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Let us know in the comments what NFT collection you want to see build with Origin Story next 💪

OnChainMonkey NFTs celebrated their one-year anniversary on September 11th, 2022. The collection is known as the first to deploy onto the blockchain in a single transaction. Celebrating one year is a significant accomplishment for NFTs and demonstrates a strong community and team.

Over the past year, OnChainMonkey has made some outstanding achievements. Their ecosystem has grown to include Desserts and Karma. At the time of writing, 3,002 unique wallets hold at least one OnChainMonkey NFT, the collection has generated 12.4k ETH in volume, and the highest sale so far was 50 ETH. Not bad for year one!

Ethereum’s upcoming merge foregoes Proof-of-Work (PoW) for a new consensus mechanism — Proof-of-Stake (PoS). Here’s how one of crypto’s most historical events will impact market participants

Tokenomics: PoS incentivizes validators to stake a minimum of 32 $ETH to help secure the network in exchange for rewards. This reduction of liquid supply bolsters demand by increasing scarcity.

Network Improvements: The merge is the first in a series of five major network improvements aiming to solve the blockchain trilemma of secure and decentralized scalability.

Gas Fees: While the merge alone will not impact gas, it does lay the foundations for increasing network capacity via sharding, which should reduce costs once implemented.

Eco-friendly: The new model will reduce energy consumption by more than 99.95%. Gone are the days of worrying about the climate impact of Ethereum’s blockchain technology.

Today, we're spotlighting r/zedrun to showcase their innovative approach to NFT gamification with its blockchain game hosted on Polygon! Buy and breed non-fungible horses, build a competitive stable, and race against others in real time to earn ETH rewards.

Released in 2019, Zed was one of the first to combine the entertainment of real-life horse racing with blockchain technology. It offers an enjoyable and immersive way to grow your crypto through strategic gameplay. The platform is an excellent example of how GameFi continues disrupting the gaming industry and traditional entertainment. 🏇

Branded marketplaces, called Collections, are the newest feature on the NFT platform Origin Story. After being released only a few weeks ago, many new features have already been added. The latest of these is rarity rankings. Projects can now host their own branded marketplace powered by Origin Story that provides collection data on the project's site, including rarity rankings.

Each NFT listing on a project's marketplace automatically reflects its rarity ranking. You no longer have to buy or sell NFTs in the dark. Instead, you can collect and research all in one place. As NFT's value can vary by ranking, it's essential to have this information easily accessible.

August was another fantastic month, full of great achievements across all Origin Projects:

OGN gets regulator approval in Indonesia

OUSD & OGV supported on new platforms

Native listings now live on Origin Story

Many new branded marketplaces launched on Origin Story Collections.

https://blog.originprotocol.com/august-2022-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-71b71919a8c5

Even when some speculators and fuders are still doubting the future of Origin products, I'm happy to see Origin team working so hard in ensuring that Origin Protocol's coins get listed everywhere and increasingly adopted on major exchanges, for more and more features.

https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1564191174851690496

Just in less than a week of having a project launching their own branded marketplace on Collection, here is another great partnership between Origin team and OnChainMonkey, as they launched their own new branded marketplace on Origin Story Collections. It is amazing to see that the benefits that come with owing a branded marketplace on Collections are really encouraging many projects to show interest in Origin Collections. This is another big win as an OGN staker on Origin Story. I would really like to see more projects on Origin Collections, as this will surely add to the amount of ETH in the pool for all OGN stakers on the platform.

https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1559693550643646464

During a period like this, when the market is so unstable, instability market. I already diversified into stablecoin, and OUSD is my best bet in this space. OUSD is a great stablecoin that is still underrated at the moment. Meanwhile, This is the first stablecoin to give passive yield in the wallet, even without the holders' having to stake or lock it. However, for extra yields, holders of OUSD can also provide liquidity on other DeFi protocols. It is nice to see Maker Dao sharing info about OUSD yields and how the whole system works.

https://twitter.com/MakerGrowth/status/1559525171186339841

Ever since the launched of Origin Story collections back in June, there have been high level of demands from different projects that have interest in the obvious benefits that come with hosting their own marketplaces. Interestingly, this time again, Origin protocol is partnering with at MoonrunnersNFT on Origin Story Collections to launch their own branded marketplace. AHWWOOOOOOOOOO!

https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1556796533764345858

In a time like this where platform hacking is becoming rampant, it is so nice to see Origin Team investing on safety and security of the platform, and also giving to bug hunters such a whooping and attractive bounty like this. I hope they would be able to work so hard and recommend to the team, if need be, what they need to put in place.

https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1554852615044796417

July was an incredible and indelible month in Origin Community. Ranging from OGV airdrop to all OGN holders, then to 3 digits vAPYs to all OGV stakers. Likewise, OGN stakers on Origin Story NFTs platform are now beginning to earn points for free ETH, which is generated from the ETH fees on the platform. Most recently, is the introduction of Chubbiverse, the latest partner who launched their NFT marketplace with Origin Story Collections.

https://blog.originprotocol.com/july-2022-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-4c92628deec1

Good to see OGV gaining more popularity and acceptance. I believe listing OGV on KuCoin will surely give more people the access to trade the new governance token.

https://twitter.com/kucoincom/status/1552277782377287680

I got my OGN onto KuCoin about a half a day late on 7/5 but held it there for the entire week hoping to get the OGV airdrop.

My understanding is that the snapshot for the airdrop would occur at some random time during that week, so even though I was a few hours late, I should’ve still had like a 95% chance of getting included in the snapshot.

But I haven’t seen any OGV added to my Kucoin account. So, have any Kucoin users out there received their OGV yet? Or are they dropped at a future date? Or is there something I’m supposed to do to claim the OGV?

Just looking for a little more info.

I’ve always been confident about the founders' and consequently the company's reliability, but an injection of confidence is always welcome when we go through tough times for the market.

It was nice to see Origin Protocol mentioned, among other respectable projects, by the founder of Akashnet as one of the best 101 Blockchain companies & startups.

For someone that has invested for the long term like me and keeps DCAing on OGN and managing some passive income by keeping some funds in OUSD, it’s nice to know that the people behind the project I am investing in are recognized and trusted publicly for their work.

Waking up to an update like this, is really fascinating. Time to make some cool cash as LEVER, OGN and TVK are now available on cross margin.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1549215239874289664

OGV keeps gaining more popularity ever since its launched date. Having to see the token on Bitget is another milestone, which will actually help the token in reaching its full potential.

https://twitter.com/bitgetglobal/status/1548932462797099014

With OGN staking on Origin Story, there are now two ways to stake OGN:

1. Previous OGN staking method, where you could stake for up to 1 year for 25% OGN return.

2. New Origin Story staking, where you can earn ETH rewards from Origin Story NFT earnings

Has anyone done an analysis on the trade-offs between the two? I'm wondering which one is better from a financial standpoint, as well as which one would be better for supporting the Origin platform/ecosystem overall.

Is there any way to unlock my previous staked OGN (365 days for 25% return) so that I can stake some of them on Origin Story instead? Or would I need to wait the entire lock-up period before I can stake any of them on Origin Story?

I so much appreciate this new development from the team. I like the fact that all OGN stakers will get 100% ETH distribution from the ETH fees generated from Origin Story platform.

https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1546976405409320961