Hey fren 👋 Welcome to the 16th edition of the SHINY digest, a weekly newsletter where we share updates on the Shiny DAO, highlights and meaningful discussions from the Shiny discord and recaps from the live-events.

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• Thanks to sanction directives in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, tools like OpenSea and MetaMask blocked users with ties to countries like Russia & Venezuela despite many affected users not physically living in these jurisdictions. @Virmeh21 shared this tweet to solve this type of censorship by using a custom RPC.

• Thursday kicked off with a lengthy discussion in SHINY about market conditions & world affairs when @yogetmefam asked (click here to read through the entire exchange in Discord) what everyone thought about the likelihood of a global recession. @Ncls asked where people store their wealth to hedge against turbulent times. @cf shared this article that covers the crypto capital markets & how a small rates increase could be detrimental to a sensitive market. @Ryan_Walker11 suggested that macroeconomic conditions are still healthy enough for expansion instead of contraction once the volatility is removed from the equation later this year.

• Prompted by the news that selling a Space Doodle, which was an airdrop, automatically sells the original linked Doodle, @tom_hirst gave the Doodle airdrop a thumbs down as a marketing tactic, arguing that many of these blue chip ecosystems need to be bigger as mass adoption ramps up and the ability to sell 'freebies' opens up the ecosystem to new entrants to the brand at a more accessible price. @magpow pointed out that an airdrop allows holders to cash out a bit while retaining the original asset.

• When @JonathaNFA shared that a mint would be a bit more expensive than normal due to using a large Merkle, @Janel asked, "What's a Merkle?" @JonathaNFA shared,

  Merkle is a kind of search tree that is used often in computer science to reduce the complexity of looking up information in a large group of items. It's how you can determine which chunk of a file is corrupt when Torrenting, and it reduces search time significantly. Ethereum leverages Merkle Trees heavily and is a low overhead way to verify who is allowed to mint.

• This week, many in SHINY aped into Rubber Duck Bath Party, a collection of dynamic ducks with the ability to change by attending Bath Parties. If you are interested in the RDBP origin story, @JonathaNFA shared a thoughtful explanation of the project here.
• Dinosaurs aren't extinct, they just got a re-brand! SHINY member, @mac, launched Commsaur, an NFT collection of 3,333 Commsaurs, which aims to provide education, empowerment, and experimentation for those exploring, learning, and building community in the world of web3.
• At long last, Shiny members were able to mint BattleFly, which came with a special SHINY collab piece. If you minted, you can view your NFTs on the Treasure marketplace by selecting the BattleFly collection and clicking Inventory.

• @AwisemanInNotion shared a few DAO governance tools for payments, accountability, and bounties.
• @Silverback asked for a getting started with NFTs resource, @Danidr shared @tom_hirst's Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with NFTS.
• RabbitHole published The Governance Library, the latest & greatest content on (Meta)governance within web3.
• @Larkef shared The NFT Playbook.
• In response to recent Discord hacks, @LocalTourist shared some useful links around Discord security here.
• @cf shared the Common NFT Lifecycle.

• @Elena_nele shared the launch of her teams NFT project, Outsiders, a unique NFT PFP collection from a Mexican experimental artist.
• @scottdavidmeyer shared a lesson plan for teaching web3 in 60 minutes in the classroom setting.
• @tom_hirst released access to a course and the full source code for Tiny Winged Turtlez holders.
• @jamesbrooks shared a little update on the Secret Food Society Series #002 collection.

• In this week's Let's Build session, @mark0 and @truedrew from Bildr gave a demo of GM, LFG, an NFT portfolio tracker built using Bildr. Check out the recording here to get a behind the scenes look at how it was built, the lessons learned, and what else the Bildr team is working on.
• If you missed NFTuesday, you can catch the recording here. We chat about WonderPals, BattleFly, Rubber Duck Bath Party, and tons more!
• In Shiny Podcast Episode 18, @Pet, @Ozzy, and @AwisemanInNotion discuss doomsday prep, managing assets, Shadow Quest, DAOs and more. Listen to the episode here.