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ZetaChain เป็นบล็อกเชนสาธารณะพื้นฐานที่เปิดใช้งาน omnichain, Smart contract ทั่วไป และการส่งข้อความระหว่างบล็อกเชนอื่นๆได้ มันช่วยแก้ปัญหาของ "ข้ามเชน" และ "หลากหลายเชน" และมีเป้าหมายที่จะเปิด crypto และระบบนิเวศทางการเงินทั่วโลกให้กับทุกคน

 ZetaChain มองเห็นและสนับสนุนการเคลื่นไหวที่แท้จริง ระบบนิเวศของคริปโตที่หลากหลาย  ซึ่งผู้ใช้และนักพัฒนาสามารถย้ายไปมาระหว่างกันของบล็อกเชนใดๆ ก็ได้ เช่น: การชําระเงิน , DeFi , สภาพคล่อง ,เกม ,ศิลปะ ,กราฟทางสังคม ,ประสิทธิภาพ ,ความปลอดภัย ความเป็นส่วนตัว, และอื่นๆ ดูเอกสาร

ที่นี่เพื่อดูภูมิหลังและโครงสร้างของ ZetaChain ให้ละเอียดยิ่งขึ้น

คุณลักษณะสําคัญ 

กระจายอํานาจและสาธารณะ 

ZetaChain เป็นเครือข่ายบล็อกเชนแบบกระจายอํานาจและสาธารณะ ถูกสร้างขึ้นบน Cosmos SDK และTendermint Consensus ในขณะที่มีทางออกการข้ามเชนจำนวนมากอย่างการ bridgeที่หลากหลาย บ่อยครั้งรูปแบบการไว้ใจตัวกลางที่มีการติดตามบันทึกเป็นการง่ายต่อการรั่วไหลของข้อมูลหรือการแฮ๊ค  

ZetaChain เป็นบล็อกเชน Proof-of-Stake ซึ่งธุรกรรมและกิจกรรมทั้งหมดบนแพลตฟอร์ม - แม้แต่ธุรกรรมข้ามสายโซ่ - มีความโปร่งใสตรวจสอบได้และทํางานในลักษณะที่ลดความน่าเชื่อถือ โหนดที่เชื่อมต่อแบบไฮเปอร์

โหนดที่เชื่อมต่อแบบไฮเปอร์ 

โหนดของ ZetaChain มีผู้สังเกตการณ์ที่ตรวจสอบธุรกรรมในทุกเชนที่เชื่อมต่อ ด้วยสถาปัตยกรรม TSS ของ ZetaChain เครือข่ายสามารถลงนามและตรวจสอบธุรกรรมในทุกเชนที่เชื่อมต่อได้เช่นเดียวกับกระเป๋าเงิน ด้วยความสามารถในการอ่านและเขียนไปยังเชนที่เชื่อมต่อในลักษณะที่ปลอดภัยและกระจายอํานาจโหนดที่เชื่อมต่อแบบไฮเปอร์เหล่านี้จึงให้สภาพแวดล้อม omnichain ที่ราบรื่นสําหรับนักพัฒนาในการสร้างแอปพลิเคชันข้ามเชนที่แปลกใหม่และมีประสิทธิภาพ

การส่งผ่านข้อความ Omnichain 

นักพัฒนาสามารถส่งข้อความ (ข้อมูล + ค่า) ระหว่างเชนและเลเยอร์ด้วยการเรียกฟังก์ชันอย่างง่าย นักพัฒนา dApp สามารถสร้างแอปพลิเคชันข้ามสายโซ่ที่มีประสิทธิภาพได้โดยเพียงแค่ใช้ฟังก์ชันบางอย่างภายในสัญญาอัจฉริยะที่มีอยู่ เรียนรู้วิธีสร้าง dApps โดยใช้ตัวเชื่อมต่อของ ZetaChain โปรดคลิกที่นี่เพื่ออ่านรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม.

สินทรัพย์ภายนอกที่มีการจัดการ

เครือข่ายและ dApps ของ ZetaChain ที่สร้างขึ้นบน ZetaChain สามารถจัดการสินทรัพย์และvaultsของเชนที่เชื่อมต่อภายนอกได้ สิ่งนี้ช่วยให้สินทรัพย์ในเชนใด ๆ สามารถจัดการได้เช่นเดียวกับสัญญาอัจฉริยะในเชนเดียวสามารถจัดการสินทรัพย์ในเชนของตนได้ dApp บน ZetaChain จึงสามารถประสานและsmart contract มาสู่เชนที่เชื่อมต่อได้ คุณสมบัตินี้ใช้กับทุกเครือข่าย รวมถึงnon-smart-contract chains เช่น Bitcoin และ Dogecoin

