gm, and welcome to issue #42 of ✨Spark✨ We’ve just announced a partnership with sound.xyz’s new permissionless, modular and composable protocol! To debut the partnership we’re supporting Reo Cragun’s latest EP drop, Frameworks, happening next week. Read below for more on this 👇

In other news, we’re looking for a freelance content writer to help us write case studies and articles about, well, you! Do you know someone who enjoys writing about creators in web3? Respond to this email if you have a good fit in mind.

Bonfire Product Updates

🎶 Audio Downloads

You can now set audio files to be downloadable by your page visitors! We know some of you have been duct-taping solutions together to do this (e.g. embedding dropbox links), but that’s no longer necessary - now simply toggle on “Allow Downloads” when uploading or editing audio files, and… well, that’s it :)

🫧 Lottie Animation Support for the Hero Block

The Hero Block got a little upgrade this week, now supporting background lottie animations in addition to images! Lottie is a powerful and popular tool for web animations and allows for richer and more interactive animation experiences than what can be achieved with a GIF (which is also supported).

You can see this feature on display in Reo Cragun’s upcoming Frameworks drop - and if you don’t know what that is, well then keep reading…

✨  3 New Page Templates

Last but not least, we added 3 new page templates to Bonfire Studio! That’s right, more use cases in less clicks. You can check out our expanding template library by clicking ‘Create Page’ from your dashboard Home tab, or clicking here:

• Livestream - quickly create a dedicated home for your streams, with optional token gating

• Mint Page - create custom mint pages for your imported contracts from either of our supported protocol partners, Sound.xyz & Mintplex

• Video Library - a central hub for all your video content

Creator Spotlight

Yes, you’ll be able to mint Frameworks on reocragun.xyz, powered by Bonfire, dropping on September 28th @2pm PST. This gives Sound creators the opportunity to mint through their own sites, with their own brand at the forefront.

Frameworks is a 5-track EP featuring some other incredible web3 musicians. At mint, you’ll see the pre-reveal asset, which will later be revealed with the song and rarity two days after the public mint.

Read about Frameworks here

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Tip of the week

What’s a token of appreciation that feels special and intimate, and best of all, doesn’t cost much? Handwritten notes. While a typed up “thank you” feels generic, a better way of showing your community your love and appreciation for their support is to actually crack those fingers and get to writing, the old-fashioned way. Here’s some research showing how handwritten thank you notes can increase sales.

Your Turn

Do you have any web3 goals we can help make happen? No matter how big or small, shoot me an email or DM us on twitter about it. And check our Roadmap to submit and vote on your favorite features.

If you’re just joining, you can find our past issues here.

Until next time,

Bonfire Team