Zash is live on Android! ❤️🎉📱
Community Update 49
Happy Valentine’s Zashers!
Have you missed us? After a week away hard at work, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Zash Android app, now available to download in the Google Play Store!
In this week’s edition we’ll also explore the latest headlines in web3 and Crypto news and dive into GameStop’s NFT marketplace! Check out what’s going on below ⬇️
Zash for Android 📱
Android users, we’ve been listening to you. We’ve distilled all the pain points the crypto community has with Discord communities and other social groups into a single, easy to use social media app, so you can get personalised insight, keep up to date with your friends hunches, the latest crypto news and even verify your profile with wallet connect, now for Android too!
We are releasing features weekly so keep your eyes peeled 👀!
Web3 Insight 🌐
GameStop is partnering with blockchain startup Immutable X to launch its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace later this year as they look to take advantage of the booming market and growing NFT adoption rates. For those who don’t know, Immutable X by Immutable is a Layer-2 scalability protocol for NFTs on the Ethereum chain enabling transactions at a much faster rate compared to Ethereum, requiring low computing power and saving more penguins by having a lower environmental impact. Here’s a deep dive into the partnership and what it means for the future of GameStop and NFTs 👇
Crypto Rumours
This year’s Super Bowl saw a marketing frenzy from crypto brands looking to attract some mainstream users into the space. Crypto.com showed that fortune favours the brave by teaming up with LeBron James for an ad that aired immediately after the halftime show. Coinbase’s ad even proved so popular the app temporarily crashed! The ad featured a colourful bouncing QR code that brought viewers to landing page with a promotional offer: $15 of free Bitcoin for new users as well as entry into a $3 million giveaway.
Nike owned virtual collectibles studio RTKFT has released a new MNLTH series, with Nike and RTFKT co-branding. The MNLTH (pronounced Monolith), which is currently being sold on OpenSea, features a dark metallic finish with patterns etch and overlayed on the exteriors with glowing Nike and RTFKT log cutouts. What’s actually inside the pods though? No one knows, as the interior is being kept a secret.
Shiba Inu’s team announced in a blog post that they’re working on their own doggy version of virtual real estate on the metaverse, codenamed Shibverse (the real name to be revealed “soon”, although Shibverse is a pretty cool name!). The team plans on offering Shiba Land for sale through a queue system that will prevent gas wars and bots, and people interested in buying Shiba Land will have to hold LEASH tokens.Android 👀
Zash named 5 Top Metaverse Startups to Watch 😎
We’re stoked to announce we were named as one of the StartUs Insights’ top 5 Metaverse startups to watch in 2022, for our work leveraging Web3 technologies to create verification and combat misinformation in the crypto community! Here’s a look at the full report and the other startups named.
Reading List 💡
Tech News 🖥️
Alongside new Galaxy devices, Samsung also unveiled Samsung Wallet, which works with Samsung Pay and feature support for digital currencies.
Tinder is adding a new Blind Date feature that switches up the usual left or right swipe: this time, you have to chat with other users before you can see what they look like, encouraging higher quality matches and a better experience.
Market News 📈
Is it time to go electric? UK petrol and diesel prices hit a record high over the week, with Petrol reaching 148.02p a litre, while diesel hit a new record high of 151.57p a litre last Thursday.
Meta saw its stock market value slump by more than $230bn (£169bn), a record daily loss for a US firm, after Facebook’s daily active users (DAUs) had dropped for the first time in its 18-year history.
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