Not-So-Fungible Weekly #8

Brian Flynn
NFTY News
Published in
3 min readJun 10, 2018

What’s up nifties! There’s been a ton of buzz around NFTs this week, and I got you covered on the latest.

🔔Non-Fungible Major Announcements 🔔

1. NIFTY IS HAPPENING! It’s the biggest NFT event of the year, happening on July 24–26 in Hong Kong. More details at: nifty.gg

What’s 🔥 in NFT Twitter

This thread received a lot of attention over the weekend. Some questioned if the $12M investment in CryptoKitties was a bad move.

Cryptocollectibles are NOT just digital beanie babies. They’re programmable so you can use them outside of their native network with the option of extended utility.

Non-fungible tokens, alone, are not interesting. What makes NFT-dApps interesting is the instant user base and development platform it becomes.

Non-fungible tokens are programmable collectibles. They can have additional utility outside of their initial use. Maybe soon you’ll be able to view NSFW by having a tokenized edition of the newsletter? 😉

Other 👍NFT Happenings

Unlock Protocol Demo by Julien Genestoux — Awesome demo of Unlock Protocol. Unlock is using non-fungible tokens as access to content on the web.

Crafting New Value with Existing Tokens by Brian Flynn — Permissionless dApps should embrace extensibility in order to accrue value for fungible and non-fungible tokens. Last week, I jammed on this topic. Check it out!

Non-Fungible Token Stampede is Coming — Highly recommended read by Dan Emmons if you’re still trying to get a grasp of why there’s so much hype around non-fungible tokens.

The Evolution of Blockchain Games and a Sneak Peek of What’s to Come Vincent Niu from dapp.review covers the blockchain gaming trends seen so far and predicts what’s next.

CryptoKitties, CryptoPunks, and the birth of a cottage industry —Another interesting article about programmable scarcity from the Financial Times.

📰Not-So-Fungible Weekly Tokenized Edition #8📰

I’m looking for an illustrator/artist for this newsletter to work on what’s next for NSFW. If you’re interested, please reach out to me on twitter!

With that being said…here’s your tokenized version of NSFW for Week 8 — made by Casanova Crypto:

What would it look like when our digital avatars become walking advertisements in a tokenized world?

You can bid for this piece or buy it here

As always, I’m super stoked about talking to others about the possibilities of NFTs. If you want to talk about NFTs, or anything crypto related, drop me a line on twitter @flynnjamm, my DMs are always open.

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Brian Flynn
NFTY News

I often curate and write about crypto. Founder, Builder, and Thinker.