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Nov 30, 2021
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Featuring The Matrix NFT Drop, Fresh Threads Recap, Trade Ticket Time, Mainstream Mania & More

GM, NBA Top Shot Squad! Happy Tuesday - hope you had an excellent weekend (and holiday)! I’ve had about 10 straight meals of leftovers, and am slowly turning into a turkey at this point. But the items in the fridge must be consumed!

Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:

Nifty's: The Matrix NFT DROPS TODAY 🐇

Are you ready to enter The Matrix? Nifty’s NFTs drop at 10:01 AM PST / 1:01 PM EST today, with 100,000 randomly-generated Avatars up for grabs. Our full thread on everything you need to know:

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Tomorrow — We ENTER THE MATRIX 🐇

A rundown of the @Niftys The Matrix Avatars drop 📜

THE BASICS:
🗓 Tuesday, Nov. 30 @ 1 PM EST
#️⃣ 100,000 unique, randomly generated Avatars
💵 $50 Each (purchase w/ Credit Card or DAI)
🚦25 daily Avatar limit per user

Cont'd ⬇️ https://t.co/hSIOD71BtW

4:45 PM - 29 Nov 2021

If you haven’t already, sign up at niftys.com and head down the rabbithole.

Fresh Threads 🧶

Speaking of threads… We had our first non-base drop of Series 3 Monday, with 130,000 packs hitting the Top Shot ecosystem.

It seems as though demand was rather limited, with many users able to get back in line and score multiple packs.

After a few hours on the Marketplace, none of the new moments commanded much of a premium. The top four as of this writing:

We also saw the first Fresh Threads Showcase Challenge, with Carmelo Anthony as the reward:

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🏆 FRESH THREADS CHALLENGE #1 🏆

🎖 Reward: @carmeloanthony

7 Moments Needed:

🧶 5x Fresh Threads Moments:
🪡 Bledsoe
🪡 Fournier
🪡 Rubio
🪡 Lowry
🪡 Westbrook

🙀 1x Cool Cats 3-Pointer
📣 1x Carmelo Anthony

⏰ Deadline: Thursday, Dec. 2 @ 10 AM PST https://t.co/V8nPCnlEF4

10:25 PM - 29 Nov 2021

A Cool Cats 3-Pointer? In this economy?

I also got a good chuckle out of this moment thumbnail edit, from TFM Day One member @crisphnl:

crispHNL

@crisphnl

Liking the @kylekuzma @nbatopshot Fresh Threads moment that I pulled today. 🔥 🔥🔥 https://t.co/IBgfXUzEvJ

11:27 PM - 29 Nov 2021

Trade Ticket Time 🎟

For those of you who had the patience to accrue 350 trade tickets, your time has come. The Series 1 Reserve packs drop tomorrow at 11 AM PST, with 500 available in this first batch.

Our friend Bonfire at LiveToken is always cooking up cool things — and apparently tracked how efficient users were at acquiring their tickets. Via Brandon Sowle:

Brandon Sowle

@brandonsowle

Awesome data via the @LiveTokenCo discord revealing the 30 most efficient accounts at acquiring 350 trade tickets.

Extremely proud to check in at #27! What?!?!

Am I a bot? https://t.co/uyhJ6yjw41

7:47 PM - 29 Nov 2021

Given the cumbersome, time-consuming nature of buying moments, this was not my journey (shout out to @corporatetrash1, who loves that phrase). But good luck to those who will be participating!

Mainstream Mania 🤩

Ready to rock some Bored Ape Adidas merch? It might be happening sooner than you think:

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Is @adidas making a splash in the #NFT space?

👀 @BoredApeYC | @punkscomic | @gmoneyNFT 👀 https://t.co/Ekcg6qCnbF

1:27 PM - 28 Nov 2021

Yes, it would appear Adidas is making a move into the NFT waters, with what looks like partnerships with the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Punks Comic/Pixel Vault, and prominent NFT OG G Money.

On the right photo (GMoney), notice the Ethereum wallet address printed on the hoodie?

Fancy

@FncyI

the wallet on gmoneys hoodie was sent a gm tx from a wallet with this ape. DID ADIDAS BUY AN APE? https://t.co/PiC9KXeMdQ

12:24 PM - 28 Nov 2021

Hmmm, that looks just like the 3d ape in the middle photo… Coincidence? I think not!

Around The First Mint 🗣

🎧 Enter The Matrix (Feat. Jeff Marsilio)

 100,000 ‘The Matrix Avatar’ NFTs are coming Tuesday (11/30), and we sit down with Nifty’s Co-Founder & CEO Jeff Marsilio to get all the drop details. We also talk about the entrance of major brands/IP into the space, onboarding new people into NFTs, and what the future holds as we continue to creep into the mainstream. 

📹 TFM Live: Enter The Matrix

🎧 Meet Your Sports Idols

Thanks for reading! — Zach @ The First Mint

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