NFT Review 20 - A RMRKable Hacktoberfest

Biggest NFT sale on Kusama, Twitter playing more with NFTs, TikTok launching NFT collection, and more.

NFT Review is a weekly newsletter covering NFTs in the Web3 ecosystem on Polkadot’s side of the woods. The newsletter is put together by Bruno Škvorc and gbaci.

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Dear NFT enthusiast,

It’s been a RMRKable week here at RMRK. Kanaria broke its ATH in sales with little to no effort.

RMRK.app Official @RmrkApp

Both Super Founders #4 (1600KSM) and #5 (1350KSM) sold in rapid succession for the most and second most expensive NFTs ever sold on the @kusamanetwork 2950 combined KSM ~$1,063,387 Two super founders become one 🤯 kanaria.rmrk.app/nest/HLwi44XH6…

kanaria.rmrk.appLimited Edition Kanaria Birds #NFT #RMRKSupercharged Kusama-native NFTs

Polkadot founder, Gavin Wood, made a tweet about Singular—talk about being on cloud nine!

Gavin Wood @gavofyork

Some great work by team RMRK integrating @kusamanetwork's Statemine Uniques pallet. Looking forward to the next-generation of Singular. singular.rmrk.app/collectibles/s… @Polkadot

singular.rmrk.appSingular: Kusama-native NFTs #RMRK #NFTMint and Trade Kusama and Polkadot NFTs

All of this is fantastic, but then, we are a pretty serious team and are fully aware that our progress demands further progress. To this end, we are hosting a month-long hackathon in October. We are calling on all competent developers (React, Typescript, Rust, Solidity, etc.) to show up and stand a chance to win a decent piece of the $50,000 prize pool.

Unlike most basic hackathons that only consider the developers, ours also creates participation for non-developers. If you’re a creative (writer, concept artist, digital artist, etc.), then you can participate in our Hacktoberfest’s designathon to win some pretty sweet prizes.

The hackathon, in partnership with ecosystem heavy-hitters like PAKA, Phala, PoCoCo, D1, Signum, Illusionist Group, Subsquid, and AMPnet, is meant to expand the NFT ecosystem on DotSama (Polkadot and Kusama) by building on top of and around the RMRK protocol and its tools and products.

Kindly share the link with any developers and creatives you know. Thank you for reading and have a great week.

— NFT Review

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📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot

• RMRK released an update on the partnerships Kanaria has with other Kusama projects including Karura, Khala, Shiden, and more.

  » The RMRK website has gotten a fresh new look.

  » In a feat of composable NFT legos magic, RMRK 1.0 NFTs can now be migrated onto RMRK 2.0.

• Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network’s Head of Metaverse growth, wrote a case study on Unique Network.

• Kraken interviewed RMRK founder Bruno Škvorc in their newest edition of Parachain Auctions Podcast.

Kraken Exchange @krakenfx

💥 RMRK - the NFT protocol that broke the @kusamanetwork...twice! Check out the newest podcast with @RmrkApp founder @bitfalls & our host @brianchoffman: youtu.be/MCNiChDSgL8

• Ray Lu (Co-founder), and Gardi Rigby (Partnership Manager) from Bit.Country Metaverse Network will be hosting a crowdcast to explain NUUM's Power in the Bit.Country network—Network & Individual Metaverse Governance.

• Zoombies NFT Cards by Cardinal Entertainment will be available on Yuser NFT Market via Moonriver.

  yuser @yuser

  We're excited to announce that Zoombies NFT Cards @CryptozNFT will be available on Yuser NFT Market & we're working on an exclusive Zoombies x NextGems mini drop! This is the 1st out of many collabs planned to strengthen & add value to the @MoonriverNW ecosystem @MoonbeamNetwork

  

• Season 1 of Seascape Network’s NFTBrawl on Moonriver has officially just aired its finale.

