Origin Protocol Announcements

💫 Introducing our BRAND NEW content series  - "Inside Origin" Here at Origin Protocol we're proud to attract top talent across our network of investors, employees, and partners. We’ve gained investment from some of the digital world’s top minds, and our team is stacked with some of the greatest talent in the space. Did you know ❓ - About Origin’s co-founders Josh Fraser and Matt Liu’s incredible journey through crypto? - PayPal co-founder Yu Pan was the lead research engineer for OUSD? - How Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube, ended up investing in Origin Protocol? - That our team boasts early leaders from Coinbase, PayPal, Lyft, YouTube, and beyond? - The President and CEO of Y Combinator Garry Tan invested in Origin? Surely at least a couple of these facts caught you off guard! That’s why we’ve started a new content series: Inside Origin. Inside Origin is our opportunity to flex a little bit, showing off Origin’s top-tier investors, team members, and advisors. The first edition of Inside Origin covers Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian saw tremendous potential in Origin’s long-term success, and he played a crucial role in Origin’s 2018 strategic investment round. Cont.... READ THE FULL 1ST POST BELOW 👇 https://www.originprotocol.com/inside-origin-alexis-ohanian

👩‍🚀 New Exchange Listing for OGN & OGV OGN & OGV Trading Starts Tomorrow on BitMart. Deposits start today. All you need to know here 👉 https://www.originprotocol.com/ogv-ogn-listing-on-bitmart

📣 Origin Protocol Community Update 📣 Greetings and happy Friday! We're back with another week of roundups featuring the latest news from the NFT and DeFi worlds. Make sure to check the section at the bottom for our internal product updates. This Week in NFTs: 🌟 Exciting NFT drops, blockchain breakthroughs, and unique ventures: Stay tuned for the latest and greatest from the NFT world! 💎 Otherside and Gucci launch KodaPendants: othersidemeta and Gucci unveiled a limited edition collection of KodaPendants as phygital items in the Otherside metaverse. 3333 KodaPendants were minted by Vessel and Koda holders for 450 $APE after completing a series of challenges. 🦸 Reddit deploys Gen 3 avatar collectibles on Polygon: On April 5th, Reddit introduced a contract for Gen 3 avatar collectibles on the Polygon blockchain set to launch next week. 📬 Bitcoin Stamps challenge Ordinals trend: With over 8,300 mints, STAMPS are emerging as a new image-storing trend on the original blockchain. Secondary marketplaces for trading are beginning to surface. 🎮 Ultra.io to launch gaming marketplace: Web3 startup @Ultra_io is set to launch a gaming marketplace later this month, enabling users to resell digital games using tokenized license rights. Partners include Ubisoft, Atari, and Sandbox. 🇯🇵 Japanese government considers adopting NFTs in sports industry: Japan's web3 "digital society promotion" team sees significant potential for using NFTs to drive growth in the rapidly expanding fantasy sports sector. Share any updates we missed in the comments! This Week in DeFi: ⚖️ Arbitrum's AIP-1 controversy: Arbitrum faced criticism for executing its first proposal before passing decentralized governance. The team has since provided an explanation and broken down AIP-1 into separate proposals for voting. 📈 Uniswap surpasses Coinbase's trading volume: For the second month in a row, Uniswap outperformed Coinbase in trading volume despite challenges with the USDC depeg and regulatory pushback. ❄️ Trader Joe joins top 5 DEXs: The leading DEX on Avalanche, @traderjoe_xyz, has launched on Arbitrum and gained new volume from the L2. Its volume now beats Sushi, Canto, and Velodrome combined! 🐕 Elon lets the $DOGE out: The Doge logo replaced Twitter's bird, pumping the token over 20% just hours after the update. 🔒 zkSync surpasses $110M in TVL: zkSync's growth is skyrocketing, but the protocol has yet to launch a token. Speculators are sending assets to zkSync in hopes of a future airdrop. Let us know if we missed anything in the comments! Origin Protocol Internal Product Updates: 1. The March Token Holder update is out, packed with alpha for you to read! 2. POGs are back and on the blockchain! Their official marketplace, built with Origin Story, is now live! 3. New Zealy (previously Crew3) tasks are open! Complete as many as possible to climb the leaderboard and win amazing prizes, including partner NFTs, OGN, and more! 4. Origin announced that $OGV will also serve as the governance token for $OETH. 5. Boosted CRV and CVX rewards are available for the OGV-ETH Pool on Curve. Earn up to 77% APY! 6. Royalties Leaderboard is being added to more partner marketplaces, and partners are incentivizing their communities to use Origin Marketplaces. POGs is giving away NFTs and exclusive merch for collectors who climb the leaderboard. Share your thoughts on these updates and stay tuned for more from us! Catch you on the next one 💙

