What’s up Mint nation - happy Sunday! :)
Every Sunday, we’ll be issuing MINT TLDR, where we focus on our favorite stories around NFTs, social tokens and DAOs.
You will find the coolest stories and biggest headlines here and easily digestible for you to enjoy with your morning coffee.
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💎 NFTs
Dapper Labs has partnered with LaLiga, the Spanish soccer league, to launch an NFT marketplace. Dapper Labs recently raised $250 million, and is now valued at $7.6 billion. 👉 Read More
Lockdown, a pandemic-themed thriller movie, will be released as a series of five NFTs in October by Phoenix Waters Productions and AMM Global. The movie will also have premiers in Hong Kong and UK that viewers can get tickets via an NFT ticket. 👉 Read More
Burger King announced an NFT campaign in collaboration with the marketplace Sweet. There will be QR codes on nearly six million meal boxes, unlocking a digital collectible. Unlocking these can then lead to different awards like Whopper sandwiches for a year, autographed goods, and a call with one of the campaign’s celebs. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Omni Analytics shares a network analysis of tokens listed on ForeFront market, and highlights some key findings. 👉 Read More
Seed Club announced the participants of the 3rd cohort of their accelerator, 15 projects out of 80+ applicants. 👉 Read More
BitClout’s creator, Diamondhands aka Nader Al-Naji, revealed his identity recently as well as announcing a new project. Separate from the BitClout platform, Al-Naji has launched the Decentralized Social blockchain, receiving $200 million in funding from a16z and more. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
The digital contract platform OpenLaw, which aims to “automate the connection between the digital world and the real world using legal agreements,” is rebranding as a DAO under the name Tribute Labs. It will assist DAOs to be set up properly by helping with legal processes in the US. 👉 Read More
Grape Network, a startup that provides tools for NFT and DeFi projects to build, manage, and incentivize DAOs on the Solana network, announced a $1.2 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital. 👉 Read More
Cooper Turley, one of the most prominent DAO builders, who co-founded the Friends With Benefits social DAO and has helped on Audius and Aave tells he welcomes regulators. He said during the Messari Mainnet conference, “We can’t operate in the Wild West forever ... If we want this to scale to billions of users, we need to have clear guidance here. I’m very happy to be out there launching all of these experiments, but I recognize that at some point in time, things are going to get very serious. I think that’s a good signal that this is not going away anytime soon.” 👉 Read More
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That’s a wrap. Enjoy your Sunday and we’ll see you next week :)
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