A Tennis Homage to the OG Punks

CryptoPunks was released in June 2017 as one of the first non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was developed by American studio Larva Labs, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic, Blade Runner, and also electronic music artists Daft Punk. The crypto art blockchain project was an inspiration for the ERC-721 standard for NFTs and the modern crypto art movement. Many investors and collectors consider CryptoPunks NFTs pop art, digital blue-chip art investment, and digital Warhols.10 things to know about CryptoPunks, the original NFTs | Christie’sNine rare Punks from the highly collectible series will be offered in a historic single lot — direct from their creatorsChristiesCryptoPunks began as an experimentThere are only 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 males and 3,840 females), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, but some traits are rarer than others. They were originally released for free and could be claimed by anyone with an Ethereum wallet. There will never be more than the original 10,000 CryptoPunks.ATPunks are a #tennis 🎾 homage to the OG Punks. Buy 128 ATPunks @ OpenSeatryshowtime.com/livethelifetvImitation might be the highest form of flattery, and I see nothing wrong with copying an idea. However, what’s happening on Binance Smart Chain is people straight-up copying an entire NFT project and its website, slightly altering the name, and replacing every mention of Ethereum with Binance Smart Chain.CryptoPunks : Binance PunksHashmasks : BashmasksEuler Beats : Musical BeatsThese projects aren’t original. They are money-grabbing scams and should be avoided at all times, or at least if you actually want to be the original. A quality copycat would use the concept of CryptoPunks and create their own version, like for example the Unofficial Punks or more prominent ATPunks. But what’s happening on Binance Smart Chain is morally wrong.When I was a teenager, I used to play 6 to 8 hours a day (tennis), the tennis avatars are a meme on the surfing is not tennis narrative, which was a quote during the iconic New York Quiksilver Pro 2011. Bobby Martinez went on a rant during a live TV interview. I was standing next to him and I quickly understood it was going to be the end of his career. And it was! Since buying the ATPunks NFT's (as avatars for our LTL Genesis Team) I actually started to think I might want to start playing again haha, ... John Mc was my hero as a kid as he was the rebel, and I could relate with that. In the skateboard scene tennis was frowned upon and that made me wanna do it, even more. Counter-culture within counter-culture. Inspired by icons from the surf industry like Spreckels and Miki Dora. They all loved to play tennis.🎾 The avatar we use for the LiveTheLifeTV and UnbanksyTV Twitter account is a play on that. And an homage to the OG Punks we deeply respect. How I feel about people who think my alter ego is a fricking tennis shoe? Fricking funny if you ask me! What's not to love?People think that I am a shoeGreen is the new Black. The Superstan fuses tennis legend Stan Smith’s eponymous sneaker model with the quintessential Superstar silhouette. Stan announced the spliced sneaker style, dressed in the OG colour combination, it is as memorable as it was upon release 51 years ago.UnbanksyTV - Code Art Studio - LiveTheLifeTVUnbanksyTV


Ultimate RIG for ATEM Mini Pro

Save time and space when you arrive on set with a self-contained ATEM Mini Pro / ISO rig. Don’t bother updating network settings as you move between the office, home, and location with a built-in router. A single V-mount battery or AC adapter powers the whole system and eliminates cable clutter. Mount it on a tripod, or place it on a desk. Save footprint and cable runs by stacking laptops, mixers, cameras, or autocue on to the rig itself. This ATEM Mini Pro / ISO rig was designed almost entirely using off-the-shelf, universal video production parts. 15-mm rods, rail blocks, NATO clamps, and 1/4-20 cheeseboards makes it highly customizable with existing production production equipment. Plus, when you out-grow your ATEM Mini, there’s no wastage since all these parts can be re-purposed in other kits, such as camera rigging.ATEM MINI PRO RIG | David Joshua FordDavid Joshua FordDavid Joshua Ford


Treasury Management for DAO's

How do we manage the money? What deserves treasury spending and what doesn’t? How should we diversify the treasury’s assets? Should we borrow capital? Most DAOs are still figuring this out. The best practices are being written. We’re all exploring this new frontier together. But there’s one thing for sure: DAO treasuries are massive. So how should DAOs approach treasury management?How DAOs should approach treasury managementThere’s over $14B sitting in DeFi treasuries. How should they manage it?BanklessRyan Sean AdamsTypes of assets:$DAI, $USDC, $USDTYield-generating variants like aTokens, cTokens, yTokens, ptTokens,...LP pairs where both assets are correlated stablecoins ($OHM/$FRAX)Indices like $SYI (@indexcoop) and $DPIStablecoins are not without risk:Credit risk of the issuer (e.g. insufficient collateral)Smart contract failure (e.g. bugs/exploits)Legal/Regulatory (e.g. government intervention)Purchasing power risk (e.g. return less than inflation)While recent asset price falls have taken some of the shine off of the defi bull market, the trend towards treasury diversification continues unabated.Treasury Building Blocks: StablecoinsExamining the role of stablecoins in protocol treasury managementTallymonetsupply"With price inflation front of mind particularly among crypto enthusiasts, it can be hard to see the appeal of holding a fiat linked asset. On the other hand, stablecoins offer a few key benefits that crypto native assets generally lack."DAO Treasury/Balance Sheet ManagementRecommendations/guidance on how DAOs should think about managing their balance sheets, and some of the instruments available for doing so.Blockchain Capital BlogYuan Han LiHow to Structure a Protocol’s Treasury — MirrorHow should a protocol like Uniswap or Compound structure its treasury? This post covers the principles of protocol treasury management, fiscal policy, asset allocation, ways to diversify the treasury, and responsibilities of a treasury committee.Gitcoin Governance is Live on TallyTally now supports GTC voting and delegationTallyNate PartonTreasury Building Blocks: stETHExamining Lido Finance’s stETH as a treasury reserve assetTallymonetsupplySushiSwap’s community has approved a proposal to build sushiHOUSE, a fully-customized treasury management solution built by the Yam Finance team. SushiSwap continues its role as a groundbreaker in DeFi by electing to diversify its treasury using the First Treasury Management Solution Designed Just for DAOs — by DAO House, a division of Yam.Yam Welcomes sushiHOUSE To The NeighborhoodNew Construction: sushiHOUSE. An innovative solution for sheltering and protecting SushiSwap’s most valuable asset — its treasury.Yam FinanceYam Financelivethelifetv/yam-wwwWeb application for the Yam protocol. Contribute to livethelifetv/yam-www development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHublivethelifetvLove to slip under the sheets of the bed indexNow, what about a real-life example?The BED index is meant to track crypto’s top 3 investable assets. The index is a full portfolio solution brought to life by Index Coop. BED and Bankless have great brand recognition and Bankless will use its media platform spanning video, podcasts, and articles to educate newcomers on the assets in the BED index. Additionally, the BED index could become a tool to diversify the treasury of the Bankless DAO?  The Bankless $BED Index passed through @indexcoop decision gate #2. Equally weighted between BTC, ETH, & DPI, BanklessDAO will receive 0.125% fees streamed directly to its Treasury. (snapshot vote)Building a Decentralized BlackrockHow the Index Coop is aiming to build a decentralized investment management fundBanklessLucas CampbellBankless DAOWe want a money system by the people and for the people. We want to propagate crypto media and culture. We want to help the world go bankless. Help grow the world’s first-ever media and culture DAO. Bring your talents, time, and ideas. Join the revolution.UnbanksyTV - Code Art Studio - LiveTheLifeTVUnbanksyTVLast but not least, a fresh tool to explore:Imagine earning interest on your treasury. Imagine custom strategies for treasury diversification and token buybacks.Parcel"Crypto treasuries offer the promise of transparency and community empowerment. But to realize this promise, we need to build tools and frameworks to organize treasury data, produce real-time financial statements, audit those statements, and rate the treasury’s financial health." - ShreyasCrypto Community Treasuries — MirrorCrypto treasuries are typically thought to be transparent. But if a community member needs to spend several hours digging through Etherscan, Snapshot, and Discourse to get a summary of the treasury’s activities over the past month, is the transparency useful?CoordinapeYFI CoordinapeTreasury spending: v1: Grants programs: similar to UNI, COMP, AAVE programs v2: Committees and DAOs make treasury allocations within their mandate v3: Decentralized treasury spending (@coordinape)Asset allocation: v1: Diversification into stablecoins & yield optimization (@indexcoop) v2: Token buybacks at discount, incentives, liquidity provisionv3: M&A, early-stage investments from grants programs, insuranceBorrowing: Deposit collateral into @AlchemixFi, or @MakerDAO & borrow against it. Unsecured loans for highly rated treasuries, bond issuance, ...Fund ops, acquisitions, or yield farming with debt (h/t @niemerg)Reporting: v1: @iearnfinance's report is an excellent examplev2: @MakerDAO's real-time income statement & balance sheetRecruiting: The recruitment process for DAO treasuries should be streamlined A treasury DAO to onboard & train the best ppl to work at treasuries & curate the best opportunities for these ppl (cc @llamacommunity_) DM if you're looking for opportunities to work with DAO treasuries!Creator & curator DAO treasuries will be different from Protocol DAO's:Distribute tokens to tastemakers, e.g. cryptopunk holdersRecruit new creators by buying their NFTsSwap tokens w similarly aligned communitiesAirdrops to active membersThis is a strategy that fits our UnbanksyTV DAO like a glove! Can't wait to play around with all these tools and discover the most efficient way to make treasury management transparent, automated, and simplified.


