Disney's Web3, Helium's Blockchain Migration, and USDC's expansion.

Big brands enter web3

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• Major happenings in the ecosystem: Helium moves to Solana, NFT adoption by big brands and USDC’s expansion.

• A topic we explain: A list of the best resources to get started with DeFi yield optimization.

• In this week's good reads:

  • How to airdrop in the crypto market.

  • An argument for regulating web3 apps instead of protocols.

  • Crypto regulation - Fear & Future.

  • Find airdrops and alphas from the best DeFi projects.

Let’s Start

A compositor of the best crypto resources to learn yield optimization:

Learn the basics:

1. DeFi 101 Guide: A good starting point on the topic of yield optimization. Brew sets the stage for understanding the basics of the DeFi ecosystem.

2. Max Mahar talks about yield farming and optimization as passive income in his Youtube video!

3. This Medium article by Roastyb explains the concept of yield optimization and yield optimizer with the help of the DeFi protocol beefy.finance.

4. Team Fluxus’ Medium blog on Yield Optimization and its working.

5. The True Sources of DeFi Yield by Incentivized.

   The True Sources of DeFi Yield

6. DeFi Pulse Farmer’s Archives to understand how to spot high performing farms.

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Major News in the Ecosystem:

🔰Helium network changes its blockchain to Solana and people are shook

tomuky.eth @tomuky

@helium @solana

🔰Big brands like Christie’s, Disney and Build-a-bear are developing NFTs and digital assets.

Christie's @ChristiesInc

The first ever global auction house to host fully on-chain sales: introducing Christie’s 3.0 Built from the ground up together with three leading companies in the Web3 community @manifoldxyz , @chainalysis & @spatialxr. (1/4)

nft.christies.comChristie’s 3.0Discover and bid on exclusive NFT drops, visit our virtual gallery to view the latest digital art, and purchase NFT art on the blockchain using ETH.

🔰USDC to now be available on Arbitrum, Cosmos, NEAR, Optimism, Polkadot

Circle | #ConvergeSF22 | Sept 27-30 @circlepay

1/ Another exciting announcement just shared at #ConvergeSF22 👀 we intend #USDC to be available on @arbitrum @cosmos @NEARProtocol @optimismFND @Polkadot

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More Good Reads:

✍️How to airdrop in the crypto market:

Deus Ex DAO @deusexdao

📢 New article: A Framework for Airdrops In this article, we propose a number of questions teams should ask themselves before airdropping tokens. We also argue that token airdrops are part of a broader system and should be looked at in context 👇 medium.com/deus-ex-dao/a-…

medium.comA Framework for AirdropsHow to distribute Tokens

✍️An argument for regulating web3 apps and not protocols

miles jennings @milesjennings

1/ Why we should regulate web3 apps, not protocols. 👇🧵 a16zcrypto.com/web3-regulatio…

a16zcrypto.comRegulate web3 apps, not protocolsInternet regulation historically targeted apps, browsers, websites – not underlying communication protocols. Same rules should apply to web3.

✍️Crypto regulation by Clarity in Crypto (also on YouTube and Twitter! )

Crypto Regulation, Fear, & The Future 🔮

✍️ Covering airdrops and alphas from the best DeFi projects - DeFiCalender

Testnet Guide - zkSync 2.0

💎 Wait for Brew Findouts💎

In this edition - we’ve found a few not-so-hidden gem for our readers. 💎

Investrly

Let’s be honest, markets make a lot of noise. And the web3 market is no less. Scrolling away on #cryptotwitter will make sure you know that. And so, we have brought you a source that separates insights from the noise. 

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That’s it for today, folks. See ya next Friday. 🧢

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