The Edge of NFT Newsletter | Issue #34
Giveaways | NFT LA Twitter Spaces | NFT LA 2023 Speakers! | Edge @ Art Basel Miami | Drops | NFT Nuggets, and More!
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🦊Howl Labs X Edge of NFT Giveaway
Howl Labs has partnered with Edge of NFT to give away 10x $1,000 credits to use towards their Marketing Communications Services!
Who Is Howl Labs?
Howl does a lot more than marketing here. Howl markets run public relations and help develop Web3 products at the intersection of culture, consumer goods, entertainment, and fintech. With PR and communications becoming some of the most important elements of growing a Web3 brand, Howl is a powerful solution for your development needs.
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🚢Nexus Voyagers X Edge of NFT Giveaway
Beyu Labs has partnered up with Edge of NFT to give away 5 Nexus Voyager PFP NFTs! (valued at 0.08 ETH)
What is BeYu Labs?
Beyu Labs is the driving force behind the Nexus Voyagers NFT drop. Nexus Voyagers are a digital hub of creators, developers and investors to collaborate on and build web3 projects. Their mission is to empower web3 entrepreneurship by bringing together project teams and investors, facilitating epic shared experiences, and dropping a one-of-a-kind NFT collection to tie the whole ecosystem together.
What is Nexus Voyagers?
NV is the genesis NFT drop by BeYu Labs, a collection of 10,119 crew members, primed for the genesis mission launch. On this voyage, crew members will have access to epic shared experiences, meaningful collabs, one of a kind NFT drops, and a future built for the community over time. The focus is on empowering Web3 entrepreneurship.
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🦜NFT LA Live Thrives on Twitter Spaces!
Next Up: 2022 observations & 2023 expectations
Join us Date: Dec 22nd, 2022, 7.30pm est / 4.30pm pst
Use the link above to set a reminder for our next live Twitter Spaces. Turn on Twitter notifications so that you don’t miss it!
Recap: Learn about Frictionless Web3 experiences…
Yesterday, we had an awesome session on Frictionless Web3 Experiences featuring: @richerd, co-founder of @manifoldxyz; @GrandpaApeJ, Tokenomics Analyst at @animocabrands; and @Jialing__Yang, co-founder of @meet_playground. It was a well attended session with a ton of engaging, thoughtful conversation.
🏖🏝 More NFT LA 2023 Speakers!
We're thrilled to announce more amazing speakers, musicians, artists, and creators who will be presenting at NFT LA 2023.
Spottie Wifi — CryptoPunk Rapper
Metta World Peace — Founder & Chairman of Artest Management Group
Wendy O — Founder of The O Show
Andrew Choi — Founder & CEO of SuperNormal
Cryptostache — The OG Champion of Web3 Gaming
Nicole Behnam — Founder of Beyond The Interview
David Broome — Co-Founder & CEO at Orange Comet
Pablo Stanley — Artist, Co-Founder & CEO of Bueno
Stay tuned here and on Twitter for more exciting announcements of our initial speaker lineup for NFT LA 2023! If you would like to propose a great talk, applications can be submitted here.
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✈🏖Here’s What Happened! Edge @ Miami for Miami Art Week + Art Basel
A significant portion of our team just came back from visiting Miami for Art Basel and the surrounding tech and crypto activity. It was an incredible week packed with intense fun and serious business. Read below for a quick rundown of some highlights featuring social posts, videos and more!
It’s always fun to run into Spirit Seed holder and all-around badass in Web3, NFT Gigi of Crypto Tech Women!
And here we are with the @StashhApp crew @DcentralCon Miami. Behind the scenes, as they push out this unique creator contest for the first time.
ZK Advancer (Brinc & Animoca Brands) - Breakout Session at DCENTRAL Miami
We participated in some great events and talks, with the likes of Brinc, Animoca Brands and Sandbox.
The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator - Breakout Session at DCENTRAL Miami
Sandbox hosted a great session, and also a roaring Web3 party!
