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Congratulations, you made it. Join the new wavWRLD telegram chat! Take a second to celebrate yourself because this year has been crazy so far. We won’t recap cause y’all know what has gone down, but just to top everything off we’ve got a memecoin rally going this week. Buy DFresh’s $PEPE bag y’all. But no, we’re in celebration mode. First off, we made it through the first winter of the crypto winter and that was a **bear **to deal with. Second off, music NFTs were the absolute highlight of NF...

gm folks … It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from us, and we know what you may be thinking: wavWRLD has gone dark. But that’s impossible. The wavs can never go dark, and so we can never go dark. As long as there are waves or .wavs to be surfed, we’ll be out here surfing them. In fact, just the opposite has happened. We’ve put our heads down to build what is the biggest IRL<>URL project in wavWRLD’s history. You may have been to our music showcase last year at ETHDenver or NFT NYC, or p...

No two ways about it, 2023 is well underway. No more pretending the year just started, we are on into April folks! What a great time to look back at your New Year’s resolutions and check in with yourself about how you’re doing on that list… What’s that? You’ve gone full degen mode and just want the alpha? Fine! This is the last time you’ll hear from wavWRLD before we all descend upon the greatest city in the world for what feels like the crown jewel of this current conference season: NFT NYC....

gm !! You are a trooper … Not just for sticking with web3 music through its ups and downs, but really for existing as a human being. It’s no joke. Sometimes we dive into the specifics in this newsletter, but today I wanted to back off and talk a little bit more about the macro. Hopefully this helps us contextualize where the music NFT space is at right now—and maybe gives us a little motivation as to why we continue to build when money and opportunity is hard to come by lately. Let’s start wi...

To kick it off, we hope everyone had a wonderful Women’s History Month and we want to give a thank you to Steph Guerrero for how hard she’s working to make sure that historically marginalized groups of people (first for Black History Month and now for WHM) receive the love and flowers they deserve. This one’s for you, Steph!Next up, the EVOLUTION EXPERIENCE, which is a series of METAVERSE events celebrating women making music history in web3 🚀 is happening TONIGHT at 8pm CST/ 9pm EST!! featu...

yerrrrrr and gm! Conference SZN 2023 is picking up and right off the bat we have the very event that kicked everything off for us last year, ETHDenver! Will you be in attendance? We’re hearing words of Decks on the Desk, Kickbacks, UltraViolet Raves with our very own KarmaVioletta performing, and more … but save your gas, because we’ve still got SXSW, NFT LA, and NFT NYC coming up in the next few months—to say the least! If you’re at ETHDenver, then join us at our wavWRLD meetup at Red Rocks ...

gee emmmmmm! Everyone’s back, everyone’s tired, everyone’s sick—that’s this week’s headline… NOT! Hype in the space is at turbo levels when out of nowhere every Hawd Hitta in the music NFT community (including wavROOM artists Jadyn Violet, TK, Cam Murdoch, KarmaVioletta, Aly fka Lackhoney & Fred Riko) stepped up with a submission to the Reveel x Decent collab competition. Votes are still live, so get your mints in while you can—and please direct any suspected instances of fufu tactics or game...

gm! Luckily things have been mostly drama-free since you last heard from us. We’re back in our routines, Twitter seems to be holding together alright, and—wait—why is gas $40 on my $10 NFT?! Yes, it’s not a new problem but we haven’t seen it in a minute: High Ethereum gas fees create significant disruptions for our market. While two weeks ago conversations centered around the decreasing price of music NFTs, we’re now questioning how to make the transaction even worth it in the first place. It...

gm and grand rising! Honestly, at this point you have us impressed. You’re showing up every day for a space with limited capital and an enormous amount of competition among hungry, talented artists. Opportunities are few and far between, and we’re still a little cooped up for the next month or two until the weather warms up. If you’re somewhere tropical, we’re jealous. It doesn’t matter, though—every day the paradigm shifts bit by bit, and our tools and know-how get more sophisticated. At the...

SubscribeAhhhhhh spring. Things are mellow right now. There’s a ton of great music dropping: of course on Sound and Catalog, but increasingly on Beats and Decent as well. Each platform offers something unique for creators, and the stronger of a cross-platform ecosystem we can build, the better-equipped artists will be to pursue their creative journeys. That’s a win-win. People are in *checks notes* LA this week for NFT LA or Miami for Miami Music Week? Last night, Jadyn Violet threw an event ...

Fred Riko’s Spicy Takes | An opinionated piece 🌶️ Sometimes it’s tough to know how to feel about the music NFT space. There’s conviction in the values that we have come to espouse as a community: abundance, diversity, mindfulness, holistic well-being, and more. We’ve had irreplaceable experiences with incredible friends—both over the internet and in person—and yet we still see perpetuated around us the same traumas that NFTs were intended to alleviate. Each of us have stories about how naive...

What up y’all. It’s legitimately wild out there. We’re going to assume if you made it so far as to stumble upon this newsletter you are firmly aware of the situation surrounding Silicon Valley Bank and you have a relative grasp on the impact that its collapse has had on crypto markets over the past week. I want to zoom out and consider its potential impact on the music NFT space over the next couple of months. But before we do that, I want to add another dynamic to the mix: the continued atro...