The Art Of the POAP is in the event details

Proof Of Attendance, better know as a POAP in the magic world of web3, is basically your passport to a community. People who attend an event become eligible to claim a unique Token Badge. Claim links are distributed, for example, to anyone who joined a Community Call on Discord. An iconic example is the Bankless NFT Badge for Bankless Premium Subscribers.Now let's start with creating our own POAP event. Navigate to app.poap.xyz and click "Create new POAP". You will then be able to fill out some metadata, such as the name of the event, dates, description, and the POAP design. You can come back and edit these properties later if need be. You then simply have to reply to the email with the number of codes you would like to generate. You will receive a text file with the number of links you requested and you need to upload this "txt" file on your events page The file contains links in the form of http://POAP.xyz/claim/xxxxxx, that can be handed out however you choose.Notes:If you do not enter an email address, you will need to make sure you save the edit code, otherwise, you will not be able to edit the event or request codes. You will have to contact the POAP team manually with the event number and edit the code if you wish to be supplied with codes without using email.If you navigate to https://poap.gallery/event/<event number>, you can see some stats and the addresses who claimed the POAP, as well as download a CSV. For example https://poap.gallery/event/xxxxAlternate methods of distribution are possible, contact the POAP teamThe instructions to set up your Discord POAP-Bot. 🚀 livethelifetv/poap-botDiscord 🤖 for POAPs events. Contribute to livethelifetv/poap-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHublivethelifetvPOAP's can be used as a sybil-resistant voting engine for anyone to run polls. Set up a design contest?A POAP token can also be your proof-of-membership that gets you access to perks. In essence, it is a non-fungible Ethereum token (#NFT) that you can keep inside an Ethereum wallet. It can be used to unlock a Discord channel (video), think of it as an Amazon Prime, but it can have many other use cases ...Bragging rights Drops (link)Raffles (link)Voting (link)QR codesPOAP Creates 11 NFT Art Designs for The Graph CommunityThe Graph grant recipient POAP designed 11 NFTs representing participation in The Graph Network!The GraphThe GraphNow it's time to claim, hodl, and use your POAP:Requirements:Need Metamask or WalletConnectNo ETH required — POAP lives on xDAI.Steps:DM the POAP-Bot on Discord Type your secret codeInput your ETH address to receive itConnect Metamask or WalletConnectConfirm your transaction & wait for it to completeWhere can I see my badge?Look at the transaction on the xDAI explorer  and verify on POAP ScanOnce you’ve claimed your POAP badge, it lives on xDAI — an Ethereum sidechain. If you want to access some of the benefits, like airdrops and for example a Discord-only room, you’ll have to migrate your POAP badge to mainnet.You can do this really easily. Here’s how: Head on over to POAP Scan and connect your Ethereum Wallet. Once approved, you’ll transaction will begin to confirm on Ethereum. After a few minutes, you should be all set!POAP.art is minting collaborative canvases as NFTs. Described by its builders as a “canvas for everyone” and an “experiment at the intersection of art and tech,” POAP.art provides a platform for Ethereum community members to collectively create cryptoart.💡 Idea: A large-scale painting party? POAPart 🎨 The intersection of art and tech.✍ Explainer Video with Pro TipsHow? By letting these people, namely holders of a particular POAP access token, collaboratively place pixels on a digital canvas at a rate of one pixel per party per second while the creation period is open. Then, the canvases are minted as NFTs.Welcome to POAP.artAn experiment at the intersection of art and techPOAP.art: A Web3 CanvasPOAP.art is minting collaborative canvases as NFTs 🎨BanklessWilliam M. PeasterResourcesPOAP + Ethereum + xDai: the experiment continuesIt was clear since the beginning the core value proposition of POAP couldn’t be achieved if the minting of every token had a cost of over five cents of a dollar. Although it was not sustainable in…MediumPOAPThe core value proposition of POAP: explained.We want to carefully present to our extended community several subjects that are spiritually fundamental to us POAP.MediumPOAPWhat is POAP?For anyone who’s been to one of Ethereum’s many magical events, you’ve probably seen mystic QR codes floating around on pink rosetta’s…POAPCooper TurleyPOAP retrospective of 2019(And plans for 2020)POAPPOAPSwagger UI


Social Algorithm to Sustain Web3

SourceCred is a technology that makes the labor of individuals more visible and rewardable as they work together in a project or community. The goal of SourceCred is to use this technology to make rewarding labor as nuanced as human contribution often is. SourceCred uses an algorithm to determine how much value a contribution or contributor added to a project overall. When a contribution is made to a project, SourceCred’s purpose is to "see" that contribution and assign it an amount of "Cred" based on how much value it brought to the project as a whole.That Cred flows from the contribution to all the people and other contributions that supported it. In this way, you can imagine how a project could be represented as a "node graph" made up of contribution and people dots (aka "nodes") connected by lines (aka "edges") that flow Cred around to the nodes based on what supported what. The more edges one contribution has to other important contributions in the project, the more Cred is going to have an opportunity to flow to it along the edges. In this way, it’s easy to tell by the Cred score which contributions (and contributors) are truly foundational and support future work in the project.So how does an algorithm determine how much someone’s work is worth in the bigger picture of a project? Sounds a little dystopian, right? The algorithm uses what we call "weights", which are a set of rules stating which types of contributions are worth what amounts of Cred. The weights for Cred distribution are decided by each community individually, thereby giving every community the opportunity to decide what it values and which actions uphold those values as they work together to create something. Every community using SourceCred can decide for themselves what is valuable and deserving of Cred, and what is not.Cred is "non-transferable" in that you cannot sell your Cred, or buy someone else’s Cred. It is solely a representation of where the value in the project has been created.If you want to dig deeper into the nuances of Cred, check out: 🧮 How Cred Works | SourceCredA description of what Cred is; how it functions, flows, and effects projects or individuals.SourceCredOn its own, Cred may be a nice signal of what is valuable and who is really doing the work to make your project successful, but it’s hard to pay rent or buy dinner with a Cred score. That’s where "Grain" comes inDandelion gives an overview of SourceCred, a social algorithm. Recorded at Sustain Web3 2020. (30 minutes) Short introduction video below:Grain is a project-specific digital currency that is minted and distributed to contributors who have Cred in that project. Your Grain is tied to your Cred; as you earn Cred, you also earn Grain. Unlike Cred, Grain is a form of currency and is meant to be transferable both inside and outside of the project. The transferability of Grain makes it a powerful tool in a number of different ways depending on how your project and/or community is operating. Perhaps you have funding already, but don’t know how to distribute it. Maybe you’d like to use it as a tool for governance. Or maybe you’d like a way to allow people outside the project to financially support what you’re doing by buying the Grain.Part of what makes Grain (and SourceCred) so powerful is that it can be applied in many different ways based on the needs and parameters of the community.Examples of how a project might use Grain:Paying contributors with grants or funds it already has based on Cred/Grain.Creating a project-specific currency that can be traded for other forms of currency (ie: ETH or USD).Creating an internal currency that could be used solely for governance or to show support for features/ideas.Examples of how an individual might use Grain:Selling their grain back to the project in exchange for money from the project’s budget (essentially wages you can claim by selling your Grain).Selling their Grain to people or groups outside the project who would like to use it for incentivizing certain features/decisions.SourceCred in 5 minutesWhat is SourceCred? SourceCred is a reputation protocol for open collaboration. At a basic level, SourceCred tracks the contributions that are made to a community project. It does this by assigning each contribution and contributor a score, called “Cred”, based on the contributions’ value to the pr…SourceCredburrrataProposal: Would love to get some assistance to (re) activate our source cred instance on the LiveTheLifeTV Discord server, and use explore SC use cases before we activate an instance for the Bankless DAO.


Tribute to the CypherPunks Movement

Bankless DAO and MetaFactory are proud to bring their limited edition merch drop of Cypherpunks T-shirts to the market on June 21st, paying homage to OG's of blockchain encryption technology. There are 3 styles available for the drop:Cypherpunks tee designed by Sinjun. Each tee comes with a real floppy disk containing original opensource PGP software, a non-proprietary protocol for encrypted messaging using cryptography.Bankless Vintage Tattoo Longsleeve Tee designed by Michael WongBreak Up With Your Bank Velvet Tapestry designed by Twisted VacancyMetaFactory DAO's goal is to produce "digital assets" that connect multiple worlds via NFTs, embedded microchips, and more. At the end of each purchase, buyers receive a certain amount of ROBOT tokens.BanklessDAO is a decentralized community of culture creators, artists, designers, makers, idealists, driving adoption and awareness of bankless money systems like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and DeFi through media, culture, and education.Creating culture means contributing to improving the world in the present but also teaching the foundations on which to build new educational, social and economic paradigms.Each community of people has its own culture, but some cultures see further than others. BanklessDAO considers the promotion of crypto culture to be fundamental, from its origins to its most recent developments.This transmission of knowledge can take place in several ways. Digitally with NFTs and physically with innovative merch.For these reasons, BanklessDAO has decided to dedicate a limited collection of apparel to those who made the journey possible. The collection will honor those who laid the foundation for blockchain and can be identified as the OGs of the Cypherpunk movement: Hellman, Diffie, Merkle, Finney, Cohen, Gillmore, and Chaum.ALERT: The drop will only be open for 24 hours, mark the date on the calendar.If you want to know more about the Cypherpunk movement:READ: Peter Pan article 'Before Bitcoin' Before Bitcoin Pt.3 — 90s “Cryptowars”70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and the people behind the tech.MediumPeter ‘pet3rpan’LISTEN: David's reading of the series as a podcast Signup to the BanklessDAO newsletter for updates  / Twitter


