Top NFT News of the Week
Spotify adds NFT functionality
Anthony Hopkins launches first NFT collection
Bored Ape #5383 sold for 777 ETH
Immutable X jumps Solana in daily NFT sales volume
The first federally chartered digital asset bank, Anchorage, is now the first U.S. bank to custody CryptoPunks, Bored Apes, & World of Women NFTs
Stats
OpenSea has done $355 million volume so far in August
Weekly Polygon NFT volume was over $902 million
SudoSwap goes over 10K ETH volume
NFT News
Bored Ape Yacht Club goes over 1 million Twitter followers
SuperPlastic drops vinyl Mutant Apes
Phantom launches NFT burning feature
NFL ALL DAY drops first pack and goes live
@DrifterShoots Bridging The Gap drops on Nifty Gateway
Nifty Gateway has big announcement coming September 1
Native listings are now live on the Pudgy Penguins Marketplace
Paradigm leads $20M round for Fractional as it rebrands to Tessera
The Hundreds drops Cool Cats merch
Pixel Vault introduces PRISM
emoji & RECUR announce NFT drop
@DrifterShoots drops Foreshadowing on SuperRare
World of Women shows off the WoWverse
The Sandbox Alpha Season 3 begins August 24
Gordon Ramsey announces Hells Kitchen is coming to The Sandbox
PROOF announces FuturePROOF Meetup in LA coming August 30
Boss Beauties signs with WME to go into film, TV, digital, and gaming
Blame Farokh trends on Twitter
Meditation on GM by @aylaelmoussa goes live
LooksRare is looking to hire 5 positions
Velatura by @ClaireSilver12 drops on Nifty Gateway
Tycho launches the Tycho Open Source Community
We Do A Little Podcast by Teressera releases open edition NFT
LooksRare has helped distribute over $65M in royalities to artists and creators to date
CryptoPunks IP rights agreement is now live
C0C0DAO goes live
Showtime releases new Free NFT view
ZAAP releases sneak peak of their first NFT collections
Gods Unchained Refer and Earn Program goes live
@rachstewart_nz drops Enchanted Visions on SuperRare
GameStopNFT releases wallet version 0.7.0
The NFT Finance Hackathon goes live
@0x_catherine releases XCOPY Dune Dashboard
NFTfi announces partnership with BootNode and Gnosis Safe
Sales of the Week
Bored Ape Kennel Club #8234 sold for 499,998 USDC
Otherdeed for Otherside #25415 w/ Koda #9919 sold for 183 ETH
Noun #411 sold for 76.28 ETH
Mutant Ape #11057 sold for 60 ETH
Where My Vans Go #44 by DrifterShoots sold for 46 ETH
External Gratification by Pop Wonder sold for 10.69 ETH
Articles and Threads
@punk6529 releases On Royalties
@Zeneca_33 releases Letter 30: Creator Royalties in NFTs
Redlion News releases Redlion Gazette #101
@WPeaster releases 85th Bankless Metaversal
The Milk Road releases deep dive on Decentral Games
@TheMetaFactory releases The State of Digital to Physical
@Cooopahtroopa releases This Week in Music NFTs
Vogue releases article on @gmoneyNFT’s experimental luxury label launch
@artblocks_io releases Meet the Art Blocks Curation Board
@andr3w releases Punk 7987 has landed. A thread on the journey
@corleonescrypto releases Everything you need to know about SudoSwap
Ocavu releases What are NFTs and why are they becoming a big part of NIL deals
@wardaddycapital releases deep dive on music NFTs and the web3 music eco for PROOF
Twitter Spaces
Grateful Show #34: Community Building w/ @GratefulApe_eth @beast_eth @Ape4249 @darko_eth @SwoleLuksoBags @MLeeJr @HizzyInc @EthShotGuy @Iam6ix @ThGoodKnight @LoroMasnah @tinoforbidden & myself
BAYC 1 Million Follower Community Celebration w/ @illaDaProducer & @TheMiamiApe
Rug Radio GM NFTs w/ @farokh @greatmando_nft @deezefi
Top Web3 Games to Play Right Now w/ @brycent_
ZenAcademy This Week In NFTs w/ @Zeneca_33 @DancingEddie_ & @The333Club
Podcasts
Full Send Podcast - Bored Ape Founders w/ @GordonGoner & @CryptoGarga
Overpriced JPEGs The Music Industry’s Downfall w/ @carlypreilly & @austin_hurwitz
Mint Where Big Data, DeFi, and NFTs Intersect w/ @levychain & @ASvanevik
NFT Catcher Episode 80 w/ @jennifer_sutto @NFTicket & @ScalyNelson
32 Dreams NFT World #14 w/ @BCheque1 & @Legendary_NFT
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