The Matthew & Rizzle Show

On this week's episode of the MARS, Matthew & Rizzle try to keep things positive.

The adversarial PvP vibes on the timeline feel heavier than normal. Attacking folks who are legitimate builders and known to be good actors benefits no one, and only causes unneeded damage. Folks need to stop immediately assuming malice and instead be more open to nuance. Instead, we'd all be better served if we highlight winners who continue to build out and add value to the space in positive ways. Matthew & Rizzle use the recent slate of updates and releases made by Jeff Davis & Snowfro and the whole ArtBlocks team as two key examples: The Generative Art Fund and a buttery smooth new Grids viewer for AB Curated collections respectively (see link below).

After that, Matthew & Rizzle take a devil's advocate view of the approach Opensea is taking on the long and winding road to the long-awaited Opensea 2.0 launch that culminates in Rizzle lamenting how OpenSea may have missed out on becoming the Ripple of NFT Land haha.

Discussion around the interesting announcement posted on X yesterday about the Doodle change of leadership (see below for link) and a comparison of pfp projects that have won and are still going strong atop unforced narratives (e.g. Punks, Fly Frogs) vs other pfp projects where leadership or a portion of the community try to force a narrative wind out this week's episode.

- Link to Grids on ArtBlocks: https://www.artblocks.io/marketplace/experiments/grids
- Link to Doodles new CEO announcement: https://x.com/burnttoast/status/1884288787955531844

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