A Metallic Silver Surprise 🎁
The First Mint
Featuring March Madness, Metallic Silver Announcements, Game Recognize Game, Moment Burning & More
gm, NFT Squad! Hope you all had an excellent weekend — and congrats to the Kansas Jayhawks for a big time comeback win in yesterday’s NCAA National Championship!
It’d be cool if we got some NBA Top Shot challenges revolving on events other than the NBA season — like March Madness. I came up with this example yesterday of how the National Championship could be incorporated:
How about a March Madness-themed @nbatopshot Flash Challenge? Something like...
➡️ 10x players from @UNC_Basketball
🏆 Reward: Fandom Tyler Hansbrough
➡️ 10x players from @KUHoops
🏆 Reward: Fandom Kirk Hinrich https://t.co/IMkHuWIJAy
It’d be fun to add some fun back into speculation like the early days of themes around Cool Cats challenges. The options are endless! Also, I just really want a Bulls’ Kirk Hinrich moment. You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like:
Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:
Seeing Silver 🪙
We got an interesting blog regarding the Metallic Silver FE set on Monday, with a history of the moment curation and a look ahead to what’s next. While it feels like Flash Challenges have been around forever, they debuted with the set on Nov. 21, 2021 — just 4.5 months ago.
There will only be three more MSFEs released, bringing the total moments in the set to 55. A new dynamic called ‘Set Challenges’ will begin on April 12, with a variety of packs as rewards:
Details:
Metallic Silver FE Set Challenge 1 (April 12-15, 2022): Create a Challenge Entry with every MSFE Moment that has 10,000 or more editions. The reward for completing this Challenge will be one 2022 All-Star Standard pack.
Metallic Silver FE Set Challenge 2 (April 15-18, 2022): Create a Challenge Entry with every MSFE Moment that has between 4,000 and 9,999 editions. The reward will be one 2022 All-Star Elite Pack.
Metallic Silver FE Challenge 3 (April 18-21, 2022): Create a Challenge Entry with every MSFE Moment that has between 1,000 and 3,999 editions. The reward will be one Series 1 With The Strip Pack.
Metallic Silver FE Challenge 4 (April 21-25, 2022): Create a Challenge Entry with every MSFE Moment that has between 0 and 999 editions. The reward will be one Series 1 Run It Back 13-14 pack.
All the MSFE challenge completionists right now:
Feel The Burn 🔥
Despite the ability to burn moments becoming available after the recent non-custodial move, there hasn’t really been much of a use case for it.
However, that isn’t stopping some people from letting their burn flag fly.
A guide, if you’re feeling frisky (or just want to do your part in taking moments out of the supply):
I just burned 20 Kevin Durant 60k Moments. You wanna know how and why?
Well, there is no why. Just for no reason. There is no incentive beside creating more scarcity maybe.
But here is how to burn 🔥 🧵 https://t.co/wAKud6uFqK
Game Recognize Game 🤝
We covered the Curator Klay announcement in Saturday’s newsletter, but that was off of an article from the Boardroom — without official release from TS.
The official blog came out on Monday, detailing the partnership and Thursday’s upcoming drop curated by Thompson. Details:
KLAY THOMPSON DROP | TOP SHOT⚡️
Details
🎲Game Recognize Game
🎲Apr 7 @ 12pm PT
🎲4x Moments
🎲50K Packs
🎲$19 Each
Players
💧Playoff P
💧Hayward
💧Cousins
💧LaVine
💧Green
💧Rose
💧Klay (Reward)
Airdrops
🪂1x pack for GRG Holders
🪂1x pack for Got Game Holders
🪂Snapshot 3/31 https://t.co/aUUQWV5SqL
If there was ever an opportunity for my man Greg Oden to get a moment, it was in an injury-filled set. Alas!
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