"Collector DAOs Are Going to be a Game-Changer for the NFT Space:" pplpleasr

In this week’s episode we talk with the DeFi artist of the moment. Pplpleasr got into DeFi drawn in by the crazy yields but really stayed when she resonated with the community —the gaming-like, niche subculture of memes and internet-native humor. She started making videos for many DeFi teams, from Yeran to Pickle Finance. Her latest and best-known work though is the video she made for the highly anticipated v3 of Uniswap. The clip of a unicorn in an otherworldly oasis, Ethereum dapp symbols floating about, gained her universal praise. But it’s what happened later when it gets really interesting,

Pplpleasr decided, like many other artists these days, to sell the video as an NFT. But unlike most artists fetching big chunks of cash, she was set on donating the proceeds to charity. Also unlike other auctions, it was a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, created just for the occasion, what ended up winning the piece. In this interview she explains exactly why she decided to give half a million dollars away, and who will be receiving those funds.

She also gave us a peek at the creative process that went into the video and at the thrill of watching her work start a bidding war. But the most lasting outcome of all this, she says, will likely be the fact that now it will become increasingly common for community members to organize and purchase artworks together, which they wouldn't have been able to access otherwise.

We also talked about how many of her artist friends are getting into NFTs but then cashing out into fiat and her hopes that more would stick around for longer in crypto. In any case, she’s confident NFTs will continue being a gateway into crypto for a wider audience.

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