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 in the web3 creator economy.
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💎 NFTs
Warner Bros. is working on an NFT project for the Looney Tunes brand. 👉 Read More
San Francisco is getting its first NFT restaurant and membership-based club on top of the rooftop real estate at Salesforce Transit Center. It will be a high-end Japanese restaurant called SHŌ. 👉 Read More
Snoop Dogg’s son Champ Medici is working on doing a drop on Cardano. 👉 Read More
Beat Foundry launched a public mint of Daniel Allan’s The Collages beat series. 👉 Read More
The Weeknd partners with Binance for First "Crypto-Powered" world tour. 👉 Read More
Kanye West looks like he is about to get into the NFT game based on a recent trademark filing. 👉 Read More
US charges Ex-OpenSea exec Nate Chastain with wire fraud and money laundering 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
The largest web3 community in MENA, Arts DAO partnered with NFT artist Kristel Bechara to create their first NFT drop The Ethernal Gates. 👉 Read More
AzerDAO is building the first DAO-based ecological platform for crypto industry investment. 👉 Read More
MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen proposed a radical new restructuring plan for the blue-chip DeFi project in a blog post titled “The Endgame Plan.” God crypto people love hyperboles. 👉 Read More
“Merit Circle DAO is proposing to cancel the agreement with Yield Guild Games and refund their investment, as they have not seen enough value. 👉 Read More
Check out “Illegible Enterprises: DAOs, Unwrapped” by Mike Wawszczak 👉 Read More
The Help DAO is working on making the world a better place by using blockchain technology, and they are aiming to be the number one non-profit decentralized autonomous organization. 👉 Read More
“Practical Lessons from Building a DAO” by Peter Yang 👉 Read More
“DAO-Based Democracy Could Work For Twitter, Just As It Works In The Real World” by John Kiguru 👉 Read More
Kimbal Musk is working on Big Green DAO, a non-profit that built “Learning Garden” classrooms in 650 schools across the country. He will be speaking at Consensus. 👉 Read More
🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Goblintown is still the talk of the town, with so many goblinesque projects gaining steam, many derivatives, and similar vibe projects coming up. Another one that popped off is We are All Going to Die, or WAGDIE with pretty weird Twitter Spaces going on as well.
📖 Worth Watching
Reinventing the Internet with March Andreessen and Chris Dixon.
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | Joey DeBruin on Contextualizing the DAO Landscape 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Michael Blau on Web3 Data Profiles and Smart Contract Illusions 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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Disclaimer: Investing in NFTs comes with inherent risk including technical risk, human error, platform failure and more. This newsletter is strictly educational and nothing we offer is financial advice. We are not professionals or licensed advisors. Views my own and not any other company I’m affiliated with.