The Dystopian - Issue #3
Dearest Degens,
Weโre excited to announce the 3rd issue of our weekly newsletter, The Dystopian. Make sure to join our WGMI Society discord for more alpha: https://discord.gg/VMxqmtfK76
NFTs / Gaming:
How Whitelists Have Transformed The NFT Experience. ๐ Read More.
Foundation launches smart contract-backed collections (think web3 exhibitions or albums). Works created together, stay together. ๐ Read More.
Rarible Launches Messaging Feature That Lets Users Communicate Pseudonymously Using Their Wallet Addresses. ๐ Read More.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a NFT at Christieโs of his first edit on Wikipedia. ๐ Read More.
Coined as the first โLiving Eco-NFT, Star Trek creatorโs signature, signed in 1965, is implanted into a living bacteria cell in the form of DNA code. As the cell duplicates, it creates new copies of the NFT, โEl Primero.โ ๐ Read More.
Banksyโs โLove Is in the Airโ to Be Fractionalized By Particle, An NFT Platform, into 10,000ย NFTs. ๐ Read More.
Adidas joins the NFT world partnering with Bored Ape, The Sandbox, & Coinbase. ๐ Read More.
Loot Project Pursues Quiet Quest in NFT Gaming. ๐ Read More.
Camilla Russoโs book โThe Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto Hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereumโ is becoming a movie! ๐ Read More.
CeFi / DeFi:
@CryptoCatVC discusses Metamask approval hygiene best practices
MetaMask records over $200 million YTD in revenues, surpassing SushiSwap, Curve. ๐ Read More.
ETH (Not USDC) Is Now the Primary Collateral for DAI. ๐ Read More.
IDEX announces the upcoming launch of its v3 Hybrid Liquidity DEX on Polygon. ๐ Read More.
1inch Network Raises $175 Million At $2.25 Billion Valuation (Led By Amber Group) To Bring Traditional Finance Into DeFi. ๐ Read More.
Tornado Cash is ready to integrate with Arbitrum. ๐ Read More.
Celsius says 'employee' suspended amid rumors of CFO arrest in Israel. ๐ Read More.
BitMart has lost ~$196M from two of its hot wallets on Ethereum and BSC. ๐Read More.
Fireblocks raises $400M Series E at $8B valuation.ย ๐ Read More.
Square Changes Name to โBlockโ and its cryptocurrency division Square Crypto will be renamed โSpiral.โ ๐ Read More.
SnowdogDAO rugpull netted scammers $10M profit using a buyback scheme and a custom AMM contract. Snowdog developers called it a game theory experiment. ๐ Read More.
Securitize to join Fireblocks in offering KYC tools for Aave Arc (Aaveโs institutional DeFi product). ๐ Read More.
Coinbase Cloud has $30 billion staked across 25 blockchains. ๐Read More.
Grayscale Launches Solana Trust Product. ๐ Read More.
Massive list of DeFi tools. ๐ Read More.
DAOs / Culture / Governance:
A Guide to DAO Treasury Diversification Sales. ๐ Read More.
A dive into Juicebox Protocol, a programmable treasury for community-owned Ethereum projects. ๐ Read More.
@Coopahtroopa discusses the rise of SubDAOs. ๐ Read More.
Meta has made it easier to run crypto-related ads on its platform. ๐ Read More
The Free Ross movement is taking a leaf out of ConstitutionDAOโs book for its NFT sale. ๐ Read More.
A thread by Chase Chapman on what happens when early DAO contributors (with significant governance power) leave or reduce involvement. ๐ Read More.
BTC / Mining:
BTC Miners grapple with major energy crunch in Kazakhstan. ๐ Read More.
Major mining pools including Binance Pool, F2pool, Poolin and ViaBTC reported connectivity problems the past week caused by DNS โpolluting.โ ๐ Read More.
Nodl introduces nodl light, a lightweight, plug-and-play Lightning node made for bitcoin merchants from developing countries. ๐ Read More.
Layer-1s, Layer-2s, & Tooling:
Vitalik Buterin shares an updated ETH protocol development roadmap:
Evan Shapiro shares highlights from the Mina Ecosystem. ๐ Read More.
Iron Fish, a layer-1 zk-snark chain, raises $28M, led by A16z. ๐ Read More.
StarkNet by Starkware is launching in public alpha. ๐ Read More.
Avalanche data is now on Nansen. ๐ Read More.
0x expands partnership with Celo to distribute $4.5M to its DAO ecosystem. ๐ Read More.
Jutta Steiner Leaves Parity Tech (the company behind Polkadot) as CEO & Co-Founder. Gavin Wood will be stepping in as CEO. ๐ Read More.
Tendermint CEO Peng Zhong talks about the growth of the Cosmos ecosystem; what theyโve accomplished in the past year & where theyโre going. ๐ Read More.
CertiK, a blockchain & smart contract auditing firm, raised $80M in a Series B2 round and is now valued at nearly $1B. ๐ Read More.
Events:
SF, CA: Attend Dystopia Labโs Rooftop Party w/ Zerion on Dec 7th.
Seattle, WA: Attend Dystopia Labโs Meetup at Art Marble on Dec 9th.
Portland, OR: Attend Dystopia Labsโs Meetup on Jan 19th.
โจHACKATHONโจ: Join us for โDystopia Fest 2022,โ 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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