☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #38
Here's what went down this week in the web3 creator economy.
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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👇 Let’s dive in!👇
🤝 Collabs: Beat Foundry x levychain
Mint host Adam Levy is set to collab with the leading on-chain generative music platform Beat Foundery in light of their drop with web3 music artist Daniel Allan.
Swing by the Twitter space he’s leading on May 31 at 1:30 PM ET:
Minting details:
Allowlist sale: 5/30 at 12 AM EST
Public sale: 5/31 at 2 PM EST
900 beats
0.08 ETH per beat
💎 NFTs
LVCIDIA is a new gaming metaverse platform and exploratory art experience by iconic NFT artist Fvckrender 👉 Read More
Here are some thoughts on “Writing NFTs” by Mirror. It’s a super interesting concept, and if you think about it written work probably had more importance, and long-term relevance than visual form. Soo, let’s mint it? 👉 Read More
Seth Green’s 4 NFTs were stolen one of which was supposed to be on his new TV show. This phishing attack surfaced questions of IP and whether he could still move forward with his show. 👉 Read More
Harvard graduates got commemorative NFTs during graduation this year. This would be a great soulbound NFT. 👉 Read More
Foundation is open to all! 👉 Read More
eBay is launching its first NFTs on Polygon featuring famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky in partnership with Sports Illustrated and OneOf. 👉 Read More
Magic Johnson launched his NFT collection on NBA Top Shot, consisting of 1600 NFTs featuring moments from his career. 👉 Read More
ENS domains hit an all-time high in monthly revenue in May, totaling to over $8 million. ENSDAO is also looking for an artist to revamp the boring ENS avatar images. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
AVAX devs offered the ApeCoin community to consider developing a BAYC metaverse as an AVAX subnet. Yuga previously said they would create their own chain after the crazy gas prices during Otherdeed minting weekend. 👉 Read More
You can learn about Mark's journey with the $MASHI social token and Mashibeats Creator Club in this article by Rally. 👉 Read More
Consensus 2022 will be happening in 2 weeks, and they launched $DESK, the social token of the conference that can be earned and spent for things such as food and merch! 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
DeFi startup Common raised $20 million to build a community management platform for DAOs. 👉 Read More
YourEarthDAO, its metaverse, and digital immortality 👉 Read More
The popular play-to-earn gaming project within Decentraland, Decentral Games, received $1 million worth of $MANA from the Decentraland DAO. 👉 Read More
SpiceDAO leader (who was also behind Milady) left the project after being accused of racism, and homophobia. 👉 Read More
“The Best Examples Of DAOs Everyone Should Know About” by Forbes 👉 Read More
📱 Web3 Social presented by CyberConnect
Primitives wants to turn your crypto wallet into a social network. 👉 Read More
Check out this great thread about social graphs. 👉 Read More
Ethereum and Polkadot’s co-founder Gavin Wood thinks the blockchain can fix social media. 👉 Read More
CyberConnect is holding a sticker/emoji competition. 👉 Read More
“Co-ownership as a web3 social primitive” by Chase Chapman. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
I have no idea how Goblins started, but globlin town minted for free and is sitting on a 2.7 ETH floor right now, after holders spent 2 hours on Twitter Spaces making goblin sounds.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Ice Cube on How NFTs will Change Professional Sports 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Wilson Wei and Ryan Li on How Crypto and Web3 Will Change Social Media Forever 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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