The Edge of NFT Newsletter | Issue #44
NFT NYC | Giveaways | IN.LIVE | Outer Edge Twitter Spaces | <Feat1> | <Feat2> | Podcast Drops | NFT Nuggets, and More!
Hey there! If you're into the Los Angeles Web3 scene, you need to check out the Outer Edge Newsletter. It's hands down the best way to stay on top of everything that's happening, including our Twitter Spaces.
Trust me, you don't want to miss out on this opportunity to get the inside scoop on what went down at the 2nd inaugural Web3 festival Outer Edge | LA. It only going to keep getting bigger and better!
🗽💃 Did You Catch Us at NFT.NYC?
Friday, April 14: The Animoca Portfolio Day at NFT.NYC was a resounding success, drawing a multitude of NFT enthusiasts and industry experts alike! The event showcased Animoca's impressive portfolio of NFT games, apps, and virtual assets, capturing the attention of attendees with their cutting-edge technology and innovative concepts. From blockchain-based racing games to virtual real estate ventures, Animoca's diverse range of offerings left a lasting impression on the audience.
The event was abuzz with excitement, as attendees had the opportunity to engage with Animoca's team, learn about their latest developments, and gain insights into the future of NFTs. Yesterday was a thrilling showcase of the groundbreaking Web3 ecosystem, leaving attendees eagerly anticipating what Animoca has in store for the future of digital ownership and entertainment!
Share your best moments on Twitter by tagging @EdgeofNFT!
EDGE 😍 Listener Love: Learn, Earn and Build!
We're starting to do more giveaways again! I don't know about you, but I always get pumped up when I hear about a good giveaway. And let me tell you, these ones are going to be worth your while. So make sure you keep an eye out for our upcoming newsletters. Trust me, you won't want to miss out!
🌐 Wire T3 Node Giveaway: Unlock Premium Crypto Benefits!
As a way to thank our community for their continued support, we are giving away a Wire T3 Node, valued at $10,000, to one lucky winner!
Entering the giveaway is easy. Simply download the Outer Edge App, available on iOS and Android, and create an account. You will be automatically entered into the giveaway for a chance to win a Wire T3 Node from there. The giveaway is open to all users who create an account using the Outer Edge App, so make sure to spread the word and invite your friends to join as well!
What is a Wire T3 Node?
Think of a Wire T3 Node like your Amex Black Card for crypto. It allows the owner to whitelist all of their transactions across our network and operate with zero gas fees across any UPAP-enabled wallet. With a Wire T3 Node, you can enjoy seamless and efficient transactions without worrying about gas fees or transaction delays.
And that's not all! If the selected winner is subscribed to @NFTLAlive and @Wire_blockchain on Twitter (at the time of the drawing), we will double the prize value and award two Tier 3 nodes. So make sure to follow us on Twitter for a chance to double your winnings!
Learn more about Wire.Network and Wire Nodes to discover the innovative features and benefits of our blockchain platform.
🍷 Club3 X Edge of NFT Giveaway
We are excited to announce the launch of Club 3, a physical private members-only club that provides spaces to learn, advance, and grow in the world of Web3, Blockchain, and AI. Club 3 offers an exclusive network of like-minded individuals and influential leaders in the space, all the while enjoying a fun and social environment with world-class dining, cocktails, music, and events. Club 3's debut venue in Los Angeles will launch in 2023, with locations in New York, Miami, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong to quickly follow.
You can sign up the allowlist for the opportunity to purchase Club 3 memberships at a special discount during the pre-mint private sale. For a limited time, you will be able to purchase a Club 3 Social membership for $2,500 (originally $3,000), and a Club 3 Founding membership for $7,500 (originally $10,000).
Private sale customers will receive an additional $250 dining credit when purchasing a membership during the pre-mint private sale.
Due to high demand, the allocation process is already extremely over-subscribed, however, Animoca Brands, Meta Hollywood, and ClubID ecosystem members will have an early 24-hour window to mint their memberships before the official mint date on March 31st.
You can learn more about the Ethos, Team, and membership levels here. The mint is not available at this time.
📺🚀 Join the Fun at the Outer Edge with IN.LIVE!
🎥Catch Up on Outer Edge LA FREE!🍿
The Outer Edge | LA is known for its cutting-edge and innovative content, and our page is now live with amazing videos. Not only will you gain valuable insights and knowledge, but you'll also have access to exclusive content that can help you stay at the forefront of your industry. You can now stay in the loop on upcoming online offerings moving forward, and trust me, you don't want to miss out again!
