Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s NFT Drop Results in ~$750k+ Losses 

July 29, 2021       /       Unchained Daily       /       Laura Shin

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• A new infrastructure bill proposes to raise $30B through crypto taxes.

• Uniswap and Robinhood have held high-level discussions about a partnership — though no deal seems imminent.

• ProFunds is offering the first-ever Bitcoin mutual fund.

• OpenSea minted a new record of NFTs last week.

• Bullish has begun the pilot of its AMM product.

• Galaxy Digital is launching a $33M fund to fund … other venture funds.

• Decentraland will soon feature a Coca-Cola NFT box.

• Binance released a new tax reporting feature for customers.

• Lolli, a Bitcoin rewards app, has raised $10M in a Series A.

• “FTX: Blockfolio” is now just “FTX.”

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Wednesday’s Stoner Cats NFT drop resulted in the loss of 344.6 ETH ($750K+), due to a number of failed transactions combined with high gas fees, according to data from Dune Analytics.

Produced by Mila Kunis, Stoner Cats is an adult animated series that can only be accessed via NFTs. The cast is absolutely star-studded, with Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Rock, Seth MacFarlane, Jane Fonda, and Vitalik Buterin starring as digital collectibles.

The 10,420 Stoner Cats each sold for .35 ETH in just 35 minutes (excuse me, “meow-nutes”) — undoubtedly a success. At publishing time, the project ranks fourth in weekly volume on OpenSea despite only being dropped yesterday.

However, due to an error with the minting contract, many would-be collectors were left with nothing but lighter digital wallets.

Any address that attempted to mint 20 NFTs (the max per address) without manually adjusting the gas limit in Metamask were left with burned ETH and no NFTs, as reported by The Defiant. One user lost 5.8 ETH, worth $13,000+ at the time, due to the error.

As of now, Stoner Cats has not announced any plans to rectify the situation.

For users who did grab an NFT, the first episode, dubbed “Stoned Awakening,” is out today. To check out the episode, you must hold an NFT and connect your Ethereum wallet to the Stoner Cats website.

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