Hey fren 👋 Welcome to the 18th 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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• No new announcements this week!

• Yuga Labs continue dominating the headlines and finally airdropped ApeCoin to all BAYC and MAYC holders. ApeCoin will be able to be used in Yuga Labs metaverse that they are trying to create.
• After passing 30M users, Metamask also plans to drop their own token.

• The darkest timeline has come for @cf and other Cool Cat holders, as Gutter Cat Gang surpassed Cool Cats in floor price earlier this week (although it didn't last long thanks to Yuga Labs). This generated an overall discussion on Cool Cats and talking about their current difficulties in the space. Doodles really showed how to run an event at SXSW by partnering with Shopify, while Cool Cats only threw a pizza party. @cf ended by saying that Cool Pets are probably the better play right now, and only buy into CC if you still believe in the entire ecosystem. The start of the conversation starts here.

• Muri has been a project a lot of the Shiny members have been hyping up and reveal happened this week. Even though the floor tanked after Aoki bought the top, the sentiment is still pretty bullish from the Shiny members because of the haus ecosystem. Our very own @al3xs also made a Dune board for the project that you can look at here.
• Apecoin caused a lot of discussion in the Shiny discord, and although it's not a project on its own, I still believe it warranted it's own bullet point. The sentiment is that most shiny members are bullish since Yuga Lab intends to power up the entire ecosystem through ApeCoin.

• Even if we're in a bear market, you can still be profitable by flipping nfts. @LocalTourist shared a thread from Nansen looking into this.
• @jean-baptiste shares a few links to someone who wants to deep-dive into web3.
• @LocalTourist shares an article on the legal operations with DAOs.

• @Kallaway created their latest Cryptoland podcast, interviewing the CEO of LinksDAO
• @Danny P is shutting down his project, Rareblocks and wrote a tweet-thread to explain what happened 🫂❤️.
• @shane | beyond.so and Beyond are looking to hire a founding engineer.
• @chrisv has created Start With Nodes and got to 50 Twitter followers in the first 3 days.
• @JayMac and @tom_hirst 's Arkivists NFT project announced their mint dates.
• @emmett.eth ran a workshop with the legendary Pablo Stanley.
• @jalil's Punkscape is preparing to launch its Chapter II update on Monday.
• @mark0 is building a Bildr template to token-gate Airtable.
• @Pet appeared on the new NFT FC podcast.
• @charliew is building a new site for his longer-form writing.