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sold! 🙌 congrats to the anonymous collector (👀) and all the bidders, feel free to reach out 🤝 thank you to @Sothebysverse for hosting this wonderful auction and @Arthemort for the masterful curation 💫

Satoshi Nakamoto should win the Nobel Prize.

And we finalized! Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.

so @manifoldxyz has this very cool analytic feature that allows you to see your top collectors ⭐️ a nice occasion to thank you all again for your amazing support along the years 🙏

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

1/ On Why The Metaverse Needs Crypto And, specifically, why the metaverse needs NFTs. The tl;dr is that it is critically important that the ownership layer of the metaverse ends up on public blockchains not in private databases. Read on for why.

1. You've all seen the words - CC0 - and most of you know that some of the most well known projects in the NFT space are CC0 projects. For example, @cryptoadzNFT and @nounsdao. Let's talk about why it matters. A 🧵 ...

Habitats is shaping the future with generative architecture that is out of this world. A quick logo reveal while we continue to build 👀

Introducing a16z’s 2022 State of Crypto Report A lot has changed since we started investing in crypto nearly a decade ago. Here are 5 key takeaways from the a16z crypto web3 industry survey and data analysis by @darenmatsuoka, @eddylazzarin, @cdixon & @rhackett ⬇️

1.85 ETH (~$5.7k) in royalties in 1 week. this was generated by 36 people. It would take 1.4 million plays to generate this on spotify. not counting the primary sale of 10 ETH (~$31k) which is the equivalent of 7.75 million plays 136 people generated more than 9.1mil people.

“the best investors have a deep understanding of culture” is something we’ll definitely say in the future, and something i’ve never heard/thought much in the past. the cultural impact on the value of assets is profound in the hyper connected and transparent world we live in.

I am beyond excited to announce that @a16z crypto is leading the financing of @yugalabs and I'm joining the board. We look forward to helping the team continue to usher the next wave of creators and builders into web3 to define the future of culture and innovation. LFG! 🦍🦍🦍

As crypto has soared in value and volume, Vitalik Buterin has watched the world he created evolve with a mixture of pride and dread, writes @andrewrchow. “Crypto itself has a lot of dystopian potential if implemented wrong,” @VitalikButerin tells TIME ti.me/3whih2A

Dropping 53pts in his @ronenglishart Nike Light Cult Crypto Club KD14’s @KDTrey5 - congrats!!! Gotta be the shoes 👟 💡 #nftart #nftshoes #nikecollab #kevindurant #kevindurantnike #nfts #ronenglish #nftartist #nike #KD14 #sneakerheads #sneakernews #kicksonfire

Don't be a maxi The "rules" in NFTs are still in flux and will be for years Keep an open mind, run experiments, try things

Vandalz, coming soon…

1/ On Punks and Yuga I have slept on it and my conclusions are were they were last night. Going put to put them down for the historical record and we will see, in a 1 month, in a year, in a decade, how they age

Some big news to share today: Yuga has acquired the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections from @LarvaLabs, and the first thing we’re doing is giving full commercial rights to the NFT holders. Just like we did for BAYC and MAYC owners.

1/6 The over use of the term “NFT” is detrimental to the space 🧵

What does the future hold for NFT marketplaces? Today, we are in the “eBay era,” with the largest NFT marketplaces aggregating everything into grids of products, focused on transactions. But in the future, the best NFT marketplaces may not even look like marketplaces at all. 🧵