Hey DRVRs! For those of you who are new to these streets, I’m RΞ𝕏, the lead writer and editor at DRVN Culture.

I am excited to get this new chapter for DRVN Culture underway. Thanks to all of our new subscribers! Since we announced that we will be transitioning to The Ultimate Automotive Web3 Community Publication the outpouring of support from the community has been incredible. We are beyond pumped for what’s to come and to be a uniting force behind the growing Web3 Automotive sub-genre.

We have some BIG things planned for the community, many exciting announcements, and key partnerships in the works. For now, let’s get a taste of the content that’s to come. This, being the first page in the new chapter, I’d like to note that the format of this newsletter will be evolving over the next few weeks to maximize the value we provide to our audience. If you have any ideas or suggestions to make DRVN all it can be, please DM me on X or email me at [email protected].

That said, let’s hit it!

In This Issue

• Race2Earn with Secret DR/VR Club & Drive Coin Club

• DR/VRS Club Bounty program with Metasky

• Motorverse Zealy Quests

• Torque Squad NFT Soft Staking

• Automotive Web3 Asset Performance

• Revv Racing Introduces In-Game Rewards Claims

• Mercedes-Benz NXT Superdackel Collection Mints Out

  • DRVN Culture Subscriber Competition #1

• McLaren - Inside Line in Web3 with Muriwai

  • We're looking for contributors!

Secret DR/VR Club + Drive Coin Club Race2Earn Program

Secret DR/VR Club and Drive Coin Club have partnered up to launch their Race2Earn program. This is a first-of-its-kind sim racing sponsorship rewards program where people can earn $DRIVE for racing, while sporting their liveries and logos. This cross-platform reward system airdrops rewards every time they race. The program current supports iRacing and GT7, but will be expanding to other SIM platforms soon.

To start earning, it’s as simple as submitting a google form whenever a race is completed. Drivers are awarded points based on their positions, which applies towards the monthly competition. At the end of that month, the prize pool is distributed to everyone based on their points earned.

To sweeten the pot further, each month additional sponsors are invited to add to the prize pool in exchange for featuring their logos on the cars during that month’s racing events, and for promoting their sponsored car on social media.

The $DRIVE can be spent in the online store on a number of different items such as merch, iRacing vouchers, subscriptions, and more.

Getting started just requires two steps.

1. Join the Drive Coin Club Discord server.

2. Sign up for Social Connector, where you will receive your rewards.

Click the button below for the full details.

DR/VRS Club Bounty program with Metasky

On Monday 2.26 DR/VRS partnered with Metasky to launch a free membership NFT mint and a bounty campaign. Participants have the opportunity to earn points towards winning 3 DR/VRS NFTs as well as 3 Limited Edition Campaign NFTs.

Getting signed up and executing bounties is easy. Just head over to the campaign page and sign up for Metasky, then redeem your free gassless mint. Then, knock out the bounties consisting of engaging with posts on X.

This campaign ends tomorrow, so don’t lag. There is still time to complete all required actions to get your chance to score the awesome prizes.

Motorverse Zealy Quests

Last week Animoca Brands announced the Motorverse in lead up to NFT Paris, where the Motorvese booth was front and center. This ambitious initiative is bringing together their full portfolio of automotive properties under a single brand, to ultimately unify them into an unrivaled web3 vehicle culture experience.

While many of the details are still under wraps, they have initiated a quest campaign on Zealy, where users can earn points for completing actions on social media. What those points will earn you, only time will tell. But something tells me it will be well worth your time.

To get questing head on over to motorverse.com and click QUEST in the top navigation.

Torque Squad NFT Soft Staking

Hot on the heels of the Motorverse announcement, Torque Squad, their ecosystem’s PFP collection and community launched a soft NFT staking program. The full details can be found here, but the long and the short of it is:

• 4.5M $REVV will be airdropped to eligible participants

• Register your Torque Squad NFT to earn $REVV tokens during their staking seasons

• Season O started February 23 and goes until March 24

• The more Torqies you stake the more $REVV you’ll earn

• Soft staking means you retain ownership and control of your NFT. You are not required to lock it in a smart contract or pay any gas

• Double your earnings by registering your X account name, following Torque Squad and Motorverse on X, and joining the Motorverse Discord server

To make matters even better, Torque Squad will not be staking the NFTs held in the community wallet, so the ratio of available $REVV per NFT is higher than you might initially calculate.

If you haven’t already, grab yourself a Torqie and get staking!

Automotive Web3 Asset Performance

Revv Racing Introduces In-Game Rewards Claims

Revv Racing and the $REVV token are an integral part of the Motorverse. Now, players can earn and claim SHRDs and $REVV token rewards directly in-game. Check out their X announcement on below and start racing to earn those rewards!

Mercedes-Benz NXT Mints Out their Superdackel Collection

Yesterday morning at 6pm CET, Mercedes-Benz NXT launched the public phase of their 1,000-piece Superdackel NFT collection. Phase 1 was only available to holders of their NXT Icons Era 1 collection. Phase 2 was available to members of 6 partnering communities. And the 3rd and final phase only saw 234 NFTs left for the public.

WTF is a Superdackel? It is an homage to the iconic nodding dog dashboard toy called Wackeldackel, introduced by Mercedes-Benz and Superplastic at CES 2023.

NXT is building a stunning NFT ecosystem around the iconic Mercedes-Benz brand. For the full details on their web3 offerings head over to nxt.mercedes-benz.com.

If this is the first your hearing about this, or we’re unable to score a Superdackel, fear not. Yours truly managed to snag a couple in the 20 minutes before they were all gone. One to collect and one to give away to a lucky subscriber of DRVN Culture. Think that should be you? See the details below.

McLaren - Inside Line in Web3 with Muriwai

On Tuesday the 27th I was in the right place at the right time to tune into McLaren’s Discord talk with their Web3 lead, Muriwai. They dropped so much alpha in just 30 minutes time. Lucky for you, I took copius notes. If you are an F1 or McLaren fan you won’t want to skip this.

Here are their plans for 2024

• They are going all in with their primary sponsor, OKX -

• Users will need the OKX wallet to claim free NFT mints

• Minting will take place on the Polygon network

• The first collection is launching some time between the Australian and Miama GP

• Multiple opportunities to win prizes over the course of the 2024 F1 season

• This season will include way more prizes, winners and ways to earn than last year

• Rewards include: Signed merch, paddock tours, chances to meet drivers, briefing with F1 team

• They are introducing new token designs in collaboration with multiple artists

• A new website for claiming mints will be announced soon

• It is rumored that there will be an end of year surprise for those who collect all the tokens from the 2024 season

• Plans for existing holders: MCL35M holders receive new new utilities

  • Limited Edition Extreme E Lego Car

  • Exclusive Meetups

  • MTC tours

  • Extra entries for contests

  • Exclusive physical item

• Discord updates

  • More live events: Trivia, watch alongs, and Q&As with team and drivers

  • They are giving away a Lego MCL60 car during the Bahrain GP watch along

The best way to take advantage of this alpha is to join the McLaren Discord Server. See you over there!

That will do it for this issue of DRVN Culture. I hope you enjoyed it and got a taste of what’s to come. If so please subscribe so you can stay in the loop on everything the automotive web3 community is building.

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