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Featured Collection:
Drop Magazine covers Sad Girls Bar, the breakthrough NFT collection from Glam Beckett
16-18
Featured Project
Read about Alethea AI, the creators of the world’s first “iNFT” – NFTs embedded with AI.
19-20
Featured Artist
Check out our showcase on crypto-artist Dilan Dibek
21-22
Early Alpha in the field
EarlyAlpha reports on The Decentrazine Project
22-23
This week in the metaverse:
Catch up on everything you might have missed this week
The Melancholy Family SadGirlsBar is a 10K NFT collection sporting 350+ trait combinations under the uniquely noir art style of Glam Beckett. The hand-drawn collection is complimented with an official Skeletongues companion and with another “Sad Cats” collection on the way you can begin collecting your very own
melancholy family. Although minting began for the collection back in August of this year, Glam Beckett began drawing sad girls many years ago to express her own feelings of loneliness and emotion through art. Today, the Sad Girls Bar hosts a strong community of individuals who celebrate
and support each-other and the amazing artwork behind this project. The group are also offering their support outward with the collection roadmap aiming to donate 10 ETH to the Women Side by Side peer support program which aims to improve the mental health of women facing disadvantage.
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t The Sad Girls Bar ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to appreciable value – the art stands alone as one of the best looking female focused avatar collections in the metaverse, the bar is full of community engagement from giveaways and contests to fan-art and good conversation. The team are actively working on new utility and fun collections for their loyal holders with an upcoming feature to combine all 3 of the Sad Girl collections into a Super-NFT.
The roadmap and utility of this project extends beyond the metaverse and into the real world too – there is merch for holders, an NFT cocktail book from real world bartenders and even an upcoming album with an acclaimed jazz musician! The ultimate goal? To open a Sad Girls Bar in the Metaverse.
Collection: 10K Owners: 4.3K Floor: 0.04 Ξ Not for sale: 79%
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Happy Hour a This week SadGirlsBar announced an official partnership with Rarible, the popular NFT marketplace, expect to see these girls more in the coming weeks as Rarible are expected to launch a marketing campaign to showcase their new marketplace design overhaul and features. With the partnership came an additional announcement that SadGirlsBar will be featured at Art Basel, a world-famous contemporary art exhibition that takes place in Miami. To celebrate Glam will be whipping up some new NFT Cocktails while the community are
running a contest for cocktail names and the chance to have their Sad Girl featured holding the cocktails. We look forward to seeing more from this exciting project and hopefully we can all grab a drink in the metaverse someday.
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Alethe Meet Alice – the world’s first intelligent NFT, Alice was auctioned at Sotheby’s on June 10th 2021 for $478,00. Invented by Arif Khan, an iNFT is a fusion of Blockchain & AI. It’s giving your NFT the ability to be interactive, engaging, alive. iNFTs use a decentralized protocol built on Ethereum to access networked Intelligence and become capable of conversation, interactivity, sense making and maybe even eventually producing Terminators. 3 months ago Alethea AI secured $16 million in funding via private token sales and with some big-time backing from DapperLabs, Mark Cuban and more capital than the alphabet, you can bet this AI is just getting warmed up. If you have a gaming PC strong enough to run the Alethea.ai website you might feel a bit overwhelmed – protocols, algorithms, trainto-earn, Noah’s Ark? Indeed, but remember this project is pushing the boundaries of not one but two cutting-edge technologies, each with their own broad concepts. I think we can help explain it though, Noah’s Ark is just the name for Alethea’s intelligent metaverse, which in turn you might say is just the collective
name for everything this has to offer.
First of all let’s talk about Personality Pods, an ERC721 collection with differe intelligence levels and on personality traits, a pod c be fused with any ERC-72 NFT making it interactive intelligent. It’s worth noti however that the project a phase of Shared Intellig Training where over 6,000 pod holders have staked their personality pods to receive rewards such as A the protocol’s native ERCArtificial Liquid Intelligenc Token.
This event is set to run al way up to December 21st un-staked pods can still g on some fun with an upco Individual Intelligence Tra event (timelines TBC).
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Decent With so many different projects popping up everyday within the space, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for teams to differentiate themselves and give potential collectors a solid reason to pull the trigger on what they’re offering. Fortunately for you, we’re here to tell you about a project that is really going above and beyond in that respect Decentrazines!
Although the main purpose of today’s article is to highlight their upcoming Community Collection, don’t worry, we’ll be providing you with plenty of background information so you can really get to grips with what they’re doing over there! Kicking things off with the art... Given that Decentrazines is a blend word, birthed from ‘decentralised’ and ‘zines’ (we love them already!), there’s definitely no prize for guessing what their style is! The idea comes from their artist, Wintersucks!, who has a particular love for areas like punk, street and graffiti art. The team couldn’t find much of this represented in the NFT space and saw a great opportunity to plug that gap! With regards to the team, the three core members are fully doxxed and have all previously occupied roles that certainly
put them in a strong position to deliver, even if they weren’t strictly within the realm of crypto & NFTs. @theesportsplug is project creator/lead, @Wintersucks! takes care of all things art and @ghostrider90 is their dedicated community manager. With over 20 years of business, graphic design and quality assurance experience under their belts as a trio, it’d be more than fair to say that zine holders are in safe hands! It’s also refreshing to see that the founders are building with the right motivations... whilst they would obviously like to earn some money from the project, their extremely generous 0.03E mint price demonstrates they have collectors’ interests at heart. In fact, a core part of their operation is making it accessible to and helping/reaching as many people as possible. Now, getting into the good stuff - minting and collecting! The genesis, zineart pieces from Wintersucks! ‘aren’t just a pretty face’ so to speak; they also double up as an ‘entry pass’, allowing collectors to benefit from airdrops, purchase from future drops and participate in community activities! In terms of utility, those who take the plunge and purchase a Decentrazine also get access to the community wallet, which has some really
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guys over at Decentrazine HQ are bringing to their members. Following a bit of a slow start in terms of minting and adoption of the genesis pieces, this collection was actually announced in early November, along with the news that minting would be paused for around a month whilst they continue to flesh everything out behind the scenes. By this point, you’re probably wondering what on earth the deal is here? Well, fear not, we’re going to spill the beans right now! The collection is a super ambitious initiative, in which the team has gathered hundreds of artists and tasked them all with creating a 1/1 piece, each modeled around a common focus word: community! As a result of enlisting so many different creators, this will bring an array of different styles, mediums and interpretations to the collection. What’s even more exciting is the range between the artists themselves… The team have signed off on everything from an 11-year-old kid releasing their first public work, to a super famous NFT creator whose pieces regularly sell for in excess of $50,000! We’re willing to bet the next Beeple is in there somewhere! The collection itself will go live on OpenSea in the first half of December, with every piece subject to a 7-day auction. Whoever holds the highest bid on each piece at
the end of this period (as long as they own a zine!) will then receive the artwork, with 100% of the cash going back to the artist! Personally, we think John and the gang have really tapped into a brilliant form of marketing here - each maker brings with them their own community and fan base, helping to snowball the project in an organic way where collectors with a shared passion can mix, discover new artists they enjoy, benefit from all the utility and value the team are providing and share some really cool artwork!
Honestly, we could go on for days about why this project and its creators are so awesome, but we’ll leave you to join the great community and get involved yourself if you’d like to find out more!
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Issue #9 – Sad Girls Bar was written by The Drop Magazine & @early-alpha with support from @GlamBeckettArt, @didaktilo, @real_alethea, @Decentrazines & the Sad Girls Bar community! Always DYOR