☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #33
Mint Season 4 finishes, claim your free NFT Pin, + catch this week's juiciest headlines around NFT, Social Token, and DAOs 🎉
gm Mint nation - happy 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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💎 NFTs
The only drop anybody cared about this week was Moonbirds. The first PFP project by Proof Collective and Kevin Rose, Moonbirds, got hyped and delivered. The collection saw more trading volume in 48 hours than many huge projects like World of Women. It’s one of those projects that marks a change. Owners get access to Proof Collective and will get to “nest” (aka stake) their NFTs. 👉 Read More
RTFKT announced Nike’s first metaverse sneakers. RTFKT x Nike Dunk Genesis CryptoKicks are digital wearables designed to be used in the metaverse. These came out of MNTLTH boxes, whose price fluctuated the day of the announcements because some people jumped to the gun and didn’t understand the whole puzzle. 👉 Read More
British luxury department store Harvey Nichols launched an NFT gallery space named “HN NFT Vault” in its Hong Kong store, becoming the first luxury department store to exhibit and retail NFTs. 👉 Read More
Deadfellaz signed an exclusive representation deal with United Talent Agency (UTA), including brand partnerships, merchandising, gaming, and live events. 👉 Read More
Coinbase NFT beta launched. The initial sentiment is pretty positive, and the UI looks great! 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
“Social Tokens: From Tokenized Things to Tokenized People” by Rolling Stone 👉 Read More
Entrepreneur Graham Jules founded the digital platform Pop Up World, which aims to connect up-and-coming entrepreneurs with a variety of apps and services, including access to VCs and Angel Investors, a start-up guide, and the social token $PUW. It’s an incentive token and is rewarded to start-ups each time they use services on Pop Up World. 👉 Read More
India’s video platform Chingari, which also launched its own social token $GARI is raising fresh capital in its Series B round of funding with a unicorn $1B valuation expectation. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
69420 DAO hopes to raise $2 billion to buy a 15% stake in Twitter, which would provide them a proxy voting capacity in support of free speech. 👉 Read More
Founder of Tron Protocol Justin Sun announced the launch of Decentralized USD (USDD) stable coin. Its reserve will be under the control of the Tron DAO. He writes, “In the Stablecoin 3.0 era, USDD will not rely on any centralized institutions for redemption, management, and storage. Instead, it will achieve full on-chain decentralization. USDD will be pegged to the underlying asset, TRX, and issued in a decentralized manner.” 👉 Read More
Crypto OG Cobie wrote about his concerns about the ApeCoin DAO on Twitter and in a blog post, especially focusing on governance. 👉 Read More
DAO-powered upcoming play-to-earn heroic fantasy game Heroes of Arcan is launching a token and NFTs in Q2. 👉 Read More
One of the largest decentralized investment funds, BitDAO, has unanimously voted to invest $6.5 million into NFT investment collective PleasrDAO. 👉 Read More
Venture studio and open-source collective Decent DAO launched with a $10 million investment.
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
It’s especially funny when people or government agencies who are supposed to be serious make jokes. Vienna’s Tourist Board sent a Freud avatar to the metaverse, where Freud tells people to take a break from the virtual world. There’s a Trip to Vienna prize for a random person who interacts with him.
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