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Art
This one can fall in either art or tech, but if guys remember earlier in the summer I took a position on $rare mostly because of what I believe $rare is trying to do is big. After this announcement from Binance it seems some are catching on to what $rare can be for the digital art space (NFA). SuperRare also announced this past week, settling in USDC for their platform which many are happy.
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I always enjoy onchain art that looks at your history and based on that determines the style of art you get. Soulbounds does this exact concept with Base Colors.
Apex777 🦖 on Warpcast
Introducing: Soulbounds Soulbounds are unique, fully onchain NFTs generated from your ETH address using Base Colors. They blend the ideas of Base Colors and Waveforms, a fusion inspired by discussions with @jake at Basecamp. https://www.basecolors.com/soulbounds https://www.basecolors.com/api/soulbounds-apex
Tomagatchis (not really the same ppl) are making a comeback but on a new L3. I still think gaming as a whole is how we get more users on to web3 and well the boomer in me really liked my Tomagatchi and I want to try this out haha.
Introducing Geist, a new L3 built with @arbitrum Orbit, @base for settlement, and @AlchemyPlatform as our rollup partner.
Gaming will onboard the next billion users onchain.
@PlayOnGeist is where the best will play (and earn).
Read on and learn how to get access
Gaming will onboard the next billion users onchain.
@PlayOnGeist is where the best will play (and earn).
Read on and learn how to get access
Party rolled out a new feature similar to the ones from Manifold and Transient. Where you an artist can create three pieces and the collector is rolling the dice on which one they get, similar to a vending machine mechanic.
PartyDAO on Warpcast
Introducing Sets – a new way to mint on create.party.app Easily create an NFT collection with different rarities. Collectors have a chance to mint each rarity. Now live. More below... https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e0995371-24e6-4a1a-9e06-e76964e41e00/original
Pods rolled out a referral program for onchain podcasts. One of the struggles of having a longer form podcast is it is hard to share with others unless you really have a ton of free time. With this program now users will get a referral when they shill my podcast to their family members.
Mint Referrals are now live
Curate and share your favorite episodes.
Earn ETH when others mint with your link.
Curate and share your favorite episodes.
Earn ETH when others mint with your link.
Wanted to take the time to congratulate Batsoupyum on joining Gondi as an advisor. Batsoupyum is one of the best in web3 and this is well deserved! Gondi got themselves a good one.
Exciting News We are thrilled to welcome @batsoupyum as an advisor to the GONDI team!
A prominent patron of the arts and a leading figure in the NFT space, Batsoupyum's expertise will be key as we elevate the NFT credit market.
Here's to achieving greatness together
Tech
Sadly another product has been taken from us by the bear. OnceUpon which I have used in the past to analyze what my patrons are up to onchain so I can better server them is shutting down. But it seems the team is moving on to a new idea similar to the Nook team.
Jordan Messina on Warpcast
We’ve made the tough decision to shut down the Once Upon block explorer and API. Thank you very much to everyone who used our products and supported us along the way. The core team will pivot and work on something new starting from a clean slate. We’ll be shipping new experiments in the coming weeks. Excited to share more soon.
Make sure to participate on Onchain Summer Coffee Days as you can win a slice of 1ETH. Really cool to see big orgs like Base using Rounds to reward their participants and with it all being onchain, it will be seamless.
Base on Warpcast
Create videos about Onchain Summer Coffee Days or your visit to one of the 10 participating coffee shops accepting payments onchain — and post them on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or X Then, share the link in the /base-creators channel between August 17 - 26 to become eligible to win a slice of the 1 ETH prize pool via @rounds and get featured on Base channels https://rounds.wtf/base-creators/coffee-day-1
Now that the payment secure chip on iphones is being opened up by other developers we are getting a ton of rumors of which web3 company will be first to strike on using this tap to pay method. USDC/Circle/Coinbase are very obvious candidates and the ones that I will see succeed first just based on name, size, negotiation power etc. This will be very interesting to see overall based on the amount of credit card points users get here in the USA and might be hard to get us to leave those points just to say we can use USDC to pay for our coffee.
