Watching the Olympics always stirs something deep within me, a mix of awe and mild panic. Every four years I find myself in a midlife crisis. I mean, 11-year-olds are out there skateboarding for gold, and 51-year-olds are winning silver in sharpshooting. Meanwhile, I consider it a win surviving another day in New York City at 28.

I know it's too late to start my Olympic journey, but I've started wearing Kim Yeji's shooter glasses around the city and it is surprisingly effective at making me feel like a champion.

The Olympic Medal Table is the ultimate global leaderboard to find yourself on. It's a humbling reminder of what dedication and hard work can achieve, and here I am, wondering if I should have gone for a run this morning.

But then I remember that the Olympics isn't just a competition; it's a reminder to strive for greatness, even if our personal best is finally mastering the art of keeping a houseplant alive for more than a month.

- bradorbradley.eth

🏗 Stack Updates

🎁 Intersend.io, a new gateway to discover crypto apps, announced their partnership with Stack and Bitrefill. Users can purchase gift cards with one click, earn points, and cash out for thousands of gift cards worldwide with Intersend's utility-based crypto rewards program powered by Stack.

Bitrefill

@bitrefill

Bitrefill is proud to partner and get listed in @intersend_io marketplace, a space where you can find apps to spend crypto.

With Intersend's utility-based crypto rewards program powered by @stackdotso, purchase Bitrefill gift cards with one click, earn points, and cash out…

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3:05 PM • Jul 30, 2024

🍄 Bello.lol, an onchain analytics platform, announced a new Warpcast direct-cast feature that helped Adam Levy drive more permissionless reward claim from his leaderboard on Stack, leading to a 13% claim rate in 24 hours.

levy.eth on Warpcast

here's a 24-hour update from a broadcast using warpcast DCs to reach my onchain audience: we successfully sent a demo message on warpcast to a cohort of 3,329 wallets, with 2,926 having a farcaster handle. out of these, 380 users have claimed their reward, resulting in a 13% claim conversion rate. this is exceptionally high compared to the traditional industry sales conversion rates in email marketing, which typically range from 0.1% to 1%. based on email marketing benchmarks and working our way backward to estimate, we projected the first 2 rates in less than 24 hours: 1. projected open rate: 29.25% 2. projected click-through rate: 19.5% 3. actual claim conversion rate: 13% these results significantly outperform industry email benchmarks. key insight: warpcast DCs feel personal and have high engagement rates. https://warpcast.com/levy/0x33091e0b

Farcaster

🎶 Sonata.tips, a music curation app on Farcaster, announced new channel monetization tools. Sonata allows users to earn and tip in NOTES points powered by Stack.

Sonata on Warpcast

State of Sonata Season 2 is in full swing: - Passed 1,530 NOTES holders - Hundreds of thousands of NOTES staked - Second Sonata Council meeting - First Farhouse AMA with recording available on the app

Farcaster

🕹 Atari, Coinbase, and Stack announced winners of week one's arcade.fun leaderboard! Congrats to the top Asteroid blasters Denjin, papacrypto, and [anonymous]. The leaderboard resets every week and anyone can mint and play to earn prizes.

Stack

@stackdotso

Thousands of games of Asteroids have been played since we launched Onchain Arcade w/ @AtariX and @coinbase

Congrats to our top 3 Asteroids blasters — you are eligible for rewards this week!

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4:50 PM • Aug 1, 2024

📰 Loyalty must-reads and watches

Here's what the Stack team read this week 👇

🐓 Blackbird released their flypaper, detailing their vision for restaurant economy onchain and introducing $F2, the network ownership token

📰 JP Morgan recently released their report on Web3 as the future of social commerce

🛍 Jarrod Barnes from NEAR shares how the future of how we shop is being rewritten by onchain commerce