If our Pre-season was laying the foundations, Season 1 is building the house.
1st November saw our new season launch after our members overwhelmingly voted in support of the proposal. This means over the next 2 months, we’ll be looking to establish Protein Community as an incubator of ideas that reflect our mission of good growth through education, expertise, and funding. We’re therefore ready to welcome new members, start building our Good Growth Framework 🌱 and launch our first $PRTN funded projects, so sign-up below if you’d like to get involved:
p.s. Make sure you have your Discord and ETH details ready!
p.p.s. If you’ve already applied, the team have been individually reviewing all 675+ submissions, so will be contacting everyone early next week ✨
STORIES OF GROWTH
We’ve also moved our Stories of Growth podcast into the world of Web3 and will be speaking to people who are putting communities first in order to manifest a more equitable and decentralised future. Kicking things off, we had Cooper Turley drop into the Protein Discord to chat about the creator economy, Friends with Benefits, and his love of Jack Harlow. Take a listen and you can keep track of all our upcoming events with this handy PRTN Events ical
PLAYLISTS
Listen to this Rinse FM mix from Solid Blake with Client_03 for big electro bangers and a surprise human x machine interview halfway through 💜
INTERESTING
- Tour de Moon are offering bursaries up to £25k for “18-25 year old scientists and nightlife creators to prompt radical imagination and new beginnings” 💥
- Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis and people of colour are at the sharpest end
- If you’re going to read one thing, it’s this report (email required) from the IoDF on diversity and inclusivity within virtual worlds
- We made a Discord bot to help you understand Web3 acronyms
- In4Art are hosting an international open call for artists that want to be catalysts for change
- Mad Realities is fundraising for a Web3 dating show
- The Dreaming Field Lab are connecting femmes of the African Diaspora with nature in the UK, to practice collective care in the face of climate breakdown
- Here’s a great primer on the metaverse and why we should care
- Then have a listen to Brian Merchant talk about what’s wrong with the metaverse, its sci-fi origins, and why Silicon Valley is obsessed with making it work
- DAMN is building a decentralised autonomous media networks and no, it has nothing to do with Kendrick Lamar
- SPACE10 explore visions for a regenerative future and what it means to give back much more than we take
- A worthwhile read on the creator power scale including a formula to determine if Twitch is ripping you off
- The School for Poetic Computation is launching a course on reading the past to write the future
- Metahaven artist collective on the conflicts of representation and charms of recursion
- Why we crave stylish software
- PleasrDAO paid $4m for “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” the 1/1 Wu-Tang Clan Album 🐝
- PRTN member, Matt Klein explores semi-permanence
- A critical analysis of how Amazon exploits your search results
- Erik Hoel has some terrifying predictions for 2050 … which is only 29 years away folks
- Eco-Bot is exposing climate change disinformation and corporate greenwashing on social media
- Klima is accelerating the price appreciation of carbon assets to force fossil fuel companies to adapt more quickly to the realities of climate change
- You’ve heard of your carbon footprint, what about your carbon shadow?
- Georgina Johnson’s The Slow Grind is been republished thanks to a grant from Mulberry
- 21 very smart people talking about the future of expertise
- Austin Robey has done a case study on Friends With Benefits ($FWB) at it’s definitely worth a read if you’re looking for tips on how to set up and run a DAO
- Charged Particles is building NFTs that own NFTs
- Listen to the always excellent Seed Club podcast on new models in Web3 with OhhSiny followed by David Ehrlichman talking about scaling DOA’s through human connection On The Other Side
- MSCHF is up to MSCHF again 🙃
EVENTS
- 10th - Amare Antwerp: Paint & Sip Workshop
- 11th - Creative rights: know your why and your worth
- 12th - Greentea Selecta (Greentea Peng) Meets Joe Armon-Jones (DJ Set) at the Jazz Cafe
- 12th - Change for Good: Using Values to Generate Ideas for Social Enterprise
- 13th - Bone Soda x Phonox: Joy Orbison, Skiifall & Very Special Guests
- 16th - Pitch Like a Boss with Sharmadean Reid and Today at Apple
- 26th - (Opening) Amy: Beyond the Stage exhibition
- 27th - Workshop with Jazmin Morris: Storytelling through interactive fiction
You can also keep track of the events happening in the PRTN Discord with this handy PRTN Events ical
THANKS
A special shot out to all our members who’ve contributed to this months Supplement: @artem @algoriddims @anaroman @chu @deniz @EVI @Fancy @gustavo @kes and expect to see lots more community curated content SOON™️
Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚
SMALL PRINT
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