☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #40
Juicy NFT, Social Token, and DAO news for the week of 06/06 🎉
gm Mint nation - happy Sunday! If you’re new here, welcome. 🤗
Mint crew was at Austin for the star-strutted Consensus 2022. Adam will be dropping a live episode and I’m recapping what happened on my NFTimes newsletter dropping tomorrow & during my new Twitter Spaces with Rarible. We chat about the top NFT and creator economy news with the head of community at Rarible. Come join us!
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!👇
💎 NFTs
Similar to goblins, the project that topped the charts is WAGDIE - we’re all going to die. 👉 Read More
x2y2 became the 2nd-largest NFT marketplace per activity level according to Nansen. 👉 Read More
The meme lord, creator of mfers, and my personal favorite account on Twitter Sartoshi dropped his last artwork, transferred the mfers project to the community and then deleted his account. 👉 Read More
OpenSea gave some insights on how they are trying to curb fraud and plagiarism. 👉 Read More
Nickelodeon is dropping NFTs. 👉 Read More
Salesforce announced its own NFT marketplace where you can mint & sell NFTs. Welcome to the party Benioff. 👉 Read More
🚀 Social Tokens
NBA’s Spencer Dinwiddie raised $26M for the new social token platform Calaxy, which focuses on connecting creators with fans through video messages. 👉 Read More
🌐 DAOs
PartyDAO raised $16.4M. 👉 Read More
The new Nouns DAO community fundraising program Prop House launched the mfers house. 👉 Read More
The number of DAOs increased 8x in the last 12 months. 👉 Read More
Tesla board member Kimbal Musk claimed during Consensus 2022 that most DAOs are not really decentralized. 👉 Read More
Art and music collective Pussy Riot and the social good DAO Unicorn DAO staged a protest at the Texas State Capitol about the latest reproductive laws and the possible annulation of Roe v. Wade. 👉 Read More
ApeCoin DAO spoke (via votes) and they are staying on Eth. Let’s not lie to ourselves, we love some eth for ourselves. I gotta say — i’m lowkey an eth maxi. 👉 Read More
Soulbound tokens might reduce speculation & improve governance and DAO voting. 👉 Read More
An upcoming DAO platform startup Samudai raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding. 👉 Read More
📱 Web3 Social presented by CyberConnect
DeSo blockchain launched “DeSo Messenger”, a Web3 replacement for Discord (that we all desperately need!) 👉 Read More
Andreessen Horowitz’s Sriram Krishnan’s thoughts on crypto social networking 👉 Read More
❓Question of the Week
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🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading
👹 Savage of the Week
Neal Stephenson for building his own metaverse blockchain layer!
🎙 Podcast Recap
Tuesday | gmoney on Creating Web3’s Hottest Club Using Free NFTs 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Patrick Rivera on Why Collect a Writing NFT 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
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