Dear HackerNoon Nation, In my previous weekly NFT recap, I mentioned the possibility of this holiday season. gifting NFTs Digital things aren’t for everyone, right. But for those people in your life you may want to try this approach with, you can always keep the stakes low and fun via interesting yet inexpensive NFTs. So where even to start on this gift hunt? I’ve got you covered! Let’s walk through a handful of cool gift ideas you can consider for NFTs currently priced around 0.01Ξ (~$12 USD) each! -WMP 5 NFT gift ideas for your squad 1. ENS domains 🌐 Ξ 🎁 price: 5+ letter names cost ~0.009 to register The (ENS) is the most popular naming system on Ethereum. This decentralized and open service lets people register human-readable names, like satoshi.eth, to Ethereum addresses to make these addresses easier to find and use. Ethereum Name Service As such, gifting an ENS domain is a way to help your giftee ditch copying and pasting their long alphanumerical Ethereum address once and for all. Alternatively, you could even send a goofy address as an inside joke! To create a name you’d go to the , search for an available 5+ letter domain, and then follow through the registration prompts. Once your desired name is minted, you can select it and transfer it to the appropriate address via the and options in ENS’s dashboard. ENS app Registrant Controller My Account 2. Profile pictures 🤖 Ξ 🎁 price: many smaller PFPs are listed for ~0.01 Sometimes profile picture (PFP) collections will have characters that remind you of someone you know in real life. That said, finding a cute PFP NFT that speaks to the spirit of one of your friends is one gift avenue you can consider. Since aesthetics are subjective, there are no right or wrong answers here. You can keep things simple by going to an NFT marketplace like , sorting by , and then scrolling down until you find all the projects whose floors’ start at ~0.01Ξ. Then you’d just go for something that you think has the right look! Blur Floor Price For example, a handful of PFP collections at that price point right now that I think look cool include: personally 🦉 Barn Owlz 🐱 FroyoKittens 🕶️ NounPunks 👨‍🚀️ Oddstronauts 🐡 Whiskers 3. OKPC 🎨 Ξ 🎁 price: floor is currently ~0.015 are creative art toys stored as NFTs on Ethereum. You can think about them sort of like onchain Etch-a-Sketch toys! OKPC That means you can acquire an OKPC, draw any image you want on it through the , and then gift it to your person of choice as a creative package. Alternatively, you can just gift an OKPC so the giftee can draw whatever they want on the NFT, too. OKPC app 4. Music collectibles 💽 Ξ 🎁 price: floor is currently ~0.01 Music as digital collectibles is in the NFT ecosystem. booming One of the platforms that’s been seeing a ton of great music drops and collector activity lately has been , which recently unveiled its own native marketplace. Sound https://twitter.com/mhonkasalo/status/1597371163721678849?s=20&t=9PvfI4p0kn_msdgTN_025A&embedable=true If you have a music lover in your friend group, a music collectible could be an interesting gift for them. Again, picking out a song is a subjective thing, but on Sound Market you can sort by and find many cool records listed on the secondary marketplace right now. Lowest Price for around 0.01Ξ 5. Bud Light N3XT NFTs 😎 Ξ 🎁 price: floor is currently ~0.013 is one of the most interesting NFT and DAO projects in the crypto space, bar none. Nouns DAO What many people don’t realize, though, is that Bud Light — the beer giant — has been one of the most active Nouns voters after acquiring earlier this year. Noun 179 Even fewer people realize that the community of holders collectively vote on how Noun 179 votes in Nouns DAO through ! Bud Light N3XT NFT Snapshot votes In that sense, a Bud Light N3XT NFT is the most inexpensive way available today to get to Nouns DAO. If you know someone a little deeper into NFTs who wants to actively vote on Nouns proposals, N3XT NFTs are a price-friendly entry point. indirect voting access Bonus tip: NFT Scribe for onchain gift notes ✍️ Built by , NFT Scribe is a smart contract that lets ERC721 NFT owners to their NFTs. In the context of gifting, you can use this service to write gift notes on NFTs. That way in the future the recipient can use NFT Scribe to read your message and even add their own! Note that Ethereum and Polygon ) are currently supported. Conlan Rios add onchain messages (tutorial here Action steps 🎀 Consider affordable NFT gift options like , and beyond! ENS names, PFPs, OKPC 🚀 Read my latest tactic if you haven’t yet! A Beginner’s Guide to StarkNet Author Bio is a professional writer and creator of —a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, JPG, and beyond! William M. Peaster Metaversal Also published . here

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