Christie’s 3.0 / On-chain Auction House — Christie’s launches fully on-chain auction house on Ethereum and announces first curated set of 9 pieces by Diana Sinclair. The auction house is powered by Manifold, Chanalysis, and SpatialXR, with Danvas as the display partner — more
Apple / NFTs in the App Store — Apple announces intent to stick with standard 30% commission on all NFTs sold through in-app purchases, which is ~27.5% higher than existing NFT marketplaces — more
Zilliqa / Web3 Games Console — Layer-1 blockchain, Zilliqa, announces expansion into hardware with the launch of a gaming console which will include a user-friendly crypto wallet integration, scheduled for release early 2023 — more
Retail’s Future / Web3 + Immersive Commerce — An exploration aimed at the future of retail, in the context of fashion, art and brand loyalty, and how the demographic may intersect with web3 and immersive virtual environments — more
Dapper Labs / NFL All Day NFTs — With an approach similar to NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day NFTs on the Flow blockchain have experienced chart-topping surges on Sunday’s in conjunction with live games — more
EU Lawmakers / Money Laundering: NFTs, DeFi, Metaverse — A draft bill proposed by EU Parliament looks to take on money laundering by targeting large crypto transactions, as well as activities taking place in NFT, DeFi, and Metaverse markets — more
Okay Bears / IMG Licensing Deal — Solana-based 10k PFP community, Okay Bears, partners with IMG — a global licensing business that has worked with recognizable brands such as Angry Birds and Fortnite. The partnership aims to deliver new consumer products and experiences — more
Disney / Hiring Web3 Attorney — Media giant, Disney, is hiring an attorney to work on blockchain, DeFi, and metaverse related projects. The hire will “provide full product life cycle legal advice and support for global NFT products” — more
NFTs / Brand Building and eCommerce Parallels — “NFT agency Myntr likens the ascension of NFTs to that of eCommerce: initially used by big brands but eventually used — and embraced — across the spectrum.” — more
Tom Brady’s Autograph NFT Platform / PGA Tour Partnership — Autograph announces partnership with the PGA Tour and will offer NFTs representing meaningful moments in golf history, expected to go live in 2023 — more
Walmart / Roblox Metaverse — With the announcement of Walmart Land + Walmart’s Universe of Play in the Roblox ecosystem, the multi-national retail corporation joins a growing list companies seeking a metaverse presence — more
Glass (🤝) / $5M Raised — Glass, a Solana-based platform bringing video creators and fans into the web3 era via NFTs, announces seed round co-led by TCG Crypto + 1kx, with participation from Collab+Currency — more
Animoca Brands / $110M Raised — Following 2022 fundraises of $75M in July and $360M in January, metaverse and gaming focused developer, Animoca Brands, raises $110M from Temasek, GGV Capital, and Boyu Capital, putting the company’s valuation at ~$5.6B — more
Coral / $20M Raised — Coral raises strategic round to build out a secure wallet platform called Backpack, which aims to be the “Portal into Web3”. The round was co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, with participation from Anagram, Multicoin, and K5 — more
Poaster / $2M Raised — Aiming to build the first truly global pseudonymous network, Poster raises seed round with participation from Balaji Srinivasan, Elad Gil, HOF Capital, Abstract Ventures, and others — more
Space and Time / $20M Raised — Web3 data platform focused on the intersection of on-chain and off-chain data computation, Space and Time, raises strategic round backed by Microsoft’s venture arm M12, Avalanche, Polygon, Framework, HashKey, and others — more
Splinterlands / $5M Raised — BNB Chain and Hive blockchain based GameFi and P2E trading card game, Splinterlands, releases new card pack edition and sells out 500k card packs during presale in < 2 minutes — more
Harpie / $4.5M Raised — On-chain firewall provider aiming to prevent hacks, scams, and theft raises seed round led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and OpenSea — more
Block Green / $3.7M Raised — On a mission to provide sustainable Bitcoin mining operations access to fair and transparent financing, Block Green raises seed round led by Founders Fund, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Blizzard, and others — more
Crypto Adoption Steadies in South Asia, Soars in the Southeast / Chainalysis — “NFTs are perhaps the biggest on-ramp to cryptocurrency in Central & Southern Asia and Oceania (CSAO) today. 58% of web traffic from CSAO IP addresses to cryptocurrency services in Q2 2022 was NFT related; another 21% was to the websites of play-to-earn blockchain games.” — more
The Great Progression, 2025-2050 / Peter Leyden — “Innovation essentially comes through the cross-fertilization of ideas and perspectives — and we are heading into a bonanza.” — more
