The Weekly: Physicals, Free-Mints, and the Winklevoss Twins.

Art Curator and a Catalogue; Art Curator and a Catalogue: SuperRare's Paloma Rodriguez promotes her private catalogue of off-chain physical paintings in new tweet – careful, Paloma, your "trad art" is showing.

Steal like an Artist?: Artist Gina Choy, published a new think-piece on protecting one's ideas in the age of social media – suggests that artists be slower to share and quicker to mint – a lesson "Rings Genesis" artist Nick Kuder learned the hard way.

Autocabal go skrt, skrtt: Despite bear market conditions, Photographer Dave Krugman found viral success with new collection "Drive // Lap 2" – an encouraging reminder that with talent, hard work, and the backing of the Winklevoss twins, anything is possible.

Pump.fun turns pump-not-fun: Sentiment soured, albeit only temporarily, on the memecoin launchpad this week as yeeters realized that like any casino, the house always wins – despite this fresh FUD the trading protocol still continues to outperform its peers.

PopWhat?: Sven, "Builder" of SocialFi app PopSet, explained in a lengthy post the real intent behind the free-ish mint meta – TL;DR: PopSet wasn't made for art, now shut up and mint a picture of your dog.

WebFREE: Founder of Coop records, Cooper Turley, previously in hot water for suggesting that music be free-ish to collect, finds new narrative cover in Funghibull's free-mint thread – Coop, you raised $10 million for your label, maybe sit this one out and pay your artists.

Campaign Promises: Cryptotwitter bull-posted following U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer's new promise of pro-crypto legislation – I remember my first election.

Catcalling the Bottom: Beanie called the bottom for NFTs after PFP collections saw two-day double-digit gains – unfortunately, the bottom is never fully in until all cartoon cat projects hit zero.

Retail is Coming: NowMedia announced a new partnership with LG art lab as founder, Matt Medved, vowed to bring digital art to millions of screens worldwide – turns out mass adoption actually just means Jeremy Fall in your dentist's lobby.

Make that #27: Hivemind Capital purchased a Ringer (again), which will be added to its "Digital Culture Fund" – and by culture they mean consensus.

Stick 'em Up: Metamask announced plans for a Mastercard debit card that would allow payment from one's own self-custody wallet – finally, a card for the crypto enthusiast who refuses to wear 9dcc but still wants muggers to know they're holding ETH.

Can't Spell Build Without Bid: Han, founder of Deca and art-centric Shape (L2) went on a buying spree Friday in the lead up to Shape's September mainnet launch – effectively capturing the spirit of Eth Dot Co, but with better taste.