Non-fungible trendsetters

Budweiser nabs a Noun, OpenSea acquires Dharma, Gem launches, & more!

---

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

---

Dear Bankless Nation, 

Twitter. Meta and Instagram. Walmart. The world’s biggest brands are starting to move into NFTs in big ways. 

These sorts of major pivots are inevitable as NFTs continue to make serious inroads into the mainstream. 

Yet at the same time, let’s never ever forget how we got here. And that’s by innovating for ourselves grassroots style with DIY decentralized infrastructure. Infra that for many has provided direct avenues of escape from the various suffocations of corporate hegemonies.

So yeah, us NFTers are cultural trendsetters, and the rest of the world’s just now catching up. We’re not crusading to make everyone use NFTs; rather, in the not so distant future it’ll just be silly not to.

-WMP

---

🙏 Sponsor: Unstoppable Domains - Your name, universal wallet address, and login for web3.

---

🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• OpenSea acquired Dharma. 

• POAP: the creators of the popular NFT badge system raised $10M. 

• StockX, an online marketplace and clothes reseller, added support for a NFT Vault system. 

• Statista: a new study indicates women “make up almost half of NFT ownership across all age ranges.” 

• Zora holds its first Zorb community vote. 

🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Nouns are going to the Super Bowl! Budweiser acquired beer-headed Noun 179 per Nouns DAO Prop 33 and made it the profile pic of the Bud Light Twitter account.

  Nouns ⌐◨-◨ @nounsdao

  Noun 179 was acquired by the Nouns Foundation for the 'prominent beverage company' specified in prop 33. Foundation participation in the daily auction was related to the special circumstances of the partnership, and the 127 ETH will be refunded via proposal at the DAOs discretion

  

• CrypToadz now has a community grants program, kicked off with a 40 ETH allocation.

• CryptoBatz sold out in rapid fashion.

• Cool Pets, the Cool Cats expansion collection, will have a mint price of 0.5 ETH.

🎨 Cryptoart

• Sarah Zucker released the Promethea collection on Nifty Gateway. 

Nifty Gateway @niftygateway

Now LIVE on #NiftyGateway 💅 Promethea by @thesarahshow Ranked auctions 👉 nfty.pub/promethea Open Editon 👉 nfty.pub/promethea-oe (starting at 7:00 PM ET) Good luck to everyone! 🤝

• Circular Art, a generative art platform on the Optimism L2, launched the Octavas collection.

Circular Art @Circular_Art

Mint is Live Get an Octavas @ circularart.xyz/Octavas

🎮 NFT Games

• Axie Infinity rolled out a new Builders Program. The leading NFT game also just unveiled its Axie Releasing mechanic and said a RON launch date has been set. 

  Axie Infinity🦇🔊 @AxieInfinity

  🛠️ We've received over 1300 applications for the Builders Program! Only a few will be chosen in the initial batch. Lots of competition 🔥 axie.substack.com/p/axie-infinit…

  

  axie.substack.comAxie Infinity Builders Program!Today, we take an important step in our mission to build Axie alongside the community. We’re excited to announce the launch of the Axie Infinity Builders Program! Through this initial experiment, we want to provide resources, promotion, support, and tools for community developers to continue buildin…

• Chainfaces Arena has now seen +1,600 rounds!

💽 Music

• Layer Zero: this week Bankless co-host David Hoffman interviewed Jonathan Mann, a.k.a. Song-A-Day-Man.

• sound.xyz: the platform’s first 25 releases have all sold out within one minute flat!

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• NFTBank.ai now tracks Cryptovoxels parcels in its mobile app.

• Decentraland rolled out a new My Store marketplace section.

• The Sandbox launched a dedicated Twitter account for The Sandbox Marketplace.

• EnterDAO’s land renting marketplace is live.

💎 DeFi x NFTs

• Abracadabra.money introduces NFT peer-to-peer loan service. 

• Gem, a super efficient NFT marketplace aggregator, is now live.

• NFTX launches inventory staking! Now you can earn yields on the platform while avoiding the risk of impermanent loss (IL). 

• Vesper Earn: a new Vesper opp will let you earn yield on your DAI in the form of NFTX PUNK tokens. 

Vesper Finance @VesperFi

Want exposure to Crypto Punks but don't know where to start? Coming soon to Vesper Earn: Deposit DAI, earn PUNK. $PUNK $DAI #CryptoPunks #DeFi @larvalabs @NFTX_

---

Action steps

• Read A quick guide to Treasure by Metaversal

• Read On NFT maximalism by Metaversal

• Read How to get paid to learn about crypto by Bankless

---

Author Bio

William M. Peaster is a professional writer and creator of Metaversal—a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, DeFi Pulse, JPG, and beyond!

---

Subscribe to Bankless. $22 per mo. Includes archive access, Inner Circle & Badge.

---

🙏Thanks to our sponsor

UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS

Unstoppable Domains is The #1 provider of NFT domains. With endings like .crypto, .x and .nft you can replace your long complex wallet addresses, verify ownership of your NFTs, login into web3 apps and join 10’s of thousands of people using them as their Twitter usernames. Better yet, with Unstoppable domains you don't have to worry about gas or renewal fees, YOU OWN IT.

👉 Get your name for as low as $5 here.

👉 Head to Unstoppabledomains.com

👉 Buy your own web3 Username

👉 Show it off!

---

Not financial or tax advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This newsletter is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

---

Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here.