เหรียญ ZETA ของ ZetaChain ใช้เพื่อชําระค่าธรรมเนียมสําหรับSmart contract ZetaChain และใช้เพิ่มเติมเพื่อรักษาความปลอดภัยบล็อกเชน PoS ZetaChain โดยการเชื่อม/ปักหลัก/เฉือน ZETA ยังเป็นหัวใจสําคัญของการถ่ายโอนข้ามสายโซ่การแลกเปลี่ยนการส่งข้อความและความปลอดภัยของ ZetaChain ZETA เป็นหนึ่งในเหรียญหลายสายโซ่ตัวแรกที่ออกให้ในหลายเชนและหลายเลเยอร์

ผู้ใช้สามารถย้ายเหรียญ ZETA ได้โดยตรงจากเชน A ไปยังเชน B กลไกนี้เป็นทางเดียว (เช่นการเบิร์น X จำนวนบน A แล้วการมิ้นท์ X จำนวนบนเชน B) เราใช้เหรียญ ZETA ของเราเองเพื่อแสดงถึงมูลค่าข้ามเชนเนื่องจาก: ซึ่งแตกต่างจากการตรึงแบบสองทางทั่วไปไม่มีwrapดังนั้นจึงไม่มีการแสดงสินทรัพย์อ้างอิงเดียวกันหลายรายการ ค่าเดียว (ดั้งเดิม) ที่สามารถข้ามเชนได้คือผ่านเหรียญ ZETA ซึ่งช่วยลดการโจมตีได้อย่างมากส่งผลให้การตรวจสอบเข้าใจง่ายขึ้นและมีความปลอดภัยสูงขึ้น ตัวอย่างเช่นเราสามารถตรวจสอบอุปทานทั้งหมดที่ไซต์มิ้นท์สัญญา ผู้ใช้สามารถชําระเงิน ZETA สําหรับบริการข้ามสายโซ่ที่ ZetaChain จัดหาให้และสําหรับค่าธรรมเนียมเชนปลายทางในขั้นตอนเดียว 

เมื่อเรารู้จัก Zetachain และ เหรียญ Zeta กันแล้ว เรามาลองทดลองใช้กันเถอะ

วิธีรับเหรียญ testnet ZETA ใน Discord หรือ เข้าที่ 

a) มองหา Development Zone |#Zeta Faucet 

https://discord.com/channels/858516330432299008/922357353423175680

ในช่องข้อความ หลังจากนั้น bot ลิงค์ที่เรากดขอfaucetที่เชื่อมต่อกับwallet เรา 

Note : เหรียญ faucet ไม่มีค่าใดๆนะคะใช้เพื่อทดสอบระบบเท่านั้น

c)การขอเหรียญ faucet ฺฺBTC สามารถขอได้จากที่นี้ค่ะ

คุณยังสามารถร่วมกิจกรรมกับZetachain รับ OAT และ NFT ได้ที่ 

https://galxe.com/ZetaChain/campaign/GCatUUwYSY

คุณสามารถติดตามข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมและติดตามข่าวสารเกี่ยวกับ Zatachainได้ตามที่

แนะนำให้รู้จัก Zetachain

Meteor

Prepare to be disrupted. It's not a choice. It's the moment we're in. Meteor is a new publication dedicated to the people, stories, art and ideas that are changing the world, from AI to Web3, crypto, VR and beyond.

The experts agree: computer science needs the arts for AI to succeed 

We as computer scientists not only vastly overestimate our abilities to create an AGI [artificial general intelligence], we vastly underestimate and underrepresent what behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neurologists, social scientists, and even the poets, philosophers and storytellers of the world know about what it means to be human. There is much we can and should learn from them to guide our work as computer scientists in our journey. In fact, let me posit that, while someday we will likely build an artificial mind, perhaps the most important outcome of that journey is that it will compel us to understand what it means to be human." – 

IBM fellow Grady Booch, in conversation with NYU Prof. Gary Marcus

Every day we curate new AI art and go behind the scenes with artists, demos and art projects

It's been five years since CryptoPunks ascended from a free-to-mint minor NFT curiosity to a global phenomenon with surprising staying power. As of this week, in crypto winter, you might need to fork over $100,000 to get one – down from multimillion dollar highs, but still. 

Now at least two documentary projects are underway to unpack the story, and they couldn't be more different. 

What the Punk!: '526 Pixels that are shaking the art world'

comes from director Hervé Martin-Delpierre and Paris-based production studio 

. It is slated for a Fall 2023 and release looks to be a slick traditional film that will clock in at around one hour, according to an unofficial teaser posted on Vimeo. 

 is taking a Web3-native approach. Its community-funded project offers "utility-focused generative collectables" (available now for 0.088 ETH) to help underwrite 

"a part oral history and part desktop dreamscape" that aims to tell the story of NFTs and crypto art in an unconventional way. According to a description on the Web site, the story will follow a fictional character as they try to navigate this brave new world. It will feature animated action shot in a Metaverse dubbed New Alexandria, an all-star cast of crypto art pioneers, as well as interviews with dozens of Web3 builders and creators from around the world. Filling out its Web3 bona fides, Here Now has pledged a 15% royalty on NFT revenue for artists included in the project, in perpetuity.

