Was in
@lokithebird @the_alpha_dgn NFT space and damn.. it actually felt like 2021 again
Not the prices
its the PEOPLE
Every builder you can think of was on stage
The drop everyone was buzzing about was
@doodles x Piet Mondrian
multi-modal⦠NFTs, physical prints even an AR piece, and it sold out in minutes
@doodlifts was minting the physicals for the team right down to the wire, last one to go through was literally his
that "limited supply, high quality" feeling is clearly back
The convo I keep thinking about was about PFPs
@0xChar from
@Memeland (the 9GAG team) &
@FuturesightE both made the same point⦠not every NFT needs to be a profile picture, some are just meant to be collected
Memeland is even turning their Captains into TCG card art instead of square PFPs and they keep a real web2 company, a listed one, so they never have to lean on web3 to survive
@chrisguyot from GVC took it deeper, into characters with real lore and whole world behind them
collecting characters to tell stories is the real culture layer here
What really tied the room together was COLLABORATION
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@BoredApeYC x
@Claynosaurz on their first ever World Cup fantasy football collab match
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@sergitosergito and Meebits team printing football cards that set you up with a wallet when you scan them
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@FuturesightE leaning on collector systems and email to pull people back in
The room started talking about a kind of "NFT cinematic universe" idea - all the projects, one shared world
someone called it "co-opetition"β¦ cooperate and compete, like clubs in the same league
The sweetest moment came from
@DWebbs1
His little daughter climbed into his lap, pointed at the collections "I like the penguin, I like the dinosaur"π§π¦
The IPs winning right now are just the ones people genuinely love
also lovely to hear
@Tma_420 on his latest grail,
@bunya_eth on his pixel-pet project and
@0xChar on his own trading cards
Everyone had so much great things to say about
@AdamWeitsman
He's one of the biggest Meebits and Ape collector out there and he just bought a Left Face grail
@pudgypenguins yesterday
but the thing everyone kept coming back to wasn't the buying, it was the TIME he gives and UNIFYING all projects
He'll sit and rip card packs with people, take photos with anyone who asks, he even hosted a dinner for the Meebits and Apes crews at his own place in New York
and he always show love to the small projects too, not just the blue chips, tweeting out builders he thinks deserve more eyes
someone put it perfectly⦠he's not there to flex, he just genuinely cares and wants to know people
"A hero that the space needed"
Football is massive in Asia too so we're feeling all that World Cup energy π§
@Cabanimation said
@Claynosaurz are doing a pop-up in July, which is big for us out here
Maybe NFTs are not going back to 2021
Feeling like NFTs are in a much healthier place than chart suggestπ