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Sustainable Yield, New Worlds, New Lenses | 05/27/22 Weekly Wrap-up 🏡📍

Sustainable Yield, New Worlds, New Lenses | 05/27/22 Weekly Wrap-up 🏡📍

May 27, 2022

The Front Page of the Metaverse 📰

🙏 Special Announcements

Say hello to Memorial Day Weekend, and the unofficial start of summer in the U.S.!

Judging by the activity on Twitter and beyond, it seems everyone is heads-down, focused, and ready to BUIDL. Keep it up community — Parcel is right there building alongside you, as focused as ever.

Earning Yield Through Staking Your Virtual Real Estate

Read our latest article on Parcel Learn, written by head of research @willow__talk, and find out how you can gain monetary returns on your land. 🤑

Earning Yield Through Staking Your VRE

📰 What's News?

🥽 "Go hard(ware) or go home" — Somnium Space (2022)

Lynx Raises $4M in Series A Funding Led by Somnium Space – Lynx Mixed Reality — www.lynx-r.com

Paris, France (May 25, 2022) — Virtual and Augmented Reality company Lynx today announced 4M$ in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Somnium Space and followed by early supporters of Lynx, with participation of other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.

👜 It's L'Officiel — The Sandbox is putting fashion first

The Sandbox Launches L'OFFICIEL Land — www.lofficielusa.com

L'OFFICIEL is embracing the metaverse by collaborating with The Sandbox on a new virtual space that brings our century-old history to the digital age.

🗺️ (Another) new world to explore

Metaverse App BUD Raises Another $37M, Plans to Launch NFTs – TechCrunch — techcrunch.com

BUD, a nascent app taking a shot at creating a metaverse for Gen Z to play and interact with each other, has raised another round of funding in three months. The Singapore-based startup told TechCrunch that it has closed $36.8 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India, not long after it […]

🤑 Largest Virtual Land Sales

Top sales this week:

1️⃣ $462K for Otherdeed #90209

2️⃣ $355K for Otherdeed #98553

3️⃣ $108K for Otherdeed #85650

4️⃣ $100K for Otherdeed #4073

5️⃣ $86K for Otherdeed #17166

Fiat values are in USD at time of sale. Last updated May 27, 2022.

👥 Parcel's People

Today is the second (and last) day of CoinMarketCap's 'The Capital' Conference — an experiential event designed by and for the ever-growing cryptocurrency community. The conference brings together stakeholders from all corners of the world and provides them with key opportunities to connect, brainstorm, and problem-solve.

Do you want a ticket to CMC's live conference with @saylor, @Excellion, @cz_binance, @paoloardoino and others — come join us here.
Anyone that wants to join the metaverse: please join here!: coinmarketcap.com/conference/bNH…
— CoinMarketCap (@CoinMarketCap)
4:59 PM • May 26, 2022

Peep Parcel CEO/co-founder Noah Gaynor as a panelist on Entertainment Enters the Metaverse (12-12:30pm ET). Additionally, our very own Melanie Goldsmith will facilitate an immersive workshop, Building in the Metaverse 101 With Parcel, alongside @HardArchitects (1-2pm ET).

Both slots will be live-streamed for free via CoinMarketCap's YouTube channel. And keep an eye on their social feed for additional updates.

👩‍🎨 Builder Spotlight

zcreativemedia is an NFT educator, fine art creator, and social impact media producer.

“I'm a native Austinite with a background in filmmaking and journalism. After college, I started documenting the social justice movements represented in Austin. Now I’m building metaverse worlds!”

Possibly Inconceivable Gallery

After a few years in the crypto space, he made several close friends on Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. Coming from a traditional filmmaking background, he started to realize the power of immersive storytelling. After competing in the Mona Gallery buildathon, it was a major win to sell his first space and launch into a future path of building more metaverse experiences!

BTS crafting “Possibly Inconceivable Gallery” on @monaverse! Feat. @infinitemantra@jaygotgame @happylittlehair @cyrusjameskhan@TheCryptoPodz@mattru22@MezData@tezos@0n1Force
If you’re in Austin for @sxsw come to the #NFT House hosted by @protocollabs, @Filecoin and @IPFS!
— ZCreativeMedia.eth (@zcreativemedia)
12:50 AM • Mar 7, 2022

I’m inspired by the passionate communities of people that I surround myself in. My love for creating social impact also informs my design choices. Much of my work is centered around closing the gender gap in technology to help bring more equity into the space by supporting women artists.

His design philosophy is centered around necessity — the mother of invention. When a space isn’t serving the people, it becomes incumbent upon advocates to call for a shift of power to the margins. For this reason, he uses circles and primitive shapes, exploring the elegance of the deconstructed.

🎨 Artists’s Wise Words:

Keep at it, learn a little each day, let yourself be inspired and watch a ton of YouTube videos. But also get out into nature and reduce screen time.

Follow zcreativemedia on Twitter, explore his links, and listen back to his AMA conversation here.