Arweave Ecosystem Weekly Report #34: The “Meme Your Way In” Edition
It was a busy week for Arweave’s ecosystem. The winner of the Boba-Bundlr hackathon was finally announced, several partnerships and integrations were revealed, and Sam started a cool competition for all the builders out there. Those, and many more await to be discovered in the rows below. Don’t you want to know more?
I. Arweave Network
Degens of the world, unite and code!
Earlier this week, Sam Wiliams, Arweave’s cofounder, launched a competition meant to harvest the energy degens invest it into crypto, and transform it into something a little more meaningful: he wants to transform them into builders.
In order to achieve this goal, he’s asking the community to develop coding tutorials for absolute beginners that will enable the meme-hungry audience to create their own basic Permaweb dApp. The catch is to produce those tutorials in the most degen-friendly way.
There is a prize for those who’ll nail the task given, so we wish you all good luck!
🚨Competition: Build the best degen-friendly start-from-zero coding tutorial for launching a basic web app on the permaweb.
Target audience is someone who would call themselves @asscrusader420 online 😄
No more than 5 minutes between memes.
Prize: $2500 in AR
Deadline: 30 Apr https://t.co/7acZxr0b6E pic.twitter.com/LnHVEPFvF3— 🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev (@samecwilliams) April 17, 2022
Arweave’s price throughout the week
Since we are experiencing complications retrieving Arweave transaction stats, we thought we would focus on the price instead. It seems to be a relatively sideways action for our $AR token, just like the entire market. Are whales accumulating?
Maybe. But sideways, we go, at least until we see some decisive break of trend.
At the time of writing, the AR market cap is sitting at just over $1.5bn. Thanks to RedStone for this chart.
II. Arweave Ecosystem
Darkblock-Unmarshal partnership
Darkblock, the solution that lets NFT creators create true decentralized unlockable content, partnered with Unmarshal, a multi-chain Data Infrastructure that provides simplified access to DeFi, NFT, and metaverse data. The partnership will allow Darkblock to gather NFT metadata from several different blockchains completely decentralized.
📢 New Partnership
Unmarshal enters into a strategic #partnership with @darkblockio (🌑🚫)by assisting them to obtain #NFTs metadata from multi-chains. Darkblock will soon provide support for @0xPolygon.
👉Continue reading https://t.co/B29KDgSB14#NFT #nftcreator pic.twitter.com/TPfmJkOoIV
— Unmarshal (@unmarshal) April 20, 2022
Boba-Bundlr hackathon winners
The hackathon, which began in late March, and concluded on the 13th of April, has now announced its winners.
Congratulations to all the participants, Keep on BUIDLing.
Check out Adeola’s article on the winners here.
Three days ago we announced the winners of the Boba, Bundlr, Arweave hackathon
🥇MemeNFT by @w_rybakiewicz
🥈DeCloud by @realsoptqLearn more about the projects and the hackathon from this write up by @ArweaveNews 👇 https://t.co/Kv2QhXwyFi
— Bundlr (@BundlrNetwork) April 21, 2022
ArDrive has some nice stuff going on here
Firstly and foremost, the ArDrive community voted to pass Inferno.
Inferno is a usage rewards program for the ArDrive Dust token designed to reward users with ↁ tokens for uploading data through the ArDrive suite of apps. And now, ArDrive has “gone international”!
With version 1.13.0 of ArDrive Web, if your browser’s settings point to a Spanish-speaking-locale, a Spanish-translated version of the app will be displayed! Pretty amazing stuff! Don’t worry, guys, there are more languages on the way too.
Lastly, ArDrive has partnered with @mynaaccountants Web3 stack, in a bid to take ArDrive to an enterprise level.
With Inferno passed, the opportunity to become a full fledged member ArDrive community is here!
Learn all about what it means to be a part of the ArDrive family 👇https://t.co/6HGEQleg4m
— 🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev (@ardriveapp) April 19, 2022
Akord and RedStone teamed up
If you missed it, Akord, the project that simplifies the storage on Arweave for non-crypto users, has a lot coming up in the future.
We recently chatted with Akord co-founder Pascal Barry about all the cool and exciting new features on the horizon.
In this discussion, what came to light was that Akord and RedStone are working closely together to create tools for their use and users.
Pascal Barry details it in this blog post of his.
Our new blog post talks about how Akord tackles the challenges of building on top of Arweave(@ArweaveNews) with the help of RedStone(@redstone_defi) 👀🔐
Check it out here: https://t.co/Zo7iPh7e8C
— Akord (@AkordTeam) April 19, 2022
Mintbase
More funds raised! This time it’s Mintbase! It seems the entire Arweave ecosystem has been on a roll recently.
A whopping $7.5M was raised from VCs in a round led by Woodstock, and at the same time are offering a $5M Grants Pool for projects built using Mintbase + NEAR. Oh, they also launched a new frontend.
