? Visit Consensus 2024 ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, Over the next couple of months, I’ll be leveling up the Metaversal experience.   The first part of the revamp kicks off next Thursday, April 4th, when I’ll migrate the newsletter from Substack into Bankless.com. At that point, your Substack subscription will evolve into a Bankless account, and you’ll start receiving Metaversal emails from team@bankless.com.  This aesthetic and technical rebrand will pave the way for me to start ..read more

? Visit Consensus 2024 ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation,  Two sci-fi games I’m a fan of are Eve Online and Stellaris—don’t ask me how many hours I’ve played! ? On our side of the block, I’m deep into the crypto gaming scene, and the Starknet games ecosystem is one of my favorites.  A project I’ve been watching here with great interest is Influence, a space strategy colonization game that’s like a fully onchain cross between Eve Online and Stellaris.  The idea? In Influence, players vi ..read more

? Visit Consensus 2024 ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, The rise of the smart open metaverse—what I call the crossroads of AI, crypto, and virtual reality—will lead to an explosion of cultural activity over the next few decades.  That said, one major star in today’s AI scene is Midjourney, whose tech offers some of the most stunning text-to-image capabilities currently possible.  Already, though, the Midjourney team is also angling toward VR and real-time world simulations, i.e. generatin ..read more

? Visit mantle.xyz ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, This week, Electric Capital open-sourced NFT Pulse. It’s an awesome new multichain NFT market stats dashboard, and it’s much needed, because with NFT activity starting to spread out across so many chains, it’s been hard to find good, solid data aggregated in one place until now.  My take? The platform shines in helping you track which marketplaces on which chains are having the biggest activity flows at any given time so you can target you ..read more

? Visit mantle.xyz ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, The best way to release an NFT right now? In my opinion, it’s through Farcaster Frames. In combo with apps like Warpcast and Zora, a Frame lets you drop an NFT that people can collect for free, with no wallet transactions, in just one click.  Making it so easy to collect makes it so easy to reach more collectors. If you’re interested in taking this flow for a spin yourself, I’ve prepped a walkthrough to show you how to get started ? -WMP ?&nb ..read more

? Visit mantle.xyz ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, Parallel, a sci-fi trading card battler, is one of crypto’s leading games.  And while it is the flagship of the Echelon Prime gaming ecosystem, it’s being joined in this universe by a highly-anticipated second title: Parallel Colony. An AI-driven survival simulation game, Colony will center around humans collaborating with AI avatars that can learn and adapt and autonomously transact over time to stack resources and battle other players for d ..read more

? Visit Kraken.com to learn more ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, When it comes to market performance, many Ethereum NFT collections have been having a rough go of it lately. Why the bleedout, especially when the wider cryptoeconomy has been heating up recently? Well, a large amount of capital remained in Ethereum NFTs since the 2021 bull run. And over the past few months, new metas have surged to the fore. Think AI tokens, the Bitcoin Ordinals boom, the explosion of memecoins on Solana, the ret ..read more

? Visit Kraken.com to learn more ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, One of the biggest success stories in our space right now is Base.  A Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution incubated by crypto exchange giant Coinbase, Base has surged and become home to one of the fastest-growing app scenes in the cryptoeconomy in short order, having publicly launched in August 2023.  That said, this blooming has helped Base foster a teeming NFT scene that already rivals that of virtually every other L1 and L2.&n ..read more

? Visit SynFutures to learn more ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, The crossroads of AI x NFTs is an area I’m really excited about, so it’s cool to see that Zora just launched AI support in the Zora Canvas NFT builder. Underpinned by text-to-image Stability Diffusion tech, this new functionality lets creators make visual layers via prompts that can be remixed in the Canvas interface.  My 1st AI creation via Zora Canvas - 1 week free mint There’s even an in-built splits system here, so that a ..read more

? Visit SynFutures to learn more ? Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier Subscribe now Dear Bankless Nation, It’s not every day that one of the biggest blockchains in the world undergoes a major evolution. That’s why all eyes are on Ethereum right now, as the leading smart contract platform is undergoing a huge upgrade next week that will intro an unprecedented mechanism: blobspace.  The arrival of blobs on Ethereum is set to usher in the first golden age of Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions, which in turn can kick off a revolution in how ..read more