A Good Old-Fashioned NFT Drop: The Blackbird Summer Pass 🪄✨🍦🍪🧁🍭

As part of Coinbase's Onchain 🟡 Summer, we're dropping two passes that unlock insider rewards (like free desserts!) at exciting NYC restaurants

There is a reason Proust chose the madeleine as his literary device into the past rather than, say, a steak tartare. Like summer itself, dessert stokes one’s inner kid, a place of happiness and imagination, in all of us. For me, eating the tartufo at Nick and Toni’s in East Hampton is like mainlining joy. For you, maybe your euphoria-by-way-of-sugar is found elsewhere. Regardless of the specifics, as we considered how to mark August, we knew it had to be about dessert. 

To that end, our Summertime Sweet Pass, one of two exclusive passes for Coinbase’s Onchain 🟡 Summer, drops today. Designed by renowned multi-disciplinary artist Lucien Smith, this pass will unlock one free dessert following a meal at eight of our favorite NYC restaurants — from new West Village classics to Brooklyn neighborhood joints to secret spots hidden underneath some of Manhattan’s most iconic buildings. The desserts themselves are at the discretion of each restaurant, but considering the hitters we’ve assembled, we can assure you that you’re in good hands. This power-up ⚡ begins today, Tuesday, August 15, and is good through August 22 at the following locations: 

• Anton’s 

• Ensenada 

• Gertie

• gertrude’s 

• Hōseki 

• Lighthouse

• Spygold 

• Tía Pol

In addition to unlocking desserts, our Summertime Sweet Pass also earns you a 1,000 $FLY bonus with your next tap-in at any Blackbird restaurant (see the full list of our partners here), as well as access to a private Discord channel — a solid place to connect with other treatheads, and gain access to pre-sale drops and more off-menu magic. We did say two passes. So if you’re too quirky to be moved by the offer of free dessert, then our Supercharge Summer Pass for $2 is your move. It nets you the aforementioned 1,000 $FLY bonus the next time you tap in with your Blackbird account, without the horror of free sweets at awesome restaurants.  

Coinbase’s Onchain 🟡 Summer is a multi-week celebration of art, culture, gaming, community, and more, and part of Coinbase’s launch of Base, their new Ethereum layer two network. We’re proud to be building on Base and excited to participate in Onchain 🟡 Summer with this sweet, sweet drop. Buy both passes here and get to it. 

Ben Leventhal
Founder + CEO
Blackbird Labs, Inc.