Welcome to Edition #023 of RARA 🗞️ Weekly where we highlight new and emergent Internet 🌐 communities and artists in the social money and cryptomedia (NFTs) space.
📅 Events this week (and beyond)
RARA.house’s General Admission Community Call
No community call this week. Stay up to date with events coming in July by subscribing to RARA’s calendar.
Last Week on the 🌐 Internet
Nifty 🌈 Pride breaks RARA records in epic Pride Weekend
The second annual Nifty 🌈 Pride Weekend in Cryptovoxels was a banger. From galleries in the metaverse to a weekend full of events and Twitch streams, it definitely was the Pride event of the Internet’s weekend.
Nifty Pride’s discord server raised over 5 ETH in its first Social NFT Auction with RARA! With 460+ bids place on 53 NFTs sold, the auction definitely hit. We saw multiple bidding wars and a handful of NFTs receive over 1000’s RA’s!, a new record.
Social NFT Auctions
Run Social NFT auctions in your Discord and Telegram community with RARA Bot.
Jay Z goes full CryptoPunk, drops NFT, files suit
This one is going to take a minute to explain but I’m going to just give you the tweet-by-tweet TL;DR.
Mr. Carter apes into a CryptoPunk for 55 ETH.
With his new HOV.eth.
Then, drops ‘Reasonable Doubt’ NFT auction on Sotheby’s.
After filing lawsuit against Damon Dash of Roc-A-Fella Records over copyright.
Got all that? Welcome to crypto Mr. Carter.
Bored Apes Win!
Last week in TokenSmart, Meetbits teed off against Bored Ape Yacht Club in the first ever RARA Social NFT Auction competition. Collector Favorite? A tie with both selling two NFTs. And the fan favorite? Drum 🥁 roll please…..Bored Ape Yacht Club won with the most RA!’s.
Poll of the Week
DAO huh?
RARA.social is Hiring
Culture needs people; great culture needs great people; building a new internet needs the best of the best. Up for the challenge?