Meta / NFT Toolkit for Instagram — Meta’s Instagram announces plans for a new in-app NFT toolkit that will allow users to create their own NFTs and sell them directly through the app. At launch, Instagram will use Polygon for minting. Facebook and Instagram now offer integrated display support for NFTs on Ethereum, Polygon, Flow, and just recently added Solana — more
Arweave (🤝) x Meta / Storage Integration — Following Meta’s announcement to enable Instagram users to create and sell NFTs, the social media giant also announced it will integrate with Arweave’s decentralized storage network to enable permanent storage of NFTs created on Instagram — more
Art Gobblers / Official Launch — Art Gobblers, an NFT project co-created by Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland and backed by web3 investment firm Paradigm, goes live via free mint on Oct. 31st, with over 37,000 ETH trading volume at time of writing. The project implements several novel mechanisms and aims to create an NFT-based decentralized art factory — more
GameStop / NFT Marketplace — GameStop’s new NFT marketplace goes live and offers assets from web3 games like Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, and Illuvium. Built using the Immutable X scaling solution, all transactions on the marketplace are free of gas fees — more
STEPN / Compulsory Royalty Structure — Find Satoshi Labs, the company behind the move-to-earn game STEPN, releases a new NFT marketplace called MOOAR. Contrary to the recent trends in NFT royalties, the marketplace will enforce creator-set royalty fees between 0.5-10% of sale price and also charge a ~$29/month subscription fee for users to transact on the marketplace — more
Steph Curry / The Curryverse — NBA superstar Steph Curry files for “Curryverse” trademark on Oct. 26th that will grant “entertainment services, namely, personal and virtual and metaverse appearances”, as well as “online gaming services in the nature of virtual worlds”. Curry has 47M followers on Instagram and 17.1M on Twitter — more
Game of Thrones / NFT Avatars — Following their recent launch of The Lord of the Rings NFT collection, Warner Bros. Discovery continues its push into web3 by offering Game of Thrones fans the ability to purchase customizable NFT avatars on the NFT platform Nifty — more
Fidelity Survey / Institutional Interest — In a survey conducted between Jan. 2 and June 24 this year (bull to bear), which included 1,052 institutional investors across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, showed 58% of respondents had invested in digital assets during the first half of 2022 and 74% planned to invest in the future. Fidelity opened ETH trading for institutional clients on Oct. 28th — more
Kraken / NFT Marketplace — Kraken, the world’s sixth-largest crypto exchange, launches a new NFT marketplace. Initially, the marketplace will feature over seventy NFT collections from Ethereum and Solana and promises users gas-less transactions — more
Immutable / Enforceable Creator Royalties — Immutable launches a new tool on Ethereum that allows NFT creators to enforce royalties. The tool is already in use on ImmutableX, a Layer 2 NFT marketplace, and works as a community-governed whitelist and blacklist for smart contracts that honor royalty fees — more
Mastercard / Crypto Accelerator — Mastercard’s accelerator program, Start Path, includes seven blockchain startups aimed at “bridging the gap between web2 and web3”, with several projects targeting web3 verticals like privacy, social, and payments — more
MetaMask / NFTBank Partnership — Web3 wallet provider MetaMask has partnered with NFTBank to build out NFT price-tracking tools, with the goal of helping users make better decisions about their NFT portfolios. MetaMask’s tool will leverage NFTBank’s valuation engine — more
OpenSea / Haas F1 Team — OpenSea announces partnership with the only American-owned team in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, Hass F1. The partnership includes cross-promotion during racing events, the OpenSea logo placed on the Haas cars, and a line of branded NFTs — more
Nissan / NFT Trademark Applications — Nissan makes move towards web3 by filing five trademark applications for some of its most iconic car models like GTR, Skyline, and Z. The applications focus on NFT marketplaces, digital wallets, and NFT-backed media — more
Solana + STEPN / ASICS Partnership — Solana, STEPN, and ASICS combine forces to release the UI Collection — a custom running shoe accented with Solana colors —that comes with a loyalty ASICS Badge NFT and a future claim to an ASICS-STEPN GT-2000 NFT. The shoes are only available to purchase with USDC via Solana Pay — more
WalletConnect / $12.5M Raised — WalletConnect, a web3 communications protocol, announces “ecosystem round” with participation from 1kx, Union Square Ventures, Shopify, HashKey, Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys — more
