Author: Jeremy Ryan

If you’re a fan of memes and looking for a community where you can share, create, and discuss your favorite meme content, Memeland is the place to be. As a project by 9GAG, a leading social media platform for memes with over 400 million monthly active users, Memeland is a fun, creative, and ever-growing community that brings the world of memes and NFTs together. In this article, we’ll discuss the benefits of joining Memeland, explore its unique meme collections, and explain how you can get involved in this exciting project.The Origins of Memeland9GAG, a social media platform with over 400 million monthly active…

Blockchain Ankr has collaborated with TransFi to integrate fiat onramp/offramp solutions into its AppChains product, aiming to simplify the user experience and attract millions of potential new users for enterprises and Web3 apps. With Ankr’s AppChains, any enterprise or Web3 project can now launch its own fully customizable blockchain, offering enhanced scalability and user experience. TransFi’s integration further enhances the user experience by removing friction in the consumer onboarding process of the apps built on top of them. Kev Silk, Product Manager Ankr AppChains, said: “By integrating with TransFi, we’re unlocking a wealth of new value for the AppChains product,…

Blockchain Optimism, an Ethereum-based layer-2 blockchain, will use Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS), an on-chain attestation protocol, that will enable users to assess the trustworthiness of the platform’s users and vouch for whether something actually happened on the blockchain, as per a release sent to CoinDesk. This could promote fairer OP token distribution and community voting systems on Optimism. Any Optimism user can use the technology to attest to information that they believe is accurate, such as whether a person built, or contributed to, a particular project, whether an individual makes profitable trades or not, and more. EAS’s launch aims to…

NFT Snapmuse.io, with its seamless UX and integration of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain infrastructure, has announced the debut of its platform for artists, fans, and collectors on the Polygon network. In honor of the occasion, YouTuber Mariana Avila is the first creative to give her CreatorPass on Snapmuse.io to her 30 million social media followers across all platforms, per the latest information shared with Finbold on May 4. On April 29, Mariana kicked off the campaign by providing her supporters with an official present in the form of an NFT in exchange for their registration to Snapmuse.io. The social…

NFT In an effort “to strengthen the quality” of new non-fungible token (NFT) projects, the Solana Foundation is inviting aspiring creators to pitch the company their idea for profile-picture collections. The competition, dubbed the “NFT Showdown,” is meant to encourage artists to devise comprehensive business plans aimed at creating collections that offer “real-world utility” for the fashion, entertainment and gaming industries, among others. “The NFT Showdown is designed to encourage a shift in the way NFT brands design their business plans prior to launching,” Austin Federa, Solana Foundation’s head of strategy, said in a statement. “Projects should consider what it…

Blockchain Aztec Labs is creating a hybrid zero-knowledge rollup designed to execute smart contracts in a private, trustless and scalable manner. Developers built the Ethereum blockchain to optimize public consensus at the cost of native privacy, and privacy solutions often do not support a complicated ecosystem of decentralized applications. Aztec’s hybrid zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup solution is aimed at solving this problem. In an interview with Blockworks, Joe Andrews, the head of product at Aztec Protocol, said that “we’re trying to build the privacy layer that we wish had existed when we set out all those years ago to put corporate…

NFT Creative writers will be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of acquiring one of the most limited-edition NFT collections ever launched. The Quest of Evolution has just announced the launch of The Oracle’s Verse, the first-ever “crypto novel” that enables multiple writers to contribute a short chapter to an ongoing fictional tale, adding words, images and music, before selling it on to the next contributor. The Oracle’s Verse NFTs are what’s known as “evolving NFTs” and they provide an intriguing platform for budding writers, who’ll not only get to showcase their creativity to a wide audience, but…

Blockchain Securitize, a blockchain firm that specializes in tokenizing real-world assets, launched a new feeder fund that offers tokenized exposure on Polygon to a private credit fund from asset manager Hamilton Lane. The new tokenized fund, which will feed into Hamilton Lane’s Senior Credit Opportunities Fund, aims to broaden access to senior private credit that’s typically been a stable strategy though volatile markets, Securitize said in a statement. Dubbed SCOPE, the Hamilton Lane fund targets floating-rate, senior secured loans and generally invests in privately-held assets in sectors including health care, information technology and business services. The feeder fund is the…

Blockchain An engineer at the Bitcoin-focused development firm Blockstream has said she sees a “Cambrian explosion” coming for the development of layer 2 technologies on the Bitcoin network. The rapid growth eyed for layer 2 technologies will in part be fueled by coming updates such as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 118, known as SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT, or APO for short, as well as a new programming language for Bitcoin smart contracts called Simplicity, Blockstream engineer Lisa Neigut said at the Consensus 2023 conference. “APO is going to, hopefully, unlock a Cambrian explosion with these script updates and new covenants,” Neigut said, while…

Blockchain Just like most of the most advanced blockchain protocols in the industry, the Tenet Blockchain grants users the flexibility they need to thrive on the L1 outfit. Tenet, a brand-new layer-1 blockchain protocol has announced the launch of its testnet, creating a conduit to build on the potential of Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) protocols. As contained in a press release shared with Coinspeaker, the Tenet protocol is emerging from its stealth mode, making it possible for developers to interact and experiment with the protocol. There are thousands of blockchain protocols around today, each with its own unique value proposition.…