An NFT Weekly Recap: 10/24–10/30 by Metaverse HQ
Monday 10/24
Reddit NFTs continue to be the talk of the town as peak FOMO has set in for those still looking for entry into the social platforms avatar ecosystem. While, overall volume across the marketplace was low today, there were plenty of headlines to go around, including; a Twitter native crypto wallet, Fewo x Christies Auctionhouse, Apple updated terms and conditions regarding NFTs and much more. Opensea volume closed under $8 million for the third straight day while ETH held steady above $1330.
News
- An unconfirmed report from a tech insider states that Twitter is developing a crypto wallet that will integrate directly into its platform. https://twitter.com/nftnow/status/1584634407507611648?s=20&t=CBOLvq1_hbFYSHJJipiCLg
- Reddit NFTs have undoubtedly been the top news item as volume continues to surge on the avatar collections. Reddit has apparently onboarded over 2.8 million new wallets, all while using the term “Digital Collectible” rather than NFT, with almost 1000E traded across their variety of collections over the past 24 hours. This thread from @robinkunz helps break it all down: https://twitter.com/robinkunz_/status/1584463654191124480?s=20&t=8RrqpL5EECDV6DAfVP-bAw
- Yuga Labs founders state that they intend to question ADIDAS in regards to their affiliation with Kanye West. The much maligned hip hop artist has come under fire recently for anti-Semitic remarks that Yuga claims to want no part of. https://twitter.com/GordonGoner/status/1584619245983641600?s=20&t=8RrqpL5EECDV6DAfVP-bAw
- Apple rules that NFTs will no longer be able to gate access on its iOS operating system. The App Store terms of service has been updated to reflect the changes. https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1584609845570768897?s=20&t=8RrqpL5EECDV6DAfVP-bAw
- RTFKT officially announces a collaboration with luggage company RIMOWA what will also introduce a 2222 supply Workerbots NFT collection at a .08E mint price, as well as 888 physical suitcases for 2.3E. https://twitter.com/RTFKT/status/1584535192014041088?s=20&t=BPuSM1AvAFaJTnAuuql01Q
- Tyler Hobbs announces that large paintings of his projects QQL outputs will be put on display during an exhibit at NYC’s Pace Gallery in April 2023. https://twitter.com/tylerxhobbs/status/1584565059736330240?s=20&t=BPuSM1AvAFaJTnAuuql01Q
- FEWOCiOUS x Christies pair up to auction off the popular artists “Year 6, Age 19 — Growing Pains” work of art with bidding set to take place on November 12th. https://twitter.com/fewocious/status/1584577801512185856?s=20&t=BPuSM1AvAFaJTnAuuql01Q
- Deepak.Eth teased an image of the upcoming Cryptopunks pendant from Tiffany & Co., and also mentions for NFTiff holders to check their inbox on 10/26 for a first look. https://twitter.com/dt_chain/status/1584568898443038721?s=20&t=8RrqpL5EECDV6DAfVP-bAw
- BAYC released an detailed FAQ regarding its upcoming merch collab with McBess and The Dudes. https://twitter.com/BoredApeYC/status/1584704010480947200?s=20&t=8RrqpL5EECDV6DAfVP-bAw
Tuesday 10/25
Tuesday saw a strong rally in nearly all markets as crypto ran and floors around the NFT space dipped as a result. Art Blocks (650E vol.) continued to fuel most of the volume across the market as Seedphrase continued acquiring grails for their collection. ETH ran up as high as 12% on the day before settling around $1480 while Opensea volume saw a slight rebound as well to $9 million even with markets ripping. Meanwhile the Gutter Cat Gang had quite the day with a series of announcements as Snofrow detailed his intentions to mint out the Squiggle collection before the end of the 2022 year.
