#692 | Season 3, Joy Howard & Lonely Apes 💔

It certainly feels like we’re in a transformative phase of web3 right now — making it the perfect time for disparate ingredients to catalyse into life — whilst recognising any successful evolution is based on an ability to self-organise and responsiveness to change.

For the Protein Community, our first two seasons have shown we have a highly capable and creative community that cares deeply about using web3 for good; a global network of kickass experts whose combined force knows no bounds; a forward-looking set of investors who see the opportunity and a $PRTN token that powers our internal economy and gives ownership to our members.

So, for our Season 3, we’re moving from theory into practice to begin building Good Growth 🌱

It’s the first Friday of the month, so that can only mean one thing …

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• If it was ever in doubt, Joy Howard is badass (make sure you listen to the end)

• Meet the world’s first synth-nerd supergroup

• Wait, there are NFTs hidden in Netflix's latest hit series?

• Aydelotte Foundation on an alternative to education institutions

• A worthwhile read on NFTs and the risk of perpetual colonialism

• Some summer cabin goals …

• Rosie Sherry on the community engagement trap

• The 2022 State of Crypto Report for a16z is the one thing to read this month

• As is this analysis of NFT collections based on profitability

• Mirror has launched Writing NFTs

• Bella Hadid is cloning herself

• Food + Fashion go hand in hand 🤝

• Precog are doing an Issue #6 launch event in Brooklyn

• MX is the new UX

• Gucci goes deeper into gaming

• Everything Everywhere All At Once looks epic, has anyone watched it yet

• Instagram is in its flop era

• The story behind the Indexed Finance hack

• First ustwo, then Good, is this the start of an ownership model for agencies?

• Web3 decentralisation is focusing on the wrong question

• 1kx on virtual beings

• Do we need a United Nations for social DAOs?

• Lowtech Magazine runs on solar power 🌞

• channel.xyz have released their new roadmap

• A long, but incredibly informative report on designing token economies

• Google levels up Maps with Immersive View

• Communities aren’t buckets, they’re clouds

• VUCA is a new way to evaluate your DAO

• Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords

• Can we create a moral metaverse?

• Our Time on Earth is worth visiting at the Barbican in London

• Alona Shevchenko from UkraineDAO on community mobilisation

• The guy who designs NASA’s spacesuit patches

• Ooh, a Master in Design for Responsible AI

• Newcoin’s updated white paper is worth a read

• Kendrick Lamar goes deep fake and the story behind it

• Water & Music’s 2021 NFT analysis

• Lablaco is looking to help make fashion more circular

• Are you a lonely ape? 💔

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THANKS

We give you 500 $PRTN for any link that makes the Protein Supplement. So, a big shoutout to the following folks, we’ll be in touch shortly to sort your tokens:

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Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚

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SMALL PRINT

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