The Bulletin Bored: Ape Worlds

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I’ve decided to change things up a bit this week. Normally, I provide information on each AIP that makes it to the Live Voting stage and this week we have the AIP-78: Ape Worlds proposal currently up for a vote. However, rather than discuss it in this newsletter, I covered it in a story for the Bored Ape Gazette this time. My analysis can be found in the Gazette here. Let’s review Maaria’s updates below.

ApeCoin DAO Board Member 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.

• Magic Eden submitted a proposal this week to ApeCoin DAO to build a dedicated NFT marketplace for the ApeCoin DAO. The marketplace is launching in September at no cost to the DAO, and will offer reduced fees for transactions in $APE and for NFTs in the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem.

• Yuga Labs hires the GM of MeebitsDAO, Danny Greene, as brand ambassador for Meebits. Greene will focus on utility and partnerships for the brand, and serve as a liaison with the community.

• NFT infrastructure provider Pinata raised an $18 million Series A co-led by Greylock and Pantera Capital. The company provides infrastructure for distributing and managing NFT media.

• Ethereum’s final merge to a proof of stake consensus mechanism has been scheduled for Block XYZ, which is expected to occur on September 15 or 16th. The announcement comes after a major testnet merge of the Beacon Chain was completed earlier this month.

• Circle said its USDC stablecoin would support the Ethereum proof of stake chain after the Merge. Tether announced the same for USDT.

• Blockchain oracle chainlink announced it would support the Ethereum merge and not the PoW hard-fork.

• Buenos Aires will deploy Ethereum validator nodes in 2023, becoming the first government to officially run infrastructure for the cryptocurrency. Argentina has been a huge proponent of crypto, and already allows citizens to pay their taxes with it.

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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