☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #21
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 01/24 🎉
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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
The OG Paris Hilton compared Bored Apes with Fallon before gifting the entire audience NFTs! 👉 Watch Here
Zora V3 is here. It’s a fully on-chain, composable, immutable, universally accessible, and censorship-resistant marketplace protocol with lower gas fees. 👉 Read More
The head of YouTube Gaming Ryan Wyatt is leaving his position to become the CEO of Polygon Studios, a new venture dedicated to building on Polygon. 👉 Read More
OpenSea may soon be adding support for Solana NFTs. 👉 Read More
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki mentioned that the company is considering the possibility of expanding YouTube's offering to "things like NFTs." 👉 Read More
Nifty’s introduced “Featured Artists,” a series of curated drops from a diverse group of global creators shaping the NFT landscape. 👉 Read More
John Lennon's son Julian is selling several items of Beatles and John Lennon memorabilia as NFTs. Pieces include Paul McCartney’s handwritten notes for the Beatles song "Hey Jude," and items of clothing worn by John Lennon. 👉 Read More
CoolPets are launching tomorrow! 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Socialstack, which is an easy-to-use social token platform that enables anyone to tokenize their community on the blockchain, is building CommunityOS. They aim to incentivize impact-driven behavior through tokenomics and network-wide campaigns that pool together token incentives. 👉 Read More
The social token network Rally is expanding into Solana 👉 Read More
Shepard Fairey, the artistic creator of OBEY issued his social token on Rolly 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Spice DAO, a group who came together and bought a copy of the 1970s Dune artbook for £2m in November, told that a limited series is in development. 👉 Read More
Check out “Creator DAOs GMI” by BlockchainBrett. 👉 Read More
Syndicate is introducing Web3 Investment Clubs, their first mainstream crypto-native social investing tool built on Syndicate Protocol. Friends, investors, communities, and anyone in Web3 can now create and run an investment club as a DAO as easily as starting a group chat. 👉 Read More
MetaOasis DAO is a DAO focused on opportunities in metaverse lands space, and they recently released an update on the progress of its proposed headquarter in The Sandbox Game. 👉 Read More
Check out “DAOs Primed to Play Key Role in Artist-Fan Relationship: ‘It’s Not About Remaking the Old Industry; It’s a Whole New Thing’” from Variety. 👉 Read More
Floki Inu ($FLOKI) is turning itself into a DAO, and the group said that this upgrade was necessary to make the project even more decentralized and get it listed on centralized exchanges. 👉 Read More
Give “Diving into OpenDAO: Predictions on the Flash DAO Phenomenon” a read to learn more about DAOs that organize quickly. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Watch the incredible story of Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX who is a 22 times billionaire.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Music NFT thought leader VÉRITÉ on How To Price a Song NFT 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | William Bailey of Bolero Music on Why Social Tokens Are Critical For Music Artists 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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