The Lens Revival
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Sponsor: Mantle — Mass adoption of decentralized & token-governed technologies.
Frames were a huge boon for Farcaster, and now they're poised to come to Lens. Also, a surge of new users came in from this week's Crypto the Game x Lens puzzle, and Lens data just arrived on Dune Analytics. $BONSAI, an answer to $DEGEN on Farcaster, is gaining ground too! If you tried Lens before and are considering diving back in, there's new life in the ecosystem, so the time is ripe!
📰 General news
- Nouns is working on a canonical $NOUNS token
- Magic Eden is 1st among NFT marketplaces in users, revenue, and volume over the past month
- Surreal added support for Zora comments
- Zora saw its frontend temporarily crash after massive interest around the Total Zorb Eclipse drop and activated support for HTML mints
🎨 Cryptoart & music
- Fingerprints is considering a restructuring of its DAO
- Highlight is launching creator rewards and $DEGEN minting
- Killer Acid released No Brainer, his first Ordinals drop in collaboration with SuperRare and Gamma
- Shl0ms x Karborn unveiled MOON:BEAM, a drop of 720 frames from this week's solar eclipse
🏆 Digital collectibles
- Claynosaurz are dropping a dynamic Day n Night collection next week
- CryptoPunk 2306, a Zombie Punk, resold for 320 ETH
📱 Onchain social
- Dune integrated Lens data via sealaunch
- Lens is considering the implementation of a Lens Frames Standard
- Uniswap has facilitated +400k uni.eth subdomain claims
🎮 Decentralized gaming
- Axie Infinity announced new AXP caps
- Gods Unchained is preparing to launch its Dread Awakening expansion
- Onchain Gaias published a gaming-centric whitepaper
- Parallel introduced Parallel League, a global tournament series
- Smolbound released its official trailer
🪙 NFTfi
- Rainbow added first-class support for Blast
- Relay is temporarily offering 0.5% to Zora Network depositors
- Uniswap proposed a new standard for cross-chain intents
🌐 Virtual worlds
- Decentraland added card support for paying Wearables submission fees
- 🫡 Defend Uni – Bankless created this drop to raise funds for Uniswap's legal defense against the SEC. Every mint counts!
- 🛡️ Uniswap Defense Shield – By John Palmer, this drop offers another way to visually support Uniswap. All proceeds go to the DeFi Education Fund (DEF), a crypto advocacy group.
- 💜 Uniswap Pooly – Pooly is back in action, this time to defend Uniswap rather than PoolTogther. 100% of the mint proceeds go to Uniswap Labs.
Mass adoption of token-governed technologies. With Mantle Network – an Ethereum rollup, Mantle Treasury, and a token holder governed roadmap for products and initiatives.
Crypto the Game (CTG) started its Season 2 this week, and the Survivor-style contest still has more than 570 players vying to be the last person standing. With Day 5 of the 10-day showdown now unfolding, it's notably not too late to join the fray!
That's because spots in the game are managed by tradable NFTs, meaning membership can be fluid. On the CTG marketplace, the current floor price for a player NFT is 0.13 ETH, or $450.
That's not cheap, but the last person standing wins 80 ETH, and the thrill of the challenges and connecting with fellow tribemates is unmatched in crypto right now.
If you join late, I recommend opting to not join as an anon, as they've been heavily targeted in tribal votes so far. Also, use the CTG site's chat bar to see if you can find a link to your tribe's private Discord or Telegram chat so you can start coordinating with your team asap!
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- 🎥 Nouns Documentary? Soon - Nounsletter