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Welcome to The Roadmap! The show for all things NFTs. On today's show: BAYC Roadmap 2.0, Secret Society of Whales, Dapper Labs NBA Top Shot, Bloot, Zach aka Young Investor and more! Plus upcoming TOP NFT Projects drops to watch out for in October!

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Zach Cox (Young Investor)

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Chris Katje

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers new NFT show. The last few episodes we've featured some great interviews and some great teams we've had on the Vogel collective robots dose, the dose pound only forest crypto dads and the team behind blue. We also did our first NFT giveaway stay tuned for future NFT giveaways.

We've got a great show today. We're going to have on young investor, we're going to be talking whales. We're also going to be running through headlines of the top NFT projects out there. Stay tuned. This is the road.

All right, guys. Welcome back to another great episode of the roadmap. Benzingers NFT show that airs Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM. Eastern time looks like we're getting a lot of viewers on over from our last show. Let me go ahead and bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on, buddy? Yo, yo, yo, what's up Chris?

How you doing? Doing great. Doing great. On another great episode, we've got, we had a great one on Tuesday with the team behind blue. We're going to talk about that a little bit later on recap that for anyone who missed, if anyone did miss that, I would encourage you to go back and find that episode. That was definitely a fun one that we've done a very fun conversation and also some great education.

But again, we'll get into that later. I do want to go ahead and bring on our guests. He is actually been on the show before we have a young, young investor joining us. He's here to talk again about some NFT projects that he loves and also give us some new news. Um, so I hope everyone out there is excited without further ado, young investor what's going on.

Hi. Of course we're, we're happy to have you back. You know, one of the projects that you talked about last time you were on was secret society of Wales and, you know, I'm seeing some big sales out there in whale land. What can you tell us about, you know, the recent activity in this project? Yeah. So what I'm seeing with Wells right now, so you've got a 0.1 floor and we had a guy called bus, you know, I've talked to him a few times actually.

And last night you went, I think he brought, I think it was almost a hundred. And then we've had a load, more sales off that loads, more expensive ones, you know, and they'd have their people started to jump. So, you know, the thing which I think has changed now is when you look at the sips that it was know it's been like this for a while.

Now, the floor now has a 0.1, but we're seeing, um, I think we just had a cell it's 9 3 8 8 4 1 9 0.28 eighth. Sorry. So you've got, say four 90 selling. You've got 0.1 floor. And we also had sales. I think it was, uh, I've got some hair, some semi we've got, we got 13. Brief, we've got loads of twos at a few bonds in last thought, their last 72 hours throwing out a project saying a Vera, you know, lot of traction on terms of the more expensive ones I personally listed to, um, to, you know, no one takes profits and also to roll in some floor Wells.

It's bought some before. I know I had one where I went for sell previous sweatshirt and was a few weeks ago that took about four days to sell these both within two hours right now, you know, they're not attraction, the amount of liquidity, which they've just gone to projects and. There's a 5% royalty, which we'll go into community bullet that will be for future giveaways and all that kind of stuff.

And the important thing to stress and I want to make clear now is we just had these, what we're doing. I didn't have elections for Wells. We brought a load of community members from not just being in the main chat, not just being in the cigar club, being at a private chat, the whole. That bringing in we've now got a guy called Julia I've talked to many, has for know, probably watched by now, shout out to Julian, you know, Julian's now taking over the Twitter.

He's got tons of cool ideas. We, you know, we've been screaming about it. Yeah. And they bring them those community members. Now it's not just about, you know, the main freeing or the founders, you know, especially big job. It's about the whole community, the whole community plan. Next step. We've also got some which we have the floor sweep.

So this be our second floor sweep. So the Wells will vote on four projects that were voted on two days ago. So the top four are now going into a final. And whichever is selected in most voted by the community on their discord server. And that project will mean that the Wells will go and spend funds that are up 10 to 15.

If the community wallet to bike a floor of a collection, these scripted dads, I think there's a few others. I think the lowest one right now with the floors at 0.2, five, they proved he did that for rumble. Kong's outside of that, really amazing. That really started kind of a thing between us, a rubber concierge kind of close Parship, you know, this is second floor suite for us, you know, there's tons of things coming up for this project.

That'd be buying a few at the moment. Yeah. I think I've got 28 Wells, 27 Wells. See, I'm pretty bullish on this project. Yeah, so young investors. So tell us a little bit more about how did you find this project and why do you love the project so much? Yeah. So this is a project, you know, this has been around for just over a month.

I'd say maybe a month and one week, two weeks now. And yes, it hasn't been out for long at all. I think it started on the August 15th. So we study started to rise up since then. I think the mic was at 0.05 and it went down to zero two. when I found out about this project and I was browsing NFT long years before I've gone, like super heavy set, left, easy a few weeks.

So I'm looking and looking for different projects. Here I go onto their desk scores and I start reading about Wells. I started doing research on them. I really like what I see upcoming. What was that? The ball lake drove where they gave away one board, eight S you know, that was a really big truck loads of people.

That project is a really fantastic move. In my opinion, we, I think they brought a about 25. If that board eight, you know, uh, about a few weeks back, that was a really smart move from community bullet. So you went out and tried to buy a hundred F you know, or a 35 F uh, maybe it's actually 15 ball eight, then they'll not to afford it.

You know, this one was, I think it will rarer once the ball later, I think it was worth around 150 to $200,000. A hundred percent had offers there's offer for 150,000. So very kind of interesting giveaway for them. So I went and I brought four floor whales at the time, so they selected five whales along with they get when they have other stuff as well.

And alongside that gear waist, they selected five whales. And to go to the final draw, one of mine, you know, Some kind of miracle, I guess you'd say, you know, got selective. So I traded that for 2028 whales. I've sold a few cents. I mean, I think I've sold around $1,000 worth today. I might roll that back into the floor, but actually I think it's a bit more than that, but 0.6, eith I sold today and I'm going to roll that back is for some other projects, maybe just put some in.

