Rally Digest #47 (October 18, 2021)
Welcome to the Rally Digest, a weekly round-up of everything that’s happening around the Rally project.
New Creators:
Kelana/ $NA62
Kelana is a 2x AMA amateur Supercross Champion, a stylish freerider, a unique content creator and one of the youngest people to ever create a social token.
Duel Links Meta/ $DLM
Duel Links Meta was founded by Dkayed, a Multi World 1st Qualifying Duel Links Championship player! The community was formed for both competitive players and new players looking to become better Duelists. DLM has become the strongest and largest community within Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links with competitive events, new player help, and the best website resources for the game.
Mark Schaefer/ $RISE
Mark Schaefer helps you rise above the noise. He uses his Creator Coins to reward his community of forward-thinking disruptors.
NeilGuides/ $NEAL
FIFA Coach and educational content creator. Provides the best guides, tips & tricks around FIFA on Youtube and Twitch. Trusted by beginners and actual professional players. Neal is also an EA Game Changer.
Project News:
On Friday, Rally CEO Bremner Morris celebrated the 1 year birthday of the $RLY token, and in essence Rally.io project, with a blog post looking back on the past year. To celebrate the milestone, all creators, creator coin holders and top developers will receive a commemorative NFT from Known Unknown artist James Sommerville. In addition, Rally will soon unveil its own creator coin ($R) to celebrate and recognize the community.
Rally in the News:
- The Los Angeles Daily News covered the launch of $TYGER, UCLA point guard Tyger Campbell’s creator coin launched earlier this month.
- 1confirmation newsletter highlighted the Rally 1 yr blog post.
Industry News:
- Roblox is dabbling in “NFT-like” digital collectibles, The Information reported. The massive online world, which is home to 1.3 million creators, would soon allow some creators to produce and sell their own items such as digital clothing for avatars, its chief executive said at its annual developers’ conference. Currently only Roblox can issue such digital items.
- Twitter is rolling out an incubator program for audio creators called Twitter Spaces Spark Program, The Information reported. It will pay creators $2,500 a month, give them free advertising and early access to new features. The trade-off? Creators must host at least two live audio feeds a week. It’s part of the $5 million Twitter has earmarked for audio creators.
- A Twitch hack is laying bare the economics of the creator economy, Axios reported. The hack showed that the top 1% of all Twitch streamers earned more than half the revenue on the platform. This phenomenon is known as a “power law” and it seems to apply across the creator economy, from Substack to Twitter.
- Quartz has a roundup (paywall) of 23 creator economy platforms and tools, from Zencastr for improving podcast quality to Ko-Fi for virtual tip jars.
- Joey DeBruin argues in Forefront that the New York Times should be tokenized. Instead of $100 a year for a subscription, imagine paying 100 $TIMES a year. DeBruin says that readers holding a Times token would be more incentivized to help the media brand grow, and it would just be better UX.
- Hearing a lot about DAOs but not sure where to start? The folks at Protein published a guide on ‘How to DAO’ that takes you from hellos to decentralized governance.
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