Trista gave me personalized AI generated comic books and bookmarks on my birthday this year, and they made me smile. I noted a couple places where the rendering glitched or the model lost a little bit of coherence in the story, but these have come a long way from the early on-demand kids books created with traditional coding practices.

Green Lantern helped pave the way for comic books to be taken seriously as an art form 50 years ago, and HBO's "Lanterns" leans into that history with human-centered storytelling, writes @blowryontv (via @opinion)

lets take a walk through @comicbook's new vending machine where they're shipping real graded cgc comics with instant sellback built on @solana building consumer products that abstract our industry's rails will always be my favourite route to adoption

Cards, comic books, wine, whisky, watches, graded coins, and even dinosaur fossils, all on Solana "I'm a big believer in tokenizing the world. Ownership matters. " – @friskk

.@friskk believes tokenizing real world assets is quickly becoming the norm "We worked with a company that dealt with graded comic books" "There are companies that tokenized Wine" "Luxury watches have been tokenized. Graded coins are happening too" "There's a @solana based company who is tokenizing dinosaur fossils. I'm not kidding"

TCGs are having a moment, but collecting goes a lot further than cards. We stopped by the @comicbookhq booth at San Diego Comic Con and got this Spawn #227# signed by the legend himself, Todd McFarlane. If you’re looking to expand your collection into graded comics you know where to go.

into the spider-verse really is a love letter to the forms of art that get disparaged as not "real art". it shows off the very best of 3d animation, street art and graffiti, rap, and comic books and you can tell so much love and care went into portraying them at their most beautiful and impactful

I will ALWAYS be an advocate for physical media. Buy DVDs, Blurays, Books, CDs, Vinyls, Disc Video Games Manga Comic books Etc You actually own them when you buy em They can't be altered when a company bends the knee to Fascist Govts

Today on MCG: @InEphTee | Marketing @Collector_Crypt Collector Crypt is the #1# consumer app on @solana right now, on pace for $85M in May revenue with $30M in inventory on-chain BassBuddah breaks down the @ComicBook partnership (40M users), the @Loopscale lending integration that lets you borrow against your Charizard, the @metaplex compressed NFT work, and where the token is headed once regulation catches up 👇 00:02 - Intro 01:40 - The King welcomed back 02:41 - Soft rebrand reveal, new logo 03:23 - @ComicBook partnership 04:30 - The gotcha machine guarantees authenticity and quality 05:08 - The pitch 05:50 - Proving any collectible can be tokenized, not just TCG's 06:51 - "We are 5% loading"...Pokemon is 85% of revenue, One Piece 10%, sports 5% 07:18 - Splitting basketball, baseball, and football into their own gotcha machines 07:50 - Sports cards on a tear 09:35 - @Loopscale partnership announced 11:05 - Borrow 40-75% of your Charizard's value in USDC, pay back, get the card back 13:15 - White-label thesis 15:36 - @Slabzapp fanboy 17:07 - IRL vending machines as the next frontier 18:42 - Brick and mortar storefronts, grading partnerships, event activations on the roadmap 19:10 - Ebay and Gamestop tension 22:48 - $CARDS token primer 27:51 - $42K airdropped to $CARDS holders this month 30:33 - Compliance disclaimer 31:36 - "30 million in inventory" backed by the company, hopeful one day backed by the token 32:33 - DAT strategy 36:53 - Yield idea 37:39 - Marketplace update 39:58 - USDC offers, counteroffers, username profiles, in-app messaging 41:33 - One-of-a-kind escrow 42:06 - Lifetime buyback dashboard 43:02 - Trustless card-for-card trades, zero fee, any category for any category 45:53 - Why TCG projects support each other 48:43 - Why TCG's blew back up 51:39 - Buybacks confirmed as a priority 52:44 - "We are the number one consumer app on Solana right now" 53:50 - Why this is @solana RWA product-market fit 55:00 - LA Collecticon June 12 57:50 - Miami strategy 59:13 - @blknoiz06 connection clarified 1:01:24 - Future livestreams 1:06:29 - Closing analysis 1:08:42 - Takeaways 1:12:54 - Why isn't $CARDS on a CEX yet?

What’s New On Solana - @kamino launches Apyx Market: enabling USDC borrowing and leveraged yield strategies against apyUSD. - @MarinadeFinance launches Marinade Borrow: letting users borrow USDC or SOL against staked SOL without unstaking. - @DGLD_Official brings tokenized PAMP gold to Solana: opening access to 1M+ @SwissBorg users with @ArrakisFinance liquidity. - @AgantFinance launches GBPA on Solana: bringing its institutional-grade pound sterling stablecoin onchain. - @MeteoraAG unveils DLMM Pro: enabling fully customizable market configurations for token launches. - @sanctumso launches swSOL: introducing a wrapped SOL asset. - $EWZ and $RACE go live on Solana: tokenized ETF and equity exposure via @Backpack Securities and @sunrise. - $WLD, $SHIB, and $VVV arrive on Solana: expanding token access through @sunrise. - @grass launches Contents API: converting public URLs into clean, AI-ready text. - @PayAINetwork and @BlockRunAI launch batch x402 payments: settling multiple API calls in a single Solana transaction. - @USDC Bridge adds Solana support: enabling direct USDC transfers between Solana and 18 ecosystems. - @backabledotbiz launches Backable: a frontier fundraising platform built by @MetaDAOProject. - @scoutfinance_ launches social investing app: bringing its investment platform to iOS and Android. - @DualMintRWA tokenizes 200 claw machines: bringing physical amusement assets onchain. - @comicbookhq launches DC Comics Gacha: featuring vintage and modern collectible comics. - @MapleMarketApp tokenizes Canadian maple syrup: bringing real-world commodity exposure onchain with @BAXUSco and @SuperteamCAN. - @2WA_Official launches market-neutral fund: introducing a USDGO-based strategy for professional investors via @osldotcom. - @SolanaFndn releases Microscope: an open-source monitoring and alerting tool for Solana programs and Squads multisigs.