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Just got back home from my trip around midnight and am getting right to work 🫡
I had an awesome time off - my family went to Switzerland and Paris for a week and got to celebrate my mom's and sister's birthdays. Feeling refreshed and ready to lock in.
If I had to pick a favorite day it would definitely be Zermatt, the views were unreal. I finally understood why people say Switzerland feels like it's on a different planet.
Here's a few pics :)
What I minted this week
Every Sunday, I share what I minted throughout the week.
It can be hard to keep up with everything that's happening onchain so hopefully the list below helps you discover a fun project or initiative you may have missed.
Note: some of the minting periods may have ended. None of this information is financial advice, DYOR.
Delivery at Dawn & Sloppy Blob
This first one was the most important mint of the week. This week, EIP-4844 finally got pushed out to mainnet which means blobs are live! If you have no idea what that sentence meant, check out this letter to Proto & Dankrad I wrote, Ethereum's Broadband Moment.
To celebrate the big moment in Ethereum history, the Nouns Community, Agora, The Line, & Stateful Works created a short video called Delivery at Dawn!
As of Sunday night, the video has already been collected ~27,000 times - the funds will be donated to Protocol Guild: a collective of Ethereum core contributors.
Another 4844 related NFT I collected was Sloppy Blob which was recommended to me by @kugusha. I thought the art was cool and wanted to support a Farcaster artist.
Bracket Game
This next one isn't a mint but I wanted to share a fun new onchain project called "Bracket Game" which allows you to invest in fanbase collectives for your favorite college basketball teams.
It's a fun spin on traditional March Madness fantasy brackets - I went ahead and used my initial airdrop to buy 15 shares of Texas (UT Austin).
Even if you don't care about basketball, I recommend just signing up and checking out how the project works! Here's the link to the /bracket channel where you can learn more.
I thought this was an interesting take by Spencer...
Zora Printing Comments
This was a fun idea by Iian and the Zora team...here's the context.
Based Ventures Balance Sheet
Based Ventures is an onchain fund buying assets on Base to support the ecosystem and of course make a healthy financial return.
I thought the idea of collecting a fund's balance sheet was such a cool idea. There's no gimmicks or extra art, it's literally the spreadsheet that investors would traditionally send out to their LPs.
This mint below was an announcement for their new position in $HIGHER.
Disclaimer: I have positions in all of these assets below. Please do your own research and invest safely.
On that note, I also collected 3 higher related memes as well.
This first one by @kugusha was perfect because I was at the Louvre the exact same day she posted this NFT.
The second was a mint by @six that I collected because he said it was inspired by a post I made in the /higher channel. He even gave me 50% split on creator earnings which I thought was awesome.
And I also collected one that Jason made since it's NY themed. He mentioned he has some ideas around the mint as well 👀
Steen Hypersub
And lastly, I subscribed to my friend @usersteen's hypersub Loading_v2.
It's a fun personal project he's doing which serves as his visual diary, check it out!
If you found the list above helpful, please share it with friends in crypto who you think should mint as well 🤝
That's all for today, I hope all of you have a great next week!
- YB
