☕️ Mint TLDR - Sunday Recap #1

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Sep 12, 2021

What’s up Mint nation - happy Sunday! :)

Every Sunday, we’ll be issuing MINT TLDR, where we focus on our favorite stories around NFTs, social tokens and DAOs.

You will find the coolest stories and biggest headlines here and easily digestible for you to enjoy with your morning coffee.

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👇 Let’s dive in!👇

Bored Ape Yacht Club auction at Sotheby’s sold 101 Apes for $24.4 million USD. 👉 Read More
Christies Inc. is auctioning pieces from Art Blocks Curated as part of the Post-War to Present auction in New York on October 1st. The bidding for Art Blocks will be conducted live in ETH—a first for any leading auction house. 👉 Read More
A bug in the OpenSea marketplace led to the burning of at least 42 NFTs, worth at least $100,000, including the first ENS name ever registered by the ENS developer Nick.eth. 👉 Read More
The Doge NFT that PleasrDAO bought for $4 million in June is now worth $336 million after fractionalizing the NFT into 16,969,696,969 fungible $DOG tokens via fractional.art. 👉 Read More
Warner Bros. Pictures will release NFT collectibles for their new movie Dune on MakersPlace platform. 👉 Learn More

ForeFront ($FF) issued their treasury diversification sale on September 9th where they listed 1,000,000 FF tokens for $2,000,000 USDC. We’re seeing an increasing number of DAOs approach public/semi-private fundraises in an effort to create sustainable long-term community growth. 👉 Read The Community-Approved Proposal
UCLA Bruins men’s collegiate basketball player Jaylen Clark is launching his own cryptocurrency called $JROCK. Clark partnered with Rally, a platform that makes it easy for creators to launch their own social tokens. 👉 Read More
Social Token Paradox by Gaby Goldberg: Community members want their community to be valuable, however, they are incentivized to uphold exclusivity and restrict access. The premise of decentralization is to have the doors open for everyone. Gaby introduces her POV on what she calls a Paradox. 👉 Read The Op-Ed Analysis.

EnterDAO raised $1.75M as early funding. It’s “a decentralized organization on the Ethereum blockchain founded with the mission to build products enabling new markets within the metaverse economy.” They want to empower users, metaverse landowners, investors, brands, and whoever is working on metaverse by resolving issues like access to metaverse land, its capital efficiency, and the UX. EnterDAO will be governed by $ENTR token. 👉 Read More
Gitcoin DAO and Bankless DAO have curated a Comprehensive Report on DAO Creators, 👉 Read More
Syndicate, the protocol that enables anyone to set up an investment DAO, has announced a $20 million Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Over 150 investors joined in funding, including Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, Snoop Dogg Ventures, Atelier Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures. 👉 Read More

A great thread on DAO Contribution Zones from @rafathebuilder.

This week’s episodes from Mint welcomed:

Tuesday | Maria Shen of Electric Capital on How NFTs Are Spawning The Rise Of A Decentralized Metaverse 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ
Thursday | Andy Artz ($ARTZ) of Social Capital on Turning Your Social Clout Into Crypto 👉 WATCH | LISTEN | READ

1. COINVISE | Create your social token and easily mint NFTs. | coinvise.co

2. POAP | Mint non-fungible tokens related to meaningful events. | poap.xyz

3. CELO | is a mobile-first platform making decentralized financial tools and services to anyone with a mobile phone. | Celo.org

4. SOCIALSTACK | Build mission-driven social token economies. | Socialstack.co

5. PRIMEDAO | Turning DeFi into a more cooperative ecosystem by creating DAO to DAO solutions. | prime.xyz

That’s a wrap. Enjoy your Sunday and we’ll see you next week :)

P.S. if you want to submit stories to be included in next week’s edition, you can do so here 👉 https://forms.gle/oQGRLNbQ6M2WWU826

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