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Show Up! The Ballad of a Music NFT Queen
-Bring community ownership and collective building to Dapper Labs products –– starting with Lil Miquela and her 10 million fans;
Roham Gharegozlou • The Future of [X] is Decentralized
2021 was the year of profile picture (PFP) NFTs. Depending on how you value them, both CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club have total market caps (# of NFTs * price per NFT) of around $3 billion each. More than just a disconnected network of owners, though, the humans behind the NFT PFP formed communities, online and IRL. First, they met in Discor... See more
Packy McCormick • The Laboratory for Complex Problems
Q: How does SongCamp fit into the world of music NFTs? Is there unfulfilled promise there? A: Songcamp is a little different from other music NFT projects, as it strongly values collective creation. In a musical landscape that puts the solo artist genius on a pedestal, a whole community creating an ego-less body of work feels more interesting and n... See more
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • Inside the Internet's First 77-Artist "Headless Band"
Now in the 2020s, as Web3 develops and a new era of digital ownership begins, creatives will be richly rewarded to the extent that they have the creative skill of building community around themselves – those creatives who best invent context and stories. It might be that this skill, more than the art itself, is what triggers unusual amounts of mone... See more