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2021-10-28 22:24:43 Facebook Goes All In on Metaverse With New Company Name Meta, NFT Push

- Facebook has renamed its parent company Meta as part of a metaverse push.

- The company announced the move at its metaverse-themed Facebook Connect keynote today. Open / Comment

2021-10-12 18:17:00 Crypto Snippets Daily, 12 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
Ethereum NFT Game Sorare Investigated by UK Gambling Commission - Link

Former UK Chancellor Enters Crypto’s Revolving Door, Joins Custody Firm Copper - Link

Project News:
Launch Aave on Fantom - Link

Binance announced its new listing: SuperRare - Link

Crypto payment startup MoonPay valued at $3.4 billion after first funding round - Link

Binance launches $1 billion growth fund for Binance Smart Chain - Link

Crypto lender Celsius Network raises $400m as regulatory pressure grows - Link | Link

SoftBank Joins $60M Investment in Crypto Analytics Firm Elliptic - Link

Decentralized exchange Futureswap raises $12 million from Ribbit Capital and others - Link

Crypto prime broker SheeldMarket raises $10 million in Series A funding - Link

NFT News:
Yield Guild Games Partners With CyBall — A Football-Themed Play-to-Earn Game Launching on BSC and Solana - Link

Altered State Machine - Genesis Drop on 20th October at 0.09Eth - Link

TikTok Top Moments’ first NFT auction is live - Link

The mystery of a $1.5 million Ethereum name purchase - Link

A Closer Look at Tokemak NFTs - Link

How Financial NFTs Can Prove Invaluable to the Future of DeFi Sector - Link

DAO News:
How Stake DAO NFTs unlock the full potential of Stake DAO - Link

A weekly digest of everything going down in the FWB universe - Link

Others:
Paradigm onboards new partner amid $1.5 billion raise - Link

Andreessen Horowitz Nabs Engineers From Novi Crypto Wallet - Link

Mapping out Dragonfly Capital's portfolio - Link

UniWhales gets that DeFi analytics are about more than data - Link

Crypto jobs thread October 2021 - Link

Gas tracker for Fantom Opera - Link

Proof of First: Web3 Taste, Earliness, and Curation - Link

BTC Futures: Aggregated Open Interests - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 78 (Extreme Greed, 12 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 68 (Greed, 12 October)

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2021-10-11 17:04:06 Crypto Snippets Daily, 11 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
SEC Approves Volt Equity’s Crypto Stock ETF - Link

Bitmain says it will no longer ship bitcoin miners in mainland China - Link

El Salvador's Bitcoin Approach Is 'Contrary to the Ideals' of Crypto - Link

CBDCs Are 'Cryptofascist Currencies' That Could 'Casually Annihilate' Savings - Link

Project News:
In depth overview of Abracadabra money or $SPELL - Link

$Psi is now live for active trading on Terraswap and nexusprotocol.app - Link

Metaverse Gaming Heats Up As Treeverse Concludes Raise At $25m Valuation - Link

DeHorizon Raises $8.5M Pre-A Round Led By Sfermion, Dragonfly Capital and Everest Ventures Group - Link

Elpis Global successfully raised $2.15M to build the first game on Elpis Metaverse - Link

NFT News:
OpenSea: The Reasonable Revolutionary - Link

Extending the Loot Metaverse - Link

BabyDoodles 101 Guide to Solana NFTs - Link

Stacks Blows Up 57% After Bitcoin NFTs Take Off - Link

NFTs Are Still Hot in China, Despite Crypto Crackdown - Link

DeFi meets NFTs: How a lender received a $340,000 NFT after a loan wasn't repaid - Link

OpenSea delists DAO Turtles project citing financialization concerns - Link

Why FTX’s upcoming marketplace is avoiding NFTs that offer royalties - Link

DAO News:
Olympus DAO is a masterclass in tokenomics - Link

How to DAO from Day 1 - Link

Others:
DeFi Digest: JPEG'd and NiftyOptions - Link

ConsenSys Holds Funding Round Talks With $3B Valuation - Link

Mirror, DAOs, and the Exclusivity Problem - Link

Probability of BTC being above x$ per maturity - Link

Bitcoin: Futures Open Interest - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 71 (Greed, 11 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 62 (Greed, 11 October)

