NFTs Are Hitting The Big Screen

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What's Dropping ⚡️

• The upcoming Ethereum merge has institutional investors and traders loading up, leading to much speculation in the community. Traders are most likely looking to make a profit off the attention, while true investors can see the potential longevity and promise of web 3. (CoinTelegraph)

• Latin commerce business Mercado Libre (Free Market) is expanding, developing crypto-ready features, and onboarding thousands of new users in Latin countries. (CoinDesk)

• Every metaverse pad needs a ping pong table! World Table Tennis collaborates with NFT Tech to help ease the sport into Web 3. (BusinessWire)

• Members of the BitDAO community have voted in favor of a proposal for Africa DAO. This $20m proposal will aid in the widespread adoption of Web 3 across the continent. (Snapshot)

• The team behind Pudgy Penguins unveils Pudgy Toys, which is seemingly a collection of true-to-life Penguin toys modeled after a select few NFTs. ICYMI: The Pudgy Penguins floor just flipped Cool Cats. (Twitter)

• Dan Harmon (Co-Creator of Rick and Morty) is allowing fans and holders of his Krapololis Krap Chickens NFT collection creative direction in an upcoming show. (OS)

• Super Bowl Champions L.A. Rams collab with Dapper Labs to drop gorgeous Super Bowl LVI Rings. (Twitter)

• Circle expresses full support for the Ethereum merge happening in September. (Circle)

• Saint Robotica is showcasing a new type of NFT art collection where all of the 3,000 NFTs fit perfectly into a grander design. (Read More Below)

Project Spotlight: 18 & Over Movie Premiere 🎥

Gone are the days of having to wait in online queues to get access to movie premier tickets. Gone are the days of having to wait for a movie even though a select few elites were able to watch it in LA weeks before. Now, NFTs are being utilized to target those specific individuals that don’t want to wait for the movie to come out for the general public.

18 & Over, a film featuring Ashley Benson, G-Eazy, A$AP Nast, Winnie Harlow, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Pelas, and Sky Ferreira is about a woman (Benson) being alone in a cabin after going through a breakup. What she didn’t expect was a masked murderer to come after her while she live-streamed sexual acts to her paying audience. Directed by Jimmy Giannopolous, this “cult-erotic-slasher-flick” is going a different route with its primary distribution by utilizing NFTs at the forefront.

The project started its release on August 5th via Nifty Gateway for a price of $263 and is still open to buyers. Yes, we know. That’s a little steep for just a movie ticket. But, not only does this price get you access to the movie before anyone else, but it also gives you many more exciting perks. These include IRL events, virtual hangouts, being able to meet the actors and being able to talk to the director, just to name a few. The form of utility that is truly enticing is the aspect for long-term holders to be able to collect a “rebate” once traditional distribution commences in October, meaning that they get royalties based on the sales of the movie.

Access is one of the biggest forms of utility in the NFT space and Hollywood is catching on. COVID accelerated the move to digital because movie theaters had to close down. This put everyone on the same playing field: anyone could watch the movie once it came out. NFTs, help change that and give the feeling of exclusivity back to the movie scene, while also giving producers the ability to share their royalties with holders. 18 & Over gets released to holders today. Sit back and enjoy the show. But, only the holders. The rest of us are going to have to wait a couple of months. WAGMI.

🚨 If you're interested in minting the 18 & Over NFT before it hits secondary make sure to check it out on Nifty Gateway here.

Project Spotlight: Saint Robotica 🤖

Saint Robotica is artist Samuel Ho’s debut original IP NFT collection brought to the community in partnership with GMI Studios (the team behind GENAI and DeadHeads). Samuel Ho is an award-winning artist based in Canada. His distinct use of vibrant colors and bold lines have garnered international acclaim and yielded projects with major brands such as Netflix, Disney, ESPN, Marvel, Lucasfilm and more. With Saint Robotica, Sam wants to create something new, unique and thought-provoking with strong themes of community.

The Art

Saint Robotica is a collection of 3,000 beautiful Robot Saints, where each one plays a key role in the grand design. In a unique departure from other projects, each saint fits into a larger art piece! This symbolises not only individual pieces in harmony with the art/artist, but also every collector in the community. With St. Robotica the collector and the art are important and are a part of something bigger than themselves. As a collector, you can see where your NFT fits and feel part of the greater whole.

The Story

The backdrop for the art takes place in a potential futuristic timeline branched from the present reality, where humanity is protected by an advanced artificial intelligence vanguard known as “The Saints of Robotica”.

The compelling origin story will be revealed on Twitter leading up to the launch of the collection. It invites you to explore thought-provoking concepts like:

• “Could AI become this advanced?”

• “What is the role of humanity in this futuristic reality or our own?”

• “What goals should humans strive for in their relationship with advanced AI?”

• Multiple breaks in lines

• Keep it fresh, entertaining, funny but not overdo it

Follow Along

Follow this project on Twitter @SaintRobotica to witness the story unfold and get updates on allow list opportunities and minting details. True to the message and intent of the project an AI they’ve created will reply as the voice of the original Saint Robotica - who knows what it could learn - what WE could teach it.

Mint Date: TBD [Check Twitter] / Mint Price: TBD [Check Twitter]

Saint Robotica Links: Twitter, Discord

Dan Harmon's KRAPOPOLIS Show 📺

A new animated show titled KRAPOPOLIS is coming to a screen near you (in 2023), and it’s leveraging NFTs to add something a bit tangy to the experience of consuming animated content. Partnered with FOX’s Emmy Award-winning creative studio Bento Box, Dan Harmon (the co-creator of Emmy Award-winning program Rick & Morty) is taking lead on the animated end of things. Meanwhile, FOX Entertainment is running point from a Web3 perspective. That's right, FOX Entertainment has a dedicated Web3 division that goes by the name of Blockchain Creative Labs. FOX and its animation studio, Bento Box, formed BLC in 2021, and it offers content creators end-to-end blockchain solutions so that they can leverage NFTs in new ways in the popular entertainment space (that's a hot bet that FOX is making on the future of NFTs in the entertainment sector). According to Blockchain Creative Labs, KRAPOPOLIS will be the first ever animated series curated on the blockchain. Indeed, in an interview with Blockworks, the CEO of BCL proclaimed that this will be the first mass media show to utilize blockchain infrastructure at the heart of its process.

The show takes place in mythical ancient Greece, and its story revolves around a dysfunctional family comprised of humans gods, and monsters attempting to govern the city without killing one other. 10,420 Krap Chicken NFTs are available for sale beginning today, and a dedicated marketplace for the KRAP community will also launch in conjunction with the NFT release. The big brain idea here is twofold. Dan Harmon is both a master storyteller and a cultivator of community propagation. He knows how to build community and engagement through his content, and FOX wants to multiply the intensity of that engagement by utilizing Web3 to catalyze uncharted levels of community camaraderie. FOX also wants to take advantage of decentralization to incentivize creatives and artists to participate in its fictional universe and reap benefits in ways that are only possible with Web3 infrastructure. The rollout so far is clean and the thought process is sophisticated, FOX could potentially be providingNFTs and Web3 a platform that connects to the broader audience.

You can check out the trailer for Krapopolis trailer above.

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