if you truly love food, you'll open this letter 😆

GM Baos.

I heard ETH was supposed to moon or something, I hope you're still right since I bought at 1600 🙂

I’m loaded with stories today – I’m particularly fascinated by how the web2 & web3 world interacts.

Here's what I mean:

• Solana’s opens a physical store

• NFT World’s response to Minecraft

• Get some robo-dogs to find your bitcoin

• FEATURE ✨ – Food Fighters Universe

Solana’s physical store in NYC

W H A T.

Solana Spaces is here, and no one was ready for it.

At first I thought this was a Twitter page dedicated to Twitter Spaces – a bold move.

Turns out it was bigger than I ever imagined 😳

“Inside, we get to learn about how Solana works, what Web3 is. We’ll set you up with a wallet and your first NFTs, and guide you through your first on chain transactions.”

Seeing this on my feed shocked me – but it is epic to see a popular L1 having a physical space. We can now see, feel and experience our magic internet money!

All in all, we’re getting closer to normalising the names of different blockchains that are now developing their own brands & culture.

Is this a bullish SOL signal to you, Y/N?

NFT Worlds will build it’s own world

We all sat wondering how NFT Worlds could come back after Minecraft banned third party NFTs.

NFT Worlds announced they will build their own world! They also commented “Microsoft, Mojang, and Minecraft have signalled they have no regard for creators, builders, and players” 🔥

TLDR

✨ Build a new game & platform from the ground up based on many core mechanics of Minecraft🚀 Improved game mechanics, graphics, and performance optimisations for improved accessibility, ownership, and play experience♻️ Prioritise backwards compatibility with existing Minecraft servers allowing for smooth transition

With the Otherside launching their “First Trip”, NFT Worlds building their own environment, it’s very polarising - where do you stand on NFT land?

Will you ape in? 😛

Food Fighters Universe continues EXPANSION 🔥

Yum.

Food Fighters Universe (FFU) are the first NFT Restaurant Group in the space, with the goal of uniting web2 & web3. Despite the bear market, they’ve been investing heavily in building out their ecosystem 🔥

Their first restaurant, Bored & Hungry, is powered by FFU and was the first NFT restaurant that exercised utilisation of IP.

You gotta be following these talented entrepreneurs – Andy Nguyen, Kevin Seo, and Phillip Huynh – with years of experience in developing food businesses like Hello Kitty Cafe , Care Bears x Dough & Arrow, and Rick and Morty x Afters Ice Cream.

Join the FOOD FIGHT? Here’s what they’ve done so far.

🇺🇸 Bored & Hungry opens up first store in Long Beach, CA being the first restaurant to accept $ETH and $APE👕 Partnered with Complexland at a Metaverse Retail Experience, collabing with epic projects like ours 😉🍦 Partnered with Snoop Dog to launch custom ice cream Dr. Bombay’s Sweet Exploration🌮 Partnered with Champ Medici to launch Bored Taco🇰🇷 First International location in South Korea**! Launching fall 2022.🧨 DegenToonz takes over Bored & Hungry for one month with TOONZ MEALS!🍔 Partnered with 12 locations for FFU Token holders to redeem monthly meals with your ETH wallet

I don’t know about the rest of you all - but I’m getting HUNGRY. 🤤

Wen bao burgers? Wen eat?

What would you do to recover $175m in Bitcoin

James Howells threw out a “blank” hard drive.

Turns out this bad boy had eight THOUSAND bitcoins.

9 year later – James wants to raise $11m to recover it.

His plan? Glad you asked.

🤖 Get 2 Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs to sweep landfill to find anything that resembles a hard drive🧍‍♂️ Get 8 experts across landfill evacuation and waste management💻 Get AI powered machines to find hard drives like the one James lost

Even if he could find his hard drive, theres a 70-80% chance he can access the bitcoins.

What would you do to recover $175m? 🥴 I’m torn….

Bao-sized news

• Who wants to be paid in crypto? A global survey shows 100K contractors worldwide would rather be paid in crypto than fiat.

• Twitter reports a $270m loss for Q2. They blamed this on the uncertainty around the proposed takeover by Elon Musk.

• Crypto Punk #6412 giveaway. In partnership with TiffanyAndCo – what?! Follow @dt_chain, @Chain, @TiffanyAndCo & @alexarnault for more details.

Giveaways

We have three running in Discord right now. Enter here.

Internal Alpha

A few projects that have launched this week are seeing an increase in floor price pre-reveal. Something we haven’t quite seen in a few weeks! 🥳

KATATONIK Mint Price: 0.15ETH ATH Floor Price: 0.4ETH

ISEKAI META Public Mint Price: 0.25ETH Whitelist Mint Price: 0.15ETH ATH Floor Price: 0.75ETH

MYSTICS Whitelist Mint Price: 0.059ETH Public Mint Price: 0.069ETH ATH Floor Price: 0.18ETH

Which leads to the question… is the whitelist meta back? 🤔

Nevertheless, comparing to the slump we were in a few weeks back, there is relief in seeing high quality, WL projects selling out!

-Keane

Happy hump day, hah.

–Lili