NFT Friendship Bracelets 🧬 – by William M. Peaster

Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles

Dear Bankless Nation, 

Last month I wrote about Art Blocks 2.0. 

Part of the generative art hub’s optimizations included the rollout of new collection types, one of which was Exploration collections for experimental releases. 

Fast forward to this week and the first Exploration project, Friendship Bracelets, just launched. 

A collab between Art Blocks founder and Chromie Squiggles creator Erick Calderon and artist Alexis André, Friendship Bracelets are free. Minting’s open until Jan. 2023 for anyone who held any Art Blocks NFT on the Oct. 26th snapshot, meaning dozens of thousands of addresses are eligible! 

The art is amazing, clicking on the NFT gives you instructions on how to make a physical version, it’s open to many, it’s free, and since each minter can claim two pieces the creators are encouraging people to gift their second bracelet to pay it forward. 

These are the sorts of delightful vibes you love to see in the NFT ecosystem, and I’m sure there’s more where that came from via Art Blocks!

In the meantime, check your eligibility for the mint and thanks for reading as usual everyone. Now let’s get you caught up on the other big headlines from this week ✌️

-WMP

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• 0xngmi published a thread explaining the design decisions behind LlamaLend, a new NFT lending protocol:

William M. Peaster is a professional writer and creator of Metaversal—a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, JPG, and beyond!

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