Ikigai Labs XYZ DA.Club House

In our initial phase, Ikigai Labs XYZ will unveil the OG Mint Pass with a soft launch. This summer, an exclusive pre-mint opportunity limited to 333 editions will be available for those early adopters who have registered in advance.Season 0 <> OG Founders ClubDuring the inaugural phase, Ikigai Labs XYZ is set to introduce the OG Mint Pass through a soft launch. This summer, we’re offering a unique pre-mint limited to 333 editions, exclusively for the early adopters who have pre-registered at www.premint.xyz/ikigailabs/IKIGAI LABSIKIGAI LABS XYZOur engagement strategy with collectors unfolds in three stages:Allowlist Phase: This exclusive list matches the number of available NFTs, permitting each wallet holder to mint one NFT. Participants have the flexibility to mint at any point during this phase, with a guaranteed opportunity to mint.Waitlist Phase: During this subsequent phase (timing to be announced), we extend minting privileges to all registered wallets. This phase is intentionally oversubscribed, so we encourage prompt action to ensure participation.Public Phase: Allows any wallet holder to mint from the remaining editions.Image: © Dimitri Daniloff 999 OG Mint Pass editions are on offer, evenly distributed across the three phases.Revenue from secondary sales will be allocated as follows: 33% to cover operational costs and fund future initiatives, 33% to the creators, and 33% to a collector's treasury, fostering community and investment in our collective success.For season zero, we've meticulously set the pricing for our primary drops, introducing a new curator with each season. This year, we're honored to have Florence Moll share her artistic insight with us. To our NFT community, we're offering exclusive access to our Season Zero OG Mintpass, featuring Dimitri Daniloff's emblematic artwork as your gateway and providing three years of VIP privileges.Season 0FoundersOG ClubWe're committed to cultivating a dedicated base of 999 true enthusiasts. By focusing on a community that shares our passion, we aim to deeply understand their desires and needs, ensuring we meet them with precision and care.Image: © Dimitri Daniloff Season 0MembershipVIC EditionIntroducing the VIC Membership Pass, an elite offering limited to 1111 passes in the first year, each priced at 420 USDC. Holders of this pass gain prestigious access to our phase 1 allow list, enjoying a tranquil 24-hour window for minting each piece. Subsequent releases will be accessible to the public through allow lists with more limited minting periods. This group includes previous collectors of our featured artists, members from various communities, and our growing circle of Ikigai collectors, weaving a rich mosaic of artistic appreciation.Image: © Dimitri Daniloff In gratitude for your support, we're excited to offer exclusive rewards for collecting and retaining our curated artworks. Collecting the first two drops of a season entitles you to a special gift—an airdrop from an emerging talent in the art world, celebrating your loyalty and nurturing the bond between artists and collectors.Image: © Dimitri Daniloff For those who immerse themselves fully by collecting all four seasonal drops and maintaining them throughout the year, a unique opportunity awaits. While our journey is adaptable, informed by the insights and feedback from our dynamic community, it lays the groundwork for an expansive artistic exploration. We're setting sail on a voyage of limitless creativity and community-art synergy.We invite visionary artists and aficionados to join us in this domain of curated art. Welcome to Ikigai Labs, a sanctuary where art thrives and dreams are realized.IKIGAI LABS. MANIFESTOOur mission is to create a sustainable ecosystem, extending our vision beyond digital spaces to tangible, real-world artist residencies. We’re not just creating a platform; we’re cultivating a community where artists, curators, and collectors can thrive and grow.IKIGAI LABSIKIGAI LABS XYZAbout Ikigai Labs:At Ikigai Labs, we're pioneering an innovative artist residency, orchestrating collection drops, and designing captivating digital experiences. Collaborating with esteemed artists, we aim to elevate the collector's journey by integrating their work into interactive realms, redefining engagement in the digital art space. (docsend)


Moving from Wall Street to Crypto

Joe is one of the hardest working people in tech, putting in 16+ hours/7 days a week. He is an incredible mentor who uses positive reinforcement & always defaults to respect.He began his career working in robotics, machine vision, neural nets, and software engineering. He then transitioned into finance, building trading systems, running a hedge fund, and working for Goldman Sachs' private wealth management division. He also detoured to Jamaica for a stint in music management.Lubin was already aware of blockchain’s merits by the time the Ethereum white paper was released in 2013. By January 2014, Lubin had met Ethereum co-founders Anthony Diiorio and Vitalik Buterin, and committed to joining the Ethereum project. He is the founder of the 600-employee behemoth ConsenSys, which serves as a "venture production studio" for the Ethereum ecosystemCreating shared blockchain infrastructure could serve as "an organizing principle for Earth, the world, the planet." - Joe Lubin


First feature film ever as NFT

Trevor Hawkins introduces his film, LOTAWANA, as well as his historical approach of selling and premiering the first feature film ever as NFTs. OTAWANA is making history by being the first movie ever to forgo established industry channels by selling its Film Rights and World Premiere exclusively as NFTs. Be the first to watch and literally own a piece of history. A Hollywood First. A Tech First. A World First.Update: refreshed the publishing date to bring it back on top as the film is ready."A monotonous life has pushed the unfulfilled Forrest (Todd Blubaugh) to a voyage of self-discovery by living amongst nature aboard his sailboat, Lorelei, on an alluring Missouri lake. Soon he catches wind of the rebellious and free-spirited Everly (Nicola Collie) and their idealistic dreams align." This thrilling and thought-provoking romantic journey follows the wanderlust couple as they are confronted by the challenges of their unconventional chosen path. Can they survive, reconnect with nature, and rewrite their own rules of modern existence, or will they discover that society operates the way it does for a reason?"Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Trevor Hawkins Producers: Nathan Kincaid & Cori Jo Hawkins Starring: Todd Blubaugh & Nicola Collie "How do I get distribution for my film? How do I get funding for my feature film? Do I need a name actor in my film? How do I make my film's money back? Demystified is a series aimed at finding answers to questions like these, the aspects of indie filmmaking that are rarely seen and seldom talked about, through the lens of StudioFest." World-renowned and award-winning filmmaker Trevor Hawkins of Mammoth Media created Lotawana in his own backyard on Lake Lotawana, Missouri. Self-financing the film with a loan against his house, Hawkins was able to maintain the integrity of his unique style and vision by writing, directing, shooting, editing, and coloring his debut feature film himself. Produced with his wife Cori Jo Hawkins and filmmaking partner Nathan Kincaid, the skeleton crew of ten overcame an array of obstacles, including losing their first lead actress a week into shooting as she decided to leave the industry altogether. They broke as many first-time feature-filmmaking rules as they could, shooting on and underwater, with children, with animals, and by filming during every season of the year to highlight the natural beauty of the lake in its many incarnations, delivering an emotional and visceral experience sculpted by undeniably gorgeous cinematography.“It was risky to make the movie itself,” he said Hawkins, a veteran director of commercials and shorts whose work has been featured by National Geographic. “When this came along, we felt it was a way to differentiate ourselves. This was a huge risk as well, but it feels right. We’re just a little bit ahead of the curve here … my personal opinion is that it’s here to stay.” Hawkins said that after 500 of the $1,000 shares are sold, the film’s original partners will no longer be majority stakeholders.“All we’re really talking about is the use of technology to create more efficient contracts and decentralize the flow of funds,” he said. “It’s a more efficient forensic watermark and smart contract that allows for the person who created the IP to better, more efficiently monetize the thing they created.”With the rise of streaming services, the executives believes the industry is moving away from ownership of individual films. Just as Spotify disrupted the music industry and inspired it to seek new revenue in records and merch, they believe the film industry could do the same via NFTs.Critics have questioned how “non-fungible” an NFT can be; even Beeple’s $69 million artwork can easily be copied and distributed at will, even if its associated token cannot. However, Opeka said NFTs actually help solve a core problem with digital ownership. While you can buy a digital copy of a VOD movie today, it’s a lot different from owning a DVD copy of the same film.This set of 1,000 NFTs is for the EXCLUSIVE rights to own the original theatrical cut of the film Lotawana, the first Feature Film from the career of EMMY Award-Winning writer/director, Trevor Hawkins. This recently completed film has never premiered publicly or been made available anywhere.1 Copy = 1 Share (1,000 Shares Available). Every single copy of the 1,000 copies in this NFT collection represents a single share of the 1,000 total shares available. Each share has equal parts ownership in the movie, voting rights, and profit shares.In a separate NFT collection of 1,000 shares, they are also offering the Actual Copyright to own this film in its entirety. Yes, you read that right, the actual copyright to this movie. You can own a film outright just like a movie studio.In addition to the World Premiere NFT, buyers will receive:A limited-edition copy of the movie, LOTAWANA, in 4K and HD versions.A high-res, digital poster signed by writer/director Trevor Hawkins. The director’s signature will be scanned and applied to the digital poster.HD versions of the film’s U.S. theatrical trailers.The digital items will be made available on a synchronized date via a digital link provided by the artist to the original first 1,000 buyers only. Buyers are responsible for supplying all assets and files to subsequent buyers should they opt to resell the NFT at a later date. This film is provided for personal use only, no commercial exploitation or exhibition allowed. Artist and shareholders retain all respective copyrights. This film will be released to the public in 2021.INSTAGRAM / MAMMOTH  Lotawana Official Frame #18 (Historical NFT) - UnbanksyTV DAO / LiveTheLifeTVWe started exploring erc721 in 2018 mainly to work on art-related royalties. Recently we connected with Dimitri Daniloff, the master behind the Daft Punk artwork and the iconic Playstation ads. He represents the exact reason why we got excited about NFT's in the first place. He lost control over his images when David Bowie shared them on social media with no attribution. His NFT’s are groundbreaking visual storytelling, where he scans objects and turns them into immersive art pieces that will fit right into our narrative. The UnbanksyTV DAO has the ambition to use the NFT bank feature of DAOhaus to create, curate, and collect iconic NFT's and represents our fire to empower artists by leveraging smart contracts to mint NFT's with a focus on giving artists more control over the licensing terms and unlock ways to deliver art to the metaverse world. The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet.It is an invitation-only DAO aligned with the values of the Bankless DAO, Olympus DAO, FWB PRO, and DAOhaus. livethelifetvExplore crypto art I’ve created, owned, and likedShowtime"NFTization of video content could eventually replace youtube and paid tv providers like Vimeo and AppleTV. Just a matter of more creators bringing fresh work to the table in this manner." - YvesPS: Watch the UpOnlyTV episode with Cobie & Ledger and global macro thinker Raoul Pal, his vision of the metaverse is a must-watch.