Something like, yeah. Some stable coins or something, you know, just do the research from that. But yeah, so obviously professional what we have, which happening, and that's really how I found the project, the discord, you know, it's one of the best discourse I've ever seen. I've been a few discos for, you know, people send me invites constantly, you know, the amount of invites I get from people.

It's kind of crazy at the moment I go to , you know, first you're greeted with is not always, I'll say the nicest, nicest person coming forward from the, obviously if you ask the question, this community is actually phenomenal, you know, incest as you come in and you can really ask any question you want, everyone's there to help you.

I mean, I've never really seen any kind of time playing that anyone's ever shut down some questions as a judgment frequent air travel. But people ask that as a question. So your let's see your view to theorem. You asked something about gas, you know, cause because gas supply for different projects, that was one before.

So for example, I think the question was if I buy something for $10, an eighth is gas the same, you know, people go out. So that's the item community also really stands out combined with the liquid received recently and the community they'll take care of project. I really didn't think this as a collection with big things.

Tell us more about the gold whales. You know, that was the tweet I saw with secret society had some recent sales of the gold whales there, and it looks like on open. See, there is a total of 49 whales that have the gold skin. Um, this is a pretty cool trait. Uh, have you owned any other gold ones or is that something you're looking at?

All I want to wave on say bad, Chris, but I'm going to get one. I'm going to get one. I promise you that I'm going to get what it said. Difficult to sell. If y'all sell a few, if I have to spin something off, I've got skin selling your firewall. I will go through Ella. I promise you at some point a Goldwell sorry, but yes.

So the gold Wells we've see extreme liquidity. And the third worst, I believe is the fifth, fifth of thirds. So for 9.28 east to bass sales, I think that the large saliva, the country 9.28, as you know, almost I think over 20,000, $30,000 for these Wells. And you're wherever that. So, yeah, we've had that large amount liquidity in the golds.

Tons of it snapped up recently. And especially, I think we've seen the floor now. I think lowest, last time I checked this may occasionally last hour or so, but the lyrics go well, well, I think it was 2.48. You could buy one for, and if that was sold, then it goes to up to 48th floor, if you want to buy one.

So right now, you know, go one to other rarer where the crib. As the French may say, yeah. You know, they go, well, is the kind of the thing to have, if you've got one, you know, they were amongst very, a small amount of club of the golden has been there. That is the thing, you know, many people Tonja, aren't going to get one to support, love it.

Young investor really quick. So for people watching, I mean, I know, uh, two questions. How old are you and how did you get in Tennessee? Totally. So 13 years old and you know, off the socks, you know, I've always had an interest in cryptocurrency. I have a small outlet queen. I got involved in Ethereum a few months ago.

This is probably six months ago. I think I had a point where these, I think my first major, I think, where I started spending that money, um, was when the grain and the multi-verse of Greg's came out. I took the bet and I brought about the mint quite subpoint freight. I sold it for. One quick one. I think it was around just, just over 40 hours later.

That was my first really successful flip. I've got a few projects, sits down, including Wells. I was really drawn to it. Just like. Once he probably trusts his socks and woven you always gonna look into cryptocurrency. I love what I saw. Um, I've been on a pump show before, if you don't who he is, you know, he's a big, big Bitcoin bull.

So I've spoken to a lot of crypto enthusiasts in space, your liners, you know, your people, he know who are the theories that quite have it all really see, I spoken to him all that really, you know, my channel, whether it's for Twitter, DMS, or had a few private calls and some people would be IB talking about.

See, I've really talked to tons of people from the crypto space. There are a lot of research myself and that's how I really got into it. Nice. Awesome. So you mentioned, you know, what secret society of Wales, the, the floor sweep on other projects. That's something that really interests me here. And you mentioned that there's, you know, four finalists.

So is it everyone who owns a whale you said, gets to vote in the discord then? Uh, what happens to those NFTs that are bought up by a secret society? Okay. So the four we currently have, which a selector, I think there was a 10 let's narrow down to the final four at four, which the community voted on that's crypted as a, some of them.

Um, CSS down to final force, a for sort of happiness push up on this, selected their community, but we will go spend 10, 15 F on that, on that one project. And then they will, they give away the goods they're brought to us to wear holders and see, you know, you've got to have your Weldy listed for that, I believe.

But yeah. So there'll be giving you a way to run the world. Yeah. So it's a kind of fun project. Really. There's lots of giveaways, lots of give back to the community and lots of people wanting to hold, you know, lots of incentivization. So yeah, I re I believe this was one of the many benefits of secret society of Wells.

I do believe, you know, as many more thoughts, as many more great things to come for this collection. Awesome. Well, Zach, it looks like they're loving you in the chat. I know you've got some loyal viewers that tonight. To hear from you. We also have some news that you teased on Twitter a little bit. Uh, are, are you ready to go ahead and make that big announcement here on Benzinga as the roadmap?

Go for it and use the floor. The floor is yours. Let's hear so in about two to three weeks as already be 31 out of the 80 drug, I'll be launching a project similar to be friends, but in my own way to Gary V if you don't know, he's one of these many people, investors, so many startups previous needs from those, I think you called the rags to riches people.

So we launch a project. We'll be friends, the friends, all hand drawn by have animals. And this will give you access to the column in 20 21, 20 22 and 2020. So the concept is big about what he's going to speak. And he's got a load of guests let's give exclusive holders only to attend. So I'm not sure my old project called Zack safari.

I was originally planned to do something different to animals, but I've been drawing. I feel like animals are something more people can relate to. And let's say, you know, different people and stuff like that. So just have decided to go animals, at least going to be honest from what a wide range of round the world, it's gonna be 80 of them altogether 500, or I think I'll go, I've already done about two to three dress.

Each for each one has seen a lot of efforts going to go into this. So each of these animals that shall be launching will give access to number on a private discord, you know, persuaded by. Uh, et cetera, et cetera. So in total the 80, which would be sort of 0.05, if they also, which I think they will last approximately Flores, I will be keeping lolly.

