Rally Digest #43 (September 20, 2021)
Welcome to the Rally Digest, a weekly round-up of everything that’s happening around the Rally project.
New Creators:
Felicia Day/ $GEEX
Actor (Buffy, Supernatural), Writer/Producer (The Guild), former CCO (Geek and Sundry) and all around geeky internet native! Felicia currently streams on Twitch several times a week.
BumBailey/ $BUM
BumBailey is a color-changing creator and Gen Z influencer — championing our community values of body positivity, mindfulness and self-expression.
Oliver OG/ $OGC
Twitch streamer that streams 24/7. Plays a variety of games but mainly Fornite competitive as of now.
gsm Void/ $GSM
gsmVoid and content creator that plays a wide variety of games.
Eric Wesley/ $TBT
Eric Wesley’s work is constructed around systems of success and failure. His artwork is held internationally by public institutions including the Whitney Museum, NYC; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), LA; Colección Jumex, MEX; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Aishti Foundation, Beirut; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Hammer Museum, LA
Thought Leadership:
- Rally’s VP of Product Chris Fortier highlighted Rally and trends in the NFT and social token space with Rally creators and Clubhouse stars Xtina Holder and Dr. Sohaib Imitaz.
Rally in the News:
- Rally’s Director of Fine Art Partnerships Tam Gryn was interviewed by Bankless on the role NFTs and social tokens can play in the art world.
- Rally’s VP of Product Chris Fortier was the guest on the Brave New Coin podcast to highlight how Rally uses social tokens and NFTs to empower creators, artists and their communities to build sustainable independent economies
- Messari’s Mason Nystrom highlighted the launch of $JROCK. Messari included the post in their popular “Unqualified Opinions” newsletter
Industry News:
- Discord, which raised half a billion in new funding last week at a valuation of $15 billion, appears to be gearing up for a public listing, The Information reported. It’s hiring an executive with SEC reporting chops, and it follows its March hiring of its first chief financial officer.
- The largest NFT marketplace OpenSea suffered its first financial scandal, as its head of product was discovered to be trading on insider knowledge of NFT drops. The executive resigned within 24 hours of OpenSea acknowledging the misdeed. The allegations were first made and amplified by the NFT community on Twitter.
- LinkedIn may not be a name that springs to mind for cool creators, but the InMail company is launching a $25 million accelerator program for creators, The Information reported. The 10-week course will take in up to 100 creators, who will also receive a $15,000 grant each.
- Social tokens news and data site Forefront announced a $2.1 million token swap with venture firms 1KX and Scalar Capital leading the round. Dozens of community members also took part. Forefront bills itself as Web3’s “port of entry”.
- Billboard published a deep-dive into BitClout, the controversial platform that offers features similar to social tokens. The piece covers BitClout’s regulatory travails and examines the creators who are invested in the platform.
