Doodles raises $54M, Starbucks Enters Web3, Mint Songs Winds Down, Pro-skaters embrace NounsDAO + more

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

Levy.eth

Sep 18, 2022

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!👇

🌐 Top Creators of the Week

Blackdave highlights the affordability of supporting artists. 👉 READ
Tale of Us displays artist’s NFTs at a Brooklyn concert. 👉 READ
Harrison $FIRST releases ‘fortyseven’ on Sound. 👉 READ
SuperRare and ELLE announce ‘D3SIGN CAPSULE’ in Paris. 👉 READ
Brenna drops ‘Home’ music video NFT on Glass. 👉 READ
IBN INGLOR releases membership NFTs with BTS access. 👉 READ

🗞 Headlines: NFTs, Social Tokens, DAOs

Starbucks and Polygon announce NFT partnership. 👉 READ
Doodles raises $54M with FTX and Seven Seven Six. 👉 READ
Gaming community FaZe Clan enters the metaverse. 👉 READ
Northzone raises $1B to invest in innovative Web3 companies. 👉 READ
One-of-one music NFT platform Catalog teases their protocol. 👉 READ
Arpeggi Labs releases ‘Clips’ feature for uploading any audio. 👉 READ
NounsDAO and GnarsDAO partner fund pro-athletes. 👉 READ
KaliDAO releases ‘Wrappr’ as a solution for incorporation. 👉 READ
RELICSxyz raises $1.1M from CoopRecords & Palm Tree Crew. 👉 READ
Zora introduces ‘Allowlist for Creator Toolkit’. 👉 READ
Mint Songs winds down. 👉 READ

🌱 Web3 Social by Lens Protocol

AAVE CEO shares Lens insights after 500,000 collects. 👉 READ
MetaFi raises $3M to bring social trading to the metaverse. 👉 READ
Goldsky raises $20M for Web3 social infrastructure. 👉 READ

🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

Ethereum successfully merged to proof of stake!

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

And we finalized! Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.

NounsDAO got a new look.

nounish ⌐◨-◨ @nounish

Watch how @gnars_dao is changing the way extreme athletes are funded via @nounsdao ⌐◨-◨ x 🤘

Catalog.works Co-founder Jeremy Stern on more ways to help web3-native music artists.

jeremy ⎄ @jzstern

we will have failed musicians if the *only* way for them to be "successful" in web3 is to launch a social token or provide utility to their collectors

🎙 Podcast Recap

Monday | Shorts - Anatoly Yakovenko: Why aren't Apple and Google taking web3 seriously? LISTEN
Tuesday |🎙 Rantum’s Mental Model for Analyzing Blockchain Data. LISTEN | WATCH | READ | THREAD
Wednesday | Shorts - Rantum: Community Interoperability in Web3 LISTEN
Thursday |🎙 Tools for Executing Airdrops with Coinvise. LISTEN | WATCH | READ | THREAD
Friday | Shorts | Jenil Thakker: The Evolution of Airdrops. LISTEN

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