Leveling Up NFTs 🎲

Dear Bankless Nation,

Axie Infinity's introduction of Axie Experience Points (AXP) has really caught my attention!

This new system, which enables Axies to level up, signifies a big evolution in the NFT gaming sector, as it’s a way for unique digital game pieces to now “grow” over time.

I'll be exploring AXP and its potential impact on the broader NFT landscape in a full write-up next Tuesday, so be on the lookout for that, but for now let’s catch you up on this week.

Enjoy your weekend, and stay tuned!

-WMP

📊 The big picture

Over the past week, the floor-based market cap of the NFT space declined from 7.51 million ETH to 7.45 million ETH for a -0.8% drop 📉

🔝 7D top collections by volume

📰 General news

• mint.fun added support for Optimism and Zora Network mints.
• Integral, a crypto + NFT accounting stack, added support for the Zora L2, too.
• Nic Carter unveiled his Orb, an NFT that grants the holder the right to ask him one question per week.
• OpenSea introduced Deals, its answer for P2P OTC trades.
• Zapper replaced its blockies with unique Opepens.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Avastars rolled out 3D VRM support and unveiled a new bespoke marketplace.
• Moonbird Mythics began hatching.
• Pudgy Penguins introduced PudgySwap.

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Fingerprints DAO is transitioning to an NFT-membership format and have tapped Larva Labs to create the art for the NFTs.
• Mitchell F. Chan announced The Boys of Summer, an interactive art game and PFP collection.
• Prohibition.art officially launched.
• Sotheby’s Contemporary Discoveries auctions saw a handful of considerable Fidenza sales.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Axie Infinity launched Axie Experience Points (AXP), turning all Axies into dynamic NFTs.
• Curio introduced Warcraft: Keystone Edition, an onchain Warcraft minigame.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland welcomed the start of Metaverse Art Week 2023.

🪙 NFTfi

• Uniswap announced UniswapX, a new kind of liquidity aggregator protocol.

🎆 Mint spotlight: Zora Network Bridge Pass

Did you mint a !fundrop pass yesterday or prior? Then you’ve been allowlisted for the Zora Network Bridge Pass mint on mint.fun! It’s a free mint on the Zora Network that automatically “bridges” 0.00111 ETH to your address on the new L2 for future gas costs, gifted via Zora. Next mints on the house!

🙇 New insightful reads to level up your web3 knowledge!

1. Bobby Ong on intrigue around Reddit Community Coins 🔵

2. Museum of Crypto Art on $MOCA and ROOMs 🌐

3. Onion on the Opepen metadata contract 💻

4. Gila.Ron on Axie Infinity AXP 🔷

5. int art on scripty.sol V2 📶

✨ My NFT tool of the week: Lens V2

Lens Protocol, a decentralized social layer for the web, just unveiled its next-gen system. The optimized protocol boasts new functionalities like Open Actions, e.g. minting external NFTs on Lens, and a Collective Value Share system, which will let people earn from discovering and sharing great content. Additionally, Profiles V2 adds ERC-6551 support, so now Lens profiles will be able to directly collect NFTs. If you haven’t already, sign up for the Lens waitlist to get ready!

😜 Just bear market things…