NFT Review 21 - We Are Inevitable
Axie to launch its own DEX, RMRK pays $60k to gem holders, Bank of America bullish on NFTs, and more.
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Dear NFT enthusiast,
Despite the massive growth of the web3 technology stack (first it was DeFi, then NFTs, and soon DeData, DeID, and more yet to be born), there is still doubt in some of our minds that web3 is just a fad that will eventually pass.
It is natural to have doubts about trends that have a great deal of uncertainty surrounding them. But then, web3 (along with NFTs) are a different beast—one that can’t afford to stop or turn back. Pandora’s box is open and it will stay that way.
If you nurse any doubts about what the future potentially holds, then this tweet thread will help you gain some much-needed perspective.
When you’re done reading, you will see that, like Thanos said, “(I am) web3 is inevitable.” When people taste true ownership and freedom, it will be near impossible for them to relinquish it.
Thank you for reading and have a great week.
— NFT Review
👨🏼🎨 RMRK Artist Spotlight: Marlua and Her Emotions
On this episode of RAS, we caught up with Marlua, a visual artist from Zagreb.
The first thing one notices about Marlua's art is the delicate balance of chaos and beauty. Most of her pieces spot faces with intriguing emotions (and bad dentition for the most part). Given her love for expressionism and abstract art, it is no surprise that her art turns out the way it does.
We spoke about how she started, her favorite artists, her process, and more.
📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot
Confused about all the awesomeness that RMRK is about? Here is an epic tweet thread to help out.
22 Singular artists came together for the first-ever snapshot collaboration of Singular Creators.
RMRK pays out 175 KSM (~ $60,000) to revenue-bearing gem holders.
NFT4Metaverse Talk Show hosted RMRK co-founder Bruno Škvorc on October 12.
Bit.Country built a feature that allows individuals, organizations, and influencers to embed their metaverse maps on their websites.
Ray Lu (Co-founder), and Gardi Rigby (Partnership Manager) from Bit.Country Metaverse Network hosted a crowdcast to explain NUUM's Power in the Bit.Country network. Watch the replay here.
Kodadot introduced Series Insights to their NFT marketplace.
Watch the replay of Alexander Mitrovic’s (Unique Network CEO) presentation on Blockchain Gaming Economic Models and Their Impact on Mass Adoption for Cutting-edge Games Conference.
Unique Network has partnered with SupraOracles to help creators launch NFT marketplaces.
Kanaria (home of NFT 2.0) has netted over 2,027 KSM (~ $687k) in sales volume over the last 7 days, and 18,962 KSM (~ $6.4m) in one month.
🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond
Kingmakers launched last week, a community-oriented puzzle where each NFT gives you 3 daily attempts at guessing the puzzle’s solution. Every Sunday, clues are shuffled between NFT holders, and these clues together make up the solution. An interesting mechanism with some good art worth exploring.
The Nouns project released a cool new tool that lets you see what “synthetic” Noun is generated by your Ethereum wallet.
I am a cheese noun🧀. @nounsdao What noun are you in the meta-verse? synthetic-nouns.herokuapp.com Inspired by Synthetic loot @dhof
Dapper Labs, the team responsible for NBA Top Shot, has acquired virtual influencer start-up Brud.
Sorare announced a partnership with the German Bundesliga.
The Roman Catholic Mission of Bangkok has announced that it will be publicly releasing its first-ever NFT minted officially by the Catholic Church. This Catholic NFT will be minted on Kalamint.
Investors in Evolved Apes, a recently launched PFP — short for profile picture — NFT project, are grappling with the disappearance of the project’s anonymous developer.
Sky Mavis, the studio behind the popular Axie Infinity NFT game, has announced a fresh $152-million Series B funding round.
Bank of America has published a research report offering a bullish outlook for the long-term prospects of cryptocurrency (including NFTs).
Art Blocks raised $6M from True Ventures, Galaxy on the strength of their generative NFTs.
Axie Infinity is preparing to launch its own DEX, which the project hails as “mission-critical.” -
Cryptovoxels rolled out a guestbook feature and listed 50 new parcels this week.
Animoca Brands is leading a $1.5 million bet on reNFT, a year-old DAO that lets you rent out NFTs on the Ethereum mainnet.
Financial services company Republic is forming Republic Music to create, produce, and share royalties from music through NFTs.
ENS now supports NFT avatars for your ENS profile.
The decentralized publishing platform Mirror just opened up publishing to anyone.
CrypToadz is topping OpenSea’s weekly volume charts right now 🐸 Catch up on what the project’s all about with the Metaversal beginner’s guide.
Paradigm Research unveiled a new NFT primitive, RICKS. The process entails fractionalizing an NFT “into RICKS,” at which point the system “mints and sells new RICKS every day.”
NFT20’s Cudl.finance is now live on Arbitrum.
New NFT marketplace Infinity takes direct aim at OpenSea — with a token.
The 10b57e6da0 (LobsterDAO) NFT project has launched. These are membership tokens given to each active participant of the Lobsters Telegram chat and the NFT Avenue Lobsters spinoff, groups that contain the crème de la crème of DeFi and NFT - founders, researchers, journalists of high influence. The lobster NFTs are already flooring at 3.8 ETH each, purely because having one might mean you’re a high-net-worth high-influence individual in the crypto space, and this makes it very appealing for new projects to airdrop their tokens to Lobster holders as advertisement or incentive for review.
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!