Decrypt | Andrew Hayward | Aug 26, 2022
There’s a Solana smartphone, and a Solana IRL retailer—and now a Solana beer.
Solana Summer time Shandy simply dropped in the present day, however in contrast to the recently-opened retailer and upcoming smartphone venture, this alcoholic lemonade shandy beverage doesn’t hail from the Solana Basis or its core community contributors, Solana Labs.
As an alternative, the beer is the creation of barrelDAO, a brewery and distillery that’s ruled by customers. Solana Summer time Shandy is being launched in restricted portions: simply 333 complete 16-packs of beer, every represented by a Solana NFT that may be bought in the present day after which redeemed beginning Monday to obtain the beer.
BarrelDAO meant to launch the sale earlier this afternoon on the highest Solana NFT market, Magic Eden, however as of publication was apparently nonetheless sorting via points with the drop. Every 16-pack sells for 1.35 SOL, or practically $45 at current, and that worth contains delivery to america, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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And the beer represents Solana in additional than simply identify and redemption tokens: the cans are additionally plastered with unique art work by Mark Lauthier, that includes references to a wide selection of Solana-based NFT tasks, together with particular avatars inside these collections.
Dave Goldman, co-founder and CEO of Barrel Labs, informed Decrypt that barrelDAO itself owns about 20 of the person NFTs which are referenced on the cans, whereas 23 of them seem by way of licensing agreements reached with the holders of the person NFTs.
“Over the previous three days, we painstakingly went via and licensed each single NFT used on this can design,” Goldman mentioned Thursday. “We knew that this might kick off an enormous dialog about IP within the NFT house, and wished to make sure that we set an ordinary for different [consumer packaged goods] manufacturers to observe.”
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