☀️ Good Morning!
Last week, whilst Twitter started to limit the number of tweets free users can access, various decentralized social networks alternatives are growing and building. Among these emerging alternatives is Mastodon, a platform that embraces the principles of open-source and decentralization and RSS3 is happy to now be fully supporting Mastodon, joining Lens Protocol, Farcaster, Crossbell, Nostr, EIP-15777 and Mirror as part of the social open information layer.
🔥 Weekly Digests
- Hong Kong Kicks into Action with Web3 Development Task Force: The Financial Secretary has announced in the 2023-24 Budget the establishment of the Task Force to provide recommendations on the sustainable and responsible development of Web3 in Hong Kong.
- LayerZero Takes Off: Q2 Sees Surge in Addresses Engaging with the LayerZero protocol. LayerZero aims to build omnichain interoperability that unifies dapps from multiple blockchains. In short, Layer-0 protocols form the foundation that Layer-1 blockchains are constructed on. Typical examples include Cosmos, Polkadot, and Avalanche.
- Azuki enthusiasts vs. Zagabond: A newly formed decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) comprised of Azuki enthusiasts has put forth a proposal to reclaim 20,000 Ether from Zagabond, the founder of the renowned NFT brand Azuki. However, Azuki NFT holders expressed concerns that the introduction of 20,000 new NFTs would diminish the value of existing ones in the Azuki collection.
🤖 Proudly announcing our Web3 User Activity RSS3 ChatGPT Plugin is NOW AVAILABLE in the OpenAI plugin store, allowing users to access 380 million data items indexed from the Open Web.
You can now search for user activities such as blockchain transactions and Web3 social media feeds by simply entering the wallet addresses, domains or handles into GPT-4.
🚀 Try it here, and start your Web3 information navigation beyond the centralized networks.
📚 Some Numbers#
$RSS3 Statistics (as of July 2, 2023)#
| Market Cap | $ 43.58M | |
| 24h Volume / Market Cap ratio | 0.028 | |
| 7d Low / 7d High | $0.104 / $0.1165 |
Market DeFi Index#
📈 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) were up slightly at +0.7% and +2.6%, respectively, in the past seven days. Other selected top-cap tokens also mostly rose.
🧐 Last week’s crypto market prices were flat at +0.36%. Volume and volatility decreased by -13.66% and -69.29%, respectively.
Source: Crypto.com Research
RSS3 Network Metrics (as of July 2, 2023)#
| Total API Calls* | 231.417M | |
| Total Open Web Activities* | 411.385M | |
| Last 7-Days Active Personas | 69,644 | |
| *Date from June 2022 |
🎉 Product Update#
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🏂The RSS3 network now supports millions #Mastodon statuses and have them ready for all usages: feed, search engine, and AI models: You can already search within Mastodon statuses on Hoot.it.
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🛠 Our new RSS3 ChatGPT Plugin currently consolidates data from various EVM blockchains including Ethereum, BNBChain, Polygon, Arbitrum, and decentralized networks including LensProtocol, Farcaster, and Mastodon.
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🥳 RSS3 Network is now fully supporting
Mastodon, joining LensProtocol, Farcaster, Crossbell, Nostr, EIP-1577, and Mirror as part of the #Social open information layer.
🧚♀️ Marketing Update#
- We have been actively participating in the #ETHShanghai2023 festival! Our founder Joshua joined a panel discussion on the topic of Future of Decentralized Social Ecosystem. Follow us on Twitter to stay updated and be sure to look out for more thrilling events in the coming week!
Stay tuned for more updates, and keep the good vibes flowing!
📭 Til next week!
RSS3 Team
💡 RSS3 is an information dissemination protocol designed to achieve free, efficient, and secure information flow on the Open Web. We bridge Web3 to AI, search, social media, and beyond.
Find Us#
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/rss3_
👾 Discord: discord.gg/CXrJFSeZQz
🤖 Official Website: https://rss3.io/
📮 Email: [email protected]