Find your metaverse best friends #onFlow with SolarPups, an interactive dog collecting and breeding experience inspired by CryptoKitties and made for dog lovers 🐶

Learn all about what the Krikey team has been up to in our Partner Spotlight 👇
https://www.onflow.org/post/flow-blockchain-solarpups-dog-breeding-interactive-ar-game-krikey-app

The world's first NFT wine club, Cuvée Collective is #onFlow and getting ready to pop some corks and pour some grapes 🍷

Learn all about Cuvée Collective and how they're upping the ante with exclusivity for wine connoisseurs in our latest Partner Spotlight 👇

https://www.onflow.org/post/flow-blockchain-cuvee-collective-wine-nft-club

Today’s the day 🥳

Flow’s partnership with Instagram begins rolling out, which means select users can now connect their Dapper wallet and showcase their favorite NFTs directly on their IG account!

Access will be rolling out all month, so get ready for #FlowOnIG

We’re excited to give everyone a new way to share part of who they are across Instagram. This partnership reflects just how much Flow has resonated with developers, creators, and users by providing the right foundation to support consumer-scale NFT adoption

👇 How to connect your Dapper wallet with Instagram when you get access 👇

1️⃣ Login to IG. Tap your profile, then settings. Tap Digital Collectibles
2️⃣ Select Dapper. Tap continue
3️⃣ Enter your pw if needed
4️⃣ Tap Sign
5️⃣ Tap OK

🐶 It's a big day #onFlow! The SolarPups pre-sale is live now and folks are adopting their metaverse forever friends #onFlow! SolarPups are fully 3D rendered for augmented reality, interactive, and features breeding gameplay so you can grow your pack! These Gen 0 pups feature exclusive traits that won't be released in the future, so get your ultra-rare Pup while you can!

Head on over to https://www.solarpups.com/, and if you miss out on a pre-sale pack, they'll start releasing doggos to the public on August 11th!

🗓 Key Dates
August 8th: 100 Pre-Sale Packs available to Early Access members in our Discord
August 11th: Pack reveal + Doggy Timeout Clock begins (4 dogs released every hour)
August 22nd: Play and Breeding Features launch on our website

Social Links
You can follow SolarPups everywhere 🐾

🚀 Twitter: @krikeyapp - https://twitter.com/KrikeyApp
🐶 Twitter: @solarpupsNFTs - https://twitter.com/SolarPupsNFTs
☀️ Discord: https://discord.gg/krikey
🐾 Website: https://www.solarpups.com/

Flow is the best place to build web3 apps and mint NFTs, and now, it's getting even better. With our partnership with Meta, collectors can share their favorite digital collectibles minted #onFlow directly on Instagram

Dapper is home to iconic sports moments, PFPs with vibrant communities, and has something for everyone. Being able to express your Web3 self alongside Instagram's 1.4B+ users is a major step into the future, and a major win toward mass adoption

Learn more about how Dapper is bringing its incredible collection of NFTs to Instagram: https://dap.pr/d6g

Wondering how to connect your Dapper wallet to Instagram?

We made a quick and easy tutorial on how you can check to see if your account has access to Digital Collectibles as Instagram progressively rolls the feature out!

⚽️ Aera by OneFootball is bringing Serie A fútbol to Flow, adding one of the biggest leagues in the world to our growing fútbol ecosystem!

Millions of fans will be able to collect NFTs of the sport they love for the first time, and we couldn't be prouder that Flow is building the Web3 home for all fútbol fans!

Learn more about Aera by OneFootball and how they're bringing Serie A action to Flow: https://www.onflow.org/post/onefootball-serie-a-nfts-aera-flow-blockchain

Want to get in on the ground floor of Aera?

🗓 Early access drop: 8/29
⚽️ First public drop: 9/5

Pre-register today and make sure you're one of the first collectors to experience Aera #onFlow 👇
https://aera.onefootball.com/collections/serie-a

📣 Can we have your attention please!

We're launching a Build on Flow 101 Workshop!

👩‍💻 Learn about Flow & Cadence
🎟 Collect and earn FLOATs
🚪 Gain access to unique channels in the Flow Discord for completing the quest

Learn the basics directly from the Flow Developer Advocate Team and start your Web3 journey #onFlow

🗓 Date: 8/31 @ 8am PT | 6pm CET
📝 Signup Form: https://dapperlabs.zoom.us/webinar/register/4416606806904/WN_K7uXnuTrRkmgYrFuQuuSqg

What You'll Learn
- Learn how to use Flow CLI for development
- Create a Testnet account on Flow
- Send a transaction to sign the 'Flow Yearbook' to make it official!

