If history is for sale, who should own it?

When a copy of the US Constitution was announced for auction by @Sothebys in 2021, @ConstitutionDAO answered: “we, the people”.

In 7-days, they rallied 1000s of people, raised $42M to try and make history.

Here is their story 👇 @Sothebys @ConstitutionDAO 1/ Following @Sotheby’s auction announcement, a group of friends joked on Twitter about buying the constitution.

The memes led them to convene on Zoom which ended with a very real decision to pursue the bid 🇺🇸

They began as a core group of 35 people and got to work immediately.

Have you ever dreamed of owning an NBA team with your friends?

With @KrauseHouseDAO, that dream is now possible 🏀

🧵👇 @KrauseHouseDAO 1/ These hoop fanatics are the first community audacious enough to purchase and operate an NBA team as a DAO.

Their mission is to help fans capture the value they create for professional sports teams by using blockchain-based organization as a path to ownership.

.@songcamp_'s @headless_chaos is pushing the boundaries of collaboration in music NFTs 👀

So what exactly is it? 👇 @songcamp_ @headless_chaos Made by @songcamp_, @headless_chaos is an experimental music NFT collaboration project that was made in the past 8 weeks fting 77 individuals, operating as a "headless band."

The term "headless band" was inspired by @otherinternet__'s "headless brands." (otherinter.net/research/headl…)

Two things are true when thinking about university:

🏫 The real value is the people you meet there.
🏫 You'll never learn more than real-life, hands-on experiences.

What if, we rethink college through a DAO? 🧵👇 1/ @dropout_dao is a DAO that plans to create access to social infrastructure and learning ecosystems that benefit those who take unconventional pathways, independent of financial circumstance or physical location.

So, what is Adam Neumann's new blockchain company?

Flowcarbon (@weareflowcarbon) is a blockchain-enabled carbon credit trading platform. @weareflowcarbon What is a carbon credit?

A carbon credit is a permit that gives the right to companies/individuals to emit a set amount of carbon dioxide, in attempts to mitigate the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Remember when streaming didn’t exist and you had to rent your movies one VHS tape at a time? 📼

Before Netflix, there was @blockbuster: the defunct OG of at-home films in the 1990s.

The folks at @blockbusterdao think the giant can make a Web3 comeback 🧵👇 @blockbuster @BlockbusterDAO 1/ @BlockbusterDAO is on a mission to liberate Blockbuster from @dish by acquiring a meaningful stake and forming a DAO to collectively govern the brand.

1/ The Modern Billboard Collective DAO (@modernbillboard) is allowing brands to purchase Digital Real Estate on websites as NFTs.

This first-ever experiment in tokenized advertising might change how brands make ads forever.

Curious? Learn more 👇 @modernbillboard 2/ The initial idea came from @sariazout and @Jad_AE, inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage experiment, a page created in 2005 by @tewy (now the founder of @calm). milliondollarhomepage.com

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When @jeffkauffmanjr created the first Web3 community for Marketers, the reactions were NOT positive.

Industry veterans told him "Jeff you're right, this is the future but you're 10yrs too early”

Today, after 11 months of existence, @jumperstweeting is thriving.

A Thread 🧵 @jeffkauffmanjr @jumperstweeting 2/
Jeff came across the concept of Social Tokens in early 2020, a few months after the term had started to gain some momentum.

He decided to make a Web3 trends presentation and started sharing it with strategists, creatives, and senior people in his network.