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OpenSea's winning over new users, Sorare raises $50M, CryptoPunks floor hits 21 ETH, & more!

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


Dear Bankless Nation,

“You down with NFTs?”

With the influx of mainstream attention, you might have a friend or even a few asking you about NFTs lately. That’s great! Welcome to the limelight, right!

These are powerful and revolutionary times, of course, but this space can also have a steep learning curve for beginners. Your stewardship, insights, and patience can have a real impact on helping these newcomers become valuable contributors to the NFT ecosystem for years to come!

That’s what it’s all about, at the end of the day: spreading the good word on NFTs and getting more people to directly benefit from them. We’re all something of teachers from here on out, accordingly.

-WMP


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🏆 Digital Collectibles

  • CryptoPunks saw incredible volume this week. In fact, over the last 7 days CryptoPunks experienced $42.6M worth of sales. Per NonFungible, that’s impressively over half the OG NFT project’s all-time volume to date, i.e. $83.8M!

  • Also, the CryptoPunks price floor is now ~21 ETH …

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Pixls @pixls_dot_eth
#cryptopunksfloorhistory Thursday Update: Larva Labs floor: 21.00Ξ 📉 122 punks for sale below 30Ξ (+28) larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/fo… OpenSea floor (Wrapped CryptoPunks): 32.00Ξ 😴 opensea.io/assets/wrapped… #CryptoPunks #CryptoPunk #NFT $ETH
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  • Museum of NFT Art curator Giannis Sourdis listed Proof of Beauty (POB) #541, a generative artwork representing the genesis CryptoKitties transaction, for 42 ETH on OpenSea.

  • Speaking of CryptoKitties, how do you actually value one? DappRadar just published a helpful primer.

  • The Chainfaces boomed over the past few days as an influx of collectors started diving into the on-chain collectibles project.

🎨 Cryptoart

  • The auction for Beeple’s EVERYDAYS — THE FIRST 5,000 DAYS NFT began through legendary auction-house Christie’s. At the time of writing, the standing bid was $2.2M with another two weeks to go!

  • Beeple also just saw his Nifty Gateway piece CROSSROAD sell for $6.6M to an anonymous collector!

  • The standing bid on FEWOCiOUS’s SuperRare piece The Innovator’s Dinner is 639 ETH ...

  • Dmitri Cherniak’s generative art series Ringers via Art Blocks has now seen +$1M in volume after launching less than a month ago. Earlier this week, I interviewed Cherniak for Metaversal to get his insights on the rise of Ringers. 

  • Artist Trevor Jones brought the boom to NiftyGateway yesterday, too …

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Trevor Jones 🎨 @trevorjonesart
$188,888 bids on #cubistsatoshi and #BitcoinAngel on @niftygateway auction!!! @Crypto888crypto What a battle!! 🤯🤯🤯
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🕹️ Blockchain Games

  • Axie Infinity published its February Dev Update report. Some highlights: the NFT game now has +20k daily active users and +30k Axie holders!

  • Global fantasy ⚽ game Sorare just raised $50M in a Series A funding round. The game also just partnered with NFT loot drop project NFTBoxes, meaning Feb. 2021 Box holders will each receive a Sorare player card!

🌐 Virtual Worlds

  • The WIP Meetup had another great cast of speakers this week, per usual!

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TheWIPmeetup.eth @theWIPmeetup
If there are any metanauts not at the WIP now, jump into discord.gg/nft! In addition to our speaker updates today, we're also doing some metaverse traveling to Arium. Check out that metaverse world with us with a simple click of the mouse: arium.events/spaces/tokensm…
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  • Layer-two (L2) wearables powered by Polygon (formerly Matic) have almost arrived in Cryptovoxels.

  • The CoinGecko team hosted a virtual meetup in Decentraland ...

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Matty @DCLBlogger
Virtual @coingecko Meetup in @decentraland - Listening to a conference - Talk to your homies - trade crypto/NFTs eventually - swap your crypto in a virtual bank There is so much experimentation that can be done here $MANA #MANA
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🛒 NFT Marketplaces

  • Entrepreneur and investor Justin Kan is auctioning off a series of YouTube videos on OpenSea. The bids are flowing in so far!

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OpenSea @opensea
Bid on one of @justinkan's video NFTs! 🔥 There are two kinds of videos: 1. Three one-of-one videos on auction to the highest bidder 2. Two one-of-many videos that will go to the top offers Winners chosen Tuesday, March 2 at 3pm ET. More info here: opensea.io/blog/guest-pos…
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Justin Kan @justinkan
Our NFT auction for my YouTube stories is live: https://t.co/RJrzCqxR9L You have until Tuesday at noon pst to put your bids in Bonus: if we sell out, I’ll give $10,000 in BTC to a random bidder. I expect this means someone not me will walk away with all the value generated here https://t.co/MQwFp74vVh
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  • Musician Shawn Mendes has partnered with Genies on an OpenSea drop.

  • Rapper Tyga released another NFT on Rarible. 

💎 DeFi x NFTs

  • Putting EulerBeats reserve ETH to use in Balancer V2 to earn print holders yield? Now there’s a thought …

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Block Enthusiast @BlockEnthusiast
So I'm thinking about @eulerbeats And I'm a DeFi guy. I don't like opportunity cost going to waste. The recent Balancer v2 launch has me excited. How can we maximize the unutilized capital in our bonding curves?!
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Balancer Labs @BalancerLabs
The Aave-Balancer Asset Manager takes idle tokens from a Balancer V2 pool and routes them to Aave to generate additional yield. Pools feature an 'invested amount' and a 'cash amount' to distinguish between which are earning yield, and which remain in the vault. https://t.co/8O8s1GS9Kr
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  • Decentralized trading platform Slingshot kicked off its “Race to Closed Beta” contest, with its top three performers earning NFT prizes.

  • The Graph held its first NFT Subgraph Community Call, where developers “building NFTs with The Graph discussed their projects, subgraphs, and how the community can keep improving the protocol to support NFTs”


Action Steps

  • Read “Cryptoart is going to eat traditional art” by Andrew Steinwold on Bankless.

  • Read my Tactics Tuesday write-up “How to get exposure to NFTs.”


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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.


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. I’ll always disclose when this is the case.


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