Have artists and art projects we should feature? Send them to 

 If you buy a coffee with Ethereum, your barista might learn a lot about you -- like the contents of your NFT bag, or how much you lost on Dogecoin. In the future, when most employers pay their workers in Ethereum, the world could learn your salary as well as how you spent it. That's because most Ethereum transactions currently take place in public, and concealing your tracks on a blockchain, while not impossible, is so complicated most people don't bother (and even when they do 

Vitalik Buterin, the author of the Ethereum white paper (published 9 years ago today, happy birthday!), wants to change that with some recently published thoughts on one of the biggest gaps in the ecosystem he inspired - cryptographically secure privacy. 

"An incomplete guide to stealth addresses"

 offers an exploration into how two "lazy' people might effectively conceal a transaction on the blockchain without much effort. 

Stealth addresses would essentially be unique wallet addresses created from pairs of public and private keys, such that they can only be discovered by the parties involved. As Buterin put it: “stealth addresses give the same privacy properties as… generating a fresh address for each transaction, but without requiring any interaction.”

If implemented, stealth addresses would make it more challenging for law enforcement to trace criminal Ethereum transactions. The U.S. Department of Justice has flagged as risks by name cryptocurrencies that offer "anonymity enhanced cryptocurrencies (AECs) or privacy coins," which include smaller platforms like Monero and Zcash. Moving stealth addresses onto Ethereum, the second largest blockchain after Bitcoin, would be a big move.

While some privacy-enabled Ethereum protocols already exist, such as Tornado Cash, they do not allow private transfers of NTFs and ENS addresses. That's a big deal, because Ethereum is the biggest NFT platform going, handling 75% of total transaction volume. Stealth addresses would fill in this gap, and also move Ethereum further towards a multi wallet model in which, for example, different addresses are generated for each application you interact with. This would enhance both privacy and security – don't you know you shouldn't store all your crypto is one place? Let a thousand wallet addresses bloom.

Twitter is scratching its collective head after Porsche's 

Web3 Brand Doodles Buys ‘Rick & Morty’, Disney Animation Collaborator Golden Wolf

U.S.’ first nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining center to open in Q1

Yuga Labs Files Another Lawsuit Over RR/BAYC Project

How Apple’s Upcoming Mixed-Reality Headset Will Work

“It’s Gross To Me”: The Trio Of Artists Suing AI Art Generators Speaks Out

Meta expands its partnership with the NBA to offer 52 games in VR

Meta is expanding its partnership with the NBA and WNBA to offer more than 50 live games in VR on Meta Quest.

ChatGPT is ‘not particularly innovative,’ and ‘nothing revolutionary’, says Meta’s chief AI scientist

Axie Infinity’s Monthly Player Count Drops to Low Not Seen Since November 2020 – Bitcoin News

 set up bespoke NFT marketplaces for their projects and collections.

has ntroduced AI-first image editing. "In the past, it's been hard to add, remove, or change aspects of images without losing the essence of an image. Now you can instruct our AI engine to change even the smallest detail of your creations.

Amazon launches RxPass, a $5/month Prime add-on for all-you-need generic drugs covering 80 conditions

Nothing to see here: Atomic Clock is 90 seconds to midnight

China launches 100-mph hydrogen/supercapacitor train

The world’s largest rail vehicle manufacturer has rolled out a zero-emissions train running on hydrogen fuel cells with a supercapacitor buffer. The four-car train is capable of 100 mph (160 km/h), making it the fastest hydrogen train to date.

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Should all your blockchain purchases be visible to everyone? 

Protecting Your Privates, and Here Come the NFT Docs

Conglomerate Digest

Welcome to the ninth edition of Web3 Game Review, where I share my 

Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. Nothing in this article is financial advise. Invest at your own risk!

, a fun-filled metaverse set in a galaxy where heroes go against each other in a competitive and galactic tournament. It is a combination of Roblox's social experience, Fall Guys' racing stages, and Clash of Clans' never-ending resource collection and raiding. These are all mirrored in AFAR's Social Hub, PvP Game, and Mining Game. 

 is where all social activities and spaces are hosted. Players can interact with their friends, meet new people, and express themselves by showing off their cosmetics. They can even decorate their own private space and use it as a hangout spot to chat with friends, or trade and gift in-game items. This is also the entry and exit point for players in the 

, an exhilarating platform-shooting game where players race to the finish line while collecting points in order to win.

The AFAR experience wouldn't be complete without its 

. The Mining Game is the primary way to earn 

, the primary delivery mechanism of Cosmetic NFTs to the players. Players manage their own Mining Camp in either 

. The main difference between the two land types is that the latter is operated by LAVA LABS, while the former is owned by the players and has different properties which influence the resource levels and attacks. 

store the resources that are harvested, which can be used to level up the 

 to have better stats, increase resource production, and build better buildings and stronger defense towers.