Obviously it would be financial advice for obvious reasons to be, I'll be taking Willie for that. For three, we left the community. The plan is to buy 20 of NFTs from another projects, other projects, and there might be two or three projects that you're going to get out. We're aiming what I may mean to be getting these as 0.03.

Floor and will we give away 20 of them? Uh, so I think that's approximately 0.6, eight or something like that altogether. So then with also the, I lost, we giving away possibly something like a cryptic that this is not set in stone in any way. I allocated approximately 1.3, two for one, and it which will also be given away to random.

So holidays are really poor people. When people buy it's a lot back to community, give a lot back to, you know, all the holders you do give ways, make it exciting. It's not just one of those projects where you know people on Twitter, you know, they go Photoshop their face onto it is abandoned. It goes to nothing.

This is gonna be a portrait. A lot of their fencing and all sorts of that, you know, that one will be selected to rabbit hole as that will be something where obviously more, you own a better trance. You will have a wedding that is I'm possibly looking at crypto dads at the moment. That's my preferred option.

And after all of that left over, there'll be money left in the community while. Which will then be allocated for planning to a $200 giveaways pop up to have holders and pay possibly a $100, one, two, and on the holders of hard to keep free of them for future giveaways. So, you know, not the holders, but yeah.

So the idea is give back, you know, plenty of your waste, plenty of things come in, you ethic coming in on my end, you'd ask me questions, you know, really. So those people need been supporting me for a while now. Yeah. It's going to be exciting in my opinion, it's not going to be one of those things that you know, is that not necessarily, that's just abandon it.

It's going to have a lot of effort go into any, I think it's going to really reward holders going into future. How many pieces are dropping and is there a way to get listed? I think that's what people want. Alright, so I'll be 80 dropping and he wants to be on the white list. I'm not going to do a traditional mint.

I'm just going to listen to the open sea by more than happy. About two hours before launch, she has a list of specific people. So he wants to be on the wait list. DME tells me how many you want and we'll work something out if you want to be on it before the rest of the crowd. And we'll we a whale NFT or my end.

See, that might be one of the more preferred places by some people

Those are going to go fast ban. Yeah. 80. That's a, that's a low number compared to some of the ones that we've seen. And you said, so is it going to be 80 different animals? 80 different animals. Everything is unique. One-on-ones all the ones that I've already dropped. 31 of them. I've been waking up at six every morning to do it.

Yeah. So, no, it's no school, no schoolwork right now. This is your homework is drawing NFT. Yeah,

man. I mean, the chat is loving it. Yeah, there there's, there's a lot of people in here that, that want in on this project already. Um, you talked about, you know, the private discord, um, you know, in some of the other benefits, uh, I liked the comparisons to V friends, Gary V I mean, that's a project we've followed a lot.

We've talked about. You know, where where's the inspiration, you know, obviously you followed the NFT space, but what really led to you wanting to, you know, create and manage your own NFT community. Yeah. Oh, I'm a big believer in, you know, I don't want to have any regrets, you know, three months down the line, if LSTs flopped, they flopped, let's say, you know, I don't have any regrets not going forward.

It's like, you know, not pushing this stuff, like, Hey prevention, a few months down the road, it'd be like, oh, I wish I did it. I wish I put the effort into it. I, you know, I wish I gave it a shot. So this discord is going to be for you. If you support me, you come on this, this will be, there'll be three free channels.

And if you want to, and you open the. You can use the club land bot, which when I saw a discord Stu how do you can come in? And in this private area, you'll be able to ask me any questions. I was very active in it has there. You had to remember Sarah 80 of us, you know, it's going to really be kind of wall-to-wall for me.

If we're going to be talking all the time, I'll be sharing my moods, sharing what I'm doing. And they were talking amongst each other about our trade moves. Whereas that may be other maybe. And if he's read that maybe stocks and we were talking a lot about that, there'll also be, I forgot to mention too, approximately one to two episodes per week.

This most likely be all audio only, or. Um, yeah, I think I'm going to be duke all your own yet starts easily. Two exclusive episodes for holder's week. I'll be talking about stocks, entities, whether it uses whatever's on my mind at the time set up your two exclusive episodes to the whole of the week. And this is all guaranteed five months.

Almost probably extend that five months is just by one guarantee. And also you're not going to guarantee anything forever for obvious reasons. CFO month start upright, extend it to then eight months after that, depending on, you know, how. Yeah, for some random reason, I changed complete interest, you know, which I found very doubtful that I've seen it as I've been doing this for over a year and a half now.

But yeah. So any event that's guaranteed five months, Hey, come and join us. You know, we'll most of this most likely be going on for a while and come and get that chance when that crypt to that or whatever that may be. Get that chance when there's 20 others in the giveaway, they come in talk, you know, I think it's going to be really exciting projects.

I think it's gonna be really cool if you wants to be on the white list, DME on discord or on Twitter or the twisters at investor to that is amazing, man, your Genesis piece. I mean you're 13. This seems like there's going to be a lot of demand, 80 pieces. So the best way to find out is to DM you on discord.

Twitter. Was there going to be a public. Uh, when they launch, or just talk to us a little bit more about. Yeah. So you can follow the Twitter for this specifically, which is at Zack safari. I've got the Twitter handle as well, which is great. For some reason, it wasn't really taken. So you can go follow me on there.

There'll be a weekly updates on that. I'll be doing a YouTube video on my channel, which will explain it all a much deeper, much further detailed in about a week. So, you know, we want to iron out. We want to get the 8,000 draw the most somehow drawn it begin uploading. And then if you do want to, I'll give you a B on the white list.

I'll give you a good three to five hours for everyone else. So DME, if you do want that, yeah. It's going to be really exciting and know I'm really pumped about. There's a question in the chat about the price. I just want to make sure I heard right. Point zero three was what you said for the price. Alright.