Are you old enough to remember POGs? They're back as NFTs with Origin Story! POGs is hosting special giveaways for users that trade on the Origin Story marketplace, so think twice before listing on other MPs 👀 Grab some POGs and explore the collection 👉 https://www.story.xyz/pogs-nft-marketplace

🥁 Ready to climb the Zealy (previously Crew3) leaderboards with new quests? This time, we've upped the OGN rewards and added even more prizes to the mix as we're also giving away VOLT and merch from The Supducks plus NFTs from POGs! Qualifying is easy – just use Zealy to review the quests available and make sure to complete the requirements! The more quests you complete, the higher you'll climb on the leaderboards! Don't miss your chance to win big! Click the link in the comments below to learn more and get started. Let's see who will come out on top! 🧗🏆 https://zealy.io/c/originprotocol/questboard

📰 A Special Token Holder Update Has Been Published! Learn about: > OETH Alpha (and how OETH will work for OGV holders!) > OGN Proposals and new marketplace partners > Boosted OGV Rewards > How OUSD thrived during the USDC depeg Get the alpha 👉 https://www.originprotocol.com/march-2023-token-holder-update

👨‍🚀 Check out the Origin Story Whitepaper! Learn about Origin Story's roadmap, how OGN fits in, and how NFTs will lead to the tokenization of everything. Whitepaper Synopsis (full whitepaper linked in intro): https://www.story.xyz/origin-story-litepaper

Something is brewing in the Origin Lab... https://twitter.com/OriginDollar/status/1638929366791995395?s=20

📣 Proposal 2 has passed! Get ready for increased OGN staking rewards! 🔥 Check it out 👇 https://twitter.com/originprotocol/status/1638607218583937037

$OGV Listing Announcement! We're thrilled to have $OGV Listed on Bitmart. Deposits opened today, and trading commences tomorrow. Get ready now! 👉 https://www.ousd.com/ogv-bitmart-listing

$OGV Listing Announcement! We're thrilled to have $OGV Listed on Bitmart. Deposits opened today, and trading commences tomorrow. Get ready now! 👉 https://www.ousd.com/ogv-bitmart-listing

Check this out DeFi degens! Earn up to 45% APY from boosted CRV emissions on the OGV-ETH LP for a limited time! Learn how 👉 https://www.ousd.com/ogv-eth-curve-incentives

👀 Heads up, Origin's Crew3 campaign ends tonight at 5 pm EST. There's still time to climb the leaderboard to earn OGN! 🪜🏆 Join the competition here 👉 https://crew3.xyz/c/originprotocol/questboard

🔗 Would you like to know how to participate in OGN Governance? Read more: https://www.story.xyz/how-to-participate-in-ogn-governance

We need your help, because it’s time to vote! 💪 Head on over to https://nft.nyc/vote and vote for Origin’s Josh Fraser, Matthew Liu and Andra Nicolau to be MAIN STAGE Speakers at NFT NYC! 🎉 https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1636776505501159425

Margin Trading for $OGN is now available on Huobi Global! We're giving away 20,000+ OGN over the next week on Huobi. The more you trade, the more rewards you earn. Top trader gets 3,000 $OGN :origin_token_ogn: Read more: https://www.originprotocol.com/ogn-margin-trading-huobi

Origin co-founder Josh Fraser just dropped some OUSD and stablecoin alpha in a chat with De.Fi! 👀 Make sure to give it a listen! 👇 https://twitter.com/OriginDollar/status/1635683522173186059

🚀 Origin Story is now on Twitter! Make sure to go hit that follow button, so you don’t miss out! 👇 https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1635419001303240704

Our NFT Compare Tool Is Now Open Source! Learn about how to use our latest analytics tool, its capabilities, and why we made the tool open source here: https://www.story.xyz/NFT-compare-tool Found a cool comparison with our tool? Automatically send out a tweet about it from compare.story.xyz - we'll show you love! 💙 @everyone

Andra Nicolau, Origin’s Head of BD for OUSD, spent her Monday night speaking at the CryptoMondays meeting in NYC to give some alpha on what we’ve accomplished, what we’re building, and our vision for a decentralized future. Check it out and drop a comment on where you’d like us to come spread the word about Origin next!👇 https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1633511932148822016