Dearest Degens,
The 6th edition is out! Weβre looking forward to meeting all of you IRL this year at ETH Austin (March 17th), ETH Portland (April 7th-9th), and ETH Seattle (July 8th). If youβd like to be a speaker, please apply here: https://dystopialabs.typeform.com/to/UmgD3wrk?typeform-source=t.co
NFTs & Gaming:
Pudgy Penguins NFT Project Ousts Founders. π Read More.
OpenSea raises $300 million at $13 billion valuation. π Read More.
South Korea's presidential candidate announces NFT fundraise. π Read More.
Royalties are coming to Decentraland. π Read More.
Twitch co-founder's gaming NFT platform Fractal launches. πRead More.
Arca on the AXS ecosystem. π Read More.
Samsung to introduce NFT platform within its new smart TVs. π Read More.
DeFi & CeFi:
ERC-4626 To Make Yield-Bearing Tokens Their Own DeFi Lego. πRead More.
Index and Bankless Have a New Token for the Lazy but Risk Hungry DeFi Investor. π Read More.
Observations from Moxie Marlinspike (Signal) on the (brittle/exploitable) state of Dapps and NFTs on Ethereum. π Read More.
PayPal Is Exploring Creating Its Own Stablecoin. π Read More.
Analyzing OHM, TIME and BTRFLY:
Coinone no longer allows withdrawals to unverified wallets. π Read More.
TempleDAO has begun investing its $160M+ treasury into the FRAX3CRV pool on Convex Finance. π Read More.
β CRV wars: understanding the race to accumulate power to influence Curve Finance protocol. πRead More.
Olympus DAO: V2 Bonds: Auto-staking and flexible vesting. π Read More.
Terra to provide over $139 million in UST and LUNA to several DeFi projects on Ethereum, Solana and Polygon for the next six months. π Read More.
DAOs, Governance, & Culture
Peter Pan discusses KPI Sub-DAO Structures. π Read More.
DeveloperDAO to launch community governance token. Read More
Daughter of former Blockbuster CEO joins BlockbusterDAOβs core team. π Read More
Layer-1 & Layer2
Vitalik: Future will be multi-chain but not cross-chain.
Events:
We're currently sourcing speakers for ETH Austin (March 17th during SXSW), ETH Portland (April 7th-9th), and ETH Seattle (July 8th). Please apply here if interested π https://dystopialabs.typeform.com/to/UmgD3wrk
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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