
Drop 1: MetaMask Debit Card https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/08/14/metamask-starts-rollout-of-blockchain-based-debit-card-developed-with-mastercard-baanx/ https://metamask.io/news/latest/introducing-metamask-card-upgrade-your-crypto-spending/ Drop 2: M^0 Smart Wrapper https://research.m0.org/research/defi-meet-smart-m Drop 3: Restaking of Bitcoin on Ethereum https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/08/14/ethereum-based-swell-imports-wrapped-bitcoin-to-serve-as-liquid-restaking-token/ Mais: New Manchester United web3 collectibles game: Fantasy United https://newsletter.sportingcrypto.com/p/manchester-united-launch-web3-fantasy-game Conduit raises $6M to expand crypto crossborder payments into Africa https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/conduits-cross-border-payments-expand-from-latam-into-africa-with-6m-round/ Parfin raises 10M USD from ParaFi, Nuclea, Framework and others, to continue to build Rayls, its private/public blockchain https://www.ledgerinsights.com/parfin-one-of-the-drex-cbdc-developers-raises-10-million-funding/ M^0 joins MakerDAO's Spark Tokenization Grand Prix https://www.m0.org/lp/spark-tokenization-grand-prix Nuclea and AmFi launch tokenized promisory notes https://www.blocknews.com.br/financas-corporativo/nuclea-e-amfi-tokenizam-duplicatas-na-blockchain-nuclea-chain/ New paper on Risk-based Capital for Stable Value Tokens by Circle's economic team: Gordon Liao, Dan Fishman, Jeremy Fox-Geen https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4926568 a16z Crypto guide: social media for startups https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/social-media-for-startups-guide/ Balaji Srinivasan's Network School launches in a private island near Singapore https://balajis.com/p/network-school Water & Music's new report: The State of Data in the Music Industry 2024 https://www.waterandmusic.com/the-state-of-data-in-the-music-industry-2024 Banco do Brasil libera uso de Bitcoin, ETH, BNB, SOL, DOT, XRP, AVAX e ALGO em planos de previdência privada https://br.cointelegraph.com/news/banco-do-brasil-allows-the-use-of-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies-in-pension-plans Hydra, a scalability solution on Cardano, launched an implementation of Doom, where each frame of the classic videogame is a Blockchain transaction https://doom.hydra.family/ RFLXT Studio brings videogames to Cardano with the launch of Chronoshot in the Epic Game Store https://x.com/rflxtstudio/status/1824160221230768338 Midnight virtual hackathon series https://x.com/MidnightNtwrk/status/1823008954957316298 . Redes sociais / comms .. Instagram.com/blockdropspodcast .. Twitter.com/blockdropspod .. Blockdrops.lens .. https://warpcast.com/mauriciomagaldi .. youtube.com/@BlockDropsPodcast .. Meu conteúdo em inglês twitter.com/0xmauricio .. Newsletter do linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7056680685142454272 .. blockdropspodcast@gmail.com