# The California Dreaming to Market Meltdown Pipeline

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Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-California-Dreaming-to-Market-Meltdown-Pipeline?index=0x66b4e5ebf949c3bfcd8e1ea681a02bc3e708b062b7d8d2f0bbd4663171bb858325ab4521
Submitted by misha on 2024-08-08 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

A weekly crypto and onchain newsletter argues that crypto's only current mainstream adoption is that it follows stock and forex declines, as a market collapse at the end of a Fest weekend showed. It reports that a piece co-written by James on decentralized social for artists was published in both the print and digital editions of Spike Magazine. The roundup then recommends onchain art and creators, including /entrylevel, the Orb club run by Chris Martz and Chromuh with 300+ members, and Yeche Lange's gallery on floor 15 of a Financial District building.

## Article

this is not from California, this is from the Terra0 Autonomous Forest camera that sends us fauna updates via Telegram, but we did catch a few deers in California

Sorry to have skipped a week, I know you were all feeling empty inside and wondering when Touch Grass would return to your inbox. But I also know that the Touch Grass break meant that you spent your weekend doing shrooms at fest thinking about the enormity of the universe and how to serve real billions of people with crypto.

And then, at the end of such an enlightening weekend, the market collapsed. And we all realised that whether we like it or not, the only hint of mainstream adoption that exists right now is when the stocks and forex markets go to hell and crypto dutily follows. The fusion of worlds is not the one we wanted, but it’s maybe the one we deserve.

Ironically enough, the entire consumer crypto userbase was at Fest touching grass from Friday till Sunday, yet from what I gather on social media, we need to keep at it. To avoid repeating the great insights of the greats, I’ve just screenshotted a tweet that I think offers THE perspective we all need.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a second time Fest attendant and I did enjoy myself - met my internet friends and thrived under KD’s solid programming.

Anyways that’s about it for complaining. On a more happy note, also during the weekend, James and myself got the news our piece on decentralized social for artists has been published on the print version of Spike Magazine AND on the digital one. Here’s a tiny attempt to get out of our bubble by contributing to a cool, non-crypto yet crypto-curious art publication. Read the preview. Order the full thing here.

And now, because, we should all contain multitudes, here’s all the onchain-related content I liked in the past weeks and I hope you’ll like too.

Everything happening on /entrylevel, the Orb club by Chris Martz and Chromuh is amazing. They have almost 300+ members and they’re all creating at the speed of light. Reminds me of emerging, young art movements, because they are one.

Yeche Lange keeps pumping - i visited the gallery two weeks ago when I landed in NYC, it’s in the Financial District, in front of the Bull, in the most magnificent building, and on floor 15 - and it’s fresh, young, unconventional, provocative, everything. Thank you Wretched Worm and Soph for the tour. I’ll probably visit again this weekend, as I did not take good photos to show here, and because I really like it. Meanwhile, Paulystonejiva has been also shipping cool art in their Yeche Orb club.

The Japan Lens Communities moments

Patrician’s an insane creativity engine - check their Orna here

Sandro B’s captivating audiovisual piece

Deadly kisses from Dvekukolki

Nessytherilla’s Nothing on You

Jean Ayala’s collage - i’m a huge fan

This Argentinian music duo have my heart

Princess Tuti is giving, as always

Kuno’s cooking

The Orb curators program allocated Bonsai to people wanting to collect and curate artwork on Lens. Here’s Futura’s selection!

Gram’s PHOTOGRAPHYISBORING

Definn on minting your artwork on Decentralized Social

Enemy, the version of the AI companion Friend that I would actually buy

Benoit on Booga’s herculean mission

Benoit bids farewell to ICQ (and made me cry for my teenage self)

The Digital Art Dispatch by FuturaDrops - especially liked this one.

Ruthless’ upcoming breakthrough

Sylvia Mendez

Eddie Wharton

Vanezuva

Cubism Master

Kuno

0xppl

Didop

Shannon

Zenshortz

That's it for this week. Till next week 🙂