More ad revenue..! and a CEN update...

GM… Today we bring you:

• Another $1 per click advertiser!! Income that lines your pockets, not ours…

• Let’s talk about the future for CEN.

A million dollar Banksy got investors 32% returns?

Mm-hmm, sure. So, what’s the catch?

We know it may sound too good to be true. But it’s not only possible, it’s happening—and thousands of investors are smiling all the way to the bank, thanks to the fine-art investing platform Masterworks.

These results aren’t cherry-picking. This is the whole bushel. Masterworks has built a track record of 8 exits, the last 3 realizing 10.4%, 35%, and 13.9% net returns even while financial markets plummeted.

But art? Really? Okay, skeptics, here are the numbers. Contemporary art prices:

• Outpaced the S&P 500 by 131% over the last 26 years

• Have the lowest correlation to equities of any asset class

• Remained stable through the dot-com bubble and ’08 crisis

Got your attention yet? Offerings can sell out in just minutes but CEN readers can skip the waitlist with this exclusive link.

The Future For CEN…

Firstly, sorry for the radio silence. It has been 14 days since we last delivered content to your inbox, the longest gap since launching back in early February.

During this content gap we have taken some time to ponder the future of the project.

Our inbox is still filled with mindless abuse after every newsletter. Mostly from freeloaders angry that they haven’t been paid huge rewards just for subscribing.

Our last newsletter on May 3rd resulted in over 500 replies, mainly abuse which we had to sift through for hours so that we could reply to real subscribers requesting support or feedback.

This along with the dubious CEN trading activity observed on songbird explorer (revealing more bad actors gaming our rewards system), left us considering defeat.

Then, like a sign from the heavens, three brands signed up for our pay per click advertising slots. Three great brands willing to pay $1 per click.

A pretty sweet reminder that this thing has legs and a kick up our jacksie to ramp up content and soldier on.

So we brain stormed what needs to change in order to align our approach with the original goal of publishing fun and engaging content to a community that values the effort.

In our endeavour to end the spamming of our rewards system, and mindless replies to each newsletter, we need to increase the barrier to entry.

We are willing to dedicate our efforts 100% to delivering great content as often as 5 days per week.

We will devour every long form interview and Flare dev session.

We will fork out hundreds of dollars per month to engage in paid groups ensuring our content is cutting edge.

We are willing to put in the time, expense and effort so that you don’t have to, then serve you with snappy emails, keeping you fully informed about the Flare ecosystem and everything related.

In return you could buy us a couple of beers a month?

Like you would for that mate down the pub who knows something that you want to know, so you fill up their glass and bend their ear, it’s a win win.

CEN Premium, Separating The Wheat From The Chaff.

Premium subscribers will access:

Frequent and exclusive content with insights from devs we interview. Delivered in the fun, engaging format we always intended this project to be.

A comments section for each post enabling community discussion and guaranteed responses from the CEN team.

Automatic entry into regular competitions to win tokens, NFTs and other swag.

Governance voting for any changes regarding CEN tokens.

Bonus resources such as this spreadsheet modelling the potential for Songbird’s value when S-Assets launch (plus a guide to reading and updating the data):

So No More Free Content?!?

There will still be free emails offering news round ups and some editorial content.

They won’t include full feature articles or insights from project devs.

The CEN holder and daily reward airdrops structure will continue to run as normal and governance votes will shape any future changes.

To Summarise…

The future is bright for CEN.

This premium approach will allow more frequent (and better quality) content focused on the Flare ecosystem (not our subscriber issues), more engagement (with our actual community) and less time wasted on freeloaders (shit heads!).

If you have enjoyed the Flare content we have delivered over the past few months consider buying us those beers just this once, give the premium service a try and cancel any time you like…

That’s us for today, see you on the other side…

*Master Works Disclosure:

“Net Return" refers to the annualized internal rate of return net of all fees and costs, calculated from the offering closing date to the date the sale is consummated. IRR may not be indicative of Masterworks paintings not yet sold and past performance is not indicative of future results. See important Regulation A disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.