☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #22
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 01/31 🎉
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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
BuzzFeed doxxed 2 of the founders of Bored Ape Yacht Club. 👉 Read More
Adidas for Prada re-source by Zach Lieberman dropped on SuperRare and was sold for 30 ETH. I guess my submission didn’t get in. 👉 Read More
Justin Bieber jumped into the NFT space with a 300 ETH Bored Ape purchase, a bunch of Doodles and more. 👉 Read More
Check out “How to Invest in Artists and Music NFTs : Metrics That Matter” Asher Fiberman 👉 Read More
Tom Brady announced that he’s retiring from NFL, and that now he will focus more on his NFT business Autograph, and other ventures. 👉 Read More
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that the metaverse “has great potential,” but that they are not in a rush to take big steps. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Check out “Who will own the creator economy? A web2 vs. web3 showdown” by Justine Moore. 👉 Read More
Coinbase Custody now supports $DAO, $INXT and $RAC. For those who don’t know, $RAC is the social token of the grammy-award winning musician Rac - and he was happy about it. 👉 Read More
Artist André the Giant launched $OBEY social token as a means of membership and rewarding his fans. 👉 Read More
Check out these 15 interesting web3-related essays, covering the history, technical foundations, and operations of DAOs as curated by ForeFront. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Now a new project called JonesDAO, which provides one-click access to institutional-grade options strategies, has raised an incredible $52M in 24 hours on Jan. 29 👉 Read More
Give “DAOs Aren’t A Fad — They’re A Platform” by Forbes a read. 👉 Read More
A group of collectors who hold 81 BAYC and 81 Mutant Ape tokens, ApeDAO is rallying behind a governance proposal to dissolve and liquidate its $31M treasury. 👉 Read More
Curve DAO’s token has been falling since reaching an ATH price of $6.80 on Jan 4. Token has fallen by 59.35%, leading to a low of $2.36 on Jan 24, and currently is trading around $3.36. 👉 Read More
And the best DAO name award goes to…FriesDAO: a new organization that plans on running a real-world fast food business. They are raising $9.69 million to run the franchise. The group already recruited the expertise of veterans Olivier Meyer and Jean-Clauder Meyer, who co-founded and operate a 170+ quick-service chain of restaurants. Connecting real-world assets & on-chain blockchain governance💪 👉 Read More
Read “DAOs Primed to Play Key Role in Artist-Fan Relationship: ‘It’s Not About Remaking the Old Industry; It’s a Whole New Thing’” by Jeremy Gilbertson on Variety. 👉 Read More
GenreDAO is innovating within their community by raising funds and creating a treasury to provide mutual aid and new resources to a wider base of people and support artists. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
The most-watched show in the US, Super Bowl. This day might be fun for NFT lovers. We learned that the attendees of Super Bowl LVI will receive commemorative NFTs alongside their tickets, as part of a deal between the NFL and Ticketmaster. We already know the NFT technology works perfectly with ticketing, especially due to the customizability and permanence of NFTs. This is some major adoption!
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Benny Conn of Beat Foundry on How On-Chain Generative Music Works with Beat Foundry 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Mark de Clive-Lowe on How to Buy Back Your Music Catalog From Record Labels using Cryptocurrency 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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