Revel raises $7.8M, Bankless sells out 500 Podcast NFTs, Sound crosses $5M in secondary volume + more

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

Dec 25, 2022

gm Mint nation - happy Sunday and happy Holidays! 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

Charlie Crown sells out his first Sound.xyz drop. 👉 READ
Ibn Inglor launches raffle for his new EP. 👉 READ
Scottie Pippen’s NFTs sell out in 77 seconds. 👉 READ
Logan Paul accused of scamming his Cryptozoo collectors. 👉 READ
Brendon Hayward drops NFT that alters based on the time. 👉 READ
Bankless sells out 500 podcast editions in 5 weeks. 👉 READ
Mr. Beast to become new CEO of Twitter?

MrBeast @MrBeast

My first order of business, make it where creators actually want to post videos on Twitter and not just link to other platforms

🗞 Headlines: NFTs, Social Tokens, DAOs

BAYC’s Yuga Labs appoints Daniel Alegre of Activision as CEO. 👉 READ
Revel.xyz raised $7.8M seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. 👉 READ
Sound crosses $5 million in secondary sales volume. 👉 READ
OpenSea CEO wants to work with Apple on NFT apps. 👉 READ
Amazon’s new series "NFTMe" explores NFT culture. 👉 READ
Zora celebrates 1.3M editions sold in 2022. 👉 READ
Renowned auction house Christie’s invests in 3D NFT displays. 👉 READ
Coinvise introduces a new dashboard for managing airdrops. 👉 READ
Tezos announces Sliced.art, its first fractional NFT platform. 👉 READ
Music festival Rolling Loud to bridge hip-hop and web3. 👉 READ
OpenSea blocks Cuban artists and collectors. 👉 READ
Kraken opens NFT marketplace beta to the public. 👉 READ
Crypto.com flagged by UK for advertising misleading NFT ads. 👉 READ

🐦 Twitter Threads Worth Reading

Coinbase Ventures on the Web3 social landscape.

Coinbase Ventures @cbventures

Decentralized social networks are an idea whose time has come... Introducing the web3 social stack. (👀👀 @elonmusk)

2022 year-end NFT market review by CASTLE.

CASTLE @CastleLinkHQ

🎊 NFT 2022 YEAR-END REVIEW 🎊 This was a historic year for NFTs! Despite the pullback, the overall space is much further ahead than where we were just a year ago. Let’s dive into some numbers to round out the year 👇

Musicben.eth with another hit.

musicben.eth 🎧 @_Kaspar__

MUSIC NFTS IN 2022: PART 1 2022 was one of the worst years for crypto. Despite that, the growth of music NFT collectors looks something like this. Here’s a look back at what happened this year ↓

S/o to guild for bringing us closer together this holiday season.

Henry Chatfield @HenryChatfield

web3 x music community ↓ 2022: Discord 2023: @guildxyz + @telegram You likely feel it shifting too.

Incredible animation explaining NounsDAO.

4156 @punk4156

🎙 Podcast Recap

Monday | Shorts | Daniel Allan: Deciding Whether a Body of Work is an EP or an Album. LISTEN
Tuesday | Shorts | Adam Levy: Lessons Learned Dropping Podcast NFTs. LISTEN
Wednesday | Shorts | Dawson Botsford: Will Web3 Take Over Web2's Notification and Communication Layer? LISTEN
Thursday | Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: How Should Creators Leverage Onchain Data. LISTEN
Friday | Shorts | Erik Reppel: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning's Role in Web3. LISTEN
Saturday | Shorts | IllaDaProducer: Finding Purpose in Crypto and Web3. LISTEN
Sunday | Shorts | Tyson Battistella: What Does it Mean to Be a Data-Informed Creator? LISTEN

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