#166 - Vitalik NFTs and 9GaG files an intriguing trademark

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Today,

1. The Quadratic Funding Collection ft. Vitalik's writing

2. 9GaG files an intriguing trademark

3. Coinbase helps apps embed wallets

4. On the wire 📰 Meta's AI leak

Plus, all the web3 headlines, memes, and Tweet of the day.

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9GaG updates and Quadratic Funding Collection

More Project Watch! Today, a look at The Quadratic Funding Collection, plus some Memeland and 9GAG updates.

A Vitalik NFT collection?

Attach the name of Ethereum's co-founder to an NFT project, and you're guaranteed to turn some heads.

That's what a new collection has done – by creating an on-chain copy of an influential whitepaper that Vitalik co-authored back in 2018.

What's the project?

The Quadratic Funding Collection is a set of NFTs containing a signed copy of Liberal Radicalism – a 2018 paper on distributive public funding models written by Vitalik Butertin, Harvard economist Zoe Hitzig, and RadicalxChange founder Glen Weyl.

There are two versions of the NFT:

• The Open Edition contains the digital whitepaper signed by all 3 authors

• 12 Signature Editions include physical, hand-signed copies

Floor price / Volume

This one's going crazy.

At the time of writing, the floor broke 0.5 ETH and continued to hover around that mark – after starting at 0.05 ETH.

Try not to buy the top, anon?

Who's the project by?

Metalabel – a collaboration protocol for creators, with the goal of enabling "creativity in multiplayer mode."

Gitcoin – an open-source dev platform built on Ethereum, based on the concept of quadratic funding.

Is Vitalik actually involved?

Unclear. 🤷‍♀️

Vitalik physically signed the whitepapers that come with the Signature Edition NFTs, plus the website lists Vitalik as a "creator".

However, Vitalik hasn't officially endorsed the project from his personal accounts.

An intriguing trademark

Next up, the news that 9GAG filed a series of patents related to new NFT tools and features.

It's an alpha-filled insight into 9GaG's plans for Memeland. Included in the filing:

• A "proof of fandom" NFT creator

• A web3 rewards program

• Marketplace and metaverse "downloadable software"

The filing also contains a wordmark application for the phrase "PFP."

So wait, they actually want to own the acronym?

Not quite. You can't copyright a word, but you can file for control over how that word is used in relation to your company.

Also in 9GAG news: $APE distributed to the community 💝

Holders of Captainz will get a chance to win $APE by "questing" (staking) their NFTs.

Every Monday, the project is distributing community rewards through a raffle, starting with the ~9,500 $APE (~$46,000) that Memeland earns from staking the 8 nautically-themed Bored Apes they bought a few weeks back.

Memeland has committed to distributing its entire $APE earnings to the Captainz community.

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On the web3 wire

Meta's AI language model leaks online 🤖While it's not in a Chat GPT-style user-friendly state, those in the know say Meta's language model is "extremely powerful."

Vitalik sells a fortune in altcoins 🪙The Ethereum co-founder dumps billions of coins sent to him in PR efforts, causing some currencies, especially $SHIK, to plummet.

Solana's Exchange.Art facilitates generative NFTs on the chain 🎨The marketplace announced a new platform, named Code Canvas.

Coinbase Wallet as a Service

Coinbase announced a new developer tool yesterday. It's called Wallet as a Service.

It helps web2 companies integrate custom digital wallets into their mobile apps.

Why care about that?

Because the tool is designed to make creating a wallet as easy and normal as creating a regular-ass user account.

Coinbase Head of Product says "we've created a system to give wallets to literally every human on the planet.” 👀

Ok. Tell me more.

Coinbase are emphasizing that the tool is "use-case agnostic." So anyone from game devs to eCommerce store owners can use Wallet as a Service to help customers easily create and use a wallet.

In the Decrypt article covering their new tool, Coinbase said they're:

You love to see it. Onboarding FTW!

Here's the full article.

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