Daniel Allan Raises $1M, Pussy Riot donates $100k, Balaji's Bitcoin bet + 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 2 Recap

Hope you enjoy Bello’s week 2 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 “ah ha”s that we encountered. I hope you enjoy our conversation!

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🗣 Anybody Attending Outer Edge (Aka NFT LA)?

So excited to be speaking at Outer Edge | LA next week! It’s the ultimate Web3 experience and you don’t want to miss it – I hope to see you there! If you haven’t snagged a ticket yet, here’s my discount code: AdamLevy10

I’ll be speaking on “Data in the Creator Economy” on March 22, 2023, from 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM.

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🌐 Creator Stories of the Week

• Daniel Allan raises $1M led by Cooper Turley & BlockchainBrett. 👉 READ

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

Music artist @imdanielallan just raised $1,000,000 to propel his career in what we see as the first Artist Seed Round. In this episode, we outline finding Artist-Market Fit, how Daniel plans to spend his cash, and @Cooopahtroopa and @web3brett bet on this new model.🧵

• Pussy Riot raises over $100k for Planned Parenthood. 👉 READ

• Jacob Horne’s ‘Mint First’ OE. 👉 READ

• Oshi’s Sound.xyz drop ‘growing up’ sold out. 👉 READ

• Shawntel’s OE drop on Zora’s home page. 👉 READ

• Robbie Barrat sells NFT on SuperRare for 260Ξ. 👉 READ

• FVCKRENDER teases a piece from a new collection. 👉 READ

• Daz Merchant sells out 304 editions on Sound.xyz. 👉 READ

• Rafaël Rozendaal announces new drop titled ‘Pages.’ 👉 READ

• Jeffrey Lebowski is writing a 43-page NFT collection analysis. 👉 READ

• CHAOS’s IP release party. 👉 READ

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🗞 Headlines: NFTs, Social Tokens, DAOs

• POAP announces new interface for minting POAPs. 👉 READ

• Dreams Never Die sells out community passes earning 50Ξ. 👉 READ

• Playboy held all $ETH earned from NFTs but it cost them $5M. 👉 READ

• Salesforce taps into NFTs through a suite of new web3 products. 👉 READ

• Yuga Labs summons fans to mint HV-MTL NFTs, and prices soar. 👉 READ

• Pokémon could be getting into NFTs ft. new job postings. 👉 READ

• Sotheby’s to auction ‘Oddly Satisfying’ Reddit-inspired NFTs. 👉 READ

• Chainlink services & features helping reshape music industry. 👉 READ

• ‘Doodles’ is no longer an NFT project, according to Co-Founder. 👉 READ

• Talent agency WME is expanding into crypto. 👉 READ

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📲 Web3 Social by Lens Protocol

• ETH Denver attendees can claim their Lens profile. 👉 READ

• UniSwap joins Lens. 👉 READ

• Bello launches “share data to social” feature on Twitter and Lens. 👉 READ

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🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

Balaji’s bet that Bitcoin will hit $1M in 90 days.

Balaji @balajis

I will take that bet. You buy 1 BTC. I will send $1M USD. This is ~40:1 odds as 1 BTC is worth ~$26k. The term is 90 days. All we need is a mutually agreed custodian who will still be there to settle this in the event of digital dollar devaluation. If someone knows how to do this… https://t.co/tcuBNd679T

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

I'll bet anyone $1 million dollars that the US does not enter hyperinflation

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🎙 Podcast Recap

• Monday | Shorts | Chase Chapman: Media DAOs. LISTEN

• Tuesday | The Future of Digital Advertising and Tokenized Media with nft now. LISTEN

• Wednesday | Shorts | Sam Sends: The Benefits of Owning Your Content. LISTEN

• Thursday | Web3 Music Artist Daniel Allan Just Raised $1,000,000 and Here’s Why. LISTEN

• Friday | Shorts | Roberto Nickson: Web2 Creators vs. Web3 Creators. LISTEN

• Saturday | Shorts | Farokh: Turning Consumers into Collectors. LISTEN

• Sunday | Shorts | Chase Chapman: Creating Content in Web3. LISTEN

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