NiftyApes / $4.2M Raised — NiftyApes, a platform that enables users to take out loans on any NFT collection, raises seed round led by Variant and FinTech Collective, with participation from Robot Ventures, Polygon, Coinbase Ventures, The LAO, FlamingoDAO, and Ryan Sean Adams — more
Braavos / $10M Raised — Braavos, a self-custodial crypto wallet built to service the StarkNet ecosystem, raises round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, Crypto.[com], Road Capital, Matrixport, and Starkware — more
Cryptosat / $3M Raised — Cryptosat, a startup building tamper-proof proprietary crypto-satellites, raises seed round with participation from FileCoin, Protocol Labs, GoAhead Ventures, DoraHacks, and the founder of Phala Network — more
VenturePunk / $1.5M Raised — VenturePunk, an innovation studio dedicated to advancing the social + technical infrastructure needed for a web3 era, announces pre-seed raise from backers ConsenSys Mesh, Polygon, The LAO, PunkDAO, Lemniscap, and others — more
Centrifuge / $4M Raised — Centrifuge, a DeFi protocol tokenizing real-world assets, raises strategic round from backers Coinbase Ventures, BlockTower, Scytale, and L1 Digital — more
Courtyard / $7M Raised — Courtyard, a platform allowing physical collectibles to be owned and traded as NFTs, raises seed round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Y Combinator, OpenSea Ventures, VaynerFund, Cherry Ventures, and others — more
Souffl3 / $2M Raised — Souffl3, an NFT marketplace and launchpad on the Aptos blockchain, raises seed round co-led by Crypto.[com] Capital and Synergis, with participation from Huobi incubator, M77 Ventures, and J17 Capital — more
Elusiv / $3.5M Raised — Elusiv, a Solana-based ZK privacy protocol, announces seed round led by LongHash and Staking Facilities Ventures, with participation from Jump Crypto, Big Brain Holdings, Anagram, Monke Ventures, and others — more
Zebra Labs / $5M Raised — Zebra Labs, a startup aimed at helping Chinese celebrities and brands enter the metaverse, announces fundraising round from Chinese gaming firm NetDragon and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo — more
Collecting Music NFTs / Coopahtroopa — “I’ve been a fan of music my whole life. There’s never been a way to bet on the songs (and artists) I love - until now. Over the past year, I’ve dedicated the majority of my time to collecting Music NFTs - or collectible songs… Throughout this time, I’ve developed a collecting strategy. Support emerging artists using web3 to meaningfully impact their career.” — more
Money Out of No Where: How Blockchain Infrastructure is Unlocking Economic Value / Adam D'Augelli — “Over the past year, Songcamp (🤝) has emerged as one of the leading creative communities – where individuals can learn, find future colleagues, and collaborate on projects together. It isn’t a company – and it isn’t just community – but has some of the features of both – generating revenue from projects its members work on together – but also being a fertile ground for members to launch their next company or project.” — more
The Map is the Territory / Kevin Buist — “A project by Mathcastles foregrounds not only the code behind virtual worlds but also the collective imagination and effort that are required to flesh them out.” — more
Dear Elon, This Is How to Decentralize Twitter and Give the Internet Back to Everyone / David Sneider — “The self-sovereign web would use protocols, not companies, to build the tools we need most… With the right design, a decentralized Twitter would catalyze a new kind of internet – fundamentally changing the relationship between users and platforms. People could own the data they generate across applications across the web.”— more
Life After Lifestyle / Toby Shorin — “The Lifestyle era was not about creating culture; it was about attaching brands onto existing cultural contexts. It was not about shaping people; it was about sorting consumer demographics into niche categories. The new order we are entering into reverses this. For some organizations, culture has become the product itself, and products have become secondary, auxiliary, to the production of culture.” — more
A Tale of Two Artists: Van Gogh and XCOPY / Sabrina Khan — “A story of persistence, perseverance and belief. Two artists who painted for a decade each before fame found them. But only one lives to enjoy it… The mechanisms in place which exist in the digital art revolution of today, allow for XCOPY to reach great heights and enjoy the ascent, anonymous and very much alive.” — more
