The Dystopian - Issue #4
Dearest Degens,
We’re excited to announce the 4th issue of our weekly newsletter, The Dystopian. If you haven’t already, make sure to join the WGMI Society discord for the latest alpha: https://discord.gg/VMxqmtfK76
NFTs / Gaming:
Data on 100 artists who had hit $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗸 in NFT sales (primary+secondary) to find out what they were creating, when they were making sales, and what scale of audience they had. 👉 Read More.
The Art Wars Collection, a series of NFTs depicting painted Stormtrooper helmets from the Star Wars franchise, launched without the consent of artists who created the original works. 👉 Read More.
Free Ross Movement: Over 1,320 people raised over 2,800 ETH in a week (over $12m at todays price) to win the auction for Ross’s NFT. 👉 Read More.
Find out the value of any wallet's NFTs in seconds. 👉 Read More.
Decentraland will be the first crypto-native project to sponsor the Blender Developer Fund. 👉 Read More.
OpenSea not actively planning an IPO, but if they did - would involve community. 👉 Read More.
CeFi / DeFi:
Anatomy of an MEV Strategy: Synthetix by Robert Miller. 👉 Read More.
OHM x Dune Analytics: An Interactive Write-Up Showcasing How OHM Bonding Works. 👉 Read More.
AWS outage hits dYdX, raising concerns over decentralization. 👉 Read More.
Notes from the Congressional Hearing. 👉 Read More.
WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payments pilot in the US With Novi (Meta) wallet and Pax Dollar (Paxos) stablecoin 👉 Read More.
0xMaki says he ‘Won’t be Returning’ to SushiSwap as it Wallows in a Leadership Crisis. 👉 Read More.
Slingshot Crypto raises $15M led by Ribbit Capital. 👉 Read More.
Ledger launches Crypto Debit Card for US and EU Customers. 👉 Read More.
Google’s former CEO joins Chainlink Labs as a strategic advisor. 👉 Read More.
ELI5 Tornado Cash. 👉 Read More.
Aztec Connect, private bridge for ETH DeFi, is live on testnet. 👉 Read More.
Loopring 2021/Q3 quarterly report is out. 👉 Read More.
DAOs, Governance, Culture:
Thread by Peter Pan on what matters most when building DAOs:
Spencer Graham from DAOhaus shares a template for DAO Compensation and Contribution Practices. 👉 Read More
Layer-1s, Layer-2s, Tools:
EOS community halts payments worth $250 million in $EOS to Block.one and Brock Pierce. 👉 Read More.
Vitalik Buterin outlines the “Endgame” for ETH 2. 👉 Read More.
Polygon acquires ZK-rollups startup Mir Protocol for $400M. 👉 Read More.
The Graph Awards $60M Grant to Semiotic AI to Join The Graph as a Core Developer. 👉 Read More.
Kryptology: Coinbase releases open source cryptography library. 👉 Read More.
Andreessen Horowitz led a $36 million funding round of Mysten Labs, a layer-1 founded by four former Facebook / Novi engineers. 👉 Read More.
How to audit Solana smart contracts. 👉 Read More.
Kickstarter To Build A Crowdfunding Project on Celo. 👉 Read More.
Bitcoin:
2 Bitcoin Core Contributors Step Away From Their Roles. 👉 Read More.
Foundry Launches Resale Marketplace for Bitcoin Mining Machines. Has already secured more than 40,000 miners. 👉 Read More.
How To Set Up No KYC BTC Mining At Home. Prevent your ISP from seeing your data, isolate ASICs, and mine Bitcoin permissionlessly. 👉 Read More.
Brazil considers zero tax on green Bitcoin mining. 👉 Read More.
Events:
IRL - Portland, OR: Attend Dystopia Labs’s Meetup on Jan 19th.
Virtual - E2 Summit: Asset Management 3.0 w/ Enzyme on Jan 24th & 25th
IRL - 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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