🏞A refreshing and therapeutic event to sooth the souls of us Web3 warriors…
We absolutely melted for this Web3 Wellness Experience at Art Basel last Friday. It was an intersection of art, tech, and wellness, along with immersive wellness experiences like breathwork, sound healing, vitamin shots, wellness shots, and juices. Participants enjoyed fantastical live experiences like plant music—where frequencies from vegetation, flowers and mushrooms are utilized to generate interactive experiences with nature. Violinist and DJ Yerahm Paul Lee entertained guests with binaural beats. And so much more. Oh my!
Special thanks to our very special partner Shira Lazar, as well as Jordana Reim of Peace Inside Live who co-created this event.
The event was also produced in collaboration with Weosh, SheBlooms, Prjct, Self Love Club, Infinite Spaces and Art Botanica
Still a leading #NFT community, @worldofwomennft celebrates #art & inclusivity
The World of Women Gala was a top notch event filled with incredible attendees!
How can you create a positive global impact in the NFT space? WoW has don it. Yam Karkai & Raphaël Malavieille, Co-Founders of World of Women, are creators and community stewards for this wonderful project. It’s the leading NFT community celebrating art, inclusivity, and equal opportunities for all.
🏖🌊V @ SCOPE Beach
VeeFriends was at Art Basel… were you? They have indeed left their mark in Miami this year with 3 events all in 1 day!
📢😍Check Out Our Awesome Art Basel YouTube Content!
🌟NFT Now’s The Gateway: “A Web3 Metropolis”🌟
We stopped in to chat w/ co-founder @mattmedved during #ArtBaselMiami while checking out some of the amazing digital art! #NFTs #nftart
The Edge team was in Miami for the Gateway event, a 5-day festival from Nov 29 - Dec 3. The Gateway event highlighted a new dawn for creators through an immersive gallery introducing NFTs to the masses. They moved beyond the digital screen in creating the first-ever web3 metropolis during Art Basel.
Over the course of 5 days, they took over 12 buildings and 2 city blocks in Downtown Miami to unite the Web3 community for a landmark experience unlike any other. The event formed an unprecedented nucleus for creative empowerment by featuring leading artists, community partners, speakers and performers.
🥩NFT Beef as Ed Zipco & Gmoney BRAWL at Art Basel Miami Web3 Influencer Awards🎖
Edge of NFT stopped to interview the newly crowned Hodl Champ Ed Zipco when the freshly doxxed Gmoney crashed the party with an epic elbow! Ed won the web3 Influencer Awards HODL belt but he can’t rest on his laurels — Gmoney’s comin’ for him!
🥳Crypto Influencer Awards with Founder Adam Charles✨
Trying to make sense of what just happened in the last video? Let Adam Charles explain…
Founder of the Crypto Influencer Awards @AdamCharlesMKT chatted with Edge of NFT about how the awards got started, how he knows Ed Zipco and MORE!
🧧NFT Artist Nadia Taiga Curatorial Director at Snark Art and | Art Basel Miami🎆
Edge of NFT caught up with Nadia Taiga, the executive and curatorial director of OG art and snark art while on the precipice of a monumental Christie’s auction. Nadia has collaborated with over 200 of the world's top artists. She produced various NFT art projects working with established artists from both the traditional and crypto art worlds. During Art Basel Miami we talked to her about her artist origin story and how it led her to literally live the dream!
Learn more about Snark. art and check out their OG Snart Art Collections! Their LIOM Mother Flock sculputer sold at Christie’s for 50 ETH just days after our interview!
🎊NFT Project CloneX Web3 Showcase From RTFKT | Art Basel Miami🎊
#CloneX @RTFKT was also at #ArtBaselMiami. RTFKT.com community manager @cas3333333 took some time to chat with Edge of NFT during Art Basel Miami where we learned more about the CloneX NFT project while trying on some virtual animus egg helmets! Holders of CloneX can claim their Animus Eggs from the RTFKT official site. Artifact and Cass33 have a lot of cool stuff going on in the future, so be sure to follow them and the space in general.
