Kim Kardashian Gets Fined, Elon Changes His Mind, and the Sky is Falling in NFT Land

Web3 Week In Review #2

Hey Friends 👋🏽,

Welcome to the second edition of Web3 Week in Review. Check in each Friday for a collection of the top stories, opinions, threads, and conversations from across the crypto landscape.

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Let’s get into it.

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📖 Top Stories of the Week

• Kim Kardashian charged by SEC, agrees to pay $1.3 million fine 👉 READ

  Elon Musk to proceed with $44 billion purchase of Twitter, multiple outlets report 👉 READ

• Golden raises $40M Series B led by a16z crypto to build the decentralized protocol for knowledge 👉 READ

• Party Round rebrands as Capital.xyz to allow founders to raise, hold, spend, and send funds all from one place 👉 READ

• NEAR teams with Google Cloud to accelerate Web3 startups 👉 READ

• September was the lowest volume month for OpenSea in 14 months 👉 READ

• Japan announces NFT and metaverse expansion 👉 READ

• Steel DAO launches a community-as-a-scout program and dedicated web3 talent collective 👉 READ

• Manifold launches a zero-fee marketplace for creators 👉 READ

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📖 Opinions & Long Form

• Polygon has created a behemoth through business development 👉 READ

• Starkware, ZK Rollups, and L3s will redefine Ethereum scaling 👉 READ

• Zeneca_33 breaks down what the Kim Kardashian ruling really means for influencers in the space 👉 READ

• Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks 👉 READ

• Nike’s recent patent filing hints at RTFKT ambitions 👉 READ

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🎙 Conversations

• Overpriced JPEGs weekly recap 👉LISTEN

• One Big Idea narrations are now available on Spotify 👉LISTEN

• A deep dive into TYCHO’s open source community 👉LISTEN

• Music NFT’s with Sound.xyz 👉LISTEN