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2021-10-08 09:32:42 Crypto Snippets Daily, 8 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
Neobrokerage firm Public.com rolls out crypto trading tools - Link

Tether's assets include $1 billion with crypto lending platform Celsius - Link

Project News:
Yearn Finance go Multichain with the launch of Iron Bank Fantom - Link

Fantom: Solving the Blockchain Trilemma - Link

Coinlist announced its next token sale: Biconomy - Link

Parallel-Heiko has officially won the 10th slot auction in the Kusama parachain auctions - Link

Velas increases blockchain grants program to $100M - Link

Colombian Fintech Movii Raises $15M in Series B Round - Link

GooseFX Announces $4.5 Million Seed Raise - Link

Stader Labs Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding, Led by Pantera Capital & Other Major Investors - Link

Algorand-Based Tinyman Raises $2.5M Ahead of DEX Launch - Link

NFT News:
ETH NFT Valuations and Rarity Rankings for 14,000 NFT Projects - Link

Bitcoin NFTs Are Emerging on Stacks. Can They Thrive? - Link

DAO News:
MakerDAO Chases ‘Real World’ Deals and Assets in Major Test for DeFi - Link

Thread on Temple DAO - Link

5 key insights on PartyBid - Link

Pods: The DAOnfall of Token Voting - Link

How to Write your DAO Constitution and Become a Founding Father - Link

Others:
Everything about Ethereum Name Service - Link

Persistence deployed an airdrop to $ATOM & $XPRT stakers - Link

Thread on tax reduction methods - Link

Socios partners in a league of their own - Link

What’s behind dYdX’s explosive growth and skyrocketing revenue? - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 74 (Greed, 8 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 68 (Greed, 8 October)

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2021-10-07 22:37:39 Crypto Snippets Daily, 7 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
Robinhood Rival Public Adds Crypto Including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin - Link

DOJ to Create Crypto Enforcement Group to Fight Cybercrime, Money Laundering - Link

Bitcoin Is Soaring on Rumors SEC Will Approve BTC ETF in Two Weeks - Link

Project News:
C.o.R.E. — The First Token Reactors - Link

Introducing FundMovr: Seamless Cross-Chain Bridging - Link

Announcing Flashbots Protect - Link

Fantom ecosystem spotlight – Tarot - Link

Deep Dive | Valkyrie Protocol - Link

Sienna Network Launches Privacy-Centric DeFi Crypto Exchange - Link

Multicoin Capital Leads $8.5M Investment in Interest Rate Swap Exchange for DeFi - Link

Merit Circle closes $4.5M seed round to revolutionize the P2E gaming industry - Link

NFT News:
How NFT Photo Sensation Twin Flames Landed at Christie's - Link

Russell Simmons Says His NFT Collection with Snoop Dogg Is About 'Respect' - Link

Perpetuals on CryptoPunks - Link

Hashes a new NFT building block and a DAO in one - Link

Ghxsts: The Ultimate Guide - Link

Algorithmic Minting: NFTs With Codified Digital Provenance - Link

Magic Eden partners with Frakt Art to bring The first generative art NFT project built on Solana - Link

Agencies are figuring out how to safely guide brands through the wild world of NFTs - Link

How do you actually make the most of NFT opportunity financially or creatively? - Link

New NFT fractionalization primitive: RICKS (Recurrently Issued Collectively Kept Shards) - Link

Art Blocks Raises $6M From True Ventures, Galaxy on Strength of Generative NFTs - Link

