Metaversal Is Leveling Up 🧑🚀️
Weekly Roundup: Azuki’s AnimeChain, NFTfi Foundation, ERC-20 mints on Zora, & more!
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Dear Bankless Nation,
Over the next couple of months, I’ll be leveling up the Metaversal experience.
The first part of the revamp kicks off next Thursday, April 4th, when I’ll migrate the newsletter from Substack into Bankless.com.
At that point, your Substack subscription will evolve into a Bankless account, and you’ll start receiving Metaversal emails from team@bankless.com.
This aesthetic and technical rebrand will pave the way for me to start the 2nd phase of the revamp, introducing new types of content and new types of experiences around Metaversal, that I’ll activate in the weeks ahead.
The goal? Make this the best onchain culture newsletter in all of crypto!
I’m currently brainstorming new modules to roll out—e.g. “AI Advice,” “Farcaster Finds,” “Game of the Week,” “Metaverse Meets,” “NFT Tool Tips,” etc.—so if you have thoughts on things you’d like to see hit harder in this newsletter, I’m all ears at william@bankless.com.
It’ll be the same great Metaversal you know and love, just bigger and better, so be on the lookout for the start of the evolution next Thursday. In the meantime, let’s get you caught up on the past week in NFTs per usual! 👇
-WMP
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This week in NFTs…
📰 General news
Bello unveiled ENS-friendly searches.
Metaplex announced Core, a new optimized NFT standard for Solana.
Phantom added support for rare sats.
Wayfinder, the new omnichain AI agents tool, is deploying Command Prompt Key NFTs next week to kickstart its governance.
🎨 Cryptoart & music
Amber Vittoria dropped Moods on Highlight today.
BasePaint added support for minting on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Zora.
Rarible added support for Base.
Zora unveiled ERC-20 minting.
🏆 Digital collectibles
Azuki is partnering with Arbitrum to create AnimeChain.
Bitcoin Puppet #2332, arguably the most iconic of the collection, sold for 4.2069 BTC.
Bitcoin Puppets reached a new ATH floor of 0.31 BTC.
Nansen launched a Pudgy World dashboard.
Primitives, a new generative pixel art collection, launched on Base.
📱 Onchain social
Drakula intro’d the $DEGEN Onchain Creator Fund.
Phi announced Phi Protocol, a credential layer for onchain identity.
Privy added support for Farcaster.
🎮 Decentralized gaming
Axie Infinity updated the app.axie website.
Crypto: The Game has lined up custom challenges with Lens, Uniswap, and more for Season 2.
Del Complex intro’d Brain Worms, an onchain parasite game coming on Base.
MUD, an onchain framework for Autonomous Worlds, released its v2 system.
Parallel rolled out the Parallel Shop on Base.
Parallel Studios raised $35M in a new funding round.
🪙 NFTfi
Astaria reached $1M TVL.
Blast recovered $97M from the Munchables exploit.
Gondi facilitated a 600k USDC loan against Zombie ‘Punk #6784.
sartoshi unveiled a $mfer airdrop to the mfers ecosystem.
SquiggleDAO borrowed 1M USDC against 11 Chromie Squiggles on Zharta.
🌐 Virtual worlds
Decentraland kicked off the 5th annual Decentraland Art Week event.
Nifty Island unveiled its Play-to-Airdrop Wave 2.
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Author bio
William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time. He lives in Washington.
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