Hey fren 👋

Welcome to the 13th 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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https://anchor.fm/shiny-digest/episodes/Shiny-Digest-13---Discord-guides--Crypto--inflation--Uncovering-rugs--and-more-e1ed0n2 

• SHINY is a place of many interests and we now have a shiny new Discord channel guide for you to explore all the amazing conversations happening.
• Have you recently joined SHINY and want to learn more about the community? Check out the #get-onboarded channel to learn how you can be involved, contribute, and where to find helpful resources.

• Dune Analytics raises $69,420,000 in their Series B funding round. This meme-worthy money will go towards building out additional educational resources, an API, and expanding features of the platform.
• Investors make a bet on an Ethereum scaling solution as Polygon raises $450 million.
• Multiple nft influencers have tried to warn not to mint the project @Squiggles as it seems to be a huge scam ring from individuals who have ran multiple rugged projects previously. There's even a 60-page pdf showing a lot of evidence of it.

• @JonathaNFA starts a discussion on how the crypto market will move when facing inflation. The immediate sentiment from @yogetmefam, @rickybobbles and @cf is that all markets, including crypto will be hit pretty hard. @cf also shares some macro trends that will likely affect the markets. If you want to read the discussion, you can go here.
• @LocalTourist shares an interesting perspective from 0xtuba saying that they believe that the floors of large collections (bayc, punks) can only ever reach ~100-500k because if not it runs out of an addressable market. Most Shiny members such as @yogetmefam, @cf, @Ozzy, @mak0 all brought valid points on why that wouldn't be the case. To read the entire convo, you can start here.

• @Ian shares a project that allows you to create a punk that looks like you.
• @cf shares all of the upcoming projects that he's looking into (which he may or may not mint).
• After lots of delays, the Cool Pets public mint finally went underway and sold out in less than 10 minutes. A few members, such as @CCollector were fast enough to snag some!

• @cf shares a good way to manage your Discord server folders if you are starting to feel overwhelmed by the increasing amount of projects you're following.

• @ukituki shares a solid framework for assessing new nft projects.

• @mark0 shares Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics by a16z.

• @grooveball shares a compiled list of job portals for web3.

• @mark0 shares an interesting thread discussing nfts.

  • A lot of people seem to miss that the entire point of NFTs is to make content FREE while making ownership scarce. Nobody is forcing you to pay for an NFT, you can still enjoy it FOR FREE alongside everybody else.

• @rahuldotiyer is launching a project that uses web3 to share stories and shine light on underrepresented communities.
• @charliew is going to be speaking at an event about community-building.
• @lalley has launched Watchtower, a project that lets you track, filter and sort the events happening across the NFT ecosystem, and is looking for your feedback.
• @Sub has announced the new version of SuperSea, with mass-bidding feature.
• @rbart is previewing their Decentralists NFT collection, launching soon.
• @Danny P 's Rareblocks have launched their 4th UI kit.
• @DiLoco.eth has developed his tool for sending payments via crypto, and is looking for people to help him test it.
• @scottdavidmeyer published an article, and Twitter thread, on DAO frameworks.
• @TheCoppinger is preparing to launch an NFT Minecraft Tournament in 5 days.
• @al3xs has created a Dune dashboard where you can track the progress of any ERC-721 NFT project.
• @tomludd has created a new website - a glossary of NFT/crypto terms.
• @truedrew is giving Shiny members an exclusive preview of Bildr's new NFT and wallet tracker software.

• The most recent Let's Build episode is now up and live. This week, @Silverback and @WhoIsMoses talked about Trading Tokens with their trading service, Swappable.
• Episode 16 of the SHINY podcast is live. @Ozzy, @Pet, and @Danny P discuss TreasureDAO, $MAGIC, P2E and more.