The A-Z of NFT: artists and terminology to know / Christie’s — “From avatars and Beeple to Web3 and yield farming, a handy guide to everything crypto in one place.” — more
Play-to-Own: A Web3 Gaming Thesis / Arthur0x — “Unlike pure P2E, Play-to-Own will focus on fun gameplay, a sustainable economy and foster a strong sense of ownership of in-game assets and IP — rather than a transient earning mentality among gamers.” — more
The New Creator Playbook: Jumpstarting Communities Through Tokens / Li Jin — “Web3 has inverted the traditional online content creation model. It’s a paradigm shift that will have significant implications for how creator work gets done, how followers relate to the work of creators, and how the broader creator ecosystem functions as a whole.” — more
Digital Co-Ops / Richard Kim — “The big unlock of web3 is the creation of digital co-ops: (i) transparent governance structures, (ii) facilitating a rewarded ecosystem of creators/developers, and (iii) embedding efficient means to exchange value through digital collectibles.” — more
We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium / Stephen Marche — “The anxiety around the camera was nearly identical to our current fear of creative AI: Photography wasn’t art, but it was also going to replace art. It was “mere mechanism,” as one critic put it in 1865. I mean, it’s not art if you’re just pushing some buttons, right?”— more
Async Art (🤝) x SuperRare (🤝) / Rare Blueprints — The next chapter in an ongoing partnership between the two OG cryptoart platforms reveals Rare Blueprints: generative collections that live on SuperRare, powered by Async’s creation platform. Reveals + swag on Twitter over the coming weeks — more
Axelar (🤝) / Network Decentralization + AXL Token — Axelar, a network powering seamless cross-chain asset transfer, announces release of AXL token, enabling the network to be fully permissionless + decentralized — more
Robinhood / First Stablecoin (USDC) — Trading platform, Robinhood, announces it will list USDC, offering in-app retail traders first stablecoin exposure. Robinhood’s app now offers 17 different tokens on the platform — more
Good Minds / Introducing Wanda a.k.a. Good Minds #5300 — Art-focused NFT collection, Good Minds, is running an experiment in partnership with Nibbl (🤝) + Hook Protocol (🤝) to explore how fractionalization can push themes around digital identity, CC0 licensing, and NFT accessibility. Allowlist closes October 1st at 14:20pm UTC — more
Gallery (🤝) / Tezos Integration — With the new integration, NFT Collectors can now display their Tezos NFTs on their Gallery pages, delivering one of the most requested additions to the Gallery platform — more
Glass (🤝) / New Site + Launch on Solana — Video NFT platform, Glass, launches fresh new site built on Solana rails that enables lower costs, increased speed, and an improved UX for video creators + collectors — more
Kim Asendorf / Quantum Art (🤝): Traces — “A living image of nature and the traces mankind leaves behind. A rock, formed hundreds of millions of years ago; a plant evolving over millions of years. Both are symbols of nature untouched.” 50 pieces, minting 10/6 — more
Random International, Danil Krivoruchko / Life In Our Minds — The LIOM collection “…opens up an interplay between collective ownership and individual mark-making, re-staging art within a new (meta)-universe that has its own rules and, in so doing, represents a new form of public sculpture.” Waitlist open, NFT drop on 10/25 — more
Juan Pedro Vallejo / Art Blocks (🤝): Interferences — “256 variations. 1 goal: to have an interactive experience of color and shape. Each Interferences is a field of possibilities, where the collector or viewer can drag the mouse and find new finals outputs. The process is shared: it is a game.” Minting 9/30, 14:00 GMT-3 — more
@piterpasma / Bright Moments (🤝): Industrial Devolution — Bright Moments announces first Tezos mint in partnership with generative artist @piterpasma on October 6-7, IRL in Venice, CA. 100 pieces at 600 XTZ each — more
Josh Pierce / Impermanence — “Impermanence is a real-time, dynamic NFT that reflects weather conditions, time of day, and relative temperature in your specific location.” 100 editions, minted out 9/27, now on secondary — more
Art Blocks / AB Curated Series Designations
Degenerate Generated / Hand Drawn Squiggles
Zeneca_33 / Derek Edws on ZenChats Podcast
Liam Herbst / Tyler Hobbs x QQL
Loopify / Tyler Hobbs x QQL Cont’d
NFTStatistics.eth / Ranking Mint Revenue
Loopify / Tyler Hobbs x QQL + Royalties
thefunnyguys.eth/tez / Generative Art Collectors
Chris Ostoich / Starbucks x NFTs x Macchiato Drinking Moms
Jess Sloss / Seed Club
Geoff Hamilton / NFT Market Making
aur.eth / “Axie is dead”?
Daisy Alioto / New Media Models in Web3
Timour / Holly Herndon’s AI Voice Model
Mel 🦇🔊 / NFT Ecosystem Ethos
DeepNFTValue / Hoodie Punk Sale
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