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December 28, 2021

📰 News

🪕 A long form report on what the future of music NFTs looks like

💍 The wild post-humous story of famed Mexican architect, Luis Barragan, and how he became a diamond

🙈 Online pseudonymity is IRL identity R&D

💿 Kanye’s producer released a previously unreleased TLOP track as an NFT and you can see it here

🍎 An exclusive look inside the Apple design team and their process

⚖️ DAOs are becoming vessels for fighting wrongful imprisonments

🌍 A guide to African music genres and artists that you’re mission out on

⛓️ “The most prescient aspect of cyberpunk was not razor finger nails or metaverses, but the genre's focus on the commoditization of human workers”

💱 A guide to evaluating cryptocurrencies

🎮 A look into the life of a Twitch millionaire bro

✊ web3 activism from the lens of feminist punk band and art collective Pussy Riot

🎵 Digital instruments (and sounds) are becoming more realistic

™️ The life & times of Virgil

🥧 What happens when you become a fractionalized asset

💤 Sleeping technique to boost creativity per Salvador Dali

👟 Nike acquired an NFT creative studio called RTFKT that recently led Takashi Murakami’s collaborative project

🧱 ”Discoveries become inventions become building blocks become inventions become building blocks, ad infinitum”

👓 Snap’s latest attempt at AR glasses

🌳 CityDAO is officially the first DAO to own land

✨ Niantic aims to build the infrastructure for a metaverse alternative

🖼️ Cheech Marin to open an art center for Chincanx representation

👚 How Shein became the conqueror of fast fashion

💊 Why The Matrix is the best hacker movie of all time

🖌️ Experience Rembrandt’s Night Watch interactively

🎁 The metaverse is just one big rebrand of Big Tech

🕹️ Products

DeepALTR - Groundbreaking visualizations, analytics, and tools for chat-based communities

Hash - Complex system simulations done simply

Trendful - Recommerce software and API for the resale market

Sound - Web3 platform for collaborative music ownership and community engagement

XMTP - Communication protocol and network for web3 and crypto

POAP - Long-lasting records of life experiences

Kleros - Decentralized arbitration service for disputes in web3

Superfluid - Programmable cashflows

Skittish - A playful space for online events

The NFT Bay - TPB but for NFTs

Status - Secure messaging app meets crypto wallet meets browser

Cipher Media - Collectible hip-hop

Nifty Generator - No-code NFT collection generation

Multis - Crypto wallet to scale your business

🎧Music

good kid, mA A d city Short Film | Kendrick Lamar

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - B-Side

Dijon - Absolutely (Film)

Still Woozy - Woof

Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings

Tierra Whack - Body Of Water

Hana Vu - Keeper

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