The Defiant guide to Art and NFTs + 🔥 Docu

Following the great DeFi summer many have been predicting NFTs to be the tricky second album. This is a monumentally large subject with competing viewpoints and every level of talent from scammer to international superstar. In this episode they cover Robert Alice's Block 21 sale at Christie's through Anthony Pompliano's big bet on Trevor Jones, the marketplace debate via Robness and Blue Kirby and hear from artists Simon Wan and Sven Eberwein and progressive marketplace Mintbase. It really is a packed episode. The only question is: do you recognize art when it's right in front of you?It’s official. NFTs have exploded. Prompting a wild free for all on one side with numbers you can scarcely believe and deep and justified skepticism on the other. But the problem is most have only the most rudimentary understanding of what NFTs are and what they can do. The Defiant set himself the goal of making the most comprehensive, wide-ranging NFT film ever, one that covered everything - art, music, fashion, defi and the metaverse. The greatest NFT film ever made. And I failed because there’s too much, it’s exploding out of every orifice blockchain has to offer. And there are many. There’s no way I can cover it all. Not without boring you rigid. But I hope that if you do make it to the end of this utter beast of a film you come out properly armed to dismiss or embrace them. So get comfortable as we shine a massive megawatt light on the maddest, baddest tokens in crypto.The DefiantThe essential content platform about decentralized finance.The DefiantCamila Russo


The Making of the Lady Gaga Portraits

In 2013 there was an unprecedented alignment of performer Lady Gaga, theater director and artist Robert Wilson, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.  For his solo exhibition, Mr. Wilson created a new series of video portraits with Lady Gaga, works that would stand beside installations and performances at the Louvre in support of his "Living Rooms" exhibition. Cover (c) Yiorgos KaplanidisDirector and Artist Robert Wilson Is Auctioning Off His First-Ever NFT: A Video Portrait of Lady GagaRobert Wilson is getting into the crypto art game—and he’s getting a little help from Lady Gaga. The influential theater director and artist recently minted an eight-year-old video portrait of the pop star as an NFT—his first-ever. The piece features Gaga in a live-action restaging of Jacques-Louis David’s iconic 1793 painting, The Death of Marat. sourceThis video is the property of Lumen Arts LLC and all rights are reserved.Robert Wilson - GAGA/MARAT | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, June 24, 2021 Lot 319 | PhillipsView GAGA/MARAT by Robert Wilson sold at 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session on New York Auction 24 June 2021. Learn more about the piece and artist, and place an advance bid now.PhillipsAbout“[Robert Wilson is] a towering figure in the world of experimental theater and an explorer in the uses of time and space on stage.” —The New York Times Born in Waco, Texas, Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music, and text. (c) Lucie Jansch 2011His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. Video Portraits — Robert WilsonRobert WilsonAfter being educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). With Philip Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. He has also left his imprint on masterworks such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s La Traviata and Sophocles’ Oedipus. Works on Paper — Robert WilsonRobert WilsonWilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around the world in hundreds of solo and group showings, and his works are held in private collections and museums throughout the world. Wilson has been honored with numerous awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate degrees. France pronounced him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Legion of Honor (2014); Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2014). Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the Arts in Water Mill, New York.


Pierce Brosnan Genesis NFT Collection

Artist, Actor, and Environmentalist Pierce Brosnan Explores the Digital Art Landscape with His Genesis NFT Collection on LGND! The collection features new work inspired by his original painting Earplugs, which Brosnan created while filming his first James Bond film GoldenEye in 1995.“Inspired by the how-to instructions found on an earplug packet - which were handed out on the set of GoldenEye - I am exploring the digital art landscape with illustrative graphics reminiscent of mid-90’s multiplayer video games.Each graphic segment is embedded into a distinct color that moves the eye from one quadrant to another, creating a visual storyboard; each scene is inherently isolated yet tied together.The collection of works features self-recorded elements - my voice, my son Dylan playing the piano, and the sound of the Pacific Ocean at the end of my garden.”-Pierce Brosnaninstagram.com/PierceBrosnanOfficial/A cube. This exclusive pre-show NFT is only available for a limited time and will be minted to the WAX blockchain on Monday, June 21, along with all other artwork purchased during Pierce Brosnan’s inaugural show. When shooting action sequences, the prop master would hand out packets of earplugs; on the back was an illustration of “how-to” put them in your ear. I found the infographic to be intriguing, amusing, and engaging. I wanted to see if the composition would work as a painting. I had long admired Roy Lichtenstein’s ability to organize a graphic element into a painting and amplify the mundane into a bedazzling image. This became the inspiration for a 48 x 48-inch painting where I rendered my interpretation of the “Earplugs” by hand.LGNDThe LGND community

Russell & Robert meet legendary actor Pierce Brosnan OBE, perhaps best known worldwide by another very significant name - BOND, James Bond!!!! 007 meets Talk Art!!! Speaking from his home in Kauai, Hawaii, they explore his passion for ART!!!They discuss Pierce's long-term dedication to painting which he first seriously started in 1987 with the work 'Dark Night'. And talk about his recent phone drawings, his awesome film Thomas Crown Affair (THE 1999 movie that inspired Talk Art's infamous art heist question!), and how grief and trauma can inform creativity. We hear how art has been a constant companion during a solitary journey as an actor, and as a way of grieving the loss of both his first wife Cassandra in 1991 and later his daughter Charlotte in 2013, both to ovarian cancer. We learn of Pierce's late teens studying and working within commercial illustration in London, his irrepressible love of making colorful paintings and admiration for David Hockney, Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Matisse, and how the work of Roy Lichtenstein inspired his own well-known 'ear plugs' artwork, painted whilst filming 'Golden Eye'. We reminisce about the record-breaking 2018 auction of his painting depicting his hero Bob Dylan which raised $1.4 million USD for AIDs charity AMFAR. We also learn of his experiments with 'plein air' painting, his friendship with artist Charles 'Chuck' Arnoldi, and a keen interest in ceramics, lino cutting, and more recently wood carving... proof that Pierce's inquisitive artistic mind knows no bounds!


Literally enough money to burn

Burnt Banksy is an anonymous figure who made history in the NFT community with the burning of an authentic Banksy artwork. This act received universal acclaim and was covered by leading publications such as Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, HYPEBEAST, Art.Net, and many others. Burnt Banksy has sold hundreds of NFTs and has achieved the highest average sale price on OpenSea ahead of NFT titans such as Beeple.Cover Image: Banksy, Morons (White), 2006. "You can say anything is a work of art... but if you burn a Banksy and then want money for it, that ranks pretty low on the art scale for me."The group behind the stunt said it was "on a mission to bridge the world of physical art with NFTs". I would say they achieved their goal, a PR buzz for a new VC-backed NFT-platform that has enough money to burn. Tasteless, IMHOles gouts et les couleurs ...NFT representing incinerated Banksy painting fetches nearly $400kAn investor has purchased an NFT for roughly $400,000 that depicts a Banksy painting that was incinerated after being tokenized.CointelegraphBrian QuarmbyBanksy Work Physically Burned and Digitized as NFT in Art-World First - CoinDeskA piece of art by Banksy is to be digitized into a non-fungible token (NFT) after the original was physically burned in Brooklyn, N.Y.CoinDeskOmkar GodboleFlying cats and a burning Banksy: why are digital art prices suddenly rocketing?A Banksy just fetched $382,000 despite going up in smoke, while a cat cartoon bagged twice that. And it’s all thanks to NFTs, an offshoot of crypto currency bitcoin. But is this a bubble about to burst?The GuardianStuart Jeffries‘Art enthusiasts’ burn a Banksy print then sell it as an NFTGroup who set fire to the $33,000 print have posted it on YouTube—watch the video hereThe Art NewspaperAnny ShawBlockchain company buys and burns Banksy artwork to turn it into a digital originalA Banksy piece called “Morons (White)” was intentionally destroyed, then digitized as a non-fungible token, or NFT.CBS NewsDan PattersonA Group of Crypto Proponents Burned an Original Banksy ‘Morons’ Print and Turned It Into an NFT – Blockchain Bitcoin NewsThe Banksy art burning was a symbolic message of turning a rare piece of physical artwork into a non-fungible digital collector’s item.Bitcoin NewsBlockchainGroup ‘Burnt Banksy’ destroy original Banksy for NFT auctionThe presence of NFTs in the art world took a large uptick recently. While having existed since 2017, non-fungible tokens—unique digital files which are verifiArt CritiqueBrandon LorimerNFT art: the bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuableA blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork worth US$95,000 and burnt it.The ConversationPaul J Ennis


The Billionaire Crypto Degen

The Delphi Podcast Hosts, Anil Lulla and Jose Maria Macedo, chat with the one and only Mark Cuban about everything crypto. The conversation covers everything from Mark’s view on the Internet bubble vs crypto right now, DeFi, NFTs, and more!  Although he needs no introduction, Mark Cuban is the billionaire start-up investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, and everyone’s favorite shark on ABC’s Shark Tank.Show Notes"In the crypto/Defi world, organizations don’t require near as much capital to start and operate. Rather than raising money in a traditional sense, they can sell tokens to raise capital, they can reward Liquidity Providers instead of having to raise liquidity for financial transactions, they can reward Stakers who support Validators. They can operate on a blockchain where most of the CapEx/Infrastructure and much of the critical security is provided by Miners or Validators. They can build communities that replace layers and layers of bureaucracy. And what I’m about to say is what makes the crypto world so dramatically different and why it’s a model for future technology businesses and possibly all businesses."Probably my fav UpOnlyTV Episode. "Profits are of no use. There is no company. I have mentioned that they think they have to make profits to put in their owner's pockets. There is no reason to financial engineer and manipulate EPS. This isn’t to say that they don’t have to cover the costs they have. They do. But their mission is not to maximize profits because in almost every crypto-based organization, they are decentralized. Every token is created equal. No matter who owns it. And every token owner gets to participate in the community. Yes, bigger owners get more votes, but there are not multiple classes of tokens. There aren’t VCs or Founders whose tokens get priority treatment as with stocks. (at least not that I know of) Decentralized and automated completely changes the game."Source: blogmaverick.comListen as David & Ryan from the Bankless talk DeFi, NFTs, Ethereum, and the future of france with the 1 and only Mark Cuban!We have been very impressed by Mark Cuban's depth of knowledge of the space and willingness to address the web3 community.LazyThe lazy way to show off your NFTs.PS: CONGRATULATIONS to @ABCSharkTank for winning "Best Business Show" Watch Shark Tank TV Show - ABC.comWatch the official Shark Tank online at ABC.com. Get exclusive videos, blogs, photos, cast bios, free episodesABCDisclaimer


The visual work of Pier Paolo

The visual work of Pier Paolo, a designer, animator, and illustrator.This is what I love most about NFT's! I see some random artwork, I ape into buying it for the simple fact that I love it. Not a clue what it is actually worth, just a strong conviction that I show support to the artist and that I potentially validate my job as a curator. So only after I bought the NFT, I start googling to find out more about the artist and discover that his clients include Google, Nike, MTV, Volkswagen ... Anyway, I end up exploring his Instagram, and I see some 3D's that I like beyond words. To cut to the chase, I'm sold!


