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📝 Field Notes #42: NFTs Hit Walmart & Meta's Metaverse Showcase
Pudgy Penguin enters Walmart – big deal? Bored Apes' collab with iconic streetwear brand. Zuck in the metaverse. Ethereum hits 10bn in revenue. Kraken enters TradFi. New version of ChatGPT & more.
📝 Field Notes #41: Night After The High’s
NFT: crisis or cycle? Web3's $66m a16z funding frenzy. Yuga Labs & its on-chain metaverse. Citigroup doubles down on crypto. Galaxy Digital expands to Europe. Top 30 Web3 loyalty start-ups & more.
📝 Field Notes #40: Grab Speeds into NFTs as SEC Slams the Brakes
Grab brings NFTs to 180m users. SEC charged 2nd NFT project backed by Mila Kunis. The race for ETFs heats up. DeFi under regulatory fire. The hottest Web3 loyalty start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Field Notes #39: Visa's Quiet Revolution...
Casio enters Web3 with G-Shock. Google changes ad policy on NFTs. Binance's slow trainwreck. $55m from a16z & Balaji to reorganize the Internet's IP. Charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes#38: Big Move: SEC attacks NFTs
Just in: Lufthansa launches NFTs for all its customers. SEC loses landmark case. OpenAI goes after enterprises.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #37 – Tornados & Big Waves on the Open Sea
The end of royalty fees for NFTs. Shopify adds USDC. Mercedes Benz launches 2nd NFT collection. Tornado Cash: Existential thread for DeFi. Ethereum gains momentum. New start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #36 – Owning Your Friends
Coinbase Layer 2 "Base" launches with viral app. Layer 2 boom. Apple x Pixar = Metaverse? Smart wearables in Decentraland. Bitcoin energy report. Microsoft's own ChatGPT. Start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #35 – PayPal, Crocs, and Robots
PayPal launches stablecoin. Beatport enters Web3. Doodles x Crocs. New Ether ETFs. Google's AI robotics breakthrough. All the signal from the last 4 weeks. Top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #34 – Onchain Summer
Web3 development soars 302% Q/Q. Beeple buys Crypto Punk. Coinbase Q2 numbers & "Base" launch. Major DeFi hack. Sequoia slashes crypto fund. ChatGPT for Android. New start-ups, top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #33 – World Domination: X, Worldcoin & Meta's Metaverse
Controversial Worldcoin launch. Twitter turns into "X" and potential Web3 super-app. VC funding update. MIT on Bitcoin mining. Meta's $17.7bn metaverse loss. New start-ups, top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #32 - Paris, Bitcoin & Europe's Web4
Bitcoin as a USD reserve asset, Europe's focus on "Web4", Warner Bros NFT stunt, BMW Motorrad's new metaverse, Binance layoffs, Bloomberg and Bitcoin, top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #31 - A Milestone For Crypto
Ripple case: a milestone for crypto. BlackRock is bullish. 7-Eleven enters Web3. Wimbledon, Andy Murray, and NFTs. Venture funding is down. Elon Musk launches his AI company. Top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #30 - Sneakers, Golf and Crocodiles
Dior enters Web3 with blockchain-based sneakers. Lacoste expands on Web3 loyalty. Golf and NFTs. Web3 funding is picking up. Bitcoin lightning capacity at all-time high. Start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #29 - Yoga, Music, and Global Web3 Adoption
Warner Music x Polygon. Shanghai's megaplan for Web3. ConsenSys' global Web3 survey. Staked ETH milestone. Fidelity's & HSBC's Bitcoin ETFs. Alo Yoga's approach to Web3. Top charts, start-ups & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #28 - Airphoria with Nike, Puma, and Powell
Nike & Fortnite. Puma's metaverse expansion. Web3 adoption report by Coinbase. Powell on crypto. Deutsche Bank applies for crypto custodian license. Zk-Rollups on the rise. Top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #27 - It's Time to Face Reality
Blackrock files for spot Bitcoin ETF. Video games on Bitcoin. Bullish funding rounds. Bitcoin hash rate at all-time highs. Uniswap V4. a16z expands to Europe. New start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #26 - On The Cusp of Mass Adoption
Binance & Coinbase sued by SEC. Apple's VisionPro. Louis Vuitton's new $41k NFTs. How ERC-6551 will change NFTs. Doodles enter retail. Kraken's new NFT exchange. New start-ups, charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #25 - Beijing Loves Web3
Bitcoin best performing asset YTD; Nike meets EA SPORTS; Beijing bullish on Web3; Magic raises $52m; SAP enters Web3; Gen Z loves crypto, not NFTs; AI risks; top charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #24 - Nike, Mercedes-Benz & Bitcoin
Bitcoin becomes 2nd largest blockchain for NFTs. Mercedes-Benz launches NFT studio. Nike’s first digital collection goes live. ChatGPT iPhone app + plugins. The best charts & more.
📝 Web3 Field Notes #23 – 99% is Noise
Web3's ultimate creator playbook. Binance enters ordinals. Bitcoin's new token standard. Jane Street exits crypto. AI is getting regulated. IBM enters enterprise AI. New start-ups, charts & more.