We’ve been busy taking three incredible projects through our pilot Recelerator - an 8-week “regenerative accelerator” that’s been built on our Good Growth framework. It’s the first time we’ve really flexed the Protein Community around a transformation mission and it’s a beautiful thing to behold ✨
We also have a bunch of Protein IRL + URL events coming up, but we’re most looking forward to Cyn Bahiti dropping by the Discord on Tuesday for a live Stories of Growth recording. If you fancy listening in, bring your best backchannel GIFs and RSVP here, as it’s open to all.
So, let's get straight into our monthly round-up of members’ links …
- Missed our first Twitter Spaces on feminist consciousness? Listen here.
- Ever wondered what a Theory of Value is?
- Bored Ape Yacht Club is going into the restaurant and cannabis businesses
- LimeWire is relaunching as an NFT marketplace
- Rhea Myers & McKenzie Wark on inventing new forms of ownership
- Looking for modern shamanism, psychedelic science, and visionary culture? You might enjoy this …
- MIM is a metaverse “swarm” for the next generation of creators
- World of Women and The Sandbox has set up a $25m fund to help get more women into web3
- ForeFront dropping bombs on digital reputation
- Thinking about setting up a Discord? Start here
- Water & Music continue their high-quality output with this piece on the NFT music landscape
- NFTs as employment contracts
- Climate Spring is a new development fund for scripted film and TV projects about climate change. Join their launch event with David Sirota (Don't Look Up) next Thursday
- Our frens at Seed Club have made an awesome jobs board
- The World Today is the world’s largest NFT Photography commission and the pictures are beautiful
- Is it time for platform socialism?
- Plant Gang is building the herbarium of the metaverse
- What it really means to transition from web2 to web3
- Vitalik is worried about crypto's future
- Struggling to get your Discord vibin’? Try this …
- Crowdmuse is automating collaboration for regenerative projects
- Say hello to Mudas - saving the rainforest one NFT at a time
- Terranascient futures studies highlight the importance of learning, unlearning, and relearning
- Sam Speed on onboarding the next billion users into web3
- NOEMA made a to-do list for web3 visionaries
- Everything you need to know about CC0
- Decode is breaking down the future of tech, brands, and culture
- BeReal is for your “real” friends
- Clim Studio on Grafik
- Are we creating a post-identity future?
- SPACE10 on the intelligence of everyday things
- Why storytelling is still important in web3
- Zaha Hadid Architects enter the metaverse
- What happens when vinyl records meet NFTs?
- FBI made a guide to internet slang and it’s pretty good
- BlackPool Bulletin is all you need to know on NFT economy
- A great read on DAO contributor skills
- StoryTrails is reanimating public spaces across the UK
- Metaverse Fashion Week - the good, the bad, and the glitchy
- It’s Balenciaga’s world (apparently) and we’re all just living in it
- This guy made Instagram look like Window 95 👀
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