Volume 8

OpenSea: Who or what excites you in the web3 and NFT space right now?

Ricardo Cavolo: I’m excited when art becomes a vehicle for playful narratives and gaming, like…

This week, Ethereum-based creator network Frame announced it’s developing an EVM-compatible L2 designed to streamline NFT activities and make the process of minting, buying, and selling NFTs more accessible for creators.

Frame has built Delegate, a wallet security protocol, directly into the L2. Delegate helps protect users by letting them link cold storage wallets to a more public-facing hot wallet that acts as a buffer against security risks.

Boss Beauties, an entertainment and media company dedicated to uplifting the coming generations of women and girls, has officially acquired BFF, an educational community dedicated to onboarding women and non-binary people to web3 and the frontier of tech.

Represented by the global talent agency WME, Boss Beauties is known widely by consumers of both web3 and traditional brands, thanks in part to its partnerships with Barbie, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The visionary developers over at OP Stack have done it once again! The inaugural fault proof system is now live on the Goerli testnet, providing the groundwork for multi-proof disputes that can also include zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Unveiled in this alpha release were three components: the Fault Proof Program (FPP), the Fault Proof Virtual Machine (FPVM) and the dispute game protocol. Together, these components enhance scalability and decentralization while guarding against malicious or faulty activities on the OP Stack network.

On September 30, Beeple Studios welcomed the CryptoPunk community to its brick-and-mortar gallery in Charleston, SC for an all-day soiree featuring panels, drinks, and networking.

Speakers included LarvaLabs co-founders Matt Hall and John Wilkinson, who spoke about their experiences as the masterminds behind CryptoPunks.

Dawn Wallet has infused AI into its design so that users can treat their crypto wallet like an AI sidekick.

According to a description on the wallet’s X page, the AI-driven crypto copilot can interpret voice commands to send transactions, interact with protocols, answer crypto-related questions, and perform on-chain queries to analyze data.

Italian luxury house Moncler and iconic sportswear brand Adidas have come together for a boundary-pushing NFT collaboration that takes consumers on a journey from mountain peaks to urban streets, called “The Art of Explorers.”

The artwork features a series of AI-generated explorers and mixed-media sculptures inspired by the designs of notable artists like Gary Card, Ibby Njoya and Kate Tabor.

This week, Nike announced its first-ever physical sneaker inspired by virtual wearables from its digital collectibles platform, .Swoosh.

It’s a low-top take on the iconic Nike Air Force 1 with .Swoosh branding and a classic black-and-white color scheme. The shoes will also feature a cheeky abbreviated slogan, TINAJ, which stands for “This is not a JPEG.”

OpenSea Studio, a one-stop shop for creators to launch and manage their projects, launched this week with the following features, and more capabilities coming soon:

• Create and manage a drop end-to-end, including setting up allowlist phases, uploading media and metadata (with helpful preview functionality), and building the drop page
• Mint an NFT into your own wallet
• Create on most blockchains compatible with OpenSea
• Let buyers mint an NFT from your collection using a credit or debit card

And there are no coding or technical skills required to do any of the above! Read more about OpenSea Studio, including upcoming features.