Amazon is launching its NFT marketplace in 12 days and it is huge for web3. Everything you need to know and why you should care about it🧵👇 (1/14)
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Waiting To Be Signed
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E70 - Miladies?
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07 May 2023126 EDITIONS
2 TEZ
00. Listen
01. News
- Don't forget to check out our latest interview with Seth from Bright Moments!
- Speaking of interviews, look forward to Cory Haber on May 10, followed by cat / fxhash team-member Ozzie on May 17.
- Amazon is (allegedly) on the cusp of releasing their own NFT marketplace.
- Don't forget about Diablo IV! The next open beta runs from May 12-14.
- pifragile shared thoughts about the coexistence of EditArt and fx(params):
fx(params) vs @editart_xyz Now that fx(params) is live, I want to share my thoughts on what differentiates the two platforms. TL;DR fx(params) is flexible and complex, while EditArt is simple and intuitive. A thread.
- Everyone's favorite dapp, Blur, started Blend to enable further degeneracy as people have new ways to take loans out against their NFTs! Don't forget to read the whitepaper :)
1/ Introducing Blend: the Peer-to-Peer Perpetual Lending Protocol for NFTs. Built in collaboration with @danrobinson and @transmissions11 at @paradigm, Blend enables 10x higher yield opportunities than current DeFi protocols and unlocks greater liquidity for NFTs. Here’s how 👇
- Trinity also mentions Casper AI as an above-average tool to summarize pages on the internet.
02. Bright Moments Tokyo
Bright Moments Tokyo has been super fun to follow. You can join their Discord to track the live minting.
There are many many projects being released at the event, but we call out the following:
- FULL_SPECTRUM , Lars Wander
1/ my upcoming project FULL_SPECTRUM doesn't define any RGB, HSL, HSV... color palettes anywhere in the code. instead, everything is modeled as a wavelength (from 380-750nm)
- Kumono Shingou , zancan
- Margaret , qubibi
- Undercurrents , Melissa Wiederrecht
- Orbifold , Kjetil Golid
- INFINITE | 無限, Ivona Tau
- Event Horizon , Kim Asendorf
03. Monthly market index update
New month, new you, new doozy. Follow along with the Twitter thread:
May is here, and that means an update to the WTBS Market Index™️! For reference, tez at the top of our snapshot was $1.00 even, dropping ~13% since the last time we checked in. There is a lot of red here, folks! Let's dive in 🧵⤵️
04. Crazy sales of the week
- Reflejos has been popping off with some crazy sales !
- For 250 tez:
created byiRyanBell
owned byabuu0929 x02
Fragments of a Wave #350
- For 650 tez:
- For 210 tez:
- GalaxyRGB has been selling some crazy stuff on offer, including this AFWIPS for 500 tez:
created byAnna Lucia
owned byblendrrr
Art For Walls In Public Spaces #90
- In conjunction with Galaxy selling, KRPDM has been going on a big buying spree . These pieces at these prices? Sign us (and them) up!
05. Our pick-ups of the week
- Trinity snagged this Waxing Crescent on collection offer from rudxane for 210 tez:
created byCyril Diagne
owned byTrinity
Waxing Crescent #106
- She also nabbed an excellent Mondrian Hashed Arcs for 125 tez:
06. Mintable throwbacks
- Dotwork by Agoston Nagy for 4 tez:
- Metal Mountains by greweb and ShawnKemp for 30 tez. It's phygital and comes with an engraved metal card!
- The Other Side of the Amulet by StrangerintheQ for 16 tez:
07. Shoutouts
- SCULPT
- You can mint this on Foundation for 0.05 ETH.
- Don't forget to check out Ken's work on Objkt
- Improbable Drafts
Also referenced -
Haven't done any embroidery in a while but finally got my hands on Concord #111 by @revdancatt. Love how it turns out on textile. 🪡 #generativeembroidery #algorithmicstitching
Doing some generative embroidery sketches 🪡. Both patterns are based on the same grid below. I guess I need to turn them into code. 🙃 The gradient colors are inspired by @ippsketch's Bent. #generativeembroidery
08. Looking ahead
- Reminder to look forward to our interview with Cory Haber!
- We also recorded an episode with Roy and Jaime from Two Bored Apes that should come out soon.
- TENDER's collaboration with Ganchitecture is releasing on May 12, including an in-person event in New York (be there or be square)
Officially announcing our new AI art collaboration series, releasing this coming Friday! 🖤🤍 Tur by @ganchitecture An exploration in imagined architecture: raw, monumental, and anachronistic. 444 pieces | .08 eth each. Timing and allowlist details in the thread below 👇
- pixelwank has a new project releasing today (as of recording, a few days ago as of release):
- fxhash favorite, Tezumie, has an upcoming Art Blocks release!
Excited to announce that my Upcoming project "Assembly" will be coming to @artblocks_io! 🎉 300 editions July 26th 0.08eth @artblocks_io #generativeart #generative #Tezumie #genartclub #p5js #creativecoding #artblocks
- Yazid and Tim Maxwell are working on something subtle:
- Volatile Moods has been sharing this 'moody' but exciting WIP for quite awhile now:
Inspecting details on hi-res render... 🔬 #generativeart #abstract #genartclub #WIP
- Other projects coming out today (again, the past for everyone listening) include:
That's it for this episode, everyone; thank you for listening! If you like what we're doing, the best way for you to support our efforts is to smash that "collect" button at the bottom (and top) of this article. Every donation and collection is incredibly appreciated.
Have an excellent rest of your week.
Trinity & Will