#163 - Web3 threads 🧶 of the week

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March 04, 2023

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@0xRaiden shares the week's biggest web3 gaming news

First up, one of @0xRaiden's comprehensive updates on the web3 gaming world.

It's been a good week for games in web3 – with the huge, 1000 ETH sale of the Dookey Dash key, plus announcements of MetaMasks Unity integration, and Pixel Vaults' new arcade protocol.

Here, Raiden covers Mongraal's sale, as well as a bunch of other stories and game reviews.

Find out what gamers think of new releases, including Mighty Action Heroes, Elemental Raiders, and Shatterpoint.

@crypthoem polls Crypto Twitter to find the 50 best crypto educators

In this thread, @crypthoem drew on the infinite wisdom of Crypto Twitter to find the most valuable follows – if you're looking to up your crypto knowledge.

The result is a list of 50 crypto educators who have helped thousands of people become crypto experts.

It includes influencers like IamZeroIka, CryptoShiro_, 0xTindorr, thedefiedge, and NickDrakon.

Check out the thread for channel descriptions and links to their best content.

@web3bandit asks, who is the real Ryan Carson?

Ah, Ryan Carson. The man with an undeniable ability to grow web3 projects – and an undeniable ability to sabotage those projects with extremely sketchy decisions.

With the news that Ryan is stepping back from web3 indefinitely, this thread from @web3bandit looks beyond the Twitter drama to cover Ryan's career and controversial personal spending.

It's not a pretty story, from his folded coding school Treehouse, where 89% of staff were left without severance pay – to Carson's latest blunder, the rollout of his NFT investment fund Flux.

On the web3 wire

Major crypto players halt business with Slivergate ✋The bank's stock drops 50% as it faces regulator inquiries.

Sorare CEO calls for a new category of regulations to cover NFTs 👨🏻‍⚖️Nicolas Julia wants his project classified separately from betting products and securities.

Will GTA VI be a web3 game? 🎮Rumors suggest the world's most anticipated video game will include a metaverse and token economy.

@rowancheung brings us the biggest AI integration innovations of the week

Here's another round-up thread.

This one's from @rowancheung on the subject of entrepreneurs deploying AI to improve apps, products, and machines.

This week, Microsoft is testing robots that can take instructions from ChatGPT, Meta and Amazon are gearing up their chatbot efforts, and Spotify is launching a new AI "DJ" feature.

@nftivmi shares highlights from Frank and Luca's NFT Paris panel

Were you at NFT Paris last weekend?

The event looked like a lot of fun – and saw the biggest web3 names dropping some intriguing info in panel talks.

In this thread, @nftivmi reports on what happened when DeGods and Pudgy Penguins leads Frank and Luca took to the stage.

Among other subjects: the rise of PFPs, emotional vs transactional utility, and building on Solana.

Take a look at the thread for video highlights, or watch the whole thing on the NFT Paris YouTube channel. 👍

@jonsteinberg31 on Silicon Valley's freshest founders

Tech-insider magazine The Information profiles Silicon Valley wunderkind in this thread, put together by the magazine's editor, @jonsteinberg31.

Among the Zoomer entrepreneurs: Eric Zhu, founder of the investor database Aviato – plus the daughters of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Cuban.

(BTW. Aviato? That's got to be the best startup name ever!)

@rektfencer recaps the most successful Polygon projects as its scaling solution launches

@rektfencer lists Polygon's greatest recent hits as the company prepares to launch its scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain, zkEVM.

zk = Zero knowledge. An efficient way of verifying transactions to Ethereum.

EVM = Ethereum Virtual Machine. The rules/computations running the Ethereum network.

The Polygon ecosystem is absolutely thriving right now – with a market cap that's nearly doubled since the start of the year.

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@labenz on what OpenAI's B2B pricing could say about GPT4

This week, a leaked document from OpenAI was shared on Twitter. It featured pricing plans for companies who want to integrate ChatGPT into major business applications.

According to this thread from @labenz, the pricing reveals a lot about what the next iteration of the chatbot, GPT4, will be able to do.

They think the pricing suggests GPT4 will be able to perform meaningful work and cognitive tasks in corporate settings – that's the majority of US economic activity. 👀😐

@nickfloats with his "additive prompting" approach to Midjourney images

Here is @nickfloats with another expert's guide to Midjourney.

We've shared a few AI image generation guides in these thread roundups. Why so many? Because every artist has their own way of talking to intelligent image generators.

In this one: the concept of "additive prompting" – where you incrementally adjust prompt parameters to gradually evolve an image.

Use the framework to create characters, design sets, and explore film types, lighting styles, and different shot types.

And finally, @CryptoNFTs on if/when there will be a run on $BLUR

$BLUR, the token rewarded to the NFT marketplace's most active traders, is reaching a $300 million market cap.

But what makes the token valuable – and stops holders from immediately converting their winnings into ETH or BTC?

@CryptoNFTs says: not much.

In fact, they think $BLUR is a bank run waiting to happen – due to "misinformation" from a largely anonymous dev team, and the way a handful of large holders can easily manipulate the token.

Are they right? I guess we'll see. 🤷‍♀️

Enjoy the weekend! I'll see you in the next Decentra Daily 👋

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