The Dystopian - Issue #2

"We're STILL going to make it" 😬✌️

Dearest Degens,

We’re excited to announce the 2nd edition of our weekly newsletter, The Dystopian, which we’ll be sending out every Monday. Here we go:

NFTs & Games:

• How NFTs fared in the “bear market”

jktss @jeremyklar

Alright! Who wants to take a look at how NFT's fared in the recent Bear market and which did the best? (Thread 🧵👇) (1/19)

• How to snipe underpriced NFT gems using NFT bank. 👉 Read More.

• MoonPay sets up a concierge service to help celebrities buy NFTs. 👉 Read More

• Blockade Games raises $5M Round 👉 Read More

• Play-to-Earn Upstart Avocado Guild raises $18M Series A. 👉 Read More

• Diablo II, Lessons for Game Economy Design. 👉 Read More

• Guilds will replace early-stage VCs and game publishers as the primary capital source for blockchain games. 👉 Read More.

• The Caribbean nation of Barbados is working with multiple metaverse companies to establish digital sovereign land. The Barbadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade signed an agreement with Decentraland, one of the largest and most popular crypto-powered digital worlds, to establish a digital embassy. 👉 Read More

• Massive list of Metaverse resources and projects. 👉 Read More

DeFi:

• DeFi MOOC: “Practical DeFi Smart Contract Security” with samczsun, a research partner at Paradigm. 👉 Watch Here.

• Aave Arc provides an isolated Aave market and a sandbox environment for institutions to experience the power of DeFi. 👉 Read More.

• Synthetix Debt Pool Synthesis which introduces fungibility between L1 and L2 Synths. 👉 Read More.

• UMA introduces Event-Based Expiry KPI Options, which enable you to build KPI options that unlock based on a certain event rather than at a time. 👉 Read More.

• Gasless deposits are now live on dydx. 👉 Read More.

• Delphi supports onboarding UST to Aave v2 and v3. 👉 Read More.

• Maple Finance offers syndicated loans to Alameda Research. 👉 Read More.

• Square’s new division unveiled their white paper for a decentralized exchange using bitcoin, fiat and other real-world goods. 👉 Read More

• Bankless shares the “Barbell Strategy” (80% - low-risk / no payoff assets; 20% - extreme-risk / big payoff assets) which can be help users determine how much to allocate to crypto. 👉 Read More.

Bitcoin:

• El Salvador to Create ‘Bitcoin City,’ Use $500M of Planned $1B Bond Offering to Buy More Crypto. 👉 Read More

DAOs, Governance, & Culture:

• Snapshot Labs Raises $4 Million to Shape Future of DAO Voting. 👉 Read More

• Use on-chain data to explore the health of various crypto communities:

  ilemi.eth (🪞,🪞) @andrewhong5297

  1/17 You can learn a LOT about a community from just on-chain token data. I've split the data into three themes: - trending user actions - liquidity and inflation - membership and inequality Let's look at tokens from @blvkhvnd , @banklessDAO , @AxieInfinity , and @FWBtweets

• @guildxyz announces cross-chain token gating. 👉 Read More.

• The 1inch Foundation has taken the initiative to deploy the 1inch Network Treasury for its DAO. 👉 Read More.

• Krause House, a DAO Aiming to Buy a NBA Team, Has Quickly Raised $1.7M in ETH. 👉 Read More.

• OlympusDAO’s mistakenly lets a user buy $1.43M with $50,000. 👉 Read More.

• TempleDAO - Exploring The Pumpamentals 👉 Read More

• What does LTV (Life-Time-Value) / CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) in Web3 look like? 👉 Read More.

• The Best Starter DAOs:

  Coopahtroopa (🔥,🔥) @Cooopahtroopa

  Best Starter DAOs: @FWBtweets - Culture @forefront__ - DAOs @seedclubhq - Community @developer_dao - Devs @banklessDAO - DeFi @songcamp_ - Music @KrauseHouseDAO - Sports @brtmoments - IRL NFT @protein - Brands @pub_DAO - Media @water_and_music - Research

Layer-1s, Layer-2s, Sidechains, & Tooling:

• Github fixed a vulnerability that could allow anyone to update any NPM package without authorization. 👉 Read More.

• MEV-boost: the first version of Flashbots middleware open-sourced. It allows consensus clients to outsource block construction to third party block builders as well as fallback to execution clients. 👉 Read More.

• Vitalik details a roadmap for how data space available to rollups can be greatly expanded (and hence rollup fees greatly reduced). 👉 Read More.

• Ethburned.wtf shows how much an account has burnt. 👉 Read More.

• zkSync will be the first ZK-Protocol indexed by The Graph. 👉 Read More.

• Ronin Chain (by Axie Infinity) Integrates with Covalent 👉 Read More.

• Reports of ongoing Binance Smart Chain syncing issues which significantly reduces network’s decentralization. 👉 Read More.

• Avalanche announces Apricot Phase 5: P<>C Atomic Transfers, Atomic Transaction Batching, and C-Chain Fee Algorithm Optimizations. 👉 Read More.

Events:

• SF, CA: Attend Dystopia Lab’s Rooftop Party w/ Zerion on Dec 7th.

• Seattle, WA: Attend Dystopia Lab’s Meetup at Art Marble on Dec 9th.

• Portland, OR: Attend Dystopia Labs’s Meetup on Jan 19th.

• ✨HACKATHON✨: Join us for “Dystopia Fest 2022,” a 1 day summit & 3 day hackathon on April 6-9th in Portland, OR.

Who Are We?

Dystopia Labs is building a Rarity styled protocol for gamifying events & education. We also run a lot of technical summits. Founders @hsinjuchuang & @cruzamolina.

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