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Million Dollar Air-Mail NFT Drop on Base!

May 16, 2024. Nashville Tennessee. Roughly a month ago, NFT LA teamed up with NFT Punks to honor the memory of Michael Brooks, affectionately known as "The Rook." with a limited edition commemorative NFT celebrating his contributions sponsored by aivp.ai. This NFT drop became a landmark event, as it is the largest Air-mail NFT drop ever on the Base Chain, directly sent to our community via email. No wallet is required on your end, as one will be automatically generated for you through Horus Wallet. What happened next was absolutely

NFT LA Community Week and NFTPunks Launch the first Air-mail NFT Drop on Base!

  Nashville, TN, April 22, 2024 In 2022, NFT LA was created to bring together the people who are at the foundation of creating the Web3 future. There is no time more important than now to inspire, connect, and educate each other and grow the Web3 future together. NFT LA was the place where we, as a community, do exactly that. NFTPunks was established to think differently and bring utility to NFTs, we believe that blockchain is all about community. In honoring the spirit of community, we reflect on the

The Four Quadrants of MEV Protection

Understanding the MEV Solution Landscape Like many other crypto narratives, the dark side of blockchain was first introduced on Reddit in a post titled “Miners Frontrunning.” In the now historical post, the author outlines how given the Ethereum mempool is inherently public, miners can frontrun transactions and profit on the ultimately arbitraged difference in that transaction. However, this isn’t an entirely new phenomenon in finance. The 2014 book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis investigates frontrunning orders in high-frequency trading. The paper Flash Boys 2.0, published in 2019, takes these observations into