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Jan 24 24 tweets 10 min read
Think the building + hype behind NFTs and web3 is slowing down? Think again.

Last week an ETH hackathon led by ETHGlobal broke all previous records

It showcased 255 projects built by more than 800 devs in 68 different countries

I’ll describe some of the best projects below! 🥐
1. Creativerse

Creativerse is a Minecraft server that is connected to the Ethereum network.

Users can purchase plots as NFTs, with block data of each plot stored in the NFT.

This means that anyone (even you!) can run a server, & no matter what, your build cannot be censored 👀
2. Duomint

Want to onboard a friend into web 3.0 without worrying about the gas costs?

Duomint makes this easy. Anyone who wants can cover the gas fees for a mint

It adds a DuoMint function that, when called, mints 2 NFTs, one to the msg.sender and one to another account(s)
3. 0xPhotos

0xPhotos is very cool. It’s a decentralized stock photography marketplace (like ShutterShock), which pays royalties to creators in real time.

Users can upload images (NFTs) with different licensing parameters, and get paid without the need for a middleman
4. Multi-Contract Battle Royale

The multi-contract battle royale dapp allows existing projects to compete in a verifiably random battle royale game through $LINK oracles.

It can be integrated with ERC-721’s, and include payouts or “pots” in the underlying ERC-20 tokens
5. Metaverse Ad DAO

The Metaverse Ad DAO, or MAD, allows LAND/NFT owners to delegate ownership of their land while retaining control of it.

This allows users to delegate land to the MAD DAO, who displays content on all land parcels to gain attraction.
6. veNFT

veNFT, is just what it’s name implies. It’s an extended contract of the popular “vested escrow” used by Curve finance.

It allows projects to incentivize long-term alignment with the holders of the token, who can lock their NFT and earn newly streamed tokens as a reward
7. Challengy

Earn yield in DeFi by being held accountable for your work. Sounds great, right?

Challengy allows projects to create NFT badges, verifying commitment on certain challenges in a “proof of work” NFT.

Turn your NFTs into a measure of your time and effort(s)!
8. NFTCast

NFTCast allows creators to upload their music NFTs on the dapp, and like radio, anyone will be able to listen, all being powered by the blockchain

Users can then purchase or sell these NFTs on the secondary market like OpenSea, just like a normal ERC-721!
9. Crypto Twitter

This dapp is a platform like Twitter, but configured with the Ethereum blockchain.

Profiles are represented as non transferable tokens to represent memberships

Posts, and avatars are NFT-based, which allows for some pretty cool features…
10. ENS-Signature

This submission to the hackathon aims at bringing ENS names to DocuSign, for PDF signatures with Ethereum addresses.

In particular, this platform has some very interesting applications for legal contracts 👀
11. VRNFT

vrNFT is a platform that allows users to make tickets for virtual concerts, events, and more in the Metaverse.

Purchasers of the video NFTs will be able to equip their Oculus Quest and enter these events with their Ethereum address
12. Quest of Zelda

An NFT-based game with players and characters that have a unique story line that progresses based on decisions from the player.

No more forced cut-scenes, you control the story.

This allows for an adaptive, new type of gaming experience 🔥
13. dApp ideas (incomplete)

The prototype for this dApp proposed building a platform where people could mint their ideas for projects as an NFT, and instantly receive crowdfunding.

It’s a new, quick, & easy way to turn different ideas into a reality + grow a community
14. Cropsin

Cropsin is a platform built for small artists who want to connect directly with their fans & make them count most

Artist’s can create and sell NFTs that represent streaming royalties to music.

The bigger an artist gets, the more valuable the NFTs/royalties become.
15. Letter Loops

Letter loops uses Unlock Protocol and Swordy Bot on Discord to tokenize access to a discord group with roles.

Entrants purchase NFTs to gain access, & then progress roles based on questions in private channels

Total revenue is paid back to users by performance
16. NFTCerts

This application makes it extremely easy to issue and create certain NFT certificates for educational resources.

The dApp stores data on recognized certification standards, the “Open Badges” standard by the IMS.

This lets the NFTs serve as legible “proof of skill”
17. IMR-Experience

The IMR-Experience is a cool NFT integration with Snapchat & Open Sea.

You can easily create an immersive mixed reality experience with this awesome Snapchat OpenSea Lens for NFT artworks
18. Real Meta Key

This is a platform which allows for micro services on Ethereum. Users can support their favorite brands by purchasing an NFT that streams payments to brands.

Furthermore, these NFTs can serve as token gates to certain platforms for the community
19. Storyblocks

Storyblocks is a collaborative NFT project that rewards holders of the token, each representing a single word in a “story”

Rewards are paid to holders of previous words.

