Rare Protocol Substack Weekly Update: Nov 17
Rare Perks: Everyone with a Community Pool has been allowlisted for a Lens handle, and users now have access to more Bello Insights!
Imagine your home is actually a collection of half-homes; some parts on the same block, others purchased in different currencies on different continents. Your living room is in Manhattan but the kitchen is in Secaucus, and, frustratingly, they can only deliver that dope new massage chair to your vault in Zurich. It’s a mess.
This is life in web3, where the creator economy exploded into a vibrant network with artists minting across countless different platforms, smart contracts and blockchains. The result is a spaghetti map of addresses obscuring even the most prominent of artists and collectors.
What this space needs is a comprehensive registry that ties all this activity back to each creator–a source of truth that provides data, insights, and asset verification – one that invites further exploration into the cryptoart rabbit hole.
This is the problem Rare Protocol aims to solve, but to do so it is essential we work hand in hand with the RareDAO. With this in mind, today we published a Request For Comment on the RareDAO forum proposing that, together, our efforts should focus on building an open, decentralized discovery and authenticity system that does not exploit user data to feed a faceless algorithm, but instead uses the network effects afforded by large social graphs to amplify the role of real humans in curating the content they consume and create.
Read our DAO Request for Comment, Expanding The RareDAO Vision here and, please, contribute your thoughts. Together, for the first time in history, we can make the internet truly work for creators.
Community Callouts
Pindar Van Arman allow listed the stakers in his pool for his latest release on SuperRare, “The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity”
Bryan Brinkman just celebrated his rank on the “Trending Pool” section on SuperRare
Ideartist.eth made a sale that triggered pool rewards
Chris_9669 pointed out how Rare Protocol offers a way to support artists and benefit in the process
Crumbs by Iness was sold on SuperRare, triggering pool rewards for their stakers on Rare Protocol.
Seizzi gave their take on the future potential of Rare Protocol – check it out
Terra Incognita 08 & 09 by Eko33 were sold to Kutoa Capital with pool rewards flowing as a result
Tomato is airdropping all their stakers artwork every month - November drop coming soon
Terra Incognita 07 by Eko33 was sold to akaStevey, again triggering pool rewards for stakers
We discussed the importance of onchain reputation on Rare Radio - listen back to it here
Building in the Open
We’ve got some Rare Perks for stakers on Rare Protocol this week 🎁
Up First → Lens Allowlist
Anyone with a Community Pool on Rare Protocol has been allowlisted to claim a handle on Lens! This means that if a pool has been opened for any of your ETH addresses, you can skip the waitlist to join the biggest social media layer in web3.
Built on Polygon by the Aave team, Lens is a decentralized social media network that enables users to have more control over their content and data - an antidote to traditional social media giants, Meta and Twitter, where users have little control over the info they offer up.
Just this week Lens launched V2, a big update that offers users more autonomy over their experience and additional monetization features. Read more about it here.
Get started on the Lens Handle Claim page
Connect your wallet
Claim your handle!
Next Up → Bello Insights
We’ve taken our partnership with Bello a step further, allowing all users of Rare Protocol (yes you!) access to staking insights. Now, in addition to your own pool, you can also browse the data of anyone else with a Community Pool to help better understand your target audience.
Here’s how you access Bello from Rare Protocol
Navigate to a pool page on Rare Protocol
Click on the [Bello] button and authenticate via your wallet
Explore all the insights your Rare Protocol pool has to offer
Emerging Pools
Chewy Stoll is a 3D artist who focuses on distorted human form and surreal landscapes. Their work serves as a healing mechanism and visual diary for past trauma.
↪ Stake in Chewy Stoll’s Community Pool
Gordon Berger is an abstract artist fusing virtual and physical reality. As an OG to the space, Gordon gave his first TEDx presentation on cryptoart in early 2018, the same year he began minting NFTs on SuperRare.
↪ Stake in Gordon Berger’s Community Pool
Prepared by Emma Johnson, Lauren Lankford, & Luke Whyte