NFT Vending Machines

What's Dropping, Cyberbrokers, And More

March 09, 2022

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What's Dropping ⚡

  • Biden’s Executive Order on digital assets in the US was accidentally published late last night. News was bullish and sent a nice little green surge into the crypto market.

  • Someone snagged a rare doodle (crown trait) for 15 ETH.

  • Pyramid Punxs, founded by Lauren Hawley and International DJ Ghastly, launched their website and it's looking amazing. Huge announcements to come about their skate & EDM infused utility. 👀

  • CyberBrokers with the most successful launch of the past week. Volume over 11,000 ETH and floor price sitting at 2.4 ETH.

  • Superstars NFT (TikTok Duo Party Shirt) just recently dropped their roadmap which includes IRL events, exclusive apparel, music, and more.

  • Floor Update: BAYC 75 ETH, CryptoPunks 66.3 ETH, Cool Cats 6.38 ETH, Doodles 8.98 ETH, Invisible Friends 7.4 ETH, Azuki 9.5 ETH, VeeFriends 15.6 ETH, MAYC 14.9 ETH

NFT Vending Machines - Neon 🍫

A Solana-based NFT marketplace, Neon, has opened the first NFT vending machine in New York City. Located in Manhattan, this “NFT ATM”, as inscribed in neon on top of the machine, gives anyone that ability to acquire a digital art piece. The ATM accepts credit/debit cards and dispenses a box with a  unique code on the inside, which you can then scan for an NFT on Neon’s platform.

Using the avenue of a vending machine is ingenious because it helps to create mass accessibility. It doesn’t involve a slue of tasks, like opening a Metamask wallet or connecting to a contract. It takes that hard work away, thus allowing anyone to enter this space with just their credit card. Over time, we will see more clever methods employed by NFT platforms to increase user interaction. This is just the beginning. WAGMI.

Kudos To Cyberbrokers Team 🤝

There’s something uncanny about stepping into a Discord and watching a hundred messages fly by on the general chat every thirty seconds. From the looks of it, nobody is saying anything substantial and everybody’s goal is to be noticed by a mod in the hopes of being whitelisted. The same project will have you retweet their tweet and require you to tag your friends in it for an improbable chance of receiving a whitelist spot. Real communities are neither garnered through shallow conversations nor are they cultivated in toxic environments. And the real value that supports any project is a robust community that is not interested in a project for the sole purpose of flipping it. New entrants to the NFT space deserve to know that whitelist grinding is a recent phenomenon and that alternative methods to community building and minting access are available to fellow crypto degenerates.

The recent success of Josie Bellini’s Cyberbrokers is a useful case study in appreciating how a project with minimal marketing and an entirely organic discord community produced a hugely successful project. Anybody who was in the Cyberbroker’s discord prior to February 4th - the date that the project’s mint was publicly announced - was eligible for a whitelist, this also applied to people subscribed to Josie’s substack and Twitter. This rewarded people who arrived in the discord through explorations and curiosity. No hype tactics were employed in the days leading up to the mint either. For anybody grinding in discord for WL that feels completely drained by the process, know that there are opportunities for you elsewhere. 

International Women's Day 💐

Yesterday was international women's today! We compiled a list of some of the many amazing Women-led projects that you can check out below. 

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