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On my first Shiny Object Social Club community call, I was nervous. After 55 minutes of talking about the future, I heard what I was waiting for:

There are a lot of questions surrounding DAOs and the value that they can potentially amass. Already, they have become the subject of controversy. Some observers praise their frictionless ability to allow people to organize globally and pull financial levers. Others argue that they might be dangerous, could allow people to get scammed out of their savings, and need to be regulated. At The Business of Business, we decided to take a close look at DAOs as well as similar and related decentralized blockchain-based entities. We compiled a list of the 50 biggest DAOs and similar and related entities by market cap (defined as the product of token prices and the circulating supply), and we arrived at some intriguing insights about these new vehicles.

Royal is a marketplace for music NFTs, advertising its platform as a place where users can purchase shares of songs, then earn royalties on the music they’ve invested in.

I dug through the portfolios of 5 venture funds investing in crypto/blockchain: a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Paradigm Capital…

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“How we choose to do what we need to do is the basis of culture; the difference between grabbing a bodega sandwich to sitting down for omakase. All these nuances across the spectrum of experience. But if crypto doesn’t care to find new wells, to expand our reference points, we’ll all stay thirsty for what we know we can do”

Uniswap V3.

So I have this Discord server called “Server Studio” that I aspired to be some sort of coworking space or a place to grow for creatives. But after two months, it’s just soooo quiet in there. There’s just a few people participating — my guess is around 10 — in a Discord server with over 200 people.

When two Canadian coders started an online project called CryptoPunks, they had no idea they’d spark a hyped-up, blockchain-fueled cultural juggernaut.

James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual

DoinGud, a new NFT ecosystem focused on empowering creators, and generating positive social impact, announced Tanzania Development Trust.

For anyone looking for an overview of the program more generally, check the original announcement post here. The students accepted and application methodology can be found here.

In its short lifespan, Curve Finance has established itself as one of the key building blocks in the DeFi ecosystem, utilizing its DAO and gauge mechanism as a gatekeeper for success among some of the fastest growing protocols in DeFi such as Convex and Abracadabra. Yet, many participants are not aware of the full extent of Curve’s influence in DeFi. Being the black hole for liquidity that it is, anyone who has experimented with DeFi protocols, will find that quite a few of those DApps use Curve to source liquidity and yield without you even recognizing it.

Hey there! Coinvise is a web3 platform that helps creators & communities build and manage their Social Tokens. You can join the community here. If you find this essay interesting, make sure to subscribe to this newsletter and follow Coinvise on Twitter. Enjoy! 🔥

Let’s face it. Crypto onboarding as we know it is a tedious process plagued by token shillers and speculators whose only mission is to pump their own bags. And aside from centralized products like Coinbase Earn, there’s no education network dedicated to teaching users the ins and outs of on-chain interactions.

As people from all over the world gathered in Lisbon, “gm’s” turned to “bd’s” and the metaverse met in meatspace for a week of events and fanfare kicking off with Liscon.

Hey there! Coinvise is a web3 platform that helps creators & communities build and manage their Social Tokens. You can join the community here. If you find this essay interesting, make sure to subscribe to this newsletter and follow Coinvise on Twitter. Enjoy! 🔥

Written by: Maria Gomez (@MyPaoG), Julia Rosenberg (@JulzRoze), and Chun Poon (@zkchun)