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August 23, 2024

Volume 30

Volume 30

Welcome back to Currents. This week, we sit down with the founder of Grapes, Dan Beasley, plus we dive into news like Sotheby’s Digital Art Day sale, Warpcast introducing new features, Unstoppable Domains’ partnership with Farmsent, Confiction Labs’ new ‘Proof of Exposure’ process, Uprising’s genesis NFT collection that sold out in only two hours, and the new Bitcoin Ordinals collection from BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes. Let’s dive in.

Dan Beasley’s Plan to Build a Global Entertainment Brand with Grapes

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Dan Beasley’s Plan to Build a Global Entertainment Brand with Grapes

With a solid crop of mobile games on the market, Grapes is building a full vineyard of products in its pursuit of developing the next great consumer entertainment brand. Founded by mobile gaming industry veteran Dan Beasley, digital entertainment brand Grapes has deployed a blend of traditional and blockchain-enabled mobile games that have been well-received by the market.

Dan Beasley's story begins in an era when mobile phones were closer to bricks than today’s smartphones...

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Sotheby’s Digital Art Day sale

This week Sotheby’s auctioned a curated collection of works by boundary-pushing technologists during its Digital Art Day sale. Bidding opened August 15 and ran through August 22.

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Warpcast introduces new features

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Warpcast introduces new features

Warpcast’s new Explore feature makes it easier for users to discover apps, action, and frames. Developers can submit their apps for listing, making it easier for users to find them.

Warpcast also just improved NFT-gated group chats. Updates included better support for contract addresses in the CAIP-10 format and automated member removal for non-holders.

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Unstoppable Domains partners with Farmsent

Decentralized domain platform Unstoppable Domains has partnered with Farmsent, a collaborative agricultural ecosystem, to make .farms domain names available. Members can now secure a web3 domain name that signals their belonging to the Farmsent community and create a custom page that showcases their products.

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Confiction Labs introduces 'Proof of Exposure'

Singapore-based game developer Confiction Labs has rolled out a new in-game solution for combating what they view as the rise of bots in the web3 gaming space.

Dubbed “Proof of Exposure,” the process appears in Confiction Labs’ multiplayer shooter game, “Riftstorm.”

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Uprising's genesis NFT collection sells out

Uprising, a layer 2 gaming blockchain that runs on validators owned by Sega, Ubisoft and other industry players, dropped its NFT collection Uprising Genesis: Origins on August 14. In what was planned to be a three-phase rollout, all 1,111 free-to-mint NFTs sold out within two hours.

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Arthur Hayes to launch new Bitcoin Ordinals collection

On August 15, Arthur Hayes announced Airheads, a new collection of 10,000 Ordinals for which the artwork attached to each digital item demonstrates the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) the buyer holds.

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