Unstoppable Magical NFTs 🧚‍♀️

Loot takes over, BAYC launches MAYC, Cool Cats companions coming, & lots more!

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

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Dear Bankless Nation, 

This week was all about Loot in the NFT ecosystem. 

These “randomized adventurer gear” NFTs pave the way to seemingly endless Web3 possibilities around games and the metaverse, so they’ve captured the imaginations of more than a few Ethereum users in rapid fashion.

An example of a Loot bag.

Still catching up? Bankless has your back! Get up to speed with all our Loot coverage from the past few days:

• Loot Explained 💫

• The Metaverse Emerges

• Bankless Weekly Rollup Sept. 3rd

Beyond Loot’s quick ascension there were plenty of other big NFT happenings this week, so let’s explore the highlights per usual ⬇️

-WMP

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🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Zombie CryptoPunk #2066 sold for 1890 ETH via Fractional 🧟‍♀️

eric.eth @econoar

CryptoPunk #2066 just sold for 1890 ETH at auction on @fractional_art.

larvalabs.comCryptoPunks: Details for Punk #2066CryptoPunks are 10,000 collectible characters on the Ethereum blockchain. These are the details for Punk #2066

• Two huge Bored Ape Yacht Club acquisitions this week: “Solid Gold” Bored Ape #7090 for 600 ETH and Bored Ape #8135 for 500.888 ETH. 

• Speaking of BAYC, the project just launched the Mutant Ape Yacht Club expansion. See what the buzz is all about in my recent Metaversal write-up!

William M. Peaster 🦇🔊 @WPeaster

Over the weekend @BoredApeYC launched Mutant Apes, leading to a fun NFT mutation frenzy. Still catching up? Look no further! Let's talk: -20k new possible Mutant Apes -M1, M2, M3 mutant serums -BAYC Roadmap 2.0 -Hollywood future? & more! ⬇️

metaversal.banklesshq.comBored Ape Mutation Madness! ⚗️BAYC introduces Mutant Apes, leading to a fun NFT mutation frenzy!

• Cool Cats has companions and an ERC-20 utility token, $MILK, in the works.

Cool Cats 🆒🐱 @coolcatsnft

I wonder what’s inside?

🎨 Cryptoart

• We’ve got a sneak peek at some of the Art Blocks pieces coming to Christie’s next month ...

Noah Davis @NonFungibleNoah

@artblocks_io Curated 1, 2, 3. Full sets. One lot. @ChristiesInc New York October 1 after Curio Cards

• Artist Anna Carreras released her generative art series Trossets through Art Blocks Curated today!

Anna Carreras @carreras_anna

GM

🎮 NFT Games

• Check out Coinbase’s new write-up “Axie Infinity, Yield Guild Games & the play-to-earn economy.”

• SorareData, an analytics service for players of global fantasy ⚽ game Sorare, just raised $700k in pre-seed funding. 

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• Yearn Finance issued a grant to Atlantis World to help the project continue to build out its 2D pixelated virtual world.

yearn.finance @iearnfinance

Yearn Finance has issued a grant to @atlantis0x to help build a 2d pixel metaverse. Here's why:

• Cryptovoxels is working on “instant, in-world shopping” of wearables. 

🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• Prolific pseudonymous NFT collector Vincent Van Dough is teaming up with Three Arrows Capital to launch an NFT fund, Starry Night Capital. 

• NFT marketplace OpenSea facilitated +$3B worth of trading volume in Aug. 2021!

• Larva Labs signed with Universal Talent Agency, paving the way for CryptoPunks and Meebits to appear in movies, games, and beyond. 

• Meet Floor Perpetuals, a new derivative that tracks the floor price of a given NFT collection. 

• Zora launched APES.HOUSE, a permissionless auction house system for BAYC. 

ZORA @ourZORA

Does Sotheby’s have partybid? Apes are in da house 🐒🐒🐒 APES.HOUSE A permissionless auction house for @BoredApeYC ↳ List for reserve-timed auctions ↳ List without worrying about floor price ↳ Bid knowing that an auction will finalize ↳ Partybid (@prtyDAO)

💎 DeFi x NFTs

• PleasrDAO fractionalized the Doge NFT into $DOG via Fractional. 

✨ PleasrDAOGE 🐶🎥 @PleasrDAO

doge.pleasr.org discord.gg/MS23fgTB blog: pleasr.mirror.xyz/7hpdJOWRzQx2pm…

• NFTX core contributor 0xChop proposed that Rari Capital create a new Fuse pool using $PUNK and $GLYPH.

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Action steps

• 💻 Read “How to use your .com as an ETH address” in Bankless

• 💬 Join the Metaversal Telegram channel, where I publicly compile news highlights for my weekly Friday recaps. Last week I pinged the chat about Loot just 2 hours after the project launched! 👀

  

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