We're selling. Yeah. So it was somebody that 0.05. It's gonna be really cheap at the start. We may do five extras, which we'll be selling for 0.1 to 0.2, depending on these, we'll give you access to a monthly call with me or something like that. Yeah, we haven't, that's not sensitive. Yeah, we won't get out of alignment.

We want to go with them suddenly low and kind of sums of lectures. Everyone gets a chance, you know, you don't need to be someone with, you know, put five OLIF, you know, as that may be in your wallet, everyone gets a chance. Everyone gets a chance to participate. If you're there for. Oh, should he be able to get yours?

You're you're avoiding gas wars, just listing them correctly on open. See, I like that approach. So we definitely talk about gas, a lot on the show and all the gas wars and, you know, pricing people out of projects. So I like that approach here too. You know, I've been talking to a few people, plus wherever it's carried on the traditional med number one site, easier to listen to the open seat, you know?

You don't need, you have people in gasoline get specific ones that each project there's going to be. None of that it's gonna be first come first serve. If you want to be on that wait list, DME, and you can buy that. The forehands be at 0.05 each, maybe some 0.1, but I highly doubt it. So it'd be 80 all hundred by me.

And yeah, I'll be around approximately teach three weeks where we launched in that collection safari. I think it's gonna be really big and I'm really excited. Are there going to be any rarities of the pieces or is there, are they all going to be judged the same way? How are you doing that? That we're going to be judged to say way, you know, wherever, you know, for plenty Wells will be interested to you.

The whale, I think we'll be well, the, uh, regardless one of the railroad wants, obviously anything that I'm in, they may, it regarded as the railroad, but you know, all be judged. Say they're all gonna be hydro by me. Don't expect me to make something beautiful. Tons of art, you know, I'm not great at heart, but yeah, as much.

I mean, we've seen that we've seen the V friends. They're not exactly a, you know, Picasso's or anything. So, uh,

all right, well, we've got the Twitter handle up there for you, and also for that new project. Um, again, DM you either on Twitter or in discord are the easiest ways to get ahold of you and, you know, find out more and get, uh, you know, a white listed, uh, anything else, uh, you know, to share about this exciting project.

Yes, you know, that's about all, but, you know, I really do believe in a project which I make one, he felt free. It's going to go towards the community, you know, depending on our secondary sales liquidity, I do not expect a huge amount of staff myself as, as only be an 80 head. So I, prior to when we flipped over for the community, so you can plenty of giveaways, plenty of Eve you've wasted the hundred, 200, 300.

There's going to be plenty of tracks. I'm probably know where I saw the holes of a wind, something at some point, you know, I've already got a few deals on twists. I'll replying to everyone. We'll get you on the white list. Yeah. DML twists has to be on the white list. All the details of said it's kind of, uh, to really get to the core basics.

You know what we're doing? It's basically going to be access to a discord where we can talk. You can ask questions or post all my stock NFTs and buyers buy and sell alerts on obviously not financial. You're also get access to giveaways to start with. We give away 20 random projects, which I'll be selecting, which I like.

That'd be our average, approximately 0.0 free each breaches and FTS to be 20 giveaway. And it would all speak in a way, one with a max budget of 1.3, two dads or something else. So it's clearly distinct specialty. We're trying to give back to the holders. Yeah. That's gonna be plenty more things to come down the line.

I wouldn't worry about that.

Awesome mass. Any other questions for Zach here? Um, question about white lists. So it seems like the demand's going to be there, man. I mean, your first Genesis piece, 80 pieces, you know, everyone's going to want some of that. So how are you going to do white lists? If you get more than 80 DMS, is there any strategy or, or how?

Cause I know the demand is. You know, you're, you're a genius man. You're 13. You're killing it. Yeah. Look, you know, I do. I think there's a chance it might go over, but I think if you do get on the white list, I'm pretty sure you will get a guarantee spots, you know, coming to the army now.

If you're interested.

Oh man. Our viewers, our viewers getting a, a great exclusive here. So Zach, uh, you know, thanks again for coming on the show today. We'd love hearing about, you know, projects like. and also getting that exclusive and, uh, talking about Zack safari, NFT and exclusive here on the roadmap. Uh, Zach, we're definitely going to have you back on and look forward to hearing more about this project in the future.

Yep. You know, sex. I mean, it was always, I'll be getting, but everyone in the next day or two, see how we'll get everyone on the whitelist. She's interested. My twist is ask investors. It says a Dasha on that, or just look up young investor too, and I should pop up and you can also follow my empty collection, uh, exclusive Twitter account for that at Zack safari.

I've that's in my pin tweet anyway. So you can go see that if you want to also fill in that for, um, updates on like the, um, every few days. Yeah. 31. So, you know, we're very nearly there really give us about a week and you know, we'll be there and yeah, it's gonna be real excited. We gonna have, you know, looking forward to create such great community 0.05, no mint or low gas walls.

It's all gonna be less than open. So. Awesome. Well, we got to let you go. Cause we got to let you answer all those DMS you just got and also get to drawing those other animals. So Zach, thanks again for coming on the show and we'll talk to you soon.

Thank you. Awesome. All right, well, you guys heard it here on the roadmap. I'm going to leave that Twitter handle up there for a minute. Again, that SAC young investor. At investor underscore too. And then also the new NFT project at Zack's safari, Zack with an H a mass. I mean, we got the exclusive here on the roadmap.

Uh that's that's a cool project. I'm a little surprised only 80. Um, I think there's going to be some demand there, so, uh, we'll have to follow along with that. Absolutely. And young investor, dude, he's only 13 that always, you know, I'm still mind blown every time he comes on he's so well-spoken such a smart kid, uh, his Genesis piece, 80 pieces, man, if you can own that, that's a huddle for sure.

Yeah. I mean, look at the chat. Absolutely loves him. I'm reading through all these comments and also all the people that have already DMD him. Like you said, mass. I mean, I think maybe he gets 80 responses today. So if you're not watching our video live right now and you're watching it on replay, just to remind you.

