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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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Sam Brukhman is the mastermind behind one of the most creative NFTs I've come across, Betty's Notebook. The project, which cover 15-year old Betty Klenck's documenting of what appears to be Amelia Earhart's distress calls before her disappearance, integrates visual art by Bryan Brinkman and the music of Verdigris Ensemble. I had him on to get his take on how NFTs will transform classical music and to learn more about this project.

Take one step closer to sovereignty every single week, join the DeFi Slate community below: Spotify | YouTube | iTunes | R.S.S. Feed DeFi Slate Fam: August is off to a bangin’ start! EIP1559 went off without a hitch yesterday. Stay connected on Twitter to keep up with all the updates as we follow this historic Ethereum Hard Fork.  DeFi continues to flourish at an increasing pace and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, adoption of EIP1559 shows the network is as resilient as ever.  Now, applications of DeFi primitives are spreading into more and more industries. While DeFi innovates the financial system, NFT’s are innovating art, gaming, and ownership. In this episode, we chop it up with Ben Lakoff from Charged Particles.  Ben and the Charged Particles team are at the forefront of NFT technology; pioneering fractionalization of assets and ‘piggy bank’ NFT’s. Check out the full conversation below: Enjoy! -Robbie In case you haven’t heard, the Metaverse is becoming a Reality We are unleashing a new arm of Slate with concentrated material on NFT drops, the popular Play-to-Earn games, and all non-fungible innovations at NFT Slate. Start pioneering The Metaverse today! High-Yield Savings Account & Leverage Your Assets with Aave. Non-custodial money market protocol leading the #DeFi charge. 👀 Sponsor Update: Babylon Finance is an ecosystem of community-built DeFi strategies. Non-custodial, completely trustless and transparent asset management with traceable performance history. Sign up for beta access and the opportunity to earn $BABL rewards for creating a strategy or just using a strategy. Claim your piece of the action HERE 🎙DeFi By Design EP #44: Exploring the Metaverse with Charged Particles 👀 WHAT’S HAPPENING IN LAYER 2👀 Recently added to the Polygon Network is Genesis Shards GENESIS SHARDS provides a new marketplace for Pre-IDO tokens using NFT’s. By transforming NFT’s into liquidity vehicles Gen Shards continues to innovate fractional ownership. Get started with Gen Shards HERE ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Investing into cryptocurrency and DeFi platforms comes with inherent risk including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. At certain points throughout this post, we might get commission for promoting certain projects, if this is the case we will always make sure it is clear. We are strictly an educational content platform, nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors. Liked this post? Share with a friend :) 🚀 Join Our Inner Circle And Become A Certified DeFi Degen! 🚨 Want to learn DeFi from Silicon Valley Investors & Entrepreneurs? Check out the DeFi Masterclass Here! 🌐Check Us Out On Twitter! 🚀Join the community on Telegram Channel to get our free V.1. yield farming guide! 🎤Subscribe to our YouTube channel! 🖼 Interested in NFTs? Check out our new project NFT Slate! Last week in review: Generating Value in DeFi w bloXroute Part 1 🎙DeFi By Design EP #43: The Next DeFi Boom: JavaScript Development with Agoric Layer 3 DEX w Ricky Shi from DeGate Check out some previous interviews: DeFi Slate x Nate Hindman: AMMs & Bancor V2 DeFi Slate x TheEther: A social governance experience for Ethereum DeFi Slate x Jeff Jihoz: Web 3.0 Gaming Axie Infinity DeFi Slate x Nick Fett: Oracles, Tellor, and the future of DeFiRecent tweets: Get on the email list at defislate.substack.com

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Kevin Rose and Feyyaz discuss Art Blocks, The sale of a Fidenza for 777 ETH, A secret NFT platform and $35 NFT, Avalanche Yield Farming, and the Luna Anchor protocol. Art Blocks controversy Hen NFT platform Solana NFTs NFT Artist PAK XCOPY Avalanche yield farming Kevin’s Fidenza Sale Tyler Hobbs interview Luna and Anchor Protocol

There's a whole world of NFTs out there you may not have explored yet. Literally. NFT real estate is an emerging market that foresees exponential growth in ROI in the upcoming years. In today's episode, Eathan Janney, Jeff Kelley & Josh Kriger are joined by one of the pioneers of the NFT real estate game. Michael Gord is the Co-Founder of the Metaverse Group, the world's first virtual real estate company. Michael is also co-founder and CEO of GDA Capital and MLG Blockchain and has advised on over 20.5 billion in digital asset offerings to help secure over five billion in asset placements into the blockchain. He's here to share the Metaverse Group's vision of real estate in the virtual world naming the benefits of scooping some sweet digital properties now rather than later. Keep your ears glued as they also discuss how teens are now dipping their toes in NFT to fund their teenage lifestyle, Louis Vuitton hitting 500,000 downloads on their mobile NFT game, and a follow-up on what's next after Fortune Magazine’s successful NFT cover.

Spotify | YouTube | iTunes | R.S.S. Feed DeFi Slate Fam: If you’re a crypto native you know how the game works by now. We saw Bitcoin and Ethereum spark an initial wave of innovation. Now, DeFi is leveraging these early blockchains to unlock nascent markets with additional tools. Baked into these early blockchains are certain ecosystem standards. Agoric is breaking these standards to bring a blockchain with a coding language familiar to traditional programmers.  This episode of DeFi by Design is FULL of alpha for traders, developers, novices, and experts.  Check out the convo below between Andy, Rob, and Dean Tribble from the Agoric network. ¡Pura vida! -Rob P.S. We’re working on bringing more actionable DeFi & NFT content to you via our brand new info project NFT Slate! Follow us on Twitter here: Polygon is a Layer 2 network to significantly reduce your fees on Ethereum. Join their Official Telegram channel to keep track of newly launched projects on Polygon. High-Yield Savings Account & Leverage Your Assets with Aave. Non-custodial money market protocol leading the #DeFi charge. 🎙DeFi By Design EP #43: The Next DeFi Boom: JavaScript Development with Agoric 👀 Sponsor Update: Babylon Finance is an ecosystem of community-built DeFi strategies. Non-custodial, completely trustless and transparent asset management with traceable performance history. Sign up for beta access and the opportunity to earn $BABL rewards for creating a strategy or just using a strategy. Claim your piece of the action HERE ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Investing into cryptocurrency and DeFi platforms comes with inherent risk including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. At certain points throughout this post, we might get commission for promoting certain projects, if this is the case we will always make sure it is clear. We are strictly an educational content platform, nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors. Liked this post? Share with a friend :) 🚀 Join Our Inner Circle And Become A Certified DeFi Degen! 🚨 Want to learn DeFi from Silicon Valley Investors & Entrepreneurs? Check out the DeFi Masterclass Here! 🌐Check Us Out On Twitter! 🚀Join the community on Telegram Channel to get our free V.1. yield farming guide! 🎤Subscribe to our YouTube channel! 🖼 Interested in NFTs? Check out our new project NFT Slate! Last week in review: The Other Side of Up Only w Beta Finance 🎙DeFi By Design EP #42: Oh! Finance! The Lightbulb Moment in DeFi Master it Monday: Bridging the Multi-Chain Colonies w/ Umbria Network Check out some previous interviews: DeFi Slate x Nate Hindman: AMMs & Bancor V2 DeFi Slate x TheEther: A social governance experience for Ethereum DeFi Slate x Jeff Jihoz: Web 3.0 Gaming Axie Infinity DeFi Slate x Nick Fett: Oracles, Tellor, and the future of DeFiRecent tweets: Get on the email list at defislate.substack.com

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