NFT Review 63 - RMRK Ecosystem Report
NFT Review 63 - RMRK Ecosystem Report
Nested NFTs live on Singular, Sega’s first blockchain game, Walmart waltzes into the metaverse, and more.
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Dear NFT enthusiast,
Despite reports that NFT trading volume has plunged 98% from its January highs, adoption metrics are still ticking up (number of unique NFT buyers and sellers and global adoption by the world’s top brands). It is safe to say that despite the bear market, the builders have kept building.
RMRK is one such team and they recently published their first monthly ecosystem report. Of the many updates, the most notable is definitely the release of the Nested Royalties user interface. This is a pretty big deal because it removes the final barrier to fully functional nested NFT interactions on Singular, making it the first NFT marketplace to have such robust nesting functionality. Read more about Nested NFTs and Royalties here.
Another major update, which has us more excited than the first, is RMRK EVM contracts. According to the report, the EVM contracts are ready and are now being reviewed. This means we are much closer to having a more powerful RMRK protocol–because with EVM, a lot more features are possible.
Thank you for reading and have a great weekend.
— NFT Review
📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot
A new batch of verified collections are now available on Singular. You can view them in the tweet thread below.
RMRK published a new ecosystem report for September.
Nested NFTs and Nested Royalties are now fully functional on Singular. Read this post for all the details.
Despite the NFT bear market, some Polkadot NFTs have been performing really well.
RMRK published new videos on Youtube
Polkadot now in the Bit.Country Metaverse.
Unique Network announced a partnership with Lemonade Social.
🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond
UNICEF Giga NFTs to connect schools in developing countries to the internet.
Yat Siu (Animoca Brands): “Asia GameFi opportunity huge as gamers don’t hate NFTs.”
MetaMask adopts custodial features for NFT-hungry institutional investors.
Napoleon Dynamite cast reunites in Web3 animated series.
Sega’s first blockchain game.
PUBG creator looking at Metaverse game next.
Christie’s has launched its own on-chain NFT auction platform.
Walmart steps into the “Metaverse”.
Disney seeks corporate lawyers for ‘emerging technologies’ and NFTs.
Web3 technologies could be a game changer for the travel industry.
Post offices adopting NFTs leads to a philately renaissance.
Innovation will drive NFT adoption despite mainstream presence — NFTGo founder.
Apple said NFT projects can only sell NFTs via the Apple App Store through in-app purchases.
Chain purchased patriots.eth for the New England Patriots for 75 ETH.
Coinbase NFT started aggregating listings from multiple NFT marketplaces.
Ethereum Name Service regained control of the eth.link domain name.
OpenSea enabled support for OpenRarity and for trading on Arbitrum.
Showtime rolled out an auto minting feature.
Tessera, a collective ownership protocol, rolled out the Nounlets (each is 1/100th of a Noun NFT):
zefram.eth unveiled Bagholder, an NFT loyalty protocol.
Zora introduced an airdrop system to its creator toolkit.
Cool Cats partnered with Habbo to launch a virtual world experience for the collection’s holders and introduced a new CEO, Stephen Teglas.
Optimism unveiled Optimism Quests, a guided tour of the L2 that lets you earn NFTs along the way.
Paradigm open-sourced the Art Gobblers codebase.
Axie Infinity released a midseason balance patch for Axie: Origins Season 1.
sound.xyz unveiled Sound Protocol.
Decentraland launched an emotes marketplace.
Somnium Space introduced WEB WORLDS, an automatic parcel enhancement tool.
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!