ETH NFTs Run

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Ethereum’s outperformance this week has turned heads. While BTC is down 2% and SOL is down 4.6% over the past 7 days, ETH is up 8.9%. What’s driving the rally?

One big factor is renewed excitement around Base, where L2 apps like Clanker and Anoncast on Farcaster have been capturing tons of attention. Yet this surging isn’t limited to ETH itself—top ETH NFTs have notably been seeing revivals too.

For instance, consider the weekly floor price performances of the top 5 NFT collections by market cap:

• CryptoPunks: +7.5%
• Bored Apes: +32%
• Pudgy Penguins: +15.5%
• Miladies: +6%
• Mutant Apes: +44%

That said, after months of quiet, these Ethereum NFTs are gaining momentum again, indicating buyers are feeling renewed optimism about the ETH ecosystem. Digital collectibles are coming back in focus as interest and activity clearly pick up around Ethereum once more.

The grand question, will this trend continue? I personally like the chances of that for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on NFT markets in the weeks ahead—things can pick up rapidly here!

📰 General news

• Takens Theorem released Collective Filter, an Ethereum NFT recommender
  

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Art Blocks migrated 90% of its artwork to fully onchain storage
• Rhea Myers released Buy Nothing on Foundation
• Zora added support for tipping Sparks on comments

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Deadfellaz sold outs its 4th Infected collection on ApeChain
• Pudgy Toys are returning to Walmart in 2025

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Fren Pet conducted a Thanksgiving airdrop of loot boxes and other goodies
• Nouns Esports finalized its Nounsvitational lineup
• Realms World is voting on adding a 1M $LORDS prize pool for Eternum Season 0
• Virtuals published an explainer on its GAME agentic framework

🪙 Memes & NFTfi 

• Anoncast unveiled Anonfun, a platform for deploying Clanker memecoins anonymously
• Dreamcoins released a tweet-to-deploy feature
• Ethervista deployed Etherfun on Base
• GONDI reached $35M in active NFT loans and facilitated a 2.75M USDC CryptoPunk loan
• Rainbow is now auto-verifying Clanker tokens every 5 minutes

📱 Onchain social

• Bonsai integrated its AI agents system with Orb on Lens
• Farcaster introduced the Frames v2 developer preview
• Untitled notched its first 400 users
• Warpcast released follower Starter Packs

FRIEND & SPONSOR: CARTESI

Cartesi has announced the addition of a Validator Marketplace to its roadmap—a decentralized platform connecting dApp developers with validators. This marketplace aligns incentives within the ecosystem, boosts CTSI token utility, and offers a solution for unlocking the full potential of appchains, even beyond Cartesi.

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