Flex your Fins

Blubber Notes #8 - Alpha for Future NFT Whales

Dear Future Whales,

In today’s note, it’s all about the “Flex.” I feature a recently minted project and an upcoming one, some hardware resources to “flex” your NFTs and of course the good stuff, Alpha!

As an update for those who participated in the 0xThulu Mint that I shared in last week’s note, their contract was exploited by an RPC attack that allowed a bot to mint over 5,000 of these NFTs for free and subsequently dump them in the secondary market. The net result was many in the community picking these up for almost nothing. The 0xThulu team quickly fixed the issue and provided a community-centered solution, giving me further faith in this project. Also, I’m expecting the project’s floor prices to take some time getting back to the original mint price range, due to so many community members holding several of these assets and then selling over time.

Summary of today's notes:

1. Featured Projects

2. Alpha Leaks

3. Best Resources for Displaying Your NFTs

Featured Projects:

Finiliar: These cute characters with Pokémon-like vibes will have a future connection to oracles (a framework for fetching off-chain data). This allows each character to respond to price fluctuations of specific cryptocurrencies; meaning they move and appear to be happy or sad based on the underlying movement of their respective cryptocurrency trait.

Source: Opensea.io (Has the Polygon Trait)

I don’t normally share projects like this, but these characters intrigue me and will soon flex in their own way as the team enables more movement and emotion. Ownership comes with full commercial rights, similar to BYAC and Punks, and there’s a plan to turn these into 3D, metaverse ready avatars. The floor is up quite a bit since mint price of .06 ETH.

Upcoming Mint: Sneaks of Nature.

There are many ways to flex, but shoes have to be near the top of the list. The project was created and inspired by a father and son’s love and passion around sneaker culture. Learn more about it here. Also, owning a Relics Pass will get you one for free.

Access the August 31st mint registration raffle here. Fair warning that its a bit pricey at .45 ETH.

Source: https://www.sneaksofnature.xyz/about

Alpha Leaks:

• Cryptowalkers - The CW team has been working on a staking mechanism where holders will be rewarded with prizes. Now confirmed is that Zombies & rarer traits will get more rewards for staking!

• Atari - I’m adding this to Alpha leaks because any project that can prey on your sense of nostalgia is usually interesting, plus I’m a sucker for old school video game collectibles. Register for the upcoming drop here. Registration closes on 9/5.

• FLUF World - Founder Aaron McDonald was in a leaky mood last night and dropped a few important nuggets of Alpha in Discord. 1st -It was confirmed that WETA workshop is working on additional assets beyond their Rayguns minted earlier in 2022. 2nd - Related to upcoming ecosystem rewards, holders who have held the longest will earn more of the reward, in addition to other metrics. In short, if you don’t own a Fluf yet now may be the time. Lastly, in case you’re wondering about where the Futureverse ecosystem (includes FLUF World) stacks up against Yuga Labs, see below:

  

  Source: Discord

Best Resources for Displaying Your NFTs:

If you’ve watched any of our Web3 Tea YouTube Live shows, then you may have noticed this frame behind my head. It’s made by TokenFrame and it allows you to cast any owned NFT from your wallet to the frame. It’s basically a television just for displaying NFTs. If you are looking for something like this, TokenFrame is one option, but MetaSill may be a better option. They are priced around the same, but the user setup is a bit easier for MetaSill.

Turn your favorite NFT into a canvas with Metarelics. Connect your wallet, choose an NFT and select a canvas size. I won’t say its cheap, but if you want to hang your NFTs as printed art, give it a shot!

Authored by Matt Bartlett, CAIA. Follow Matt on Twitter @MattBartlettVE.

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