gm, and welcome to issue #19 of ✨Spark✨ We got more of them goodies made just for you. During some calls with creators, we started to realize that many of you are still just starting out in web3 and need a little more support before getting your feet wet. So here’s a guide on going from a web2 creator to web3 (for non-crypto natives). We feel very strongly that these guides should not be interpreted as “playbooks” — this is web3, to hell with playbooks. These will be part of our “Explorebooks” (working title...send in other suggestions). Watch this space as we build out this series. Read ‘em, and make ‘em your own.

It’s Firesides this Friday. You know the drill. Come hang, ask questions, co-work. The floor is yours.

Bonfire Product Updates

It’s a bit lighter of a week on product updates as we’re currently testing a few larger features internally before beginning to roll them out next week.

🚀 Support for New Platform Embeds

Next week we’ll be adding embed support for a handful of our most frequently-requested platforms - if there’s a platform you’d like us to look into adding support for, let us know here and we’ll try and make it happen:

• Shopify: This will enable you to embed individual products and even entire product collections, including the checkout flow, directly into Bonfire pages. This will make it much easier to offer token-holders early or exclusive access to merch, and even let you charge in USD from your Bonfire page; and all streamlined via your Shopify backend

• Eventbrite: Embed events, including the checkout flow, into your pages. This allows you to offer token-holders early or exclusive access to events, and even lets you charge in USD directly from a Bonfire page (Note: we already support lu.ma, which also has native support for token-gated events)

• Calendly: Embed your calendly into a token-gated page so that only your token-holders can book time with you. (Note: we already support cal.com, which also has native support for token-gated events)

• Typeform: Embed surveys, polls, and info collection forms directly into Bonfire pages (Note: we already support Google forms)

💃 Creator Showcase

In the coming days, we’ll also be debuting our new creator showcase on our website, highlighting creators using Bonfire to unlock greater utility around their tokens and transform the way they engage with their community.

We’ll be pulling from some of the most exciting communities and use cases we’ve seen on the platform, but respond to this email and let us know if you’d like to be included, or if you’d explicitly like to opt-out.

Creator Spotlight: Greg Bresnitz from $CRNDO

We’ve interviewed Greg Bresnitz, the creator behind $CRNDO community and Crescendo! Podcast, a show dedicated to pairing music and food. Each episode has one of the world’s best Chefs creating a 7-course meal, pairing each dish with a song, to talk about culinary / audio connections, how their food is inspired by music, and other behind the apron deep dives. Season One just dropped earlier this year, with live pairing events taking place all over the US throughout the year. Check it out and learn more about Greg’s web3 journey.

That's Fire

“Patronage Plus” and the difference between being a web2 supporter or owning an NFT.

Looking to raise funds? Submit your idea to Prop House from Nouns DAO - it’s open to anyone!

Listen to this deep dive into The Creator Economy Playbook with Li Jin and Jesse Walden.

Check out this guide for designing Online Community Governance.

More NFTs for good. Ukraine Launches an NFT Museum to raise funds and memorialize war.

Wen Solana in OpenSea? Apparently, sometime this month.

Tweet of the week

Your Turn

Do you have any web3 goals we can help make happen? No matter how big or small, shoot me an email or DM us on twitter about it. Even better, let’s talk about it during this week’s Firesides.

And as always, stay tuned on what’s coming down the pipeline on our Roadmap.

If you’re just joining, you can find our past issues here.

Until next time,

Bonfire Team