The $50 million DeSo fund announces a hackathon, Floyd Mayweather joins Diamond. Probably nothing.
Hey Frens,
How we doing? We feeling good about this week? We sure should be — the crypto market is ripping, ETH hitting all-time highs, and BTC flirting with the moon as well. You love to see it. A whole bunch of spicy news has hit the deSoverse since our last update, so we have a lot to cover for y’all. First let’s recap this last week, then see what’s on deck, sound good? Let’s dive in.🐳
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Movers & Shakers
🎙 DeSo founder @Nader Al-Naji chopped it up with Shaan Puri (@shaanvp) and Sam Parr (@thesamparr) on the My first Million podcast talking all things decentralized social. Intro was made by HubSpot co-founder/ CTO and absolute DeSo maxi Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) after publicly extending the invite via Diamondapp post. If you haven’t listened yet, check it out. It slaps. 👇🏼
It’s the “mix of an intelligent nerd, and good-looking slick nerd” for us.
🍾 DeSo native project @Afterparty Raises $3m to focus on scaling up the platform. Afterparty is already backed by resident party animals Robert Graham (@robertgraham), Reade Seiff (@reade), and Dylan Jagger Lee (@Dylanjaggerlee), and rumor has it they have their sights set on the moon next. #rager #lastnightwasmadreal
👻 @Nader aped $50k into DeSo NFT project @Spookies. Why? because it is the first mintable generative project on the DeSo blockchain “ with significant CryptoPunk potential.” Ok ser, you have our attention. 👀
➕ @plus, the Bitclout chrome extension by Dev-goat @paulburke, got an update that includes NFT extra data support and active indicators on profiles. The extra data allows you to see On-chain traits of NFTs. Don’t have the extension yet? Download it free here and get ready for a 420.69% ROI on your Bitclout experience.
🧱We have entered phase 2 of the Octane fund, a $50 million fund to fuel the Decentralized Social developer Ecosystem. The TL;DR: there were over 100 project submissions and the team will be getting on calls with the ones that stood out the most. The first official DeSo hackathon is coming 🔜. @nader also intro’d us to @alexvalaitis (Alex Valaitis), the new tech product manager for the DeSo Foundation, and the man loves a good coffee shop vibe for maximum flow-state productivity. Where ser? ☕️
👨🏼🚀 @Miniclout announced their video game! Miniclout is a DeSo native game that expects to be available on Android/IOS/ web devices. The game is still currently in the works, but from the looks of it, it’s gonna absolutely slap. Its played by using $DESO to purchase the limited MiniClout NFT heroes. You connect your wallet to use your character in game, build territories and even attack other players to win NFTs and diamonds! Check out their presentation to get all the juicy details for what’s to come. 🪐
➕ @plus, the Bitclout chrome extension by Dev-goat @paulburke, got an update that includes NFT extra data support and active indicators on profiles. The extra data allows you to see On-chain traits of NFTs. Don’t have the extension yet? Download it free here and get ready for a 420.69% ROI on your Bitclout experience.
🧱We have entered phase 2 of the Octane fund, a $50 million fund to fuel the Decentralized Social developer Ecosystem. The TL;DR: there were over 100 project submissions and the team will be getting on calls with the ones that stood out the most. The first official DeSo hackathon is coming 🔜. @nader also intro’d us to @alexvalaitis (Alex Valaitis), the new tech product manager for the DeSo Foundation, and the man loves a good coffee shop vibe for maximum flow-state productivity. Where ser? ☕️
👨🏼🚀 @Miniclout announced their video game! Miniclout is a DeSo native game that expects to be available on Android/IOS/ web devices. The game is still currently in the works, but from the looks of it, it’s gonna absolutely slap. Its played by using $DESO to purchase the limited MiniClout NFT heroes. You connect your wallet to use your character in game, build territories and even attack other players to win NFTs and diamonds! Check out their presentation to get all the juicy details for what’s to come. 🪐
➕ @plus, the Bitclout chrome extension by Dev-goat @paulburke, got an update that includes NFT extra data support and active indicators on profiles. The extra data allows you to see On-chain traits of NFTs. Don’t have the extension yet? Download it free here and get ready for a 420.69% ROI on your Bitclout experience.
🧱We have entered phase 2 of the Octane fund, a $50 million fund to fuel the Decentralized Social developer Ecosystem. The TL;DR: there were over 100 project submissions and the team will be getting on calls with the ones that stood out the most. The first official DeSo hackathon is coming 🔜. @nader also intro’d us to @alexvalaitis (Alex Valaitis), the new tech product manager for the DeSo Foundation, and the man loves a good coffee shop vibe for maximum flow-state productivity. Where ser? ☕️
👨🏼🚀 @Miniclout announced their video game! Miniclout is a DeSo native game that expects to be available on Android/IOS/ web devices. The game is still currently in the works, but from the looks of it, it’s gonna absolutely slap. Its played by using $DESO to purchase the limited MiniClout NFT heroes. You connect your wallet to use your character in game, build territories and even attack other players to win NFTs and diamonds! Check out their presentation to get all the juicy details for what’s to come. 🪐
📸 Two celebs one day: Both Floyd Mayweather and Soulja Boy claimed their accounts on Diamondapp after being onboarded by the DeSo trio @highkey, and immediately got to work spreading the gospel. Highkey is lowkey carrying the platform on their back rn and we love them for it. 🫂
💱 Wen DeSo on Coinbase? Looks like very, very soon 👀. Thanks for the alpha @nigels!
Meme of the day
Off the chain
Looks like Meta, the parent company for boomer social platform Facebook, is going to be offering creators new ways to earn money. This includes promotional referral links as well as a billion-dollar creator fund.
Nike decides to go all-in on metaverse, because how else are you supposed to look dripped up in the virtual world?
Elon Musk gonna Elon Musk. (excuse me, wen claim DeSo account ser?)
Dylan LeClair of Bitcoin Magazine pointed out that BlockFi has filed with the SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF. See the filing here. Hashtag probably nothing.
FTX — Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange
CEO Sam Bankman-Fried highlighted how social media on the blockchain could be a game-changer while speaking at Breakpoint in Lisbon. Welcome to 2021 Sam, meet our friend DeSo.. you two are going to get along swimmingly.
Sheesh. This week was a doozy. That’s all we have for you DeSo degens for now, but we will see you guys in a few days for more decentralized updates and double doses of hopium. Until then, in the words of mama @maebeam:
Love you (say it back),