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šØAI Meets Web3: Aptos & Microsoft's Partnership Revealed!
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Welcome back to The Geral, your best source of web3-related knowledge and cure for Saturday hangovers. Because letās be honest, 99% of the content you see on here every two weeks canāt be found anywhere else. $BTC crashed sub-26k, SBF is now in jail and $ETH ETFs are getting approved. Weāve all read about these redundant stories on Crypto Twitter so we will continue to deliver something more valuable than miserable copy, ChatGPT, and paste pieces of content.
So, is The Geral a way to get out of the crypto eco-chamber without really doing so? Or a digital dispatch heavenly sent to illuminate you about the power of web3 communities? Anyway, weāre digressingā¦ Letās dive into what we have planned for you.
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Coverage:
Aptos and Microsoft partner to boost web3 adoption
South Korean Telecom operator dives into NFTs
Saudi-based firm implements blockchain solutions for event management
Exploring Gitcoin Grants Program
Aptos and Microsoft partner to boost web3 adoption
Weāve all heard about dozens and dozens of new layer-1 coming out and it seems that they all come with the same value proposition. A faster, more secure blockchain, with lower gas fees. All trying to become the Ethereum killer- but unsuccessfully so far. A big difference with Aptos is that the foundation behind the project has been doing the most in terms of partnering with big players. Google Cloud, BNBChain and now Microsoft have all joined forces with the blockchain to expand its growth.
The Microsoft deal is a big one because, well it is Microsoftā¦ But also because the project between the company and Aptos comes at the intersection of AI and web3. With all the hype surrounding AI, even in the web3 space, the partnership came timely, to the extent that $APT surged by 15% on the announcement day. (Please donāt go and FOMO into buying it now, buying when an event is priced in = bad degen habit).
Letās get back to the topic, the plan between Microsoft and Aptos is to build an AI chatbot, āAptos Assistantā, that will help new users navigate the space in a user-friendly way. The assistant will also be able to guide developers into building smart-contracts and dApps. Given that web3 people love to overcomplicate not-so-complicated concepts, this sounds like a great tool to onboard the mainstream population. The intersection between AI and Web3 is finally here, and it surprisingly does not look like a bad one.
South Korean Telecom operators dive into NFTs
Yet another important partnership to highlight. It's almost like big corporations are suddenly playing musical chairs, and everyone's scrambling for a seat with a blockchain project. This time, weāll talk about South Koreaās SK Telecom which just formed a promising partnership with Polygon Labs.
The company recently made the interesting move of building an NFT marketplace that allows users to buy digital assets in the South Korean won currency (kudos to their growth team for making such a bold move, really). This marketplace, called TopPort, will get the additional help of the Polygon Labs team to improve its infrastructure and create a fruitful ecosystem.
Asia is still running hot with many giant corporations expanding their product-line with web3 services. Hopefully, the rest of the world will follow.š„²
Saudi-based firm implements blockchain solutions for event management
Web3 has tons of use-cases, which makes one want to %@#āā this type of trolls
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Anyway, there are thankfully a handful of people with fully functioning brain cells, and the executives at Saudi-based company IR4LAB are some of them. They will be organizing a blockchain summit in Riyadh on October 19th, and probably thought āWhatās better than powering a blockchain summit with blockchain technologyā?
This event will be issuing tickets and digital certificates of attendance 100% on-chain. Why? To avoid forgery, scalps and data security breaches. Pretty smart and obvious move. Weāll be following closely this summit which will feature guest speakers on various topics ranging from building cities with web3 technology, blockchain financial services and more. Donāt worry, weāll keep our esteemed audience in the loop š (better go and subscribe nowš”).
Best practices for your web3 community
Grant programs are awesome. They provide financial support to individuals and organizations, fostering innovation, research, and projects that might otherwise lack funding. In web3, a great example of that is Gitcoin. Learn more about how they empower the space š
Ambassador Spotlight
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Another edition, another spotlight on the work of a CharmVerse ambassador!
RileyBeans is a writer, strategist and freelancer you should know about. She is the founder of Cloud Scouts, a vibrant community of skilled individuals that help every member in their personal journeys through education, community building and the organization of collaborative events.
Definitely check it out if that speaks to you!
Cool stuff seen on CharmVerse š
Still on grants, after supporting the Optimism Grant foundation, we are glad to announce our latest partnership with Safe Grants. A quick thread to summarize what is going on here.
Excited to announce our latest partnership with @safe Grants! š
@safe is building one of the most important stacks for web3 developers
As the go-to platform for web3 grants operations, it's with great pleasure that we welcome @safe to the fam!
What sets us apart? š§µ
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We do our best to provide you with the best web3 knowledge available out there (with success, some might say š), but would love to hear from you on various topics. Thatās why we will now have a poll on every edition of The Geral. Weāll publish the results in the next episode. Just remember, voting more than once doesn't get you extra brownie points... or actual brownies!
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Memes of the month
After an edition supercharged with knowledge, as usual, letās relax with some memes.
First one is naturally about SBF.
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Heard he filed a motion to be released 5 days per week (wtf?)
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While a lot of us are still in this situation
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But we know degens are good at handling bear markets, right?
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And thatās a wrap for The Geral #7! See you in two weeks for another deep dive into the world of web3 communities.