Seascape Network @seascapenetwork

🎬Aaaaand CUT! Season 1 of #NFTBrawl on @MoonriverNW has officially just aired its finale. 🤑With over 30,000 #Scapes minted throughout the season, and over $40k worth of $RIB distributed, we can call the pilot season a success! Thanks for playing! #NFT #DeFi #gaming

• Kanaria (home of NFT 2.0) has netted over 6,767 KSM (~ $2.3m) in sales volume over the last 7 days, and 18,145 KSM (~ $6.1m) in total since trading started less than a month ago.

  » Both Super Founder #4 (1,600 KSM = $541k) and Super Founder #5 (1, 350 KSM = $450k) sold in rapid succession for the most and second most expensive NFTs ever sold on Kusama.

  » Excalibur was sold for 20 KSM (~ $6,678), making it the most expensive item that traded in the Kanaria universe in the last 7 days.

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🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond

• Twitter has unveiled an in-development tool that will enable users to display a verified NFT as their profile picture.

• Mila Kunis’s Stoner Cats—the NFT project tied to an animated cartoon series—is offering two members of the community a chance to feature as guest stars for the second episode.

• Racing Time is a next-gen racing game in which players can customize their race car using NFTs, ranging from skins to parts of the virtual engine.

• WarnerMedia’s superhero comic giant DC has partnered with Palm NFT Studio to release tokenized comic book covers depicting superheroes such as Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

• The Club721 launched a new collection on OpenSea.

• Copernic Space and Lunar Outpost are set to launch a public sale for tokenized payload space in a lunar lander headed for the moon in Q4 2022. Ownership of the NFT will reportedly confer ownership of the payload space within the lander denominated in kilograms (kg).

• Aavegotchi is coming to Ethereum via Rarible.

Rarible @rarible

Aawesome news, frens! 👻 @aavegotchi, playable NFTs with play-to-earn mechanics, have found their Ethereum home on Rarible.com. Arriving October 4th with a unique community rewards program! Learn more: link.medium.com/2A7mjPlQWjb

• Cryptovoxels is launching multiplayer support for Cryptovoxels Spaces.

• PartyDAO released Party Splits: a system for granting fractionalized NFT tokens to any address via the PartyBid app.

• The National Postal Service of Switzerland is working to bridge the gap between physical stamps and the digital cryptocurrency industry by introducing tradable digital stamps.

• Decentralized publishing platform Mirror opened its crowdfunding tool to the public.

• OpenSea has once again listed the Polygon-based ‘copy’ of CryptoPunks after a successful Digital Millennium Copyright Act counter-notice.

• Foundation creators can now publish NFT collections through independent smart contracts. 

• Meet Loot Exchange: a new bespoke marketplace for the Loot universe.

  Spencer Noon 🕛 @spencernoon

  🚨 Huge @lootproject News 🚨 A new community-owned marketplace for Loot just launched that looks poised to be a major economic primitive for the Loot economy 🚀 Unlike OpenSea who charges a 2.5% fee, @LootExchange charges 1% and fees go to a treasury controlled by Loot holders

  

• TikTok launches its first creator-led NFT collection.

• Ripple launches a $250M NFT Fund.

• Dolce & Gabbana sells 9 NFTs for $5.65M.

• The NFL has officially confirmed its partnership with Dapper Labs to drop NFTs.

• Bored Ape Yacht Club has a new ATH sales record thanks to Bored Ape #2087 selling for 769 ETH on Wednesday.

• Nigerian artist Osinachi is auctioning 5 works of cryptoart through Christie’s Europe later this month.

• Snoop Dogg (a.k.a. Cozomo de Medici) acquired XCOPY’s Some Asshole for 1,300 ETH!

• A Solana Monkey recently became the first NFT on the Solana network to sell for a record-breaking $2 million in USD.

• Axie Infinity rewarded early players With $60M AXS Airdrop. AXS staking is now live too!

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That’s all for this week, see you in the next edition! Got some links to share with us, artists to feature, NFTs to sell, jobs to promote, or events to popularize? Get in touch with Bruno or gbaci!