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Pre-Merge NFTs 🔍

Chromie Squiggle prints, Mirror subscriptions, Webaverse mint nears, & more!

William M. Peaster
Jul 29, 2022
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Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles


Dear Bankless Nation, 

Ethereum is on pace to undergo “The Merge” in September 2022. 

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Crypto-Gucci.eth ᵍᵐ🦇🔊 @CryptoGucci
Ethereum devs finalize Goerli Merge details! Goerli will be the final testnet before the Merge and will transition between August 6th- 12th Make sure your nodes are up to date! The Merge is coming 🔜🐼 blog.ethereum.org/2022/07/27/goe…
blog.ethereum.orgGoerli/Prater Merge AnnouncementFor the last testnet proof-of-stake transition, Goerli will merge with Prater. The combined Goerli/Prater network will retain the Goerli name post-merge. Bellatrix, the Prater upgrade readying it for The Merge will happen at epoch 112260, expected at 12:24PM UTC on August 4, 2022. After Bellatrix is…
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This will be Ethereum’s biggest upgrade to date and will shift the leading smart contract network to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. 

Over time, this evolution will be a gamechanger for Ethereum in multiple ways, especially with regard to efficiency and security. But the advance will also cleave our perceptions of Ethereum into two eras: pre-Merge and post-Merge. 

You know what that means — the “Historical NFT” category is about to get a new sub-category, i.e. pre-Merge. And while it may take years for this distinction to really set in, right now you have a chance to collect such NFTs before everyone else wakes up to the history of digital collectibles.

Maybe in 10 years and beyond these pre-Merge NFTs will be celebrated as having come from a legendary time. In the very least, I think we’ll see this thesis more and more in the coming years. For now, though, plan how you see fit and have a great weekend ⁠— thanks kindly for reading ✌️

-WMP


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🛒 General NFT News

  • Mirror, a web3 publishing dapp, unveiled a subscriptions functionality.

  • Optimism launched a Get Started onboarding quest that rewards everyone who finishes with an NFT. 

  • Rainbow rolled out support for L2 NFTs:

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Rainbow @rainbowdotme
Rainbow now supports NFTs on Mainnet, @0xPolygon, @arbitrum and @optimismFND.  Thank you @Treasure_DAO for the gift <3 @smolverse @toadstoolzNFT
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🏆 Collectibles

  • Nick Tomaino bought iconic ape CryptoPunk #4156 for 2.69k ETH:

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Nick Tomaino @NTmoney
Recently bought Cryptopunk #4156 for $3.31M Here’s why:
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4:01 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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  • VeeFriends closed a seed round from a16z crypto. 

🎨 Art

  • Fingerprints, a blockchain art collector group, became the largest holder of Mutant Garden Seeders by artist Harm van den Dorpel:

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Fingerprints @FingerprintsDAO
We’re thrilled to announce that we are now the largest collector of Mutant Garden Seeder by @harmvddorpel. Having just acquired 14 more pieces, we now hold 25 mutants. These new pieces also mean we now have a full set of every possible mutation frequency from the project. 1/
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3:35 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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  • Infinite Objects unveiled authenticated physical prints for Chromie Squiggle holders. 

  • shl0ms minted DAVINC‧I on Foundation:

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𒐪 @SHL0MS
𝙳𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙽𝙲‧𝙸 𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎. ͏ ͏ ͏ foundation.app/@shl0ms/shl0ms…
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12:14 AM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
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  • XCOPY minted God is typing… on SuperRare, after which the piece promptly sold for +256.5 ETH:

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XCOPY 🏴 @XCOPYART
God is typing ... @SuperRare 💎
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  • Zien, a WhatsApp digital art institution focused on NFTs, published its introduction. 

🎮 NFT Gaming

  • Axie Infinity rounded out the first season of its Origin Alpha:

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Axie Infinity🦇🔊 @AxieInfinity
The Origin Alpha Season has concluded! This month, Origin showed its true potential as a competitive and immersive card battler. Origin DAU increased 263.636% from the beginning of the season, while downloads spiked and averaged around 3,000 per day for the period.
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  • Aavegotchi launched Season 4 of its Rarity Farming play-to-earn system.

  • Noun Esports is holding a Dota 2 art contest. 

  • Yield Guild Games (YGG) published a retrospective report on the organization’s first year. 

💽 Music

  • Arpeggi unveiled its first Sound Puzzle campaign. 

  • Audius, a decentralized music streaming platform, published a post-mortem in the wake of a recent governance attack. 

🌐 Virtual Worlds

  • Decentraland announced its entry to The Open Metaverse Alliance. 

  • Robotos launched its Robopolis Microverse experience. 

  • Webaverse is conducting its public mint on August 3rd, 2022, with prices starting at 0.2 ETH per NFT. 

💎 DeFi x NFTs

  • Abacus, an NFT pricing protocol, released a primer on its spot pools system. 

  • Botto and SuperRare DAO agreed on a token swap.


Action steps

  • 📺 Watch interviews with Roundtable anchor Rob Nelson and Devotion co-founder Andrew Wang on Overpriced JPEGs

  • 📺 Watch interviews with Metalabel co-founder Yancey Strickler and Toucan Protocol founder Raphaël Haupt on Green Pill

  • 🧐 Catch up on my other write-ups from this week: 

    • 🤖 NFTs in the Microverse

    • 🔩 Defending NFTs with Gnosis Safe

    • 🏄 How to surf web3 like a pro


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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DabDragon
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Aug 1, 2022

This is Dabtastic News

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Raul Antonio
Jul 31, 2022

cant wait for the webaverse mint

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