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Welcome back to Currents. This week, we talk about how 'Women Rise' is championing girls’ education by bringing VR to Pakistan schools, plus we dive into news like Black Mirror NFTs selling out, Optimism revealing 'We Heart the Art' winners, Parallel dropping a new whitepaper, Tokenbound partnering with LayerZero Labs to enable omnichain TBA transactions, Indian Railways rolling out NFT train tickets, VeVe launching Marvel NFT comics featuring Spider-Man and X-Men, and the launch of Seaport 1.6.
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How 'Women Rise' Champions Girls’ Education
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Parallel Drops New Whitepaper for Solana AI Survival Sim Game
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Black Mirror NFTs Sell Out in Just 3 Hours
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Optimism Reveals ‘We Heart the Art’ Winners
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Tokenbound Partners with LayerZero Labs to Enable Omnichain TBA Transactions
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Indian Railways Rolls Out NFT Train Tickets
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VeVe Launches Marvel NFT Comics Featuring Spider-Man and X-Men
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Introducing Seaport 1.6
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Courtesy of Women Rise. A student at Lahore University of Management Sciences trying BackpackX
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How 'Women Rise' Champions Girls’ Education by Bringing VR to Pakistan Schools
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In October 2023, the Women Rise team launched the BackpackX initiative, a VR education project that uses the power of art and AR technology to bring immersive educational experiences into classrooms within marginalized communities.
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Parallel
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Parallel Drops New Whitepaper for
Solana AI Survival Sim Game
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Parallel Studios, the creator behind its eponymous Ethereum trading card game, unveiled further plans for “Colony,” an AI-driven game that will, according to the whitepaper released March 14, be built on Solana.
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The new venture introduces autonomous AI avatars that can evolve and transact, pushing the boundaries of web3 gameplay. There are currently 11,001 Parallel Avatar NFTs on Ethereum, which could be used on Solana and in the new game.
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Black Mirror Smile Club
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Black Mirror NFTs Sell Out in Just 3 Hours
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Last week, the “Black Mirror Experience: Smile Club” NFT collection sold out in under three hours, proving fans of the dystopian hit series may just be the perfect audience for NFT-driven interactive storytelling.
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Powered by the music tech platform PIXELYNX and leading web3 studio Animoca Brands in collaboration with licensing group Banijay Brands, the series draws inspiration from the famed “Nosedive” episode of the Netflix anthology.
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Caption: Optimism We Heart the Art
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Optimism Reveals ‘We Heart the Art’ Winners
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The Optimism Foundation’s “We Heart The Art” contest culminated this week, spotlighting impressive winners in the categories of artificial intelligence, generative art, music, and 1-of-1 art.
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LayerZero x Tokenbound
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Tokenbound Partners with LayerZero Labs to Enable Omnichain TBA Transactions
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If you’ve been among the NFT collectors asking “wen cross-chain?” — as in, you imagine an interoperable future in which digital items work across all blockchains and online ecosystems — such a reality may be dawning.
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Tokenbound, the open-source developer toolkit behind ERC-6551, or the “backpack wallet” token standard giving every NFT its own wallet address, has teamed up with omnichain protocol developer LayerZero Labs to revolutionize NFT transactions.
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Indian Railways Rolls Out NFT Train Tickets
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On March 13, Indian Railways introduced NFT train tickets for two semi-high-speed trains. The initiative comes just in time for Holi, an Indian holiday known as the festival of colors, and pays tribute to the tradition through the tickets’ vibrant artwork.
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Mark Brooks - Iron Man #1 - Artist Proof
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VeVe Launches Marvel NFT Comics Featuring Spider-Man and X-Men
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Ethereum digital collectibles platform VeVe has teamed up with Marvel to launch over 300 NFT comics featuring the likes of Spider-Man and X-Men.
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Costing slightly more than a normal digital comic book, these NFT versions come with varying levels of rarity, the ability to resell, and unique features like augmented reality reading.
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Introducing Seaport 1.6
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OpenSea and the Seaport Working Group are excited to unveil Seaport 1.6 — the latest generation of the most advanced NFT marketplace protocol in the EVM ecosystem.
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Seaport 1.6 introduces a new capability enabled by the recent Ethereum Dencun upgrade called Seaport hooks 🪝. Similar in spirit to Uniswap v4 hooks, Seaport Hooks allow developers to build applications that greatly expand the utility and liquidity of NFTs.
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For more information, read the entire blog post here.
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Learn Center
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Interested in learning about danksharding and proto-danksharding? Want to know more about blockchain forks? Need a refresher on Optimism? We’ve got you covered with our Learn Center articles this week.
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Blockchain
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What are Danksharding and Proto-Danksharding?
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Read article
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OpenSea makes no representations or guarantees regarding the collections highlighted in this newsletter. Users must do their own research and use their own judgment before buying any NFT, including those included in the collections highlighted in this article. The descriptions of the collections highlighted in this article were adapted from descriptions provided by the NFT creators, not OpenSea.
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