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OpenSea Seaport nears

Also Foundation opens, Lens is live, a16z’s new GameFi fund, & more!

William M. Peaster
May 20, 2022
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Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles


Dear Bankless Nation, 

This week was full of big NFT developments. The one I’m watching closest right now? OpenSea’s deployment of a new “Seaport” marketplace system on Ethereum:

Twitter avatar for @shegenerates
Shegen @shegenerates
Looks like the address tagged as 'OpenSea Deployer' on etherescan just made an entirely new marketplace contract. Maybe the new version of wyvern we've been waiting for? etherscan.io/address/0x0000…
4:21 PM ∙ May 20, 2022
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Details are scarce currently, though a two-week Code4rena audit contest that starts today notes the marketplace will be focused on “safely and efficiently creating and fulfilling orders for ERC721 and ERC1155 items.”

I’m not a developer, but a quick review of the Seaport smart contract suggests to me it’ll allow for the creation of zones, or seaports if you will, for fostering customized NFT markets. 

We’ll know more soon, but with OpenSea at the helm it’s likely Seaport will prove to be very consequential to the NFT ecosystem going forward. In the meantime, get caught up on the rest of this week’s action below, thanks kindly for reading, and have a great weekend! 

-WMP

P.S. A few minutes after this post went live, OpenSea officially announced Seaport. So now we know more!


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🛒 NFT News & Platforms

  • Coinbase unveiled a new dapp wallet and dapp browser system.

  • The Bueno Generator, a no-code tool for creating PFP collections, is now available to everyone; an associated no-code smart contract deployer is on the way, too. 

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bueno @buenonft
The time has come… The Bueno Generator is now available for everyone 👀🖤 Create your own NFT collection without writing a single line of code →nft.bueno.art
5:52 PM ∙ May 18, 2022
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  • Foundation is now open to all creators. 

  • Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph, launched on Polygon. 

  • Linktree adds NFT features in collaboration with OpenSea.

  • MEE6, a Discord moderation bot, was temporarily compromised by an employee account, which led to multiple major NFT projects having their Discord servers hacked. 

  • Zora introduced Editions to its creator toolkit:

Twitter avatar for @ourZORA
ZORA @ourZORA
Introducing the first contract type available on ZORA’s creator toolkit. ~ Editions ~ Bring your imagination. We’ll cover the rest. ↳create.zora.co
7:30 PM ∙ May 19, 2022
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🏆 Digital Collectibles

  • Chimpers (allowlist) minting begins today.

  • ChainFaces HD minting also kicked off this week.

  • Nouns DAO unveiled Prop House V2, which extends funding auctions to other NFT communities:

Twitter avatar for @cryptoseneca
seneca ⌐◨-◨ @cryptoseneca
today we're launching @nounsprophouse v2: independent houses. in order to scale @nounsdao ecosystem funding, prop house is expanding beyond its immediate vicinity by plugging into the crypto native social graph: ERC721s. read more: nouni.sh/8t35zq839c
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3:32 PM ∙ May 19, 2022
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🎨 NFT art

  • Cory Van Lew and other artists reveal difficulties they’ve faced in receiving payments from Sotheby’s for NFT auctions they participated in last year. 

  • jmw327, a popular pixel artist, made x4 their annual salary by auctioning Corner on Foundation:

Twitter avatar for @jmw327
jmw327 @jmw327
Check out this NFT by @jmw327 on @foundation! 🌐 foundation.app/@jmw327/pixels…
foundation.appCorner | Foundationa little corner of town
7:01 PM ∙ May 17, 2022
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  • Shunsuke Takawo began his Tiny Sketches NFT collection:

Twitter avatar for @neort_io
NEORT @neort_io
Takawo's TinySketches original NFTs are now on sale! They are 240 editions in total and 60 NFTs available every week! tinysketches.neort.io/nft #tinysketches #NFT
Takawo's TinySketches original NFTs are now on sale! 
They are 240 editions in total and 60 NFTs available every week!
2:01 PM ∙ May 16, 2022
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🎮 NFT Gaming

  • a16z announced a new $600M GameFi fund. 

  • Axie Infinity announced AxieCon: Barcelona, which will run from September 7th through September 10th later this year:

Twitter avatar for @AxieInfinity
Axie Infinity🦇🔊 @AxieInfinity
1/ AxieCon: Barcelona 🇪🇸 A nation gathers September 7 - 10 Waitlist registration: axiecon.axieinfinity.com
1:15 PM ∙ May 18, 2022
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💽 Music

  • Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs - May 16th.

🌐 Virtual Worlds

  • Voxels (formerly Cryptovoxels) started rolling out its $FOLKS airdrop.

  • Decentraland is stabilizing its wearable publication fee at $500 USD rather than 500 $MANA. 

  • Justin McAfee, a researcher with 1kx, published “Virtual Beings: a New Internative-Native Medium for Storytelling.”

  • Wassieverse will arrive next month. 

  • Webaverse kicked off a partnership with Tubby Cats.

💎 DeFi x NFTs

  • Slingshot, a web3 trading platform, unveiled a mobile app with a referral program that offers NFT rewards. 

  • Argent added L2 support for the $JPG index token.


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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, JPG, and beyond!


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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.


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