Apple demands cut of Ethereum $$
PLUS: 🤝 vitalik.eth on what ETH apps excite him right now, 🤮 SBF hires Gislaine Maxwell's Lawyer, and a look at 💼 Indie DAO: Freelance Sourcing in Web3
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Headlining…
Most important news of the past week:
🤮 Apple blocked Coinbase Wallet, claiming they needed to collect 30% of gas fee of NFTs sent through the app.
🔇 Sam Bankman Fried hires Gislaine Maxwell’s Lawyer.
💵 Stripe launched a fully compliant, Fiat-to-Crypto onramp/offramp product that can be directly embedded in any DEX, NFT, Wallet, or Dapp.
🎙 Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, wrote about what most excites him in the Ethereum ecosystem right now.
Social Proof…
Key cases of adoption over the past week:
🎶 Warner Music partnered with Polygon to launch Music NFTs on Polygon’s upcoming marketplace, LGND Music.
Why this Matters: Warner Music is the most recent in a growing list of “Web2” businesses breaking into Web3 via Polygon — Nike, Adidas, Starbucks, Reddit, Meta, Robinhood, Ebay, Disney, Stripe, and Adobe.
📈 In wake of FTX collapse, Goldman Sachs says they plan to invest “10s of Millions” in Crypto Firms.
Why this Matters: With valuations lowered following the effects of FTX’s collapse, Big Banks like Goldman Sachs see opportunities to step in as the needed “trusted custodian” in the industry. This demonstrates they willing to stomach the current, rocky environment for long-term pay offs down the road.
💸 Reddit Collectible Avatar (NFT) Collections hits New All-Time High.
Why this Matters: Last Saturday broke the record for the total number of Reddit Collectible Avatars minted in a single day. With more than 4.4m being minted since the launch of the collection earlier this year, Reddit’s NFTs demonstrate the power of NFTs to leverage one’s existing network (Reddit partners with independent artists to release each collection) to tie communities together.
DeHR (Decentralized HR) Sourcing in Web3: a look at IndieDAO.
A series by Twali’S HR Guild, Envario bringing you Quality intel on the best-in-show organizations building the DeHR (decentralized HR) Infra Web3 NEEDs.
Our HR Guild led by Envario, an HR Tech and Benefits firm, looked at the state of Human Resources in Web3 and how it facilitates the “Future of Work.”
What’s the Future of Work, again? The supercharging of freelance work by Web3 thanks to standardizing diversified, passive secondary income streams.
Over the few months in Wrapped, we’ll profile the projects providing the HR infra (Payroll, Benefits, and Sourcing) to bolster Web3 for freelance Experts.
Today they cover our dear partner, IndieDAO, a Community of Expert Builders that help launch cutting edge web3 products and teams win.
Quick Facts about IndieDAO
The idea for IndieDAO came out of ETHBerlin in 2018 as solution to combine the best parts of Gig Economy with the ideals of the Ownership Economy
Indie Protocol handles the boring business parts of running a consulting business (lead generation, marketing, sales, assembling project teams, administrative work, etc.) so that experts can join IndieDAO and do what they do best
IndieDAO offers mvp builds, full stack development, product design, and many more professional services for organizations and teams
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