Solana Summer Shandy: New NFT project highlights the best Solana collections on beer cans
While Ethereum ETH/USD based NFTs may get the headlines, NFTs built on Solana SOL/USD blockchain continues to increase in interest and loyal communities are built. One project combined NFTs and communities from multiple projects to launch a Solana-themed beer.
What happened: BarrelDAO, a brewery and distillery focused DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), launched a pool of non-fungible tokens. The 333 NFTs sold for 1.35 SOL, or around $45 each. The collection also serves as a placeholder for physical beer. Each NFT will coincide with a 16-pack of Solana Summer Shandy, with shipping included in the original coin price.
NFT artist Mark Lauthier designed artwork for the boxes, and a thread on Twitter reveals the many collections featured in the artwork.
Among the collections on display are Degen Ape Academy, Pesky Penguins, Famous Fox Federation, Okay Bears, y00ts, Catalina Whales, Degen Trash Pandas, The Fracture, Trippin’ Ape Tribe, Boryoku Dragonz, Thug Birdz, DeGods and Solana Monkey Business.
The images on the box come from 20 owned by BarrelDAO and other NFTs that were licensed by community members.
BarrelDAO will also sell an NFT version of the beer can artwork for 0.69 SOL, or around $23, with benefits to holders in the form of future releases, according to DeCrypt.
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Why it’s important: The collection quickly sold out and is the talk of the town in the Solana community and many NFT media outlets, with another use case for NFTs being used for branding and licensing deals.
Happy Dad, a hard seltzer brand from the owners of the Full Send Podcast, recently launched a banana-flavored hard seltzer with a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT as artwork and branding for the box.
Candy company M&M’s also recently partnered with the owners of several Bored Apes and a Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT to launch a limited edition of the famous candies.
Solana NFTs have grown in popularity and DeGods recently became the fifth most valuable NFT PFP pool of all time, passing several notable Ethereum-based pools such as Doodles and Azuki.
DeGods has a floor price of 587 SOL, or around $18,678 at the time of writing.
Solana Monkey Business, Degen Ape Academy and Okay Bears all rank in the top 50 NFT projects of all time by sales volume, based on data from CryptoSlam.
SOL price action: Solana is trading at $31.82 at the time of writing, against a 52-week range of $26.06 to $260.06.
Who doesn’t love a good beer ad? https://t.co/R9uwppZ3Ur
Tomorrow 26/8 at 11 a.m. PT // 2 p.m. ETSound on pic.twitter.com/pVkmWiImG0
— barrelDAO (@barrelDAO) 25 August 2022
