☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #30
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 03/28 🎉
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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
Pudgy Penguins NFT collection sells to LA-based entrepreneur Luca Netz for $2.5 million 👉 Read More
DC Comics believes Batman NFT drop will be a “Watershed Moment” 👉 Read More
Nifty Gateway has joined hands with Samsung to develop the first smart TV NFT platform 👉 Read More
OpenSea announces plans to integrate Solana NFTs 👉 Read More
The US Government is cracking down on NFT scams 👉 Read More
Twitch co-founder Justin Kan’s gaming NFT marketplace, Fractal, raises $35M 👉 Read More
Ukraine launches ‘NFT Museum’ to raise funds and remember 👉 Read More
Visa launches program to help creators navigate NFTs 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
Unite.io Partners With Taiwanese Entertainer A/DA to Launch Web3 Fan Ecosystem 👉 Read More
Antler published an interesting research report on the creator economy, breaking down various web3 creator platforms 👉 Read More
ForeFront and Coinvise have joined forces to create a virtual hackathon supporting creators who want to launch and build tokenized communities. The event takes place April 6-8 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Cointelegraph published an interesting piece on DAOs this week titled, ‘What the media is missing about decentralized autonomous organizations’ 👉 Read More
A DAO is selling NFTs for the right to tweet — in a bizarre experiment 👉 Read More
ShapeShift DAO launches NFT auction in support of female artists 👉 Read More
H.E.R. DAO organized a "Hacker House" at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona last week is, funding 25 women developers to attend. 👉 Read More
A guide for designing online community governance by Austin Robey 👉 Read More
📖 Solid Reads
Forbes on ‘WEB3: 2Be or Not 2Be’ 👉 Read More
Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge hacked for over $600M 👉 Read More
Despite tooling limitations, DAO optimists see new use cases for a democratic, token-based future 👉 Read More
🐦 Tweets Worth Reading
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | DJ and NFT Pioneer Justin Blau (aka 3LAU) on The Collector’s Guide To Music NFTs: Owning vs. Patronage 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | LimeWire on Do Music NFTs Work in Favor of Record Labels? 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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