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Dear NFT enthusiast,

Despite being in a bear market, NFT innovation and adoption has not slowed down. More projects are being created and funded. This is particularly telling in the Skybreach land sale, which has been a resounding success thus far.

• Epic land sold out

• Over 50% of Common land sold

• Over 50% of Rare land sold

This may not seem like a big deal at first glance, but consider that these numbers are only from the pre-public sale which still has about 3 days to go (after which the public sale will go live). Think about that for a moment. Over 913,417 xcRMRK (~ $3,480,118) has been raised from the community in a period christened ‘Crypto Winter’.

In recent times, this is one of the most bullish signs of NFT becoming truly mainstream and the Crypto ecosystem as a whole becoming more mature.

Thank you for reading and have a great week.

— NFT Review

📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot

• Skybreach announced a new Reddit contest where lucky winners will get free Skybreach land.

• Phase 3 of the Skybreach land sale has begun.

• Learn all about Skybreach land rarity in this video.

• RMRK teams up with Phala network to launch CypherMOD and resolve current metaverse issues.

• Some POAs (Proof-of-Attendance NFT badges) look like they are being minted for Polkadot Decoded as detected by collectors on Singular.

• Watch how Michelangelo Labs brought a SuperFounder Kanaria to life.

Michelangelo Labs @MichelangeloLb

🔨Our production process as seen at the @NFT_NYC: from the NFT to 3D model, to print, then processing, to spray painting and the final assembly of fine art Sculpture. 300-400 hours of work👏 Welcome to the #NewRenaissance ⚔️ @BoredApeYC @RmrkApp #Kanaria @bitfalls #BAYC

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• Watch RMRK founder Bruno Škvorc’s talk at the BlockSplit Conference Unlearning NFTs: going further than just images.

• View more metaverse footage from the Bit.Country alpha-testnet.

• Listen to RMRK’s latest Twitter space chat with the Miners of Kadenia.

• Join Unique Network’s ‘#Punks4ThePeople epic fractionalization quest’, where you can own a piece of a CryptoPunk.

• Learn about the Trait System in Evrloot (a dark RPG NFT-powered game). Also, Souls will be revealed today!! 🥳

🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond

• Catalonia (Barcelona) is building its own metaverse, says the innovation minister.

• Yuga Labs breaks silence on the racist accusations leveled against BAYC artwork.

• Volume on NFT marketplace X2Y2 surged past OpenSea in the past 7 days.

• BCware launches NFT app in Shopify App Store.

• Eminem and Snoop Dogg turn into BAYC characters in their new music video.

• Cristiano Ronaldo to get football fans into Web3 and NFTs with Binance partnership.

• Meta set to begin testing NFTs on Instagram Stories with Spark AR.

• eBay acquires KnownOrigin, expanding its foray into NFTs and blockchain.

• Shopify unveils tokengated commerce as part of new connect-to-consumer experience.

• Christie’s NFT expert to lead CryptoPunks.

• a16z leads $23 million funding round for NFT gaming platform Cryptoys.

• Accounting giant KPMG kicks off Metaverse Collaboration Hub.

• BitGo launches the first NFT custody platform for US Institutions.

• 1confirmation unveiled a new $100M NFT fund. 

• ClubNFT launched its Backup Tool, a new resource for backing up NFT metadata. 

• Ledger, the hardware wallet maker, is launching a platform for curated NFT drops. 

• LooksRare rolled out a conditional listing feature.

• MoonPay launched its NFT minting service HyperMint. 

• Doodles announced its Doodles 2 expansion effort and brought on Pharrell Williams as chief brand officer.

• Noah Davis is leaving Christie’s next month to become the brand lead for CryptoPunks at Yuga Labs. 

• The Vogu project will be launch creators on the upcoming GameStopNFT marketplace. 

• Archipelago, a new marketplace designed for Art Blocks users, is now live. 

• Gucci purchased $25k worth of RARE tokens to join SuperRareDAO and launch the “Vault Art Space” exhibition.

• Axie Infinity introduced The Creator Academy. 

• Axie Infinity to compensate Ronin exploit victims and relaunch bridge.

• Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult and Bisonic released the first playable demo of Forgotten Runiverse, an upcoming massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). 

• Spores, a new tool for remixing music NFTs, is live.

• Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs - June 20th. 

• The Sandbox is partnering with TIME Magazine’s TIMEPieces initiative to build a virtual TIME Square location. 

• Decentraland revealed the judges of its 2022 Game jam event.

• Uniswap acquired NFT marketplace aggregator Genie — watch this week’s State of the Nation episode on Bankless featuring Uniswap creator Hayden Adams to learn more about the announcement.

• ParaSwap released an NFT P2P mobile trading app.

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!