❤️🩹🤝 Outer Edge Partners to Shape a Better World
Making a positive difference in the world is what we should all strive for. And you know what? Web3 is a great tool to help us achieve that. With its resources and tools, we can create solutions that benefit society and help those in need. It's like a superhero cape for social impact! We need to support organizations that are dedicated to making a change. It's not just about feeling good, it's about building a better future for everyone.
Edge of Company is proud to be working with—and building a better world with our community partners: YOUNGA / Bridging the Gap, Movember, The Giving Block, Impact NFTs, HUG, Flower Girls NFT, Fork Hunger, B Generous, Auradogs, Angel Alliance, On Chain Monkey (Meta Good,) GetChange, All Star Code, Fundation, Live Out Live and more!
🌴🦜 The Outer Edge Thrives on Twitter Spaces!
Hey, have you heard about the Outer Edge team's Twitter Spaces discussion every Thursday? It's seriously awesome! They’re back howling at the edge so you can continue to stay informed on the latest news in Web3, ask questions, and connect with the community. It's the perfect way to stay in the loop and gain a better understanding of the industry and all the news this week! 🐺
▶️ Next Up: Outer Edge - The Recap
Next episode, we’ll continue to wrap up everything that happened at the Outer Edge | LA! Learn went down, our next steps after our event, and what other exciting news to keep tabs on in the world of Web3!
Join us on: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 4:30pm EST / 7:30pm PST
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⏪ Replay: Outer Edge Recap + Fashion + NYC
Join the Outer Edge team as they talk about some of what happened at the Outer Edge and their favorite moments. They are joined by Jamo (Shellz Orb NFT) and Tal Navarro (WINweb3) as they applaud the perfect mix of art, technology, and social impact through the NFT Art Gallery and the WIN Fashion Show!
🤖🧠 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Addresses Open Letter on AI Advancement Pause and Confirms No Current Plans for GPT-5 Development
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has confirmed that the company is not currently working on GPT-5. In an open letter, he called for a pause on AI advancement, agreeing with the need for increased safety capabilities. However, he agreed with a monetary pause on AI development. It's important to prioritize safety in AI development while still allowing for progress and innovation. Altman's stance shows a willingness to listen to concerns and find a balance between caution and technological advancement.
🤖💡 Amazon’s CodeWhisperer Gives Developers the Edge They Need in the AI Arena
Amazon has just released two free tools for developers: CodeWhisperer, an AI assistant for programming, and Bedrock, a tool for AI application building and scaling. These tools are designed to make coding more efficient and accessible for developers, giving them an edge in the development process. In my opinion, this is a smart move by Amazon to challenge its major competitors in the race for AI dominance. With these tools, developers can now easily create and scale AI applications, making it easier for them to stay ahead of the curve.
🔮🔑 Peek Inside Metaverse: World of Women’s “Let’s Mint!” Launch
The World of Women Foundation was started to grant more women and people of all backgrounds who are normally underrepresented a chance to get into tech and thrive while in web3. We have a couple of programs that we invest in that look at this but one of our key Programs is Let's Mint which is a program that helps girls get into web3 through digital assets. We started off with funding our participants up to .2 ETH to purchase their own NFTS, learn about wallets, and get situated with OpenSea.
Now, anyone can join and this program is meant to walk you through all kinds of modules from 'What is web3' to 'Purchasing your first NFT' to learning more about AI art, evolving tech like ChatGPT, and the next phase of virtual with evolutions like the metaverse. We want to make sure everyone gets access to the same level of opportunities and resources to thrive in this space.
Traditionally, fields of technology are underrepresented for the past 10-15 years. According to the UN and BLS, The past 10 to 15 years of a tech boom have left behind thousands of girls as 74% of girls wish to pursue careers in STEM yet by the time it comes to choosing careers only 18% of women graduate in fields of Computer Science, costing 1.5 trillion in GDP by 2025. This is an economic loss but a loss in creativity, innovation and so much more.
We hope to solve this by investing in more educational programs and really building out programs that make it easy for anyone to get involved. One of our cornerstone programs as mentioned is Let's Mint and we'd love for anyone new to web3 to get involved. We're happy to be on this journey with our community and hope to inspire more girls for the years to come so opportunities in tech are more abundant worldwide.