Drawing with light, 33 shades of grey

Around 2001 LiveTheLifeTV provided innovative WebTV technology, and got featured on Apple.com for being a video-streaming pioneer in partnership with Akamai. As a freelance journalist, we interviewed icons from the surfing industry, photographers, and wrote for international surf publications. As a passionate photographer, we have been travelling the world for 20 years, chasing places to “Live The Life”. Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light. Let's simply call it “Drawing with light”. Visual storytelling comes natural. Let us not focus on rigid definitions, surely, the “Why” is all that matters. Let us try to throw a much sharper light on a blurry question. In my world, a photographer is an individual who sees beauty in the mundane. A photographer is an individual who experiences life fully and vividly, and can capture fleeting moments with precision and poise.Icon Bernard Testemale / Video Interview (FR)A photographer is an individual who is always grateful to be alive, to have a pair of eyes, and to be able to visually decipher complexity in the world.Not graded by how many cameras, lenses, awards, or books he/she has. A photographer never judges his/her work by how many likes he/she gets on social media. Pushing to see the world in a unique and idiosyncratic way. Trying to find novel combinations, whether they be color, light, or shade. Finding excitement in ordinary places. Growing, developing, and refining the craft. A visual diary of life.Images: LiveTheLifeTVIf that's not enough, here's ten reasons why you might want to draw with light:Capture a memoryWith a photo, you can capture a moment, and have it forever. I think we take that idea for granted, with photography being so ubiquitous these days. But seriously just take a second to appreciate that. Notice the detailsPhotography changes the way you see things. It’s actually quite an incredible transformation to experience. Suddenly you notice light, shapes, colors, textures, people, buildings, trees, flowers…Everything around you looks different when you start to see the world as a photographer.See the beautyOnce you start noticing details, you inevitably start to see how much beauty is all around you. Every day is filled with it—in the most ordinary or unexpected places. When you start to derive happiness from seeing some particularly awesome light, you’ll realize that photography has changed your everyday experience.Live in the presentPhotography, through its ability to help you see details and notice the beauty around you, helps you to truly live in the present. When you shoot you have to be aware of everything if you want to capture it. You can’t be thinking about the movie you watched last night, or what you’re going to have for dinner. Photography focuses you on the now, which is incredibly valuable!Share your perspectiveEveryone sees things differently. Put 100 photographers in a room and you’ll get 100 different photos. The way you see the world is unique, and photography lets you share that perspective with others.Express yourselfYour unique perspective can go further than just showing people how you see a scene. Photography also lets you express yourself—your opinions and beliefs. You do this by choosing what you photograph, and how you represent it. This aspect of your photography is ever-changing as you change. You get a sense of what a photographer is like as a person by looking at their body of work. This part of photography is absolutely fascinating as a viewer and fulfilling as a shooter.Images: LiveTheLifeTVTell a storyPhotography is a fantastic story-telling medium. Whether you’re telling a story with one image, a sequence, a series, or an entire portfolio, the possibilities are endless. Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.Capture an adventureOne very common way people get interested in photography is through traveling. Who doesn’t pack a camera with them on a trip? The more you practice and learn about photography, the better you’ll be able to document your adventure. Maybe you haven’t been to an exotic locale, but photos can practically transport you there like a Stargate. They can show you the people, the food, and the sights. Or maybe you want to share your own travels with friends and family. They get to come along with you when you take awesome photos!Joel Parkinson. After the sunset. Perfect 10. Hossegor, FranceGet closePhotography is a fantastic gateway into anything else you’re interested in. Really fascinated by the music world? Become a music photographer and you’ll get to meet the musicians and observe the inner workings of the industry. We are really into wine and got to spend an entire day touring a local winery and shooting it. We loved the experience and they loved the photos—win-win all around. Photographing someone is an intimate experience. You connect with people in a completely unique way with a camera in hand and your full attention on them. It’s easier to talk, easier to just look at them—seriously, it’s cool. It’s especially wonderful when you photograph someone you love. People are incredibly interesting. And emotion is a part of that. Seeing how the face changes during a laugh, or how body language reflects mood are all fascinating studies, and photography helps you capture that.Bend realityAlong those lines, photography can give you a different look at the world. Time lapses, HDR shots, light painting and more. Photography is just as good at bending reality as it is at capturing it. Photographs let you travel through time without the use of a DeLorean. They can bring you back to a moment that you experienced, and you can remember just how you felt. (Flashback: QuikPro Video)After all these reasons, this one should just make sense. With all the beauty, joy, love, connection, variety, history, adventure, movement, emotion, and awesomeness that makes up life, how could you not be stoked to get out there and experience it? With camera in hand, of course. Wait, what, you made it all the way to the bottom and now you're like WTF where do I buy these NFT's, yeah right, I highly doubt that's the case to be honest, but hey if you wanna now, I'll guess you'll have to subscribe below, just don't hold your breath, we haven't sent out a newsletter in ages, but you never now, we might drop one this year, who knows.


Check your hidden folder

Marketing is simply about letting people know you exist so that you can be of powerful and joyful service to the world.  It’s about sharing your unique messages in an authentic, compelling way so that the people you love to serve can find you, and identify that you’re the right one to help them.  Marketing is about bringing yourself to the market you want to help, and communicating, “We are really awesome at what we do and offer, and WE LOVE our work. May I be of service to you?” People often conflate marketing, user acquisition, and branding. To be honest we've been way too busy building our web3 version of OpenSea to worry about doing any type of marketing, we just want to ship an innovative marketplace, by ohmies for ohmies. That's the exact reason why we airdropped 100K+ NFTs, that was our way of embracing our culture, and bringing everyone back hOHM. A brand in its entirety is actually the logical and emotional responses those triggers invoke in a customer. Not rationally on paper, but at its essence in how people feel about it. A brand is an emotional identity "I am an Apple user". But, a brand cannot be all things. In fact, the first immutable law of branding states that the strength of a brand is inversely proportional to its scope. That is, the more things you try to be, the less effective you are at it.  You promote your brand, not with the goal of converting users. Instead, your goal is to make sure everyone is aware of your brand's message and triggers for future campaigns, or so they include you in their next natural consideration phase.Development Marketing: Turn customers into advocatesNarrative Marketing: Shape a narrative outside of your brand Culture marketing: Promotion of internal culture, to attract talentEvery touchpoint we have is marketing as it shapes how a customer feels about Odyssey. Let's decide what one thing we want your project to represent. Let's focus on authentically connecting with the anons, and degens in ways that don't scale, and embody our brand in these interactions. We need to work on defining and promoting an engaging culture to attract top talent. So far 150 contributors applied to join the project, that's a solid start. We'll continue to focus on every overlooked touchpoint of our product to see if it represents our DAO the way we as Core Contributors deserve to be seen. If we do all those things, WAGMI vibes are ON!!!Have you checked your hidden folder on OpenSea, did you spot your OhmieDay NFT ? We airdropped 100K+ NFTs to all the ohmies, it's your ticket to play. LFG.


Why are Craniums so Wicked?

