Cool Cats Pets Drop

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What's Dropping ⚡

• Pirates of the Metaverse dropped an incredible trailer earlier in January and people (including us) are starting to notice.

• Never Fear Truth's discord exploded to over 28,700 members in less than 48 hours after it was announced that Johnny Depp is the artist. Needless to say, the full interview from the website is amazing and we can't wait for the mint day.

• ICYMI: We had a full breakdown of Streethers NFT which is 10,000 3 dimensional Genesis NFTs that hold incredible perks - sign up for a shot at a white list here.

• Make sure your old listings are canceled. We’ve seen a lot of horror stories over the last few days.

• At the time of this writing Cold Blooded Creepz holds 3 of the top 10 selling projects on OpenSea for the week. Shapeshifter merging starts today.

• Loveless City launched on Wednesday. Designed and conceived by colorblind artist Tennessee Loveless, the mystery project is limiting Discord access to coincide with the theoretical cities train schedule that’s being periodically announced via Twitter. Loveless has a global audience for his work and is currently wrapping up the interior of a skyscraper he designed with a certain global household name having search engine / advertising juggernaut.

• BrokenSeaDao grabbed some Sandbox land and are launching BrokenClub.

• Supernormal / Zipcy888 has a massive pre-sale and quickly sold out their public. Current floor is 2.3 ETH. Art on this one is gorgeous.

• Cool Pets - the long-awaited new collection from Cool Cats - has been delayed until Monday. (read below for details)

Cool Cats Pets Dropping Soon

The long-anticipated launch of Cool Pets is now minting on Monday, January 31st. The reason for the delay?According to the Cool Pets Medium Article:

"OpenSea users have had challenges with a cancel issue for some time, wherein tokens are being sold at previously listed prices even after the tokens have been delisted. This isn’t new news, and we’ve taken it into account while coding out our system for Cool Pets. But the way it affected some Bored Apes users earlier this week shone a much brighter light on it than previously [...]

[...]So, we’ve decided on a few courses of action:

1) We have removed some code related to Opensea that we think exposes our people to the known vulnerability.

2) We are running a full battery of tests on every aspect of our system to ensure that the change in code doesn’t negatively impact the Cool Pets experience or create unforeseen risks for holders."

In all reality, I think this is a very bullish indicator for the Cool Pets launch because it is obvious how much the team is concerned for the community and doing everything they can on their end to ensure with the best of their ability that everything goes smoothly and according to plan.

Below is an amazing thread that covers everything you need to know about the Cool Pets!

In all, Cool Pets are going to allow the holders to Earn $MILK tokens, participate in quests, participate in the Cooltopia game, and level up their pet through items. You heard it here first but this P2E game feels like Web3 Pokemon and we are absolutely loving it!

Artist Spotlight: Karsen Daily

Karsen Daily has become a fixture in the NFT community as a crypto culture pioneer, brand evangelist, and community builder. She is the self-proclaimed “most prolific sh*tposter in all of Web3,” but professionally is known for her work with many reputable names in the space, including Superplastic, Crucible, Nifty Kit, 888 The New World, 888 Inner Circle, RECUR, and more. In October 2021, she co-created and launched NFT AFFIRMATIONS – which will provide utility to access 27 TIMES. 

27 Times is a collection of original poetry by Karsen Daily, set to be minted on the Ethereum blockchain and sold as 1/1 NFTs in a 24 hour, no-minimum, no-reserve auction. The 24-hour auction begins on February 17th at 9 PM pst.

27 Times is a cross-medium, poetic NFT collection featuring 27 artists who, in some form, share a personal connection to the literature. Each artist received one poem to use as inspiration to create something new: there were no requirements, restrictions, or revision requests between the artists.

The collaborative artworks, as well as unique token utility are hardcoded in metadata of each genesis token as part of the HEARTCODE. The HEARTCODE is a smart contract protocol conceptualized and developed by Karsen Daily. The full capabilities of the HEARTCODE will be revealed by the artist as the drop date approaches. 

To follow Karsen and her project: Twitter, 27 Times

Wen Lambo? (now)

The Italian automaker is releasing their first NFT collection, in collaboration with Fabian Oefner, an artist that emphasizes scientific properties to show the innate beauty of the natural world. Going up for auction on February 1st at 10:30am EST, this collection is comprised of 5 unique pieces that feature both a physical element and a NFT component. The NFT component is self explanatory, But there’s a catch. What looks like a CGI is actually 1,500 individually captured images pieced together in order to create a hyper-real art piece. The Earth behind the Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae depicted in the art was captured using a weather balloon to get the exact curvature of the work. The physical element is a piece of carbon that was engraved with a unique QR code that links to the digital NFT. This element called the Space Key, is said by Lamborghini to have been sent to “Outer Space”. What that truly entails is anyone’s guess.

Ultimately, this is a great way of visualizing the current trend in the NFT space. Many companies are finding new and creative ways to become a part of this ever-growing industry. From Adidas to Youtube, increasingly diverse organizations are beginning to capitalize on this opportunity in order to expand brand awareness. These steps these organizations are taking will continue to provide additional credibility for years to come, and soon, we will see more big-name corporations try and find a clever way to enter this space. Vroom vroom. WAGMI.

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