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GM folks. It’s been a week since our last post but we’re back to our normal weekly cadence and we come bearing good news. By the recent uptick in subscribers we’ve seen over the last week or so, we can confidently say that the NFT bull market is back. We hope you’re all nice and cozy in your jpeg bags because the funs just begun. If you’ve been following along over the last few months you should be quite happy, this was a “winter” worth waiting through. New mints are selling out again, discords are popping, and the vibes are generally great.
PSA: With all the positivity in the air, we wanted to come up with a way to reward you for sharing the MC alpha with your friends…
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Macro Update
“Can’t we go back to the time when we were all just trading pictures of cartoons and animals with each other.” Well folks, you got what you asked for. Volatile week for ETH continuing to chop in the 3k range, setting us up nicely for this NFT run, with some projects just absolutely mooning lately. Doodles is above a 9 ETH floor at the time of writing, MAYC above 13 ETH, and BAYC is hovering around a whopping 70 ETH floor – even some “dead” projects gaining towards their original mint price.
It feels like almost out of nowhere, the non-fungies are back and surprisingly, PFP projects are leading the way. Even derivatives (we’re not a fan of these) like Coodles are hitting 3-4x from mint price. Run ups in projects like Alien Frens (shoutout BTB who just jumped onboard) and DeadFellaz are other great examples of newer PFP projects that take inspiration from popular blue chips like Cool Cats and continue to run. Even Little Lemon Friends is almost hit 1 eth floor, was under .2 a week or so ago. It’s impossible to keep up right now, so we’ll cover the projects we’re still in and that we’ve previously covered, and touch on a new hot mint as well.
It is our belief that as ETH continues to chop like it is, the NFT bull run will continue, so with that in mind, look for dips (there WILL be dips) to snag deals off of paperhands – especially be on the lookout for rares unknowingly listed near floor (happens all the time).
Final note. Coinbase is still yet to release it’s NFT platform, which has more users on the waitlist than active users on opensea… do with that info what you will, anon.
New Mint: Sprite Club
Twitter Exclusive Discord Invite
As we enter round 2 of the NFT bull market, we’re super excited about Sprite Club. We gave an intro in our last edition but here we’ll take a bit of a deeper dive into the project here. We think Sprites are a bit under-the-radar, but we see it as strategic, maintaining exclusivity with a tight knit discord.
This project will be a White List-only mint and you can’t just join the discord, you have to follow their twitter for unique discord invites. What we love about this is that it keeps the community tight and removes bots / spammers. The Sprites discord is super fun and active, full of NFT enthusiasts like Apes, Doodles, Cool Cats, and more who are trying to make sure the project is growing organically. Not to mention they already have die hard fans who have gotten tattoos, yes, pre-mint!
*Lucky for you, we have an Discord Invite that will be live for 24 hours.*
Side note: we do not recommend getting a tattoo of an NFT project, especially before it even launches… That being said, we also would not fade a project where the community believes this strongly in its success.
Not another copy-pasta mint: lucky enough for us we got to chat with the Sprite founders and they gave us a comprehensive overview of their mint process, which we briefly covered in the last edition. Essentially, there are 5 different classes of sprites, with various abilities and personalities. As apart of the “choose your own adventure” minting process, you will answer a short series of questions, the team will then aggregate your answers tied to your specific address, and you will be able to mint a Sprite based on your own personality. A couple of thoughts on this:
This gives people a personal reason to connect with the community and will most likely decrease the amount of holders looking for a quick flip.
It gives the team the right knowledge about their community to provide a personalized experience.
We haven’t seen a project do anything like this which we think is something worth taking notice of. Luckily for you, we’ll be giving away discord/WL spots in our community discord so hop in and say what's up. On the whole, this project checks all our boxes – fully doxxed team, hosts weekly AMAs and twitter spaces, unique art from Ofelia, and a team full of “full time crypto” members.
For a much deeper dive and to hear directly from the creators themself, check out this very recently published Medium article.
As always, DYOR.
Creepz!!!!
Again, do not fade projects where the community members get tattoos. This project is simply just a well oiled machine, from mint to claim to reveal. Within the first 2 hours of the reveal there was already a 20 ETH sale and a 30 ETH sale. We don’t even know where to begin here but we’re super excited that many of you were able to join us and mint. We don’t always get it right, but we do, we go big, and boy are we glad we went big with the Creepz.
At the time of writing this we’re just around a .6ETH floor (hopefully higher by the time you’re reading this). At a ~10x thus far, this rocket ship doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. We gave away a bunch of WL spots and know many of you got involved because of us. Many of you max minted and are sitting pretty right now (obviously were not financial advisors and it’s never a bad idea to take profits). It’s also worth noting that since inception, there has never been more than 10% of the collection listed for sale (only around 7% right now) and staking hasn’t even begun yet.