The Wicked Craniums are the pictorial representation of the 10,762 Craniums that belong to the island of Osseous. They have over 180 differentiable features. Each cranium is also your ticket to The Cradle, a member's only social platform. Wicked Cranium has emerged as the new buzz in the NFT marketplace, reaching $4 million in sales in just two days.I have often wondered why I didn't ape into the OG Cryptopunks years ago, they are now on average 14 ETH, some of the rare ones have auctioned for millions of dollars by Sotheby's, and by now they are way too expensive for me to join the club.  I watched the Bored Ape YC series launch, considered getting a few, but again, I didn't ape in, although I found them funny, I like the aesthetics, but I guess at first I didn't take them seriously. I dedicated some time to understand the culture a bit better. Who's behind this, why are the cheapest as expensive as 3.3 ETH, and what did they do right for it to create a community as big as the Bankless DAO and the Olympus DAO.So, enter the "The Wicked Craniums". Is this the moment I finally just ape in and become part of a culture that could be considered not just a copycat but an iteration on the OG Cryptopunks I love and respect so much that I used the John Mc Enroe Avatar as my profile image on social media. However, they have failed to buidl a community, got zero traction, and are not as cool as I first thought. I'm still unsure if I want to send them to a burner address or keep them in the UnbanksyTV gallery.A Tennis Homage to the OG PunksInspired by icons from the surf industry like Spreckels and Miki Dora, they all loved to play tennis, the avatar we use for the LiveTheLifeTV and UnbanksyTV Twitter account is a play on that. And now people think my alter ego, is a fricking tennis shoe. What’s not to love?Code Art Studio - UnbanksyTVUnbanksyTVI grew up on the ’80s skull graphics, so I was inThe Wicked Craniums have a look and feel that reminds me of my early days in skateboarding where all my fav boards, shirts, pants, wheels, sweaters had skulls. Even my bearings were called "bones". My favorite skate team was and is "The Bones Brigade"... So aside from that reference, I noticed that a few days after the launch (fuck I missed out, again!) ... the community of Cryptopunks and Bored Apes YC (#BAYC), showed respect for the project. The community grew to 4000+ in under 4 days. WTF! I bought 3 the past 3 days ...NOT FOR SALE BUT MIGHT CONSIDER OFFERS AT 33.33 #10500 (82.28) / #10104 (87.74) / #8032 (71.99) More to #TWC than meets the eye20% Sold: A Wicked Cranium Merchandise Store will be kicked off40% Sold: 10 Cranium Sculptures will be mailed to random owners60% Sold: A Theme Song will be released80% Sold:  Limited collection of trading cards will be dropped100% Sold:  Augmented Reality mobile app +  Liquidity PoolEach owner is entitled to the usage and commercial rights of their NFT 🤯 💀 💰Wicked Craniums, an Ethereum-based, algorithmically-generated NFT project, launched on June 20 and all 10,762 pieces were sold out within the first 30 minutes. The NFTs were available to mint for 0.06 ETH, bringing the total raised by the project to 645 ETH worth $1.3M.The party continued on OpenSea, where a steady flow of buying pushed the floor price to 0.3 ETH, a 5x return in just a few hours. One lucky minter hit the jackpot with a rare Emerald Cranium wearing a Crown, which sold for 19 ETH!In less than 48 hours, the project had gained remarkable traction and was ranked No. 2 on OpenSea. With 2,428 holders, it had even surpassed Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks. Wicked Craniums sat right below Bored Apes, an NFT project, which in just two months, commands a floor price of 3.3 ETH, 41 times their mint price of 0.08 ETH.Update: After six days ... 2,900 Unique Owners3,700 ETH in volume4,233 Discord MembersAmazing CommunityUPDATE: #795 (79.32), #5987 (79.19), and #5518 (79.71) are joining the UnbanksyTV famHealthy skepticism"Craniums are being compared to BAYC but I am not seeing the community or dev commitment to warrant such hype. It's an awesome project with awesome artwork, but it still has a lot to prove before we compare it to Bored Apes. I love Craniums but we need healthy skepticism right now" @digitalartchickThe Rarible royalty standardI would love to see the platform governed by a DAO ($TWC holders). Platforms like Rarible and Opensea are centralized and all take a % cut of the resale royalties. If you mint an NFT on Opensea, then re-sell it on Rarible - you as the creator of the NFT will not receive your owed royalty?  However, if you mint your NFT on Rarible, you will receive your owed royalties if it is resold on both Rarible and Opensea. This is why we will adopt the Rarible royalty standard, which means if you mint our UnbanksyTV Genesis Series - you will receive your owed royalties if resold on Opensea or Rarible. We will do a DeFi style distribution of tokens to ensure good decentralization of our DAO. And we can later add yield farming available for certain tokens like sOHM, BANK, FWB PRO, and HAUS. We will take a 33.33% cut of the initial sale, all of which will be sent to the DAO. A 33.33% cut on resale royalties goes to the artist. The remaining 33.33% goes to the supporting DAO, in some case that will be the Olympus DAO treasury, in others the Bankless DAO treasury, and in the case of our Genesis Drop for our media portal, the UnbanksyTV DAO. Any ETH raised will go to the DAO, which is governed by the token holders. To be honest, we are not even sure we need our own token (yet), we want to back sOHM, BANK, FWB PRO, and HAUS before we would even consider airdropping an $LTL token. With so much exciting activity at Olympus and Bankless, and so many ways to explore DAO-to-DAO collabs, we are keeping our own LiveTheLifeTV Discord server intentionally small. And at the same time, this opens up an opportunity to experiment with the Dunbar metric. I mean, seriously, we have an army of 5000+ ohmies, a 5000+ media and culture DAO at the Bankless, the super dope OG's at DAOhaus, and the cutting-edge FWB Pro community. That's enough to keep us busy 247! However, if you feel like exploring our invitation-only DAO, jump into the server and introduce yourself, we're always keen to make new friends!Discord Autonomous OrganizationThis is a time to dive deeper into specific topics like crypto-economics, our mission and values, or culture code cultivation with the community and is a great opportunity for anyone to join the conversation. Check out the LTL Discord to see if there’s an upcoming jam with a topic that interests youCode Art Studio - UnbanksyTVUnbanksyTVVoice your thoughts, ideas, and stories. We welcome artists, collectors and report on the NFT marketplaceArt is the frontend, DeFi is the backendWhile the aesthetics of Universe.xyz may not be my cup of tea, I love how well thought out their integration is with DeFi as a backend for the Generative Art. The people that run the show are not just being backed by DeFi, but by the talent pool that is barnebridge, the fluctuations derivatives protocol for hedging yield sensitivity and market price. Also, they already SOLD OUT! Congratz!!It's not easy to price the value on secondary markets. This makes speculators and flippers confused and potentially annoyed. Usually, once an NFT project is fully minted, the rarity traits are known and fixed, with buyers taking confidence in “well this is worth more because it’s rare and will continue to be rare”. The guys at Universe.xyz thought of a clever way to deal with that. If you own 1 Polymorph, you can re-roll all the traits for 0.1 ETH. this means that the rarity traits across all 10,000 NFTs will be ever-changing. You can also re-roll individual traits which is priced on a bonding curve. It gets more expensive as you re-roll. 0.1 ETH, then 0.2 ETH etc. Interesting game theory has been introduced into the core mechanics of Polymorph NFTs. But this still doesn't count as pure "DeFi" is the backend the way we envision it. I could go on and on about this topic, but I want to reserve some thoughts for later and avoid dropping too much alpha at this stage. We are currently working on not just ways to back the floor price of the NFT's, we are writing down some ideas about our "marketing strategy", our DAO-to-DAO "grant strategy", and some thoughts on buidling an immersive experienceThat's it, it's a wrap (for now). Below are some links if you are still energized to read more about The Wicked Craniums. The Rarity Tools site is not very pretty but it's a super useful tool to explore the level of rarity. Go figure! The Dune Analytics is a fork of the BAYC and super insightful metrics can be found there. Thanks Danner!!! Other than that, if you want to learn more, there's really only one way; experience it! Not financial advice, but yes you could still get a Wicked Cranium at OpenSea for as little as 0.25 ETH. The official Wicked Cranium site does not have much additional info at this stage, but we're being told that is about to change! All the way at the bottom you can find proof of our passion for collecting NFT. Some will see them as worthless JPG's on the blockchain, similar to worthless governance tokens in DeFi. We're not here to hype you to buy some, but it's something we're extremely passionate about, so I can't help but report on my NFT addiction. There are 10,000 unique Ethereum addresses trading the top NFT collectibles right now. There are over 51,000,000 addresses that hold Ethereum in their wallet. We are still early. - Loopifyrarity.toolsNFTs ranked and sorted by rarity. See the rarest CryptoPunks, Hashmasks, Waifusions and Chubbies and check how rare a specific ID is at rarity.tools.Dune AnalyticsEthereum analytics by and for the community. Explore and share Ethereum data for free.Dune AnalyticsWant to join the WickedCraniums family? The floor price is still as low as 0.25 ETHThe Wicked Craniums Marketplace on OpenSea: Buy, sell, and explore digital assets**The Wicked Craniums** are the pictorial representation of the 10,762 Craniums that belong to the island of _Osseous_.OpenSeaOpenSeaWicked Craniums | NFT ProjectNFT art collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. 10,762 Wicked craniums. 0.06 ETH.Wicked CraniumAn introduction to NFTX V2In this release post we’re diving into the soft-launch of NFTX v2, an upgrade of the original NFTX protocol, aiming to bring NFTX closer to becoming the primary liquidity hub for the NFT/DeFi ecosystem.NFTXChopChoplivethelifetvExplore crypto art I’ve created, owned, and likedShowtime


