Jamie Dubs

Jun 3

PartyDAO is what startups will look like in the future

Screenshot of early PartyDAO designsThere was a livestreamed design session for PartyDAO on Monday, which was a lot of fun to watch. There's a public Figma board you can dig through to see. The group is building PartyBid, an app for collectively bidding on NFTs a la PleasrDAO. It has been amazing watching this team assemble and start building over the last few weeks, and I believe it is a repeatable model we will see more and more often. Their speed and quality has been comparable to a t...

Jamie Dubs

Jul 13

Breaking down the Songcamp $ELEKTRA crowdfund

I backed the Songcamp art collective’s new Elektra crowdfund on Mirror this morning. Pretty cool use of multiple crowdfunding and community-building mechanics, and the project itself is very stylish and narrative-heavy. Kind of like an ARG, kind of like a DAO, kind of something else? The crowdfund used Mirror’s Editions feature to offer 3 different tiers of rewards, at 0.1 ETH, 0.3 ETH and 1 ETH. Per typical Mirror crowdfund, backers receive both a ticket-NFT and $ELEKTRA governance tokens pr...

Jamie Dubs

Mar 25

Coldie auctions and NFT auction design

I've heard the term "Coldie auction" mentioned in cryptoland a few times, but I didn't know much about its history. I know it best as the auction model used by Foundation, but it dates back to a manual process run by the artist Coldie, who has been selling cryptoart NFTs since 2018. Their preferred platform SuperRare added native support for this style of auction in late 2020. The basic mechanics:24-hour timed reserve auctionAuction begins when first bid is placedIn Coldie's or...