☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #24
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 02/14 🎉
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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
NBA Top Shot will auction 30 NFTs, each will unlock access to the next five NBA All-Star Games, as well as some additional perks. 👉 Read More
Twitter users can now add their Ethereum address to receive tips! 👉 Read More
Crypto exchange Bybit made a deal worth $150M with Red Bull Racing where Bybit will be the fan token issuance partner to Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 team. 👉 Read More
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) filed a patent suggesting an entry to the NFT market. The filed trademark includes registration for “downloadable virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality software; downloadable software for enabling users to experience virtual reality and augmented reality visualization, … downloadable virtual goods, namely, non-fungible tokens; blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and NFT collectible series,” and more! Is NYSE the new Opensea killer? 😂 👉 Read More
JP Morgan called the metaverse a $1 trillion market opportunity. 👉 Read More
The virtual reality platform Cyber announced a deal with Rarible to integrate its protocol and create a virtual NFT marketplace. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Audius is bridging! They launched a wrapped Solana version of its Ethereum $AUDIO token. This move comes to ensure scalability and meet increasing demand. 👉 Read More
Check out the “Forefront Digital Economy Canon - The Best Community Curated Resources” by Eliot Couvat 👉 Read More
Another great article by Eliot on Forefront: “Leveraging Social Tokens for Digital Reputation” 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Publishers of the popular Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast, sent an email to mtgDAO saying that the DAO’s intention to launch NFTs based on the game constitutes copyright infringement. 👉 Read More
The planet-positive currency $POZ by Pozzle Planet DAO is engineered to grow more valuable with the more pozitive impact we create. 👉 Read More
DAO framework builder Moloch, which is used by big players like MetaCartel Ventures, The LAO, and Raid Guild, launched the third version ("Baal") of its DAO framework during the ETH Denver conference. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Vitalik Buterin walking around in Shiba Inu pajamas during Ethereum Denver.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin on Public Goods for Creators 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Rimark Founder Jermey Vaughn on Understanding ESG (Social) Tokens on Solana Blockchain 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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