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Welcome back to UFO news. A selection of news, music, releases and essays.
UFO has made a great leap forwards with the launch of our radio station. We have a brand new website and exciting things are in development. Living our radio dreams at last. Visit the site and let us know what you think!
We're thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Livepeer, a protocol that provides open infrastructure for live streaming video, who awarded UFO a Video Disrupter Grant which is supporting development of what might be the first "onchain" radio station. We aim to make it easier to build radio on Livepeer and will be publishing our findings.
Since the radio site went live we've done a few broadcasts including Yu Su, Hieroglyphic Being and Pacific Rhythm in collaboration with Refraction, and a special mini-marathon broadcast of Season 2 of Fridays at the Park Season 2 with the park.
Thank you to everyone for being part of this. Stay tuned.
Today we can announce that UFO Karma is the first points program on Stack to be allowlisted for the Bonsai Season 2 airdrop happening later in 2024. This means being a Karma points holder will make you eligible to receive $BONSAI.
Bonsai is a native memecoin from the Lens ecosystem which allows creators to monetize their content by setting it as a collectible in $BONSAI. There are also rewards and bounty programs for creators. You can learn more about it here.
Karma is a system designed to measure your participation in UFO and with our friends, artists, musicians and collectives in the scene. Incredibly there are currently 105,869 participants who've subscribed to UFO and/or collected our releases. Our goal is to continually offer community rewards.
You can check where you’re placed on the Karma Leaderboard right here. Stay tuned for more Bonsai news and join us on Lens in the UFO club on Orb.
UFO released On Air Summer on August 21 to celebrate the launch of our radio station as part of Onchain Summer with Base.
The release is a generative collection of postcards minted on Highlight and made from photos contributed by radio shows including co-tone, FERMI, Higher, Refraction, Songcamp, the park, and UFO.
The postcards are intended to give an introductory sense of who's here in the network. Polaroid-style images without captions or context. Snapshots taken from our scenes around the world.
Mint funds are being allocated to support development of the UFO radio station and also split with the participating radio shows to support their own activities.
We've been thrilled to see high engagement with this release and 12,705 postcards minted so far. There's 25 days left to collect and as always there are surprises in store...
UFO is a network of artists, musicians, writers, founders, builders, labels and collectives from around the world. We are a radio station and club for mu...
In a surprise twist, the first 10,000 wallets who minted On Air Summer have been airdropped a one month free subscription for the UFO Supporter Pass on Hypersub.
All of you are now subscribed onchain to UFO and will receive airdrops of podcast mints and other releases as we ramp up into October. You are Club members supporting the creation of radio shows, podcasts, zines, newsletters and releases.
Being a UFO Supporter is also an autopilot way to earn UFO Karma points which can give access for benefits from the UFO network and our friends. Welcome to the Club.
Karma is a system designed to measure your participation in UFO and with our friends, artists, musicians and collectives in the network.
63 Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet
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62 Rolling Forever with Skateboarding and Art — Dave Bachinsky
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61 Building Something Different with Therapy — Simona Pop
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60 Art, Music and Festival Culture with Refraction — Malcolm, Raf, Greg
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Photay — Windswept
The Smile — Teleharmonic
Dialect — Atlas of Green
Four Tet — Skater
Johan Carøe — The Great Silence
Hyper Real is a Telegram (t.me/h_y_p_e_r_r_e_a_l) and IG (ig.me/j/AbaSTjURuvel7y-Q/) channel by DJ and curator Opium Hum, sharing new music daily.
Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software-and with it, Silicon Valley.
I often see people say Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post:A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it.
When you think of founders who have been massively successful in bringing new and novel technologies and companies to market, you don't normally think of a nomad who has been living out of a single backpack for over a decade. You don't think of someone who talks like a modern-day Peter Kropotkin.
This is an idea I'm workshopping in public... A free-to-use Layer 2 (L2) where gas fees are fully subsidized could be what is needed to onboard a billion users onchain by eliminating transaction costs, with alternative business models sustaining the network.
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Newsletter just dropped UFO has major news — We've been approved for a Video Disrupter Grant from @livepeer which is supporting development of an internet radio station built with their open infra for video live streams (achievement unlocked) We'll publish our findings to help make it easier to build radio on Livepeer You can always catch the latest by subscribing to UFO on /paragraph https://news.ufo.fm/did-you-know-ufo-radio-is-live