The Bulletin Bored: (AIP-64) Festival Feasibility Study

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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Bulletin Bored. AIP-64 is currently in the Live AIP stage with voting set to end in two days. Let’s review what it entails and catch up on what happened this past week across Web3 with updates from Maaria.

Discourse user ssp1111 has proposed creating a “Web3 Village event,” an NFT Conference & Festival. To be clear, it has no intention of replacing ApeFest, but rather an additional event that can bring multiple communities together.

In-person events are a great way to help community members get in touch and it would be great for the DAO to host an event that brings people from multiple projects and backgrounds together. Having multiple events at a single location instead of scattered across the city would make scheduling easier as well and allow participants to attend more events.

AIP-64 is the first of a two-part proposal. It includes just the feasibility study covering the following:

• gathering resources, contacts, venues, producers, brands, and sponsors

• aggregating feedback

• converting feedback actionable data

• securing letters of interest from various NFT brands and communities to secure participants

The actual coordination and execution of the “Web3 Village event” would be laid out in part two.

The overall cost of this feasibility study is estimated at $10,000. It includes payments for visual content and social media assets, creation of a website landing page, and the work required to reach out and confirm with sponsors, brands, etc.

So far, the proposal currently has 98.69% of participants voting in favor. Make sure you go out and vote yourself!

Maaria continues to keep the community informed on what is happening across the Web3 community. Below are some of the updates from her most recent issue. You can subscribe to the full version here.

• Gucci will now accept ApeCoin in its retail stores via a partnership with BitPay.

• Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer is integrating Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs into design elements of its Calibre E4 digital watch, and will allow clients to purchase timepieces using ApeCoin.

• A new Ethereum token standard, ERC4907, will allow people to rent and loan NFTs for fixed periods of time in a trustless manner.

• Kevin Rose, founder of Moonbirds, announced this week that the project would be moving to a cc0 licensing format instead of its current system where NFT owners have full IP rights to their NFT.

• Tiffany’s sold 250 “NFTiffs", digital passes that can be redeemed by CryptoPunk owners for a custom pendant of their NFT. The passes were sold for 30ETH or roughly $50,000.

• Starbucks will be introducing Web3 components to its popular rewards program at an upcoming investor conference in September.

• Instagram users in 100 countries can now share their favorite Ethereum, Polygon, and Flow NFTs on the platform via integrations with Coinbase Wallet and Dapper Labs.

• Magic Eden, the largest Solana NFT marketplace, announced support for Ethereum NFTs. The platform will aggregate listings from other marketplaces, and will offer minting services and multi-chain support.

• UK rock band Muse is releasing its next album as an NFT on Polygon platform Serenade. Holders of the 1,000 edition collection will receive downloadable hi-def audio files digitally signed by the band.

• A prolific crypto miner who was involved in the ETC fork has said he would continue mining Ethereum on a fork called ETH POW after the chain moves to proof of stake later this year. The merge will remove the need for transactions to be verified by miners, who have spent billions of dollars buying GPUs.

• Open options on ethereum passed the open options on bitcoin for the first ever.

Thanks for reading this week’s edition! As mentioned above, a lot of great ideas are being proposed on the Discourse forum nearly every day. If you have one of your own and are unsure where to start, join my new Discord server to request assistance from either me or the group of members we have in there.

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