In the Spaceship Game, players upgrade and maintain their own ship to facilitate the transport of Eggs and resources to the 

. This synergizes perfectly with the Mining Game, giving players a richer gaming experience since the mini-games are inter-connected with each other.

Aside from being the primary delivery mechanism of Cosmetic NFTs, Eggs are also a vessel of rewards that can may contain a combination of Cosmetics (NFT and Mining Camps), Mining Game Resources, XP, and $TOKEN. The Eggs can either be Large or Small - the Large Eggs are tradable NFTs which can be left unopened indefinitely, while the Small Eggs can be opened instantly. The Large Eggs require an incubator to be opened, but the incubation process can be speed up by using $TOKEN.

 are both NFTs which can be operated by 3rd parties with promotional and branding opportunities. These NFTs can be rented for a certain period of time. Players can buy and sell different items and resources in the marketplace like in-game cosmetics, Eggs, Spaceships, and more. Trading Posts are smaller than the Marketplace, and relies on Spaceship operators to maintain their stocks and inventory.

Lava Labs is a London-based gaming studio founded in 2019 by Kaya Tilev, alongside veterans from Riot, EA, and Dice. They raised over $10 million for their flagship game AFAR, and they aim to be the Pixar of Web3 as they focus on making their game skill-based and fun.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/playafar/

Kaya is an alumni of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has been involved in venture capital investments and portfolio management since 2006. He built his foundations at BNB Paripas and First New York Securities before becoming the North America East Coast Leader for Microsoft Startups in 2015. He is currently one of the partners at Sparrow Funds, an investment management firm in England. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/founder-ceo-entertainment-lava-labs/

Ed has been a game developer since 1996. His key projects include FIM Motocross, SpecOps Omega Squad, and Soldier of Fortune to name a few. He was also the chief architect of the Games Warehouse game engine, while assuming the Lead Game Developer role from 2005-2012. Ed is the former CTO of Lockwood Publishing Ltd., and currently the Director for Unabated Games.

CEO Kaya can definitely lead the Lava Labs team given his more than a decade of experience in investing in different early-stage companies. He has what it takes to share his vision clearly with the team, since he knows the struggles that startups go through. These are all manifested in how well they were able to fulfill their plans in their roadmap. In terms of development, the team can surely execute, with the leadership of CTO Ed Morley, who has been in the game development industry since 1996.

Lava Labs is backed by Dialectic and big players in the web3 gaming space like Animoca Brands, DeFiance Capital, Dapper Labs, Merit Circle, Razer, and more. Individual investors also include Nick Chong, Gabby Dizon, and Santiago R Santos.

Alli Ottarsson (ex-Riot) and Trip Hawkins (EA founder), are the advisors of the company.

The $TOKEN will have a total supply of 1,000,000,000, vested over five years. The Investors, Team, Founder, and Market Makers have the largest % share of 39.5%, but only 5% of the total supply will be allocated to the public. Both the Investors and In-Game Rewards receive 20% of their shares unlocked instantly, and the rest are vested linearly over 3 years. The Lava Labs team's 25% share has a 1 year lock and a 5 year linear unlock.

The $TOKEN will be used both as a governance token and an in-game currency to purchase cosmetic items, Season pass, upgrades, unopened eggs, and for the governance of the AFAR Social Hub.

✅ Q1 2022: LitePaper and RAFA Genesis NFT Collection

✅ Q2 2022: Mining Game Alpha, TOKEN and Land Pre-Sale

✅ Q3 2022: Mining Game Beta, Staking Program, and AFAR Social Hub Alpha

All my favorite games together in one metaverse.

 Roblox's social experience = AFAR's Social Hub; Fall Guy's racing stages = AFAR's PvP obstacle racing course; Clash of Clans’ resource collection and raiding = AFAR’s mining game. AFAR lived up to what they promised of delivering a fun-first playing experience, as they have incorporated the core gameplays of the best and most successful games all together, which resulted to an enhanced and richer gameplay. What’s more impressive is that each mini-game is integrated well with one another. For instance, aside from being the place where most social events are held, the Social Hub is also the PvP game's entry and exit point, and it is also where players could dock their spaceships. The resources harvested from the mining game are transported and facilitated in the spaceship game. The connection of each of the mini-games to one another circle back to each other, indicating a well-thought and creativity-filled lore.

 I love the feature where 3rd parties can rent the Marketplace for a certain period of time. This opens a lot of opportunities for both indie companies and AAA big ones. Lots of opportunities, awesome way to build a strong and active community, and fun way to collaborate and meet new people while playing the game.

 AFAR’s Land Sale is unlike others, they have integrated a true to life lore: the Planet contains a finite amount of Land NFTs, that players use to participate in the AFAR: Mining Game. Gameplay is split between two primary activities: Land ownership and Mining Camp operation. There are two types of land ownership: Resource Land, a tradable ERC-721 NFT owned by players, and AFAR Land owned by LAVA LABS. Resource Landowners decide which Mining Camp operators can mine their Land, benefiting from a share of the economic value extracted by the miners. Resource Landowners should promote their Land to Mining Camp operators to gain economic benefits from the mining activity.

