Shiny Digest no.21 04.11.2022

Hey fren 👋 Welcome to the 21st 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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  • After surviving 12 months of moonz, bulls and bears it's time for a shift. A reshaping. More on this soon.
  • Yuga Labs just does not stop and this week they announced their $450M funding round led by a16z which values the company at an insane $4 billion evaluation.
  • Vayner Sports launched VaynerSports Pass, which resulted in a gas war where millions were spent (lost) on gas instead of the actual NFT. AJ Vaynerchuk addressed the bad experience here and announced the team will be refunding ~192.46 ETH for failed transactions. VaynerSports Pass initially launched with a community on Metalink, which crashed due to traffic on mint day, leading to a temporary support channel being setup in the VeeFriends Discord. Since then, VayneSports Pass has moved to their own Discord.
  • @Ozzy asked the chat what were everyone's thoughts on owning a noun. A lot of shiny members were upfront, obviously having a noun is definitely a flex, but @tom_hirst also believes that "it's the project that encapsulates the web3 ethos most out of everything thus far". @ahs adds that he first really wanted to own a punk, but after the Yuga labs buy, he now prefers to get a noun because it's the best cc0 project out there. @atareh also adds that owning a noun gives you a strong network as most noun holders are OGs in the space.
  • A lot of Shiny members were discussing the open edition mint for XCOPY's Max Pain drop. In the end, a lot passed on the mint seeing as the mint count was increasing. In total, 7394 editions were purchased. Later in the week, XCOPY tweeted out "max pain is waiting for the reveal", which might insinuate that the art will transform??
  • With the announcement that Moonbirds would be using Premint, the Shiny crew started collecting Premint Collector Passes. One thing led to another and @Ozzy has ended up with over 35 passes, @yogetmefam with 15, and many more in the Discord following suit. Since then, the floor has settled north of 1 ETH.
  • @atareh shares an awesome thread on 10 interesting things he's learned from how Yuga operates from their leaked deck.
  • @Kallaway published an interesting thread on digital fashion.
  • @TheCoppinger 's NFT-game project is growing and looking for extra team members with "experience/skills with community building, marketing, Discord management or content creation etc".
  • @Janel shared links to a bunch of different NFT tools that you can use.
  • Attention aspiring artists & wordsmiths! @Ozzy shared DALL-E2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
  • Service DAOs are being spun up to tackle DAOs needs, operating mechanisms, and cultures. Learn more about the landscape, challenges, and solutions of Service DAOs here.
  • If you minted too many dumpster projects this week, we recommend listening to this new three-hour Balaji segment on The Knowledge Project. Balance.
  • @chrisv updated the progress on his new website, which he told us all about on the last Build live session a couple of days ago.

  • @JayMac and @tom_hirst's Arkivists NFT project are introducing the team, in the build-up to their public mint today.

  • @Pet is preparing to re-brand his Sporting Crypto newsletter and is looking for someone who'd be a good fit as an Art Director/Brand Designer. If you or someone you know would be interested, let @Pet know!

  • @Emmett.eth gave a workshop on The Three P's of NFT Project Strategy.

  • @zAnirudh published a case study on designing a landing page for a Blockchain workshop.

  • @edzynda.eth created and launched a lossless staking lottery for $MAGIC. Sounds…magical.

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