⚡Flowverse #35: What a week
Time for a debrief
🌊 GM Flowverse Citizens! This past week has been a crazy one for crypto to say the least. We hope you’re all doing ok out there.
Despite the collapse of Terra and broader crypto downturn, it has been a meaningful and exciting period for Flow Blockchain with:
Instagram announcing they will support Flow Blockchain NFTs
The launch of a $725m Flow Blockchain ecosystem fund
Billboard Music Awards NFTs (ft. Pepsi) on Flow Blockchain
Dapper Wallet will support $FLOW this summer
In this newsletter, we will be doing something different and unpacking exactly what each of these mean for the ecosystem.
Today we’re covering:
🔬 What Instagram, $725m ecosystem fund, Billboard & Dapper Wallet means for Flow
💡 Other Flow Blockchain News
🆕 New to Flow Blockchain & the Flowverse
🔥 Featured Drop: SNKRHUD Genesis
⚡ Upcoming Flow Blockchain NFT drops
💼 Flow Ecosystem Jobs
🔬 What Instagram, $725m ecosystem fund, Billboard & Dapper Wallet means for Flow
Here are some thoughts direct from Flowverse on what all the big news means for the Flow ecosystem.
Instagram supporting Flow NFTs
Flowverse take: Flow being one of the four blockchains to be integrated into Instagram for NFTs to be displayed is HUGE. Instagram has ~1 billion users so if their NFT integration takes off, it is imperative Flow is integrated as brands will want to make sure they can be showcased using this feature prior to choosing a blockchain.
$725m Flow Blockchain ecosystem fund
Flowverse take: This is one of the largest blockchain funds committed, and it’s coming out at a time where the markets are less frothy than last year. It’ll be a great help to projects particularly at this time of uncertainty. In the form of both grants and a fund should align incentives between projects and the longer-term development of the Flow ecosystem.
Billboard Music Awards NFTs (ft. Pepsi) on Flow Blockchain
Flowverse take: Pepsi and Billboard fully got around this NFT launch tweeting from their official Twitter account. This showcases long-term belief in NFTs (and Flow) and is in sharp contrast to some big brands who make NFT side accounts and shy away from promoting them. Despite some hiccups, it’s likely that many brands were paying attention to this event. Free NFTs and an interactive experience like this is the kind of thing we need to take NFTs to the mainstream.
Dapper Wallet $FLOW Integration
Flowverse take: Imagine when people can connect their Dapper wallet to more Flow apps. The 1 million + NBA Top Shot/ UFC Strike/ NFL All Day crowd can now be exposed to an entire ecosystem of projects building on Flow that was previously only accessible to Blocto wallet users. Exciting.
💡Other Flow Blockchain News
Off the back of their marketplace launch, Zeedz announced a partnership with Blocto and investment by Dapper Labs
Roham was on CNBC to discuss Billboard music awards and the $725m ecosystem fund
Emerald City DAO won the inaugural Flowverse Sock Flow Blockchain project ranking followed by FLOAT, Genies, Matrix World and Flovatar
Both the Argentina Football team and Borussia Dortmund are coming to Flow Blockchain via OneFootball and The Football Club respectively
Emerald City DAO provided a sneak peek of their whitelisting platform on Flow
Bobblz redesigned their website
Flomies partnered with Web3Wear to bring Flomies customised merch available from day one
🆕 New to Flow Blockchain & the Flowverse
Monsoon Digital: Buy, sell, trade and fuse licensed pop culture NFTs
NuFi: Multichain platform to safely store, stake and trade cryptocurrencies; new wallet on Flow
Opalverse: Unified, secure platform that will allow opal lovers to digitally mine opals in the Opalverse
🔥 Featured Drop: SNKRHUD Genesis Drop
SNKRHUD are dropping 4,280 SIDE KICK NFTs on Gaia Marketplace. These meerkats equipped their bodies with iconic sneaker pieces to launch the first web3 sneaker community on Flow Blockchain. Pre-Sale is on 05/17 with Public Sale on the 19th.
Join their Discord by clicking the button below to keep up-to-date with this upcoming drop and enter to win a $5,000 Sneaker Spree at Stadium Goods.
Flowverse also conducted a text-based AMA with SNKHUD. Here are the highlights:
Please introduce yourself, your team and your background
Our team is made up of veteran entrepreneurs, designers, developers & dreamers.
Brandon Martinez previously founded INDMUSIC, a music rights admin organization acquired by Live Nation, most known for working behind the scenes of the “Harlem Shake” viral meme.
Our CXO won the WPP Atticus Award in Brand Experience with a thought piece on the crossovers of Gaming Mechanics & Marketing.
The dev team built countless games & apps, but most notable was Paydro, the largest live-gaming app in SE Asia.
Can you give us a high-level overview of your project? What is the vision and mission?
Create personal digital collectibles, called DED Stock (Digitally Enabled Dopeness), based on photos you take of your shoes.
Your trusted Side Kick uses available DED Stock (whether created or purchased) to unlock Bot-to-Bot Battles, winning SNKRCred and upgrades for your Battle Bots in the quest of building your ultimate sneaker legacy.
All you need to start is a pair of kicks and your power to Create, Collect & Combat.
What differentiates your NFTs?
We believe that our platform provides a new way to monetize & interact with your sneaker collection.
Instead of having to repeatedly sell your prized kicks in order to stay ahead of the game, celebrate your moments with your sneakers by creating your own NFT through our DED Stock format.
While we have seen other sneaker related products focused on digital wearables in possible metaverses, no one is bridging the gap between URL and IRL like SNKRHUD.
What’s coming up for SNKRHUD?
SNKRHUD NFTs will unlock access to special drops & IRL events.
Our Side Kicks + creating DED Stock or purchasing them from our SNKR Mart Marketplace enables a next level Play-2-Earn game.
Your DED Stock power Battle Bots, allowing you to compete head-to-head with other sneakerheads.
Earn our in-game token, SNKRCred, which will purchase additional assets or cashed out for fiat.
Our goal is to have SNKRCred become the currency of culture, able to be used on established sneaker & streetwear brands.
⚡Upcoming Flow Blockchain NFT drops
📷 Photography For Change (Vault by CNN, May 19)
👟 SNKRHUD Genesis Drop (Gaia Marketplace, May 19)
💼 Flow Ecosystem Jobs
Dapper Labs - Communications Lead, Content & Social
Fantastec SWAP - Community Manager
Jambb - Blockchain Engineer
View and apply to 200+ other Flow Blockchain ecosystem roles here!
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