Dearest Degens,
The 7th issue is out! If you havenβt already, make sure to claim your ticket for:
ETH Austin (March 17th & 18th): http://ethaustin.org/
ETH Portland (April 7th-9th): http://ethportland.com/
ETH Seattle (July 8th): http://ethseattle.org/
Note: If youβd like to be a speaker at any of these summits, please apply here: https://dystopialabs.typeform.com/to/UmgD3wrk?typeform-source=t.co
NFTs & Gaming:
Etherscan launches NFT tracker
Wikipedia editors voted not to categorize NFTs as art. π Read More.
Doodles soared in value after a new feature was announced (owners can wrap their Doodles to get a Space Doodle & then unwrap and turn it back into a Doodle). It is non-dilutive & no more NFTs are being added to the circulating supply. π Read More.
Foundational Web3 Mechanisms in Games. π Read More.
Laura Shinβs Unchained Podcast: how the LooksRare vampire attack on OpenSea works, why people are wash trading NFTs on LooksRare, and whether LooksRareβs vampire attack will force OpenSea to decentralize and/or tokenize. π Read More.
Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company, launches a marketplace for Major League Baseball NFTs. π Read More.
DeFi & CeFi:
What went wrong w/ the fees.wtf $WTF airdrop π Read More.
The 2021 Financial Report for MakerDAO is out. π Read More.
USDC supply surpasses USDT for the first time on ETH. π Read More.
Map of DeFi development across various chains
Index Coop launches Bankless GMI index. π Read More.
FTX sets up $2B crypto fund. π Read More.
Gnosis Protocol to rebrand as CoW Protocol. π Read More.
Synthetix to go multi-chain? πRead More.
Unpacking Turbo, Tribe DAOβs new unreleased product π Read More.
Contract is the base for Curve V2 as a factory that is designed to let anyone make pools just like they do on Uniswap. π Read More.
Aave Arc market launched w/ 30 regulated financial institutions. π Read More.
dYdX V4 (tentative launch EOY 2022) will be fully decentralized, community controlled. No central party will receive trading fees on dYdX V4. π Read More.
Goldfinch Protocol, a decentralized credit protocol for crypto loans without collateral, launches token, $GFI. π Read More.
TransUnion, a U.S. credit-reporting giant, has partnered with Spring Labs to bring consumer credit scores to the crypto lending arena. π Read More.
DAOs, Governance, & Culture:
DeFi Alliance transitions to Alliance DAO. Raises $50M. π Read More.
DeveloperDAO launches community governance token. πRead More.
DAOHaus discusses mechanisms for capital coordination. π Read More.
Layer-1, Layer2, & Tooling:
Celer Launches Inter-chain Message Framework which has a single-click UX with unified inter-chain liquidity and state. TLDR; no more isolated copies of the same dApp on many chains. πRead More.
Gitcoin Aqueduct, a tool that incentivizes ecosystem development for your project. As your project grows and more assets flow into its Aqueduct, GitcoinDAO will begin to provide more and more high-touch ecosystem development services. π Read More.
Polygon introduces Plonky2 - worldβs fastest ZK scaling tech. π Read More.
Harmony experiences outage due to multiple block propagation issues. Heavy spam traffic has halted the network. π Read More.
Near launches stake farming to unlock ecosystem rewards. π Read More.
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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