Subject
13 entries
Nft
Bookmarks
The Garden of Magic Eden
Variant Fund's deep-dive into how Magic Eden became the dominant NFT marketplace on Solana through transparency, community focus, and creator tools. A case study in marketplace dynamics and web3 community building at the 2022 peak.
Botto: AI Artist with a Million-Dollar Track Record
Botto is an AI artist by Mario Klingemann that generates 350 artworks weekly, has a community of token holders vote on favorites, and mints one NFT per week — earning $1M in its first five weeks. A real implementation of human-AI collaborative taste formation.
Olimpio on Lens Protocol
A tweet by @olimpiocrypto about Lens Protocol — the decentralized social graph built on Polygon. Saved in June 2022 when Lens was launching and the Web3 social space was generating significant developer interest.
Alethea AI: Intelligent NFTs
Messari's report on Alethea AI's 'Intelligent NFTs' — NFTs fused with AI personalities that can converse, learn, and evolve. An interesting 2022 experiment at the intersection of AI characters and blockchain ownership, now mostly a historical artifact of the peak NFT era.
Trait Sniper: NFT Rarity and Trading Tool
Trait Sniper is an NFT rarity and sniping tool that calculates rarity scores for NFT collection traits and reveals them before official reveals. Used to identify underpriced NFTs with rare traits at mint or on secondary markets.
Catalog: Music NFT Platform
Catalog is a music NFT platform on Ethereum where artists sell 1/1 single editions of songs directly to collectors. Positioned as a new patronage model for musicians outside streaming platforms — the beta launched in 2021.
Formfunction: 1/1 NFT Marketplace on Solana
Formfunction is a 1/1 NFT marketplace on Solana focused on individual digital artists — not bulk 10k PFP collections. Emphasized low environmental impact and direct artist-to-collector relationships. An early attempt at building an artist-first NFT market on Solana.
Web3 Is Going Just Great — Jan 15, 2022 Entry
A specific incident entry from Molly White's Web3 Is Going Just Great, cataloging a crypto/NFT failure from January 15, 2022. The site is the canonical running ledger of web3's broken promises and outright frauds.
The Worrisome Rise of NFTs
Nautilus magazine's critique of NFTs at the height of the 2021 boom — covering environmental harm from proof-of-work blockchains, manufactured scarcity, and the disconnect between NFT hype and actual value creation. Science journalism applying a skeptical lens to speculative tech.
1confirmation 2021 NFT Year in Review
1confirmation's data-driven review of the 2021 NFT market: $19.6B in trading volume, 2M active users, and a breakdown of visual art, PFPs, collectibles, and gaming. The bull case for NFTs as a fundamentally better business model for creators, written before the 2022 collapse.
Web3 Is Going Just Great — Main Site
Molly White's Web3 Is Going Just Great — the canonical running timeline of crypto/NFT/web3 failures, scams, and disasters. First bookmarked when the site launched in December 2021, before it became widely cited.
Invisible College — Web3 Education DAO
Invisible College is a DAO using an NFT membership model to fund and deliver web3 education — the 'DegenU' concept. NFT holders fund the DAO's treasury and get access to courses, community, and governance over the educational program.