Farcaster, which I wrote about a few days ago, is becoming a really interesting hub for NFT activity.

And since the Farcaster scene is so early, some of the first NFTs minted around it have understandably mooned in value as excitement here is growing.

The social media experience on Farcaster is great, and it’s worth switching over on that basis alone, but for us NFT adventurers it’s also time to pay closer attention because Farcaster minting opps are becoming a new meta.

The idea? Put yourself in the right place at the right time, and you may just mint some gems.

That said, make sure you signup if you haven’t already. In the meantime, let’s get you caught up on the past week in NFTs with this latest news roundup!

This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• BEANSDAO launched its first auction.
• Emblem Vault unveiled its crosschain launchpad.
• ENS added support for gasless DNSSEC.
• Magic Eden intro’d the Magic Eden Wallet and its Retro Diamond Drop.
• Mirror added support for Polygon mints.
• OpenSea has hosted the creation of +100k embedded wallets.
• Paragraph rolled out a scheduled sends feature.
• Vaporware is launching Ships, a cloud computing system facilitated by NFTs.

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Art Blocks acquired the Sansa marketplace.
• BrainDrops hosted the release of the latest Claire Silver corpo | real collection.
• Catalog launched Catalog Radio.
• SHL0MS auctioned their new 404 series.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Polygon proposed building ApeChain for ApeCoin DAO.
• Pudgy Penguins unveiled the beta launch of Overpass, an IP licensing marketplace.
• Quantum Cats postponed their mint to Feb. 5th.

📱 Onchain social

• Farcaster rolled out free signups for U.S. users and beyond.
• Privy launched a Farcaster integration.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Aavegotchi is hosting Rd. 2 of the Gotchi Battler Tournament on Feb. 5th.
• Axie Infinity kicked off its Origins S7 Epic Era.
• CyberKongz is migrating its Play & Kollect game to Ronin this month.
• Fren Pet is launching FP WorldChain on Feb. 9th.
• GG intro’d its SocialFi hunting game.
• Immutable launched early access for the Immutable zkEVM.
• Optimism proposed the migration of Treasure to the Superchain.
• Parallel started its Season 1 gameplay.
• Treasure plans to stay in the Arbitrum ecosystem.

🪙 NFTfi

• Arcade facilitated its first CryptoPunk721 loan.
• Blast welcomed GambleFi platform Sweet.GG.
• NFTfi.com intro’d support for refinancing.
• nftperp.xyz received a grant from the Arbitrum Foundation.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland published its 2024 Manifesto.
• Nifty Island kicked off its first official quest in collab with the Forgotten Runes community.