Is PROOF the next Three Arrows Capital?  No. The team meets regularly with other Web3 builders, including Alexis Ohanian and his 776 Team and have adopted the industry standard to swap out enough ETH for stablecoin (not UST ;-)) to cover for taxes, salaries, and operational expenses for the next 3 years; that seems like a healthy runway. The rest is in ETH as the team is obviously long on ETH.  

Product updates: dark mode has arrived. This week more stats and more metrics on nesting and holders were also launched.

What's up ahead; as Justin put it, we are "adding colors and personality to your collector's profiles". Kevin hinted at ways to show oddities and other drops inside your profile page and mockups reviewed this week of features that will help birbs follow similar birbs. 

An easier way to find more private parliaments maybe? If I had to guess, I would say this will look similar to what @hermanschutte, a community member, has done with leaderbird.xyz. Personally, I really like what curio.tools (another Alexis Ohanian 776 investment btw), it's doing. Their Moonbirds traits dashboard is pretty cool; in my opinion. 

The team also hinted at other ways to access your nesting dashboard that aren't using your ledger.  Something like login with Google or similar might be on the way. 

Oddities update: The Oddities clock is ticking.

Oddities give you access to the PROOF Discord server and Oddities channels. The reveal happens in about 30 days, (Oddities.xyz); the first Oddities artist is going to be Gremplin.

Oddities are like "ant tunnels in an ant hill" they burrow.  Oddities are gonna be a fun way for the team to do more yearly drops of funky artists like Gremplin, but they don't really Nest like Moonbirds do. 

If you haven't listened to the latest PROOF podcast episode. Danny Yang from OnChainMonkey talks about his new NFT project and the mechanics of desserts. Similar to bored ape serum. Maybe at some point, we'll see Oddities be something that you can burn or consume and you'll get a second NFT, who knows?

NFT.NYC: there's a lot more events happening in New York this week. Check out events.proof.xyz for the official company events. Also there's a new section for community events. 

(Fidenzas, anyone?) Tyler Hobbs, who is known for his beautiful generative art collections is gonna be live coding at the main event, in addition to all the music, open bar and the David Blaine magic.

Kevin is a true David Blaine fanboy. Justin takes a lot of pleasure in teasing him about this. I think the magic theme is much better than Justin's idea of renting an actual pirate ship for NFT.NYC though. 

Kevin talked about trait specific merch, like little martial arts headbands that you can buy, and also the hoodies for the hooded birbs. Hopefully at some point,  community merch can also be shown on the website. 

akaStevey said the team is watching and seeing what the community is building. Similar to Benny whose parliament notes we have used in this podcast, and got him the role of moderator on the Discord server. Congrats, Benny! There are others worthy of mention like @vxtxr_eth with his daily Twitter nesting updates and @hermanschutte with Leaderbird