☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #19
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 01/10 🎉
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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
Wikipedia editors voted not to categorize NFTs as art. Hmm… They sold an NFT but… Okay… 👉 Read More
Bored Apes is launching toys in partnership with Superplastic. 👉 Read More
Doodles soared in value after a unique new feature was introduced to the project. Owners will be able to wrap their Doodles to get a Space Doodle & unwrap and turn it back into a Doodle. Each owner can only have one in their wallet at once, thus not increasing the number of NFTs in the project and creating a non-dilutive model. 👉 Read More
World of Women has signed with Guy Oseary to represent the project. 👉 Read More
Shoutout to Matt Medved for re-discovering CryptoSkulls and creating an insane amount of hype around them this week. Nearly 8k ETH in traded volume this week alone 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Virgil Abloh had NFT, DAO and Social Token plans before he died, revealed Fred Ehrsam. He said, “What I have been running in my head is to start a real-life, digital museum. For it to become an institution where the currency used in that space is my unique social token. Inside the space will be my work, but also the work of a community of adjacent artists operating on a token of the space.” 👉 Read More
I want to pose a question, and let me know what you think in the comments here or on Twitter: Are NFTs or Social Tokens a better way to create membership access? 👉 Read More
Daniel Allan’s $OVERSTIM project concluded after three incredible months followed by an iconic live performance this past Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles. He just released the on-chain EP this week and we recapped the entire journey on the pod 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
LinksDAO, which is a DAO that came together to buy a Golf Course raised $10 million through NFT sales. NFTs represent the right to purchase actual memberships to the future country club. Stephen Curry joining the project helped increase the prices. 👉 Read More
Sarcophagus, “decentralized dead man’s switch,” is a project which will allow users to set instructions to be carried out by a smart contract if the user is incapacitated. They raised $5.47 million by selling DAO tokens to VCs. 👉 Read More
RomeDAO is a GameFi-ed game economy built on top of a ‘sustainable currency’ using Olympus-style bonds. 👉 Read More
Check out “State of the DAO #7: Social Tokens and the Future of Work” article by Eliot Couvat from Coinvise, who talks about the problems of companies and how social tokens can resolve some of these issues. 👉 Read More
It’s clear we’re in airdrop season. Check out this article by Eliot Couvat on “How To Make Airdrops That Go Viral, Bring Awareness, And Convert Members Into Active Contributors.” 👉 Read More
Another good article to check out this week is “What Co-Ops and DAOs can learn from each other” by Austin Robey published on Friends with Benefits blog. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
CryptoSkulls, the second pfp project ever after CryptoPunks got some eyes on it this week and the floor skyrocketed. 30 days ago, floor was 0.02 ETH; 7 days ago, it was only 0.04, and at the time of writing (Friday afternoon) it’s 3 ETH. The 7 day volume increased +1,376,918 percent. 🤯 #sadfact: I looked at this project like 2 months ago but thought it was dead.☹️
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Daniel Allan and Henry Chatfield on How To Build a Creator DAO: Breaking Down The Infamous $OVERSTIM Journey 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Grady on The Parallels Between Music and Crypto 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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