NFT Review 49 - NFTs will conquer the world

Community overcomes hacker, NFTs conquer Formula 1, new expiry date for Skybreach land vouchers, 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,

Despite the market’s bearish sentiments, NFTs have continued their glorious march towards world domination. This week finds us with the regular serving of adoption news, but with a bit of a twist. First is this article on how a Genomics company is exploring NFTs in hopes of advancing precision medicine.

From the hospitality angle, some hotels are using NFTs to create a StubHub for lodging reservations. NFTs are also being used to raise capital to buy golf courses or land, giving token buyers a stake in the projects. 

But the star of the week is this: verified members of CityDAO were able to claim a portion of an NFT land in Wyoming which grants land governance and access rights to the holders. In explaining the reason why, the DAO had this to say,

The Parcel 0 experiment is a means to prove the concept of creating wrappers for traditional rights allocations related to property.

Despite these varied cases of adoption, we still maintain that this is just the beginning. NFTs will conquer the world.

Thank you for reading and have a great week.

— NFT Review

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📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot

• Skybreach land deed vouchers now expire on June 15th, 2022. Learn how to burn/redeem them here.

  You can now check your land credits and whitelist phase for the Skybreach land sale on skybreach.app.

• RMRK was nominated in two categories at NFT.NYC Awards–Best NFT Interoperability Experience and Best Environmental Initiative from an NFT Project for Moonglade. Vote for RMRK here.

• RMRK published a new video explaining everything you need to know about Harberger-taxed land.

• gbaci published A Quick Introduction to the True Metaverse in which he introduces the characteristics of a true metaverse.

• Tree art for seedlings bought in batches 2 and 3 of the Moonglade sale were released.

RMRK.app Official @RmrkApp

🌳 The reveal of #Moonglade batches 2 and 3 is here. Resources have now been minted and sent to your seed pouches. You should accept the incoming resource to reveal your tree. Thank you!

• EVRL00T, a Dark-RPG game built on RMRK, sold out the first wave of its Tarot card sales. Another is currently running.

𝔢𝔳𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔱 @EVRL00T

1/ Important informations for the sale We approach the mint of our Tarot cards in ~20 hours at 20:00 CET. Approximately 1/3 of each rarity will go on sale. The first rarity being the lost souls -> warrior souls approximately 1 minute after and the fabled souls at last.

• Bit.Country published Purchasing and Deploying Virtual Land in Bit.Country and Why Should You Use Bit.Country? | Looking into the Possibilities of the Metaverse.

• Exiled Racers mint is now live.

• DonnieBigBags shared new updates on Pondsama.

Donnie @DonnieBigBags

Imagine thinking I wasn't serious. The @MoonsamaNFT team is gonna build harder than even the likes of @ParityTech on $DOT $KSM. 17 days in. Drag and drop your NFT fish from your wallet to your Metaponds. Next: Breeding, 5v5 ranked battles, metaverse land, XCM $POOP utility.

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🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond

• NFTs and crypto are taking over Formula 1.

• Gaming DAO Merit Circle and YGG caught in DAO governance strife. In more positive news for YGG, its scholarships are on the rise throughout Q1.

• The Solana community gets back stolen NFTs from a hacker.

• 29 Moonbirds were stolen by clicking a bad link.

• eBay drops first NFT collection to non-crypto mainstream buyers.

• GameStop unveils beta cryptocurrency wallet and upcoming NFT platform.

• Targeted phishing scam nets $438K in crypto and NFTs from hacked Beeple account.

• OpenSea launches Seaport ​​marketplace protocol allowing NFT bartering.

• Audi launches novel fractional NFT.

• Gaming platform Bud raises $37 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital India.

• ‘Move-to-earn’ Solana app StepN is latest crypto gaming craze.

• ENS DAO is looking to hire an NFT artist for a PFP project. 

• LooksRare updated its NFT search functionalities. 

• Rarible is deploying on the Immutable L2.

• Zora released a series of updates to its Editions tool. 

• KnownOrigin is reopening its artist application window on June 9th. 

• Axie Infinity has a new Origin patch deploying today.

• Yield Guild Games published an official statement on a recent Merit Circle community proposal aimed at refunding YGG’s investment. 

• Atari announced a web3 initiative dubbed Atari X.

• Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs - May 23rd.

• Decentraland has paused its planned wearable submission fee adjustment to make time for further community proposals. 

• Tim Sweeney of Epic Games calls for a metaverse browser. 

• sudoAMM, a decentralized NFT trading system, is nearing its public release.

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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!