 The Social Hub is where most social gatherings and activities are hosted. Players will feel that they are integrated in the core economy since their efforts of simply showing up and being active is rewarded through participation badges. For instance, players receive a reward for logging in every day. On top of all these, players get a chance to meet influencers and celebrities, and attend their special concerts and access to new Season Pass parties.

you can reach out to them via the following links:

https://playafar.com/litepaper/Welcome.html

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A fun-filled metaverse where heroes go head-to-head in a galactic tournament

Web3 Game Review #9: A Far Away Realm (AFAR)

Douglas Alex

Stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency that aims to maintain stability in its value, usually by being pegged to a fiat currency or a stable asset such as gold. Stablecoins are considered a secure and stable means of storing value and transacting, unlike volatile cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

There are several types of stablecoins, including those backed by fiat currencies such as the US dollar and those backed by assets. Some stablecoins are also backed by a combination of fiat currencies and assets.

The most common use of stablecoins is as a store of value, especially in volatile markets, and as a means of payment due to their stability in value. They have also been used as a tool for remittance and arbitrage operations.

Main Stablecoin with reserve in US Dollars.

 is issued by Tether Limited, a company that claims to have enough US dollars to back all units of USDT in circulation. Tether is widely used as a store of value and a means of payment on various cryptocurrency exchanges.

 is issued by Circle, an American financial company that offers blockchain-based solutions, and also by Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, both are respected companies in the market and have a good reputation. USDC is regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services and is considered a secure and transparent stablecoin.

 is issued by Paxos Trust Company, a company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services and which is also regulated by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). It is considered a secure and transparent stablecoin.

 is issued by Binance + PAXOS, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, it has a large customer base and a good reputation in the market.

It is worth noting that Tether Limited is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands and is regulated by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), similarly to USDC, Paxos Standard (PAX) and Binance USD (BUSD). However, Tether Limited is regulated as a finance company, while its stablecoin USDT is not regulated in the same way, this means that USDT is not subject to the same rules and regulations as other stablecoins and may not be as secure or transparent.

Stablecoin today like USDT, BUSD, USDC that work in the system, 1 token equals 1 dollar in the bank, cannot be trusted, after all, if the banking system was so good and correct, we would not even have arrived at the creation of bitcoin, even if the companies If we were completely honest, there is still the bank risk or the risk of governments blocking the bank accounts of those companies that control the stablecoin tokens.

As Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto once said, “Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, yet they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with only a fraction in reserve.”

Algorithmic stablecoins like DAI, VAI and others, have another problem, the contract needs to be secure, the oracle needs to be secure and decentralized, something that Chainlink is not, and the Chainlink Multisig case is really little publicized.

Basically I don’t like any stablecoin, I can’t trust those that have money in the bank, we already know the bank’s problems, I don’t like Algorithmic either, they need to trust contracts, oracles and ballast, DAI, VAI have serious problems, they could be simpler , accepting only the backing of the blockchain currency and not other tokens, the more tokens, the more complexity, the more errors and the more problems.

The solution for the future will be to really build decentralized stablecoins, with teams that strive to back up the front end of their platforms in solutions like IPFS, something I rarely see projects doing and also teaching users to manipulate contracts directly from the explorer, like the etherscan or the direct contract of a light client on your computer, but when we talk about light clients, well ….. this is missing in some blockchains or little publicized.

The future of stablecoins will look like something like 

, it’s a platform that creates stablecoins on the ethereum blockchain and only uses ethereum as collateral, if it ever adds anything other than ethereum to the ethereum blockchain, what I wrote here is void about them.

For you not to read this whole article and not know which one to choose, in my opinion the least worst is the USDC, thanks to its licenses in the US government, its listing on the stock exchange, I believe that in a judicial war, the USDC would live longer , however the USDC and stablecoins of its category, have total power over your token, freezing even the users’ dollars, in case they believe that you committed a crime or simply received a letter from the government ordering you to block your balance…., at that time you will remember what satoshi said.

Stablecoin the truth

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I've been looking at AI all wrong. I used to think of it as a potentially dangerous tool in terms of accumulation of wealth. That it was just another technology making it easier for the few wealthy to accumulate more. The idea being that bosses could hypothetically replace 100 workers with 1 AI powered worker.

Missing the obvious point that it would now be exponentially easier to start 100 new competitors with their AI powered tools. Even better 50 of them might unite and even distribute income and thus have a marketing pitch that purchasing from them employs 50 people. A powerful proposition in a world where there are mass layoffs thanks to productivity gains from AI.

Not to mention blockchain can help to handle the trust element of creating a more equitable economy. Central Bank driven inflation being relegated to the history books.

