Happy Monday, fren 👋
Our weekly web3 fun facts have turned out to be a fan favorite, so we decided to slide into your inbox again with another one to start your week off right.
Did you know that the first commercial bitcoin transaction was for pizza? On May 22, 2010, some guy in Florida paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas.
On that day, 10,000 BTC was worth about 40 bucks. Today 10,000 btc would be worth more than $350 million.
🎮 Web3 Startup & Venture News
A hacker stole $80 million from Rari Capital’s Fuse lending pools. They put a bounty out on Twitter to the hacker offering $10 million in exchange for the total amount of funds.
The BAYC team raised $285M for their new virtual land project, Otherside NFTs. The raise literally cost buyers $176M in fees alone (amongst the highest fees in Ethereum history).
Coinbase’s NFT platform hit $100K in daily transaction volume right out of the gate in their closed beta.
Argentina’s largest private bank said ‘heck yes’ to crypto. If you belong to Banco Galicia, you’ll now be able to buy bitcoin, ether, USDC and XRP.
Want a POAP? Here’s your chance. Hang out with us on Wednesday as we chat with DropSpace about hiring, building, and deploying successful NFT projects.
🧩 MetaGames
Which of the following web3 companies are led and/or co-founded by women?
Tezos
Coinbase
Meta Angels
PleasrDAO
MyBFF
Crypto.com
World of Women
Avalanche
CoinMarketCap
Ready Player Me
As always - score 100% and you can brag about it on Twitter. 1
💰 Meta Markets
Here’s how the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF performed over the past five days. For reference, the Roundhill Ball Metaverse (META) includes top holdings such as Nvidia (NVDA), Tencent Holdings (700.Hong Kong), Roblox (RBLX), Microsoft (MSFT), and Unity Software (U).
Live stock data for the Roundhill Ball Metaverse, here.
🚀 Jobs
Developer/Technical:
Vy Worlds is hiring developers.
Bonfire is looking for a Founding Full Stack Engineer.
Square is hiring a Developer Relations Engineer.
Syndicate is hiring a Full Stack Engineer.
Ethereum Community Fund is looking for a Senior Engineer and Frontend Engineers. To apply 👉 hop into our Discord & DM drivenfast 大葱鬼#2061
Parcl is hiring a Senior Devops Engineer and a Webflow Expert.
Connext is hiring an Integrations Engineer.
VALR is hiring a QA Tester.
Roxe is hiring a Blockchain Engineer.
Mint Songs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer and a Blockchain Engineer.
Community & Social:
Hashflow is hiring a Social Media/Marketing Manager.
Nyan Heroes is hiring a Marketing Lead.
Unstoppable Domains is hiring a Global Community Team Manager.
Tribal is hiring a community lead for their crypto division.
Business & Product:
Jellysmack is hiring a Senior IT Support Specialist/Manager and a UX researcher.
Ava Labs is hiring a Data Scientist.
Immutable is hiring a Partner Success Executive.
Transak is hiring a Sr. Startup Program Manager.
Eco is hiring legal counsel.
Hivemapper is hiring a Head of Business Development.
Morning Brew is hiring an Editor for their Crypto brand.
Hypebeast is hiring a Crypto Editor.
Magic Eden is hiring a PR Manager.
Dune is hiring a Product Manager.
Persona is hiring a Customer Experience Associate and a Product Partnerships Manager.
Figment is hiring a Senior Product Manager.
CertiK is hiring a Sr. Technical/Product Writer.
Internships:
If you hop into our Discord, you’ll see that jobs are posted every 10 minutes!
Game answers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7