☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #23
Eth Denver Event + Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 02/07 🎉
gm Mint nation - happy *Super Bowl* 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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👇 Let’s dive in!👇
🤝 Ethereum Denver - Are You Joining?
Who’s attending Eth Denver? I’ll be there along with many others. I invite you all to attend an in-person creator meetup I’m co-hosting alongside a star-studded performer who goes by Queen George.
Logistics
Cost of Attendance: FREE
Brunch: 9:00am - 11:30am MT
Performance: 11:30am - 1:00pm MT
Date: Tues Feb 15th, 2022
Venue: "Your Mom's House Denver" 608 E 13th Ave, Denver, CO 80203
💎 NFTs
McDonald’s filed for 10 applications to open a restaurant in the metaverse. The request reads, “Operating a virtual restaurant featuring actual and virtual goods,” and “operating a virtual restaurant online featuring home delivery.” 👉 Read More
Panera also filed a request for “Paneraverse” to trademark its downloadable, virtual food and beverage items “for use in virtual worlds.” 👉 Read More
104 Crypto Punks will be auctioned on Sotheby’s Metaverse in this historical event. 👉 Read More
Jack Dorsey said Meta’s Diem cryptocurrency hopes were a “wasted effort and time.” And of course, he said they should’ve just gone with Bitcoin. Anybody surprised? No? 👉 Read More
Gala Games, the popular blockchain gaming platform, has announced a major new relationship with Snoop Dogg, who will release his new album, B.O.D.R. (Bacc on Death Row), as a Stash Box of NFTs on the Gala Music shop 👉 Read More
Alfa Romeo is the first automaker to link a car with an NFT digital certificate. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Seed Club announced its fourth accelerator cohort. 👉 Read More
Friends with Benefits uses Utopia, a payroll and expense management tool built for the integration of mult-isig crypto wallets, making it easier for the DAOs to pay their main contributors, and manage their funds. 👉 Read More
RAC has announced racOS, an artist and fan-controlled platform that provides a space where holders of his token, $RAC, can connect with each other and access myriad experiences 👉 Read More
Portugal the Man announce their first single “ What, Me Worry?” off of their anticipated upcoming album due this June. Fans have a unique incentive to listen to the new single, with those who pre-save “What, Me Worry?” to be gifted PTM coin, the band’s very own community-built social token. 👉 Read More
NFL wide receiver Brandon Powell launched his social token $BP4 on Rally network with the intention to educate the youth of Broward County Florida about football and Web3. Go Rams! 👉 Read More
Season 4 Mint alum Mark de Clive-Lowe launched his social token $MASHI on Rally’s network with the intention to help fuel the Mashibeats community, a creator/collector initiative focusing on the intersection of jazz and electronic music. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
A DAO came together and raised $7.5 million to try and free the incarcerated Wikileaks founder and activist Julian Assange. AssangeDAO will be using the money for his legal fees and to raise public awareness about his case. 👉 Read More
Watch “Is 2022 the year of DAOs?” by Coindesk 👉 Read More
BitMouseDAO wants to genetically engineer a mouse to put a Bitcoin inside it and see its value soar along with the cryptocurrency. Creators want to use a private key to purchase Bitcoin and then recode it using the building blocks of DNA and insert this code inside the mouse. Ehm, please don’t? 👉 Read More
DeepDAO is a data aggregator and analytics tool that has launched its first specialized search engine to navigate the DAO ecosystem. 👉 Read More
“A DAO Is More Exciting As An Idea Than In Reality” by Forbes 👉 Read More
Bud Light partnered with NounsDAO for its upcoming Super Bowl ad. We can see the Nouns glasses on a painting in the ad! That’s cool. They also launched an NFT project. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Gary Vee for giving the most badass interview response ever.
“I don’t think crypto space has any more problematic issues than the internet, society at large, mainstream media, wall street. i think it’s a new avenue of innovation, and every avenue of innovation has good characters and bad characters.” The rest of the conversation is even more savage.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Bonfire’s Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang on Why Web3 is the Perfect Home for Creators 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | World-renowned DJ entrepreneur Steve Aoki on I’m Moving To The Aokiverse 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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Enjoy your Sunday and we’ll see you next week :)
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