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In today’s edition:

• Fun mints flying under the radar

• The Mint & Watch Lists

• 4 new drops

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Fun mints flying under the radar

This is the third edition of the Magic Loot Bus, a new series we started a couple of months ago.

What’s the Magic Loot Bus?

You know when you visit your friend in New York City for a culture trip and they say “I got just the spot to show you” and they end up taking you to…Times Square?

This is the opposite of that.

It’s more like visiting the haunted forbidden section of Central Park after 1 AM or a Brooklyn Pizzeria that doesn't have a single Yelp review and hasn’t changed its menu since 1921 (including the prices).

We’re going off the beaten path, finding gems that maybe aren’t getting as much love as they should, including:

• weird mints

• fun mini-games

• onchain spectacles

• fascinating new products, etc.

Now take your seat and let's get started.

NFTA

@nftadotpl

The longer I stay in NFTs, the less aversion I have to speculation games.

As long as everyone understands that it is, in fact, a speculation game, then these can end up being pretty entertaining.

NFTA is a perfect example. This is a new onchain game launched by @sammybauch and @zerobeta where people compete to make the best daily ETH price prediction.

Here’s how it works:

1. Everyday at 12 PM ET a new game begins

2. For 24 hours, everyone can draw an ETH price prediction chart

3. You then mint your chart (min 0.001375 ETH, max 0.01 ETH)

4. The most accurate prediction chart wins

5. The prize: all the mint proceeds (minus a 10% fee)

The image above shows Zerobeta’s previous high score winning chart, where he received a prize of 0.045675 ETH.

It’s still in beta, so expect some turbulence.

Fluint

@FluintArt

Per the official website:

This is a great example of collaborative art creation.

It’s like Twitch Plays Pokemon, where the chat controls every single player's movement, except in this case, it’s minters controlling a robotic arm that makes zen-like art from floating ink on water (called Suminagashi).

Very cool, and with only ~500 Twitter followers, very underrated.

The next series is starting soon with a new and improved livestream studio.

Basepaint 

@basepaint_xyz

Another multiplayer art project (feeling cozy with your online friends yet)?

How this one works:

1. Mint a brush for 0.0026 ETH (or buy on OS)

2. Each brush comes with limited pixels per day

3. Use those pixels to help paint on a collaborative canvas

4. Every day the painting is turned into an Open Edition NFT

5. The mint proceeds go to the artists based on how many pixels they added

The UI here is great, with a very smooth painting experience and even a side chat to help coordinate (requires ENS).

And so far, artists have already made an impressive 60 ETH from mint proceeds.

Amorphous and The Gods (Cartae)

@0xdiid

We highlighted this series from 0xdiid earlier this week, but it’s worth expanding on it more here (because it’s cool).

Those of us who grew up with card games (Pokemon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh) know that ripping packs is honestly half the reason we started playing in the first place.

0xdiid is collaborating with artists to recreate that experience in a way that we think could become more popular.

Essentially, artists provide a collection of pieces that are formatted to fit the frame and look of a collectible card.

Then, the pieces are given different rarities (e.g. 1/4, 1/32, 1/128, etc) and sold in fully onchain randomized packs that come with 4 NFTs.

Why is this cool?

There’s a big group of artists who make collections in, say, the 10-100 piece range. Now they can use something like 0xdiid’s card pack framework (which is open source) to expand this to a much larger audience while keeping the price affordable.

For example, both Amorphous (minting now) and The Gods (next up in the series) use 16 pieces of art to create a supply of 1024 NFTs priced at 0.04 ETH.

Great for the artist, and honestly more fun to mint.

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

RESIDENCY by adidas

Another platform turns to digital art releases in the midst of the bear market as Adidas launches RESIDENCY. This program showcases emerging artists physically and digitally, with the next drop featuring editions from MONKEEMOTO and dear nostalgia.

While both of these artists are relatively new to Ethereum, MONKEEMOTO previously dabbled in XRP NFTs (hopefully the first and last time you’ll hear me mention those) and dear nostalgia is best known for her Instagram work.

Although formally launching now, the program technically started in late March with the release of Through the Stripes by Raws.

Torrent by Jeres

Jeres, an LA-based artist boasting a prolific body of NFT work (particularly on fxhash and objkt), will make their Art Blocks debut next Wednesday with Torrent, a Curated release.

Inspired by water-related disasters, the collection aims to illustrate the effect of time on human perspectives, and it does it in a chaotically vibrant watercolor style that we don’t see often in generative art.

This one feels like a considerably differentiated AB Curated release, so I’ve…

✨ Added to Watchlist ✨

anotherblock: Company by Justin Bieber

Are you a true belieber, anon?

Anotherblock, a marketplace for music rights recently featured in Base’s Onchain Summer, is dropping royalty-sharing NFTs for Justin Bieber’s 2016 single Company.

These let you own a share of the song’s streaming royalties (but not the IP), meaning you get paid every time the song plays on spotify, apple music, etc.

Just remember to take a look at the final details before taking out that second mortgage.

*US minters are geo-blocked for this one. Thanks, Mr. Gensler.

money clicc drop by neurocolor

Mexican multimedia artist neurocolor will bring his neon glitch creations to the money_clicc collective next month.

This continues the collective’s streak of working with renowned artists in the space, showing a distinct variety in genre each time (the previous two artists were diewiththemostlikes and Guido Di Salle).

Like previous releases, this one’s an exclusive for money_clicc familia NFT holders.

The Mint List

1. Taproot Wizards. OG Bitcoin meme inscribed as ordinals

2. 10KTF PFP. Drop from a team that includes Yuga and Beeple

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

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

5. Deafbeef x Bright Moments. OG onchain creator with a track record

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

7. Distance by Mapan. Cactoid Labs x LACMA x influential artist

8. Glacier Dreams by Anadol. AI collection from the MoMA exhibitor

9. Symbiogenesis. Square Enix's upcoming gaming NFT

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