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🚀 I’m thrilled to be hosting my first Twitter Space since joining @CommunityLabs. We’re diving into something truly groundbreaking — DeFi and decentralized AI with AO, built on #Arweave. This stuff has blown my mind. It can also play well with with #Ethereum! To my friends in the Ethereum ecosystem, you’ve got to check this out. Join us at 11:30 AM EST for a deep dive with @lorimerj, @kadarabdi, and our CEO @tateberenbaum. Set your reminders and RT to spread the word! 🙌 🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1PlJQbgLMdzxE

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I just unwrapped my present from the @santafm_ NFT gift exchange and received CodeTrip 131 from the Prohibition collection! Merry Christmas! 🎁 santa.fm via @ProhibitionArt

🛰️ Skylab Session #17: The Future Of Advertising in web3 🛰️ ⏰Wed, Dec. 6, 10am PT / 1pm ET ⏰ Headliners: ALEX SKALE @SkaleAlex of @FreckleTrivia JIM BORGER @web3jimmyb of @Web3Sense Host: Sasha Barrie @Kapuster Set your reminders!👇

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I worked for a direct competitor to @RecurForever and watched how they scored deals with Fortune 500 brands, gained over $70M in NFT sales volume, and raised $50M at a $333M valuation So how did this NFT behemoth collapse? Let's take a look 👇 The Run-Up Recur was a massive beneficiary of traditional brands like Paramount, the Pac-12, and Hello Kitty looking to enter web3 through licensing their IP. During web3's speculative mania, anything that resembled mainstream brands entering web3 drove insane NFT sales volume regardless of substance. The team recognized this so they got to work. They presented these brands with sky-high minimum guarantees royalties to license their IP and did all of the work in creating, releasing, and maintaining the collections, so the brands didn't have to do anything. These deals that Recur was presenting were impossible to refuse because they enabled these brands to experiment with a new, innovative technology and make a quick buck without taking much direct brand risk. Recur built a Flywheel of Demand with these deals that ensured ongoing success. The Flywheel of Demand 1. Recur builds anticipation over time through hyping their partnerships and contributions to the space 2. Recur sells passes that ensure holders have a vested interest in the success of the ecosystem with over 64,000 passes sold for ~$20MM profit (full disclosure, I bought 3 passes during the primary sale and still have 1) 3. Recur hypes an upcoming NFT collection from a big IP 4. Recur drops the collection 5. Collection sells out in seconds 6. Secondary market prices rise dramatically 7. Hype and profit potential is generated for Recur's next drop 8. Repeat steps 3-7 Recur was successful with this speculative cycle for @nickelodeon_nft, @_NFTU, @StarTrek, and more. I remember participating in the @carebears_nfts and @hellokitty drops hoping I could get my hands on 1 or 2 NFTs from the portion allocated to pass holders because there was no chance I'd get one from the public sale. Demand was so high. Long-term plan? No need. Utility wen? Earn more NFTs or transform the art on your existing ones Everything Recur touched turned into cold hard cash. All of this worked impeccably as long as the hype was there. The Collapse Speculation is a bubble that is guaranteed to pop. Companies often then pivot to respond to the demands of the market and if done properly, they can gain long-term success. However, Recur was trapped once speculation died. They couldn't pivot or really do much of anything with the IP they had because they were at the whims of the brands they had licensed from. Those licensors likely didn't see much point in pursuing this small, speculative market any further, so Recur couldn't influence them to add to the utility/value of these collections. The only option was to mint more NFT collections. As most of us web3-natives know, minting more NFTs dilutes the value of all NFTs associated with a brand. Recur's Flywheel of Demand soon broke and dried up any demand that was left. They had no money coming in from primary or secondary market sales, and despite trying to pivot to a white-label platform completely outside of the licensing model, their fate was set. Conclusion At @XooaNFT, I watched Recur score deal after deal with massive brands. They built an empire that took hige risks with nostalgic IP that paid off early, but trapped them once the speculative hype died down. They were a beneficiary of traditional enterprises looking to enter web3 and profit through licensing. But they were also a victim of their own success and the speculative mania of NFTs. Recur was the most successful (or risky) company to win IP licensing deals, but it wasn't just Recur that did business this way. It was the vast majority of NFT platforms that were trying to score these IP licensing deals through taking all of the risk. I have no doubt that NFTs as a technology will succeed in the long-term. But the era of licensing IP for NFTs is over. _________________ Thanks for reading! I hope you found this deep dive illuminating. If you liked the post, please: ☑️ RT it ☑️ Toss me a follow for more content like this

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I'm now an Alchemy Certified Ethereum Developer :) Pretty cool. I am now working on taking my capstone project to production. Stay tuned. @AlchemyLearn, @AlchemyPlatform, @lifeofbitcoin

Skylab Session #6: State of Product in Web3! Thursday, July 27, at 10am PST / 1pm EST. Headlined by: Brian Canty (Diagram Ventures) @cantylicious Jordan Lyall (VenturePunk) @JordanLyall Dorian Collier (VenturePunk) @doriancollier Hosted by: @ben_mcmaster Link 👇

Skylab Session #5: Taxes For Web3 Startups! Twitter Space tomorrow, Wednesday, July 11, at 9am PST / 12pm EST. Our headliners are Dave Rodman @daverodman007 of The Rodman Law Group and Brandon Delijani of @akra_tax. Hosted by @Kapuster Link 👇

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June Venture Deals 🫡 - Recap of largest web3 funding rounds  - Airtable with ALL funding data  - Hackathons & Demo Days - upcoming & finalists Link in my bio :)

Idea for a Twitter Spaces 💡🐦 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁: Crypto people talking non-crypto topics web3 vibes, but we'll talk about other things: tech, markets, and additional issues we all face (physical/mental health) Thoughts?