Everyone's watching NFT World 👀

2,000 ETH CryptoPunk sale, Dr. Disrespect discovers Decentraland, NFTX marketplace launches, & more!

Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles

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Dear Bankless Nation, 

U.S. congressional leaders debating Ethereum. Mainstream media outlets breathlessly covering this week’s OpenSea news. NFT drops becoming a regular occasion at Christie’s.

These are the times we find ourselves in.

We’re not the “David” in the David vs. Goliath equation anymore. We’re more like an as yet unknown, unprecedented, and ultra-creative chess superstar being underestimated by a tournament of uninspired grandmasters.

Well, that’s at least one way to put it — can chess virtuoso and Byte-Sized Ethereum host Alexandra Botez double check my analogy on that? 😄

Anyways, my grand point is that as NFT builders and Web3 dreamers our cue has arrived. What we do together and with each other in these times will echo through this century and beyond, I really believe that.  

Of course, many of us already do believe that. It’s the rest of the world that in many ways is still far behind and playing catch-up to what we’re doing here. So game faces then, ladies and gentlemen. This grand early tournament is just getting started, 

-WMP

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🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Collector Ser Shokunin acquired zombie CryptoPunk #8857 for 2,000 ETH 🧟‍♀️

Ser Shokunin @sershokunin

1/8 As my grandfather always said, “son, if you can't make friends, buy them.” (Thanks, everyone!) Seriously though, I’ve been quietly observing the community for the last couple weeks, and it’s been great seeing all the positivity and collaboration. A couple thoughts here:

• MoonCats are heading to Sotheby’s! The project’s builders also just launched “lootprints” for holders:

ponderware (MoonCats) @ponderware

Mint your lootprints (for MoonCats): mooncat.community/lootprints Bid on the unique Hero Silver lootprints (for MoonCats): opensea.io/collection/loo… Be sure to claim yours before October 24th~

🎨 Cryptoart

• A collector purchased Tyler Hobbs’s Fidenza #647 for 291 ETH ...

OpenSea Sniper @OpenSea_Sniper

📈 #0x179 bought Fidenza #647 - Art Blocks Curated by artblocks_io for $1.04M (~291.0 ETH) opensea.io/assets/0xa7d8d…

• Artist Monica Rizzolli released her generative series Fragments of an Infinite Field via Art Blocks. 

Art Blocks @artblocks_io

Join us today at 11AM CT/4PM UTC as @MonicaRizzolli unpauses their curated project, Fragments of an Infinite Field. Check out our chat with Monica here: beta.cent.co/artblocks/+6xp…

🎮 NFT Games

• NFT game Axie Infinity has crossed $2B in all-time NFT sales volume 🤯

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• In talking about how he’d create his own game with tradable assets, famous gamer Dr. Disrespect discovered Decentraland live on stream (more at the start of this clip, too) ...

BOBVILA69.ETH ❂ @bobvila69

@drdisrespect Just loaded up @decentraland live on stream! #nft #nfts #decentraland #metaverse

• Cryptovoxels just posted what’s set to be the last parcel listings for the world’s new Miami district. 

🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• OpenSea has updated its employee information use policies.

• Crypto tax service TokenTax now offers full historical support for the BAYC mint. Cheers to aping responsibly! 🦍

TokenTax @TokenTax

We now have full historical support for the @BoredApeYC mint!! Just enter your ETH address and your mint transactions will pull into your account. This will help with setting the original cost basis if you took place in the original mint.

• Genie is going to let users sort through all NFT markets within a single UI.

• It looks like Yearn founder Andre Cronje is working on a cross-chain NFT Router service. 

• NFT social network Showtime now supports minting via Polygon. 

💎 DeFi x NFTs

• NFTX introduced its new decentralized NFT marketplace system.

• Uniswap diving deeper into NFT world? It could happen!

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Action step

• 🏬 Read “Going to the NFT Store” by Metaversal

• 🤯 Read “Nouns 101: Inside the grand NFT avatar experiment” by Metaversal

• 📺 Watch “Gimme the Loot | Loot Panel” by Bankless

• 📺 Watch “The world’s greatest NFT portfolio | DC Investor” by Bankless

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