NFTs with DeFi mechanics

The biggest use of NFTs today is in the digital content realm. That's because that industry today is broken. Content creators see their profits and earning potential swallowed by platforms. An artist publishing work on a social network makes money for the platform that sells ads to the artist's followers. They get exposure in return, but exposure doesn't pay the bills.NFTs power a new creator economy where creators don't hand ownership of their content over to the platforms they use to publicize it. Ownership is baked into the content itself. When they sell their content, funds go directly to them. If the new owner then sells the NFT, the original creator can even automatically receive royalties. This is guaranteed every time it's sold because the creator's address is part of the token's metadata – metadata that can't be modified.Below some thoughts and ideas that focus on digital ownership, increasing earning potential for creators, and inventing new ways to invest in your favorite creators.He who rises with the wave is not swallowed by it*. Olympus DAOStaking rewards on OHM tokens are a part of the current growth phase of the protocol, are used to drive users to grow the total amount of OHM they hold. This is counter to hoping tokens appreciate in value. The perfect currency holds the same purchasing power today as in 50 years.Code Art Studio - UnbanksyTVUnbanksyTVExploring new ideas for the Odyssey ProjectThe Odyssey DAO represents a collection of curated NFT artworks. It combines digital art with DeFi mechanics, as every NFT held generates sOHM tokens daily. sOHM tokens stored in the treasury are distributed to NFT owners. In essence, these artworks will act as Nodes, not securing the chain as we will soon move to layer 2, but ensuring a decentralized distribution of the supply.Each artwork is priced in sOHM. To improve UX we can also sell in DAI/ETH and automatically swap to sOHM. Over the course of time, the NFT that represents the artwork will generate yield, automatically compounding interest. Let's explore a collab with the Charged Particles Universe, to integrate sOHM Charged-Particles/charged-particles-universeSolidity Contracts for the Charged Particles Universe - Charged-Particles/charged-particles-universeGitHubCharged-ParticlesOdyssey Gallery and Auction HouseThe Odyssey NFT Gallery will provide the ideal platform for renowned artists to make their mark on this digital world. The creative team will work with a panel of established artists to curate various one-off individual pieces or small collections, also known as NFT drops. Art that one would feel happy to display on their purpose-built Qonos digital display, and soon, the ThemaTaFrameA collab with Kenmei Hashi can unlock a body with animation to be used in the metaverse or in short movies!Projects like The Wicked Craniums can become part of our collection and will have their very own exhibition room in the Odyssey museum. Additionally, projects that are supported by NFT20 can be used to generate extra yield and liquidity.The Liquidity Pool on NFT20 Create a dutch auction to sell your NFT for $CRANIUM20.UnbanksyTV DAO will work with artists from the early stages. We will familiarise them with all the requirements needed to create their own NFT and support them throughout the process, from onboarding to selling the artwork. We are still in early access and only onboarding a small number of hand-picked artists. Once someone mints an NFT they can invite two 3 artists to the DAO. Artists gain governance tokens to get a voice in the DAO. sOHM will play an integral part in this, as participation in the drops will require sOHM tokens. Some special drops with significant demand will require purchasers to have a certain amount of collateral in sOHM tokens that must be securely held in their wallets. Those who meet the collateral requirements will be granted early access to these special drops before they go public. Ultimately, this creates demand for the sOHM tokens and encourages users to hold them in their wallets.sOHM will be incorporated in several ways. Entrance into the Odyssey DAO will require a “membership fee” which will go into the DAO treasury. These memberships can unlock custom-made 3D art, NFT airdrops, and many more benefits (TBD). Beyond that, there will be internal tasks and challenges that will allow winning access to our Odyssey DAO. Dimitri DaniloffHe first experimented with 4×5 view cameras and then turned to the practice of digital art. He now produces new scenes of everyday life by assembling raw elements with real subjects – always finding the right balance between authenticity and fiction.Code Art Studio - UnbanksyTVUnbanksyTVWe will further develop the idea of 3D rooms with functionality to allow multiple users to gain access to a single room with the award-winning and renowned French artist Dimitri Daniloff and 3D artists like TheWolfgang & Kenmei HashiSpotlight №3 is live!! 🥳This time, we decided to give the spotlight to some of the most amazing collectors in the space and the result is breathtaking 💎💎Access to the immersive experience https://t.co/s5TB3iAv8j 🌐🚀 pic.twitter.com/zQ96ZoTYlp— Cyber (@oncyber_io) June 27, 2021

The Temple destination will drop Wednesday (30/06) at 3:00PM EST. Cyber is a metaverse like no other. In under 5 clicks, anyone can create a digital experience with their NFTs in pre-existing destinations and share it. Some of these destinations are minted in limited numbers as NFTs. Digital spaces in the Cyber Destinations Curated collection are carefully selected for their rigorous creative process and originality. By purchasing an item from this collection, you get access to using it as a 3D exhibition space for your art.These types of destinations will soon open up the possibility of conference rooms where artworks can be showcased and auctioned live in front of members of the Olympus DAO, Bankless DAO, FWB PRO, and DAOhaus. Imagine a world where an NFT Owner (NFTO) can license their NFTs for the creation of new art, merch while getting royalties on each sale, patiently waiting as their NFT appreciates in value and popularity? Today, in collab with Maddie's that crazy idea we had years ago, turned into reality! Basically the Shopify for NFT'sEach owner is entitled to the usage and commercial rights of their NFT 🤯 💀 💰Excited to read they are now be officially partnering with @wickedcraniums !Maddie's |The first NFT Management & Monetization PlatformIf you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to far, go together. #DAO2DAOWe will create further articles explaining the different components closer to their relevant launch. The applications for the Odyssey DAO, Olympus DAO, Bankless DAO, and UnbanksyTV DAO will be continually built and implemented as the ecosystem continues to expand. Join our Discord and voice your thoughts!🔥 AR/VR model? Image and animation of art? Full commercial rights? 🔥👁⚡👁Ubiquity6 + DiscordToday, I’m excited to announce that Discord has acquired Ubiquity6!MediumUbiquity6


Dario De Siena and Bushido Apes

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is an NFT project where the owners of the NFT gain full license over the art on their NFT. Club members can remix their NFT’s and sell derivatives and merchandise. It is a collection of 10,000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your Bored Ape doubles as your Yacht Club membership card and grants access to members-only benefits, the first of which is access to THE BATHROOM, a collaborative graffiti board. Future areas and perks can be unlocked by the community through roadmap activation. Visit BoredApeYachtClub.com for more details.Cover: Derivative of Ape 4607 owned by @hummer at time of minting. Rights granted. @Dario_Desiena and @BushidoApes have teamed up for the sickest derivative ever. The first derivative of a derivative in history! The iconic samurai with Darios amazing touch! Could it get better? Answers no. Limited 30/30Thank you a lot buddy— Dario De Siena (@Dario_Desiena) June 29, 2021

Dario De Siena is an artist based in Switzerland whose paintings have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions nationally. He describes his artistic expression as being more about the process than the finished piece. De Siena continuously incorporates new techniques, which he says, "can lead to failure". As such, he has incorporated these "failures" into his works. He employs acrylics mixed with spray paint or oils, as well as other mixed media in the creation of his distinctive portraits.This Bushido Ape Just Found Himself a New Home at The UnbanksyTV DAOBushido Apes is an NFT collectible game based on the BAYC derivatives. "Set in feudal Japan, battle, build your clan, hunt monsters, and claim your destiny. Inspired by my love of board games, movies, video games, BAYC, and Ghxst for breaking the mold."Update: What's the point of buying a derivative of a derivative, even if you love the artwork, if you don't have the OG? Long story short, I aped in and joined the YCEach BAYC owner is entitled to the usage and commercial rights of their NFT 🍌Now that I joined the YC with a BA, I'm probably going to be eating bananas for the rest of the year. Or sell derivatives.


Pricing NFT Art has no blueprint

Chicago-based artist-writer, Sophie Sturdevant, writes about creativity as our greatest responsibility. She's an expert in copywriting for multi-million dollar brand launches. I tend to agree with her recent article, there's no blueprint, there's no magic formula when it comes to pricing NFT's, or even Art in general. Price is what you pay, value is what you get (out of it). The fun thing is that there is plenty of room to get creative, even when it comes to figuring out stuff like "the pricing strategy".Pricing Strategy for Artists: 7 Keys to List Your NFTs for Success(Applicable Outside NFTs, too)MediumSophie SturdevantWhat? Do you know what made me come up with the strategy below? Buying NFT's! Not just to flip, collect or flex, but to experience the vibe on all the different platforms and how they approach things, but above all, how they made me feel. The ones I enjoy the most, are the NFT's that made me feel part of a community, sure I fell in the love with the artwork as well, but I don't need to buy art to enjoy it. That's why museums are so underrated. Except, you need to fly around the world to visit them, which to some degree is part of the fun. But it's mostly a limitation of the type of art I get to see, and not to mention, there's so much fine art hidden away in secret vaults, or stored in private homes, to be unseen, and used as a flex for the rich and famous. That's cool for them, but what does it do for the art lover, and more importantly what does it do for the artist if they flip it, and wash trade the art pieces in that tiny inner circle? Ok, I'm drifting, rambling once again, let's cut to the chase; what's the strategy you may ask! Well, there's none, we just stick with our (3,3) narrative and we'll see how it goes, what sticks, what works, and what doesn't, after all, there's no such thing as a magic formula for pricing NFT's.When? Maybe in 33 days from now, still TBD. The auction will last for 33 hours, 33 minutes, and 33 seconds, if possible to set it up that way at least. How much? All pieces will be priced at 0,33 sOHM, which's is roughly $100. There will be 3 pieces that will remain in the ownership of the 3 DAO's that make all this possible: Olympus, Odyssey, and UnbanksyTV DAO. They can only be leased, you can't buy them, they need to be earned, maybe OHMIE of the week, and you get to flex? Outside of the 3 ultra-rare pieces that are owned by the DAO's, there are 3 levels of rarity, one with 3333 NFT's, another series with 333 pieces, and the super-rare collection of only 33 NFT's. If you didn't get the drift, yes the theme is (3,3) ;)Why? Why would we sell all these different levels of rarity at the same fricking price, it just doesn't make any sense. Or does it? What if I repeat that price is what you pay, and value is what you get? Here's the twist, you will not know (what you are getting into)! You pay the fixed entree price of 0,33 sOHM and you are hoping you'll get a super-rare edition. And if you happen to get the 3333 series or the 333 series, are you going to be disappointed? Nope, not gonna happen, because each NFT is backed by sOHM and that's where the real magic comes into play. Every NFT held generates sOHM tokens 3 times a day. sOHM tokens stored in the treasury are randomly distributed to NFT owners. In essence, these artworks will act as Nodes, not securing the chain as we will soon move to layer 2, but ensuring a decentralized distribution of the supply.Oh, one more thing ... "Unlockables are a really cool way to provide something to your collector, as a “thank you” for their support and investment. Unlockables might incentivize a collector looking for art for their in-home display, or maybe an NFT that comes with a physical print is what another is looking for. Can you provide other physical goods, like a t-shirt, or exclusive access to your next drop? Does the purchase of one NFT entitle a collector to behind-the-scenes videos of your work’s creation, a written “thank you” note, or a discount code to shop your site? There are so many ways to use this feature." - Sophie SturdevantWrap your head around it, once you see it work, it's impossible to unsee.


