Trick, Treat or Token?

Why NFTreats Are the New Halloween Standard.

🎃 Knock knock. Trick or treat! … Now click that 💖 into my pillowcase or I’ll egg your house.

Ah, Halloween! The time of year when your pillowcase turns into a treasure trove of sweets and guilty pleasures. But this time, amid the classic chocolate bars and those candies everyone claims to hate but secretly hoard (yes, candy corn, I'm talking about you), I found something... different.

There it was, in all its underwhelming glory: an NFTreat card. My first reaction? It felt like getting a travel-size tube of toothpaste from that one neighbor who thinks they're doing public health a favor. Really, Karen? On Halloween?

But hold your witches' brooms! This wasn't just a piece of cardboard with a QR code. This was an NFT (Non-Fungible Treat). The card proudly displayed a limited edition number and even had an artist's signature on the back.

You might wonder, "Why the excitement?" Remember the Bored Ape Pulitzer Awards? Who's to say this little card isn't the next mega jackpot? In a world where a digital gorilla can write prize-winning essays, the 'treat' part of this NFTreat starts to get pretty relative.

Is Halloween pivoting from a sugar-induced coma to an existential musing on value and rarity? Well, let's be real, you're still gonna go for that chocolate bar nine times out of ten. But that tenth time? That might just be an NFTreat offering you not just calories, but cultural cachet.

What if this card grants me exclusive access to a secret haunted art gallery? What if it becomes a ticket to the Beeple/Smithsonian e-Archive? Or maybe it’s just another quirky piece of cardboard, a trick guised as a treat, bound to be lost in the folds of my pillowcase. But who knows, right?

In a timeline where digital collectibles share pillowcase space with age-old candies, the treats aren't just sweet—they're speculative. And that, my friends, might be the real magic of Halloween in the years to come.

🎃 Don’t leave yet, I have a spooky treat for you.

Before you go, here’s a dark tale that my friend Ferns of Columbo wrote, and won, for the first ever Wicked Writing Contest from the #macabremonday writing community here on substack, hosted by Jeff Kinnard and judged by The Chronicler .

Congrats to Jon and congrats to the substackers that submitted, ranked and read everyone’s entries.

Go forth with caution and check out Rare Dawn - by Jon T - Ferns of Columbo (substack.com)

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