7.1k Season 6 Pins Collected, FEWOCiOUS at Christie’s, OpenSea Enforces Creator Royalties + more

Here's what went down this week in the web3 creator economy.

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 6 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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🌐 Top Creators of the Week

• FEWOCiOUS announces gallery event with Christie’s. 👉 READ

  FEWOCiOUS @fewocious

  omg the sides of the frame r lookin wild

• Oshi sells out 100 editions of OTHERSIDE, raising 9Ξ. 👉 READ

• Mad Realities releases a new episode of ‘Buying Times.’ 👉 READ

• Lenster’s Yoginth crowdfunds $10k for platform development 👉 READ

• HedsDAO x Sound collaborate on sample curator. 👉 READ

• Mint Podcast hit 100 5-star reviews on Spotify!

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

✅ 100 Spotify reviews 🔜 1,000 Spotify reviews Thank you for listening.♥️

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🗞 Headlines: NFTs, Social Tokens, DAOs

• OpenSea will continue to enforce creator fees. 👉 READ

Devin Finzer (dfinzer.eth) @dfinzer

We’re grateful to the hundreds of creators who engaged with our team and helped us understand your perspective and position. This is a proud day for us at @opensea – and we hope this decision helps push the space in the right direction.

OpenSea @opensea

UPDATE: We will continue to enforce creator fees on all existing collections. 🧵⬇️

• Alliance DAO just announced their cohort of Web3 Startups. 👉 READ

• Meta announces layoffs, cutting 11,000 employees from payroll. 👉 READ

• Sound.xyz celebrates 5k unique collectors. 👉 READ

• Decent announces AI-generated NFT art with DALL-E 2. 👉 READ

• Lens celebrates 100K profiles.

Lens Protocol 🌿 @LensProtocol

100k profiles on Lens (while in closed beta) in less than 6 months on mainnet 🤯 We 💚 our community and can’t wait to keep building, creating, and growing with you. What’s your favorite collect or account to follow on Lens?

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🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

NFTs are GMI.

Andrew Steinwold @AndrewSteinwold

FTX down Luna down Celsius down BlockFi down Voyager down Three Arrows down Alameda Research down How the heck are: - Apes @ ~$85k - Clones @ ~$9k - Punks @ ~$80k - Squiggles @ ~$18k And games like Sorare continuing to have +$1m daily volume NFT peeps dgaf

RAC on the importance of royalties.

rac.eth ⌐◨-◨ @RAC

ok, let's talk about royalties. yes, i know you're tired of hearing about it, i am too. but first let's evaluate where things are ▼

An important takeaway for creators after this week’s tragic events.

tylerinternet @tylerinternet

would now be a good time to remind web3 creators that reliance on platforms and smart contracts that centralized companies own is missing the point of this entire space? not that there's any precedent for that to be concerning. just a thought

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🎙 Podcast Recap

• Monday | Shorts | Stani Kulechov: Vision For Web3 Social. LISTEN

• Tuesday | 🎙 Building the Intelligence Layer for Web3 at Bello. LISTEN | WATCH | READ

• Wednesday | Shorts | Tyson Battistella: Building Developer Communities at Zora. LISTEN

• Thursday | 🎙 Using POAPs to Sell Out a Music NFT Drop. LISTEN | WATCH | READ

• Friday | Shorts | Annika Rose: The Importance of Blockchain Data For Crypto-Native Music Artists. LISTEN

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