2T in trade volume, raises Series B round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from a16z, Paradigm, SV Angel, and Variant — more
Waterfall / $4M Raised — Waterfall, an NFT trading and pricing protocol aimed at facilitating efficient price discovery for NFTs, announces seed round co-led by Electric Capital and Pantera — more
MetaStreet / $10M Raised — MetaStreet, an infrastructure platform for NFT debt and financing, raises round from DragonFly Capital, Nascent, OpenSea Ventures, TheLAO, Metaversal, and others — more
Pine Street Labs / $6M Raised — Pine Street Labs, a non-custodial crypto wallet API that aims to remove complexities around multi-chain crypto activity, announces round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Genesis, and others — more
Pillow / $18M Raised — Pillow, a digital asset management app with users in 60+ countries, announces Series A co-led by Accel and Quona Capital, with participation from Jump Capital and Elevation Capital — more
Otterspace / $3.7M Raised — Otterspace, an application that uses NFTs to recognize and reward participation in DAOs, announces seed round led by Cherry Crypto and Inflection, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Coinbase Ventures — more
Rye / $14M Raised — Rye, a Solana-based e-commerce API, raises seed round led by a16z and participation from Solana Ventures, GOAT Capital, Electric Ant, and others — more
Moon Mortgage / $3.5M Raised — Moon Mortgage, a platform that aims to enable users to buy investment properties using crypto, raises seed round from CoinFund and Cadenza Ventures — more
Elyzio / $2M Raised — Elyzio, a gaming multiverse with components of user generated content and social interaction, raises pre-seed round led by Vgames, with participation from Shima Capital, Solana Ventures, and Paribu Ventures — more
Unpacking Web3 Social / Amanda Young — “Web3 social promises a decentralized, open model where users own their identity, data, and the content they create for apps and protocols. So, what could this new paradigm look like?” — more
Building a Web3 Bonfire for Creators / Livepeer Studio Team — “Founded in 2021, Bonfire (🤝) enables creators, communities, and brands to build custom web3 platforms, powered by their social token and NFTs… After recent updates, Bonfire also includes video on demand and livestreaming using Livepeer Studio (🤝).” — more
From Dark Matter / Brian Droitcour — “The emergence of crypto art demonstrates what an art world without institutions can look like—even if it’s not the utopia some hoped for.” — more
Building Partnerships with NFT Projects and Communities / Pyrs Carvolth + Maggie Hsu — “…a framework for web2 and traditional brands navigating web3, as well as web3 teams dipping their toes into NFT partnerships for the first time. We begin with how to do this kind of research on the NFT projects (and communities) of interest, and then dive into a few ways to approach and pitch potential partnerships.” — more
SLAMM: A Unified Model for Cross-Chain Liquidity / Delphi Digital — “… a novel mechanism designed to mitigate the effects of liquidity fragmentation: Shared Liquidity AMM (SLAMM).” — more
Redeemable NFTs with Co-ownership Incentives / Crowdmuse — An exploration of “…consumer ownership through redemption of NFTs tied to physical products, product co-ownership through fractionalized and collaborative IP, regenerative supply chain incentives for distributed access.” — more
What’s the Difference Between Rare NFTs and Rare Traditional Art? / Langston Thomas — “As the age of digital art and NFTs unfolds, the concept of rarity is taking on new meaning. Especially where crypto-art is concerned, the term “rare” has become detached from its perceived definition in the traditional art ecosystem.” — more
Mona (🤝) / AI Material Designer — Mona, the web3 metaverse world-building platform, launches new AI tool that enables 3D builders to design more realistic virtual objects by generating materials + textures from text prompts — more
Tribute Brand (🤝) / PUNK+ and Website Launch — Tribute Brand is an innovative leader in the global digital fashion market that utilizes AR + VR and invites users to explore new realms of creative expression in digital environments. Check out the website as well as CEO, Gala Marija Vrbanic, on the TED Radio Hour — more + more
