Mad News #10: Fock It We Ball
Mad Lads NFTs sales surge, cNFTs outperform all competition, Solana Speedrun prize winners, the road to Breakpoint, MAD LAD OF THE WEEK and more ecosystem stories.
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Skulls and Lassies unaware that we’re deep in a bear market
Two Mad Lads NFTs sold for a combined 2421 SOL this week.
The Skull (#1846) went for 1420 SOL and the Lassie (#8493) for 999 SOL.
These two sales combined don’t come close to the highest sale recorded: 3625 SOL for one Skull.
The Skulls trait has been highly sought after since Day 1 of the Mad Lads launch.
Holders of the trait include Solana founder Toly, Solana Legend, Chris Burniske and dozens of other legendary Solana community members.
Compressed NFTs dominate with low transaction costs
Repeat after me:
Solana is cheap.
Solana is decentralized.
Solana is fast.
Solana is scalable.
Sol Samurais claim victory in Mad Wars
Skulls and Lassies may command top dollar now but other subcommunities are on their heels. Sol Samurais, Mad Androids and Mad Alberts are the big winners of Zeta Market’s Mad Wars crypto trading competition.
The Mad Wars experience showcased the unique distribution channels that Backpack offers. Tokens were airdropped to specific trait holders and all activity took place inside of Backpack and an xNFT application.
Solana doubles down on new developer education
The Developer Education Program is a set of classes that teach community members how to conduct Solana workshops.
Sessions start on August 14th and are focused on:
Helping attendees learn about the Solana blockchain
Convey how Solana can be used
Teach how to build on Solana
Register here to attend.
The boys are Backpack in town
Devs are doing something as Backpack co-founders Armani and Tristan reunite in Tokyo, Japan for the first time in months.
230 teams walked in, only 22 teams walked out
Solana Speedrun Gamejam voting has come to a close.
Just 22 teams were able to conceive, build and ship a blockchain game by the end of the 120 hour long hackathon.
Moon Boi Universe: Top Voted Game, Solana-Integrated Category Winner, Solana Foundation Booth Prize & Bonk Track
Valhalla’s Forge: Fully-On-Chain Winner, Magicblock Winner
Crispr Kiss: xNFT Winner, Solana University Winner
The Jon Wong Interview
Jon Wong, Lead Ecosystem Engineer at Solana, joined us for a long discussion about the Solana Foundation, the future of blockchain careers and his reasons why Backpack is disrupting web3.
MAD LAD OF THE WEEK: Happy
Last week we issued our first MAD LAD OF THE WEEK to Blackfish, driving force behind the Mad Wars trading competition.
This week we are recognizing Happy for their contributions to the Mad Lads community.
Building products is just one way to support the Mad Lads community, Happy has found a niche commissioning artwork that brings Mad Lad NFTs to life.
Artist Swasti has been creating 1/1 canvas paintings of our favorite Mad Lads like Armani Ferrante, MadCrab David, the Mad Blogger and other community members.
Follow Happy on Twitter and show some love!
Do you know why Solana addresses start with 2-9 or A-H?
Mad Lad solandy.sol answers this question and more on his Solana-focused YouTube channel.
Jakey repped the Mad Lads at ROVE’s Solana Summerfest in Nashville
Canadian Jakey traveled across the continent to represent the Mad Lads during the action packed Solana Summerfest.
Mad Lads was a sponsor of the ROVE organized event along with dozens of other Solana brands.
Read this interview with Jakey right now
Sunday Stream 16 broadcast LIVE From Tokyo, Japan
Armani joins Logan Jastremski, Solana Legend and Intern Kevin on Twitter Broadcasts
The squad talked for more than an hour about topics surround Backpack, xNFTs, Mad Lads and the state of the crypto market.
Tristan is moderating a panel at TOKEN2049 in Singapore
TOKEN2049 is an annual event in Singapore (adding Dubai next year) that brings together the founders and executives of web3.
Tristan will be moderating a panel discussion between Consensys, Bloq, Google Cloud and Ledger. RSVP today to attend a Mad Lads meeting hosted by Tristan.
Tristan will also be hosting an IRL Mad Lads event at an offsite Metacamp location.
Solana Superteam sets eyes on Dubai
Speaking of Dubai, the Solana Superteam is organizing the first “Come to Dubai Solana Founders Trek”. Their goal is to build relationships in the Middle East as well as learn about the business of operating in Dubai.
Anyone can apply to join the group - the only requirement is that you are building on Solana.
At least 289 Mad Lads holders are attending Solana Breakpoint
Before Dubai we have Breakpoint in Amsterdam. According to this poll approximately 289 Mad Lad holders will be flocking to the most famous city in The Netherlands.
Armani confirmed on Sunday Stream #15 that there will be at least two Mad Lads events for holders.
The Mad Lads released a Breakpoint swag teaser… are we getting a deck of cards? poker night event? a chance at winning a new 1/1?
Breakpoint side events are piling up
Register here for side events hosted by:
MEV Camp
Block 0: Solana Validator Conference
Helium House AMS
The DRiP Haus