building the new internet around the next frontier of experiences and spaces worldwide 🌎 @refraction_irl

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30 Apr 2021
For all of the works as part of the abstract horizons series, I’m going to be working with the collectors on a special print to their needs:) the way they’re designed they can go small the size of a wall:) thanks @withFND for the features on the series 🙏🏼⭐️🖤
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Tonight’s the night! We’re taking over NY’s most iconic music venue, Public Records, with @ensdomains livwutang on decks all night long. If you have a .eth domain, show it at the door to enter the special queue. See you at Public Records.
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WINDOWS // NYC June 16th on @TransientLabs Link to sign up below.
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We’re assembling a Global Curatorial Committee to help guide IRL as it expands across cities and cultural scenes worldwide. The Global Curatorial Committee will help shape IRL’s programming worldwide — offering regional perspective, reviewing open calls, and contributing to the growing network of IRL cities, venues, and cultural spaces. Over the coming weeks we’ll introduce the members. First up ↓
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15 projects. 15 cities. 5 continents. Selected for IRL Tour 2026. After 63 applications from 34 cities worldwide, we’ve committed $30,000 to support community-led cultural programming through the IRL Tour — spanning full grants and microgrants across key cities globally.
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High Fidelity IRL hits Denver 🔜 During ETHDenver, @privy_io × @Stablecoin hit ESP Hi-Fi for an after-dark gathering of builders & operators, hosted in one of Denver’s standout listening bars inspired by Japanese jazz-kissa culture, with music by Yu Su and Nico Tobón. 📍 ESP Hi-Fi 📆 Thu, Feb 19 🕤 9:30PM–12:30AM Supported by: @Aptos · @FWBtweets
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A quick IRL Tour progress update ᛥ We’ve now committed $30,000 to locally run cultural events across cities worldwide, backing organizers who already build real communities. Through the IRL Tour, we’re supporting club nights, exhibitions, dinners, and gatherings ↓
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Progress update on IRL✨ 50 events worldwide (NYC, Paris, Tokyo & more) 200 partners on board 5,500 people checked in 292 ETH raised from founding members And we’re just getting started ↓
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🫡🫡 Lens stands for decentralization and the cypherpunk spirit at the heart of blockchain/crypto. Crypto shouldn’t be just financial products — it should be part of everyday life, in every post, every interaction. Own your post - and make SocialFi great again. Honored to carry the torch forward. We’ll keep building decentralized social until it becomes part of everyone’s daily life. 🚀
Over the years, we have built some of the most important onchain financial primitives. We later expanded that ambition to social primitives that users truly own. We built the Lens Protocol and its underlying onchain rails, including state-of-the-art decentralized data storage for content, governed by smart contracts. Our goal was to create neutral social infrastructure that developers could rely on to build consumer-grade applications capable of reaching mainstream users. Today, stewardship of Lens transitions to @masknetwork, builders of Orb, and a team focused on advancing Lens at the application layer. Lens social primitives will always remain open source and will forever serve as infrastructure for anyone building social applications on decentralized rails. Our team will continue as technical advisors, while we continue to innovate on what has always been our core expertise: DeFi.
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1/ In one week, @refraction_irl gave 500 people a global account... through galleries, nightclubs, and cultural spaces across Buenos Aires. No wallet education. No crypto jargon. Just a seamless onboarding flow in under 30 seconds with Privy. Here's how 👇
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I admire the intention and think this RFP is predicated on an instructive misunderstanding Bauhaus was not an aesthetic, but a new school of thought. They changed the ambitions of art and pedagogy, and (incidentally) beautiful and strange things emerged. That is why it was radical and successful. The root of this misunderstanding is why it often doesn’t feel like we have new aesthetics. We do, but they fall far short of the high ambitions of the modernists. The incentives of the attention economy have produced new aesthetics and rituals that would look alien to anyone last century. Slop is a very new aesthetic. Fluorescent streamer caves are new. Body horror Botox influencers are new. The extent to which we are dissatisfied with them is the extent to which we feel the governing logic of our culture is perverse. The opportunity is to fund new schools of thought with a new ambition for art (I have ideas). There are no shortcuts but ample opportunities. If understood they will really be onto something.
A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.
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Art Basel Miami 🦩 A Refraction-curated exhibition took over Stellar House — featuring never-before-seen works by: @AndrewRolfes · @thedinachang · @elliepritts · @genkipp · @occult3d · @nygi_xxv · @tabithaswanson_ · @Sko_hr Attendees collected each piece onsite using Meridian Pay, and @StellarOrg wallet simply by checking in on the IRL Touchpoint using @privy_io, earning IRL Points for participating. A full cultural program all moving seamlessly across Stellar rails.
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Stellar House Miami kicks off today 🦩 Inspired by the vibrancy and international culture of the city, this exhibition features never-before-seen pieces from artists @tabithaswanson_, @thedinachang, @elliepritts, @Sko_hr, @genkipp, @occult3d, @AndrewRolfes, and @nygi_xxv All artworks are available to collect using your Meridian Pay wallet, exclusively for event attendees. Today also marks the soft launch of the IRL wallet on @StellarOrg — use the IRL Touchpoint & create your wallet on @privy_io to earn points for supporting the art.
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Post candlelight concert many descended on the @refraction_irl party which was a spectacular mix of art, music, design, and all manner of sensory stimulation. Really hope to work with them in future. They know cool. They know culture. And they know how to party. And it was full of interesting people! Big props to @rafael_katigbak and @mal_levy for hooking the @hypepartners team up and putting it all together. Very VERY Impressed.
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Step inside WalletCon to find a little surprise from IRL × @WalletConnect... Follow the signs and unlock an artwork by @juanpvallejo_, made here in Argentina — a major home for generative art. Then grab your limited-edition print (1 of 100), $WCT, and IRL points. Start here ↓
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Code × Culture in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Refraction gathers with @class_lambda & @ergodicgroup at Palermo Wine Club for an evening of music, indie games, and tasting wines from the Valle de Uco. Co-hosts: @Forge · @lcbgamestudio · @421Net · @sovraio Music: @Jxminal RSVP below ↓
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𝗜𝗥𝗟 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥 — 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 💫 For the independent organizers and collectives bringing people together through music, art, and shared experience. We’re helping you take it further, with up to 2.5K USDC 2,500 $IRL to co-host an event. Bring IRL to your city 🧵↓
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Refraction presents the IRL Launch Party 🇦🇷 Join us at Valerie’s Factory to celebrate IRL’s official launch alongside @Livepeer · @FWBtweets · @Artdao_xyz · @syndicateio · @WalletConnect · @pudgypenguins · @ourzora Tuesday, Nov 18 · 9PM—1AM RSVP ↓
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Epoch 0 is live. 100% of emissions are directed to the Base Pool—the default pool that bootstraps the Syndicate Network staking system and circulates value back to the community. Staking starts here before expanding to appchains in Epoch 1. Learn more ↓
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☁️ Calling all visual artists for an experimental A/V series with @Livepeer x @ufo__club ☁️ Never-before-released DJ sets from the Refraction vault will be reimagined with new visuals created in Daydream. → 𝟒𝐱 𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐔𝐒𝐃𝐂 for selected artists → Collaborate with established DJs (revealed after selection) → Broadcast on UFO our social channels Interested? Reply ☁️☁️ to get details in DM
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