News:
- Sandbox announced they are celebrating their 1000 day milestone with huge $SAND giveaway. The giveaway of 2.6 million $SAND is valued at approximately $1.9 million USD at today’s prices. https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame/status/158484444423019724
- 10KTF pushed their Comfy Hoodie redemption window live today. In order to redeem for a physical Comfy Hoodie, users can either burn a Comfy Hoodie NFT token or pay the price of 35 $APE. https://twitter.com/10KTFshop/status/1584732243871682561
- The Veefriends account tweeted today that the NFT for gift #8 was being airdropped to Gift Goat NFT holders. This is the 8th of 18 gifts both physical and NFTs being delivered to holders. https://twitter.com/veefriends/status/1584902639845838849
- Gutter Cat Gang posted an announcement postponing the launch of their $GANG token yet again. This time the team wished to wait citing sufficient regulatory clarity as the prohibitive factor. https://twitter.com/gangcoin_/status/1585022551771648000?s=46&t=8p4LC_XL4Wk4TS3wf45-gg
- Not to leave the day on a negative note, Gutter Cat Gang also announced that Gutter Juice v2 would go live on October 31, Halloween day. Additionally, the GCG Twitter account teased a collaboration of some kind with the restaurant Bored and Hungry, posting an image with a “Gutter & Hungry” sign. https://twitter.com/GutterCatGang/status/1585037437449142272?s=20&t=vyU4ATCABdzL9_VTVQdYeQ https://twitter.com/GutterCatGang/status/1585066209317646336?s=20&t=vyU4ATCABdzL9_VTVQdYeQ
- Snofrow, founder of the Art Blocks platform and creator of the iconic Squiggle, will be holding a live stream to live mint 10 Squiggles to the Squiggle DAO organization. Additionally, Snofrow mentioned his aim was to complete the 10k Squiggle collection by the end of the 2022 calendar year. https://twitter.com/squiggleDAO/status/1585036776015790080?s=20&t=8BMXujfPrusA7Ga5wTWsxw
Wednesday 10/26
Marketplace volume trended upwards for the third day in a row with a close above $9 million. While the broader crypto market stayed hot and kept many NFT project floors in the red, some notable action could be found in the form of a $2 Million offer placed on Punk #6965 and Gutter Cat Gang #2711 being purchased for 30E. ETH continued its recent surge, maintaining levels above $1550.
News:
- X2Y2 tweeted a thread explaining why they have decided to block Blurs API access to marketplace listings. X2Y2 states Blur violated terms of service by applying for more than 10 keys and claims that marketplaces and aggregators should be separated as together it could create a “conflict of interest.” In the interim, Blur has found a workaround by utilizing information gathered from Gems API data. https://twitter.com/the_x2y2/status/1585256296189526017?s=20&t=rEoqAkVJ66DSz3lBtVgqOg
- Memeland provided details regarding its Captainz mint, with three Potatoz guaranteeing one Captainz mint. Individual Potatoz will be eligible to mint on a 1:1, first come first serve basis. More details will be unveiled in a Town Hall tomorrow at 10AM EST. https://twitter.com/Memeland/status/1585251254275813376?s=20&t=HohB1Dc9XwXSE9XctvTCVA
- The latest BAYC merch drop went live today as it featured collabs with McBess x The Dudes. All purchases require $APE with Small Capsules running equal to about $175 and Large Capsules going for $500. https://twitter.com/BoredApeYC/status/1585300465377771521?s=20&t=HohB1Dc9XwXSE9XctvTCVA
- DigiDaigaku Adventure Key holders will be whitelisted for an upcoming airdrop with Castaways. https://twitter.com/gabrielleydon/status/1585396643687411712?s=20&t=gru_eP0zKTmtSfHIhSF8kg
- Pixelvault’s Metahero has been renamed to the Inhabitants. https://twitter.com/inhabitants_/status/1585012095359528961?s=20&t=q6iIaT7PAoWoCgFKFqVP_Q
- LooksRare jumped into the marketplace headline mix by announcing that an update to the current V1 Protocol is coming and plans to incorporate new strategies for the management of fees and royalties. https://twitter.com/LooksRare/status/1585270161149288448?s=20&t=NW7aSoDE1jrtN6vJ1Umjyw
- RTFKT announced that the side quest to open its RIMOWA mint tomorrow has been completed and will take place at 1130 AM EST with priority to CloneX holders. https://twitter.com/RTFKT/status/1585315560635539456?s=20&t=iTyJm3hYVXXJK88xX2DTLA
- KPRVerse has released its Keeperlist for those who had their applications accepted. https://twitter.com/KPRVERSE/status/1585315396286283776?s=20&t=_6HsgHwp-GxwzBS7MHg97Q
- Artblocks has launched a new website and online journal. https://twitter.com/artblocks_io/status/1585355175770075136?s=20&t=fQE0cE0FV2_VDbtnRwOu_A
Notable Mints:
- VoxVot sold out its free whitelist mint and saw floors run as high as .05E with floors holding in the .03E range on almost 90E total volume. https://blur.io/collection/voxvot-blindvox
- Friday Beers sold out its heavily botted mint in under 2 minutes at a .089E mint price for their Allowlist and .095E for public. The project has not seen much traction on the marketplace with floors currently under mint at .063E on over 160E in volume. https://blur.io/collection/fridaybeersnft
Thursday 10/27
Mints were firing left and right as an action packed day engaged the space. The morning began with several mints popping off concurrently with DC Comics Superman NFT, RTFKT, and Dapper’s newest product La Liga Golzaos all keeping voice chat abuzz. After the mints calmed down we saw significant news from Dmitri Cherniak and the Apecoin account as they await the results of their bug bounty proposal. Opensea continued its slow sojourn upwards to break the $10 million mark. ETH also saw a bit of a retracement all the way down to $1500.
