A Solana Forehead Tattoo

Plus, A Wu-Tang Clan Crypto Explainer

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Club happenings:

  • We’re going full Dune with Wormhole and dYdX in Brussels at our second annual Anon Ball. Are you in?

  • Our friends at All Things Go invited the Boys to come hang at their NYC festival featuring Chappell Roan, Ethel Cain, Reneé Rapp and more. We’re going, are you? Should we make a thing of it???????

  • Listen to angel and brilliant legal mind Amanda Tuminelli give a briefing on the state of crypto regulation in the US on today’s pod.

Bye!

The Boys

Writer: Deana

Wu-Tang. You can pay $1 (or .00028 ETH) for access to a secret, high-concept Wu-Tang album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” The lore runs deep, and I’ll do my best to keep it brief. The TLDR is that after its creation, pharma bro Martin Shkreli purchased it, then he went to jail for securities fraud and his assets were seized. Art collective PleasrDAO then bought it at auction, but the rights of the purchase dictated that it couldn’t be played publicly for 88 years. So, PleasrDAO is selling digital album collectibles for $1 each, with each sale bringing the ‘listen date’ incrementally forward. All proceeds from the sale are split with every artist involved in the making of the album. There was a vibey listening event in NYC last weekend. Martin Shkreli is thriving, moisturized, in his lane, etc. as the villain of this story. It’s all hitting mainstream press, and people might be hating crypto a little less as a result? Smart people also tell me that the smart contract is a DN404 which means the album collectible is v. tradable because it can live on both NFT and ERC-20 rails. Filed under: cool consumer crypto things.

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Quick Hits. Iggy Azalea called Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, “daddy” and they need to put it in the Louvre. Trump held a fundraiser in San Francisco, and called himself the “crypto president.” 10 $MOTHER tokens to anyone who can tell me who, besides the Winklevoss twins, were the “other crypto leaders” in attendance. The Kardashian x Bryan Johnson x Huberman crossover episode that we all should’ve seen coming.

🏝️ Oasis Onchain grants for builders in the global south.

🤝 First, Crypto The Game gets acquired by Uniswap, then it gets an Emmy nomination. What can’t this team do?

🐸 Blake writes about the history of Pepe for Outland Art.

✨ SheFi Summit, Brussels edition! Use ticket code BOYSCLUB10 for a discount.

📖 Speaking of Brussels summits, check out the Programmable IP Summit from our friends at Story Protocol.

🗽 Next week! New York! New Internet City.