The existence of the internet and the ease with which information is distributed means that AI developments will be increasingly difficult to keep in a black box. There will always be those who will want to develop AI to serve humanity and so will be publicly available. At least a powerful enough version to run the current business that exist in our society. So the idea that AI tech will be hoarded and not available to the masses seems not as big of a concern as I initially thought.

Over the long run; AI, Blockchain, the Internet and Entrepreneurship will result in a more equal society. A more equal society is the default over a longer time horizon and it will take extra effort to keep inequality, which is the opposite of what I thought before.

Entrepreneurship x Blockchain x AI x Internet

Some Thots on the New Future

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FemGen, a one-day event & exhibition, was held on 3rd December 2022 during Art Basel Miami highlighting artists identifying as women amongst the generative art and creative coding community.

Step into the world of Sasha Stiles, a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and AI researcher who is pushing the boundaries of literature and technology. As the co-founder of crypto literary collective 

, Stiles is a trailblazer in the field of generative literature and has been honored with a Future Art Award, nominated for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net. 

Her work, which blends her own words and images with those produced using Artificial Intelligence, exploring the intersection of text and technology, and the evolution of poetry from the oral tradition; to written language; to metaversal literature. Beyond exhibitions and accolades in the Web3 and NFT spheres, both virtually and IRL, Sasha Stiles is a beacon whose impact is inspiring a new generation of female leaders in the field.

I was incredibly moved and impressed by the CODE/ART display, featuring “future self portraits” from the Self-Portrait Coding Competition for Girls. Getting a glimpse at what these grade school students have their sights set on for the future was a highlight of FEMGEN and all of Miami Art Week for me.

I count the humanoid android BINA48 as an important role model — she has taught me a lot about what it means to collaborate creatively with a machine. Language pioneers like Alison Knowles and Allison Parrish inspired me to teach myself the basics of code so I could begin to fine-tune custom text generators via OpenAI and write transhuman poetry.

Despite all the ways we are trying to build better futures, deep-rooted systemic biases persist, and the most “successful” generative artists by many metrics are men. I applaud FEMGEN’s mission to create space for those who deserve it; to showcase the astonishing algorithmic work being done by women and nonbinary artists; to highlight the vital role women have played in the history of computing; and to facilitate essential conversations that can lead to real change.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously said, “When I’m asked ‘When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?,’ and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.” I can’t wait for a time when shows and panels are helmed entirely by women artists without the need for the words “women” or “female” in the title or messaging.

As a writer, my failsafe method for overcoming a creative block or learning something new is always to hit the books. Books — printed, digital, audio, in any shape or form — are my happy place and my favorite collaborators. Going for a long walk in nature is always a good idea, too — it always helps disparate ideas click together in my brain.

Thank you! I’m very honored to be among the first writers ever to bring a literary NFT to sale at a major auction house. This AI-powered poem also represents the leading edge of a new era in generative storytelling and augmented imagination, so I’m thrilled that it was acquired by 1of1 Works, a collection dedicated to the defining digital art and culture of the 21st century. It’s surreal to see a poem of mine alongside work by the likes of Beeple and Refik Anadol, and I think it suggests an incredibly exciting future for writers empowered by web3 — a future in which poems have cultural currency, liberated from between the covers of books and valued in their own right as works of art. But I need to add: I’ve been making digital poems and writing with AI for years, and I’ve endured a lot of rejection, ignorance and ridicule along the way. I kept at it because it’s what fascinated me and fired up my curiosity, not because it was popular or lucrative (quite the opposite!). And that’s my best advice for other artists: follow your obsessions, not the market, not the trends, not the crowd.

As a writer, it’s been my lifelong goal to publish books. I grew up devouring books, depending on books, being nourished by books. It means a great deal to me to be able to share my work with readers in this way. “Technelegy” isn’t just a printed book, though; it’s an ongoing project that involves collaboration with my AI-powered alter ego, and an investigation of the many ways that literature can be written and experienced with the help of digital innovations in web3, the metaverse, and beyond. There will be more to this project released in 2023…

L’Avant Galerie Vossen — Analog Binary Code

Being part of the Tezos ecosystem is fundamental to my journey in web3 and as a futurist poet and artist. I am constantly inspired by the creativity I see all around me, and it’s a privilege to be able to collect and support visionary artists. I’m particularly committed to collecting exciting examples of digital literature in many genres and styles, with a focus on poetry. I truly believe that poetry is the original blockchain — a data storage system for our most essential human beliefs, emotions, ideas, stories — and that poems from this point in time will become historic artifacts of a pivotal moment in human history, with consequences perhaps even more far-reaching than the invention of written language and the advent of the printing press.

