GM and Merry Christmas! This time last year, we felt hope and optimism, but today it's all momentum 🌊🌊
2021 is the year Web3 and the open Metaverse became inevitable
To celebrate, we made a Year In Review for Dapper and
@flow_blockchain
– check it:
We
@dapperlabs
just announced a massive partnership with
@LaLiga
plus $250M in new capital from an incredible group:
@Coatue
@A16Z
Mary Meeker
@bondcap
@GVteam
and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) among others
Thread time 🧵👇
the $305 million we announced today brings total capital raised by
@dapperlabs
to $357 million
we built everything we've built so far (from early 2018 until now) with 1/6 of the capital we just raised
now we spread our wings
join us!
#NFTs
are the future of social media, exhibit 1
Within minutes
@TyHaliburton22
ran a discord pack giveaway with 3k+ entries, ripped his LaMelo pack onstream, and joined the Top Shot
#NLL
by owning 30/30 of the "Cool Cats" set and connecting his wallet with
@Collab_Land_
#onFlow
Tyrese Haliburton just completed the Cool Cats set and joined the Nine Lives Lounge live in the
@nbatopshot
discord!! Welcome fellow Cool Cat! 😸
#NBATopShotThis
This is a big one: the
@nbatopshot
#NBAFinals
legendary drop 🏆 is TOMORROW.
To celebrate this 🔥
#NBA
series.. we're giving away 20 Playoff Packs!
RT 🔁 with
#NBATopShotThis
and your favorite Moment from the Finals for a chance to win 🏀
Amped to welcome Google to
@flow_blockchain
🌊
In <1 year since
#onFlow
mainnet:
- 2.2M unique wallets, less than half from
@nbatopshot
- 248 mainnet contracts (cf
@flowverse_
)
- 18.5M blocks and 49.7M tx
Now with 3000+ new devs building, Google jumps onboard to help scale 💪
we dont build for short-term flippers
@nba_topshot
we build for collectors, fans, long-term holders, market traders who want a transparent and trustworthy experience
we dont always get it perfect but we have a north star and we keep moving towards it
#TopShot
One more
#HBDTopShot
post – for power users:
Self-custody / withdrawal to other wallets is coming to
@dapperlabs
#NFTs
🔓🚀
Very limited rollout in Oct, expanding through Q4
Unlocks: third party marketplaces, lending, fractionalizing, group buying –– all on
@flow_blockchain
We are working on full FLOW coin support within Dapper wallet –– just like you can hold your Dapper balance in dollars, you should be able to hold, earn, and spend seamlessly in FLOW, the native token of
@flow_blockchain
As a THANK YOU and opportunity for new users, I have 100
@StarlyNFT
packs to give away this holiday season –– featuring NFTs from top projects including
@nbatopshot
Legendaries and
@BALLERZ_NFT
To win, just 💜🔁 the above post and tag your fav project or creator
#onFlow
!
Just today, 12,531 people spent $6,780,234 on the
@NBA_TopShot
marketplace across 90,478 transactions
This is more than 10% the transactions the
@CryptoKitties
marketplace has done in 3 years on Ethereum in just 24 hours on
@flow_blockchain
and we're just getting started
Daily volume on the
@NBA_TopShot
marketplace is smashing through all time highs with lots of new faces – perfect time for a 🧵👇 (1/5)
#NBA
#tradingcards
i am deeply grateful to everyone that believes in us, uses our products, holds a CryptoKitty, Cheeze Wizard, NBA Top Shot, or Dapper wallet –– and the amazing investors that have given us the fuel to make our dreams real
the best part is we're just getting started
the most impressive
@nbatopshot
metrics don't have dollar signs:
– 84% (!) 12 week retention across all collectors
– 80%+ of eligible users join LE pack drops
– 300k+ in line this morning for Cool Cats drop
– 98% (!!!) 12 wk retention across activated* users
🧵👇
#NBATopShot
I feel so amped and energized, it still feels like "day one" for us – thank you
@FastCompany
for naming
@dapperlabs
to Most Innovative Companies and especially
#NBATopShot
community for giving us your trust and support as we build
@nbatopshot
into the currency of
#NBA
fandom 🏀
Within months of its launch,
@nbatopshot
reached a million users and more than $700 million in sales. The company behind it,
@dapperlabs
, is now valued at more than $7.5 billion. And the world of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has exploded.
