NFT Review 68 - the great NFT embedding
NFT Review 68 - the great NFT embedding
NFT trading on Twitter & Instagram, OpenSea security update, Game of Thrones NFTs, and more.
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Dear NFT enthusiast,
This week two social media giants made strides towards embedding NFTs into their services, thus exposing the NFT paradigm to billions of users. First was news from Meta that NFT minting and trading will be coming to Instagram starting with an initial wave of US-based creators, to expand into new countries over time. Ethereum, Flow, Polygon, and Solana are the blockchains currently supported.
Then there was Twitter with the announcement that it would allow users to buy and sell NFTs through tweets. With both these companies throwing their weight behind NFTs, there is little value in wondering if NFTs are here to stay. At this point, it becomes a game of which big corporations will adopt next.
Who would have thought it? NFTs as the trojan horse to mass blockchain adoption. Long live the non-fungibles!
Thank you for reading and have a great week.
— NFT Review
📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot
RMRK published a new ecosystem report for October highlighting the completion of the internal audit for EVM contracts, new Singular updates, and more.
Spacers NFT sale is now live. RMRK held a Twitter Space with Subsocial to discuss the Spacers NFT collection and the Subsocial ecosystem.
PhalaWorld’s Shell mint is now live.
There is an exhibition opportunity for Singular artists at Polkadot World, the biggest Polkadot event in Spain.
Bit.Country hosted a Twitter Space on Metaverse gamification & the power of NFTs with Phala.Network.
Bit.Country announced an art design contest for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
Enjin published Building Games For Cross-Game Items Is Hard. So Why Do It?
🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond
SEC's Hester Peirce: regulatory ambiguity means NFT projects must be 'Very Careful'.
Steph Curry files trademark for the Curryverse, where players earn NFTs.
NFT vending machine to make digital art more accessible at London event.
MetaMask rolls out NFT portfolio value tracker with new partnership.
Visa and Crypto.com partner to launch an NFT collection ahead of the FIFA World Cup.
Ripple’s XRPL blockchain has officially become a new home for NFTs.
GameStop’s NFT marketplace is officially live on ImmutableX.
Hong Kong’s Government sets out its stance on NFTs.
Art Gobblers makes over $20M hours after launch, sparking a Twitter debate.
Warner Brothers taps Nifty’s, Daz 3D to launch Game of Thrones NFTs.
OpenSea now auto-detects and blocks stolen NFTs and disables scam links.
Lens Protocol temporarily stalled due to issues with Polygon gas limits + relaying, though the issue is now resolved.
LooksRare became the latest NFT marketplace to no longer support creator royalties by default.
ORB, a social media network built on Lens, added mobile notifications.
Quix launched an NFT Bridging Quest in collaboration with Layer3.
TokenTerminal indicates that 5 of the top 10 most profitable protocols over the last year have been NFT projects OpenSea, Ethereum Name Service, Decentral Games, and Foundation.
X2Y2, an NFT marketplace, blocked NFT aggregator Blur from directly accessing its API.
RTFKT endured a loopable transaction exploit during its RIMOWA Cabin Luggage mint event.
Art Blocks launched its new and improved website.
objkt, the most popular NFT marketplace on Tezos, added support for collections from fx(hash), a popular generative art platform.
Aavegotchi announced 10k in $GHOST prizes for its Gotchiverse Halloween Contest festivities.
web3 gaming as a sector has fielded $6.9B worth of investments over the last year.
Axie Infinity rolled out a patch that introduced various bug fixes and seasonal Axieween UI updates.
Catalog announced its second cycle of curators.
Showtime, a platform for free digital collectibles, introduced Music Drops.
sound.xyz unveiled the Sound Market.
DAPPCRAFT is hosting a 5-day Halloween Treasure Hunt event in Decentraland.
DeFiLlama rolled out llamalend, a straightforward protocol for borrowing and lending 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!