☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #15
Mint Season 3 Finale + Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 12/13 🎉
What’s up Mint nation - happy Sunday! :)
Every Sunday, we’ll be issuing MINT TLDR, where we focus on our favorite stories around NFTs, social tokens, and DAOs.
You will find the coolest stories and biggest headlines here and easily digestible for you to enjoy with your morning coffee.
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👇 Let’s dive in!👇
🎉 Mint Season 3 Concluded Thursday - Season 4 begins Tuesday.
20 episodes later, season 3 has come to an end. What an epic ride…
I’ll be announcing Season 4 this Tueday with my most epic lineup to date and a ✨theme✨.
Stay tuned 👀
If you havn’t already: be sure to get grab your Season 3 POAP. I’m distributing them Monday evening so stay tuned.
💎 NFTs
Adidas launched its “Into the Metaverse” project on Friday. They had 30,000 NFTs, of which 20k was reserved for BAYC holders and holders of other partnered projects. Each NFT was 0.2, making the company $24 Million. 👉 Read More
Sound.xyz raised $5 million led by A16Z. It was co-founded by David Greenstein, the son of Sirius XM President Scott Greenstein. Sound lets musicians create 25 NFTs for their songs and sell each for 0.1 ETH. NFTs come with the ability to comment on a specific portion of the song. The artist also designates one NFT as a super rare one that provides some unique utility. 👉 Read More
Wikipedia’s first edit was bought for $750,000 by @santiagoroel for PleasrDAO. 👉 Read More
Nike aquired RTFKT, a digital art studio focused on sneakers. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Eponym, a collaborative generative NFT project which also recently announced that they are storing the collection in the Arctic World Archive 300m below the arctic frost, is launching a $EPO token. 👉 Read More
The social token pioneer Eliot Couvat (whose token is $ELIOT) published “The Social Token Revolution” book! 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
BitDAO partnered with students and faculties from some of the world’s most prestigious universities to form EduDAO, which aims to be an independent body focused on project grants, and researches. 👉 Read More
Nifty Museum is now MuseDAO. They have been helping build projects such as NFT20 and Cudlfinance. You can vote on the future of MuseDAO via its native token, $MUSE. 👉 Read More
FreeAssangeDAO is aiming to help Julian Assange’s Liberation against his extradition to the United States. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks. 👉 Read More
Check out the article “The Hardest Part of Building a DAO Isn't What You Think,” published as a part of the new publishing group PubDAO, which talks about scaling as the difficulty in building successful DAOs. 👉 Read More
This article by Jacqueline Radebaugh and Yev Muchnik discusses the legal entity structure needed for DAOs, by explaining the Limited Cooperative Association (LCA) and the existing laws in Colorado. 👉 Read More
“Grounding Decentralised Technologies in Cooperative Principles: What Can 'decentralised Autonomous Organisations' (DAOs) and Platform Cooperatives Learn from Each Other?”, a research on the cooperative approaches to data ownership and governance led by Harvard University’s Berkman Klein and The New School. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Adidas, making $42 million by selling 30,000 NFTs at 0.2 ETH. Not bad for entering the crypto space two minutes ago, while artists try to sell their work for months … :)
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Andile Masuku of African Tech Roundup on How Social Tokens Can Detox Africa's Corrupt Media Landscape 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Multidisciplinary artist Dada Boipelo on How Social Tokens Capture the Value of African Culture 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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Enjoy your Sunday and we’ll see you next week :)
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