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

Dear Bankless Nation, 

When I was researching and writing on the NFT site builder Artiva this week, I was reminded once again how the project and other awesome resources like Zora, Manifold, and Mirror are game changers for independent creators and collectives. 

Of course, the NFT ecosystem is still young and there are many more innovations, improvements, and tools to come. Yet if we look around at what’s already here, it’s very empowering and impressive.

With all that in mind, consider trying that NFT idea you’ve been sitting on. Lean toward experimenting and testing and learning. “Do it yourself” NFT infra has never been easier to navigate, so make the most of this moment! 

As always thanks for reading everyone, be well and stay creative ✌️

-WMP

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🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• Foundation rolled out a big upgrade with new features.

• Gem is now integrated with LooksRare and also now supports searching for any ArtBlocks or OpenSea Storefront collections.

• Limewire, the former file-sharing website, is relaunching as an NFT marketplace.

• Manifold unveiled HODLer Snapshots, an airdrop system for snapshotting and airdropping tokens to collectors.

• Stripe launched support for NFT sales and released an open-edition commemorative NFT collection on Nifty Gateway:

edwin @edwinwee

Stripe now supports NFT sales—and we're doing a drop of our very own today! 🄲🅄🄱🄴 🅃🄷🄸🄽🄶🄸🄴🅂 An open edition NFT drop presented by @stripe and @niftygateway. All proceeds benefit healthcare nonprofit @watsi. 6:30–8:30 PM ET: niftygateway.com/collections/cu….

4:01 PM ∙ Mar 10, 2022

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🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Bored Ape Yacht Club matches its community members by donating $1M worth of ETH to the Ukraine Crypto Donation address.

• Argent is gifting out a Tubby Cat to raise awareness about its new Layer 2 accounts rollout. 

• Finiliar: check out my new write-up on the up-and-coming NFT collection that’s going to pet-ify crypto price action:

finiliar @finiliar

Check finiliar out in this @BanklessHQ article! H/t @WPeaster

metaversal.banklesshq.comDiscover new NFTs: FiniliarExploring Finiliar, a fun up-and-coming NFT project!

10:13 PM ∙ Mar 8, 2022

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🎨 Cryptoart

• SHL0MS opened $CAR claims and sent ETH to all $CAR winners to cover the claiming costs:

𒐪𒐪𒐪 𒐪𒐪𒐪 𒐪𒐪𒐪 𒐪𒐪𒐪 𒐪𒐪𒐪 𒐪𒐪𒐪 @SHL0MS

1/3 excited to announce that the $CAR claim is now live!!! we've sent all winners .025 ETH to cover gas ❕pieces will mint immediately, but metadata will reveal at close of the claim period or when all have been claimed❕ 🏎️💥🏎️💥🏎️💥 car.shl0ms.com/app 💥🏎️💥🏎️💥🏎️

car.shl0ms.com$CARboom

12:49 AM ∙ Mar 9, 2022

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• Coldie was this week’s guest curator for SuperRare:

SuperRare 💎 @SuperRare

Award-winning mixed media artist, @Coldie, is this week’s SuperRare Guest Curator 💎 editorial.superrare.com/2022/03/08/wee… Featuring artwork by: @lunaikuta, @Moxarra, @omentejovem, @Mad_Dog_Jones, @Fran_nubes, @MattyFurious, @hillel_art, @MattiaC, @XCOPYART, and @VanArman

2:00 AM ∙ Mar 9, 2022

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🎮 NFT Games

• Axie Infinity published a sneak peek of Origin mouth cards:

Axie Infinity🦇🔊 @AxieInfinity

👄👄👄Today we have our next Origin sneak peek: the mouth cards! We loved the theory-crafting you all have been putting out and it definitely informed some of our testing & team-building over the weekend 🤝 👇 axie.substack.com/p/origin-sneak…

3:09 PM ∙ Mar 8, 2022

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• The Crypt Game just launched a dungeon raid event for mLoot holders.

• Corruption(s*) and Blitmap community members have entered into a Discord crossover experiment that is “laying the foundation for a multiplayer game.”

• Coin Artist: this week David Hoffman interviewed Marguerite deCourcelle, a.k.a. Coin Artist, about her work at Blockade Games for the Layer Zero podcast. 

• CyberKongz integrated Chainlink’s Verifiable Random Function (VRF) on Polygon to randomize in-game features in the project’s upcoming Play & Kollect game.

💽 Music

• Sound is hosting a Sound Series event at SXSW.

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• Cryptovoxels listed parcels in the Milky Way neighborhood. 

• The Vogu Collective has arrived in Decentraland:

Decentraland @decentraland

Incoming transmission: The Vogu Collective has "landed" in decentraland! Find out what this means and more in the coming days from the official @the_vogu account!

6:00 PM ∙ Mar 5, 2022

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💎 DeFi x NFTs

NFTX highlighted how its vault tokens are used in the new Scalara NFT Index:

NFTX 🦧🕳 @NFTX_

We recently saw $NFTI launched by @Scalara_xyz, the NFT Index composed out of NFTX xTokens such as $PUNK 🤝 Read how it works in this blog post and how to acquire a position using @SlingshotCrypto! blog.nftx.io/nftx-tokens-us…

blog.nftx.ioNFTX Tokens used in the Scalara NFT IndexInvesting in an index that holds popular NFTs is now possible with the Scalara NFT Index and the help of NFTX tokens!

11:17 AM ∙ Mar 10, 2022

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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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