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Looking for a primer on NFTs? This should be the last introduction you’ll ever need.

Dear NFT enthusiast,

Following the RMRK team’s Skybreach announcement last year, the desire for more details was high, growing with each month of silence. Finally, last week the team published the most important document in the history of Kanaria–the Skybreach wiki.

This extensive document covers the fundamentals of the Skybreach metaverse, including the origin of Kanaria and their place in the metaverse, world governance and how it could work, avatars, equipables, land gems, and more. For the Kanaria/RMRK faithful, this is a document worth spending a few hours on because it will give you a better understanding of the Skybreach vision.

Furthermore, with land sales coming up, knowledge, as they say, is power. To know the fundamentals is to know how to value or determine your participation. Here is a video to give you a recap of the metaverse and details about the land sale.

The land sale will be happening soon, so be sure to mark your calendars. 

Thank you for reading and have a great week.

— NFT Review

👨🏼‍🎨  RMRK Artist Spotlight: 

On this episode of SAS, we spoke to Kate, the creator of the successful Chaos Giraffes collection. To recap on Kate’s Singular journey—the 22-year-old artist made her first foray into NFTs in November 2021, netting over 200 KSM from her collection. We have found a great deal of inspiration in this because, at RMRK (and Singular specifically), our goal is to help creators gain their artistic and economic freedom.

In this interview, we focused on her love for Singular—how and why she got started, why she loves the platform, why she thinks she succeeded, her biggest takeaways, and her advice to artists who are still on the sidelines.

Read the interview

📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot

• Listen to episode 3 of the RMRK Roundtable, featuring alpha from DonnieBigBags, Exosama and Moonsama founder.

  Episode 4 is also available, which focuses on the Cross Chain NFT Experience.

• Migration to Singular 2.0 is now live. It is now easy for artists and collectors to move their NFT from the old Singular.

• A new article on The Power of Music NFTs with RMRK.

• RMRK founder Bruno Škvorc has won the NFT Innovator of the Year award for 2021, hosted by MHouse.

  Please vote for Bruno to speak about RMRK at this year’s Polkadot Decoded.

• A Guide for Artists Launching a New NFT Collection—Part 1: “Who Are Your Buyers?”

• First look at the digital marketplace in Bit Country

Daniel (Meta Ninja) @D_cwm

First look at the 3D marketplace 🤩 @BitDotCountry

April 7th 2022

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• Yet another amazing demo of RMRK's NFT 2.0 technology: collectible stand-alone NFT stamps equippable into an independent stand-alone NFT album, with profits going to the Ukraine war relief effort.

Stamp For Ukraine @StampForUkraine

1/ How to support Ukraine in a new technology era? ‘Stamp for Ukraine’ is a collection of NFTs with the purpose of fundraising for people who suffered from the war. The collection uses the #RMRK 2.0 standard. Discover how we put together NFT 2.0 with a stamps collection.👇

April 11th 2022

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• A new Singular changelog has been published, featuring updates for collection locks, curation, migration, and more.

• Check out the latest NFTs on auction at Singular:

  • DotSama NFTs for Ukraine: Raising funds for the humanitarian relief

  • The DotSama Experience

🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond

• ESPN and Tom Brady’s Autograph (NFT platform) ink multi-year NFT deal.

• Spells of Genesis game celebrates 5 years by opening a virtual NFT history museum.

• Starbucks announces NFT initiative.

• Axie Infinity creator raises $150M to reimburse funds stolen in the Ronin hack.

• HSBC debuts metaverse investment fund in Asia.

• Ledger launches NFT-focused hardware wallet Nano S Plus.

• Ledger partners with the Sandbox to promote crypto education in the metaverse.

• The United Kingdom government Treasury has asked the Royal Mint to create an NFT to be issued by the end of the year “as an emblem of the forward-looking approach the UK is determined to take.”

• zachxbt, popular for his Twitter threads investigating crypto figures and projects, has made a new thread alleging that French influencer Laurent Correia had a major role in the Billionaires Dog Club NFT rugpull.

• Wax Studio’s Blockchain Brawlers game earned $357M in its first week.

• Kevin Smith to issue ‘comedy-horror’ film as NFTs on Secret Network.

• How Sotheby’s combined NFTs and a Netflix attitude in a wild bid to be Crypto Cool.

• gmoney.eth and WAGMI United completed a takeover of the Crawley Town Football Club.

• LooksRare opened up its API to the public.

• Nansen now supports analytics data from NFT marketplace aggregators Gem and Genie.

• reNFT, an NFT rental platform, unveiled its v2 design.

• Blitmap NFT universe has a new rivals expansion coming soon.

• Sup, the team behind the Blitmap universe, is hiring a lore writer.

• Axie Infinity unveiled new details about the Origin release’s all-new Arena Mode. 

• Sky Mavis, the team behind Axie Infinity, raised $150M to help restore the Ronin bridge.

• Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs - April 4th.

• Cryptovoxels held auctions for parcels located in the Andromeda and Venice neighborhoods.

• Decentraland’s desktop client beta is making its final rounds ahead of the client’s full rollout. 

• Webaverse publishes an explainer video that details the virtual world project’s progress to date.

• Gem added NFT listings analytics to its platform.

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!