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My Day in Web3 - Dec. 5th/2023 Bald Man's Bounty: The Rise of $RSC and the Genius of Brian Armstrong's Coin Hey Web3 family, Wiggles here! Today, I'm super bullish about $RSC – the token powering @ResearchHub. Here's a deep dive into why I believe in its potential to revolutionize academic research, and how it connects with groundbreaking projects like @newlimit. 1. Exploring ResearchHub's Innovative Model: Revolutionizing Academia: ResearchHub is reshaping how academic research is conducted and rewarded. By sidestepping traditional journals, they're overhauling the incentives of publishing science. Blockchain as a Solution: ResearchHub believes blockchain can fix the broken incentives in scientific funding and publishing. Their approach? Using an ERC-20 token to empower and compensate academics and researchers. Tokenizing Contributions: The platform pays academics in crypto for reviewing papers and rewards researchers with upvotes and tips. It also offers crypto bounties for targeted research and contributions to meaningful scientific discussions. 2. Connection with NewLimit: Brian Armstrong's Vision: As the founder of both ResearchHub and NewLimit, @brian_armstrong is at the forefront of using epigenetic programming to extend human healthspan. Synergy in Missions: ResearchHub's model aligns perfectly with NewLimit's goal. It incentivizes research on real-world problems, potentially accelerating breakthroughs in healthspan extension. 3. Tackling Traditional Journal Problems: Breaking the Profit Cycle: Traditional scientific journals often profit immensely by publishing free content at high subscription costs. ResearchHub aims to disrupt this by directly rewarding creators. Faster, Fairer Publishing: The current academic publishing process is slow and can be discriminatory. ResearchHub's approach promises a more equitable, efficient system. 4. ResearchHub's Token Economics: Controlled Token Release: The Research Foundation holds over 80% of $RSC's supply, with a cautious release plan of a maximum of 50 million RSC per year. Ethical Considerations: Armstrong has pledged to recuse himself from any discussions about $RSC being listed on Coinbase, ensuring ethical practices. Conclusion: Today, I doubled down on $RSC. I'm excited by ResearchHub's potential to advance projects like NewLimit and others, transforming how academic research is funded and published. It's a step towards a world where science is driven by genuine curiosity and societal needs, not just profit. That’s my bullish take for today, folks! What are you bullish on in Web3? #MyDayInWeb3 Disclaimer: that the content in this post is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Always conduct your own research and consult a financial professional before making any investment decisions. Remember, investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal.

It's Wednesday, June 7. These are your 24-hour web3 headlines from issue 230 of Decentra Daily! 👀 😮 The SEC strikes again. A day after filing a lawsuit against @binance, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sues crypto platform @coinbase for running an unregistered securities exchange. Many see the SEC's actions as part of so-called "Operation Chokepoint," a coordinated governmental effort to shut down the crypto industry and replace it with a government-controlled digital asset market. 👜 @LouisVuitton launches NFT collection. Spending $42K on the luxury brand's first NFT project gets customers a "Treasure Trunk" filled with digital collectibles, LV products, and invites to events and experiences. NFT holders will also receive bespoke physical replicas of their trunks. 🖼️ AI art QR codes. A Redditor showed how it’s possible to use the AI image generator Stable Diffusion API with the app ControlNet to turn boring QR codes into neat pieces of art – the cool part is that the barcodes remain functional! 👩‍💻 Google has a free generativeai online course. The 10-part course covers “the fundamentals of Large Language Models” and “how to create and deploy generative AI solutions.” 🤢 Will Apple visionpro cure VR motion sickness? For many, a major roadblock to VR headset adoption is the prevalence of user motion sickness. Apple says they’ve designed a microchip that fixes nausea by processing data 8X faster than the blink of an eye. 🏦 JPMorgan Chase & Co. works with 6 big Indian banks to test blockchain-based transactions. The pilot scheme allows major banks to transfer funds between each other using the blockchain, meaning fewer transaction delays and no more customers left waiting on weekends and bank holidays. Like this post and subscribe to the free Decentra Daily newsletter for expert web3 summaries sent straight to your inbox! 👍 decentradaily.com/subscribe

