Hey fren 👋 Welcome to the 14th 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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• SHINY Season 2 has launched! If you missed the community call this past week, you can catch the recording here or read about what is coming next here.

• On Saturday, alarms went off across Web3 about an OpenSea hack that had many rushing to their computers to revoke access. As of early Sunday morning, OpenSea continues to look into what happened, but so far has ruled out the hack having to do with OpenSea.
• This week, Coinbase paid out $250,000 in its largest-ever bug bounty. The bug would have allowed a user to sell BTC or any other coin without owning them.
• Etherscan added an NFT viewer and a 'chat with owner' button to its UI.

• An interview with the Yuga Labs CEO had the SHINY community discussing the expectations around what projects do with revenue. @Jac wondered why projects have to answer for their cash if they didn't make promised as to where it would go. We buy things all the time IRL without wondering where profits go. @jb_99 suggested that many holders have profited off BAYC without any accountability around their profits - is there a double standard? @Dith views many of these projects as a Series A startup. @mark0 added the resell ability is important.

• Shadow Quest, a P2E project, launched with a WL-mint on the 19th after a several-hour delay due to contract and website issues. The SHINY crew kept one another company in the #voice channel while the devs did something. Despite a rocky start, the SQ floor is holding strong at .227 eth with a public mint still to go.
• The much anticipated Cool Cats Pets launched with a botted unbottable mint, which led to mint pauses and delays around Cooltopia that are ongoing.
• Kami launched with 3-for 1 special due to a mistake in their contract that allowed many to get multiple Kamis while only paying for one. @JonathaNFA summed up the error here.
• Rubber Duck Bath Party is a project that a lot of Shiny members are hyped on and a lot are max minting their pregrame. Notably @Gill, @JonathaNFA, @Janel, @atareh. @Janel believes that it's one of the upcoming project with the most fun vibes. @atareh believes that the art/project/marketing is flawless and that the team is stacked (I mean @JonathaNFA is advising the project so it does make sense).
• @Janel shares a partnership mint calendar for everyone to see any upcoming mints for the Shiny community.

• @tomludd built a searchable glossary of web3 terms.
• Looking to sweep the floor of NFT collections? Gem.xyz announced Sweep Mode this week.
• @LocalTourist shared a mega thread-of-threads on Discord security.
• Packy McCormick shared a crowdsourced list of tokenomics resources.
• @AwisemaninNotion shares a good tweet by punk6529 reminding us that the path of enlightenment for NFTs is realizing and becoming ok with the fact that we will never be right.

• After 8 long months, @cf finally sold a cool cat along with its matching egg and took some profit.
• Congrats to @mark0, @truedrew, and @Gill for selling out of the first 100 Bildr Holder passes.
• @Soebr quit his job to travel and learn to code for a year! Bon voyage!
• @VIRMEH21 bought a family lake villa thanks to NFT profits! You love to see it.
• @Pet published the latest Sporting Crypto Newsletter.
• @Elena_nele is launching their Outsiders Genesis Collection on February 25th starting with Neptune.
• @fogg dogg [HAON]'s Haon Earth project has announced its ambition to plant 10 million trees!
• @Ian ✦ᴗ✦ is working on the art for a new NFT collection.
• @Janel has published her latest weekly newsletter - full of news, tools, and other shiny things!
• @trist has written an article exploring how to get started with web3 data and Webflow.
• @atareh.eth is continuing his Daily Degen educational videos.
• @Chubbicorn80 did a podcast about Discord security.
• @Practical Principles is releasing more of his art in public.
• @tom_hirst is working on an in-depth course for NFT Project Creators, as a perk for Tiny Winged Turtlez holders.

• Listen to SHINY podcast episode 17 where @Ozzy and @Pet discuss DAOs, Dutch Auctions, NFT scams, the Bonnie and Clyde of crypto, and more.
• In this week's Let's Build session Shiny member @shane explores the development of his project https://beyond.so/ which is a no-code toolkit to help DAOs, creators, NFT projects and web3 businesses to build communities, token-gate experiences, and sell your own NFTs. Catch the recording here.