Dear Bankless Nation,

We’re running a little light this week: our primary contributor, kaf, is on holiday. One potential benefit to working in web3 is the freedom to take time off as needed or wanted, and so we celebrate kaf’s holiday with the wish that he enjoys his time off and returns feeling refreshed and ready for a new round of articles that detail the big news in NFTs.

In the meantime, Kouros brings us news of a partnership between Polygon and Salesforce; DustyEye is back with more mystery surrounding the Legion of 444; The Rug, web3’s mostly credible news source, provides insight into the latest directives spilling out of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and nonsense drops the alpha on this week’s d’ART Drop.

Welcome to Decentralized Arts.

Contributors: BanklessDAO Writers Guild (Grendel, Kouros, Kaf, nonsensetwice, Frank America)

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Curated NFT News

Polygon Partners With Salesforce for NFT-Based Loyalty Program

Last week Ryan Wyatt, president at Polygon Labs, announced that Polygon and Salesforce have partnered to create an NFT management platform. The partnership represents a collaboration between the world’s biggest customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce, and the prominent blockchain network, Polygon.

The news comes after Salesforce said on March 15 that it is expanding its client services to include management of NFT loyalty programs.

The platform is designed to help companies create, manage, and deploy NFTs efficiently and sustainably. Salesforce has teamed up with Polygon Labs to help its clients develop NFT-based loyalty programs on the Polygon blockchain. The partnership marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.

The Rug Weekly

FDIC Insurance Good Up To 250,000 or Whatever You Put in

Brought to you by The Rug

With banks going bust, and the money printer going brrrr, one wonders about the marketing tactics over at the FDIC.

At an emergency press conference their spokesperson said, “While we can appreciate that our only liability was up to a quarter of a million dollars, as we’ve said for decades, in this instance we wanted to insure deposits up to a certain amount, or whatever depositors decided to keep at that bank, whichever is greater.”

Collect this ultimate insurance plan as an NFT on optimism.

D’Art Drops

By nonsense

Introducing weekly NFT art drops for the Bankless community, brought to you by Decentralized Arts.

This weeks marks the beginning of a collaboration with the artist Dark World Arts, who specializes in AI-generated art for their own projects. One factor that sets this artist apart from many others is their commitment to expanding the reach of other talented artists, and cultivating a more cohesive and inclusive experience for NFT artists in general. Dark World Arts celebrates the NFT artist in ways that few have so far, and this serves as just one of many reasons why Decentralized Arts is excited to be working with them.

The Drop for this week is titled Raindance. As the name implies, the image depicts rain; not only as drops of water, but predominantly drops of currency. There is a hope that underlies the progress and engagement in blockchain technology. This piece speaks to that hope.

This piece will be made available during the BanklessDAO Community Call as part of the community NFT showcase. Head over to Rarible and add it to your favorites so you’re ready to collect it when it goes on sale. 70% of each sale will go to the artist, 5% will go to the DA and bDAO collaboration with ThriveCoin, 10% will be returned to BanklessDAO, and 15% will be retained by Decentralized Arts.

Chippi Corner

By Perchy

THE LEGION OF 444 – Part 10

MARCH 24 TECHNORITUAL with FLAIVDARKO & L.Elrah

Dear BanklessDAO Readers,

In recent weeks we have groped chains from Timeless, digitized and extracted from the same chain a Legion of Demons. All rather delicate operations …

But where do the 444 entities come from? What process did L.Elrah follow to trap them in graphic simulacra? Is it possible that this member of a boy band so popular in the 2000s (the one with bleached hair, so to speak) was possessed by the same Legion?

Many questions, but they are not finished. 

What impact does the waning moon have on the mood of Demons? Is it possible that it was Maxtor who caused congestion in the chain? What role did Grendel play in the mediation with BanklessDAO? To whom will one of the Demons be assigned into custody during the evening?

Approximately 78.65% of the answers will be shared on Friday in Milan, but for those who will not be present …

… see you next week,

Dusty Eye

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Meme

A small joke contributed by The Rug.

PostScript & Acknowledgements

Decentralized Arts is written and produced by a small team of contributors who are passionate about art, both visual and written, and its growing place in crypto and NFTs. With each edition, we aim to bring you not only the most current and relevant news in the NFT space, but also explorations in what it means for our culture and societies for this market to continue to grow and expand. When everyone is an owner of art, we all gain a deeper appreciation for it.

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Cordially,

Grendel, Kouros, Kaf, nonsensetwice, and Frank America