Assets for the metaverse future

Ultimately, our Code Art Studio (UnbanksyTV DAO) is researching a novel way of applying ML to accelerate the 3D design process. This approach takes the first steps towards a future where designers can work together with ML algorithms to focus on the creative aspects and iterating rapidly on designs in order to achieve results on an unprecedented scale. We will create a custom generative algorithm to create 3D characters, by merging various OBJ files. I’m interested in creating 3333 3D characters, but I understand doing them 1 by 1 will take forever. Hence why I’m looking into various ways to create a custom generative algorithm to help me create them as OBJ files to create an anatomically aware facial animation.unbanksytv/GANimationGANimation: Anatomically-aware Facial Animation from a Single Image (ECCV′18 Oral) [PyTorch] - unbanksytv/GANimationGitHubunbanksytv"Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results for the task of facial expression synthesis. The most successful architecture is StarGAN, that conditions GANs generation process with images of a specific domain, namely a set of images of persons sharing the same expression.While effective, this approach can only generate a discrete number of expressions, determined by the content of the dataset. To address this limitation, in this paper, we introduce a novel GAN conditioning scheme based on Action Units (AU) annotations, which describes in a continuous manifold the anatomical facial movements defining a human expression. Our approach allows controlling the magnitude of activation of each AU and combines several of them. Additionally, we propose a fully unsupervised strategy to train the model, that only requires images annotated with their activated AUs, and exploit attention mechanisms that make our network robust to changing backgrounds and lighting conditions. The extensive evaluation shows that our approach goes beyond competing conditional generators both in the capability to synthesize a much wider range of expressions ruled by anatomically feasible muscle movements, as in the capacity of dealing with images in the wild." sourceIf you are interested in the subject, take a look. It’s quite the rabbit hole. For PyTorch users looking to try some 3D deep learning themselves, the Kaolin library is worth looking into. For TensorFlow users, there is also TensorFlow Graphics. A particularly hot subfield is the generation of 3D models. Creatively combining 3D models, rapidly producing 3D models from images, and creating synthetic data for other machine learning applications and simulations are just a handful of the myriad use cases for 3D model generation.In the 3D deep learning research field, however, choosing an appropriate representation for your data is half the battle. In computer vision, the structure of data is very straightforward: images made up of dense pixels that are arranged neatly and evenly into a precise grid. The world of 3D data has no such consistency. These drawbacks motivated the researchers at DeepMind to create PolyGen, a neural generative model for meshes that jointly estimates both faces and vertices of a model to directly produce meshes. Implementation on available: DeepMind GitHub.WIP Credit: Dimitri DaniloffKickstarting UnbanksyTV DAOIf you bring your talent, time and ideas, you might be invited to join our UnbanksyTV DAO. We have set the DAO as an invitation-only DAO. Come participate in our art collection, the launch of our travel app, and the world of NFT’s, DAO’s, and DeFi.Code Art Studio - UnbanksyTVUnbanksyTVunbanksytv/Avastars-ContractsEthereum contracts and unit tests for Avastars project - unbanksytv/Avastars-ContractsGitHubunbanksytvunbanksytv/deepmind-researchThis repository contains implementations and illustrative code to accompany DeepMind publications - unbanksytv/deepmind-researchGitHubunbanksytvunbanksytv/generative_artA collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode - unbanksytv/generative_artGitHubunbanksytvunbanksytv/blender-scriptingIntroduction to blender scripting. Contribute to unbanksytv/blender-scripting development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubunbanksytvunbanksytv/awesome-creative-codingCreative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources. - unbanksytv/awesome-creative-codingGitHubunbanksytvHOW DO I BUY A ?3333 will be available for purchase. They will be .33 sOHM each, which does not include gas fees.  Please make sure that you have a cryptocurrency wallet, such as Metamask, installed on your browser and that you have enough sOHM for the number of you'd like to purchase, including ETH for gas fees. Gas fees are charged by Ethereum miners and can vary based on the number of transactions being processed. After all 3333 from the launch sell out, you will be able to purchase visitors on the secondary market on Opensea.WHEN CAN I BUY?Visitors will launch on September 3th, 2021 at 3:33PM ESTHOW WERE THEY CREATED?Each one is programmatically generated from 333 unique traits, including eyewear, expression, eyes, mouth, nose, neck, hat, clothing, background and skin. While each visitor is unique, some will be rarer than others. Each Visitor is stored as an ERC-721 token on the Ethereum blockchain and is hosted on IPFS.WILL THE LAUNCH BE FAIR?Yes. All 3333 will be available upon launch. No one will have early access.HOW DO I CONTACT THE GENESIS SQUAD?Jump into our discord.


Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret

"A short history of the world's most controversial cryptocurrency: Tether Tether is a stablecoin cryptocurrency with tokens issued by Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex. Many people have accused Tether of being fraudulent, but until now, the story has been told in pieces. Today I'm trying to tell a comprehensive story of tether."Follow Coffeezilla ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT"This video is an opinion and in no way should be construed as a statement of fact. Scams, bad business opportunities, and fake gurus are subjective terms that mean different things to different people."


The Wild Journey of NateAlex

From a few dollars to millions to losing half of his money in march 2020 in the middle of quitting his job to go full time NFT we hear the awesome journey and rise of NateAlex.  NateAlex is a cofounder of NFT42 and has been in the space since 2017 where he got his start with CryptoKitties. He has also created 2 projects "Chainfaces" and "Squiggly.wtf". (video)nft42 is a development studio built by NFT experts for NFT users. We’re focused on delivering excellent products and services that are reliably on-chain, provably durable, and that empower Metaverse users in unprecedented ways.With nft42 as our umbrella project, our three main spokes are Avastars, InfiNFT, and TokenSmart. It’s safe to say the Metalympics, our version of the Olympics but Metaverse style, is another spoke in the making right now.nft42 Community Update #1: Building the Future of Digital Assets, TodayAt nft42, our work as NFT experts has never been more exciting. The NFT economy has experienced major validations and new challenges this year, and all these developments have made it that much more meaningful to be pioneering at the bleeding edge of digital assets.Tokensmart - Your Guide to the MetaverseWilliam M. Peaster


The origins of ERC-721 NFTs

In the fast-paced world of digital art, a new technology has emerged that promises to revolutionize the way we think about ownership and authenticity. It's called non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and it's a concept that has been quietly brewing in the world of cryptocurrency since early 2018. The origins of NFTs can be traced back to the creation of ERC-721, a standard interface for defining digital goods on Ethereum. While this might sound like technical jargon to non-experts, ERC-721 provides a universal method for creating smart contracts that can track the ownership of digital goods. In other words, it offers a way to create unique digital assets that can be authenticated and traded like physical objects.This breakthrough has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for creators and collectors alike. With NFTs, creators can mint unique digital artworks that are truly one-of-a-kind and can be sold on decentralized platforms. Collectors can finally have a way to authenticate and verify the provenance of their digital art collections, just as they would with physical art objects.The potential to revolutionize a variety of industries, from travel to real estate. As we move further into the digital age, NFTs may prove to be one of the most important innovations in the world of art and beyond. Below are some of the use cases we noted down in early 2018:For creators, artists & galleries 🖌🎨Build new experiences and revenue streams with authenticated digital issuanceBranded digital gallerySolo artist worksExclusive content for fansCertificates of authenticity & provenanceFor brands & agencies 🎥 ⚡Create engaging digital experiences for fans and followersDigital rewardsBranded collectible giveawaysPremium content accessCommunity ContestsFor nonprofits 🌍 🌱Raise funds and awareness by creating meaningful digital campaignsTokenized “adoptions” for charitable causes, e.g. planting treesFundraising campaigns with collectible digital memorabiliaExclusive badges and rewards for community membersFor entrepreneurs 💡 💸Launch a global marketplace for digital or tokenized physical goodsStock photosDigital IPFor merchants & producers🍷 ⌚Authenticate physical goodsSurfboardsFashionWine bottlesExploring New FrontiersWeb3 represents a new era of decentralized, user-centric, and open technologies that are reshaping industries across the globe. In this update, we dive deep into the cool use cases and explore the transformative power it holds.Transforming the Gaming IndustryWeb3 is set to revolutionize the gaming industry by empowering players and creators alike. NFTs enable gamers to truly own their in-game assets, providing a new level of control, interoperability, and monetization. Game developers can leverage NFTs to create unique, tradable in-game items, offer token-gated access to exclusive content, and establish vibrant player-driven economies. Redefining Authenticity and SustainabilityIn the world of fashion and retail, Web3 offers solutions to address authenticity, transparency, and sustainability concerns. NFTs can be used to authenticate and track the lifecycle of fashion products, ensuring ethical sourcing, sustainability practices, and consumer trust. Brands can create limited-edition collections authenticated through NFTs, providing unique value propositions to their customers. Additionally, digital fashion is gaining momentum, where designers create virtual clothing items that can be worn in digital environments, revolutionizing personal style and self-expression.Music: Redefining Fan EngagementNFTs enable musicians to tokenize their music, create limited-edition releases, and establish direct connections with their fans. Artists can offer unique perks, experiences, and rewards to their most dedicated supporters, leveraging NFTs as concert tickets, exclusive merchandise, and collectibles. With the potential for AI-generated music and flexible royalty settings, Web3 opens up new revenue streams and creative possibilities for musicians.Advertising: Enhancing Brand EngagementCompanies can create branded NFTs representing their products or services, engaging their audience, and creating new marketing channels. NFTs can be used as promotional tools, rewards for customer loyalty, or token-gated access to exclusive benefits. With the ability to enable fan-to-fan ticket sales and royalties on secondary sales, Web3 revolutionizes the advertising and sponsorship landscape, offering enhanced engagement and monetization opportunities.Communities and CommunicationNFT-powered social platforms enable users to truly own their profiles, usernames, and data, offering enhanced privacy, security, and control. Universal Profiles and decentralized messaging protocols bring transparency and permission management to community building, empowering users to connect, collaborate, and engage in a trusted and secure environment.Tokenizing Real-World Assets Through NFTs, physical assets like real estate and artwork can be represented as digital tokens, ensuring transparent and secure ownership. Tokenized assets offer increased liquidity, fractional ownership, and streamlined transaction processes, potentially transforming industries such as real estate and asset management.A paradigm shift From NFTs revolutionizing digital ownership and authenticity to the transformative impact on gaming, fashion, music, advertising, communities, and asset tokenization, Web3 is redefining the boundaries of what is possible. As we embrace Web3, we embark on a journey of innovation, collaboration, and empowerment, shaping a future where decentralization, transparency, and user-centricity are at the core of our digital experiences.