Future Finance - Issue #122: Nifty Corporates, The Dawn of Consumer Crypto And Who Owns Your Metaverse?

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Future Finance - Issue #122: Nifty Corporates, The Dawn of Consumer Crypto And Who Owns Your Metaverse? By Alan Tsen • Issue #122 • View online Welcome to another issue of Future Finance, your weekly off-chain newsletter about the world of on-chain finance. And always, there's no shortage of news from the industry. So grab a coffee (or beer), and let's get into this week's news from the world of open and decentralised finance. 👉 Got some interesting news I should include in my newsletter? Feel free to respond to this email or hit me up on Twitter - my DMs are always open. — Alan Tsen 👊 💯 Ps. If you like what I'm doing here, please feel free to share it on your favourite social media network. Also, it'd be great if you forwarded this newsletter to a friend you think might enjoy it.

📰 News This Week

Nifty Corporates Over the past few weeks, something strange has been happening: the corporates have come for the NFTs. That's a good thing. Let's get to it. Last week, VISA's $150k purchase of a CryptoPunk caught everyone's attention, but Budweiser's foray into rare jpegs was much funnier.  www.notboring.co  •  Share

Open Sourcing Our Token Delegate Program Over the last year we've worked with dozens of delegates across a number of leading protocols. Here are some of the best practices that we've identified. As this process unfolds, a new set of "protocol governors" emerges to take the reins from the original development team. Done properly, this new community is incentivized to act in the protocol's best interest and is diverse enough that competing interests can balance one another out. a16z.com  •  Share

Who Owns Your Metaverse? Close your eyes, and try to imagine all of the different media that you produce on a daily basis. The posts, the stories, the memes, and even the likes you make on other people's content. Imagine them all floating in the air in front of you, forming a cloud. m.mirror.xyz  •  Share

An AMA actually worth reading ⇣

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the 268 people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related. 8:31 AM - 2 Sep 2021

Three Arrows Founders and Mysterious Collector 'Vincent Van Dough' Launch $100M NFT Fund On August 29, a prolific NFT collector who goes by the pseudonym VincentVanDough (VVD) announced that they would be launching a new NFT fund in partnership with Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. thedefiant.io  •  Share

A Boomers View on Social Tokens I proudly stand behind the fact that Wikipedia certifies me as dead smack in the middle of being a Gen X'er. I grew up as a punk rock kid of the 80s, traveled around as a wanderer throughout most of the 90s and finally settled down to raise a family for the past 2 decades. I have lived an active life, have always felt young at heart and although I would never consider myself a "Tech Guy" per se, I feel far from being tech-illiterate – or so I thought until I entered into the world of crypto. globalcoinresearch.com  •  Share

The Dawn of Consumer Crypto Browsers, applications and platforms are how consumers live online. Today, new digital lives are being led in different corners of the internet on top of the blockchain. But for all the media coverage of crypto, users will only start to care about this revelatory infrastructure shift when it is showcased through the services they use most. It's hard to see things in the dark, and consumers show up when these products and applications turn on the lights. tcg.mirror.xyz  •  Share

The New Creator Economy - DAOs, Community Ownership, and Cryptoeconomics Since I first had what I can only describe as a spiritual awakening about 10 years ago to the fact that technology would (figuratively) rule the world, I've been obsessed with wanting to understand how software works and how to build it. dev.to  •  Share

"Fantasy Hollywood" — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) enable a new model for bringing new characters into the world. future.a16z.com  •  Share

Celo, Aave, Curve, Sushi Launch $100 Million Defi Initiative Celo has been making a play for DeFi users. Now DeFi protocols such as Aave, Curve, and Sushi are giving users added incentives. decrypt.co  •  Share

Investing in Yield Guild Games Right now there is a largely untapped economic opportunity in emerging markets to provide jobs by building a virtual economy in the digital world. a16z.com  •  Share

🎧 Podcasts Of The Week

How Christie's Learned to Love NFTs with Noah Davis - nft now podcast In this episode, we're honoured to welcome Noah Davis, the NFT guy at Christie's, and more formally, the major auction house's AVP Specialist, Head of Digital Sales, Contemporary Art. He's a futurist and a true NFT lover at heart and has used his role and platform at Christie's to uplift the industry as a whole.  pca.st  •  Share

Conversations with the Coop - Cooper Turley from Audius Partnership between TikTok and Audius? What is the next unlock for DAO tooling? "I think that DAOs are the new LLCs" and more! To listen live on the next Conversations with the Coop - Follow Index Coop on Twitter and join the Index Coop Discord to get the real Owlpha. open.spotify.com  •  Share

NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow Recently, a16z and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research hosted the NFT Virtual Summit, which brought together leading thinkers and builders on the topic of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens — these tokens are enabling new creator and ownership economies to emerge. We've covered NFTs in other podcasts and articles, including a curated list of reading resources. pca.st  •  Share

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