☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #34
Season 5 of Mint goes live + juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 04/25 🎉
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.
If you haven’t already, join Mint’s Discord + claim your free Season 5 Listener Badge NFT that I distribute at the end of the season! There may or may not be rewards in the future. 😉
👇 Let’s dive in!👇
🏆 Mint Season 5 Lineup Reveal
This season of the Mint Podcast is psyched to bring you over 20 exclusive conversations with the creators, collectors, and founders defining the web3 creator economy.
The next two months will explore the future of:
Music
Social networks
Creative Commons license (CC0)
Season 5 sponsors include CyberConnect, Coinvise, and Mint Songs, who support Mint by collecting the show’s non-transferable NFTs granting them promotional benefits throughout the season.
💎 NFTs
BAYC team raises $285M With Otherside metaverse NFTs. They clogged Ethereum cause the community to outrage 👉 Read More
Wyre partnered with Chess.com to launch an NFT platform where users can play chess to win NFTs. 👉 Read More
Canadian author and poet Margaret Atwood, most notably known for “The Handmaid’s Tale” will be giving an online class titled “Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible.” Students will imagine potential utopian societies, turn them into illustrations, and mint them as NFTs on the Tezos blockchain. 👉 Read More
3 and 4 digit ENS domain names got their taste of NFT hype culture this week. ENS generated $1.3 million in sales in 24 hours as they minted out in one night. People went crazy because you can potentially use them with a subdomain. (for example, punk.4565.eth) Fun trivia: 555.eth was bought for 55.5 ETH. 👉 Read More
Web3 company focused on NFT games and WAX blockchain, WAX Studios, hired the creator of the game “Magic: The Gathering,” Richard Garfield, to develop PVP games. 👉 Read More
Central African Republic announced that it adopted Bitcoin as legal tender. 👉 Read More
Our Happy Company founded by John Legend raised $7.5 million in seed funding to continue developing the NFT music platform, OurSong. 👉 Read More
IRL Super Rare Gallery in NYC is coming on May 19th. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
It’s the time of $APE. ApeCoin has been mooning all week with the land sale anticipation. 👉 Read More
Kevin Rose looks to explore a social token for Moonbirds? 👉 Read More
Ronaldinho dropped his own social token $RON with P00LS. 👉 Read More
CoinDesk launches $DESK (ERC-20), their first tokenized community project, after beta testing it last year. $DESK is a social token that uses blockchain technology to create a system of rewards for social activities. 👉 Read More
Bonfire.xyz introduced Season 2 of their product which is focused on finding sustainable models for creator-centric token utility and authentic community engagement. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 basketball league BIG3 announced its plans to sell team ownership stakes via NFTs. Solana NFT project DeGods will purchase the top ownership stakes in one team, funds coming out of the project’s DeDAO treasury. DeGods holders will be offered access to lower-tier stakes. 👉 Read More
According to Messari, DAOs held $11 billion by the end of 2021, with $7 billion held by the 15 largest DAOs. 👉 Read More
Panama passed a law to regulate the trading and use of crypto-assets and also legally recognized DAOs. According to Congressman Gabriel Silva, it will help Panama “become a hub of innovation and technology in Latin America.” 👉 Read More
TAKI DAO announced the launch of an Initial Exchange Offering for its token $TAKI, with proceeds going to TAKI DAO's community treasury. 👉 Read More
Azuki Spirit DAO acquired Azuki #3140 for 245 ETH ($697k USD). 👉 Read More
ARTS DAO partnered with BEDU, Dubai’s foremost pioneer in Web3, to host their first Ramadan NFT Majlis. 👉 Read More
Nexity Network is joining the Polygon DAO Accelerator Program with the goal of funding its social, environmental, and economic initiatives. 👉 Read More
Ethereum layer 2 rollup Optimism announced that it is forming a DAO called the Optimism Collective and will be airdropping Optimism (OP) token. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Elon Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion has been heard across the globe. Unless anyone comes up with $45 billion asap, this is the biggest news (sorry not sorry). I’ve been reading a lot about him this week, so here are some Hot Takes for you:
Musk’s Twitter: Weed Memes. Editable Tweets. And the Return of Trump. by Kara Swisher (my idol)
Elon Musk and the Gray of ‘Free Speech’ by Shira Ovide
Musk flips Twitter the bird by Casey Newton
Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands by Casey Newton
Is Elon Musk About to Be the ‘King of Nothing’? by Kara Swisher
(Sway podcast by NYTimes)
🎙 Podcast Recap
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