News:
- After a few tweets from members of the team, it was confirmed in the discord that the Cool Cats team experienced layoffs to staff. Extensive reasoning was not given other than restructuring. https://twitter.com/ThGoodKnight/status/1585360739380129792?s=20&t=EyzuGztDwW4u0-Uk5W8a1Q
- In the latest chapter of Game of Royalties, LooksRare tweeted today that they would be disabling creator royalties moving froward, instead opting to share protocol fees with creators at a flat rate. https://twitter.com/LooksRare/status/1585647538635689985
- Highly respected generative artist Dmitri Cherniak, teased his next project titled, Light Years. The project will be a collaboration with Fellowship.XYZ and the estate of Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy. Minting will take place on December 1st in some form of auction. https://twitter.com/dmitricherniak/status/1585662266984243202
- RTFKT minted two different NFTs today but both were riddled with botting issues and exploits aplenty. Users were able to loop the mint after a successful transaction with RTFKT replying that their team worked very hard on the drop, seemingly dismissing the launch issues. https://twitter.com/CardilloSamuel/status/1585705482915876868?s=20&t=bYhxGgGH6VjcQAbtuC0tnA
- The Apecoin account tweeted that three new AIP’s will go live for voting. One of them will delay the start of staking until November 2nd at the earliest. If the AIP passes, a bug bounty will be placed on the staking contract for an undetermined amount of time, potentially pushing staking even further out. https://twitter.com/apecoin/status/1585766335262310401?s=20&t=ljbLILbOv9uR0EMlW1IrWw
- Gutter Cat Gang and Jeff Staple released their collaborative Skate deck along with a collection of clothing items. https://guttercatgang.com/staplegutter-series-one-takes-flight-october-27/
Notable Mints:
- RTFKT dropped their RTFKT x RIMOWA Meta-Artisan Collection. The drop was marred by exploits in the contract and a poor user experience but saw respectable volume after sellout nonetheless. The collection is comprised of workerbots (.26E) and luxury high-end luggage made by Rimowa (2.37E) of differing tiers. https://www.gem.xyz/collection/rtfkt-x-rimowa/
Weekend Recap 10/28–10/30
There was steady action in the marketplace over the weekend as we’ve seen a 3-day closing average of $8.8 million. All eyes are on ArtGobblers as the much anticipated project aims to launch its Allowlist only mint. CryptoDickButts (2.77E) saw a surge in activity after Elon Musk tweeted out an image of the project. DigiDaiGaku (11.5E) continues to see a small runup in anticipation of its upcoming airdrop. Potatoz (1.47E) have also maintained a steady pace with floor gains of over 18% over the past week. ETH cooled a bit into the weekend but is still holding steady above $1580.
News:
- Digidaigaku has confirmed Monday as the date of its Dark Spirit free airdrop to all holders. https://twitter.com/gabrielleydon/status/1586748035731582976?s=20&t=ZbyxrSZaUreg1lOzoMXUog
- BAYC is asking members of its community to vote on a poll regarding an Art Basel event. https://twitter.com/BoredApeYC/status/1586134487238602752?s=20&t=cTrekBCPIin8hVERG-zpIQ
- Street Machine provided an update regarding the projects reveal contract, female character art and lore: https://twitter.com/STMachineNFT/status/1585810331925770243?s=20&t=7v32RpKhmV_n7f7e6kRYXA
- Elon Musk tweets an image of a CryptoDickButt, giving a surge of activity to the project with floors rising above 3E at one point. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586690742151307264?s=20&t=3T3iYYdhB25JrtEyqzNaHQ
- Magic Eden gives a deeper explanation of their stance on royalty enforcement. The team also introduced a Whitelist Dashboard for all users. https://twitter.com/MagicEden/status/1586038272647634945?s=20&t=WUoLrPvflywSPXerUWejlw; https://twitter.com/MagicEden/status/1586109060457189376?s=20&t=eLb2c_Wu_xEvNw2mRvW3Bg
- Imposters announces November 18th at 4PM EST as the next date for its community playtest which will be available to Imposters holders only. https://twitter.com/PlayImpostors/status/1586085841927307264?s=20&t=EYqZ9djrF71IMkqjVkKEPA
- Inhabitants, the projects formerly known as MetaHero, announced a new vote to decide the 16 characters for their upcoming game beta. https://twitter.com/inhabitants_/status/1586134533916676098?s=20&t=uBRs7_m0rf3PNPq-Fatyfg