Even as NFTs Plummet, Digital Artists Find Museums Are Calling / Zachary Small x The New York Times — “After decades as outcasts, digital artists are receiving a warm reception from curators at major museums looking to embrace new audiences and retain wealthy donors from the NFT boom.” — more
Finding the XCOPY of Music NFTs / Coopahtroopa and Lucas Campbell — “The artist that builds a crypto-native career in music but then sees mainstream success could pose as a massive opportunity for collectors. They could become the XCOPY of music NFTs. But who are they? How do you spot them? How do you evaluate a Web3 artist?” — more
SuperRare (🤝) / RarePass: Genesis — SuperRare announces the RarePass: Genesis, a unique pass that will enable collectors to secure future drops from prolific crypto artists. The RarePass guarantees a monthly airdrop for holders and an increased probability of winning unique 1/1s through special monthly releases. 250 RarePass NFTs built by Transient Labs will be drop via auction on Nov. 15th — more
Zora x Nouns DAO / Nouns Builder — Zora and Nouns DAO combine forces to create Nouns Builder — a no-code, on-chain tool that allows communities to create their own Nounish DAO. In just a few steps, users can customize their DAO by auction type, founder allocations, governance structure, and artwork — more
Soho (🤝) / Beta Launch — Soho, a social commerce platform for digital collectors founded by former Instagram leaders, launches a new mobile experience that helps collectors see what’s happening with the collectibles and communities they love. Early community members from the waitlist can now download and test the beta app on iPhone — more
Exchange.Art / “Royalties Protection Standard” — Exchange.Art, a Solana-based fine art NFT marketplace, launches new “Royalties Protection Standard” that enforces creator royalties on secondary NFT sales originating on the platform. An “allow list” feature allows creators to choose which secondary platforms their tokens can be listed on — more
Meebits / New Site + 1:1 Physical Print — Meebits launches a new site that will be the “central hub for upcoming Meebit experiences, activations, and opportunities.” Also, Meebit holders can now claim an exclusive 1/1 physical print (must claim within the next two weeks) — more
Alchemy / NFT Allowlist Platform — Alchemy, a web3 development platform, launches a new product called Spearmint that aims to make the NFT allowlist signup and management process easier for creators. Spearmint is compatible with projects built on Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism — more
Web3 Browser Opera / NFT Analytics Tool — Opera, a web3-focused internet browser, launches new tool called DegenKnows. The tool features NFT analytics, tracking, discovery, and includes on- and off-chain (Twitter, Discord) analytics — more
Goblin Sax / Fluid Acquisition — Goblin Sax, a DAO focused on NFT financialization, acquires instant loans app Fluid. The app will be rebranded to Goblin Lend and allow for a Lending as a Service (LaaS) model that helps NFT platforms and communities start lending for their users — more
Aera / Treasury Management Tools — Aera, a treasury management protocol, launches new treasury optimizing vaults for DAOs on Polygon. The aim of the vaults is to create a way for crypto projects on Polygon to manage their treasuries in an efficient manner — more
Ves3l / Art Blocks: Seedlings — “The idea for Seedlings was sown in 2019 and was my first foray into Generative Art. It began as a study of fractal trees where each depth level was individually parametrized (angle of rotation, length, etc.). Initially just a hobbyist project in the pre-Art Blocks era, I returned to Seedlings in 2022 with the intention of making it into the Long-Form series…” 200 pieces, releasing on Art Blocks, Nov. 21st — more
Mark Webster / Verse Works: Hypertype — “What I am trying to achieve is a means for transformation of one media that is manipulative of one’s attention in order to instill dogma, to another that is manipulative of one’s attention in order to encourage introspection… Hypertype is first and foremost a textual work that relies on the visual interaction of a variety of typographic signs and letters.” 150 pieces, dropping on Nov. 8th — more
AnaPet / Art Blocks: Fleur — “Fleur is a tribute to the beauty and interrelation between nature and science that have amazed people for centuries. Exploration of mathematics as the language that explains the architecture of the physical world around us. Manifestation of what nature essentially is - complexity born from simplicity, beauty born from chaos, life born from matter. Where does one stop and the other start?” 300 pieces, releasing on Art Blocks, Nov. 14th — more
Right Click Save / The Currency of Rarity — “A cast of prominent collectors shares its strategies and favorite pieces with Ryan Roybal of NFT Collective.” — more
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