This is why you watch the roadmap live at 2:00 PM Eastern time, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cause you never know what information you're going to get on the show that could help you, you know, going forward. So, uh, you know, mass, uh, that was, that was a big one. Right? I don't know how to follow that up. Uh, but let's go ahead and get into some headlines and talk about.

Some items that have been announced in NFT land, things that are moving. So, uh, I'll start here. You know, we had the crypto dads team out not too long ago, right? That's a big project, widely followed. Uh, they teased for the first time, some pictures of crypto moms. So again, if you missed the show we heard from the team, every dad holder is going to get one mom that's one per wallet.

So no matter how many dads you own in a wallet, you only get one. But they teased artworks. So these are the first formats that they teach. Uh, I like 'em right. That they've got some unique, I mean, look at the curlers in the hair, in the bathroom. I mean, they've got some cool characteristics and again, I mean, mass, they told us on the show, right.

That these are going to be random, right? It's going to have no bearing over what dad characteristics you have. You're going to be able to mint a mom and it's going to be completely random. Uh, But they don't have a timeline set yet, no date, but the fact that they're showing off the artwork and saying that, you know, sneak peaks, I think this is a project to keep on watch.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I liked the moms a little bit more than that. It's just looking at these here, you know, they're cool. Um, yeah, the crypto dads team, they they're doing it right, man. They know how to market, they know how to build community and they know how to continue to bring value to holders.

So absolutely keep an eye on, on this one here for sure. Um, another big thing that hit this week was the board ape yacht club roadmap, 2.0, did you see that Chris? I did. I mean, we saw it briefly on Tuesday show, right. When we had the blue team on and you know, there's so much to take away from, from this picture.

Right. Because there's that picture? I mean, the roadmap, I feel like there's so many clues buried in there. That like, I can't even begin to think of all the things, but I mean, you have a, a real yacht, right? They're talking about doing a real yacht party. They're talking about building, you know, the Soho club of Miami for, for ape owners.

Um, there's also that picture there of a, a robot. Looking dog leg. And there's been some, uh, you know, speculation and rumors. Maybe we get some, uh, meal dogs coming soon. What do you think as you think that's a, a, a, a guarantee here? Is that just kind of a speculation? Um, it's a speculation, but I've been talking to a lot of board ape owners and they seem to all believe that they're coming fairly soon.

So something to keep our eye on as well. Um, dude, I love the roadmap. You know, there really are setting the standard of blue chips and you know, you can see this, the clubhouse, the yacht. I mean, I want to own an ape, you know, I just I'm just priced out, but I would definitely want to own an ape looking at this.

It's crazy. Yeah. And I was looking at the floor prices and the volume to see if this roadmap, you know, pumps a little bit more demand and it looks like board apes. Um, you know, in the top 10 for the last seven days, um, looks like the floor on a kind of club is three. And I think on apes, it was 37. So it doesn't look like we saw, you know, a ton of increased since the roadmap came out.

Um, but again, I mean, this is a high price project, so it's not like, you know, you're, you're gonna see the immediate reaction. Cause you know, you got to have some liquidity to get into a, you know, to get an ape, but. You talk about the blue chips. We talk about the big projects. I mean, board apes, I think this, this picture and this roadmap just goes to show that this is a project that has some lasting value.

Um, you know, and again, it's called roadmap 2.0, but I think there's more roadmaps coming in the future too. So, uh, exciting times. Absolutely. Awesome. Well, what do we got next? We have, oh, so dapper labs. I mean, this is a big one, right? So my first NFP project I got into was NBA top shot. Um, I think many people out there got exposure that way too.

So they announced a new raise, right? So they raised money, um, valuing the company. Let me put it up on screen. So dapper labs raised 250 million at a $7.6 billion valuation. So dapper labs, they make flow block chain, which powers NBA top shot. They also recently launched w NBA moments as well. They also just announced a deal with Liga, right?

One of the biggest soccer leagues in the world. So they're going to put out moments for Liga. They also have a deal with the UFC. So we're going to UFC moments in the future. Right. So, I mean, who wouldn't want to own, you know, a Conor McGregor, you know, rookie moment, right. And then also they have some Dr.

Seuss IP rights, so they can put out Dr. Seuss NFTs. I mean, this company, they've also got a plate. Some games, right? Some play to earn games that are coming out on the flow block chain. So, I mean, to me, this is a one-stop shop, right? They have, you know, NBA top shot, they have crypto kitties. They have some of these other projects, but they also own that blockchain that other companies are using to create NFTs on top of it.

So I think that's what brings some of the valuation here. And I also want to highlight. Uh, if you can put it up here, there was a tweet that the CEO of dapper labs put out on August 31st and he said, good news for NFTs. Everywhere is NBA top shot and dapper studios just getting warmed up. And in that tweet, there was a basketball emoji.

There was a soccer ball in motion. And there was a football emoji, so they already have NBA top shot. They just announced a deal with LA Liga. There's still a football in this side, this tweet, a mass. What do you think? Uh, I, I got to say, I think that's some foreshadowing that we're going to get some, uh, football NFTs from, from dapper labs.

Yeah. I mean, absolutely do. That's interesting. I'm excited for that. I can see that happening. Uh, my thing is, so where does college come into this? You know, do college sports and teams, do they start doing NFTs? What do you think? So some of the colleges have signed some smaller NFTE deals, but I think it gets real.

It's too hard for someone to grab all the teams. Right. And do the whole NCAA, because they all have like different like licensing partners, different, you know, brands, uh, marketing deals and stuff. So I feel like they're all just going to levitate to these like individual one school deals. I think there was actually the sec, I think did announced a D.

Um, for their entire conference, but like, as far as like, you know, big 10 schools here in Michigan, like I think they're just doing their own. Um, but I mean, that's huge now, right? With the name, image and likeness where college athletes can make money off of these NFTs and off of these brand deals. That's a great, great point here at MAs.

