Rosie Perper

Rosie Perper was the Deputy Managing Editor for Web3 and Learn, focusing on the metaverse, NFTs, DAOs and emerging technology like VR/AR. She has previously worked across breaking news, global finance, tech, culture and business. She holds a small amount of BTC and ETH and several NFTs. Subscribe to her weekly newsletter, The Airdrop.

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Red Beard Ventures Closes $25M Funding Round With Animoca Brands, Others

The Web3 venture capital firm hopes to support early-stage DeFi and Web3 gaming projects and is also launching a tokenomics accelerator.

Drew Austin (Red Beard Ventures)

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Endaoment Expands Web3 Charitable Fundraising Efforts With GlobalGiving Partnership

This partnership has tripled the number of verified charitable organizations willing to accept digital assets worldwide.

Youth-led Climate Justice by Global Fund for Children (GlobalGiving)

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Jack Butcher Expands Checks NFTs Ecosystem With Physical Print-Backed 'Elements' Collection

The artists' new NFT collection, featuring the signature Checks grid, explores the four classical elements of earth, fire, water and air.

Checks Elements (Visualize Value)

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Paradigm-Backed NFT Ownership Platform Tessera is Shutting Down

Co-founder Andy Chorlian tweeted that the decision was made after "carefully analyzing possible market scenarios, our company structure and our financial situation."

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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Musk’s Milady Meme, Opening Up Ordinals

Miladys NFTs saw a brief pump after Elon Musk tweeted about them and Binance is making it easier for people to buy Bitcoin NFTs.

Milady NFT (Screenshot via Twitter, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto Custodian Aegis Is Offering Free Services to Women-Led Companies

The company, which is U.S.-qualified through its entity Aegis Trust, aims to help boost gender parity in crypto through the initiative.

(Andrei Akushevich/Getty Images)

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Alibaba Says ‘Open Sesame’ to Web3

The Chinese tech giant is releasing a metaverse launchpad. Plus, Sports Illustrated announces an NFT ticketing platform.

XCOPY "Departed" and "Right Click Save Guy" (Sotheby's Metaverse, modified by CoinDesk)

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Sotheby's Launches On-Chain Secondary NFT Marketplace

Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks.

XCOPY "Departed" and "Right Click Save Guy" (Sotheby's Metaverse, modified by CoinDesk)

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'Shark Tank' but Make It Crypto: CoinMarketCap Launching Competition TV Show

"Killer Whale" will allow entrepreneurs to pitch ideas for new Web3 products and projects to a panel of judges.

“Whales” are removing BTC from exchanges en masse. (Nitesh Jain/Unsplash)

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Web3 News From Consensus

A special edition of The Airdrop on the ground in Austin at CoinDesk's festival.

Daniel Alegre, CEO, Yuga Labs and Rosie Perper, Deputy Managing Editor, Web3, CoinDesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)