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There are a number of good links this week that you can really immerse yourself in. Ben Evans annual tech presentation has plenty of Web3 references, Lucky Trader is a feed of NFT news and DAO Masters has a ton of content on DAOs. We also have multiple pieces about Helium, a way to share your wifi as a hotspot and earn tokens while helping to power the internet of things.
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Analysis
Ben Evans Annual Tech Presentation - Every year, he produces a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year, ‘Three Steps to the Future’.
Decrypting Crypto - This resonated for me about the moment when the blockchain lightbulb goes on.
Three Web3 principles that will permeate online culture in the next 10 years
Cryptocurrency
Goodbye Gas Fees: Hello Layer 2 Living - A good analysis of the emerging options to avoid the gas fees of Ethereum without loss of security.
NFTs
Lucky Trader - A source for lots of NFT news, including a drop calendar for new NFTs.
ArtReview Power 100 - ERC-721 The specification for the ‘non-fungible token’ is the most influential "person" of 2021 in the art world.
Can NFT Art Survive Its Own Addiction to Elitism? - The fine art world has long since learned the value of inviting the world in. NFT entrepreneurs still haven’t taken the hint.
Neil Strauss Pens the Bored Ape Yacht Club ‘Tell-All’ - Some interesting notions about the future of books on the blockchain.
U.S. group eyes English soccer club, saying crypto and NFTs can change the game - Backed by cryptocurrency and with familiar elements of both “Moneyball” and “Ted Lasso,” a group of American investors say they plan to purchase an English soccer team.
DAO
DAO Masters - This is a repository of newsletters/articles, blogs, and twitter threads which were super useful for learning more about DAOs.
Virtual Real Estate
Virtual land rush: Million-dollar real estate up for grabs in metaverse - A review of some of the biggest transactions hint that the development of the land for marketing purposes is in the offing.
Newsletters
CoinDesk - The Node
Companies
Helium
Explaining San Jose’s partnership with Helium
What is Helium and How Does It Work? - A user tells the story of setting up a Helium network in his home
Startup Raises $1.5M to Make DAO Creation as Easy as Starting a Group Chat
NFT Drops
The Other Avatars - Dropping in early 2022, The Other Avatars is the first of its kind and a project that only Saatchi Art could make a reality: a series of handmade, originally-designed, and stylistically-varied avatars created by an international collective of hundreds of artists selected by our curators.
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