Cool Cats, CrypToadz Ethereum NFTs Notch First $1 Million Sales - Link

DAO News:
State of the DAOs #0 - Link

Looking to Work for a New DAO? There’s a Discord Bot for That - Link

Introducing the FWB Fellowships Program - Link

Working for DAOs: Gaby Goldberg, Cooper Turley and Alex Zhang - Link

Others:
Portfolio Director of $5 billion fund Pantera Capital believes DeFi market is undervalued - Link

A thread on Olympus DAO - Link

Mapping out the Cardano ecosystem - Link

Thread on why $SHIB finally broke out after months of consolidation - Link

Deep dive into the Rarity Metaverse - Link

Why web3 gaming will finally unlock the true potential of user-generated content - Link

Play to Earn is the Future of Gaming - Link

Intro to Virtual Economies in P2E Game Design - Link

Musings on top genres for blockchain games, pros & cons - Link

Bitcoin: Percent of Entities in Profit - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 76 (Extreme Greed, 7 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 69 (Greed, 7 October)

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2021-10-06 14:56:47 Crypto Snippets Daily, 6 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
Brazilian Lawmaker Aims to Make Bitcoin a Legal 'Payment Currency - Link

Fifth-Largest Bank in U.S. Now Offering Bitcoin Custody Services - Link

Colombia Could Use Waterfalls to Produce Bitcoin, Not Cocaine: Senator Petro - Link

These Are The High-Profile Bitcoin ETF Applications Currently In Play - Link

Project News:
Manifold Announces Verified NFT Studio, Funding from a16z and Initialized - Link | Link

Publishing on Mirror is Now Open to All - Link

Axie Infinity creator announces $152 million in Series B funding led by a16z - Link | Link

Arca’s First Early Stage Venture Fund, Endeavor, Closes its Oversubscribed Round over $30M - Link

ThorChain-based DEX ThorSwap raises $3.75 million in a private token sale - Link

Gitcoin Grants – Quadratic Funding for the World - Link

NFT News:
Cement a new NFT category that is as exciting as pfps - Link

NFT Market Too Frothy? Now You Can Short It - Link

NFTs 101 — Why NFTs are a generational innovation - Link

Thread on what's the end game for NFT Avatar projects - Link

Total NFT Secondary sales surpass $10 Billion - Link

DAO News:
Announcing the Launch of DivineDAO and $DIVINE Token Sale on SZNS - Link

How to create a social token? - Link

Others:
Digital Assets Primer: Only the first inning - Link

Thread on a pathway to an open Metaverse - Link

There's More to Investing Than Just Risk and Return - Link

Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web - Link

Thread on most thought provoking ideas on Web 3, NFTs, tokens etc - Link

Top 15 Venture Funding Deals all time in the blockchain/crypto sector - Link

These women were left out of ‘old Wall Street.’ They want cryptocurrency to be different - Link

A Vision of Ethereum - 2025 - Link

The technical benefits of EIP-1559 - Link

A Proposed Framework for Kwenta Governance, Tokenomics, and Staking - Link

BTC Futures Annualized rolling 1mth Basis - Link

Bitcoin: HODL waves (10yr + coins) - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 68 (Greed, 6 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 64 (Greed, 6 October)

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2021-10-01 17:23:28 Crypto Snippets Daily, 1 October - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
Visa Unveils 'Layer 2' Network for Stablecoins, Central Bank Currencies - Link

Supposed 17-year-old artist sells $138,000 worth of fake NFTs and disappears - Link

MiamiCoin has generated $7 million for the city - Link

Project News:
AXS Staking is Live - Link

Thread by Orca Protocol on Cryptoeconomics and Pods - Link

Steve Cohen's Point72 Ventures leads $35 million Series C round for Zero Hash - Link

Forta launches with $23M to bring better security to smart contracts - Link

Trader Joe Enters Avalanche Rush with an Incentives Program up to $20M - Link

NFT News:
Dolce & Gabbana’s NFT Experiment Is A Million-Dollar Success Story - Link

Public minting of Planetary DAO Tokens is LIVE - Link

Immutable X is thrilled to power the launch of TikTok Top Moments, its first creator-led NFT collection on Layer 2 with Stark WareLtd - Link

