Peace everyone. Jeff Staple here!

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:

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.

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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.

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

A recent project called Tunes used AI to generate 5,000 unique NFTs. They’re songs, or rather, shells of songs - missing artwork, audio and an artist. That’s intentional. They serve as prompts for people to iterate on, tapping into a recent trend in the NFT space popularized by another project called Loot. Let’s dive in.

NFTs are selling for billions of dollars. Digital cats, tweets, and music are being tokenized through non fungible tokens. But can NFTs be...

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Are crypto people on to the next big thing and did you miss the boat? Are they about to lose everything in the latest get-rich-quick scheme?

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One month ago we released the Blitnauts expansion pack for free to all Blitmap collectors. It has been an astounding success, raising the bar for NFT minting experiences as a whole, while continuing to push forward on our community crafted ethos.

We’re incredibly excited to announce our $3.5 million funding round led by Distributed Global, an early investor in crypto unicorns Dapper Labs, Audius and Solana. The funding will be used to further develop a new web3-native social media experience, expand the Yup community, and empower curators across the web.

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This is Part 3 in a three-part series. Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

This is Part 2 in a three-part series. Find Part 1 here.

This essay is the second in a Gnosis Guild series by @keikreutler bridging cryptonetworks, web3, and gaming. The first essay Inventories, Not Identities focuses on collective, composable web3 identity.