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“It’s pretty fun,” says Nieman Lab about Clone (our new tech and culture news aggregator with our friends at Dirt!!) We’re throwing a little get together in celebration of Clone’s launch on Friday in Brooklyn, come thru.

Also, we will be in London next week for the Avalanche Summit, come thru. Ticket discounts below.

Also, we’ll be livestreaming at noon ET today covering Airbnb, the Ross Ulbricht collection, Believe app and internet capital markets, the new Spring Breakers cast and the weird baby podcast phenomenon. Special guests Quasimatt and the Duchess of Bushwick will be on to talk about the #SaveEthereum dance.

Bye!

The Boys

Writer: Deana

We are headed to the Avalanche Summit next week near London to see speakers like Meltem Demirors of Crucible Capital and Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital. Will we see you there?

Register now and use promo code BOYSCLUB30 for discounted tickets.

Punks Leave Apes. CryptoPunks said byeee to their corporate daddies, Yuga Labs. Their new home is the newly formed nonprofit called the Infinite Node Foundation, which just got a $25M infusion of cash. NODE’s goal is to protect the 10,000 Punks, likened to cave paintings, give them the legitimacy of 'real art,’ and show them in NODE’s upcoming Palo Alto hub. That’s cool. What’s up with Yuga Labs though? I must say there’s not a ton of Yuga love in the Punks announcement posts, plus Apes price is flat…Yuga, u good?

Coinbase is rich. Coinbase will join the S&P 500 on  May 19, replacing Discover cards (RIP) ((no actually just merging with Capital One)) to become the index’s first true blue crypto company. Coinbase’s stock rallied alongside a broader crypto market upswing, with Ethereum leading the pack up 45% so far in May. FINALLY.

Quick Hits.

• New scam playbook dropped. US shell companies + stablecoins + encrypted chats = money laundering bonanza.

• Drink-to-earn seltzer. “Each case costs $69.69.”

• Series A deal count has fallen nearly 80% in 3 years.

• How video game sex scenes are made.

• “How did I end up on Meta fanfic TikTok?”

🦿 Addie Wagenknecht’s art always makes me feel something.

🏕️ FEST lineup reveal & tickets on sale.

📈 Dylan talking about the art market on Technology Brothers.