Digitized
weird + weekly consumer web3, curated by collab+currency
NFTs / New York Fashion Week — Web3-focused projects and exhibitions highlighted at New York Fashion Week, as brands move towards physical + digital offerings — more
MoMA / Digital Art — In an effort to expand its digital presence, MoMA announces plans to auction off $70M in painting + sculptures from renowned artists including Picasso, Renoir, and Rodin — more
Nova Labs (Helium Network) / T-Mobile — With new five-year deal, Nova Labs plans to launch Helium Mobile and allow subscribers to earn crypto rewards and get nationwide 5G coverage — more
Yuga Labs / Chief Gaming Officer — Yuga Labs, the company behind BAYC, has created a new Chief Gaming Officer position for Spencer Tucker. In his role, Tucker will be focused on the Otherside metaverse and other Yuga gaming initiatives — more
Ford / Metaverse Trademarks — the largest U.S. automaker by sales has filed 19 trademark applications that cover virtual vehicles + clothing + an NFT marketplace — more
OpenSea / Scaling with Arbitrum — With this new integration, OpenSea users can now access Ethereum scaling solutions via Arbitrum, Solana, Polygon, and Klaytn — more
Coinbase / Crypto Policy — In an effort to provide Coinbase users with transparency on the positions held by political leaders, CEO Brian Armstrong announces new in-app crypto policy integration — more
MetaMask / DeSo Integration — MetaMask users can now access end-to-end encrypted messaging and web3 social features with zero gas costs through the DeSo protocol — more
Random Games / $7.6M Raised — Blockchain gaming studio, Random Games, announced new raise co-led by David Jones (creator of Grand Theft Auto), Resolute Ventures, and Asymmetric — more
Lit Protocol (🤝) / $13M Raised — Lit Protocol, which builds decentralized cryptography for compute, encryption, and access control, recently announced a $13M Series A round led by 1kx, with participation from Collab+Currency, 6th Man, Lattice, and others — more
Smoothie / $1.2M Raised — Smoothie announced new round led by LongHash Ventures to build out a “Product Hunt for Web3” — more
Messari / $35M Raised — Crypto analytics platform, Messari, announced new Series B round led by Brevan Howard Digital and participation from Samsung Next, Coinbase Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, and others — more
Hume (🤝) / $11.7M Raised — Web3 x metaverse record label, Hume, announces Series A round led by TCG, with participation from Collab+Currency, Winklevoss Capital, Flamingo DAO, Noise DAO, Coopahtroopa, and others — more
Immortal Game / $15.5M Raised — Immortal Game, a web3-enabled chess experience, announced a Series A round led by TCG Crypto, with participation from Kima Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Spice Capital, Kevin Durant, and others — more
Antic / $7M Raised — Antic, a web3 solution for unlocking the benefits of co-ownership, raised a Seed round co-led by Seven Seven Six and Sheva Capital, with participation from Pantera, Dapper, Sound Ventures, and others — more
Writing NFTs / William M. Peaster — “…with a little web3 know-how and a few clicks, writers can turn text — e.g. articles, blogs, digital autographs, fiction, poems, etc. — into NFTs to connect with their audiences in new and composable ways.” — more
Dirt (🤝) : The Gen X Guide to Web3 / Joy Howard — “So that we can launch more unified counter-offensive to the crypto libertarians, I set out to describe Web3 ideology as a participant-observer, a process that has been described as trying to explain water to the fish.” — more
GOO (Gradual Ownership Optimization) / Dave White, Frankie, Transmissions11 — “When NFT projects have a fungible token, the communities holding the NFT and the token tend to diverge over time. We created a mechanism to disincentivize this divergence, and to repair it when it happens anyway. We call it Gradual Ownership Optimization.” — more
