Rally Digest #37 (August 9, 2021)
Welcome to the Rally Digest, a weekly round-up of everything that’s happening around Rally.
New Creators:
$ROOT — ROOT Gaming is a community focused gaming team whose economy is primarily powered by RLY.
$SHADE — SHADED is a live electronic artist, floating in an abyss of chunky techno and liquid house. His signature sound is a weaving combination of driving psychedelic vibes and funk inspired textures. His sound is undeniable in character, and whilst his production style is constantly evolving, he always stays true to his Southern California roots.
$VCA — Colin Benders is an electronic musician who works with modular synthesizers.
You can follow his creative process live on youtube and twitch, where he streams and records hours of live electronic music.
$WELL — Whitney Lauritsen is a podcast host, social media advisor, and well-being coach who shares lifestyle practices and product recommendations that improve the quality of body, mind, and planet. She explores mental health, mindful living, and sustainability on This Might Get Uncomfortable and WhitneyLauritsen.com, and advises creative entrepreneurs with digital marketing that amplifies their passions.
$STACK — While there will be inevitable highs and lows, crypto is the future. Founded by Forrest, CryptoStackers provides resources for STACKing crypto. Find CryptoStackers on YouTube for frequent, original analysis and check out cryptostackers.pro for access to custom tools for trading and investing in crypto.
$SEA — Michael Christopher Brown is a world traveling Photojournalist who captures images to bring about change by disclosing rising and existing conflicts, as well as other matters linked to human socioeconomic, political, and environmental footprints. Commissioned by Times, National Geographic, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Fortune, Smithsonian, Geo, The Atlantic etc.
Rally in the News:
- Rally was highlighted as a crypto project gaining traction by Kalkine, a financial media outlet.
- Rally CMO/CRO Bremner Morris was quoted in a Rolling Stone article on how NFTs are a COVID-era trend that will stick around
Industry News:
The longtime crypto investor Colleen Sullivan of CMT Digital unspools a tweet thread where she sets out the potential of a crypto creator economy and how it might work. Bonus: the whole thing opens with a Snoop Dogg metaphor!
Can’t afford to buy a whole CryptoPunk? Now, you don’t have to: just rent one. Scalar Capital’s Linda Xie spotlights the phenomenon of CryptoPunk rental in the ever evolving NFT sector.
Quora is getting in on the creator economy, The Information reports. The site for expert answers to your questions has launched paid subscriptions for its writers. This means subscribers can get extra stuff from writers. Quora takes a cut.
The future of social media is… Snapchat? Disappearing messages and ephemeral messaging in general remains the platform’s core proposition, and it seems to be working where other platforms’ attempts to copy it have failed (hi, Twitter Fleets!), The Information reports. Rival TikTok is the latest to hop on the vanishing-message bandwagon.
The social tokens accelerator Seed Club is taking applications for its third cohort. The program kicks off mid September. Projects contribute a 3 percent of their token supply to Seed Club in return for mentorship, coaching, workshops and guided exercises. It’s seeking established communities or groups with “community-market fit” to take part. Previous participants include Grammy-winning musician RAC, Top Shot trade publication First Mint and more luminaries of the social token world.
Missed the Rally Community Call on Friday? Watch it here.
