I still believe that blind boxes is the way to bring new people to NFTs
For this to work tho, it should be
1️⃣ big IPs (web2/web3) doing the drop
2️⃣ catered to normie collecting crowd
If it will just be catered to web3 crowd with financial incentives as dangle, it will just be repackaging NFTs for current NFT audience
It will achieve nothing but revenues for NFT brands but the industry as a whole won’t move forward
We need onchain blind boxes to be the new NBA Top Shot to advance NFT adoption

Do web3 people actually want physical blind boxes absent financial incentives? The data says not really.
- Only 6% of Birb boxes have been redeemed
- Fwog boxes at $4 (mint: $25)
- Neuko boxes at $36 (mint: $99)
- Sausage boxes total mint: $25k
- Pudgy x CareBears still

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