Gm! Welcome to another week in web3. Here are your 24-hour headlines from issue 229 of @DecentraDaily. 👀 🕶️ @Apple's AR product updates. Apple revealed its $3499 AR headset, Reality Pro, during its WWDC event yesterday. But other announcements from the keynote speech suggest that Apple's entire ecosystem is moving towards AR. The company previewed support for high-quality gaming and graphics, adaptive audio that lets you wear airpods all day, and Zoom meetings where content is displayed virtually in the speaker's room. 👨🏻‍⚖️ The SEC’s market-crashing @binance lawsuit. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, and its CEO, CZ. The lawsuit contains 13 charges and alleges multiple violations of securities laws. The total cryptocurrency market cap dropped by over $50 billion in reaction to the news. ⛏️ There’s a ChatGPT bot playing @Minecraft. Accessing the game’s code via an API, the bot named Voyager sets itself in-game objectives, then completes them as a way to learn the rules and mechanics of Minecraft. Voyager is becoming a better player over time. 🔎 People have stopped searching for “crypto” on Google. It looks like the crypto and NFT hype that swept across mainstream culture in 2021 has now receded, with the space returning to the hands of specialists and degens. 🤔 One of Ethereum’s co-founders just moved over $40 million to an exchange. While the wallet that moved 22K ETH to Kraken is anonymous, @Nansen says they’re confident that its owner is Jeffrey Wilcke, the person who built the original version of web3s favorite blockchain. Ok, there you go! If you want deeper summaries and high-quality links to each story, check out the full, free newsletter: decentradaily.com/p/229-here…

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Stop scrolling and get your 24-hour web3 headlines, from issue 226 of @DecentraDaily 👀 🛒 @doodles at CAMP stores. Doodles is teaming up with CAMP stores to create a real-life “#retail and entertainment experience.” CAMP is a cool family store/play center found in major cities across the US. They collaborate with big IPs like Disney and H&M to create interactive in-store events. This will be the first time Doodles has staged a physical retail event. 📇 @Ledger now shows @ensdomains names. An ENS is an easily readable version of an Ethereum address. As a result of the news, people are bidding tens of thousands of dollars for the ENS name ledger.eth, which is currently up for sale. 👤 @azurbala releases another teaser for its new pfp collection. The video, posted on Twitter, shows one of the “Jungle Punk” ecosystem’s new characters in a downtown alley spray painting over a hologram of the former collection. 🎮 A web3 artist is working on an original Netflix game. Netflix continues to expand into the videogame space by starting work on its own title. The “original IP” game is being developed by Raf Grassetti, art director for God of War and web3 artist whose work has appeared at Christie's and Sotheby's. 🕶️ More Apple “Reality” headset leaks. Leaked details of the screens inside Apple’s forthcoming headset suggest it will have a crazy resolution. It’s rumored to contain two, 1.4-inch 4K micro OLED screens with extremely high refresh rates. 😮 OpenAI and DeepMind say they might have triggered the extinction of humanity. CEOs of the top AI labs have published another open letter on the dangers of the AI they’ve created. They say that the technology needs to be taken as seriously as the threat of nuclear war or future pandemics. 🎮 Could web3 fix gamer anxiety? Game anxiety is the feeling of guilt or nervousness while playing a video game, often caused by a sense of shame or stigma around adult gaming. Web3 play-to-earn video games could remove this stigma by using the blockchain to let players earn real-world value from the time they invest in gaming. Now, like this post and subscribe to the free newsletter for daily web3 summaries in your inbox! decentradaily.com/p/226-web3…

It's Wednesday, May 31st. Here are your 24-hour web3 headlines! From issue 225 of @DecentraDaily 👀 💨 Sold out 10K NFT collection rugs. Scammers convinced several high-profile influencers to heavily promote a fake NFT project called Pixel Penguins, resulting in the collection selling out. It was later revealed that the collection artwork was stolen and claims about the artist's health condition were fabricated. 🤠 NVIDIA hits $1T market cap. Nvidia’s market cap broke the $1 trillion dollar mark, making the company (at least temporarily) more valuable than Meta and Tesla, as well as the first trillion-dollar microchip producer. Nvidia also announced its Avatar Cloud Engine, a set of tools for integrating AI and Large Language Models into video games. 📸 Paragraphica, the AI camera. Designer @BjoernKarmann has made a camera with no lens that takes pictures using location data and AI. Instead of capturing light, Paragraphica feeds information about the photographer’s location into an AI image-generation prompt, to produce a picture that approximates nearby surroundings. 🌉 BRC-721E, an ETH to BTC bridge. BRC-721E is a smart contract that takes regular Ethereum NFTs (like Bored Apes, Azuki, etc), burns them, then recreates them as Ordinals inscriptions on the Bitcoin Inc. blockchain. 🧹 Prosper Robotics’ robot butler. A startup created by an OpenAI alum is on a mission to pioneer household robot helpers. Prosper Robotics claims its bot can load the dishwasher, do your laundry, and even cook. The robot could retail for less than $10,000. 🇦🇺 Australian Binance users rush to withdraw their crypto. Binance is closing down operations in prominent markets including Canada and Australia. With a June 1st withdrawal deadline causing a liquidation rush among Australian users, BTC is currently trading at 21% lower than the global spot rate. 🔻 Metaverse projects are down bad. While many see generative AI as the key to unlocking widespread metaverse development, the price of “land” in current projects such as Otherside and Voxels is down 80-90% from its peak in 2022. Don't forget to subscribe to the FREE Decentra Daily newsletter for expert summaries of the biggest web3 stories, sent straight to your inbox ✉️ decentradaily.com/subscribe

