Hey fren 👋Welcome to the 19th 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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• If you are interested in contributing to Shiny via bounties, you can sign up to the community Dework board and will be rewarded in $SHINY when completing bounties.
• Shiny MERCH has finally arrived! Shiny has launched their first two items (hoodie and t-shirt) in the new merch store. Each item is limited to 150 pieces only, so grab yours before they're all gone!

• PREMINT has reserved 50 allow lists for Shiny MAG holders for their Collector Pass that is releasing soon. The mint date will be on April 1st, 2022 and mint price is 0.25ETH. You can register here.

• 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. Thoughtful Discussions

• @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. You can follow the whole convo here.

• 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??

• @atareh shares an awesome thread on 10 interesting he's learned from how Yuga operates from their leaked deck.
• @Kallaway published an interesting thread on digital fashion.
• @Janel shared links to a bunch of different NFT tools that you can use.
  Member Updates

• @Kallaway has released the latest Cryptoland podcast - talking all things Proof.
• @Ian ✦ᴗ✦ is working on an NFT project to raise funds for Ukraine.
• @Silverback and @whoismoses have been working on a new site to support free NFT swapping called Swappable and is looking for a few folks that are willing to try it out.
• @Fluke and friends just opened the Discord for their new Opinions NFT project.
• @Dith and friends have opened the Discord for a new project, and shown a sneak-preview of the art.
• @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".