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I wake up every day to document the weirdest, cringiest, most creative and entertaining corner of the internet.

Today is no exception.

In today’s edition:

• Crypto Twitter has a new addiction (it’s weird)

• The Mint and Watch Lists

• Four fresh drops

Links for the Mint/Watch list drops are HERE.

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Crypto Twitter has a new addiction (it’s weird)

A social media platform called friend.tech launched earlier this month and is quickly rising the ranks of “hilariously dystopian things that might also make you money”.

Here’s how it works:

1. People make accounts by linking a wallet and Twitter profile

2. This creates a token in their name that anyone can buy and sell

3. Buying tokens also gives access to a private chat with the person

4. Creators make royalties as people buy/sell their tokens (some are making a killing)

5. An airdrop is coming and transactions earn “points” that will apply

Since launching on August 10, friend.tech has hit 1 million transactions, 80k unique buyers, and a combined market cap that’s comfortably in the millions.

Not bad for a janky app made by an anon team and launched on a brand new layer 2 (Base).

What people are saying

Basically, you’ll find three camps…

This is a ponzi and will crash soon.

This is a ponzi and will pump soon (but then crash). 

This is a huge deal and will get much larger than anyone expects.

Bottom line

Friend.tech is a sign of where we’re heading.

Forget the app itself, which barely works, has a botting problem, and uses a hyper-aggressive bonding curve that won’t fly with literally anyone outside of the pure gamblers on crypto Twitter.

More importantly, friend.tech is an onchain spectacle. People are flocking to it because it’s social entertainment with stakes.

“Influencers as a stock market” is a very simple mechanic that is both ridiculous and addictive. There are a million reasons why it shouldn’t exist, but it’s hard to look away.

We’ve been getting hints all year that people want gamified event-like experiences.

• Dookey Dash

• Hamster Races

• Opepen raffles

Whether friend.tech breaks into the mainstream or dies a fiery death, it’s yet another sign that there’s a massive new genre on the way.

NOTE: These drops are lightly curated. Our only requirement is that they have recognizable founders. As usual, DYOR. To learn more go here.

Manifold × Onchain Summer

Manifold, the hugely popular minting platform for creators over the past year (including yours truly), is launching their own drop on Base later today as part of Onchain Summer.

The only thing we know for now is that they’ll be bringing some of their favorite artists, which just like the rest of Onchain Summer, we expect to mint as open editions.

Team Alpine Reddit Avatar Collection

We’ve got another big partnership for Reddit collectible avatars coming this Wednesday as Alpine, a French Formula One team, gears up (pun intended) for an avatar launch.

This was actually leaked last Thursday by @JPEGsForDummies, an anon Twitter user, only to get confirmed by Reddit themselves the next day.

Although Reddit avatar sales have slowed down recently, collaborative releases of this sort can attract new collectors, especially if the prices are affordable.

Transit by Heeey

A pleasant surprise for me recently has been the market performance of Bright, the debut Art Blocks collection from pseudonymous artist Heeey, who made a name for themselves by curating outputs from Tyler Hobbs’s QQL.

Recently announced Transit is their follow-up.

This affordable mint features art inspired by public transport maps, a muse we’ve seen a lot of this year.

Affine Pass

DeFi yield protocol Affine will launch their Affine Pass soon. It’s a free mint that provides discounts on protocol fees and priority access to their basket strategies.

The team has raised a total of $7M, with the latest $5M coming from big contributors like Coinbase and Circle this year.

The Mint List

1. Taproot Wizards. OG Bitcoin meme inscribed as ordinals

2. Genesis SFT Pass. Digital anime collectibles from a notable team

3. LUCI: Chapter 5. Follow-up from artist with esteemed collector base

4. 10KTF PFP. Drop from a team that includes Yuga and Beeple

5. Shadow Hats. Ordinals drop from the creators of Forgotten Runes

6. Project Animus. RTFKT's biggest launch since Clone-X

7. Symbiogenesis. Square Enix's upcoming gaming NFT

8. Quasi Dragons. Innovative drop from an Art Blocks veteran

9. Sugartown Oras. Zynga, Farmville creators, releasing free NFTs

10. Memeland [TBC]. High-value treasure MVPs minting on BTC