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Dear NFT enthusiast,
I started NFT Review as a way to write about NFT developments in the Polkadot ecosystem, since most newsletters ignored it.
Ever since RMRK “left” Polkadot, however, there’s really not much to write about any more and I end up just rehashing news available in other newsletters and X/TG channels.
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🖼 crypto-native
Another fractionally represented NFT standard attempt. 🥱
An attempted standard to set some kind of minimum buy-off price per NFT, from what I can tell.
Metaplex Core standard on Solana makes it easier and cheaper to mint primitive NFTs. No telling when NFT 2.0 tech will arrive on Solana.
Electric Capital open sources NFT Pulse. The dashboard is missing integration of some advanced NFT marketplaces like Singular, but I’m sure that’s only a pull request away given that this is open source, and we’ll see it added soon.
Opensea’s Seaport releases version 1.6, adding hooks to this marketplace contract. This allows many new cross-contract interactions.
Aside is a new lockup product by Distributed Gallery, for locking up NFTs and releasing them when certain conditions are met.
Highlight studio releases a generative-art-preview tool for testing your generative builds of NFT collections, inspecting probabilities and style matches.
Generalized token-linked contracts proposal, to take 6551 to the next level. With time, lots of effort, and a million extensions, 6551 might even catch up to things that modular NFTs can already do. Keep reinventing wheels, crypto Bennys!
Zora added ERC20 minting. When in meme times, meme.
A proposal for AI agents in NFTs. This is already more than possible with modular NFTs, without boxing you into a clusmy standard.
🕹️ games
Impressive-looking on-chain game engine with real-time ticks: Ark RTS. Skeptical but the Dune 2 aesthetics got me.
Pixelmon CEO bets on fractionalized NFTs for its huge comeback. Pixelmons will, of course, experience a brief pump before crashing into oblivion once more.
CCP Games (makers of EVE Online) will be using MUD for their new game, Project Awakening. Coincidentally, MUD released v2.
A nice dive into Starknet’s Influence game by Metaversal.
🌎 global adoption
Pierre Morel, director of Taken, is set to direct a movie based on a collection of 8,888 digital collectibles. I am fairly certain this is a fraud, given that there are no sources listed in the decrypt article.
Shocking no one at all, Starbucks gives up on crypto for the 15th time. We await their inevitable 16th “adoption” of crypto in the middle of the bull run, only to be told they are dropping it once again when the bear comes back.
Predictably, only 3% of Coachella NFT tickets sell out, failing spectacularly.
Rapper Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan is “releasing” “music” via ordinals, unfortunately lending more legitimacy to the tech parody that is “inscriptions”.
Creators can now license their posts on Hey (previously Lenster).
U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released the findings of their collaborative study on the impact of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on IP law and policy.
Sound.xyz releases Channels, a way to discover new artists before they make it big.
🧐 interesting
CZ (of Binance) planning some kind of crypto education project. Am skeptical. He has, in the past, been highly resistant to learning new things. His announcement here.
Munchables, “game” on Blast, suffers and then recovers a 62 million USD exploit.
555 NFT: A ⁵⁄₉-themed NFT to commemorate the author running 10000km in 555 days of running everyday.
📖 reading
Matt Deslauriers, one of the world’s leading generative artists, discusses the evolving digital landscape with Alex Estorick
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 and don’t forget to follow us!