Leading Women In Web3 Series

FemGen — A Conversation With Sasha Stiles

Welcome to the eighth edition of Web3 Game Review, where I share my 

Blankos Block Party is a social multiplayer block party game set in an open world featuring interactive shooting, racing, collection, and brawl game modes. In the 

 game mode, players choose from different Block Parties arranged by other players. These Block Parties are divided into 3 stages, which can be a combination of different mini-games like racing, Vibe collection, and shooting. 12 Blankos go block-to-block in a non-elimination free-for-all gameplay, and the player with the most points gets the most prizes. The maps in the game are called levels, and players can create their own in the 

game mode, with custom themes, obstacles, and game modes. In the 

 players can casually hang out with their squad to meet and interact with other Blankos, via a 

that could be found from the upper right-hand corner of any 

Blanko Attributes: Grades, Styles, Moves, and Perks

Blankos are the characters that players will use to battle and play against each other. They are mischievous digital vinyl toys that can be customized and upgraded. Players get a default Blanko to start playing the game, but they could also purchase limited edition Blankos with exclusive designs from the Mythical Marketplace. Blankos can be boxed or unboxed. As in real life, the boxed Blankos have greater value than the unboxed one - once you unbox a Blanko, you cannot put it back. Upon unboxing, the Blanko 

(Class) is determined by the Set of the two Power Moves equipped. Each Blanko has three 

Fair (FR), Good (GD), and Excellent (EX), with 5 levels each. A higher Grade means more Perk slots for accessories. 

are divided into three types: Foundation Perks, Power Perks, and Hidden Perks. They alter the characteristics, abilities, and 

is the in-game soft currency. Both of them are used to purchase Blankos, weapons, building materials, accessories, emotes, and other in-game items. Blanko Bucks can only be acquired by buying it from the in-game store using real money, or purchasing bundles like Founder's Packs. MOOLA can be earned by simply playing the game and completing challenges. 

 are consumables used to upgrade your Blanko. They can be acquired via the in-game store using Blanko Bucks or MOOLA, but they can also be earned thru the Party Pass.

 is an in-game feature which rewards players for playing Blankos Block Party. Players are given Hype Points as they complete quests and challenges (Daily, Weekly, and Seasonal), that allow them to progress in their Party Pass to unlock new cosmetic items, accessories, power ups, skills, emotes, Blanko Bucks, Gumballs, XP Chips, Emotes, and even a Blanko. All players get the free variant of the Party Pass by default, but if they want to earn more exclusive rewards, they can purchase the 

Mythical Games is a game development studio led by veterans from major franchises like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Marvel Strike Force, and Guitar Hero. It has been operating since 2018, and has raised a total 

 of $260M over 7 funding rounds from investors like Binance Labs, a16z, Fenbushi Capital, Alumni Ventures, and more.

John has over a decade of experience in the games industry. He is the former Studio Head of Beachhead Studio, an internal development division of Activision Blizzard. He has worked on games like Call of Duty: Black Ops II & III, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Skylanders Battlecast. He is also the former President of Seismic Games, a AAA mobile and mixed reality (AR/VR) game studio that was acquired by Niantic Labs in July 2018. Some of their notable games include Marvel Strike Force, Magic the Gathering: Valor’s Reach, Blade Runner: Revelations (Daydream), and Raising a Rukus.

Jamie Jackson, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder

Jamie is also an ex-Activision Blizzard Studio Head, responsible for the development of DJ Hero, Guitar Hero Live, Sing Party, and Call of Duty Online. He also has over 20 years of experience as the Creative Director of Free Style Games Ltd., which was acquired by Activision in 2008.

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Rudy Koch, Co-founder and Business Development

Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience. He was the former Managing Producer for The Walt Disney Company's hit game Club Penguin, leading the launch of the game's mobile application 

for iOS, which became a top 10 app within 4 hours of going live, and reached #1 in 25 countries. He also joined John and Jamie at Activision for the Call of Duty franchises, and Skylanders Battlecast. Rudy was also the Senior Producer for World of Warcraft.

Chris Downs, Co-founder and Infrastructure Operations

Chris started his gaming career as a Senior Network Engineer and DevOps Engineer for Insomniac Games, developer of some of the top PlayStation games like Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), Spyro the Dragon (1998), Ratchet & Clank (2002) and Resistance (2005). In 2014, he joined Activision Blizzard as the Lead Backend Engineer.

Founded in 2016, Third Kind Games is an independent game studio in the UK. They have worked on several world famous games like Forza Horizon 4, DRG Initiative, and Fable. Currently, they have a AAA IP project for Blizzard, but no details have been disclosed as of the moment as it is confidential.

The core team is highly experienced with their stint at Activision Blizzard. They all have worked on the best games in Web2, and their ability to execute is no question. However, the recent issue on Mythical Games' former executives (Chris Ko, Rudy Koch and Matthew Nutt) dated last December 23, 2022, is alarming. They violated the terms of agreement by using the company's platform [Mythical Games] to raise $150 million in funding for Fenix Games, which emerged a few weeks after the trio split ways. They specifically persuaded Cypher Capital, a UAE-based VC, to invest in their new venture using the business plan for Mythical Games. This issue is not something to overlook, as this says a lot about the integrity of the core team members in the long-term sustainability of Blankos Block Party.

