Top NFT News of the Week
nfts.com domain acquired for $15 million
NFTs go live on Instagram
Tiffany and Company announce CryptoPunk Pendants and custom NFTs for 30 ETH
Magic Eden adds support for Ethereum NFTs
Pearson, the largest book publisher in the world, is looking to incorporate NFT textbooks
Stats
OpenSea has done $103 million volume so far in August
CryptoPunks had the highest volume on OpenSea this week
NFTfi has near record high ETH volume for the month of July
NFT News
Ticketmaster puts out job ad for a Senior Product Manager for NFT integrations
Prada announces TimeCapsule NFT
CryptoPunk #7804 was listed for 9,420.69 ETH
XCOPY is applying CC0 to all existing art
Gucci is now accepting ApeCoin payments for in-store purchases
TAG Heuer announces you can now buy watches with ApeCoin
MetaMask, TrustWallet, and Coinbase Wallet can now be connected on Magic Eden
Mark Zuckerberg to mint an NFT of his old little league baseball card to celebrate Instagram’s NFT feature
The Today Show explores What is the Metaverse
Meebits announces the Meebitaverse
@killeracid drops Hoop Dreams on a wooden panel
The Meridian Book by @mattdesl is available for pre-order
MTV Video Music Awards adds Best Metaverse Performance Category
Yuga Labs is getting ready to ship mobile game competition prizes
Kevin Rose announces Moonbirds and Oddities are moving to CC0 public license
Starbucks is rolling out an NFT loyalty program soon
NFTfi surpasses 15,000 loans
Major League Soccer signs Bored Ape NFT as an athlete
@cathsimard_ is dropping new NFTs on Nifty Gateway today
Deca announces the Deca symbol is now released under CC0
Muse to release next album on NFT platform Serenade
Meebits will be releasing the IP agreement for Meebits on 8/15
The worlds first Metaverse ATM is now live in Decentraland
Nouns Coffee is launching soon
@levychain introduces Bello
Season II of Grails by PROOF goes live
Non-Fungible Films Ape-Casting goes live
@punk9059 starts PROOF as Director of Research
NFT counterfeit detector Marqvision raises $20M in Series A
Proof of Beauty teases something is coming for LondonDAO GIFT holders
@dt_chain buys a Tiffany & Company CryptoPunk pendant for 30 ETH
@gmDAOeth drops 1/1 gm NFT
Dapper partners with Instagram
@MeebitsDAO Merch presale goes live
FloorDAO deploys 25 Milady NFTs to Sudoswap
@jubbishjay airdrops NFTs to all 1/1 holders
@jakethedegen takes over the Artnet Twitter account
@punk6529 reopens the minting for Meme Card 8, FirstGM
In Singapore Court Cases & Marriages can now be held in the Metaverse
@SHBackpacker drops Day 1 on SuperRare
@eliheuer drops GTL001 Alpha on Zora
@nounspronouns shows off the first look of their homepage
@brandon_galang starts first day at Fractional
Enamour by @rachstewart_nz sold for 2.4 ETH on SuperRare
EQLZ launches world’s first metaverse sneak accelerator
TRIBUTE by @njburnell is now live on the MONOLITH Gallery
Weavers allowlist mint goes live
@mintdotfun introduces Trading
@jordaninglee drops Non-Fungible Organism on Fractional
@art__electra drops Mistresses on Foundation
Sales of the Week
CryptoPunk #6874 sold for 300 ETH
CloneX #8871 sold for 120 ETH
Noun #396 sold for 85.7 ETH
your fav crypto influencer by @lphaCentauriKid sold for 69.69 ETH
The Stage by DrifterShoots sold for 50 ETH
Crypto Art by @killeracid sold to @2Yeahyeah for 42 ETH
Mutant Ape #24227 sold for 39.9 ETH
@AlienqueenNFT’s Gucci x SuperRare In Bloom & Imminent Nostalgia sold for 11 ETH
Articles and Threads
Bored Ape co-founders Greg Solano and Wiley Aronow tell their story
@Cooopahtroopa releases new This Week in Music NFTs
Redlion News releases Redlion Gazette Issue 99
@WPeaster releases the 83rd Bankless Metaversal
@Derekmw23 releases Web3 gaming involves so much more than NFTs thread
Forefront releases Forefront Newsletter Issue 99
@nansen_ai releases NFT Sales: Where did the ETH go?
@NFTInnovation releases NFT Innovation Digest #46
@brycent_ releases Top 15 NFT Games You Can Play Right Now
@nft137 releases Everything You Need To Know About Tiffany and Co CryptoPunk Pendants
@Coinbase_NFT releases recap of what launched in July
@TheIwuChidinma releases Is the NFT Market here to stay on RugRadio
@exlawyernft releases Why you are insufficiently bullish about NFTs
Yield Guild releases Community Update Q2 2022
@Blockworks_ releases Can GameFi Still Unlock the Metaverse
@DCLBlogger releases 15 things I wish I had know sooner about crypto/NFTs
NFT Now releases CC0 & NFTs: Understanding Ownership
Twitter Spaces
Rug Radio GM NFTs w/ @farokh @greatmando_nft @osf_nft @iancr & @Boomcat
Grateful Show #27 w/ @GratefulApe_eth @Ape4249 @beast_eth @tinoforbidden & @SpottieWiFi
Grateful Show #29 w/ @GratefulApe_eth @Ape4249 @beast_eth @tinoforbidden & @KeithGrossman
NFT Morning Alpha w/ @piovincenzo_ @allnick @SpeculatorArt & @iamDCinvestor
Building a metaverse school of Web3 w/ @Zeneca_33 & @featureio
NFTs For Normies w/ @NicoleBehnam & @RplanetNFT
Chimpers Founders AMA w/ @Bud_Chimp @NF1nsight & @PunkHot10
Podcasts
Bankless The Nounders w/ @TrustlessState @punk4156 @punk4464 & @cryptoseneca
NFTCatcherPod Episode 76 w/ @jennifer_sutto @NFTicket & @billyshipp
The WLD Show w/ @wiiichang & @sebaudet26
Floor is Rising 2022 NFT Awards w/ @SabretoothSG @kaifuku_kizu & @artnome
Non-Refungible Network Episode #70 w/ @ebron85
Show Me The Crypto Investing In The Metaverse w/ @SamHuber
POAP Community Call #30 w/ @JENeticsDesign @MisterMojoRS @superphiz @nixorokish @Logic_Beach & @NoFunTokenArt
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