Dear Bankless Nation,

Twitter is exploring NFTs further. TIME Magazine’s NFT drop sold out in seconds. Snoop Dogg is apparently a huge NFT collector. China just banned crypto … again.

Another regular week in NFT Land, right? 😄

Drama, excitement, and intrigue abounds, so just remember to keep on top of your rest and relaxation so you can stay fresh for the future. Us creatives and builders are running a marathon here after all, not a sprint!

Thanks kindly for reading, stay creative, and have a great weekend per usual ✌️

-WMP

🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Huge Chromie Squiggle sales this week: “Perfect Spectrum” Squiggle #7583 sold for 922.5 ETH (an ATH for the collection) and “Full Spectrum” Squiggle #2855 sold for 420 ETH.
• Loomdart acquired CrypToadz #3661, one of the rarest in the collection, for 125 ETH.
• SharkDAO, which already owns Nouns #2, #5, #15, and #33, added shark-headed Noun #47 to its collection 🦈

• Interested in building your own NFT collectibles project? These resources from MyCrypto and manifold.xyz co-founder richerd will help.

🎨 Cryptoart

• Collector Bharat Krymo acquired Hackatao’s HACK of a BEAR - The Scientist for 48.6 ETH.

• Artist Matt DesLauriers is releasing the generative art series Meridian through Art Blocks on Tuesday, Sept. 28th.

🎮 NFT Games

• Global fantasy ⚽ game Sorare raised $680M in its Series B fundraise.
• Aavegotchi has now notched +1.5M transactions on Polygon.
• Axie Infinity just updated its breeding fee policies.

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• Cryptovoxels creator Ben Nolan is hosting an AMA on Reddit next week!
• jin over at Webaverse is cooking up some crazy cool interoperability functionalities ...

• Remember how I mentioned Snoop Dogg earlier? He’s also going metaversal with The Sandbox.

🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• Fortune and artist pplpleasr donated 209 ETH to four orgs supporting journalism and the freedom of the press.
• Polygon-based NFT project Ethlings is shuttering operations.
• Earlier this year I interviewed the PunkBodies and ZENFT Garden Society for Metaversal, so where are they now? PunkBodies is releasing its V2 system this weekend and ZENFT just entered into a collab with Metakey.

💎 DeFi x NFTs

• Sushiswap’s coming NFT platform, Shoyu, will be curated out of the gate: 10 artists featured per week for the first 10 weeks. (Speaking of Shoyu, the project just teased its upcoming VR world).
• Yearn founder Andre Cronje launched open-source and fee-less NFT marketplace Artion on the Fantom blockchain, with plans for rollouts on chains like Ethereum, Arbitrum, and beyond on the slate.

Action steps

• 📺 Watch “How OG Crypto Artist Rhea Myers Sold a Never-Seen Artwork at Sotheby's” by Unchained Podcast
• 📺 Watch “Defining the Metaverse” by Bankless