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30 ETH. That was the price of a Tiffany & Co. NFTiff pass in August 2022 — roughly $50,000 at the time — giving CryptoPunk holders access to a custom…
Silas Beckett·19 min read
A treasury can hold millions in ETH and still be functionally insolvent.
Silas Beckett·19 min read
The most revealing metric in token-gated communities is not the number of wallets verified. It is the number of people who still have a reason to log in after…
Silas Beckett·17 min read
An ERC-721 contract can be deployed before a Discord moderator finishes typing “gm.” That is the seduction. A team sees a token standard, a mint page, 10,000…
Silas Beckett·14 min read
A 10,000-piece PFP collection can now be generated, pinned to IPFS, and pushed toward a mint for as little as $99 on a premium no-code stack. That is not a…
Silas Beckett·13 min read
On January 24, 2018, ERC-721 was finalized as the token standard that would go on to define the shape of most PFP collections — but the exceptions are where…
Silas Beckett·12 min read
A Bored Ape Yacht Club floor of 8.7999 ETH looks clean on a dashboard. It is not clean. It is one seller’s lowest visible ask, sitting 0.3299 ETH above the…
Silas Beckett·13 min read
Last cycle I watched a collection of 10,000 PFPs burn through a $4M treasury promising holders the world — exclusive events, token-gated storefronts, the…
Silas Beckett·10 min read
The cleanest contradiction in NFTs is sitting inside a fat little bird: the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection began as 8,888 Ethereum PFPs in July 2021, then…
Silas Beckett·15 min read
Three ETH. That's what I sent to a mint contract last spring chasing a PFP drop that promised "utility-first architecture" and "verifiable scarcity."…
Silas Beckett·10 min read
A standard ERC-20 reward claim can burn through something like 60,000–150,000 gas units before we even get to the part where the reward token has a bid.
Silas Beckett·15 min read
Two thousand dollars. That's what a counterfeit Bored Ape cost me before I learned to read a smart contract the way I read an order book. Not a rug, not a…
Silas Beckett·9 min read