Officially OS2

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This week, OpenSea announced it was concluding the beta of its optimized OS2 platform, releasing it to everyone.

The move opened trading for basically all tokens on the nearly 20 chains that OpenSea now supports and coincided with the launch of the marketplace's new rewards program, Voyages.

These Voyage quests have five rarity levels and grant you XP for using features across OpenSea. The rarest Legendary Quests are the most prized, as they can grant Treasure shipments—think special badges that offer points multipliers.

As far as what these points are leading to, there's still no word on a date for the upcoming $SEA token generation event (TGE), but OpenSea's leadership has said it has several "innovations" that it considers "essential to have ... in place before launching the token."

We'll have to wait and see what these releases are, but OpenSea will undoubtedly swing for the fences. For now, the team has confirmed that both historical and current trading activity, plus Voyages XP, will matter for the TGE. This means you should still receive $SEA even if you just use OpenSea casually without questing for points.

All that said, if you've got some NFT buys or sells you've been meaning to do, OS2 is prime territory at the moment!

Plus, other news this week...

📰 General news

• Gmoney is shuttering 9dcc, an onchain lifestyle platform
• Nouns launched Nouns Grants, a new grant-making engine
• Shape unveiled Builder Kit, a starter template for building NFT apps
  

🎨 Cryptoart

• archivist published a list of early onchain artworks published before Ethereum launched

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Claynosaurz launched its Popkins packs open mint
• Disney+ subscribers can now open collectible mystery capsules monthly via Dapper Labs
• Orange Cap Games acquired the Moonbirds, Mythics, and Oddities IP from Yuga Labs
• Rekt Drinks announced its Ship Rekt drop is coming to OpenSea

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Blob Arena completed its soft launch
• Echelon announced the Echelon Multipass NFT
• Eternum released advanced automation features
• Kamigotchi crossed +2 million mainnet transactions
• ScribbleDAO unveiled an Eternum Write-a-thon contest
• Treasure shut down its Treasure Chain L2

📱 Onchain social

• Coinbase Wallet added beta support for Farcaster mini apps
• Farcaster sold 10k Pro memberships in 6 hours
• Fountain released support for embeds
• Lens launched native $GHO payments on Lens Chain
• Phantom introduced social discovery features
• Rodeo launched its revamped Farcaster mini app
• Zora reached the top 100 social apps in the U.S.

🪙 Memes & NFTfi 

• GONDI debuted its first ERC-20 vaults
• Yapster updated its core gameplay system

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland is voting on adding a new Executive Arm to its DAO

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