🌊 GM Flowverse Citizens! Another Monday, another Flowverse newsletter 🤝
BIG NEWS: Doodles announced that their next collection, Doodles 2, will be on Flow 🌊
Doodles 2 will allow anyone to express themselves in a one-of-a-kind style with new customizable characters and equipable wearables.
Doodles 2 will be launching on the Gaia marketplace this coming Tuesday, Jan 31 and other general Flow secondary marketplaces will begin to support them as well 🔥
More on why we think Doodles 2 is on Flow below 👇
What’s on today:
💎 Treasures by Flowverse
💡 Weekly Flow Blockchain News
🌈 Why Doodles 2 is on Flow
🆕 New to the Flowverse
⚡ Upcoming Flow NFT drops
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💎 Introducing Treasures by Flowverse
This week we launched Treasures by Flowverse.
Treasures is Flowverse’s iconic art collector experience.
These are ongoing, free digital artwork NFTs claimable exclusively by Flowverse Mystery Pass and Sock holders.
The first set of Treasures are NEO//SUN and SOCK//PRISM created by the talented design team Afterfuture.
These NFTs can be downloaded by holders and set as your Twitter banner or uploaded on Instagram as a digital collectible ✨
Alongside these digital artworks, there will also be an exclusive report explaining the artist’s story, which can be viewed on our community hub. Check out some sneak previews of the report here 👀
💡 Flow Blockchain News
Flow released a crash course on navigating the Flow blockchain ecosystem
Doodles announced that Doodles 2 will be on Flow
Flowverse introduces Treasures - their iconic art collector experience and partnered with Unblocked to offer all Mystery Pass holders a free claim to their NFT
NBA Top Shot released documentation to provide developers with all the tools needed to build on top of their platform
NFL player Cameron Jordan joined his NFL All Day Moment holders for a private and exclusive conversation
Cheeze released a new mobile app
Emerald City released token-weighted voting for any type of fungible token on Flow directly in Discord using Emerald bot
Flowty launched a secondary marketplace for trading Flow NFTs
Evaluate revealed over 20,000 NFTs have been traded on their platform
Flovatar updated its mobile app with a new mini-game
🌈 Why Doodles 2 is on Flow?
Usability. Accessibility. Composability.
That’s why Doodles 2 is on Flow, in our humble opinion 🙏
Doodles co-founder, Poopie, shared some insight in the Doodles Discord that will help us explain why Doodles 2 came to Flow and not any other blockchain.
Crucially, the decision boiled down to three main requirements…
These three requirements were: usability, accessibility and composability.
Let’s jump into each of these requirements ONE BY ONE and illustrate how Flow achieves these..
1) Usability
If something has high usability it means it's easy to use, intuitive and easily learnable.
On Flow it’s not hard to see how applications are highly usable.
From wallets like Dapper Wallet, to top sports digital collectibles such as NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day and La Liga Golazos, to marketplaces like Gaia Marketplace, they’re all simple to use.
Even community-built products like FLOAT are incredibly easy to use and have been adopted by many. FLOAT launched in 2022 and amassed over 400k users alone.
A 10-year-old could understand how they work. And probably buy and sell NFTs.
Not that we’re advocating for that of course… 😂
Now there’s a reason why these applications on Flow are easy to use and understand for non-crypto users. And that reason is the underlying protocol.
Flow’s features make it possible.
Outside of the application layer, Flow is also user-friendly for devs.
We’ve found that any decently competent web2 dev can get up to speed on Cadence (programming language to develop smart contracts on Flow) in just a couple of weeks.
Then build secure applications. And deploy on mainnet for the world to enjoy.
2) Accessibility
According to Future, “Accessibility describes the general ability of a blockchain network to be used by a wide array of different entities in a frictionless way.”
They have a three-question framework for assessing accessibility.
Applying this to Flow and it's clear the blockchain ticks all the boxes… exceptionally well.
Can you use it? ✅ Onboarding, ✅ wallets, ✅ fiat payments
Can you afford it? ✅ Transaction fees
Can you build on it? ✅ Tooling, ✅ Programming language
After all, Flow is integrated into both Instagram and Ticketmaster.
Instagram opens up NFTs on Flow to over 2b people around the world 🌎
3) Composability
In simple terms, if something is composable it means different parts can be combined together to create something new and more powerful…
Chris Dixon (partner at a16z) has previously said "Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance."
Think of it like building with LEGOs. You can take different LEGOs blocks and put them together to make something new, like a car or a spaceship 🚀🚀🚀
Flow allows developers to take existing building blocks (smart contracts etc) and combine them together to create new, exciting apps
You can leverage other people’s smart contracts to achieve additional functionality and build fast.
A cool way to illustrate this is Muttonia's contract browser which shows which contract uses other contracts. From this, you can see 1915 contracts depend on the NonFungibleToken contract.
And it’s not just building on top of other people’s contracts. You can also build on top of your own.
This allows projects like Flovatar to equip NFTs with other NFTs, and truly have a decentralized wearable experience.
By building on Flow, Doodles can leverage composability to the max.
They can build uniquely personalized and endlessly customizable character NFTs just like the Doodles vision outlined.
Flow is the blockchain for the billions.
Doodles wants to hit mainstream adoption. And Flow is the best chance it has.
Welcome to the Flowverse, Doodles 🌈
🆕 New to the Flowverse
Doodles 2: Doodles 2 will allow anyone to express themselves in a one-of-a-kind style with new customizable characters and equipable wearables
Flowty Bot: Flowty sales bot for their NFT marketplace
Treasures by Flowverse: Up-and-coming artists. Unique pieces of art. Exclusive to Flowverse Mystery Pass and Sock holders.
⚡ Upcoming Flow NFT drops
🏎️ Driverz Car Club Collection Mint (Driverz, Jan 30)
⚽️ Tifosi Pack (Aera by OneFootball, Jan 31)
💼 Flow Ecosystem Jobs
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