This way, holders are incentivized to keep the story going with crypto economic incentives.
20. Do[NFT]

With this tool, NFT holders of any asset can mint brand new tokens using their existing NFT assets. The new tokens are directly linked to an initial version.

The contract bundles the NFTs used for creation, and can then be unpacked at any time
I’m going to cut the list a little short here to add in my final thoughts as conclusion.

It’s important to remember that these submissions are 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦.

They can (and will) be improved on and used by a growing network of devs in the future.
…and this is just one of the many hackathons hosted by ETHGlobal every month.

Now get this. This hackathon, with more than 200 fantastic projects submitted and produced, were all built in just two days.

That’s right, just 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴.
This is why it is undeniably clear to me that Ethereum is paving way for something extraordinary

Hundreds of thousands of skilled devs are working to reinvent the ways we transact with value on a decentralized layer of the internet, at a pace faster than we can even comprehend🥐

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Jan 26
Ever since I started to get a large following on Twitter, I have been trying to refrain from dropping lots of alpha irresponsibly…

I am always wary of promoting any small projects, aware of the impact I may have.

Today, however. That’s not going to be the case… Image
Why? It’s time to introduce you to .@theBakeryDAO.

The BakeryDAO is a cumulative effort by a handful of pastries, that we hope will change the NFT and web 3.0. ecosystem as we know it today.

The magic begins with our website: bakery.fyi
If you look closely, this isn’t just your ordinary website.

Using some web3 trickery, we have integrated accounts into the back end via NFTs.

This allows us to monetize special pages across the website, locked to only members of the BakeryDAO (holders of the NFT)

Check it out:
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Jan 25
Well, the total market capitalization of the crypto market is down 41% on the month.

Is it finally time for a bear market thread from croissant? Let’s give it a shot… (1/x) 🐻 Image
With tokens reaching several year lows, surely there are other great investment opportunities arising in the real world…

Let’s take a look at stocks.

Oh, the Nasdaq is down 12.7% this month, wiping out many months of single digit gains?

That’s okay. that’s just one example… Image
By now you’d think all these people would stop using Ethereum so much with gas fees so high & block space getting so undesirable, right?

Mmm, no. Despite extraordinarily high fees, a growing number of users continue to bid to get their transactions included in the next block… Image
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Dec 22, 2021
Here you go .@elonmusk

For more than a year now I have been working on a cumulative effort to showcase the unique features of web3 & NFTs.

Allow me to explain my experience with this… 🥐
First off, writing for a living sucks.

Writers have few options to choose from when it comes to platforms, all part of a larger monopoly who picks and chooses what can be said on the internet.

I didn’t even start writing with crypto, my first gig was writing in politics…
Every day in high school I would work my ass off building my Facebook and Twitter pages up to the hundreds of thousands of followers…

Until that all came to an end.

I will never forget the day that Facebook permanently banned my pages for what could only be political reasons..
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Dec 9, 2021
The recent Congressional hearing was one of the most bullish events for crypto in all of 2021.

It represented a clear change in momentum, as legislators begin to understand the true magic of the blockchain…

In this thread I’ll compile the best highlights from the hearing! 🥐
I couldn’t help but begin this with Mr. Sherman, a Democratic House member.

In this clip, he claims that Bitcoin is at risk of being replaced by Hamster coin, Mongoose coin, among many other ridiculous names.

This one is just hard to watch.
Next up, we have Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner agreeing with Coinbase CFO Ms. Haas about regulatory clarity on digital assets.

The clip ends with the Congresswoman firing shots at Gary Gensler. 👀
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Dec 7, 2021
The market capitalization of Axie Infinity is at an astounding $6.4B right now.

For comparison, Ubisoft has a market capitalization of merely $5.85B.

Let’s take a look at a bit of a little thought experiment for this thread, shall we? 🥐
Ubisoft is one of the largest video games companies in the world boasting top-selling game titles such as:

-Assassins Creed
-Far Cry
-Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
-Watch Dogs
-Just Dance 2
-Riders Republic
-Star Wars

So… why is there such a discrepancy between the two?
Is Axie Infinity more fun to play than ALL of the titles mentioned above?

No.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥.
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Nov 30, 2021
ETH is well on its way to becoming one of the most productive assets in the world.

Don’t believe me? Just have a look at this thread… 🥐
The Ethereum blockchain began in 2015, offering 72M $ETH to over 10,000 #Bitcoin addresses who participated in the ICO.

Fast forward to today, there is now 118M $ETH from block rewards across 135,734,686 recorded wallet addresses.
Of the initial ICO participants:

-81% of these wallets have only 1% of their initial balances or less

-9.5% have an unchanged balance (lost?)

-only 64 have actually increased their ETH holdings

h/t .@ASvanevik

So… where are all of the tokens now?
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