☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #18

Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 01/03 🎉

Jan 9

gm Mint nation - happy Sunday! If you’re new here, welcome. 😙

Every Sunday, we issue ‘Mint TLDR,’ where we focus on our favorite weekly stories around NFTs, social tokens, and DAOs.

We’ve curated the juiciest headlines of the week in an easily digestible format for you to enjoy with your Sunday coffee.

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💎 NFTs

New marketplace alert! You can now mint and list your NFTs for *free* on Showtime. It’s eco-friendly too. 👉 Read More
Samsung is putting NFTs in its smart TVs. 👉 Read More
Apes flipped Punks again. The floor at the time of writing, BAYC 67 ETH, Punks 60.95 ETH. 👉 Read More
Ozzy Osbourne created CryptoBatz as a nod to, you know, him biting the head off of a live bat on stage in 1982, on Jan 20th. Supergremplin created 3 legendary ones, which will be minted at random on the anniversary of the biting, Jan 20th!! 👉 Read More
Check out 1confirmation’s 2021 NFT Year in Review. The analysis covers multiple grounds such as NFT types, marketplaces, emerging trends, and highlights. 👉 Read More
Cameron Moulène and other folks formed a DAO to buy the NFT project Pudgy Penguins from Cole for 750 ETH ($2,421,075). 👉 Read More
Daniel Allan’s ‘Overstimulated’ EP by sold out in under 1 minute on Sound.xyz platform. 👉 Read More
Speaking of Sound.xyz, they onboarded 20 artists last month and collectively achieved 20 soldout drops with over $200,000 in revenue earned for their independent artists. That’s equivalent to 60 million streams. 🤯 👉 Read More
Check out ElectricCapital's Annual Developer Report about people who are building the web3. 👉 Read More

🚀 Social Tokens

Friends with Benefits, a community around $FWB token, is launching FWB Directory as part of their Season Five: Social Spaces. They are issuing an ID NFT as a membership card, which will “contain your personalized metadata, dynamically evolve over time based on your on-chain patterns, and be fully customizable with stamps and stickers that you earn along the way.” 👉 Read More
SeedClub concluded their ‘DAO 20 Awards’ welcoming 20 new superstars into their community. 25,000 $CLUB will be distributed amongst the winners based on race position and distributed to wallets next week 👉 Read More
What will the creator economy look like in 2022? Listen to this Twitter Spaces recording with Cooper Turley and Li Jin. 👉 Read More

🌐 DAOs

OlympusDAO announced a bug bounty program with eye-staking prices, up tо $3.3 million. 👉 Read More
Read this article by pet3rpan of 1kx on DAO Structures. 👉 Read More
FloorDAO will use the bonding mechanism of Olympus protocol and NFTX to create a community-owned product that will sweep floor NFTs and earn yields. 👉 Read More
Daughter of former Blockbuster CEO joins BlockbusterDAO’s core team 👉 Read More
CoinDesk published a piece around the legality behind forming DAOs as LLCs 👉 Read More
We’re seeing many groups form DAOs to co-invest in crazy stuff. Makes you think whether or not this new crowdfunding format will replace traditional VCs 👉 Read More

🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

BigPapap @_BigPapap_

1/12 I figured it would be an excellent moment to do a kind of @blitmap recap to bring people up to speed. The thread is long because, in the Web 3.0 dimension, 1 day=1000 years. It's also like 1/100th of what has happened since we launched, but I figure it's better than nothing

Zhu Su 🔺 @zhusu

In the 90s, the avg athlete/musician would start a steakhouse/bar after retiring and go broke in a few years In the future passion economy, their fans will connect to them through NFTs + social tokens, and crossover creativity and productivity will flourish

Aaron Wright @awrigh01

NFT membership cards are going to gobble up social tokens. Why? - Cards can be tiered and distributed as a community grows organically - Cards create a better UX. They're clean and simple, while ERC-20s make you feel like you’re being nickled and dimed.

Li Jin @ljin18

7 steps to transition to web3, for non-technical folks. It can be daunting to make a career shift to web3, especially for those who don’t code. There are new roles that don’t exist in other industries, and recruiting seems informal and network-based. A mini-guide 🧵

itzler.eth @jonitzler

the OG music NFT thesis similar to early cryptoartists (@XCOPYART, @Coldie, @muratpak, etc), the earliest successful pioneers of music will go down as category defining their pieces will ultimately be coveted & valued as historically significant

Avichal - Electric⚡️Capital ┻┳ (¤,¤) 🍣🦙 🐇🕳 @avichal

1/ Time for @ElectricCapital's Annual Developer Report: medium.com/electric-capit… We analyzed 150m+ repos & xM code commits to produce these 100+ charts. This was a community effort: 150 people contributed via email and Github! Thank you everyone who helped. Let's dig in👇

Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)We fingerprinted nearly 500K code repositories and 160 million code commits across Web3 to create the 2021 Electric Capital Developer Report. The growth of developers in Web3 has been…medium.com

👹 Savage of the Week

There’s no better candidate for savage of the week than the market itself. Most cryptocurrencies saw big drops this week. While Bitcoin fell 11.2% from $47,400 to $42,000 in the last week, Ethereum sunk 17.2% from $3,825 to $3,169. If you are in it for the long term, this might not bother you. Or maybe you spent the last week contemplating your illiquid jpegs. One way or another, we cope, so may the force be with you.

🎙 Podcast Recap

Tuesday | Web3 builder Spencer Graham on What Is A Community Contribution Opportunity (CCO) 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Gary Vee on 2022 Web3 Trends: Music NFTs, Social Tokens & DAOs 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ

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