NFT Review 53 - Non-fungible realness
NFT Review 53 - Non-fungible realness
Dawn of the rental apes, Skybreach land sale public phase, Reddit launch PFP collection, and more.
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Dear NFT enthusiast,
Last week, the USA’s Department of Justice hit the ‘Baller Ape’ NFT rug puller with money laundering and wire fraud charges. We imagined how the rug puller would have received the news, given that if found guilty, (s)he could face up to 20 years in federal prison and a hefty fine. Quite unfortunate.
In a predominantly digital culture (which NFTs and crypto are), it is easy for people to lose sight of the realness of the interactions we make. Because the blockchain does not store our real identities, it is tempting to take the easy way and cause havoc in other people’s lives. However, with the same power, we can create life or destroy it.
For example, when we buy NFTs (especially from the artists themselves), we validate and enable another human being’s way of life. This is powerful. NFTs are, at their core, a way for us to build more meaningful digital relationships with ourselves whether we’re artists, founders, builders, celebrities, fans, or collectors. May we never lose sight of this non-fungible realness.
Thank you for reading and have a great week.
— NFT Review
📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot
Enjin's CTO Witek Radomski explained how NFTs will bridge traditional gaming with blockchain.
A Neighborly Love Campaign was announced for the Skybreach Land Sale to coincide with the start of the public dutch auction phase.
Since launch, the Kanaria collection has seen over 100k in KSM of volume. That is almost 1% of all KSM in existence 🤯
Watch this video to learn more about resources in Skybreach
RMRK Founder Bruno Škvorc was on TheDefiant with SuperMassive and the Flufworld Founder to talk about Flufworld’s decision to build Futurverse on Ripple.
Evrloot, the dark RPG game building on RMRK, have released the lost souls. If you have a soul tarot card, claim your soul now. There are 5 more days left to buy a soul tarot card and claim new souls.
Ray Lu, Bit.country founder, announced the concept of Programmable Land which is currently being worked on.
Unique Network published RFT & CROSS-CHAIN NFTS: Bringing Freedom and Innovation Back to the Blockchain.
🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond
Former head of TikTok gaming leaves Web2 to build Meta0, a core Web3 protocol.
Reddit announces new blockchain-backed ‘Collectible Avatars’.
Lamborghini-backed GT racing team to authenticate car parts using NFTs.
Hundreds of Bored Ape owners sign up to hire out their NFTs to brands.
Coinbase NFT began a Drops program.
EIP4907, a token standard for NFT rentals, was finalized.
Facebook started testing Ethereum and Polygon NFTs.
OpenSea experienced an email vendor security incident.
Gem launched a Live Mints dashboard to track ongoing NFT mint events.
LooksRare added support for Coinbase Wallet.
Zora introduced the Zora Development Kit (ZDK) and redeemable NFTs.
Yuga Labs filed a lawsuit against Ryder Ripps for selling “copycat” Bored Ape NFTs.
Art Blocks announced Nov. 11th and Nov. 12th dates for its Art Blocks Open House weekend.
Axie Infinity launched Land Staking, kicked off Origin Phase 2, and reopened the Ronin Bridge.
Treeverse released a short teaser vid of its upcoming MMORPG game.
The Sandbox opened up its LAND bridge to Polygon.
HTC released its metaverse-minded and web3-friendly Viverse phone.
NFT marketplaces saw their trade volume levels boom over 2,439% collectively between Q2 2021 and Q2 2022.
ENS DAO is considering proposals to create a dedicated ENS marketplace and to institute a royalty on secondary ENS domain sales.
Cool Cats is giving away unminted PFPs from the collection via puzzles.
Rarible created a bespoke marketplace for rektguy holders.
Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs - July 4th.
Teller created ApeNowPayLater, an app for financing purchases of blue-chip NFTs.
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!