Did you have a happy Halloween, huggers? We hope your festivities had more treats than tricks, more delights than frights, and that your costume ensured a perfect night.

🎃HUG-lloween Post Mortem

HUG was possessed by a string of spooky activities for all of October. Our monthly #HUGCreatorClub partnered with Sad Girls Bar as huggers invited us into their haunted houses. Our HUG-lloween Contests saw the best of both worlds, challenging our community to come in their best costumes and create digital jack-o-lanterns.

Strangest of all? A haunted skwrl carnival overran the Web3 algorithm, with HUG participating through our shared digital squirrel, Hugo. This immersive performance piece featured prolific illustrations by Eislyn. Carnivals aside, the HUG community came together offline, too. HUG hangs went IRL with our latest meetup in San Francisco 🤗

We hosted our first-ever Scavenger Hunt! As a treat, we opened up our discovery platform at thehug.xyz. Huggers and non-holders alike were challenged to solve riddles and seek out the spookiest projects on our NFT discovery platform for a chance to win POAPs, prizes, and even Ethereum.

The HUG Shop is LIVE!

There's no need to wrap eth to wrap yourself in our newest huggable attire. Our Snuggly Buggly Goodies Club has been hard at work to make all your merch dreams come true.

Explore the store and secure the (shopping) bag now 🛒

The Hug Shop | Official Merchandise | Bonfire — www.bonfire.com

Web3's fav community of creators & curators! Supporting diversity with our NFT Discovery Platform & Creator Accelerator Programs.

Sunday Spotlight with Avril15NFT

HUG has always been dedicated to uplifting and embracing artists, even more so given the difficult conditions of the market. That's why when we found out Avril15 was using their platform to highlight emergent talent with less than 2000 followers, we decided to join forces to amplify them further, together.

Every Sunday, Avril15 and HUG will be promoting these up-and-coming artists on our social networks. Artists who apply for a Sunday Spotlight feature also earn the opportunity to join our discovery platform at thehug.xyz and a newsletter feature.

💡 Read more about how you can benefit from our partnership here.

📝Apply to Avril15's Sunday Spotlight here.

The Sunday Spotlight artists for the week of 10/30 are: 

Matt Burns | aesthetint | OneSpeg | Secret Artist Project

Rosewolf | Elena_croArt | Stafurskaya | Cherry Pie NFT

We invite you to follow, share, support, and explore their creations!

HUGfamily Haunts

⚔️ Set a reminder: Ruler of the Land will be launching Era of Factions on Nov 3

👀 Eyes of Fashion rewards holders with a digital earrings filter

🌙 Stardust Society gives a sneak peek at their IRL jewelry collection

🎨 A year ago, our airHUG resident RJ picked up drawing again, blessing all of Web3 with their wonderful creations at Chipped Pixels. Thank you, RJ!

🎭 Web3 security advocates, anonymissNFT, share a thread on building in public

🏠Neighbor is leveraging Web3 to solve one of society's biggest problems: housing. Listen to their spaces to learn about how Opportunity Zones can help.