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Happy Friday! Here are your final web3 headlines of the week. From issue 222 of @DecentraDaily on Friday, May 26. 👀 🧠 First Neuralink human study gets approval. The FDA has agreed that Neuralink can launch its first clinical study on humans. Neuralink is the @elonmusk owned company focused on developing a brain-computer interface, by designing a robot surgeon that can implant tiny microchips chips into brain tissue. 🎨 Digital artists are showing what’s possible with Adobe Photoshop’s new AI tool, Generative Fill. Using the feature, it's possible to expand images, change elements, and restore the background behind deleted people or objects. 🏦 @binance loans. Starting today, you can take out an ETH loan via the Binance NFT marketplace. Holders of BAYC, MAYC, Azuki, or Doodles NFTs can borrow ETH from a Binance-backed pool by posting their assets as collateral. 🏦 @blur_io Blend partial repayments. Also in NFT DeFi news, Blur is now letting Blend users pay back their loans in smaller increments over time. 🎮 A hands-on review of Illuvium.io. The studio behind web3 open-world video game @illuviumio has given Decrypt access to its private beta. They posted their reactions in a video. 📲 @GodsUnchained coming to mobile. Popular web3 trading card game God’s Unchained looks set to launch on Apple and Android app stores by the end of the year. 👽 Blend now supports Clone X lending. Blur users can borrow up to 2.6 ETH against a Clone X NFT or finance one for 0.5 ETH. 👨🏻‍⚖️ @SHAQ faces legal headaches for his web3 endorsements. After signing contracts to promote fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange FTX and NFT collection ASTRALS, Shaq is now involved in two separate lawsuits for allegedly misleading investors. 👨🏻‍⚖️ Ron De Santis talks crypto regulation with Elon Musk on Twitter Space. The Florida governor said that he would “protect the ability to do things like Bitcoin Inc.” if his presidential bid is successful. Wanna know more about a story, or get the link to the full article? Subscribe to our *free newsletter* which brings you easy summaries of the biggest web3 tech stories, every Tuesday - Saturday. 👌 decentradaily.com/p/222-fda-…

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Gm Gm it's Wednesday, May 24th and here are your 24-hour web3 headlines from issue 220 of @DecentraDaily 👀 🤖 AI comes to Adobe Photoshop. "Generative Fill" is a new tool that's now available in the Beta version of the program, powered by Adobe’s AI engine Firefly. It lets users generate image layers and assets, edit and extend existing images, and combine parts of images, all using the power of generativeai. ❌ @Ledger pauses Recover launch. After widespread concern and criticism from Ledger users over a new firmware update, the hardware wallet company is holding back the launch of its new encrypted wallet recovery feature until the underlying code has been open-sourced. 🧠 Researchers from Singapore and Hong Kong universities have shown how it’s possible to train AI models on data from fMRI scans and have the AI recreate things that people see – effectively reading their minds. 🧙‍♀️ Founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin made an RPG before he became a blockchain pioneer. This week, @VitalikButerin uploaded the basic RPG game, called Slasha, to the IPFS – the storage protocol that holds much of the data for larger assets on Ethereum and other blockchains. 🏆 @niftygateway is running a collector rewards program for the month of June, where purchases of Nifty Gateway-minted #NFTs will be eligible for cashback. Rewards can be earned by buying NFTs on Nifty Gateway or secondary marketplaces, and will be calculated based on lifetime NG spending. 🎁 @pudgypenguins are now live on Blur Blend lending. You can borrow up to 4.9 ETH on a Pudgy Penguin NFT, or finance one with a 0.8 ETH deposit. Blur will announce a new Blend collection every day this week. 👎 Did Binance commingle customer and company funds? Reuters reports that Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, breached customer deposit separation rules in 2020 and 2021. 📊 Data on the NFTs collectors are financing through Blend show that borrowers prefer Milady, Azuki, and Mutant Ape NFTs, with only 31 CryptoPunks currently financed on the platform. Those were the headlines! Now read the expert summaries and get links to the full articles in our free daily web3 newsletter: decentradaily.com/p/220-ai-p…