What You'll Earn
- A proof-of-attendance NFT (FLOAT) for attending the workshop
- A unique FLOAT for completing the quest after the workshop that will grant you access to a completion-gated Discord channel

📝 Signup Form: https://dapperlabs.zoom.us/webinar/register/4416606806904/WN_K7uXnuTrRkmgYrFuQuuSqg

Why is Cadence, the smart contract programming language #onFlow, so innovative? Its resource-oriented programming paradigm mitigates the shortcomings of Solidity, optimized for asset management

Check out this head-to-head analysis explaining the way Cadence improves on Solidity

👉 https://dev.to/johnjvester/smart-contract-head-to-head-ethereum-vs-flow-12ed

Say hello to a new permissionless node type #onFlow, Observer Nodes. We're excited that now ANYONE can run a node on Flow. Observer nodes allow operators to keep a locally accessible, updated, and verified copy of the block data.

👉 Check out the full announcement on Observer Nodes right over here: https://flow.com/post/flow-blockchain-permissionless-observer-node-operation

👉 And if you want to dig into the technical details of Observer Nodes and permissionless node operation, check out our detailed forum post on the topic: https://forum.onflow.org/t/path-to-permissionless-node-operation/3527

👉 Last but not least, we have a brand new Node Operation landing page that has a ton of great information for the community: https://flow.com/node-operation

From the makers of Seussibles comes a new collecting experience tailor-made for comic book fans

💭 Enter OneShots by Tibles

💥 Sign up for early access today at http://oneshots.com

Big news for live event fans! Ticketmaster Event Organizers now can offer digital keepsakes, minted #onFlow!

🎪 Activate access to experiences and rewards

And that's not all!

Stay tuned for some exciting prizes 🤫

Have you grabbed your Flovatar TerraKit yet? There's ONLY about 400 packs left, and with it you get:

🌑 Asteroid land plot
🤖 Your Flobot for terraforming
🏭 The Flovatar Universe Builder
+ a 10K $FLOW giveaway across 204 people who grab a pack!

👉 flovatar.com/pack/login

The TuneGO Snoop Dogg x Method Man drop is LIVE NOW!

👉 Exclusive new track available only #onFlow + digital artwork featuring two hip-hop legends 🎤
👉 Just $20 each

📦 Grab one today: https://tunegonft.com/drop-details/6cb1e00e-66e7-412c-9833-c3ab91cd4b99

There are a TON of amazing tools being built through the Flow Developer Grant Program, and we're excited to share what the community has been building!

Discover the 30+ grant proposals that have been accepted in 2022 in our end-of-year update

Some by the numbers information about the Flow Developer Grants Program

🔖 90 proposals received
🤝 35 accepted grant proposals
✅ 69 approved milestones

https://flow.com/post/flow-blockchain-news-developer-grant-program-update

Have you registered for the first-ever Flow Town Hall yet?! The first-ever Flow Town Hall is happening on Wednesday, December 14 at 9am PT and we're inviting YOU to be a part of this moment. Whether you're a developer building on Flow, or a collector that's tapped in to what's happening across the ecosystem, you won't want to miss this.

🗓 12/14 @ 9am PT

👨‍💻 Hear Flow Architect Dete Shirley's vision
🤯 Updates from all around the Flow ecosystem
👏 Exciting new demos
🤫 (Plus we heard there's a FLOAT for attending)

This will be a special event recapping the past year, as well as some thoughts on the year ahead. Don’t miss out!

👇 Sign up today 👇
https://dapperlabs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fuUiE8geTuWGORR3-hYBjg

🏎 The Hot Wheels NFT Garage Series 4 drop from Mattel is LIVE NOW!

Collect the first-ever Hot Wheels #onFlow! $25 per pack with 7 NFTs each to start building up your digital garage!

📦 Grab a pack today: https://creations.mattel.com/pages/nft-drop-hw-nft-4

We're HYPED to spend some time with the one and only Jacob Tucker of Emerald City DAO for our last Dev Jam of the year!

Learn all about the Emerald City ecosystem and how it works, including FLOAT, Emerald Bot, Touchstone, and more!

Sign up to join: https://dapperlabs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Acg-Njf5S7aER3zSCVthbA

What's inside the January Spork #onFlow? We've got all the details on the upgrades to the Flow #Blockchain network that went live this week.

⚡️ Improved consensus algorithm that makes block finalization 20% faster, gearing up to scale massively
🔒 More protection against transaction spam
🖥 Permissionless Access Node prep
👨‍🔬 Update to Cadence v0.30
💪 Faster and fewer Sporks

Read on for full details: https://flow.com/post/flow-blockchain-news-network-upgrades-spork-january-scalable-resilient-accessible

We’re excited to announce some massive news... the Doodles universe is coming to Flow, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome them to the Flow family.

The Doodles team’s journey to expand begins when they launch on Flow. We’re excited to see their ambitious vision come to life everywhere with Flow, and we’re honored to be the home of a brand new way to express yourself. The Doodles universe #onFlow begins opening to their existing community first with the launch of the Dooplicator on January 31, expanding to everyone over time.

Check out the full announcement and get ready for Doodles 2 collectibles on Flow: https://flow.com/post/flow-blockchain-doodles-2-announcement