NFT Friendship Bracelets 🧬
Dear Bankless Nation,
Last month I wrote about Art Blocks 2.0.
Part of the generative art hub’s optimizations included the rollout of new collection types, one of which was Exploration collections for experimental releases.
Fast forward to this week and the first Exploration project, Friendship Bracelets, just launched.
A collab between Art Blocks founder and Chromie Squiggles creator Erick Calderon and artist Alexis André, Friendship Bracelets are free. Minting’s open until Jan. 2023 for anyone who held any Art Blocks NFT on the Oct. 26th snapshot, meaning dozens of thousands of addresses are eligible!
The art is amazing, clicking on the NFT gives you instructions on how to make a physical version, it’s open to many, it’s free, and since each minter can claim two pieces the creators are encouraging people to gift their second bracelet to pay it forward.
These are the sorts of delightful vibes you love to see in the NFT ecosystem, and I’m sure there’s more where that came from via Art Blocks!
In the meantime, check your eligibility for the mint and thanks for reading as usual everyone. Now let’s get you caught up on the other big headlines from this week ✌️
-WMP
📣 General NFT News
- Blur, the latest NFT marketplace aggregator, achieved a new volume ATH:
Blur reached a new all time high of 13476 ETH ($20.8M) volume in a day!
— Blur (@blur_io) 5:50 PM ∙ Nov 3, 2022
This is another huge win for the Blur community who will receive a majority of $BLUR.
Reminder that you can list on Blur through November to get our second airdrop!
- OpenSea unveiled a new NFT copymint detection system and new scam detection systems.
- SHARE, a new content distribution system, just deployed on Ethereum and Polygon.
🏆 Digital Collectibles
- pfers launched as a free mint for Pooly NFT holders:
Annoucing pfers. A free mint to all Pooly Supporters, Lawyers, Judges and Open Edition Pfer holders. Snapshot already taken. Minting open NOW.
— dvdsmfer (@dvdsmfer) 12:27 PM ∙ Nov 2, 2022
nft.bueno.art/mint/gPPx56RqK…
- Punk #8348, the rarest “seven attribute” CryptoPunk, received a new 1,100Ξ bid:
‘@punksOTC testing out @seedphrase with an 1100 ETH bid on the 7-attribute punk.
— NFTstatistics.eth (@punk9059) 5:36 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
Fun fact: @larvalabs didn’t know that attribute count mattered. They added attribute count to the website when the community showed they cared about it.
- Yuga Labs introduced MB1, a new experiential hub for Meebits holders.
🎨 Cryptoart
- Art Blocks secondary volume has surged recently:
Art Blocks secondary volume last week was the highest since early July at just over 4,000 ETH (~$6.0M)
— catherine (@0x_catherine) 2:21 PM ∙ Oct 31, 2022
Over 50% of volume was concentrated in three places:
- Art Gobblers, an experimental decentralized art factory by Justin Roiland and Paradigm, launched in explosive fashion.
- Chrome Squiggles reached a new ATH high floor price of 17Ξ.
- Fidenza #783 resold for 300Ξ:
Wow. 300 ETH Fidenza sale. Ties it for the 14th highest Denza sale in ETH terms.
— NFTstatistics.eth (@punk9059) 10:07 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022
- SuperRare introduced RarePass: Genesis NFTs, which are yearlong lootboxes that feature works from 24 iconic cryptoartists.
🎮 Decentralized Gaming
- Axie Infinity kicked off a battle and crafting contest where Axies with special body parts can earn extra XP rewards.
- MetaMask partnered with HyperPlay in a bid to bring crypto wallets to every game.
- Ronin Network introduced its new-and-improved mobile wallet.
- ZED Run is rolling out core gameplay improvements.
💽 Music NFTs
- Bankless published Finding the XCOPY of Music NFTs, a guide to the web3 music scene.
🌐 Virtual Worlds
- Decentraland hosted a Day of the Dead celebration.
- LandVault launched its new metaverse land discovery platform.
💎 DeFi x NFTs
- Uniswap celebrated its 4th birthday.
- 0xngmi published a thread explaining the design decisions behind LlamaLend, a new NFT lending protocol:
Why LlamaLend?
— 0xngmi (grazing arc) (@0xngmi) 8:35 PM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
Here's a thread exploring the current status quo of NFT lending, the approaches that other protocols are taking and why I chose to do things differently for LlamaLend