The Edge of NFT Newsletter | Issue #16

NFT | LA Update, Living Tree NFTs, NFT Nuggets, Discord and More!

Mar 4

We are giving away the biggest prizes in Edge of NFT history yet!

10 winners will get their art shown during NFT LA for a group exhibition where artworks will be put on sale plus each winner will receive a ticket to the event and 50,000 FTRB pre-IDO (Total of 500,000 FTRB tokens courtesy of Faith Connexion).

Plus all participants who complete the optional tasks are eligible for a raffle draw. 5 winners will receive General Admission tickets (current price @ $400) to NFT LA. Winners will be chosen at random. Optional tasks include joining Edge of NFT's Discord Community, tagging your favorite NFT artist, tagging your favorite project in the comment section, and following NFT LA on Instagram.

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Continue your journey into Web 3 through the discovery and exploration of all things the metaverse has to offer at Consensus. Recognized as one of the OG crypto events, this year Consensus will take place in Austin, Texas, on June 9-12 for the first time ever. You’ll join more creators, investors, thought leaders, and builders at this must-attend crypto and Web 3 festival.

What’s In It For You?

An exclusive 25% discount on General Admission and Pro passes. Use Code NFTLA25 at checkout before April 15 and secure your seat to attend IRL.

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Check out this preview of the 2022 experience and speaker lineup at Consensus. We can’t wait to see you there!

Spirit Seed Update - A Refreshing Win

At 0.55 ETH, Spirit Seeds represent an opportunity for a 50%+ discount on the $3000 NFT LA VIP ticket price. Smart insiders are gobbling up Spirit Seeds and getting a nice thick icing on that NFT cake. In fact, they're having their cake and eating it too. That's because the NFT LA VIP pass that comes with a Spirit Seed NFT is just one of the perks. Get your Seed today. Use or trade away your ticket. Then hold onto the Seed for even more perks to be delivered. This includes the refreshing win of saving the planet by offsetting 24 Metric Tons of CO2. That's enough to offset the average American's carbon consumption for a year. It's like sequestering the same carbon as does planting nearly 400 tree seedlings and growing them for 10 years. The effect is greater than taking 5 cars off the road for a year. Now that's refreshing!

Let's check in on another dope member of the Spirit Seed community. He's the holder of Seed number 49. He goes by @moseley in the discord where he's super active and supportive. His IRL name is Greg Knight and he's West Coast-based and enthusiastic about integrating music with Web3. Reach out to him for a collab. We're seeing all sorts of amazing collaborations in the discord. Greg! We can't wait to see you at NFT LA rockin' your VIP pass.

You can connect with Greg on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/gregory-knight7a

All sorts of impressive folks are minting Spirit Seeds these days.

If you are not a Spirit Seed holder yet, it's time to FOMO in. Remember to get your Spirit Seed now to access additional bonuses like your own version of the Founders Card shown above for a limited time. At 0.55 ETH, with an NFLTA VIP ticket included (Soon a $3000 value), and tons of other perks, getting your Spirit Seed today is an absolute no-brainer. With ETH hovering under $3000, and sometimes near $3500 you may snag a Spirit Seed for considerably less than the cost of the VIP ticket to NFT LA that is included!! Count yourself among an incredible array of NFT Artists, Entrepreneurs, Filmmakers, Investors, Influencers, Authors and all types of movers and shakers soon to be highlighted.

About Spirit Seeds: This is an exclusive NFT collection celebrating NFTs as a new currency of growth, created in collaboration between Edge of NFT and NFT Influencer Nicole Buffett. The Spirit Seeds represent the vision of an economy where more players can win and wherein our diversity is celebrated and rewarded. Among many great rewards, each NFT offsets an average American's carbon emissions—because we also care deeply about our planet's future and want to make it the freshest kind of future imaginable.

As an insider on this exclusive collab, you gain access to a one-of-one Spirit Seed from only 100 generative NFTs that will EVER be created. Edge's own Eathan Janney has carefully crafted generative digital art that's grown out of our relationship with Nicole Buffett and is inspired by her Spirit Coin NFTs.

Mint your Spirit Seed at spiritseeds.xyz through the button below. Catch the opportunity now when 0.55 ETH is so incredibly affordable!

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Edge of NFT Discord Community Update: Collabs Abound!

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Not only is our discord community growing fast. We're seeing all sorts of impressive collabs between community members and with us at Edge of NFT. Get in the discord and get known in the community. We're featuring our most passionate members on the podcast these days--just because they're such an incredible crew! We've featured everyone from @Colorful Carl and his heartwarming NFT project featuring his father's art (visit colorfulcarl.com) or @Ladies_&_Gents (https://linktr.ee/tomlabaff) who actually created sketch artwork featuring one of our podcasts guests (see video below).