Nyan Heroes Announces Details of Their Genesis NFT Sale - Link

Daily Floor Stats Update - Link

Introducing Punk Pieces: the first community-owned gallery on JPG - Link

Introducing WOWswap NFT — Trade the Most Popular NFTs with Leverage - Link

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites - Link

Lil Nas X Will Be First Artist to Drop Official TikTok NFTs - Link

DAO News:
DAO infrastructure platform Layer3 raises $2.5 million in seed funding - Link

Others:
Thread on Terra's Columbus 5 update - Link

DeFi's biggest problem and biggest opportunity - Link

Thead on Web3 native business models - Link

Can Crypto Put a Price on Community? - Link

Narrative Distillation - Link

A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems - Link

Bitcoin: Total/Realtive/Mean Transfer Volume (Entity-Adjusted) - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 27 (Fear, 1 October)
Ethereum F&G Index: 29 (Fear, 30 September)

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2021-09-04 14:31:15 Crypto Snippets Daily, 4 September - bit.ly/CryptoSnippets

General News:
SEC is investigating decentralized crypto exchange developer Uniswap Labs - Link

$4.4 Billion EOS Token Raise Fueled NY Wash Trading, Says New Research - Link

Solana CEO Anatoly Yakovenko: Here's Why We're Not in a Crypto Bubble - Link

How the most profitable NFT collectors decide what to invest in - Link

An Update on Avalanche, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, Cosmos, and Terra - Link

Project News:
Parcel raises $2.5 million to build treasury management protocol for DAOs - Link

SushiSwap unveils website for its yet-to-launch Shoyu NFT platform - Link

Updates from dYdX community and ecosystem - Link

NFT News:
Solana gaming & NFT mini thread - Link

Star Atlas announced the Galatic Asset Offering - Link

The Value of NFTs Is Belonging - Link

How Axie Infinity is offering a blockchain-backed living wage - Link

7 Hottest NFT Trends Happening Right Now - Link

Film Director Jim Cummings Is Auctioning His Thunder Road Script as an NFT - Link

How the most profitable NFT collectors decide what to invest in - Link

Introducing Lifeforms - Link

Thread on a quick overview about how The Settlements sold out - Link

What is Loot? The Surging Ethereum NFT Role-Playing Phenonemon - Link

Introducing The Herald, a Loot newsletter - Link

Synthetic loot avatar available on loot.stephancill.co.za - Link

DAO:
Doggos (for $DOG Owners) that lets you adopt a doggo for just gas if you have $DOG - Link

WTF is Olympus DAO? - Link

DAOs: The Rapidly Emerging Crypto Sector to Watch w/ Coopahtroopa - Link

Others:
Dune Analytics announced that Optimism data is now available on Dune - Link

Ethereum 2.0 resources - Link

DeFi weekly update - Link

Ethereum vs. Terra - Link

AllCoreDevs Update 006 - Link

Staking Inflow Total - Link

Bitcoin F&G Index: 74 (Greed, 3 September)
Ethereum F&G Index: 73 (Greed, 3 September)

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2021-09-03 22:04:56 SushiSwap unveils website for its yet-to-launch Shoyu NFT platform

The website for SushiSwap's forthcoming non-fungible token (NFT) platform, Shoyu, is now live

Shoyu is looking to create an NFT platform that focuses on artists and creators needs to push the space forward. Current NFTs are limited by file format and sizing for artist and their creative abilities. Design wise we want the platform to be beautiful, functional and have that Japanese sensibility and aesthetic. Open / Comment

2021-09-03 21:54:34 Film Director Jim Cummings Is Auctioning His Thunder Road Script as an NFT

The director of Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow talks NFTs, film DAOs and crypto film financing as he sells his first non-fungible token.

He's auctioning off his personal copy of the script for Thunder Road as a non-fungible token (NFT) on OpenSea, complete with smudges, coffee stains, and scribbled notes. Open / Comment