SHILL Issue 66

Blocksmith Labs reveal sneak peek of art
upgrade
Frank has mentioned his love for art
before in an interview with Marc Colcer,
and also has mentioned how Duppies “is
going to look like fifteen thousand pieces
of fine art.”
The art market on Solana is far less
vibrant than it was towards the end of
2021, based on volumes on exchange.art,
but the artist in the space are a strong
community, and it’s likely we still haven’t
seen the full potential of 1/1 NFTs
yet.
Blocksmith Labs reveals an example of
their upcoming art upgrade. Their new
artwork adds more depth to the original
and adds a “crucial” rightward facing
component to the NFT, a factor many are
starting to believe is critical for a
project to succeed.
Blocksmith Labs is an NFT project focused
on building utilities for the rest
of the NFT ecosystem, launching its
whitelist manager Mercury earlier this
year, and with other tools being built
out soon, like their launchpad Bifrost,
which will be launching its first NFT
project later this week.
Since this sneak peek, the project has
pumped over 16%, with many seeing the
new art as more attractive for a mainstream
audience.
Frank DeGods picks up his first
John Lê artwork
Frank DeGods dabbles into the fine arts
side of NFTs today by buying the artwork
above.
“It’s pretty rare that you find a piece
of art that makes you actually feel
something.”
Project Deep Dives
Parrot Tools *The Etoro of Solana
NFTs* Notable Solana Mints
The concept of copy trading has been around
for a while, starting from signal groups
on social media platforms like Telegram
and Facebook but as the technology has
evolved so has the ecosystem around copy
trading.
Parrot Tools hopes to bridge the gap between
experienced/skilled traders and amateurs
of the ecosystem with its copy trading
feature. Users of the platform will be
able to pay a subscription fee to access
trades that these profitable traders make.
The platform also aims to give seasoned
NFT traders an “easy” way to generate passive
income while allowing new entrants to
profit from these trades. Of the fees that
subscribers pay, 80% will be going to the
traders and 20% to the project. They hope
to attract profitable traders with this attractive
rev share model. Their platform
is purely algorithmic in terms of who gets
to be a trader based on wallet activity,
where they are looking for traders who
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