☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #10
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 11/08 🎉
What’s up Mint nation - happy Sunday! :)
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💎 NFTs
Universal Music Group formed the first band consisting of NFTs. A group of 3 Bored Apes and one Mutant Ape is called Kingship, and they will be performing in the metaverse and will be releasing music. I’m guessing music and merch as NFTs -right? 👉 Read More
NFT artist pplpleasr launched her first project on Solana called “The Collectoooooor,” which lets the owners of the NFTs trade up for rarer ones. The project has 500 pieces, and if you collect 13 unique items from the set, you get to burn them to receive one of the 25 limited edition 3D cityscape NFTs. 👉 Read More
The Worm is an NFT and an experiment on giving and sharing digital art around the world. People are expected to send the Worm to another address while also creating a collective narrative. Once the Worm visits 1,000 wallets, each of those wallets will receive a special NFT drop. It currently sits on the 496th wallet it visited, which is Cozomo de Medici’s. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Friends with Benefits partnered with Matthew Ball from New York Times to launch “Matthew’s Original Metaverse Essay” in a PartyBid auction. Contributors to the winning auction become founding members of the new DAO, OpenMeta. The final bid was 100 ETH ($371,352). 👉 Read More
You can now follow your Forefront social token stats from one spot! Check out the Forefront Social Token Index on Dune Analytics by @rantum. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Seed Club had its first Demo Day, where they featured upcoming exciting community DAOs and projects from their 3rd Cohort. 👉 Read More
CityDAO is a new experiment where a group of people pooled their funds on a Mirror post to buy a 40-acre parcel of land in Wyoming. They are issuing citizenship NFTs, which people can use to vote on CityDAO decisions. Oh also, Vitalik wrote about them in his blog in a post titled “Crypto Cities.” 👉 Read More
Check out “Public Goods, DAO and Nooks,” which is about nooks as micro-communities, reimagining them as public goods, and how they’re integral for DAOs. 👉 Read More
A new post on Braid proposes to create a link between USDC and the banking system, thus enabling DAOs to have shared debit cards that they can use. FiatDAO would resolve the problem of individual members needing money upfront or dealing with reimbursements. 👉 Read More
InkDAO came about with one tweet (as it always is) and has 27 members already. Entry requirement? Having a tattoo that says “ERC-721.” 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin who learned that Tim Cook himself has invested in cryptocurrencies, and Adam Neumann is doing work with KlimaDAO.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Matt Medved, Alejandro Navia and Sam Hysell on Psychedelics Meet NFTs, The Creator Economy & The Future Of Web3 Media 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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