every decision has tradeoffs, and we'll always prioritize real fans – i am sorry for the delayed drop today i know 100k+ of you were super excited, but for many this will be their first rare pack drop in
@nba_topshot
– we didn't want a super fast but unfair sellout
Kicking myself for not knowing tidal was for sale
At $297m I’d have liked to compete for the deal
@dapperlabs
Hey
@jack
I’m going to find an intro to you, we can help take this to the next level for artists and fans alike
#NFT
"It all started with a Mouse" - Walt Disney, 1954
I'm incredibly excited to introduce
@DisneyPinnacle
💫, our newest platform in collaboration with
@Disney
Built for the biggest Disney fans exclusively on
@flow_blockchain
@DisneyPinnacle
is a first of its kind digital pin
Weird feeling:
@NBA_TopShot
did $38,262,688 in marketplace volume past 24 hours on
@flow_blockchain
– more than
@CryptoKitties
has in its entire 3 years on Ethereum.. Can't wait to bring the Kitties to $FLOW 😼
big congrats to
@nbatopshot
community for crossing 10,000,000 transactions on
@flow_blockchain
! with 566,499 verified unique
#NFT
owners 🏀💪
are you ready for the new
#NBA
season?
I’m extremely bullish on
@nbatopshot
100% transparency
Instant trading
Global 24/7/365 marketplace
Epic shareable highlights
Exclusive fan benefits
Ready for VR / AR
I'm extremely bullish on Sports Cards as a whole, but this is a huge detractor for casual fans/investors, imo.
Pictured are the number of card *variants* shown for JUST a 2020 Tyrese Maxey rookie card in Prizm or Select (only 2 brands). - Just insane:
🌐 GLOBAL GALLERY GOES LIVE: Join artist
@jonburgerman
and
@koeniggalerie
live on Instagram for the launch of GLOBAL GALLERY at Times Square in New York.
🗓 9 OCT
⏰ 6 PM ET | 12 AM CET
📍 Times Square &
@koeniggalerie
📲
#K
önigxPorsche
My favorite part of
@dapperlabs
is our team –– most of us have worked together for years, some almost a decade across companies
We're now hiring quickly but carefully and need your help –– $10K referral bonus for ANY full-time hire, $25K for engineering + priority roles 🧵👇
The future of football fandom is here 🔥🏈
Collect exclusive digital video highlights of iconic
@NFL
Moments featuring the biggest plays of the season.
Join the waitlist:
we havent done merch yet bc we want to do it properly
dapper labs shouldnt just do startup t-shirts, we should have (or partner with) a fashion house
that way we can do things
#NFT
-gated – eg to order Cosmic gear you should need to own Cosmic moments on
@nbatopshot
I'm excited to announce
@whatdotcd
and i are joining forces on
@flow_blockchain
We are bringing our teams together to form Dapper Collectives, a new entity with the mission of bringing decentralized organizations to the mainstream
#onFlow
#DAO
We're proud to collaborate with
@hornets
on the first
#NBA
#NFT
drop accessible to mainstream fans thanks to
@flow_blockchain
#BuildOnFlow
This is just the start! Once we're ready, we want to bring the power of
@nbatopshot
to supercharge the local fan experience at every level
Officially-licensed
@NBA
collectibles are taking off with
@NBA_TopShot
📈
$8M invested so far with $1.1M of trades last week after
@raf_tyler
endorsement – $400K just yesterday!
