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In today’s edition:

• Free Factory NFTs for everyone

• Updated rankings

• Five new drops (with two making the Watch List)

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Free Factory NFTs for everyone

Context

Dimensionals, an upcoming RPG collectible game, is releasing their second free NFT collection on July 6.

Details:

• Collection name: Eves

• Supply: 2,000 NFTs

• Price: FREE

You can get WL by either staking a Dimensionals Genesis Stone or by winning a spot through one of their regularly scheduled WL events announced via their Twitter.

Our take

So if I asked you to make the Best Collectible Of All Time, how would you go about it?

Well off the top of my head I can think of a few features:

1. It needs to be scarce, obviously. You can’t get excited about a holographic Charizard if there are 2k of them for every man, woman and child.

2. You need an engaging story around it. Being rare isn’t enough – why should people care?

3. It should probably be old. The best collectibles age like wine. You need to prove it has lasting cultural relevance and time is the only test.

4. It needs to have a market. Price is the easiest way to figure out how desirable a collectible is.

5. There needs to be a sense of fairness. Stories like this one, where Pokemon factories were lifting rare cards before putting them in packs, kill enthusiasm.

You might disagree with some of these, but we can agree that it’s a monumental challenge, to say the least.

And yet – this is literally the mission statement at Mino Games, the Web3 company building Dimensionals.

Like, their founder Sasha Mackinnon goes on Twitter spaces and unironically says they’re trying to make the “best-limited edition collectibles of all time”.

And investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, have heard his pitch and have so far given them $25 million to do exactly this.

Ok, fair enough – but how do they get there?

Well so far we’ve seen Dimensionals Phase 1, and now we’re about to enter Phase 2.

Phase 1 was Factory NFTs

A Factory NFT is a collectible that continues to create or give access to other collectibles over time. If the underlying project scales, then those Factory NFTs should become the most valuable items within that world.

In this case, those were the Genesis Dimensionals Stones, which launched for free back in March and now trade for thousands of dollars.

And those stones can now be staked to gain access to the next free Dimensionals collection: Eves.

So far, nothing too crazy. Genesis tokens have been receiving airdrops since the dawn of time.

But Eves will then take us into Phase 2, which Sasha believes is where things really get spicy.

Phase 2 is Alpha Trials

So remember, they’re building a playable game. And the game is about to enter its alpha stage.

But instead of doing the usual private closed-door alpha that most games do, they’re going to turn this into, essentially, live-streamed game shows that also act as NFT mints.

Here’s how it’ll work:

• 6 streamed events

• Players will get a chance to beat in-game bosses

• The first ones to win get free NFTs

• Everyone else who wins enters a raffle for NFTs as well

• You need an Eve (or a Genesis stone) to play

The free NFTs you win are called Heroes. If we want to use Pokemon as a model, which they’re clearly doing, then Eves are the Pikachus that act as companions, and Heroes are the actual battling Pokemon (which come in the form of packs).

In other words, Heroes will be the largest supply NFTs in Dimensionals, and they’ll be rolled out as part of a Slow Mint through events like these trials

The closest thing we’ve seen to Alpha Trials in Web 3 is probably Dookey Dash, Yuga’s viral mini-game that ended with someone winning a golden key and then selling it for $1.6 million dollars.

This kind of viral, high-stakes gaming has a bright future

So it’s cool to see more attempts at it.

Long term, the goal seems to be a game combined with increasingly flashier events. People play, more people watch, packs are won and hopefully yield super rare items that can be sold for millions of dollars, which then makes the next event even more hype, etc.

It seems clear that this genre will exist. Whether Dimensionals are the ones to pull it off is TBD, but they certainly have the resources and attention to give it a real try.

✨ Mint List #5 ✨

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

ENERGY by ZORA

ZORA, perhaps the vibiest NFT minting platform, just released ZORA NETWORK, its own Ethereum Layer 2 in collaboration with Optimism, lowering transaction fees and enhancing scalability.

To showcase the new network, they’ve released a free open edition, ENERGY, which will require you to bridge ETH to the new L2.

Yours Truly just gave it a spin and I was impressed by the quick transactions and ease of use. Just don’t go ham on the funding as it currently takes 7 days to withdraw funds using the bridge.

#RrGgBb by neurocolor

Mexican multimedia artist neurocolor has been captivating web3 audiences with his neon glitch creations since early 2020 and now boasts a sales record & collector base that most artists could only ever dream of.

He’s teamed up with Foundation for this collection: 72 kaleidoscopic 1/1s sold through the platform’s new Dutch Auction mechanism, which starts today at 1 PM ET.

The auction’s exceedingly low resting price of 0.01 ETH makes it possibly the cheapest entry into the artist’s ecosystem in a long time.

✨ Added to Watch List ✨

Parallel Avatars

Parallel, one of the best-selling NFT projects ever and perhaps the most anticipated web3 TCG yet, is launching a PFP avatar collection with OpenSea this July.

We expect the public mint to be affordable. Early access sales for existing Parallel collectors is currently priced at only 11 $PRIME ($20), and a portion of the avatar supply is set aside as rewards for beta players later in the year.

This game is too well-funded and polished for us to ignore so we’ve….

✨ Added to Watch List ✨

Ninjalerts Ordinals

Ninjalerts, a marketplace aggregator and popular alerts tool founded by Trevor Owens, is expanding into Ordinals and launching a 1,500 supply collection this July.

The collection offers platform benefits and is inscribed on Rare Pizza Sats, leveraging this cheesy characteristic in their ongoing WL campaign.

I’ll be keeping a close eye on this one, given the ordinal market's dire need for functioning tools.

Haas x RENGA Racing

There are few partnerships as unexpected as this one, which sees an American F1 racing team enter web3 draped in Dirty Robot’s popular anime art style.

What this partnership entails, you ask?

Well, we know that an NFT collection is coming, but that’s about it for now. We pray that their web3 advisors make the right calls.

The Mint List

1. Taproot Wizards. OG Bitcoin meme inscribed as ordinals

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

3. Symbiogenesis. Square Enix's upcoming gaming NFT

4. Garbage Friends. New PFP from the creator of Invisible Friends

5. Dimensionals - EVE. Free gaming PFP from doxxed studio

6. 10KTF PFP. Drop from a team that includes Yuga and Beeple

7. Tony Babel x Typical Friends. Limited edition from the popular artist

8. Ether. Anime PFP collection by viii, an artist with a cult following

9. World Flag by Gerrard. AB x Pace drop featuring an established artist

10. Glacier Dreams by Refik Anadol. AI art from the MoMA exhibitor