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This Week in the Sndbox
Welcome to the 47th State of the Sndbox newsletter!
This past week, we held the Crypto Renaissance Design Competition, gave some Project Spotlights and released a Steem-Powered Digital Guestbook.
For a more thorough breakdown of what our members have been up to, be sure to go through our weekly Sndbox Selections of the Week post that we publish each week.
The Crypto Renaissance is Coming, and it needs you!
Our first exhibit at the 1st floor Gallery of the 100 Bogart Building Complex in Brooklyn, New York will be wrapped around the power of Steem's decentralized applications and the experiences of our first cohort while touching point on their empowered Sndbox projects. The exhibit will run from July 20 to August 15 and will showcase a Donor wall which has a collage of Steemit personalities that contributed to the exhibit as well as a kiosk for creation of new accounts for visitors.
Here's your chance to flex your creative muscles with another Steem-powered Design Competition for our exhibit poster and collateral. Three winning posters will be chosen to represent and promote the exhibit.
Read the mechanics here to join the competition.
Project Spotlights: Music Made from SBD, Community Park Funding, Collaborative Art
The "Sndbox Project Series" brings you the latest updates on all Steem-powered projects led by current cohort members.
See the complete details of the projects here.
The Blockchain Hub of NYC
Our latest posts on
For a better picture of what to expect in our upcoming exhibition, read the full post here.
A Steem-Powered Guestbook
More information about our guestbook here.
Tron Art & Design Challenge Winners
Drawing from Hollywood and Renaissance inspirations, the top 5 ranks in last week's Crypto Art & Design Challenge are 
Click here to see the winners.
An Unlikely Crypto Creative: HODLCRYPTO
Luis Poletti, the creative mind spearheading crypto-related projects such as HODLCRYPTO, shares his interesting journey into the blockchain space from graduate school and cubicle slavery. He creates graphic art that cultivates the people's curiosity in cryptocurrency, letting them know its importance from a long term perspective and announcing the potential for blockchain technology to open up new avenues that support entrepreneurial artists. Moving forward, he will be collaborating with a couple other artists on concepts of propaganda and art collections.
View the guidelines here.
Blockchain & Bourbon Weekly
Blockchain and Bourbon is a weekly webisode by the makers of The Creative Crypto Magazine streamed LIVE on multiple social media apps such as Rize and Facebook.
Last Friday on Blockchain and Bourbon, we had an animated discussion about the important role of cryptocurrency exchanges in the aspects of financial, cultural and social integration in our day to day lives.
Watch the edited webisode here on 
Next week on Blockchain and Bourbon, watch and hear us talk about platform tokens and their contribution to the momentum of blockchain and crypto. We will also touch point on the latest developments of PROPS Kit SDK. Join our conversations, every Friday at 4PM EST.
Sneak Peek of the Creative Crypto Billboard and Best of this Week's Billboard
The Creative Crypto Billboard (
Keep yourself in the loop about Blockchain related topics on the billboard that include the possibility of Decentralized Nations in our future, Anonymity and Social Growth: Blockchain's New Proposal, and Steemit's Most Creative Upvote Bots.
The billboard inspires creative content through posts like SuperRare: Digital Creations and Creativechain: Safely Certify your Works. Some musically inclined posts include Behind The Scenes of the Hip Hop The Blockchain Music Video Shoot, Revolutionizing Music with the Blockchain through Musicoin, and an invitation to curate music on Steemit.
We also introduce Welcome to The Spotlight with our first feature on Young OG.
These new facets of The Creative Crypto is just the start of our decentralized future, read more about the Creative Crypto and Billboard updates here.
The Creative Crypto Video Competition Winners
Last week we sent out an invitation to all Steemians to bring life to our Creative Crypto Logo in an intro / outro video format for our weekly broadcasts. First prize goes to this playful creation by 
View the different animations submitted by the winners here.
Blockchain Oracles
What if you could empower your in-real-life community with a digital upvote?
We cover ground on a major point of interest as we talk about Neighborhood "Oracles" and having physical places replace the role of social media influence as demonstrated in Steem Park which was funded 100% by the Steem blockchain.
Surely an interesting read, check out the full post here.
Designing for Volatility
A rapidly transforming industry requires flexibility and understanding of risk factors when it comes to creative projects on the blockchain. This is one obstacle and learning from our Steem Park project. Aside from that, there was the volatility of the support and reactions up until completion of the project.
Read more about these learnings here.
The Creative Crypto - Artists and the Creative Crypto Roadmap
The Creative Crypto Magazine goes behind the scenes as we give a shout out to the amazing Creative Crypto illustrators, 
As we move forward after our first milestone of the year, publicly releasing The Creative Crypto's open-source interface, only exciting things lie ahead! We share our planned projects for the upcoming quarters such as our recent announcement of The Creative Crypto Billboard, The First Partnered Content Series, Contribution and Sponsorship Features, Community Activities and Events and lots and lots of Resources!
Want to know more about our anticipated milestones? Read more here.
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