Interesting Links 5: Defi 2.0, Blockchain games and more
Key trends I see people writing about are Defi 2.0, blockchain games, and the rise of Solana and Fantom chains.
How to / Tutorials / Information
—How to DAO 201: Onboarding as Wayfinding
—8 ways beginners can participate in NFT culture without spending money
—5 Solidity Code Smells Every Dev Should Know (from Hackernoon)
—What’s a poem? Natural integer counts. [Amulet, mathart, cyber] (how to make “Beyond Mythic” Amulets /// make a poem)
—How to borrow and lend any token (from Bankless)
—Writing Smart Contracts without Solidity (YouTube video from ETHGlobal)
—A Step-by-Step Guide for Reusing Development Test Code to Validate Smart Contract Exploits (from Immunifi)
—How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Hacks and Scams (from Hackernoon)
—A Guide to Start Trading Cryptocurrencies (from Hackernoon)
—How to get paid by DAOs (from Bankless)
Protocols / projects
—Introducing MMXVII Collection: A Digital Art x AI x Social Token Experiment
—Cryptolizers (NFT project, deals with audio)
—USM v1-rc1 is now LIVE! (tweet from USM “stablecoin vending machine”)
—Tesseract ( tweet from Yearn, Tesseract is a yield farming protocol on Polygon that came from the yearn incubator program)
—SpiritSwap SpiritBridge is open (tweet, bridge from ETH,BSC, MATIC to FTM)
—airdrop rumor: PolymarketHQ (from @defi_aridrops)
—3 New Startups That Are Innovating DeFi Data Analysis Technology (from Hackernoon)
—CoinTracker Enables NFT Tax Compliance and Portfolio Tracking
—Introducing Krystal’s Launchpad, KrystalGO (IDO launchpad)
—Solace is live (Defi insurance protocol)
—Apricot Finance is live (Solana lending protocol)
—Cono Finance on Aave (deals with liquidation protection)
—Augmented Finance Mainnet Launch and Early Liquidity Mining (extended till October 23)
—Incooom Finance NFT sacrifice until 10/31
—Introducing Sublime: The decentralized network to build and access credit
—Influence will launch on Starknet (space MMO game)
—Obol Genesis Community Announcement (Shared Secret Validator Network)
General news
—Create NFTs for free on Rarible.com via a new lazy minting feature
—POLYGON AND DRAFTKINGS ENTER INTO STRATEGIC BLOCKCHAIN AGREEMENT
—Media NFT Collaboration: Dirt x The Fence
—The First ‘Move-to-Earn’ NFT Game Raises $8.3M (from CoinDesk)
—Solidity on Replit: Diving into Web3
—TOP 10 Protocols with the highest TVL growth in the last 7 days. (from Defi Llama)
—PIERRE GASLY NFT sale (racing driver selling NFT’s to fans)
—The Greatest Larp (alternate reality game)
—Secret Network Partners with OpenSea to Launch Secret NFTs with a Secret World-Renowned Artist
Story articles
—Compromised (Steve Pikelny writes about accidently exposing his private key to the internet and losing some of his NFTs)
—Why I'm Selling the US Copyright to My Screenplay As an NFT (from Hackernoon)
—A Giant Emerges (Loot story about The Giant of Giants +8 Genesis Adventurer)
—The First Riddle (Loot story about Loot Character riddle game)
Analysis / Opinion links
—Why do bad things happen to good NFT projects? (cryptogawds NFT)
AlexisOhanian also tweeted about cryptogawds NFT
—Governance Mining — liquidity mining for human capital
—Exploring the horizon of literary NFTs
—Skin in the Game (from Innovators, article about crypto video games)
—DeFi 2.0 Wave of New Projects Test Liquidity Mining Alternatives (from Defiant)
—New Approaches to Liquidity in DeFi
—Alexander Phan tweet about Mirror.xyz
—Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines
—12 Reasons why Ethereum is undervalued
—Dan Elitzer tweet (about permission less lending pools and how DAOs may love it)
—The Deceptive Complexity of Axie Infinity's Digital Economy (from Digital Native)
—Why EponymNFT’s mint was one a kind
Resources
—OpenLaw (create legal agreements that work with Ethereum)
Misc articles / links
—Playing Solo Games (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)
—Nigerian NFT artist becomes the first to use social tokens during a Christie’s event (from The Block)
—The age of legacy films is over! (from Imagination Rabbit)
—Thailand’s KBank subsidiary launches NFT marketplace