Gm this is The Airdrop we bring you the best bear market newsletter on the internet. If you enjoy todays content don't forget to leave a review, subscribe and check out our giveaway at the end 👇. Enjoy!

Here's what we have for you today:

• 🎨 Doodles Announces The Biggest News So Far

• ⚽ Binance and Cristiano Ronaldo Nft Partnership

• 👨‍💻 Ebays First Step Into The Metaverse

• 📊 Top 5 Sales Of The Day

Doodles Announces The Biggest News So Far

NFT NYC ended this week, but the Doodles are currently on a roll. Quick trivia, How do you come out of the biggest NFT event of the year like a boss?

(a) Onboard Pharrell on your project as the chief brand officer

(b) Raise the first round of funding with VC firm Seven Seven Six in the lead

(c) Get featured on Shopify’s new platform

(d) Announce Doodles 2

(e) All of the above.

Yeah, you got the answer right if you picked any of the options. But you can send us your reply if you have a different opinion.

Anyway, Doodles picked all of the above, and they came out with more swagger than James Bond stepping into a dinner party.

Pharrell (Yes, that kickass musician with 13 grammy awards) is "Doodled."

The announcements came out at the private Doodle-Holders event held during NFT NYC. And, of course, it started with Doodle’s New CEO, Julian Holguin, explaining some stuff before showing a video of Williams on the big screen.

Pharrell disclosed that he’s a “big fan of the brand” and will work to “bring Doodles to new heights and new levels.” To achieve that, he’s currently working on an NFT-inspired album titled Doodle Records: Volume 1, which will be launched in collaboration with Columbia records sometime soon. Because I'm happyyyy, clap along if you feel like, your getting FOMO

More Doodles with Seven Seven Six

The CEO further disclosed during the announcement that fans should expect more from the brand. He mentioned that they have already raised a funding round with the help of Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s VC firm.

Of course, Ohanian also had to address the crowd from the big screen (Hey, Will got to use the screen, it’s only right that Alex gets to do the same). Here’s the summary of his speech: “Seven Seven Six plans to take all the work Doodles have done so far and bring it to another level.

However, the funding amount is a closely guarded secret, so we don’t know it. But we do know that the new “Doodles 2” NFT collection will be built on a non-Ethereum chain and will span “millions of avatars.” But the most interesting part is that the project is projected to bring life into all dying things (Amen!). Not kidding, that’s what the video release for the project portrays. You should see it here.

Shopify’s NFT-Gated Platform “Shopify Editions” with Doodles NFT

What’s cooler than a woman skateboarding through a pastel portal and turning into a Doodle NFT? We don’t know. But that’s what Shopify is into now.

To summarize things, Shopify just announced Shopify Editions, they claim it's a one-stop-shop to find all of the latest products, improvements, and updates they’re releasing across their platform. The tweet included a quick trailer for the token gated experience with doodles as the face of it.

The platform has a bunch of new features and one of them is “Token Gated Commerce” which allows customers to connect their crypto wallet to a projects site and unlock personalized benefits with their NFTs such as exclusive merch, cool collabs with other brands, early access to drops and even IRL experiences.

With all that said expect the experience of buying doodle merchandise to be quite unique

Binance And Cristiano Ronaldo Nft Partnership

Hey, we just discovered that there’s hay in the metaverse, or why else will a GOAT decide to go there? Oh, sorry, this goat isn’t a bleater, so maybe he doesn’t do hay, but he still plays on a grass field and may occasionally take a bite or two of the grass. That’s because he’s actually a soccer legend, and he’s currently kicking things around with Binance.

Okay, enough playing around; what’s going on?

Well, Binance just signed Christiano Ronaldo to an exclusive multi-year NFT partnership deal. (That’s what’s up!).

For people who follow soccer a little less than we do, Christiano Ronaldo is a 37-year-old Portuguese soccer player and one of the all-time greats of the game. Seriously, the dude’s got 5 Ballon d’Or awards and over 800 career goals.

Of course, he’s still going strong with English Premier League outfit Manchester United, and he ended last season as the team’s best player and highest goal scorer. You should see the guy; he’s in the best shape of his life and still banging goals left, right, and center.

But more impressively, Ronaldo has transcended the world of sports to become an icon in many other fields. He’s a fitness buff, fashion Icon, and philanthropist, among many other things.

Binance, on the other hand, is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange (Who doesn’t know that already). And they’re looking to grow even bigger through this partnership. Binance intends to leverage the deal to onboard the superstar’s teeming fanbase into the NFT world.

So, the deal will see Ronaldo collaborating with Binance to create NFT projects. And of course, the collections will be listed exclusively on the Binance NFT marketplace.

Interestingly, Ronaldo didn’t give the typical superstar-just-signed-a-huge-deal kind of speech in his comment about the partnership. Instead, he opted to talk about his fans, saying he values his relationship with the fans, and that’s why he wants to be part of an idea that brings unprecedented experiences for them through the NFT platform.

Ronaldo is certainly scoring IRL and in the metaverse.

🤣 How About A Laugh?

Ebays First Step Into The Metaverse

Big companies are making big moves in the metaverse, and you bet eBay isn’t about to miss out on all the action. But of course, eBay is all about marketplaces, and they’ve been operating a mini-mart in the NFT space so far; it was only a matter of time before they switched things up.

Oh yeah, the e-commerce platform is going big. So, they went and bought themselves KnownOrigins. In other words, eBay now runs a global IRL e-commerce platform and an NFT-commerce marketplace in the Metaverse. (Rep’n on both sides).

KnownOrign is a UK-based NFT marketplace founded in 2018. The creators described it as a platform that enables artists to create and showcase “unique, authentic, digital collectibles in the form of NFTs.” (Doesn’t every other NFT marketplace do that too?)

The marketplace is basically the same as other nft marketplaces such as nifty gateway but who's counting how many of them there are now.

KnownOrigin’s co-founder David Moore believes the deal's timing couldn't have been better. He stated that a company with the reach and experience of eBay brings more opportunities for the NFT marketplace.

Did you know eBay has over 25 years of active participation in marketplace development and administration? (Impressive!).

Interestingly, the NFT marketplace has revolutionized how people create, buy and sell NFTs. Most notably, they maintain a stricter non-plagiarism policy than other platforms. This standout feature has helped them build a sizeable community of loyal artists and collectors.

Needless to say, these achievements attracted Nasdaq’s execs to acquire the NFT marketplace. eBay’s CEO, Jamie Iannone, lauded the impressive following KnownOrigin has built while talking about the company’s acquisition. He concluded his statement by saying they’re the perfect addition to eBay’s community of sellers and buyers.

In addition, eBay’s acquisition of KnownOrigin furthers the company’s tech reimagination efforts. eBay originally got into the NFT buying and selling business back in May 2021. So, these aren’t uncharted waters for them. (they’ve been in the open seas and still going strong.)

TOP 5 SALES OF THE DAY

So how did we do?

• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You guys killed it!

• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mid

• ⭐️ This actually sucks

👽 GIVEAWAY

Who doesn't love free stuff? Exactly, we want to reward early subscribers with the chance to win a Alien Fren Evolution (look how cute this guy is). Here's how to enter 👇

1. Subscribe To Our Newsletter

2. Follow Us On Twitter

3. Retweet and Like This Tweet 

See that wasn't so bad. The winner will be announced on 7/1/2022. Thanks for entering and we appreciate your support!