Start on or read on for a quick 🧵👇
to celebrate
@NFLxDapper
today i decided to mutate my stalwart
#BAYC
8753
fellow apes please welcome MAYC 27506 and 27507 to the squad
let's play
@BoredApeYC
🦧🏈
"We've known we're on to something special for a while now. We bet everything on the
@NBA
. It's something so new and perfect for the times."
Thank you
@ESPN
for telling the
@NBA_TopShot
story! This article will be fun to look back on in 10 years 🚀
New 24 hour record for
@NBA_TopShot
: $20,460,573 p2p volume with 22,258 buyers across 104,777 tx including two big jersey-match scoops:
–
@KingJames
Throwdown (Rare)
#1
– $100,000
–
@Giannis_An34
HOLO MMXX (Legendary)
#34
🎽 – $85,000
–
@KingJames
Base (Common)
#23
🎽 – $70,000
With over $100M+ in
@NBA_TopShot
sales, we're building the fastest-growing marketplace in the world – and need your help scaling
Head of customer support, infrastructure engineers, backend
#golang
/ database
#kafka
experts, and fraud analysts apply now:
Many people (still!) believe crypto is only about currency
For those that instead know crypto is a computing platform
That lets developers build new kinds of apps and assets
To give superpowers to independent creators and fans
There’s
@flow_blockchain
#Flow
beware of cash grabs in
#NFT
ask yourself the question: can i imagine the product i am purchasing having a self-sustaining community around it in 10 / 20 / 100 years?
“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
I'm so excited: Cat In the Hat, Grinch, and your fav characters and places from
@DrSeuss
' universe are coming to digital life on
@flow_blockchain
We purposely stay away from marketing our technology
@flow_blockchain
That said, misinformation from ETH maxis and other chains is bordering on satire at this point
So we’re gonna talk tech again
I’m personally excited about it, apologies in advance to my Top Shot feed 😇
Milestone:
@flow_blockchain
has now processed over 499,467,175 transactions 😤
To celebrate, I will give away 20,000 FLOW for the 500 millionth transaction*:
🌊 10,000 FLOW to the user that executes it
🌊 10,000 FLOW to the platform/dApp it happens on
Next up: Road to a
Also for perspective,
@nbatopshot
is the only NFT marketplace in this list that is on chain but also fully custodial and legally compliant with identity verification and anti-money laundering compliance programs — as well as a 5% fee that is shared with the NBA and players
While Ethereum still leads in total NFT volume, Flow’s flagship collectible NBA Top Shots has single-handedly put up comparable numbers over the past several months and accounts for 62% of NFT secondary sales over NFT projects with over $1m in secondary sales.
TopShot pumping & challenges + NFL All Day beta + UFC Strike release have made me lose interest in all other NFT projects, barring my current holdings.
Cannot be bothered to keep up with whatever latest pfp is, discords, white lists, gas fees, all of it…
Buy more moments.
@StephenCurry30
Unless you're a full-time trader and/or have the tax structuring done right, name of the game in crypto is to accumulate: Buy a little every day. On days it drops, buy a little more.
New 24 hour record for
@NBA_TopShot
: $20,460,573 p2p volume with 22,258 buyers across 104,777 tx including two big jersey-match scoops:
–
@KingJames
Throwdown (Rare)
#1
– $100,000
–
@Giannis_An34
HOLO MMXX (Legendary)
#34
🎽 – $85,000
–
@KingJames
Base (Common)
#23
🎽 – $70,000
➖$106.3 million: total sales generated across NBA Top Shot platform over past 30 days
➖$53.9M: total sales over past seven days
➖$16M: total sales yesterday (new single-day record)
Based on sales, this month
@nba_topshot
became the largest NFT market ever.
"Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind"
Something new is cooking
#onFlow
@flow_blockchain
😇
Sign up on and you just might get selected for early access
Hint for
@nbatopshot
collector score heavyweights: use your
@hellodapper
email 😼
Summary statement on the
#TopShot
Holo drop today: 25k people queued up for 2331 $999 packs. 2331 packs went to 2331 accounts so distribution was good BUT due to a bug many bypassed the queue. We're very sorry for ppl who waited but didnt get a pack – we will make it up to you.
