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Dear NFT enthusiast,

Last week, NFT adoption reached a threshold. British rock band Muse released their latest album first in the NFT format. One thousand copies, made available on music-focused NFT marketplace Serenade, sold out in 25 minutes. Following the album's full release, it rose to the top of the British album charts having sold 51,000 copies. 

Why is this a big deal? Signaling. 

Muse is one of the world’s biggest bands and they gave ‘respect’ to the NFT format by using it as an early part of its sales process. With every news report written about this album, the NFT paradigm will be spread that much further. Before long, everyone who had an issue with NFTs will be forced to reconsider. First, the believers (us) adopt, then the celebrities, and then the sheeple (not meant to be derogatory). 

Read on for more interesting NFT updates from around the world.

Thank you for reading and have a great week.

— NFT Review

📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot

• 3 Singular artists had their NFTs accepted into the Rixos Premium Dubrovnik 3 months art exhibit.

RMRK.app Official @RmrkApp

This past weekend we had an amazing opportunity to feature #RMRK Singular Artists at the @rixosdubrovnik for their 3 month art exhibit. 🎨🖌️

September 6th 2022

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• Join the RMRK team on 9th September for a RMRK EVM implementation update session on Crowdcast.

• RMRK becomes the first protocol to integrate with Dev3, a low-code web3 app development and transaction automation framework.

• Watch new YouTube shorts by RMRK: Music industry and NFTs will change forever, The Global Item Economy of NFTs explained, How to create RMRK Mix-Media NFTs on Polkadot.

• Polkadot NFT parachain Enjin published Developer Spotlight: Esther Jade, Head of Ecosystem.

• Bit.Country Alpha Testnet 0.0.1.9 has been released. 

• Winners of the #100Metaverse contest have been announced by Bit.Country.

• Raresama, a new NFT marketplace on Moonbeam, launched.

• Trading has been shut down on Singular v1.

🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond

• Argentine Freemasons want to put NFTs to philanthropic work.

• Reddit NFT avatars selling for a premium on OpenSea.

• Ethereum domain names top Bored Apes on OpenSea’s weekly chart.

• NFT NYC 2022: A look inside a massive NFT conference.

• Bill Murray’s wallet hacked following a successful for-charity NFT sale.

• FIFA follows NBA Top Shot route.

• Muse becomes the first band to top the United Kingdom charts with an NFT album.

• NFT watchdog Rug Pull Finder gets its own NFT giveaway exploited.

• LooksRare added an NFT Quicklook feature

LooksRare.eth @LooksRare

Ayo, we’re saving you time and making your life easier. NFT Quicklook shows: - Trait count - Rarest trait - Floor price of each trait - Trait with the highest floor You can also click to filter by trait. Check it out and let us know what you think! 👀looksrare.org/collections/0x…

September 1st 2022

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• Meta expanded support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook. 

• OpenSea introduced Polygon support for its new Seaport protocol. 

• PROOF Collective raised a $50M Series A round. 

• Quixotic, an NFT marketplace on Optimism, introduced OP OG NFTs.

• HyperLoot launched the HyperLoot Foundation.

• Art Blocks unveiled Art Blocks Engine, a generative art system for events, sports, and beyond. 

• SuperRare is considering a multi-list platform model for further decentralization.

• Internet Game, a web3 mini-game battle royale, launched. 

• Aavegotchi published its August Update report. 

• Axie Infinity saw one of its Genesis Plots resell for +166 ETH.

• Arpeggi rolled out support for uploading samples.

• Catalog launched its 1st curation cycle. 

• Songcamp introduced the Present Material record store, which was built on Zora. 

• Decentraland is hosting a permanent collection of Frida Kahlo’s art. 

• JPEG’d, an NFT lending protocol, introduced a Trait Boost system.

• Kinetic, the first multi-chain NFT aggregator, is preparing to launch. 

• NFTX now has subgraphs live on The Graph. 

• sudoswap announced its SUDO token distribution plans.

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!