0xSplits / Waterfalls: Tiered Payouts — 0xSplits, an open-source set of contracts that efficiently split on-chain income, launches new feature called Waterfalls that enables creators to to easily define the order in which people get paid — more
SuperRare (🤝) x Transient Labs / Julie Pacino — New 1/1 dropping by Julie Pacino on Sunday, Oct. 16th on SuperRare — the dynamic NFT combines Pacino’s film photography with painting by Adi Spiegelman and was brought to life by Transient Labs — more
Collection.[xyz] / Simplifying NFT AMMs— With an aim to democratize liquidity incentives for all, Collection launches new protocol in an effort to simplify incentivize alignment for NFT AMMs (Automated Market Makers) like Sudoswap — more
Lit Protocol (🤝) / CoinDesk’s IDEAS Conference — Lit Protocol founder, David Sneider, discusses the concept of decentralized public key cryptography and will be taking the stage at the IDEAS conference in NYC Oct. 18-19th to talk through why it’s necessary for a decentralized internet to have a decentralized private key system. — more
Kevin Rose x Chris Dixon / Age of Wonders: NFTs, Art, AI, Cycles of Computing — “A tour through hot topics both within and beyond crypto – including art, AI, the evolution of mediums including blockchains; a deep dive on NFTs, artists, communities; debates around cc0, modding and copying, royalties; plus role of brands, DAOs, creation by crowds…” — more
Metaplex (🤝) / New Creator Studio — Metaplex announces new suite of no-code tools for Solana-based creators to create, sell, and manage NFT projects. A range of assets can be launched including 1/1 artwork, open + limited editions, as well as generative collections — more
SuperModular / Regen Venture Studio — Kevin Owocki’s announces new web3 venture studio that aims to build and support projects that trend towards a more “regenerative digital frontier”. Initial projects are adjacent or built on top of Gitcoin’s public goods stack — more
Quix / Official Optimism NFT Bridge — Quix, an Optimism-based NFT marketplace, announces official partnership with OP Labs to provide NFT bridge services from Ethereum to Optimism — more
0xDEAFBEEF / Tribute to Herbert W. Franke: Vol. 2, Series 0 - Caves — “Released on the occasion of the Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, commemorating his love of exploration in diverse fields including speleology (cave exploration), mathematics, computer art and science fiction.” Auction ending Friday, Oct 14th at 1PM EST — more
Jonas Lund / Tribute to Herbert W. Franke: Collapse — “A sphere collapses to a flat plane, revealing the transformations and stretching required for such an operation. How to represent something spherical flat? How to see what's not there, or how to see it differently?” 256 Editions, 10 TEZ, Friday Oct. 14, 6pm CET — more
Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez / Tribute to Herbert W. Franke — “From the basic notion that we perceive different things, typically more developed, building on the maturation of the previous perception/reaction to a piece, I try to include elements that will allow an observer / experimenter to find literally multiple levels which will then unfold in expanded interpretations in subsequent contacts with the piece.” 1/1, Oct. 14th — more
P1xelboy / Tribute to Herbert W. Franke: Indefinite Glitter — “So much of my work is either directly, or indirectly influenced by Herbert W. Franke… In this example, simply using rotating or dancing pixels with standard color models we are encouraged to use our own bias to make sense and meaning from the projected patterns.” Dutch auction 30→10 TEZ, October 14th — more
Amanda0x / Unpacking Web3 Social
beeple / First Look at New Studio 👀
beeple / Bullish AF on Kevin Rose, ser
angelbaby / Hume (🤝) Genesis Holders
CoinDesk / Story DAO (🤝) Co-founders — Justin + J.P. Alanis
Tanis / Dirt (🤝) Newsletter x Morning Necessities 📖 ☕
SuperRare (🤝) / Thousand Headers Coterie by Money Allotta
Reo Cragun / Frameworks x Sound.[xyz] (🤝) x Bonfire (🤝)
doodles / DoodlePutt in Miami
Bright Moments (🤝) / Mexico City Artist Lineup 👀
Ryland Aldrich / PROOF (🤝) Podcast: Punk 9059 x Kevin Rose x Derek Edws
Crypto Gucci / New Formula One Trademark Filings
Tim Maxwell / SuperRare (🤝) x Transient Labs: “Shattered Opportunities”
Diana Sinclair / Sold Out First Solo-Show
Jackson Dahl / Co-creation in the New Internet Era
Alex MacCaw / Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs (AI Generated) 🤯
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