Hey folks! Here are your 24 hour web3 headlines from issue 219 of @DecentraDaily 👀 💰 The first in a series of @Sothebysverse "Grails" auctions of NFTs owned by defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Pte Ltd drew huge, over-estimate sales – including a +$1 million sale of a Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs. 🛒 @blur_io is adding a new NFT collection to its lending protocol, Blend, every day this week. Starting Monday, you can buy a Redacted Remilio Babies with a 0.17 ETH deposit and take out loans against Kanpai Panda NFTs. 🍕 Yesterday was Bitcoin Inc. Pizza Day. It's the anniversary of a 2010 transaction widely regarded as the first use of blockchain tokens in a physical purchase. Pioneering Bitcoin miner Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay anyone who could deliver him 2 large pizzas 10,000 Bitcoin (about $40 at the time). 🐧 @pudgypenguins have already sold more than $500,000 worth of soft toys and figurines since last week’s launch. All Pudgy toys grant entry to a web3 digital experience called “Pudgy World” that's built on the Polygon Labs blockchain. 📝 Vitalik says: don't overload the consensus mechanism of the Ethereum blockchain network. The Ethereum co-founder wrote a blog post warning that “expanding the duties of Ethereum's consensus” makes the network more expensive, complex, and open to attacks. 🥷 Hackers are more likely to return stolen funds. The number and size of hacks have so far decreased in 2023, with hackers increasingly taking white hat rewards for returning funds. 👬 @Azuki adds a community page to its website. The page allows holders to form groups based on NFT traits, location, and other common interests. Those were the headlines, now go subscribe to the free newsletter for the full stories and links 👍 decentradaily.com/p/219-pudg…

If you missed today's @DecentraDaily newsletter here is a quick recap! #217 - #217 - 🐺 Wolf Game Jugs Launch 💦+ VeeCon is here! @wolfdotgame @veecon @garyvee

Happy Friday, and another day in the metaverse! Here's what happened in web3 over the past 24 hours 👀 From issue 217 of the @DecentraDaily newsletter: 🐺 @wolfdotgame Jugs are live. Players of the NFT strategy game can now access energy-boosting vessels that carry energy for Sheep and Wolves. 💲 MicroStrategy looking at Bitcoin Ordinals for App Development ₿. Michael Saylor (@saylor) is interested in how the protocol that’s set Bitcoin’s community abuzz could lead to software innovation. 🛒 DIBA, an NFT Marketplace for Bitcoin goes live. The marketplace will allow users to trade any asset issued on Bitcoin smart contracts or layer 2 networks, such as Lightning Network. 🇭🇰 Digital Hong Kong Dollar trial begins. Dubbed the e-HKD or “Cyber Hong Kong Dollar,” its trial run marks another step towards digitizing financial transactions in Hong Kong. 🗣️ It's day 2 at @veecon and @garyvee's keynote speech is starting shortly. Other notable speakers today at VeeCon include Drew Barrymore, Neil Patrick Harris, and Rich Kleiman. Those are your headlines, now subscribe to the free daily email to stay on top of the decentralized internet. ❤️💻 decentradaily.com/p/wolf-gam…

