# Aurabonding Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@touchgrass/aurabonding Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Aurabonding?index=0x66d226ca2da2194afae379213486a9d49ca6d893797da27450ad483cea727b6641b95489 Submitted by misha on 2024-08-30 UTC, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## Summary Touch Grass is a weekly crypto newsletter that celebrates artists, reflects on the crypto community, and shares memes and links. This edition reports that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France on the past Saturday, that Brazil is blocking access to X, and that Meta announced the shutdown of Spark AR, leaving 600k creators concerned about losing their social capital. The author also points to creator exhaustion, citing GRLKRASH, Leo Pastel and Jamee Cornelia, who asked for crypto to make sense for creators beyond the narratives. The edition also highlights the launch of Orb Club's /aurabonding by Stina, Cezar and Katherine. ## Article (cover image by Leo Pastel) Hello my fellow grass enjoyoors! Welcome to the latest edition of Touch Grass. For those of you that just got here, Touch Grass is a space where we celebrate artists, we reflect on what happened within the crypto community, we read exciting stuff, we welcome newcomers, and we enjoy memes. A terror of wholesomeness, I know. This week has been another eventful year in crypto. This past Saturday, Pavel Durov, the Founder of Telegram got arrested in France (here’s Mikko’s thread on the event). Brazil is finally blocking access to X in the country because Elon Musk forgot to pay a bill, or something like that. Meta announced the shutdown of Spark AR, and 600k creators are feeling left behind, and concerned, as for many many years they gave Meta a lot of data hence money, and while of course, they are all free, talented people that totally save files on their computers, their social capital will be staying very much with Meta and only Meta, because that’s simply how it works. What an excellent week to explore web3 social, and an even more excellent week to understand what level of ownership, decentralization and openness you should be looking for when it comes to safeguarding your social capital. The Fed also decided that moneyprinter will once again go brrrrr so it’s also an excellent week to crypto, even if the market doesn’t really agree with it. Hoard without limits, anon, time is of the essence. But not all is rosy on the crypto side of life - exhaustion is also creeping up, especially on the creators’ front. Last night GRLKRASH, Leo Pastel and Jamee Cornelia got together for their regular Twitter spaces and DRAGGED. They asked us to make crypto make sense for creators, beyond the narratives. As someone working on DeFi and decentralized social, I felt humbled. As someone that has been working with creators and trying to explain technologies that creators know we’re using them, i felt validated. They are using us back, no worries about creators. They’re sharp. It’s a bit of a dysfunctional theater at the moment. This week Stina, Cezar and Katherine, launched their Orb Club /aurabonding with a release that questions the lifeless nature of artificially generated nature. As artificial as the “creators initiatives” that populate the many blockspaces around us. In /aurabonding we search for more, we enquire, and we have fun well, aurabonding because most things in this space are just auratic manifestations of our digitalness translated through transaction histories. /aurabonding also happens to have fantastic art of two very favorite artists of mine, Katherine and Cezar, so please check it out, comment, mint, and bond. Cezar for Aurabonding Now, how can it be our time, and at the same time, so not our time? How can we be so connected and simultaneously disconnected? How can we do better? Open questions to the fine readers of Touch Grass, would love to read you so don’t be shy and share your thoughts! Before I forget, some of these questions can be folded nicely into an essay for the Kiwinews x Lens x t2 new writing initiative - where we ask you to reflect on the pluralistic future of L2s. The contest concept is so good that even Vitalik prompted a new question. Katherine Frazer for Aurabonding Blondetourage’s drop… I’m just a girl. The Paul G. Allen auction of technology artifacts and space race memorabilia living rent free in my head Power Couple Jah and Latashá’s vintage but aging like fine wine video Chloee has been creating some amazing art lately. Here’s one I liked, but just visit her profile, she has so much to say. Nadezhda again. I love her. Vanezuva’s stunning piece Yoshiro’s absolute grail Efdot just joined ahead of the /allships residency! Speaking about /allships, Roya just started hers! Follow her process Have we shared this STTM already? If so, that’s all good, it’s amazing, so listen to it twice. In case you need this - we all need this, to be honest - some deliciously good deep house from Sonny Agoria’s new release This time I had to choose one and only one, because it really hit the spot: Robin shatposted and won Stani on network resiliency Tim also commented on resiliency 50mmcollective’s CULTURE SHIFT Puja Ohlaver at ETHBerlin on proof of personhood (note - I usually share Hey or Orb links because of personal preference but you can follow and welcome people from the Lens client of your choice) Sonny Trish Sartocrates Debbie HUG Efdot Roya Katherine Awkwarian (is back) Proof of Vibes Cartesse Thank you for reading, or scrolling through - see you next week!