Weekly Field Notes

📝#91: Virtual Play, Real Pay

Roblox partners with Shopify. ENS integrates PayPal and Venmo. NFL partners with Bitpanda. Ford and Toyota file 43 blockchain patents. Animoca Brands Japan partners with Tokyo Stupid Games & more.

🎙️AI x Blockchain: Reinventing Data for Corporates

We sat down with Scott Dykstra, CTO and Co-Founder of Space and Time and Maja Vujinovic, Founder & CEO of OGroup to discuss the potential of blockchain x AI x data.

📝#90: Priceless

Mastercard brings Bitcoin to 100M merchants globally crypto debit card.

📝#89: Sky High💨

📝#89: Death Sentence for NFTs?

SEC has sent Wells notice to OpenSea. Manchester City launched "Man City Virtual Etihad Stadium" on Sony’s FavoriteSpaceTM. PGA TOUR partnered with Stratton Studios to develop "PGA TOUR RISE."

📝#88: Fight For Freedom

Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested, faces 20 years. X releases new improvements to Grok 2. Sony launches new blockchain. Tether teases about it's new stablecoin.

📝#88: Adidas, Walmart & Drake

Adidas partners with Doodles. Pantera Capital eyes TON for gaming. Crypto.com X UEFA. Drake's new memecoin. The Sandbox partners with leading Indian content company.

📝#87: Old Gold vs. New Gold

Norway's and Swiss National Bank buy “bitcoin”. Optimism teases its Superchain. JPMorgan has launched its own LLM Suite for its 60,000 employees. Perplexity AI partners with Polymarket.

📝#87: Apple Opens to Crypto 💥

Apple brings USDC to 1.4B iPhones, AC Milan partners with Bitpanda, MLB launches an NFT marketplace, and Lamborghini makes its biggest Web3 move with Animoca Brands.

📝#86: When Wall Street meets Bitcoin

Morgan Stanley jumps on the Bitcoin ETF bandwagon, pitching to clients like it's the next big thing. Meanwhile Polymarket touched $100m in volume & AI Pins miss the mark & more.

📝#86: Web3 Loyalty Revival

Adidas x Doodles. Cult Gaia's Web3 membership program with TYB. California puts 42M cars onchain. PUBG Mobile x Lamborghini. Türkiye blocks Roblox. Olympic esports heads to Saudi Arabia in 2025.

Boomers Are About to Eat Your Bitcoin 🍔

Morgan Stanley tells wealth advisors to pitch Bitcoin – a first for major Wall Street firms. Here's all you need to know.