Hey web3 and ai frens! Here are your headlines for Thursday, May 18th. From Episode 216 of @DecentraDaily. 👀 🐧 NFT collection @pudgypenguins has launched a range of soft toys with wearable traits aimed at the mass market. 👭🏼 Also releasing a physical collectible, NFT project @InvsbleFriends has created 3D-printed figurines available through @opensea. To get a figurine, you'll need to buy the digital version and burn it when the window opens in a few months' time. 🎧 NFT project @proof_xyz Collective & @moonbirds NFT Members are partnering with Spotify to test out token-gated playlists. In this trial run, only Android users from select territories will be able to connect their wallets and access the content. 🗑️ Google announced they will begin deleting data attached to accounts, including YouTube accounts, that have been inactive for more than 2 years. 🐕 Twitter’s new CEO is a fan of DOGE and SHIB. Media specialist Linda Yaccarino follows Dogecoin and Shiba Inu on Twitter, plus “numerous” affiliated accounts. 👀 A web3 artist clocked over 300K mints of their open edition. Jasmine Monsegue AKA Spacebrat released “Gleam,” their first free NFT, on Holograph(@holographxyz) , which allows minting and bridging across multiple blockchains. 📲 Voice synthesizing features could be coming to iPhone soon. Apple has been relatively quiet on AI so far, but this new feature uses AI tech to send voice messages that sound like the user. 🇨🇦 Binance is fighting to keep its services running in North America. The exchange sent an email to all Canadian users, telling them to close any open positions by September 30. Meanwhile, the company’s legal team suspects regulators will make it hard for Binance to retain and obtain licenses while its CEO owns a majority stake in the company. That's a wrap! Enjoy your day, and subscribe to the free Decentra Daily newsletter for the full stories, links, memes, and more: decentradaily.com/p/216-proj…

Ok folks, here are your 24-hour web3 headlines for Wednesday, May 17th! 👀 From issue 215 of @DecentraDaily: 💳 Crypto wallet company @Ledger announced a controversial new feature called "Recover" that lets users regain access to their assets by attaching their secret recovery phrase to their ID. Many have expressed concern about whether the feature comprises wallet security by creating a potential pathway for hackers. 🫰 OpenAI, the company at the forefront of consumer AI products, posted a job opening for a Discord moderator that comes with a 6-figure salary. 🕹️ @yugalabs Tweeted more information about the rules and strategy behind their upcoming mini-game, Legends of The Mara. 📉 Also in Yuga Labs news, the studio revealed the first "evolution" of its HVY-MTL NFT collection. The collection floor price plunged upon the reveal. 🎮 @AxieInfinity is coming to the Apple App Store. The rollout of the crypto game will begin in South America and select parts of Asia for a data-gathering phase, before the global launch. 🚔 Montenegro court accepts Do Kwon’s $$$ bail. As a flight risk, Do Kwon was required to pay the serious sum of $400,000 Euros to leave jail, pending his trial. 🗣️ A Senate sub-committee met with AI experts including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss future AI regulations. The experts recommended the swift development of an AI-specific agency, ideally before the 2024 presidential election. There you go! All updated. Now subscribe to the full, free newsletter so you can get these stories in your inbox. 👊 decentradaily.com/subscribe

Hey, hold up! Here are your web3 headlines if you missed them today! 👀 From issue 214 of the @DecentraDaily newsletter: ⛓️ The Ethereum blockchain has suffered "Finalization" issues, which means that new data isn't being validated correctly. Developers created a patch to fix the problem, but haven't yet identified a cause. If finalization errors keep happening, an emergency mode could split the blockchain in half! ⛽️ Blockchain gas fees have now returned to normal levels as the memecoin trading frenzy fades. 🐧 NFT collection @pudgypenguins will reveal more about their "Pudgy Toys" products on May 18th. 🕶️ The founder of Oculus VR Tweeted that the soon-to-be-announced Apple headset is "so good." 🎙️ NFT project @Memeland is hosting a weekly web3 Twitter Spaces on Thursdays, 9 AM HKT. Memeland says the update and discussion show will be “Asia-focused.” ✉️ The SEC responded to Coinbase’s court request for answers. According to the statement, the SEC remains non-committal, and plans to continue with “enforcement actions” against exchanges, despite a lack of clear crypto regulations. 🦍 Blur Blend now supports @BoredApeYC Apes and Mutant Apes. You can now borrow ETH against your Bored and Mutant Apes, or finance one with a 1 ETH downpayment. ✅ Auction house Christie's is hosting an auction for special edition artworks from the NFT project Checks (@jackbutcher). Called Elements, each of the 152 pieces in the collection comes in both an NFT version and a high-quality physical print. @ChristiesInc Those were your headlines for Tuesday, May 16th. Now, read the full stories and join the conversation with our (free) daily email. 👋 decentradaily.com/p/214-web3…