Morning stop at the Great Lakes Candy Kitchen — treats for home!
Grand Marais Light.
Artists Point in Grand Marais.
World’s Best Donuts in Grand Marais. Pro tip: you can order the night before and skip the line entirely!
Stop at Fika Coffee, my favorite coffee shop on the North Shore, on our way to Grand Marais this morning.
Our Airbnb for the weekend up north is a converted garage set in the woods. Nice place!
Exploring FIFA Collect
I’ve been intrigued with FIFA Collect for a bit. My interest was piqued when I saw that they are dropping collectibles with “Right to Buy” for the 2026 World Cup and I am very hopeful to go to at least a match. I’m guessing tickets will not be easy to get so getting a “Right to Buy” collectible for the city that I want to go to might be really nice.
This morning I sat down with FIFA Collect and really figured out how it works. I was generally impressed. It is a full NFT solution built on the Algorand blockchain. I have used a ton of blockchains but hadn’t had a reason to use Algorand. Algorand is not a Ethereum ecosystem blockchain so I downloaded Pera wallet to get started. Then I bought $20 USD worth of ALGO on Coinbase, transferred to my wallet and swapped 100 ALGO for 12.232474 of USDC-a, which is the USDC stablecoin token for Algorand.
A few minutes later I purchased my first FIFA collectible on the marketplace, a World Cup 1994 USA #611 poster.
I can buy some drops and hope I get lucky to find a “right to buy” collectible. Alternatively, there are already collectibles on the marketplace that others are selling with those rights. Right now the cheapest “right to buy” collectibles are selling for around $300.
Delicious pizza and beer at Ursa Minor Brewing tonight in Duluth.
Many of the SPS Commerce leadership team took in the Minnesota Business Partnership annual event. We were joined by Megan Tischler who was highlighted in the evening for the work she has done as part of our Women in Technology group and Phil Soran who is one of our board members.