🌺🌸 Experience Art in a Whole New Way with Heterosis NFTs!
Check out Heterosis: a new groundbreaking art project and immersive virtual experience brought to life by established conceptual artist Mat Collishaw and renowned digital artist Danil Krivoruchko for the OG.Art Platform. In Heterosis, you can collect, cultivate and breed your own bespoke, animated NFT flowers.
Hybridizing your NFTs lets you discover new traits, skins pigments, and patterns for your flower that can lead to some truly incredible combinations - ghost waterlilies, rainbow passionflowers, and tulips with leopard and zebra skins, to name just a few.
Some of the most impressive flowers have already reached the 10th generation of hybridization, and in total, collectors have already completed 4000 breeding transitions - discovering some amazing blooms! They call it a “thrilling and addictive experience,” so why not give it a try? We’d suggest breeding with some of the rarest flowers in the whole collection!
💰📈 Effortless Private Fundraising with Raze - Save Time, Money, and Energy
Raze simplifies fundraising for both founders and funders. Say goodbye to the hassle of traditional fundraising and hello to a crowd-funding-like experience in a private environment.
You can check all the boxes when using Raze! KYC/AML, accreditation checks, pitch pages, virtual data rooms, digital legal execution, and acceptance of ACH, CC, Wire, and Crypto. We even issue a proof of investment NFT to every investor post-investment.
With Raze, companies from Pre-Seed to Series A can achieve their fundraising goals with our streamlined platform. No more wasting time on redundant inefficient processes - our platform offers a seamless experience that saves you time, money, and energy.
Raze solves three major problems in private fundraising:
Time to Close - private fundraising is plagued with friction because of disorganized pitching, traditional payment infrastructure, and an unorganized document exchange process;
High Risk - the process to raise within regulation can be challenging for inexperienced founders with a lack of strong process and no tools for KYC investors;
Access to Investors - access is limited to accredited investors and there are few tools to communicate with them effectively.
📽️🎬 Unlocking Growth: Your Go-To General Counsel & Business Development Arm with Creative Media
Creative Media is a leading media, entertainment, and tech legal services and business advisory firm led by leading expert Peter Csathy. Think of him and his firm as being your “go-to” external General Counsel and business development arm – saving you significant fees on outside lawyers and firms, while also giving more actionable business-savvy advice and access to his extensive Rolodex of key decision-makers, investors, and influencers in order to accelerate growth and revenue-generating opportunities. He has structured and negotiated deals valued in excess of $3 billion.
Csathy is a leading expert, lawyer, dealmaker, and entrepreneur in all things media-tech, including Web3/NFTs and AI. His clients include leading web3 companies like OP3N and Trioscope Studios. He served as CEO and President of several pioneering tech-forward media companies that achieved highly successful exits. He is a Harvard Law graduate and intellectual property specialist who has served as General Counsel of a multi-billion dollar operating division of Universal Studios. He’s also served as a senior executive in leading media and entertainment companies.
Reach out to Peter Csathy at Creative Media to leverage his web3 and NFT expertise and to explore a potential engagement that will both save you money, and also give you more actionable, responsive, and business-savvy advice and strategic opportunities and access to key decision-makers, investors, and influencers (readers and listeners of “Edge of NFT” will receive a 15% discount!) Also, subscribe to Peter’s two newsletters: “AI & NFT Legal Update (& Litigation Scorecard)” and “Fearless Media” – which is all about the future of entertainment, media, and tech. You can also read his weekly columns about media/tech in TheWrap!
😇🔮 Giving Back with Angel Protocol: Supporting Causes from Around the World!
Angel Protocol provides fintech infrastructure that enables businesses to create financial products in minutes.
And when we say minutes, we mean minutes. When you build with us, you build on smart contracts that are executed on a blockchain network. This means that you don’t have to suffer from all the weight associated with creating and maintaining accounts in the traditional financial system.
We provide you with all the infrastructure and UI you need to interact in all compliance with the financial system: fiat on/off-ramps, KYC, etc.
We help you make more innovative financial products and enable your clients to:
Pool funds from around the world at low cost
Invest in a carefully curated set of tokenized assets
Make collective investment decisions
Mint tokens for collective ownership and fundraising
Improve transparency & trust
And more!
Communicating with our smart contracts is as easy as any traditional API integration. Creating the message to configure your financial products takes only a few minutes.