Napkin math: startups building on
@flow_blockchain
have raised over $1 billion dollars* from top-tier investors – less than 1% of that from Dapper Labs / Baller Ventures
Ecosystem update coming soon
*Not counting the ~$600 million raised by
@dapperlabs
🌊🌊🌊
#onFlow
We said goodbye to 51 brilliant colleagues and friends today
@dapperlabs
– this is the note I sent our team.
We remain fully dedicated to our core communities and committed to building amazing products that push the world forward together.
If you're looking to hire some of the
6 months ago people looked at us funny when we said “digital collectibles” — now
@NBA_TopShot
is the fastest growing marketplace in history and Mark Cuban is going to bat for the whole
#NFT
space
mainstream adoption requires:
– fiat AND crypto payments
– abstraction of gas and storage for new users
– unique wallets per user without browser extensions
– a clear path from custodial to non-custodial keys
– rock-solid smart contracts
only possible
#onFlow
@flow_blockchain
Every time I try to get a new NFT and get shut out due to gas wars, I realize how awesome
@nbatopshot
is and how Flow will be instrumental in mass adoption of NFTs. No one wants to deal with this shit. If you’re an OG in and think that gas fees are just “part of it” you’re wrong.
composability is the real power of blockchain / crypto
was built by third party devs without permission or platform risk – we can't cut them off from
#NBATopShot
data even if we wanted to!
more opportunities for startups ♻️ more choice for consumers
You can now access our site via a link on
@nbatopshot
moment listings!!! 🚀📈
Super thankful for the work their team did to make this happen.
#NBATopShot
the next generation of social networks are interest-driven, value-add to their members' passions, and monetized primarily through digital goods and direct fan engagement – not advertising
Save the date
@nbatopshot
because i'm amped to do these again –– Saturday Nov 20, 9:30am PT, i'll be in for a community update and AMA –– i'll present our priorities, progress, and highly requested updates; answer questions; and take feedback 🏀🏀🏀
💯 it may not even take that long
The internet took decades to mature because hardware evolves slowly
Crypto is pure software and can piggyback on global connectivity as well as billions of phones already in peoples’ pockets
Eventually every asset will go on-chain, just like every form of media has gone online.
So by 2030-2040 your portfolio may be 100% crypto.
Question is how long it takes people to realize this.
Already in progress for digital gold, art, loans, derivatives, stocks, etc.
We're giving away 3
@NBATopShot
All-Star packs on
@boardroom
🔥 To enter sign up for our newsletter:
Make sure you have an active
#NBATopShot
account in order to be eligible.
Don't mind this non-technical guy just inside
@flow_blockchain
Playground learning how to build a marketplace, mint and deploy NFTs. NBD. cc
@dapperlabs
@rohamg
Flow x
@CelerNetwork
multi-chain 🚀
– Now: ETH, BTC, DAI, etc can move to Flow and be used inside Flow apps (soon including
@BloctoApp
and upcoming
@incrementfi
@MetapierOrg
DEXs)
– Next: any NFT can move to Flow –– and NFTs from Flow can move to any chain (including
@opensea
)
Thrilled to announce that
@CelerNetwork
is now integrated
#onFlow
, bringing new multi-chain opportunities
🌉 Celer cBridge supports 27 chains
📌 Phase 1: Fungible token bridging
🖼️ NFT bridging on and off Flow in the future
Learn more about Celer 👇
Fast Break is Dapper's new game centered around
#NBA
action – download
@NBATopShot
on
@AppStore
or
@GooglePlay
to pick your lineup for tonight's games 🏀🏀🏀
Post your final lineup today or tomorrow with hashtag
#FastBreak
for a chance to win one of 5 incredible Rookie Debut