Welcome to Edition #028 of RARAĀ šļøĀ Weekly where we highlight new and emergent Internet š communities and artists in the social money and cryptomedia (NFTs) space.
RARA Summer NFT Auction š„Scorcherš„
Saturday (Aug 14th) - Saturday (Aug 21st)
Join DAOrecords x NFT Drops x Patternbase x Discord.art as they throw Social NFT Auctions in RARAās new app launching August 11th. Follow RARA on Twitter to stay up today.
š Events this week (and beyond)
RARA.houseās General Admission Community Call
Every Thursday // 12 (PDT) // 3pm (EDT)
Join RARA.houseās community call with award winning poet-essayist Ana Maria Cabarello in the #General-Admissions. We'll be discussing Etherpoems, her books and essays, and the future of the written word in NFTs.
Bored Ape Yacht Club Riverboat Cruise
Friday (08.06) // 10pm UTC / 5pm ET in Decentraland
Bored Ape Yatch Club is rolling a riverboat through Decentraland. This is one of their first metaverse hangout, so we wonāt be surprised if they start buying up some more parcels. Join here.
Pranksy's Palooza (Tokensmart x Kalamint x SuperWorld)
Monday (08.16.2021)Ā 10pm UTC / 5pm ET in Decentraland
Pranksy has a new 6 floor brutalist styled gallery in Decentraland featuring art by Trevor Jones, Second Realm, and BB studios. After a live walk through tour, there will be a ARTorDAI battle between the first two pieces sold from BB Studios' first collection "Cybercats". Join here.
Last Week on the š Internet
August 4th // PartyBid apps launches Party of the Living Dead
PartyBid, a DAO on demand for NFT auctions, launched a new app that letās the crowd spin up a partybid on any Zora or Foundation NFT. Enter multi-player mode for collecting.
Letās just say all the floating social mouses got a little crazy.
July 29th // JPG launches Deep Time, blows š¤Æ minds
The NFT gallery game continues to surprise us. The team at JPG dropped their first mega cool experiential gallery called Deep Time.
āDeep time refers to an expansive sense of time that dwarfs human history, stretching far into the past and forwards to the distant futureā¦the exhibition will explore these ideas through a wide-ranging selection of artworks.ā
Definitely worth a visit.
July 23rd // 16 CryptoPunks Stolen from NFT Game Dev
Phishing and scams have long since plagued crypto users. Not surprisingly, NFT users are now being hit. Stazie, developer of Hedgie, fell for a cryptopunks botās scam website sent via discord. Sixteen Cryptopunks and a bunch of WETH stolen later and this one is likely the largest single phishing attack weāve seen in the NFT space yet.
August 2nd // Shopify moves into NFT sales
Shopify recently announced support for NFT creators to sell NFTs via a plug into their storefront. Where banks have long made it very hard to buy crypto with cards, this is definitely welcoming news for the NFT space. With millions of people using Shopify daily, could this cause the next market shift?
August 3rd // Tencent launches NFT platform
Tencent, creator world's largestĀ video game vendor,Ā as well as one of theĀ most financially valuableĀ companies, and among the largestĀ social media owners (WeChat) recently launched an NFTs trading platform called Huanhe. The platform promoted the launch by issuing 300 NFTs style as vinyl records based on the popular Tencent-developed celebrity talk show āShisanyao.ā
Worth a š read + follow
Mick from RARA was recently interviewed in a Mini-Post: Sociology and the Blockchain. As an anthropologist and economist by training, Mickās spent a lot of time thinking about how society looks at cryptocurrencies and the social markets. Check ou the interview here.