🎼Web3 Musician and Rug Radio Team Member Past3l On Latest NFT🎼
We ran into NFT musician Past3l during Art Basel Miami and got to chat about his recent genesis #musicnft project and more! Past3l is a member of the Rug Radio team and creative director and singer of the metaverse group the Morphatones which live inside the MB3 NFT universe! Visit Past3l on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pastelETH/media
🚀🌜We’ve been to the MOON!
@meet_playground x @dotconnectornft took us “From the Beach to the Moon” for a night of art, fashion, cocktails & the hottest musical performances during Art Basel - partnership w/ Unrevealed.
Read a special feature article on this event (packed with lots of incredible images) at the Edge of NFT website!
🌏✨FIRST PHILIPPINE BLOCKCHAIN WEEK 2022
Philippine Blockchain Week was a success with around 5k total attendees from Nov. 28 - Dec. 2 and speakers representing countries all around the world. Besides content and networking there was the first-ever CNN pitch contest, Gaming exhibition match, celebrity side events, and major government officials, such as the SEC Commissioner, spoke on how blockchain will change the future of the country. It culminated in the first-ever Block Awards showcasing the top people in the Philippines who are at the forefront of blockchain and Web3. Somethings weren’t expected, pleasantly surprised. Philippine Blockchain Week 2022 ended with a BANG!!!!
Thank you to all our frens @philblockchain. We met amazing people & friends @caleb_m_roberts @nftqueen_asia. It was a wonderful experience. Congratulations on staying true to your mission: Mass Adoption and Inclusivity.
Women Led Web3 Educational Summit
Shout out to this lovely event! Our very own Josh Kriger hosted a panel on Nov 30.
The mission of the event was to spread the power of optimism. Even organizers ensured that everyone in attendance felt they had become a part of a great community. The Web3 event, highlighting feminine energy helped us to grow as better people, in business and in our personal lives.
📻 Edge of NFT Episode Drops
EP210
In today’s episode of Edge of NFT, we bring you to Seoul Meta Week, a platform to create the blockchain-based ecosystem value and share knowledge of trends and information about the Metaverse, NFTs, Web3, and blockchain technology with the experts, NFT artists, NFT collectors, and top players in this industry…
EP211
Edge co-hosts Josh and Eathan chat with Matt Medved of NFT Now to find out about the groundbreaking activations they are planning during Art Basel Miami from Nov 29 to Dec 3, 2022. Matt tells us all about ‘The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis’ and how it interweaves with the past, present and future of NFT Now and Web3 in general…
EP212
Andrew Choi of SuperNormal tells us how West and East meet, and diverge in the global Web3 game. SuperNormal brings world-class expertise in culture and marketing within the Asian region. We learn how Co-founder ZIPCY has brought an aesthetic of quality and class to Korean NFTs…
EP213
The Web3 and NFT space is making huge inroads into the entertainment industry, and we have a lot of big names starting to take notice of its potential. This exciting episode features Seth Green and Matt Colon of ReplicantX…
EP214
Welcome to another episode of The Edge of NFT coming straight to you from Seoul, Korea, for METACON. We bring you the latest insights on companies doing incredible stuff and building out the metaverse for Web2 and Web3 brands…
EP215
Welcome to another episode of The Edge of NFT coming straight to you from Seoul, Korea, for METACON. We bring you the latest insights on companies doing incredible stuff and building out the metaverse for Web2 and Web3 brands. Listen in to hear insights from today’s esteemed panel: Andrew Ku of Altava Group, Phillipp A. Sostmann of PwC Germany, Emanuel Erdem of Exclusible, and Kyoja Hwang of LG U+…
EP216
Get to hear about Australia’s fastest growing tech startup as Robbie Ferguson of Immutable joins Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, Josh Kriger on the podcast. Robbie started Immutable in 2017 when he was 21 years old. Because of that, he was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30. Immutable is an NFT platform that aims to bring asset ownership and commerce alive in digital worlds…
🥚 NFT Nuggets
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❓ Edge Question of the Week
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