Hello,
New York kids are going back to school on Monday, which is quite late compared to Europe or some other parts of the US and gave them almost 2.5 months of vacations (too much if you ask me).
But it seems that the NFT space did not take ANY summer vacation; and I need to get closure on what people have called the NFT or crypto summer before going back to regular updates.
Happy to be back with all of you here!
My NFT Summer(y)*
*Bad joke on Summary
I had the chance to meet with many great people from the NFT ecosystem at the ETHCC conference in Paris in July. I gave a talk on the impact of NFTs on the art market, but mostly met with old time friends and new people in person, which was quite amazing after so long, among whom:
The French crypto-artists Jaen and Pascal Boyart
Julien from Unlock Protocol, which allows to manage online subscriptions via timed NFTs
And Gauthier, founder of the NFT data site, nonfungible.com
The month of August was then mostly spent on family matters and also studying where we are at with NFTs. To that matter, check out three important datasets from NonFungible.com, which were used to support an article I wrote for Le Quotidien de l’Art, “NFT : l'art a-t-il encore sa place dans la bulle ?”. Since today, the English translation is also available on my Substack. Link below:
Finally, an announcement: we are reviving an OG project from 2017: BAD, the Blockchain Art Directory, originally founded by Judith Seipold. At the time, it was the only directory of Crypto Art projects and players. Today, we launched a grant on Gitcoin to relaunch the project at a time the space needs more educational and onboarding resources than ever. This is BAD 2.0, a decentralized community space online for listing resources, educating newcomers and experimenting with other web3 projects. If you can, support this community project on Gitcoin Grants (donations are matched quadratically) or donate directly via the project wallet: 0x94c1401B0e351Eeecd82e344bD58fd42Bd68D5C3. Thank you!
We’ll be back next week to our regularly scheduled updates.
Till then!
Fanny
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