web3 is the future of the internet

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SuperPlastic x BAYC toys drop today

SuperPlastic drops vinyl physical toys of Bored Apes today at 1 PM ET. There will be five different 13-inch SUPERBOARD toys - two of them are also for the public with no need to own any NFT. Each of them is priced at $222.

Each time slot is opened only for 15 minutes as follows:

1:00 - 1:15 PM ET: BAYC NFT Holders1:45 - 2:00 PM ET: Superplastic Cryptojankyz & Headtripz NFT holders2:30 - 2:45 PM ET: MAYC NFT holders3:15 - 3:30 PM ET: PUBLIC

More info: superplastic.co

Azuki goes to Space with NASA and SpaceX

Bobu the Bean Farmer will be sent to Space on April 24th. Wait, who is Bobu? Bobu is Azuki #40, which was deposited into a Vault and fractionalized to create 50,000 Bobu Tokens. Azuki says Bobu is a key character in the Azuki universe and a huge web3 experiment. Owning Bobu gives you the right to vote over Bobu's journey, and since it is ERC-1155 token, you can set it up as a verified profile picture. The current floor is 0.2 ETH.

Bobu Collection: OpenSea

Adam Bomb Squad

Adam Bomb Squad is a popular streetwear NFT project founded by Bobby Hundreds. They announced their 3rd experiment when holders of particular bombs get a 10% royalty as a store credit from the physical sales of clothes with their bomb.

The model of sharing royalties with the community is still in its early times, especially since it might legally turn the NFT into security. However, it is amazing to see the first NFT pioneers keep searching for novel ways to reward their early supporters. Love that.

General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz thinks web3 is the future of the internet

Chris Dixon is a smart guy who leads crypto investing in venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He was responsible for funding rounds of Coinbase, OpenSea, and Yuga Labs (Bored Ape Yacht Club) and, with a16z invested over $3 billion into web3. Verge just released an article explaining why he believes the web2 era is over.

He says web1 allowed open protocols, but users could only consume the content; they couldn’t contribute. Web2 initially democratized this and allowed users to consume but also to publish. However, the model handed over the power to the four-five largest companies over the years. Web3 - if built the right way - can maintain the ability to consume and publish and add the neutrality of decentralized protocols, including a direct relationship with audiences that are not mediated by algorithms and advertising, which is where we are today.

Full article here if you want to dive deeper!

Podcast of the day

Naval met with Vitalik, and they talked blockchain and Ethereum. Always interesting to hear Vitalik’s thought process.😊

Big sales

CryptoPunk #7756 Bought for 1,050 ETH (≈ $3,226,756.70). The previous owner was cry.eth who bought it almost 2 years ago and held it from 27 ETH (≈ $13,000 back then). Wild no??🤯

Bored Ape Yacht Club #8537 Bought for 200.69 ETH (≈ $604,865.34)

VeeFriends #9593 Bought for 70.55 ETH (≈ $217,117.56)

Hot NFTs - April 13th, 2022

Source: Nansen.ai

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- beast