Uh, you know, also we've talked about, you know, NFL before where the NFL told players that they couldn't do individual NFTs, the teams could do individual, but some of the players have done their own and the way they work around it, right as they just don't have their, their team logo or the NFL logo in the NFT.

Right. They can put out an NFT of themselves. It's their they're themselves. They can't get black from doing that, but they can't advertise the NFL or the T. Yeah, which I think with that being said, I think the NFL has been working on a NFTE deal. And I wonder if it's been dapper all along. So, I mean, we'll get new soon, but I mean, uh, NBA top shot starting to get some more life.

Uh, you know, that project seemed like at peaked in February and then really felt like. But I I'm seeing prices start to go up interest in pack drops, go up. Uh, I've been heading over to top shot, doing a little bit of a, you know, looking around and stuff again for the first time in months. I'll be honest.

So, uh, I, I think this funding round by dapper, I mean, I, I, it's pretty exciting for that company. Love it. So moving forward here with the news. So if you miss Tuesday's episode, we had the bloop founders, hunter, Dillon and Tropo stop. Um, and it was a great episode overall, Chris, you know, they dropped a lot of gems, but speaking of top shop, they topped, they talked about top shop being the gateway, 10 of teas for them.

And you seem like that was a gateway for you. So, you know, what do you think about that? Yeah, I mean, I loved hearing from people who I respect in the NFT community and who are behind some of these big projects, say. Yeah, I got my start from top shot. Like, I mean, I think that's a perfect gateway, right? Uh, you can buy top shots with a, you know, a credit card or a debit card.

You don't have to mess with a wallet, a theory. Um, you can pay, you know, with USD, right. And you also, I mean, the moments are cool, right? It's a video highlight of an NBA moment. I mean, I love that as I collected cards as a kid. So to me, it's just like trading cards all over again. I think the thing that really didn't top shot and hunter and Dylan talked about this, right?

With supply and demand, they put out too many. Once the supply increased people didn't want to buy these packs anymore because the demand wasn't there and they weren't able to sell for profits anymore. And I saw that firsthand, right. You used to be able to get in line, buy a pack. And if you were one of the lucky people who got up.

You could flip those moments so fast and make a profit, or you could hold those moments. And during the season, you know, resell them for a better profit. So there were opportunities and now, I mean, it kind of fell off, but like I said, I think it's, it's getting some life back, but I really liked them talking about, you know, top shop being kind of a gateway.

And again, we give out, you know, some education on the show and talk about, you know, where people should start top shots. One of those places where if you're new to NSF, You don't own crypto, you don't have a wallet. Maybe take a look at top shot. Right. And see what the moments are all about. Uh, you know, as hunter said, you know, grab a notebook, write down some stats, write down some prices, do a little research, but I think top shots, a great way for people to get.

Absolutely not. It's gonna be interesting to see if the NFL does make a deal with top shot and just seeing the whole, it seems like the sports worlds and the NFT world seemed to be collabing a lot more than I anticipate. Yeah. And I mean, the other thing I really liked about Tuesday, right? We talked all about blue, right.

For a while, but we also talked just overall NFT market. Right. And their thoughts on, you know, are we early, you know, are we gonna make it right? That, that old phrase, we hear so much. And I really liked hearing again from people, you know, that I respect in the NFT community, you know, talking about being early and also they gave us some education mass.

Red flags and projects, what to look for, you know, betting on the horse or the jockey different approaches, you know, to NFTs getting into discourse first. Right? That's something we talk about, right? Join the discord. See if people are, you know, you heard Zach right. Young investors say that he loved the whales.

Because people could go in there, they could ask questions without getting shamed, right. They weren't getting yelled at, or, you know, called dumb for asking these questions. So again, if you're new to NFTs, find the discourse that welcome new people find, find the good communities out there. Uh, mass, what else did you take away?

You know, from this interview with these three grades. Absolutely. You know, and the thing I took away the most is that sometimes, you know, projects may be quiet, but it doesn't mean they're not working on anything. Right. A lot of times in the NFC world, they talked a lot about the roadmaps, right? And they don't like projects that have this, you know, perfect Polish roadmap, you know, it's selling you a false dream.

And I agree with them, you know, it's, we're still so early that a lot of these projects want to promise you everything and they don't deliver. I'd rather be with a project that, you know, build with you and, you know, they're working hard behind the scenes and they're building little by little and just working on the community aspect of things as well.

So I like that, you know, so many products offer you everything and we haven't seen anything be delivered yet. So always keep an eye for that. That's what I took from that. Yeah. I, you know, I love that, man. I definitely like that too. I mean, ultimately our show is called the roadmap. Most NFT projects have a roadmap, but again, You can put anything on paper, on the internet, right.

It doesn't mean it's going to be true. And also I kind of like the projects that, you know, uh, under promise and over deliver, right. Instead of the opposite, right? The, the worst thing you can do is promise the world and say, If we a hundred percent sell this out, you're going to get, you know, 15 free airdrops someone's gonna win, um, you know, a bunch of free Ethereum.

We're going to buy a board ape and someone's going to get that. And I mean, just all these different things, right. It's cool. When projects, do you know one or two different things at a time, but once you start, you know, listing unrealistic things, I mean, I know there was, and I'm not going to name names and I don't even remember, but there was one project I know.

Uh, w we mentioned and talked about it in a different discord, uh, where it was like they were going to give away a theory. Um, it's a, you know, every holder and all this, and once you started doing the math, it was like, wait a minute. There's not enough Ethereum to give everyone this a theory of how are they going to do this?

And as soon as you start to question something like that, and it's too good to be true. It probably is too good to be true. So, uh, I definitely love that advice. So a great interview again, if you guys miss that, that was our show on Tuesday with the team behind blue. But again, we didn't just talk blue. I mean, we had a fun time talking about blue.

