Every year around this time, I get the same question, usually asked with a slight sense of panic: What do you get for someone who already has everything?
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badi @BadiCloud22WHAT IF NFT AUCTIONS DIDN'T REVEAL YOUR BID UNTIL THE SALE WAS OVER? One problem with traditional public NFT auctions is that participants can see what other people are bidding. Once bids become visible, people may start adjusting their decisions around competing offers. Instead of bidding based on what an NFT is worth to them, they can end up reacting to everyone else's moves. Fungo Labs is approaching this differently with sealed auctions powered by Zama's Fully Homomorphic Encryption technology. Instead of exposing bids while an auction is running, Fungo encrypts the bidder's price and requested quantity before the information leaves their browser. During the bidding period, other participants cannot inspect those values. Even the Fungo team cannot see the actual bids while the auction remains open. The blockchain still records activity such as the bidder, bid time and number of bids, but the actual price and quantity remain encrypted. SO HOW DOES THE AUCTION DETERMINE WHO WINS? This is where the mechanism gets interesting. When bidding closes, the bids are revealed and ranked from highest to lowest. The lowest winning bid needed to fill the available NFT supply determines the final clearing price. Rather than making every winner pay their individual bid, Fungo uses a uniform clearing price: every successful bidder pays the same final price. Consider the Genesis sale, which has 2,500 NFTs available for sealed bidding: A bidder offers 15,000 cZAMA per NFT and requests three. If the bid is above the clearing price, they receive all three but pay the final clearing price for each. Another bidder offers exactly the clearing price. If demand at that price exceeds the remaining supply, they receive a proportional allocation. A bidder below the clearing price receives no NFT and gets their bid amount refunded. The important detail is that the highest bidder doesn't necessarily pay the highest amount. Winners pay the same clearing price, while their bids determine their position in the allocation process. There are conditions to understand. Bids are binding and cannot be cancelled once submitted. A small non-refundable fee applies to each bid. If demand is below the available supply, everyone who bids receives their requested quantity at the lowest bid price. WHY DOES THIS MATTER? The value isn't simply that bids are hidden. It's the combination of encrypted bidding and a shared clearing price. Participants can submit offers without watching competitors' prices and constantly reacting to them. Meanwhile, the final allocation follows a defined process rather than leaving the creator to choose winners manually. For creators, this offers another way to distribute limited collections. For collectors, it introduces a bidding process where private offers and a common final price work together. My view is that NFT launches need better distribution mechanisms, not just another marketplace with a mint button. Fungo is exploring that through encrypted auctions, where privacy is built into the sale process itself. A bid should represent what you're willing to pay, not how much you're willing to reveal to everyone else. That's an interesting direction for NFT price discovery. @FungoLabs × @zama $FUNGO
Veldadera ⁷ ⁵ @gabiveldadesNo se que a pasado…antes del EP Dual avía tanta organización… cada hora avía un update de los streams… también de los mv…. Ahora es como si no existieran…. Tengo miedo…
Jayneil Dalal @jayneilI asked a bunch of product design teams around the world which independent brand designer/studio they look up to. And in almost all cases they showed me their internal Slack threads raving about @thenickpattison's work. So I asked Nick to show me how his $50,000 brand design sprint process works and took a bunch of notes: 1. Simplify the offering(s) to your clients - Nick has only 1 offering for clients: a two week brand design sprint. - Projects start on a Monday and end on Friday of the following week. 10 business days. All client projects strictly follow this timeline. - No pricing tiers. Just one flat price: $50,000. 2. The work starts before the kickoff call - Nick's team shows up to the first client call with mood boards already created. - In Lovable's first meeting Nick pitched turning a heart on its side to make an L. - That idea became @Lovable's logo. 3. Are you a one hit wonder or a legit artist? - Nick designed Lovable's brand and collaborated with @nadonomy before it became a unicorn. - Designing for Lovable put him on the map and made his studio legit. But he's not slowing down. - "I gotta do five or six more Lovables so that everybody who comes to us believes that we're legit" 👀 Watch how Nick designed Lovable's brand:
Stephen A Smith @stephenasmithWinning back the House could be the very thing that COSTS you the White House in 2028! And TRUST ME, there's a reason I'm saying that! I've got a message for BOTH parties, and some folks aren't going to like it! Watch my full episode on YouTube about the 2026 Midterm Elections.