Weathering The Storm & Finding His Flow: Reo Cragun’s 'Excerpt' Series & Looking Ahead / Wallace Morgan x NoiseDAO (🤝) — “I’m learning a new side of things in the sea of ideas on the web3 side,” says Reo. “I'm really interested in what’s going on here, and I feel like this is where I belong.” — more
What's Next for PFPs? / Teng at Delphi — “Now that the speculative mania has subsided, where do Bored Apes, Doodles, Azukis and other PFPs go from here?” — more
The Next Big Crypto Narrative / Matti at Zee Prime Capital — “The Great Bull of 2021 started with the DeFi summer of 2020. The speculative self-referential feedback loops of lending aka farming were the catalyst. After that we got NFTs and GameFi within the same cycle. But what promising technological triggers lay ahead?” — more
Indistinguishable from Magic / Packy McCormick — “I love, as a handful of examples, what Arkive, Tally Labs, StoryDAO (🤝) , Aku, OnCyber, and Startupy (all portfolio companies, for this reason) are doing to create magic with their communities.” — more
Sound (🤝) / Sound Protocol — Sound announces the Sound Protocol, a 100% free-to-use, permissionless baselayer that enables custom mint formats, split royalties, and other upgrades — more
OpenSea / OpenRarity — OpenSea announces new standard for NFT rarity that aims to provide a transparent + mathematically sound way to calculate rarity, developed jointly with Curio, icy tools, and PROOF (🤝) — more
IntoTheBlock (🤝) / TradingView — Blockchain intelligence layer, IntoTheBlock, announces partnership with TradingView to enable ITB analytics directly from TradingView’s apps — more
Gallery (🤝) / POAP (🤝) — NFT curation and social layer, Gallery, launched a new feature allowing collectors to easily display their POAP collections without having to migrate to Ethereum mainnet — more
OpenSea / New UX — With UX upgrade, creators can now launch dedicated pages for their NFT collections and enable collectors to mint directly from the OpenSea page — more
Metaplex (🤝) / MPLX Tokens to Creators — Metaplex, a Solana based NFT protocol that has facilitated the minting of 17M+ NFTs, announced it will launch a token and decentralize its governance via the Metaplex DAO — more
Bonfire (🤝) / Reo Cragun’s Latest EP — Supported by Sound and Bonfire, Reo Cragun’s new 5-track EP “Frameworks” drops on Sept. 28th and will include 333 editions prices at 0.033 ETH — more
Seed Club (🤝) / New Website + SC05 Cohort — SeedClub launches fresh new website and announces the full lineup for their 5th accelerator cohort (received 203 applications) — more + more
Player Zero (🤝) / First Virtual Artist, Amari — Emerging from the CyberBrokers NFT ecosystem, Player Zero’s first virtual artist, Amari, releases Artist Pass NFT — more
StemsDAO (🤝) / Launch and 1st Mint — Collaborative web3 music platform, StemsDAO, announces platform launch + initial mint experience on 9.27.22 at 12:00pm PST — more
Arsnl / Frank Stella NFTs — On Thursday, Sept. 22nd, Arsnl dropped NFT editions of Frank Stella’ Geometries. Each NFT owner will have the rights to 3D print the physical model — more
Sofia Crespo / 'essential_protozoa_1862' — Learn more about inspirations + techniques behind Crespo’s new piece, which combines biology, natural history, AI and the analogue printing cyanotype technique — more
@thefunnyguysNFT / NFT Show Europe — Renowned generative art collector showcases collection IRL in Valencia, Spain and highlights works by Hispanic artists — more
Tyler Hobbs x Dandelion Wist / QQL— Learn more about the algorithm behind the new experimental generative art drop QQL in this brief video and try it out for yourself — more + more
Loopify / NFTs x Energy Usage
Derek Edws / Squiggles
Daniel Eckler / Stable Diffusion’s Rise
dgmason / 10 Things to Know
Amanda Young / Chain-Specific NFT Marketplaces
Brian Flynn / Crypto’s Inflection Point
DCinvestor / NFT Hypothesis
Punk 6529 / Fidenza Szn
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