Don't get me wrong. That was some fun conversation, some fun keywords, but, uh, we also talked just over. NFTs. And then also talked, you know, about, um, there start with, uh, NBA top shot. So a math, one of the upcoming NFTs that we've talked about. Uh, I think we mentioned it before on the show we have, uh, makeovers, right?

So this is a hyped hyped project. Uh, no release state that I know of yet, they still haven't decided a hundred percent on, you know, white list or not they're discussing. Over a hundred thousand members. It hit on Tuesday and mass. This isn't even a 10,000 project. They're missing 8,888. I mean, I'm pretty good at math, a hundred thousand people, 8,888.

MCAS. Those numbers don't add up. What's going to happen here. So this drop is probably the most anticipated drop that I've seen since I've been in NFTE. Um, their discord is absolutely insane. So I, it seems like the team is trying to find a fair way to do this. I've seen them talk about raffles, you know, maybe raffling out, you know, doing not gonna, they're not going to do a complete, like normal drop cause gas would probably be like a million, you know?

So how is it fair? Cause people are gonna want this. Um, so I think they're doing a raffle sometime at beginning of October, I believe. But yeah, man, if you get one of these, you have essentially. Gold, you know this, I mean, they're awesome. Just look at the artwork. It's absolutely insane. Yeah. I mean that, that artwork is what drew me into the project.

And I, I don't even remember how many members were in the discord when I joined mass, but I feel like, I feel like it was early and there was already over 10,000. I mean, that's how I knew this project. Like when people first started mentioning it or I first heard of it, there was already over 10,000, I think, in the discord.

So I wasn't even that early as I would have liked to be, but I think definitely they need to come up with a way to do this a raffle, or I love the. Eh, that looked kind of Lego Ash. Right? They've got some Lego ones. I love that. I mean, a kid who grew up playing Legos, my kids all play Legos. I think that looks awesome.

Um, the colors on these really pop too. Yeah. There's that? There's the Lego right there. That's the one I want. I'm not going to be able to afford it. I'm sure. But if for some reason I'm able to get a maca and I was able to get this. I mean, that is the one. But I just think it is the coolest one in this slide.

Uh, I, I mean, mass w w the sevens Oni , uh, what other projects? I mean, had huge gas. I mean, I can't even think of what this would compare to those other, those other. And this would be the next level. This would be absolutely next level. So I think they've realized that and you know, again, hopefully I last, I heard they're doing a raffle, which each person commit to, so that means, you know, yeah, 4,000 ish people get one, maybe flip one in secondary and hold one.

But yeah, this will be one to watch and I can't wait to come back and report on what we see. And I sh I'm sure we'll both try to get in on the raffle if there is one. But yeah, this is the drop to, to see if you are an NFC. This is one to watch or at least try to get into. Absolutely awesome. Well, Matt, as you were telling me, before the show started about art blocks, I know art blacks is a project that you are pretty passionate about.

You've owned some of these art blocks. We had a huge sale, I mean, and I can't even believe that this sale that you were telling me about mass. So go ahead. Give our viewers the details on this recent art black sale. So first of all, it seems like a lot of empty space, the space as a whole, they just want to buy and flip right away.

Right? So this is a perfect example of why, you know, sometimes you may not want to flip something right away. So this person bought art blocks. He bought it for 0.2, five Eve, which was around $1,233. He's sold it for 922.5 E, which is around 2 million, $976,000. So he held this piece for eight months and one day.

And he profited $2,745,000. So think of how hard it must've been to not sell this piece when it 10 X, 15 X, 50 X, you know, diamond hands. So this just shows us, you know, 6, 7, 8 months from now, there may be some pieces that we may have flipped that if we held onto could bring the same amount of returns.

So always know what you hold, do some reasons. You know, this piece is awesome. I own a squiggle myself and I did not plan on selling it anytime soon, but through this is awesome. Yeah. I mean, man, there's a lot to unpack there. Right? Cause we, we talk all the time, you know, about having liquidity. And one of the things about having liquidity is that sometimes you have to sell, uh, and I also encourage taking profits, right?

I'm a big firm believer in that coming from stock market, you know, where it's okay to take some profits. So I feel like the. The only happy medium here is if you have the money is to buy more than one of a project. Right. And then as it runs up, you know, you maybe sell one and keep one. But even that, I mean, if you sold one of these and kept one, you'd still be missing out on a lot of money, but I feel like at least maybe then you took profits and you still own.

I mean, what's the strategy here, mass? How do you, how do you play both sides of being liquid and also holding on to the pieces? I mean, are you just trying to figure out what you think blue chips are and hold those? Or are you trying to hold a little bit of everything just in case? Yeah. At the end of the day profits profit, right?

Whether you 10 X, two X doesn't matter, you may profit, which is. Um, I think it just comes down to doing your research and if you really believe in a project, right. And project like art blocks, this was the first drop the squiggle, uh, you know, it's an iconic piece. So, you know, sometimes things like that.

You may want to hold and maybe risk losing some liquidity for, but if there's a lot of uncertainty on projects and things that you're sure you should take profit, but absolutely like you said, if you can buy two or three of a piece and take profits along the way, I think that would be a lot more. Easy on the mind then, you know, selling and looking back, you know, and potentially missing on gains, but still profits profit.

Right. Definitely. I mean, that's, that's a big sale, uh, out there though. Mass, a great piece of content there. I want to talk about doge pound. We had the ghost town team on the show twice and mass. I don't know if you saw this tweet, but they put out a tweet talking about their launch pad. And one of the things that they're doing is that they are, um, uh, I forgot where that picture is.

Uh, they're giving early after. To some new projects and some other mint. So essentially if you own a dose pound, you will get early access to several other NFT products. And that's a trend we're starting to see more and more mass. I mean, V friends is doing it. I think you said AA is doing it. We're seeing a lot of these widely followed big community projects, trying to offer something, you know, for their holders.