No whitepaper available. No details announced regarding Advisors and Partners.

No whitepaper available. No details announced regarding Tokenomics.

No whitepaper available. No details announced regarding Roadmap.

 The Blankos collectibles are digital vinyl toys that look like Funko Pop Figures that have come to life in a fun-filled game. They've done a great job in marketing and making their collectibles appealing by not deviating from what worked with Funko Pops. Blankos has partnered with well-known brands like Burberry, Deadmau5, and more to release limited edition Blankos. This approach enables big brands to connect with their community in a richer way, through gaming. The feeling of exclusivity for the holders of limited edition Blankos also make the gameplay more fun, since there are different stories behind each Blanko.

 There are different mini-games available in the game: shooting, racing, and vibe collection. The levels (maps) in the game are very challenging but intuitive and engaging. I also like the feature where players can create their custom levels in The Build game mode. Although the game looks a bit like Fall Guys, Roblox, and Minecraft, what truly makes it stand out is full ownership of in-game items given to the players.

 I like how the game is designed to monetize via the Party Pass+. It's a decent way to earn rewards, and players are not forced to buy it. It encourages players to spend more time playing the game, in order to get exclusive rewards from the Party Pass. In addition, there is no gameplay advantage for those who purchased the Party Pass+, so there is no pay-to-win.

A vibrant open world with a giant block party theme centered on custom art and design

Web3 Game Review #8: Blankos Block Party

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Sofia Garcia is a highly regarded figure in the world of generative art, known for her work as a curator, advisor, and community builder. She is the founder of ARTXCODE, a generative art house; is one of Apollo Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in Art + Tech | Business; and has served on the curation board for ArtBlocks. Throughout her career Sofia has gained expertise in web architecture, interaction design, animation, and blockchain technology including previous experience working as a blockchain technical design strategist at JP Morgan. 

Well-versed in the interface between art, finance and technology —  Sofia is founding director of education at Code/Art, a non-profit organization that teaches young girls how to create art using code: inspiring the next generation with the creative possibilities in programming.

I didn’t have my own work up there, but I had some of my students’ works up there, which was wonderful to see. Code/Art is a non profit I am currently on the board of that teaches young girls how to make art with code. I was the founding director of education when the organization started in 2016 and set up the curriculum the girls use to this day, so seeing their work alongside giants of the industry was super inspiring. Apart from getting all this female talent under one roof, which was amazing, seeing our girls celebrated during this moment resonated with me most.

I learned to code out of frustration with the art world I was living in at the time. I was working at a gallery, but was feeling stuck in terms of job prospects, so I decided to take up a computer science course just to see what this coding thing was all about. It was the best decision I ever made. Coming out from an arts education, I was really able to see the human/artistic side of code which I thought was fascinating. For the first time, I could see the role human creativity played in the technology that surrounds us. From there, I became obsessed with the history of computer art and it was during this phase of research I found my first role model: Vera Molnár. Vera is considered one of — if not, the first- women to make art with code and it was her work that O first tried to emulate and copy with code. When I started running workshops at Girls Who Code and, later Code/Art, I would ensure to always teach the girls about her — she paved the way for so many of us.

 (top) | Sofia Garcia announcing Kaylla’s artwork as the Code/Art winner in 2016 (bottom)

Really to help make sure our stories are told and celebrated: we are the women of generative art. When we think about the market, or look at the press that dominates public conversation, it is usually surrounded by men. These men are wonderfully talented people, however I think holding space to celebrate who we are and everything we’ve done is really important. I’m so glad VCA and Right Click Save decided to do this, I knew instantly I had to be involved in some capacity.

On a local level: teaching more girls, engaging them with technology, the history of computer arts, and ensuring there is a space for them in the creative and technical arts. Also, another part of this is advocating women and girls to be vocal around their work. One of the biggest findings from my experience as a curator, dealer, plus someone who has worked with ArtBlocks and other platforms, is that it is increasingly difficult to find talented women — not because they don’t exist- but because they are not nearly as vocal online as our male counterparts. It’s not objectively a bad thing to avoid social media, but it does show that women are a bit more reserved in showcasing their works, which affects visibility and the ways that we can find them. One of the things we are prioritising is teaching girls at a young age to share their work, be more vocal, because we need to find their work in order to celebrate it. Events like FEMGEN are really helping to pave the way.

Just keep moving. Even if I mess up, fall on my face, or am stuck, its to just get up the next day and go at it again. Sometimes you may need a week, a fortnight, a month to take a break — as long as you get back to it. You can fall off the horse and get back on again. If you fail, so what?

Congratulations on the success of artxcode. One of its recent collections is “LOVE: The Tennis Project’’ by Martin Grasser. In a recent twitter thread you shared your surprise upon reviewing the first mints and finding that creator’s fees were set to 0% by OpenSea despite using ArtBlocksEngine’s smart contract. Please outline the issue/debate here with royalties? What short, and long term, solutions or approaches are necessary across the ecosystem from your perspective?