🚨News and Developments🚨 -Pastel in the News 🛴Pastel Network co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses how NFT’ bridge art and tech, empowering artists and collectors in this Cointelegraph article 🍉Pastel Network co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses regulation in Web3 in this Forbes article 🍧Anthony Georgiades joins the Crypto Coin Show to discuss Investing & Validating 🏆CardStack hosts Anthony Georgiades to discuss the Pastel’s place in the web3 space If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base: 🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter 🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter 👾Join Pastel's Discord Server 👽Join Pastel on Reddit ✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram 🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

🚨Collaborations🚨 Take a look at our latest artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Love Beads” was minted on SmartMint by the incredible @izzykim We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together! 🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨 Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

🚨Twitter Spaces and Podcasts🚨 Check out this Twitter Space with @digitali4all. In it we discuss Web3's growth and adoption, NFTs' role in education and adoption, Investments & digital ownership, Creative innovation, and cultural insights. Listen to this exciting Twitter Space with @pixelynx about audio in the web3 space! CEO and co-founder of @kalder_xyz, @0XGokce hosted @PastelNetwork's Vincent Chui to discuss the future of loyalty solutions on-chain. Listen here Check out this CyptoNews podcast where Pastel Network’s co-founder discusses Web3/NFT security, decentralized storage, and struggles NFT creators face.

Key Updates: 🚨Contests🚨 SmartMint Art Contest Our August Art contest is in full swing! Submit your latest work today to get the chance to win ! We can’t see the creativity produced by amazing artists. See the details here Congratulations to the talented artists who took home the top prizes and earned a spot in the SmartMint Artist Showcase. And a huge thank you to everyone who participated and helped make this contest such a success. Stay tuned for more opportunities to showcase your creativity and earn recognition in the vibrant world of crypto art. -1st place: Check out the place winning piece called “First Prince” here by @charan_0318n -2nd place: See the second place piece called “Uncle Mad” here by @여기 -3rd place: Take a look at the third place piece by @aspiw here. Please keep in mind that all entries are expected to be authentically created by the original artist. Sense, our near duplicate detection protocol, has been applied to all submitted art pieces. We are building up to our highly anticipated upgrade to SmartMint coming at the end of the summer. All of the wonderful submissions can be found on our Discord “SmartMint Art Contest” channel.