Apple's NFT Unlock

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Surprisingly, the biggest NFT news this week came via tech giant Apple.

After losing a key court battle with Epic Games, Apple bent the knee and eased its App Store restrictions. Among other things, the withdrawal means U.S. mobile apps can now support NFT sales.

Why's this matter? Because NFT projects like OpenSea and Magic Eden can finally offer direct buying experiences in their iOS apps instead of just browse-only interfaces, which was their big limitation previously.

Plus, the ruling also blocked Apple from charging its infamous 27% cut on external purchases, paving the way for more crypto-native apps to be accessible and profitable.

These are huge wins for NFT projects focused on mobile adoption, so let's see who dives into the breach first here!

Plus, other news this week...

📰 General news

• Coinbase Wallet launched its early limited beta
• dotfun released zorb.fun and ticktock.fun
• Focus Tree, a student productivity app, is onboarding 1,000s of new users to Starknet
• Paperview, a new gating app for photos and videos, launched on Base
  

🎨 Cryptoart

• fxhash officially exited its beta

🏆 Digital collectibles

• ClubNFT is shuttering its NFT backups service
• Espresso announced its upcoming NFT collection, The Composables
• Guardian audited the Shadow NFTs system for Yuga Labs
• Pudgy Penguin #6873, the only left-facing Pengu, resold for 200 ETH

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Battle for Blockchain introduced its BFB Chain atop Initia
• Kamigotchi officially launched on mainnet
• Sup launched its Blit game editor app

📱 Onchain social

• Bonsai added video and animation support
• Farcaster introduced a web wallet and added support for the Monad testnet
• JokeRace rolled out debit card payments
• Moshicam revamped its mobile studio
• Tunnl launched its incentivized attention protocol on Base
• Zora is now pairing all coins with $ZORA

🪙 Memes & NFTfi 

• auto.fun is using liquidity NFTs for its launchpad
• Yapster announced its V2 platform

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