1/ We are excited to lead and make a follow-on investment in Mintbase and support @nategeier and @CarolinWend in their vision of enabling users to build their own minter, market, and NFT redeeming systems. https://t.co/EOHCem72TJ
— Woodstock (@Woodstockfund) April 20, 2022
KYVE ???? Stacks
KYVE has added support for the Stacks blockchain (built on Bitcoin).
Now developers will be able to access raw data from a wide variety of KYVE-supported blockchains via an API.
1/ We’re excited to announce @KYVEnetwork has integrated with @Stacks, the smart contracting layer 1 built on @Bitcoin! 🥳🚀
This integration marks our first official step into the Bitcoin ecosystem 💥⬇️ pic.twitter.com/5BVTBJm5ah
— KYVE is hiring 💫 (@KYVENetwork) April 20, 2022
Gitopia LORE
The Gitopia Janus Testnet has launched. Gitopia is marking the occasion with The Game of LORE. Participants will be rewarded with points that will later determine the number of LORE tokens they can receive when the Mainnet launches.
3,250,000 LORE tokens will be given to participants!
The wait is finally over 🚀
🔥The Game of $LORE is live now🔥
A total of 3,250,000 $LORE tokens minted and unlocked at genesis will be rewarded to the community with the incentivization mechanism ✅https://t.co/kleOoz8mPT
— Gitopia (@gitopiaDAO) April 19, 2022
RSS3 Airdrop
Another Airdrop from RSS3 is here for their early adopters.
Check and see if your wallet is eligible to get any free tokens!
RSS3 Early Incentive #2https://t.co/OcdYExeQZH
Check ur address 👉 https://t.co/ARSBalt12d pic.twitter.com/QFuAn7Ck4X
— RSS3 (@rss3_) April 20, 2022
Nil DAO
The amount of tokens staked on Nil DAO is reaching all-time highs. It seems that the Nil Dao team has something in mind for all these early supporters.
Speculation or blatant “in your face” obvious? We’ll let you decide from this tweet below.
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Good things come to those who stake ⏳🔲
— Nil DAO (@Nil__dao) April 21, 2022
Manifold
Coinbase has now released their Coinbase NFT platform (surprisingly enough, it doesn’t require KYC), which people have received pretty well for the most part.
But did you know that Manifold.xyz, the project that democratized the use of custom smart contracts on Ethereum and is using by default Arweave storage, helped out in the background on some super important features?
Have a look!
Coinbase NFT and on-chain Royalties.
Today @coinbase launched @Coinbase_NFT.
We worked with team at Coinbase NFT to make sure that creators royalties were all on-chain at launch. Royalties are managed though https://t.co/5wI4yWdjGe
Why is this important? 🧵👇
— manifold.xyz (マ,マ) (@manifoldxyz) April 20, 2022
Glass
Glass has officially hit the milestone of 10k followers! The community is growing at a rapid rate. What will happen when more people and organizations realize the full potential of web3, blockchain, and Arweave’s Permaweb?
Gm
We hit 10k over the weekend 🌟 pic.twitter.com/oHZDMFxSwg
— GLASS.XYZ (@glassprotocol) April 19, 2022
Supernovas DAO token
Social NFT marketplace Supernovas have just announced its DAO token launch.
Go check out our full announcement of the launch here, where we had the chance to speak with Mikaela and Rasmus, the two co-founders of Supernovas.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for…
We're thrilled to announce our token pre-sale on 4.19.22, which is the first opportunity to purchase Supernovas DAO Tokens 🌈✨
Read all of the details here: https://t.co/9Vg5uXqBHM
Add it to your calendar: https://t.co/Jwy9tIuejs pic.twitter.com/eTbj4YB44U— Supernovas DAO (@SupernovasDAO) April 16, 2022
“Kwil” you quit your job as well?
Are you thinking of quitting your job altogether and entering the Web3 and blockchain space? Brennan Lamey, the founder of Web3 SQL database Kwil, did just that.
Another success story from the industry. So what are you waiting for? Arweave’s Sam Williams openly speaks about getting people to quit their dead-end jobs and join in building the future.
(This is not career or financial advice, by the way!)
A year ago today, I debated quitting my job to build @Kwil_App.
One coin flip and a prayer later, I was in my manager's office submitting my two weeks.
A few weeks later, @ArweaveTeam & @4SVio came on to help make this dream come true.
In hindsight, best decision I ever made.
— Brennan Lamey (@brennan_lamey) April 18, 2022
III. ICYMI
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- Winners Emerge From Arweave, Boba And Bundlr Hackathon
- Social Media Wars: What’s Going On With Twitter
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- $AR Listed On Biconomy Exchange
- Sam Williams Advocates For Proper Labelling Of DApps’ Decentralization Level
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