#156 - Project watch 🔭 Mirascapes and Hedz

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Today,

1. Project watch: Mirascapes and Hedz

2. Dookey Dash is back (did it leave?)

3. Blur Airdrop farming keeps getting crazier

Plus, all the web3 headlines, memes, and Tweet of the day.

Top 24 hr collection volume

via CoinMarketCap

1. MAYC - 761 sales earning 12,350.5 ETH (0.01%)

2. BAYC - 86 sales earning 6,511.61 ETH (0.01%)

3. Azuki - 396 sales earning 6,017.52 ETH (0.00%)

4. Clone X - 840 sales earning 4,455.78 ETH (0.01%)

5. Moonbirds - 531 sales earning 3,517.73 ETH (0.01%)

#1 Project watch – Mirascapes and Hedz

Time for another round of project watch. 🔭

Here are two new collections from artists with serious online credentials.

First up, Mirascapes by Metascapes and landscape photographer Cath Simard.

Second, Hedz, by Pepe the frog's papa, Matt Furie.

Mirascapes

• Twitter

• Opensea listing

• Blur listing (Metascapes)

Floor price/volume

Who's the founder?

Metascapes. A community of photography professionals and fans focused on generating AI landscapes.

What's the project?

This spin-off collection was airdropped to Metascapes holders in Jan 2023. The MetaScapes community has been busy training a Stable Diffusion model to generate fantastical AI landscapes based on the work of photographers like @cathsimard and @ibelegurschi, who adventure deep into the backcountry to capture magical shots.

Hedz

• Twitter (Matt Furie)

• Opensea listing

• Blur listing

Floor price/volume

Who's the founder?

Matt Furie. The illustrator first introduced the world to Pepe the frog through his comic, Boy's Club, and has since helped guide his creation to meme stardom (and away from becoming an alt-right mascot).

What's the project?

A series of 1000 1/1 anthropomorphic pfps created by Matt, including some of his most famous characters from across his career. After flying under the radar, Hedz is ripping right now – partly thanks to a recent shoutout from Jack Butcher.

Tweet of the day

On the web3 wire

Ether's rally hits resistance as traders "wait and see" ⏱️ETH has fallen back, after falling to break $1700, a bullish indicator. But data shows buying activity remains strong.

A federal judge has ruled that NBA TopShot NFTs Are Securities 🔐Another day, another attempt to bring NFTs under SEC control.

Uniswap allows NFT purchases using any Ethereum Token 💰The update lets Uniswap marketplace users buy NFTs with UNI, SHIB, USDC, Tether, and more.

#2 Dookey Dash is back again

Getting Dookey Dash burnout yet?

Here's another piece of info on Yuga Labs' minigame to test your patience.

The sewer is reopening for a week in a new trippy form called Toad Mode. This version gives Dashers the chance to win a "unique companion trait" for their power source.

What's a power source?

When Dashers burn their sewer passes at "The Summoning" next month, they'll receive one of 8 power sources, depending upon their high score.

Those power sources can be made rarer by adding unique traits won in this edition of the minigame.

Keeping up?

Oh, btw. Remember that UPDAO proposal to make a 690 ETH bid for @Mongraal's winning sewer pass? It passed!

Dookey Dash Toad Mode runs from Feb 22 until the end of the month.

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#3 Blur Airdrop farming stakes keep getting higher

Farming for $BLUR is reaching new heights.

Yesterday, 71 Bored Apes were mass-sold. They generated over 5500 ETH from a flurry of Blur bids.

That's more than $9 million – a level of volume that wasn't seen during entire days during the darkest periods of the bear market.

So which Ape sold? It was @rektmando, founder of @rektguyNFT (and they paid royalties).

With dozens of apes and millions of dollars dumped into the market, you might be running to check the BAYC floor price.

But it only dropped by a couple of ETH – not a huge deal for BAYC.

Why? Because one serious airdrop farmer bought them and is holding them for even more farming.

That buyer was @machibigbrother, who's only sold 3 so far. It's the hottest potato of them all. 🥔

Will Machi be able to offload his bag, and will we see more huge buys like this?

It's all about $BLUR bidder confidence.

Confidence that the bids will keep coming in (the game of hot potato keeps going), that $BLUR will hold its value, and that the market can cope with this mass speculation.

In other Blur news

The marketplace released more details on how "season 2" of their rewards program will play out.

Blur will hand out 300mil $BLUR over the season (which has already begun).

$BLUR is currently trading for about a dollar.

This time, the platform is focusing on listers – offering maximum rewards for those who show "100% loyalty" and only use Blur to list and sell their assets.

Loyalty score + activity on the platform will be used to calculate users' $BLUR allocations.

Until the next Decentra Daily! 👋

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