Mama, kudos for saying that

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Club happenings:

• One day we’ll stfu about /brandnew, but that day isn’t today. Big big big love to all of our partners LUKSO, PayPal PYUSD, IYK, Seed Club, NEAR, Zora, Console, Uniswap, creative/people and Serotonin.

• Huge Boys Club + Sotheby’s Metaverse podcast partnership announcement! Listen to the first episode with Michael Bouhanna, VP and Head of Digital Art and NFTs at Sotheby’s.

• The Boys will be in Seoul with NEAR and KryptoPlanet, next week! If you’re there, come through to the official BUIDL Asia closing party. We’ll be posting dumb travel pics and skincare hauls on our Instagram, stay tuned.

• THE NET GALA with LUKSO.

Bye!

The Boys

Writer: Deana

Consumer Crypto Spring. The flowers are blooming, the grass is growing, and the spice is flowing - welcome to consumer crypto spring. Drakula is a new TikTok-ish video app that is on the rise. It leverages a Farcaster meme token, $DEGEN, for engagement rewards. Smart! The vibe is a little spooky though, ngl. Decentralized social media protocol Lens is also up bigly after opening up sign-ups.

BagFumbler.eth. The Solana token price kissed $200 this week, as much memecoin energy has been consolidating to that chain. Good thing I’m the president, CEO, and prime minister of the Solana Bag Fumblers Support Group. Also, what’s up with the crypto influencer bros suddenly tweeting about Base? It’s giving fit tea. Bitcoin’s price dropped 18% from last week’s euphoric all-time high. Crypto industry misogyny is alive and well. Also Outdoor Voices stores closed without warning, so something is in the air. BUT! Bitcoin ETF inflows broke records at $2.5B. Not nothing!

Music NFTs. James Blake did not end up ‘putting music on the Blakechain’ but he did launch a subscription service and gated chat for music super fans, which is web3-coded but not actually web3 coded. The Music NFT community had feelings about it. Ladidaix covered it best. Latashá did it all first. Go listen to GRLKRASH. Web3 music, creator-led music, smol songs - whatever it is, however you define it - is a thing and it has energy.

Memecoin Corner brought to you by the gaycoinz collective™ especially Paff, TokenGay and Riley.

A memecoin called $TICKER rugged after raising 975 ETH or over $3M on crowdfunding app Party. “I just draw dildo on the chart,” said the thief, somewhat cvntily I may add. Need a pallet cleanser? $SENDIT is more wholesome, rewarding people who create extreme sports memes on Farcaster with $SENDIT tokens. $SENDIT also used the power of crowdfunding on Party for good, not evil. The girlies are also yapping about $CRASH, which has some crispy lore, but ffs do your own research.

• 💕 Patti and @MRT shipped CrushGPT, a robot that will never ever get tired of questions about your crush.

• 🌸 Mint Aoife’s new illustration.

• ✨ Jules and Enso Collective launched an AI Attestor for your IRL life.

• 👀 Cessiah and UmojaProtocol for closed a $4M round.

• 🌈 Nicstalgia’s Dollz visual art project on Zora.

• 🏛️ Watchensee recapped a talk on web3 and museums.

• ✍️ Riley asked some existential questions facing DAOs with friends at Tally.