Best of Abridged #11

Dear fellow humans,

With all the current unrest in the world, we hope you all are safe and well. It has been an inspiring and heartbreaking week for humanity. We are witnessing how humans everywhere respond to months of COVID-19 and adapt to the new paradigm of remote work, separation, and uncertainty. Meanwhile, the racial social justice movement that began with the 13th Amendment way back in 1864 is more relevant, pressing, and alive than ever before. 

For a list of places to donate and other ways to get involved, we encourage our readers to visit bit.ly/BlackLivesAction

Behavioral reform and cultural progress are important to us. We hope to give communities and individuals the tools to strengthen, align, and reinforce each other's values and livelihoods.

Abridged Announcements

Collab.Land begins with two new integrations!

$ALEX is providing a space for verified whales 🐳

(Name?) is facilitating a new participatory token launch with Spencer Noon’s Crypto AMA.

Catch more next week and enjoy the links below!

Crypto

You can now buy crypto with debit cards -- this is huge for normalizing crypto!

Another huge step: Crypto is entering mainstream banking

Learn about a new, worthwhile experiment in Crypto, $AMA tokens

Ethereum’s Layer 2 has *basically* succeeded

A world beyond finance

DAOs

DAOs represent a new kind of social institution

Check out the Aragon Monthly Update

DAOs are entering the game industry!

UX

Blockchain technology is taking over Reddit

Torus’ DirectAuth makes it incredibly easier to access Web3

Personal Tokens are the new Partnership

Bowie was right about the Internet he predicted in 1999

Placeholder Ventures leads a $4M investment into Formatic

Other Interesting Stuff

Influencers are set to make more money on Instagram!

Introducing the Yak Collective: An Alternative Sociality based on Culture

In Solidarity,

    ~  The Abridged Team