We have 0 plans to sell anytime soon and believe in the long term vision of Joe and Dom. Every project talks about a roadmap and building some sort of game, utility, staking, yada yada yada. The Creepz team actually built out their entire ecosystem before even dropping. Let me repeat this, essentially the project already has its 2022 roadmap built out and fully functional, and will be rolling the mechanics out for season 1 later this week. All information is on creepz.co. Again, highly recommend hopping in the discord since it’s one of the most fun communities to hangout and to simply learn more (whether you’re part of the invasion or not).
Chubbifrens
Took a while but our bullish thesis is finally playing out here. We’ve been holding on tight due to the extremely active community and fully functioning DAO. Was sitting around a .04 floor for over one month, but the team kept building and the memes kept coming. Project is at a nice ~9-10x from where we mentioned buying and 4x from mint (.37 at time of writing). We’ve covered this project a bunch but it seems like the puzzle pieces are starting to fall into place here and the excitement is ramping up again. Remember, they have a partnership with Axolittles as well and are pretty integrated throughout the pudgy penguins community also.
The chubbiverse team also continues to plan/launch new initiatives, and there’s plenty of whales who haven’t sold any (9x9x9 is one of the largest holders here). We’ve mentioned this a bunch but we think the commercial appeal of funny cute animals is going to be eaten up by NFT normies with the new coinbase nft platform. With celebs like Steve Aoki aping into Chubbicorns at a 13 ETH floor (6.5ETH at time of writing), we wouldn’t be surprised to see the chubbiverse take off in a bull market in a similar meme-fueled frenzy as the penguins. A lot of bright things on the horizon for the chubbies.
Axolittles Update
Another project changing leadership teams here. Nate and members of the discord are taking over, this article is a good explainer. Since the announcement the floor has gone from .04 to .13 and the volume has seen a major uptick. According to Nate in the AMA, right now the main focus is to scale the team and hire some new members and really grow the project. Axo’s were another project we were bullish on, and they got a lot of attention around the time Pudgy Penguins blew up. A lot of whales were involved and a strong community was forming, but the team wasn’t delivering. Mods have stuck around through and through without being paid a penny and working harder than the founding team. Anyways, we wouldn’t fade Nate here, who has a great track record and is one of the largest holders here.
Sappy Seals
Wanted to do a quick note on seals here. The founder Sappy seals hopped in the penguins discord to discuss community. No reason to dive deep here but he had a lot of good advice for the penguins and the seals have really built something out of nothing. Sappy seals fall in the same realm of cute pfp projects but has always been known for its “great” founders. While we don’t think the art is special and this project was considered a joke by many, 50% of the holders stake their seals and the floor has risen slowly and steadily from .1 to .4 over the last month or so. Say what you want about the seals but their proof that a good inclusive community can lead to price appreciation, with only 6% of the total supply listed for sale.
Web3 Careers:
Welcome to our first Web3 jobs update for 2022! The last week has been really light due to the New Year, but we’re excited about this week’s list which includes a couple of positions at Coinbase NFT, software dev positions at Reddit for their upcoming NFT platform, and roles with Tom Brady’s NFT company Autograph.
An interesting development we’ve seen in the space is NFT projects are hiring for more traditional C-Suite roles including Axolittles who just hired a new COO. These moves underscore how these projects are truly businesses, not just art projects.
Let us know if you’re hiring for incredible roles or if there are other types of opportunities you’d like to see in this section! Tweet/DM us @MintCalendar, @TheChild1996, or send an email to officialmintcalendar@gmail.com.
Community Building and Safety:
Product Policy Advisor, Trust & Safety (Coinbase)
Senior Manager, CX NFT Content Moderation Ops (Coinbase)
Discord Community Manager (Autograph)
Strategy/Miscellaneous:
Web3/DAO Co-founder (Unnamed VC backed music tech start up)
Specialist, NFT (Sotheby’s)
Music Partnerships Manager (Opensea)
Marketing:
Marketing & Community Manager - NFT (Strata Gallery)
Chief Marketing Officer (Lympo)
Software Development:
Blockchain Engineer (Autograph)
Senior Android Engineer, NFT Platform (Reddit)
Senior iOS Engineer, NFT Platform (Reddit)
That’s all folks! Hope you all enjoyed this week's addition. Feel free to shoot us a DM on Twitter or email us with what you’d like to see more of! We’re super active on twitter so also feel free to tag us in anything interesting.
If you’re feeling friendly feel free to share this with anyone who you feel might otherwise fall into the NGMI category.
Most of all, have a wonderful week!
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Disclaimer about sponsorships: We’ve been getting A LOT of dms about sponsorships and upcoming drops. Many are NGMI but a few projects stood out and have teams that we’ve taken the time to speak with and are excited to share info on in the near future. If you're launching a new project and are looking to work with us on promotion and/or consultation on how to plan a successful drop, feel free to slide in the DMs in Twitter.