And one of the ways, instead of doing their own, airdrops their own new projects. You find other projects and kind of partner with them and essentially grant your holders. Some white. Capabilities here. What do you take away from this mass? I mean, is this a new trend here to stay for these well, yeah, first of all, shout out to the doge pound family community.

They're awesome. You know, they seem to always be leading the way as far as, you know, any CS go. So seeing them do this as huge. Yeah. The friends kind of set that trend where, you know, it's almost like membership access to drops and I love that. I think this is something that offers more value, more utilities.

It seems like the utility NFTs have done well so far in the last couple of weeks when we've had a slight, you know, a downtrend in NFTs. So utility aspect of this is huge. You know, now I own a doge pound, not just because I liked the art, not just because I liked the dogs, I own it because it brings me extra value by holding.

I'm not going to flip it because I hold more value holding this than I would flipping it. So it's an interesting, uh, move. I think it's here to stay. I think only certain projects will succeed at this because only certain projects will have the leverage to do this though. Yeah. I mean, I think that's the key, right?

Is like, if you're a new NFT project, you want to be able to offer your own community, your discord, something, but also to gain interest, you could partner with someone like the dos pound here and give that early white list. You got to balance it, right? Because you want to make sure you've got enough for a presale for your community, a presale for a different community and also for a public sale.

I mean, that's how some of these projects, you, you know, you you're successful or not. It's based on that interest in the public sales. So I like it, it makes me even more bullish on dose pound, which, I mean, I already loved the dose pound. Um, But I think getting that access to other projects, I mean, that's, that's an underrated catalyst.

You can't really put a price on that. Right. So if you own a dovish pound for a, you know, 0.9, eith, are you paying 0.9, ease for the dose? Are you paying it for that early access? Are you comboing and getting, you know, the best of both worlds? I think it's the best of both worlds. Exactly and that's cool too.

Cause you can just pick up one at the floor and still get the same access as someone that owns like the rarest one too. So I'm curious to see how that happens with the value of these pieces to yeah. Awesome mass, any other, uh, you know, projects or mints or anything out there, you know, that you have been watching or are watching, uh, you know, coming up.

I know there is broadcasters they're unveiling today at 5:00 PM. I know. Do you have any other. I do. So I bought two broadcasters, uh, from the pre mint, um, not myself, but from open, see the secondary. Um, and then they were supposed to unveil yesterday and they did a 24 hour delay mass, which I'm not a huge fan of.

But I'm, I'm holding them. And at five o'clock today, hopefully we get the unveil. I mean, I liked the artwork I'd like to this project. Uh, but again, this is a smaller one. I only own two. Um, but we'll see what happens. So, uh, yeah, absolutely time magazine did a drop earlier today and they're doing an unveil later today.

So that's interesting because they're big, uh, you know, they're a big community and it's interesting to see them get into this space. Yeah. I mean, time has been all over this, right. And the one of the leaders at time as bullish on NFTs. And I think that really helps. I mean, we talked about that recently with draft Kings, right?

The, the co-founder of draft Kings. He owns an ape he's bullish on NFTs. So what happened. Draft Kings becomes bullish on NFTs. They buy a crypto punk, they buy a board ape. They give them away as prizes. You know, when these big companies get into NFTs, I mean, look at like Anheuser Busch, right? They bought an NFT.

Visa right. Visa buying a crypto punk. So yeah, time magazine launched some NFTs earlier. I mean, huge gas wars, huge secondary sales. They also have that partnership with cool cat. So, I mean, they are pretty bullish here on NFTs. And I think, you know, again, magazines kind of went away. Everything shifted to digital and I mean, talk about a way to keep your brand relevant and going to capture on this NFT trend.

So I think time's doing the right thing. Absolutely. This could be a huge catalyst to bring the next wave of NFT, you know, consumers. So it's exciting to see this. I can't wait to see how this plays out. Yeah. Well, mass, after our show ends in a couple minutes, we actually have a premiere coming up here on Benzinga and it's NFT related.

I, I don't know if you have seen this mass. I saw this Tik TOK that Benzinga put out. We actually did interviews with people on the street, in Detroit, not myself, but some of my teammates. And they actually talked to people about NFTs, including those popular rocks that were sold for millions of dollars.

Right. So, uh, let's go ahead. Let's play a brief trailer on what people are in for at three o'clock with our full premiere episodes. Let's do it. I'm a rock. So this isn't NFT right here. How much do you think this sold for $10,000, higher, 30,000 higher, a hundred thousand higher, 700,000 higher, 1.3 million.

What did he say for a picture of a rock for a picture of a rock? Just a picture of a rock.

Uh, mass, what do you, what do you think? I mean, uh, crypto rocks, uh, they had some big sales and I, you know, I, I love it and I hate it right. Because I love it, that it brings attention to NFTs, but also I hate it because I feel like it makes people just hate NFTs and think they're a waste of money and have no value.

So, uh, you know, I'm excited to watch this episode though and hear what people have to say about NFTs, uh, you know, Who maybe don't know anything about. Exactly. This is premiering on YouTube or Tik TOK or both on YouTube. So right after our show ends, don't go anywhere, guys. It's going to redirect and it's going to be our premier of Benzinga.

Again, it's just a 30 minute episode of us interviewing people on the street, including asking about NFTs. Mass. We're going to get kicked out of here in a minute. Uh, we'll be back next week, Tuesday and Thursday with shows at 2:00 PM Eastern time. I know we've got some interviews. Uh, we've got some exciting things coming for the show, right?

So, uh, I, I mean, I hope everyone is enjoying our NFT content. Again, press one in the chat. If you want more NFT content from Benzinga and also please subscribe to the channel and smash that. Absolutely. So woman, some stuff through the weekend and come back on Tuesday of reports. So we'll see you guys then.

Yeah. Hopefully we've got some pictures to show off of some new NFTs mass, so great, great teas there. So we will be back, but again, guys, don't go anywhere. We have that premiere coming up next, uh, take care of everyone and we will see you next week. See.

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