We carefully research, select and assess the risk of assets available for investment and we maintain native governance tools (forums, polls, proposal interface, etc.) that integrate directly with our smart contracts.
Built in-house by the Angel Protocol team, Angel Giving provides web3 endowments to nonprofit organizations, helping them build sustainable treasuries. Donations are supplemented by our 100+ Angel Alliance partners, a federation of web3 projects committed to giving back.
Angel Protocol is a decentralized organization rooted in social impact. Decentralized, because the protocol is run and maintained by its token holders. Rooted in social impact, because the protocol is designed to support nonprofit and social impact organizations. Our vision is to create the world's leading infrastructure for global, equitable access to financial opportunity.
🎁🧱 Transforming Giving with Cryptocurrency: The Giving Block's Mission
The Giving Block is a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping other nonprofits accept donations in cryptocurrency. Founded in 2018, the organization provides a range of services, including setting up cryptocurrency wallets, creating donation pages, and providing technical support.
The Giving Block makes it easy for nonprofits to accept cryptocurrency donations and promotes the use of cryptocurrency for social good. As per The Giving Block, the total donation volume in 2021 was $69.64 million while the donation of NFT projects to charities totaled $12.3 million!
🏫🤝 Blockchain Training Alliance: Answers your Questions about Blockchain!
Blockchain Training Alliance delivers the most relevant course material, instruction, and certification on blockchains around the globe. It has trained the largest companies and many governmental agencies in the United States and around the world since 2017.
Blockchain Training Alliance is a top leader in the field, counting among its clients IBM, Microsoft, Disney, Morgan Stanley, and many more, and offering a wide array of technical and non-technical courses.
So, hurry and sign up for the Blockchain Training Alliance course that best fits your needs! Use discount code “EdgeOf” for 50% OFF, and start your next block today!
📻 Edge of NFT Episode Drops
*3 new episodes in this edition—Enjoy! 😉
🆕 EP245
There are so many exciting things happening in the NFT space. But so often, it is those that draw a community that make their marks. In this episode, we dive deep into the world of Cooltopia with the Co-founder of Cool Cats and the mind behind Ghost Boy and Alpha Labs, Evan Luza. Evan takes us back to his origin story and…
🆕 EP244
Jeff Kelley shares the Outer Edge 2023 Main Stage with Yat Sui, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands. Together, they discuss culture and royalties as major building blocks in the Web3 space. Yat discusses why culture is the backbone of all economies and how Web3 can transform it to create a new form of shareholder…
🆕 EP243
Josh Kriger and Benjamin Noble of Howl Labs lead this Twitter Space conversation leading to the Outer Edge 2023. He is joined by Nytmare and Decryptolorian (WHALE Members), Daniel Killeen and Dominic Carbonaro (Ava Labs), Ken DiCross (Wire Network), Genevieve Thiers (Entertainmint), Tony Bravado (NFTCLT), and Bdice…
⏪ EP198
The use cases of NFTs are expanding every day and a time may come where identification will become purely digital. Keith Kowal, Director of Product Management at Swirlds Labs, catapulting development and progress for Hedera, the world's most used sustainable enterprise-grade public network created to make your…
⏪ EP197
Joining us today is a special guest with a keynote discussion coming straight from NFT LA. Steve Aoki is a world-renowned music producer and the Founder of Dim Mak Records. He is also a lifelong collector in dGen, and a Web3 trailblazer with A0K1VERSE, a new ecosystem bridging the metaverse with the real world. Steve sits…
⏪ EP196
Christie's is one of the top international auction houses worldwide, overseeing hundreds and thousands of luxurious art pieces from different parts of the globe. Answering the inevitable call of innovation, they are now embracing a brand new medium: digital art. Nicole Sales Giles, Christie's Business Director of Digital Art…
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🥚 NFT Nuggets
Artsy:
NFT Technology Is Changing the World of Antique Collecting for Good
Gamerville:
The Pixelmon story: What 20yo reported to have made $103m from NFT game did next
Metaversal:
The Metaverse And AI: A Powerful Combination For Business Growth & Innovation
Collectible:
Magic Eden 101: What To Know Before Creating or Collecting
Uncategorical:
Is Web3 the Future of the Internet? Experts weigh in on how Enterprises can Embrace Blockchain
❓ Edge Question of the Week
How should we view the relationship between Web3 technology and the crypto market prices relative to the technological progression of Web3, DeFi, and NFTs?
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