Circle CEO Teases USDC Tap-to-Pay on iPhones
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has hinted that tap-to-pay functionality for USDC on iPhones is coming soon, thanks to Apple's decision to open its NFC payment tech to third-party devs. While Circle does not have a direct partnership with…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has hinted that tap-to-pay functionality for USDC on iPhones is coming soon, thanks to Apple's decision to open its NFC payment tech to third-party devs. While Circle does not have a direct partnership with…
Metamask rolled out a new Mastercard in the UK/EU. Someone really needs to give this and the Gnosis card a run for a bit to see how they compare. Unfortunately since there are not available in the USA, I can't test it for the science.
MetaMask 🦊 on Warpcast
Introducing MetaMask Card: The world’s first Mastercard debit card that enables instant spending directly from your self-custody wallet. We’ve teamed up with Mastercard and Baanx Group to bridge the gap between crypto and daily life. https://metamask.io/news/latest/introducing-metamask-card-upgrade-your-crypto-spending/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cmp-3211452-afbf08
Telegram is looking to launch a BTC wrapped version on their chain. Telegram continues pumping and this type of move will only continue to increase the demand of BTC. Coinbase is also exploring the same concept on their popular L2 Base.
Coinbase has posted “cbBTC” on X, which some speculate will be the exchange’s own wrapped #Bitcoin token, which could be launched on its layer-2 network @Base.
The Merkle team has been hard at work. I personally appreciate this update as now group chats with an NFT will self clean/regulate themselves. For example with my hypersub, whenever your time expires it will boot you automatically. This makes the overheard really easy compared to before. This may not sound like a ton of work but if you have a large group then this can get intense and a lot of overhead. Now it is all easy, thank you.
Dan Romero on Warpcast
Improvements for NFT-gated group chats - Support for contract addresses! (CAIP-10 format) - Works out-of-the-box for @hypersub - Check for NFT and auto-remove members who no longer have it - ETH, Base, Zora, OP Mainnet, and Arbitrum https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0e5384c5-0de3-4568-7394-9bea54826900/original https://warpcast.notion.site/NFT-gated-group-chats-0f76abc16d344414b42fcfea5e55f86d
Market Insights
With the craze of memecoins still continuing there are definitely winners and losers in the space. But the ultimate winners are the Coingecko and Dexscreener as they are printing cash at this stage. It does make me wonder if a decentralized version could be introduced...
LATEST: @dexscreener is making $150K-$250K daily by charging $300/token to add details like Telegram links and pictures.
This one caught my eye as based punks are still selling for some nice change which is rare in this market for pfps.
Limerent Machine by Neurocolor sold for 1.21ETH.
limerent machine Artwork by @neurocolor
Sold to anonymous for 1.21 ETH ($3,220.87)superrare.com/0x5d38663a15cb…
$RARE #CryptoArt #NFT
I picked up this dope piece by braindead on Friday which I sent to the vault immediately.
purgatory room VI Artwork by rightclickdead Sold to anonymous for 0.333 ETH ($889.06)superrare.com/0xb932a70a5767…
$RARE #CryptoArt #NFT
Upcoming
6529 The Memes announced their new artist launching into their collection and definitely excited to see C4rdinal and what he cooks up. The first artist came out the gate swinging.
XCOPY is teasing us hard. I for one am excited for X to kick off the bull market haha.
Meme Of The Week
Mac Budkowski ᵏ on Warpcast
impressive https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/fa2ad590-f942-46db-846b-608d89dda900/original
Fin
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GM ☕️ 👽 Issue 83 📥 • 🎨 $RARE making moves, Binance noticing. Plus, onchain art that stalks your history to make personalized pieces 👀 • 🕹️ Tomagotchis are back, mfers! But this time they're on a new L3 Nostalgia + crypto = 💰 • 📱 iPhone's secure chip is opening up, and crypto companies are ready to pounce. USDC tap-to-pay coming soon? RIP credit card points? 💸 • 🚀 Telegram's not f*cking around - they're wrapping BTC on their chain. Meanwhile, Coinbase is eyeing the same move on Base. Bullish much? 📈 • 🤖 Merkle's making group chats self-regulate like a boss. No more babysitting those NFT communities. It's about damn time! 🙌 You can read more 👇🏻 https://paragraph.xyz/@0xgramajo/i-like-my-coins-how-i-like-my-steak,-dollarrare-or-issue-83