$37M of y00ts migrate to Polygon, Reo Cragun sells 1.5k+ editions, Gucci x BAYC collab, + more

gm Mint nation - happy Sunday. If you’re new here, welcome. You’re receiving this newsletter because you likely subscribed on my site adamlevy.io or reserved a Season 7 NFT.

I publish ‘Mint TLDR,’ every Sunday, covering my favorite weekly headlines from the web3 creator economy.

Let’s dive in!

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🛠 a16z’s CSS Week 3 Recap

Hope you enjoy Bello’s week 3 recap of Crypto Startup School. So much went down this past few days so I’m excited for you to take a listen and experience the great people and great things that we encountered. I hope you enjoy our conversation!

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🌐 Creator Stories of the Week

• Mint Podcast crosses 30k subscribers on Substack.

  levy.eth (🍄,🔍) | Mint Podcast @levychain

  Gm 30k Substack subs. Really proud of this one. Thank you to everyone for tuning into my niche corner of the web.

  

• Reo Cragun sells 1500+ editions of his new drop ‘Spent.’ 👉 READ

• Black Dave schedules to release ‘I Love This Shit!’ on Sound.xyz. 👉 READ

• Domino drops ‘SLEEPCYCLE.’ 👉 READ

• Pace Gallery holds first web3 solo exhibit featuring Tyler Hobbs. 👉 READ

• The Chainsmokers airdrop a new music NFT to their collectors. 👉 READ

• Sammy Arriaga drops a 24 hour OE titled ‘Music City.’ 👉 READ

• Sara Phillips drops a 24 hour OE titled ‘New York Without Me.’ 👉 READ

• Cody Brown is starting a DAO to buy the first ticket to Mars. 👉 READ

• Heno. drops ‘NEYBORS’ music video. 👉 READ

• TK’s ‘Petal Power’ pays out $10.7k+ in player earnings. 👉 READ

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🗞 Headlines: NFTs, Social Tokens, DAOs

• $37M of y00ts NFTs migrate to Polygon from Solana in 1 day. 👉 READ

• Gucci collaborates with BAYC NFTs in new metaverse project. 👉 READ

• Lost Worlds launches version 2.0 of GeoNFTs. 👉 READ

• Magic Eden’s BTC NFT marketplace dominates Ordinals market. 👉 READ

• Sound.xyz introduces ‘Sound Swap,’ a one click to collect feature. 👉 READ

• Bello ships bulk NFT contract uploads for Custom Searches. 👉 READ

• Bonfire announces Drop Notifications on their platform. 👉 READ

• Senator Elizabeth Warren’s "anti-crypto" re-election campaign. 👉 READ

• Zerion introduces ‘Zerion Perks,’ a wallet notification tool. 👉 READ

• Reveel shares a recap on its Creator Grants campaign. 👉 READ

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📲 Web3 Social by Lens Protocol

• Music NFTs having a moment on Lens this week. 👉 READ

• Farcaster drops a new topic-based discovery search engine. 👉 READ

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🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

a16z highlights Bello - more CSS teams to come!

a16z crypto @a16zcrypto

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be highlighting different teams that are participating in Crypto Startup School (CSS23). 👾 First up, team @bellosights. 🙌 Founders: @elliefarrisi & @levychain Where is the team from? 🌴Adam - LA ✈️Ellie - Currently nomading/moved a lot… https://t.co/YhOg2MVydH

Ticketmaster rolls out token-gated NFT integration ft. DeathBats Club.

musicben.eth 🎧 @musicben_eth

Ticketmaster just rolled out token-gated NFT integration. It’s a big deal. Here’s how it works ↓

AI has eaten everything digital.

Balaji @balajis

After AI has eaten everything digital, I think there are only three things left that are scarce: community, cryptography, commodity. Community: AI can't create physical people Cryptography: AI can't fake digital signatures Commodity: AI can't make oil and natural resources

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🎙 Podcast Recap

• Monday | Shorts | Sam Sends: Thesis On Tokenized Media. LISTEN

• Tuesday | Transforming Audiences into Communities with Reka from Guild.xyz. LISTEN

• Wednesday | Shorts | Christina Beltramini: Creating Content Worth Collecting. LISTEN

• Thursday | Exploring the Web3 Creator Economy: Insights from ETHDenver. LISTEN

• Friday | Shorts | Matt Medved & Sam Hysell: Creating Content Worth Collecting. LISTEN

• Saturday | Shorts | Daniel Allan, Cooper Turley, & BlockchainBrett: How Daniel is Using the $1M. LISTEN

• Sunday | Shorts | Morkeeth & Micheal Traore: TikTok Users Shaping the Music Industry. LISTEN

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