Welcome to the 17th Edition of the FF Newsletter

In this edition:

▹ Team updates - Welcome Unite, YUP & Coinvise
▹ FF Social Tokens Year in Review w/ Seedclub
▹ Zora Protocol is live on mainnet
▹ Simon de la Rouviere launches Neolastics
▹ New Cryptopunk record sale
▹ The exit package by Naval
▹ ... more

Plus: What’s Poppin' / Market Pills / Trading Drops

Let’s get into it.

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Social Tokens Year in Review. The projects, tools and professionals driving the social token space forward. HOT REPORT 🔥

Zora Protocol launches on mainnet. A protocol to create, share and exchange universally accessible and valuable information on the internet. THE INTERNET RENAISSANCE 🌜🌞🌛

Dawn of a Black Digital Renaissance. As the new digital renaissance is upon us, Cuy Sheffield reflects on what it means for global black culture expression and unification. GLOBALLY EMPOWERING ⚡️

Coinvise launches public Beta. The new permissionless platform for creators & communities to mint and distribute social tokens is live. 2021 COIN"VIBES" 💎

Generative Art. Simon de la Rouviere launches Neolastics, liquid generative programmable NFT backed by a bonding curve economy. ON-CHAIN BANK ✨

Yuppie Punk. Cryptopunk sells for ATH 189.99ETH, roughly ≈ $197,500.00 USD at the time of writing. PUNK SEASON 💥

Own the Metaverse. Messari's Mason Nystrom expires how "Metaverses are a prime example of crypto enabling the ownership economy." TAKE NOTES ✍️

Spread the Wealth. IDEOVC’s Ian Lee: Crypto's biggest potential impact to society is in sustainably distributing wealth, capital & ownership to a larger % of the world. VALUE-REDISTRIBUTION 🙌

Substack the Media Future We Want? The New York explores the business of newsletters and their impact on the media business. REVERSE TAKE? 📰 

My Collectible Ass. "To think about digital objects as collectable, it may help to start by asking what it is that is actually collected". BOOKMARK THIS 🔥

The exit package by Naval. "MIC DROP" 💥

What’s your favorite story this week? Let us know on Twitter

Here are prices for last week's top 2 market movers and top 3 traded social tokens by volume in the last 24hrs.

Jess from SeedClub

Applications for Seed Club Cohort #2 are now open. Launch a social token with us! Apply today!

Jacob from Zora

The Internet Renaissance begins. We’re live on mainnet. We’re now focusing on the rollout of http://zora.co and our SDK called Zora OS.

David from DFAME

In addition to our final touches for the TPP incentive model, we added xDAI support.

James Young from Collab Land

We have been seeing 4x growth daily growth in Dec and Discord user base is on track to overtake Telegram user base this month (signaling early mainstream adoption).

Alex from Unite

We're adding issuance & token-gated chat to Unite so that anybody can easily create a social token, distribute it via Twitter and make it useful. We're also working on L2 support and adding more platforms for distribution campaigns.

Nir from YUP

We increased transaction efficiency by 30% with updates to Yup's voting mechanism. We tested additional overlays for web2 and web3 apps coming soon, and are releasing eth wallet linking (Wallet Connect and Metamask) for the extension and dapp.

Jenil from Coinvise

We’re trying out youtube micropayments in social tokens next week with a content creator, looking forward to that!

FF Team

Last week was massive for FF as we wrapped - 2020 Social Tokens Year in Review - report  w/ Seedclub and @Cooopahtroopa. Thanks for the amazing feedback, the likes, the retweets and comments. 

2021 is going to be the year of social crypto and we are here for it. 

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Don't miss the ongoing digi-physical drop featuring digital artist and graphic designer VAN new cyberpunk inspired brand Vaunker w/ metafactory. The drop comes with $ROBOT + $VAN tokens rewards.

▹ 30/30 - $RNG Richard Kim 30 days of Atomic Essays on social tokens 
▹ Let it flow - Brian Flynn on social tokens x programmable cash flows
▹ Lessons - The future of Consumer Social from an insider
▹ Cohort-based Learning - Help Joon figure out his next move
▹ 2020 Learnings - Foundation Kayvon on lessons learned in 2020
▹ NFT Recap - Andrew Steinwold Zima Red 2020 Content Recap
▹ Fees.WTF - How much have you spent in ethereum gas fees?

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