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Shoutout to Ladies and Gents in #EON Discord, a.k.a. artist Tom LaBaff (@TLaBaff). He does storyboards & character development for film & gaming, and has worked on #Disney classics like The Lion King, & Beauty and the Beast. Watch here:

EON Discord Member Spotlight: Tom LaBaff (a.k.a @Ladies_&_Gents#5323)Ladies_And_Gents is an animator who’s worked on Disney classics like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. He says Aleks Paunovic, actor and executive prod...youtu.be

Let's not forget @Vikii, who is now stepping up to host our trivia/game night and taking it to a whole new level. Don't miss out on the next trivia/game night coming up on Tuesday, March 8 at 6 pm PT. Show up an hour early to warm up and chat!

At recent Trivia Nights, we've given away exclusive POAP NFTs (featuring Edge Co-Founder, Eathan Janney's custom generative art) as well as ETH prize winnings to the top three trivia nerds of the night!

Join the Discord Now and get active to have your own chance at earning free NFTs. And make sure to join our 6th Trivia Night Ev 6th Trivia Night Event happening next Tuesday, March 8 at 6 pm Pacific Time. Invite your friends for a rousing trivia/game session. It's an NFT themed Discord but we'll keep the fun general knowledge. Have fun, hang out, get to know folks. Anyone present can win a free POAP NFT available at this event only. Make sure to download the POAP App on Android or Apple so you can claim your NFT. Other gifts and prizes could be offered at any time.

Congrats to previous winners!

*Outside of trivia we found these events are a great excuse to chat about the latest alpha in NFT land. Participants have been awarded dope POAPs like the one featured below...

Update: Living Tree NFTs

Some giant news is coming this week about our Living Tree NFT project. We hit the pause button back in January, to fully concentrate on creating a truly integrated conference at NFT | LA. We’ll have some exciting updates for you in the next few days, but if you’re not in the discord already…..you should DEFINITELY jump in asap….don’t say we didn’t warn you!

😍 Listener Love: Learn, Earn, and Build

FIO X Edge of NFT Giveaway

The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is an industry consortium, consisting of leading wallets, exchanges, crypto payment processors, and various other entities and community members dedicated to the pursuit of blockchain usability through the FIO Protocol.

Create an FIO Crypto Handle and win #FREE $FIO Tokens. 50 winners will each receive 100 $FIO for a total prize pool of 5000 $FIO Tokens. Learn more here. (Giveaway ends on 03.07.22)

Yield Guild Games X Edge of NFT Giveaway

Yield Guild Games is a play-to-earn gaming guild, bringing players together around the world. They are the settlers of new worlds in the Metaverse.

Calling all gamers! We're giving away amazing prizes from Yield Guild Games. 6 winners will receive #FREE YGG Sword/Shield NFTs that have been designed to have long-term utility in the YGG DAO, which will be revealed soon. Learn more here. (Giveaway ends on 03.09.22)

Koii Network: Build applications, publish content, and earn tokenized rewards for the attention they generate

If you are a creator, a builder, or an investor in groundbreaking projects, you need to dive into Koii ASAP. Why? Imagine a New Internet where each time your posts get viewed on TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter you earned rewards. Koii’s revolutionary decentralized infrastructure scales this New Internet to the whole globe, transforming attention into an asset and every creator into an earner, all without the expensive high energy usage of old school blockchains.

Here’s the best way to learn more and earn more by becoming a founding member of the growing Koiimunity: go to edgeofnft.com/koii

277-Year-Old Asset Class Booms Thanks to NFTs (Here’s How You Can Invest)

With trading volume for NFTs skyrocketing 38,000% since last year, we can’t go three seconds without hearing about fancy primates. But thanks to the NFT craze, the 277-year-old physical art market is booming. According to Forbes, “the rich are spending more than ever on art.”

That’s partly because they see paintings as an investment. In fact, blue-chip art prices have been known to outpace the S&P 500 by 164% (1995-2021).

And thanks to Masterworks, the fintech unicorn from NYC, you can invest in Picassos and Warhols without being a billionaire. By securitizing multimillion-dollar paintings, everyone can be a bona fide art investor.

The easy part? We partnered with them and got Edge Of NFT subscribers priority access

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📻 Edge of NFT Episode Drops

EP112 Miko Matsumura & Gabby Dizon Of Yield Guild Games - The Play To Earn Gaming Guild, Plus Azukis NFT, NFT VAT Fraud, Fayre’s $3.8M Raise, And More

Join Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, Josh Kriger as they talk to Miko Matsumura and Gabby Dizon of Yield Guild Games. Discover how the guild system works and how they recruit gamers from around the world. And, learn how NFTs aren't ruining the game experience but enhancing it by giving benefits. Plus Azukis NFT, NFT VAT Fraud, Fayre’s $3.8M Raise, and more in today's episode!

Ep113 Michael Kong Of Fantom - Scalability W/O Compromise On Security & Decentralization, Plus: Opensea’s Phishing Scam, Animoca’s Billion Dollar NFT Pivot, And More

There's so much influence in the NFT space today. Many new ideas are gaining momentum, and many cool things are happening. One of the life-changing innovations we encountered was the Fantom Foundation. Headed by CEO Michael Kong, Fantom Foundation is a blockchain development platform that provides scalability without compromising decentralization and security.

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