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Mad News cuts through the noise of crypto Twitter and delivers a curated snapshot of Mad Lads and Backpack news, project updates and community highlights.

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Jun 22, 2023
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What’s in this week’s Mad News?

  • an exclusive look at Mad Lads Inventory

  • Mad Alberts challenge winners revealed

  • Solana’s new digital identity plan

Subscribe today and stay up to date on everything in the Mad Lads and Backpack ecosystem.


Table of Contents

Mad Lads

  • Mad Merch Redemptions Go Live

  • Mad Albert Challenge Winners

  • Sunday Stream #10 w/ Armani Ferrante

  • Soul Abstraction Unveiled

  • Honk Kong Meetup Planned For June 29

  • Marketplace Listings Plummet, Sales Soar

  • Mad Lads Have Diamond Hands

  • MAD MOVIE 2 Drops From 10,000 Feet

Backpack & xNFTs

  • Mobile Backpack App Design Reveal

  • xNFT Library Keeps Growing

  • ELI5 xNFT Publishing Tutorial

  • SNS Manager Expands Language Options

Solana Ecosystem

  • NFT Showdown Judging

  • Solana Mobile Engravings Land In Singapore

  • Sign In With Solana (SIWS)

  • SOL Makes Debut In Indonesia

  • Daily Solana NFT Transactions Double


Merch Redemptions LIVE!

Mad Merch NFTs (Edition 1) were airdropped to diamond handed Mad Lads in mid-May and now it’s time to ship.

Redemptions are easy - open your Backpack, click on your Mad Merch xNFT and place your order.

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Mad Merch is being shipped to more than 235 countries around the world - take a look at the full list in the FAQs. Shipments will begin on June 23rd for T-shirts and July 3rd for Hoodies.


Mad Albert Challenge Comes To A Close

The judges have spoken and Thomukas1 is bringing home the grand prize, a Mad Lad NFT.

Mad Lads were challenged to a meme contest last week and the community got creative. Search #madalbert in Twitter to see all the entries.

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Thomukas1 isn’t the only winner, honorable mentions include:

  • Mad Girl

  • mostafa.sol

  • tflo

  • becc

  • Riddler

  • Alexandra Berliner


Mobile Backpack App Design Revealed

Backpack is being optimized for the upcoming mobile app deployment.

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UI/UX improvements have been made for the mobile app, a new navigation menu added as well as other feedback items from beta testers.


10 Finalists Selected In NFT Showdown

The Solana NFT Showdown is designed to encourage aspiring NFT community creators to focus on product innovation and sound business pitches, ultimately strengthening the quality of new projects in the creator ecosystem.

The Solana NFT Showdown is a competition for Solana NFT brands aimed at creating IRL products in industries like fashion, entertainment, gaming and creator agencies.

Ten finalists have been selected and the Showdown culminates with a live round of judging. Finalists have three minutes to pitch to the judges for a chance at the big prize.

Streaming LIVE on Twitch, June 29th at 4PM UTC (12PM EST).


Sunday Stream #10 In The Books

Subscribe to Armani’s Twitch so you don’t miss another Sunday Stream!

Sunday Stream #10 kicked off from Armani’s WeWork office in Hong Kong, China.

This was a rapid fire stream where Armani covered a lot of topics in a short amount of time:

  • Jakey’s TikTok Skits and MAD MOVIE 2

  • New Backpack design

  • Mobile Backpack app

  • xNFT Inventory

    First look at the Mad Lads xNFT Inventory Menu
  • Loyalty points and Soulbound assets

  • Target marketing system

  • xNFT staking for blockchain games

  • Soul Abstraction

  • Business development partnerships

Armani streams on Twitch every Sunday. Look for notifications in the Mad Lads Discord and on Twitter.

View all previous streams on YouTube.


Soul Abstraction Unveiled

When Armani isn’t streaming he is writing gargantuan Twitter threads about what ‘soul abstraction’ means for the Mad Lads.

Soul abstraction is a key component to managing the Mad Lads xNFT inventory.


Mad Lads Hong Kong Meetup

Speaking of Hong Kong - head over to The Work Project Midtown on Thursday, June 29th for a Solana x Mad Lads community meetup.

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Register to attend here.


Marketplace Listings Plummet, Sales Soar

Although number of Mad Lads listings dropped from 1000+ to less than 500 once xNFT staking went live, data from CryptoSlam! shows that sales volumes have increased by more than 10% over the last week.

This comes on the back of a major floor sweep that occurred on Monday.

150+ Mad Lads were swept in just a few hours. This drove the floor price well above 100 SOL. The next day, a Mad Skull sold for a near record-breaking price: 2,428 SOL.

Even more interesting than the hefty price tag is who made the purchase.


Mad Lads Have Diamond Hands

A report by blockchain research house Nansen highlighted the strength of the Mad Lads community.


MAD MOVIE 2 Drops From 10,000 Feet

Jakey, inaugural member of The Roster, released MAD MOVIE 2. “Pursuit of the extreme” takes our favorite content creator on a journey to find the maddest extreme activities you can do - bungee jumping, sky diving and a journey into the sea.

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Created by degen poet

Check out the full length adventure here.


xNFT Library Continues To Grow

Six more xNFTs have been added to the Backpack xNFT Library since our first (and last) issue of xNewsletter.

Dashboard created by osk2020

xNFT downloads are nearing a new milestone. Nearly 30,000 xNFTs have been downloaded since the Library opened.

Dashboard created by LTirrel

solandy.sol Makes xNFT Publishing Easy

Well known Solana developer solandy.sol dropped a one minute long ELI5 tutorial on how to upload an xNFT to the Library.

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You can view the full (1 hour+) length tutorial here on his YouTube.


SNS Manager Expands Language Options

Bonfida’s SNS Manager expanded language support to include Chinese and Korean.


Solana Mobile Engravings Go Hard

Solana Mobile treated Mad Lads holders to a free laser engraving on every Saga that they purchased. Engraved cell phones are starting to land all over the world, this beauty arrived in Singapore last week.

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Sign In With Solana (SIWS) Coming Soon

Establishing a secure digital identity gets easier with Sign In With Solana (SIWS). SIWS helps facilitate one-click-sign-ins when connecting to your favorite platforms.

This new digital identity tool utilizes Solana keypairs.

The primary function of a keypair is to sign messages and enable verification of the signature. Verification of a signature allows the recipient to be sure that the data was signed by the owner of a specific private key.

Solana Cook Book

With SIWS, keypairs help shift message construction from individual dApps to crypto wallets.


SOL Makes Debut In Indonesia

Indonesia, located in Southeast Asia, made a move to embrace cryptocurrency when they formally legalized trading of five hundred different tokens.


Daily Solana NFT Transactions Doubled

Blockchain data and analytics powerhouse Messari released a new report showing that daily NFT transactions have doubled since April.

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Jun 24Liked by Benzel Blogs 🎒🔠

WAO, love reading my favourite newspaper each week

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Jun 22Liked by Benzel Blogs 🎒🔠

So percious informations !

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