January 20 - 24: This week in NFTs, recapped in one letter

Gm gm,

Where do we even start fam?! 

Trump’s Crypto Ball last Friday and his inauguration on Monday have kept the timeline juicy all week. $TRUMP onboarded everyone and their mother into crypto over the weekend, soaring to $55B before $MELANIA brought things down to earth. Presidential meme-coins…was that on your bingo card?

BTC and SOL reached new all time highs, and the President issued an executive order on all things crypto and digital asset markets. Welcome to a new era in web3. Sh*t’s about to go nuts.

Debates are breaking out over the Ethereum Foundation’s strategies, with Vitalik getting sassier than usual and most of us simply wondering why can’t the number just go up???

And we ain’t complaining.

• Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received a full pardon and was released from prison after spending 10 years behind bars.
  

• Ethereum layer 2 SOON raised $22M for their mainnet launch through an NFT sale.
  

• Yuga Labs teased that they plan to reward BAYC and Otherdeed holders later this year. What could it beeee??!

ALIENQUEEN brings her unique style to Etherlink with this first installment of the Links series. Read more here. Mint today for 1 XTZ.

Next up in this series are Jesperish and Rik Oostenbroek. Get on it!

This is still the calm before the storm. Take a deep breath.