Top NFT News of the Week
Starbucks unveils Odyssey NFT rewards program on Polygon
Doodles raises $54M at a $704M valuation
$70 million of art from MoMA will be sold this fall to fund the museum’s new push into digital
Yuga Labs rumored to launch a new NFT collection called Mecha Apes
Epic Games launches first NFT game, Blankos Block Party
Stats
Ethereum NFTs go green after the Merge
Gaming VC funding is up 66% the last month
Weekly OpenSea trading volumes continue downtrend while Sudoswap rises
NFT News
Yuga Labs trademarks MetaRPG
NFT mints on Solana surge to ATH
Rarible is now live on Immutable X
TIME releases their first NFT Issue in Full
Bored Ape Metaverse Band taps Beyonce and Bruno Mars producers
RELICS announces a $1.1M round co-led by Coop Records and Palm Tree Crypto
OpenSea says they believe in a future where people can engage with NFTs across more chains, geographies, and verticals
Magic Eden introduces MetaShield
PROOF revamps their website
Chimpers announces CHIMP RUN
Doodles and Floor announce partnership
Stateful Works New Home of the Heart Merge NFTs drop
Mutant Cartel releases new information about The Hideout
Cool Cats pre-orders for 2022 limited edition Cool Cats sweaters go live
OpenSea announces collab with Curio Tools, Icy Tools, and PROOF to develop OpenRarity
Cool Cats Cool Comics are coming 9/21
OpenSea releases update to their homepage
@Jen_Stark’s art was spotted at the Miami International Airport
@Raskalov announces the first ever edition by Ontheroofs goes live
Tyler Hobbs does Twitter takeover of IN OUR CODE’s account about Fidenzas
Curated welcomes XCOPY’s The Death of Cash to their Curated Collection
XCOPY’s Departed sold for $500,000 at the Sothebys Max Stealth Auction
Mona introduces Mona Explore
@GuidoDisalle drops Love to Hate PoW
ZORA introduces Allowlist for Creator Toolkit
Polygon partners with Web 3 Game Studio Revolving Games
MUMBOT will be releasing 100 GHOSTS on Coinbase NFT 10/28
@jenkinsthevalet open sources 2 licenses used to license 4075 Apes/Mutants for Bored & Dangerous
Tessera announces Nounlets
Nansen introduces the Nansen Research Portal
@amber_vittoria announces pre-order of These Are My Big Girl Pants Book
@thehateart announces The Kiss of Styx Cocktail will be released soon
Flash Minting is now available for the JPG NFT Index
Mint Square announces Stark Monsterz will be minting on their launchpad
Decentral Games introduces the ICE Poker Loyalty Rewards Program
@RaviVora releases Emergence Of Nowhere on SuperRare
BoredJobs announces PLAN, the free Product Licensing Agreement for NFTs
Sales of the Week
CryptoPunk #4713 sold for 240 ETH
Otherdeed for Otherside #90295 sold for 190 ETH
Bored Ape #8893 sold for 101 ETH
CLONEX #8259 sold for 100.69 ETH
Articles and Threads
@alpha_pls releases The Starbucks Odyssey & Polygon announcement is quite significant
OpenSea releases Why We Don’t Mind the Dip(s)
@redlion_news releases Gazette 105
@WPeaster releases the 89th Bankless Metaversal
@BCheque1 releases Paper 34: Insider Trading
@forefront__ releases Newsletter Edition 105
Decrypt releases Pplpleasr, UnicornDAO, and TIME’s presidents weight in on NFTs
@punk6529 releases thread about 6529 Meme Cards
@collectivexyz releases The Future of Moonbirds and PROOF
@GuildOfGuardian releases How To Build A Sustainable Game Economy
@FastCompany releases Doodles Domination: How a 1 year old NFT project turned into the next big thing
@jubbishjay releases My art on Superrare so far, and a short little thread about what it means to me
Twitter Spaces
Grateful Show #45 w/ @GratefulApe_eth @beast_eth @Ape4249 @tinoforbidden @TimpersHD @NFT1nsight & PunkHot10
Podcasts
Overpriced JPEGs NFT Toy Universe w/ @carlypreilly & @wilweinraub
Rug Radio NFTs Beyond The Floor Episode 10 w/ @TheNFT101
NFT Catcher Episode 89 Art, Basketball, & NFTs w/ @jennifer_sutto @NFTicket & @ROSGO21
32 Dreams NFT World #17 w/ @Bcheque1 & @Legendary_NFT
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