Top 10 NFT News of the week
1. Bored Ape Yacht Club was featured in GQ Magazine
2. Chris Okada lists office building in NYC for 15,000 ETH as an NFT on OpenSea. The NFT gives the buyer full rights along with the deed.
3. Former OpenSea employee, Nathaniel Chastain, was charged in the 1st ever digital asset insider trading scheme
4. Kanye West files 17 trademark applications around his YEEZUS brand including Metaverse Experiences, an NFT Marketplace, and NFTs
5. GameStopNFT shows how to manage Layer 1 & Layer 2 NFTs directly in the GameStop Wallet
6. Jim Carrey purchased his first NFT, The Wild Within - ‘Devotion’ on SuperRare
7. South Korea to invest $177 million in the metaverse
8. Warner Bros partner with Niftys to launch an Looney Tunes NFT collection
9. Illuvium announces integration with Immutable to power near-instant and carbon neutral transactions for their Land Sale
10. Polygon NFT minter allows users to mint ERC-721 & ERC-1155 NFTs on Polygon with zero gas fees
Stats
OpenSea has done $228 million volume so far in June
OpenSea sold over 555K NFTs this week
OpenSea had over 200K traders this week
Soundxyz goes over 3000 unique collectors
goblintownNFT did over $33 million in volume this week
There was 42 new Historians DAO HASH mints the past 30 days
NFT News
NFT Now introduces the NFT100
UPS announces Metaverse collaboration with ComplexLand
Prada introduces NFT to Timecapsule drop
Snoop Dogg buys a rektguy NFT
Bored Ape Yacht Club teams up with Token Proof to verify and distribute tickets to ApeFest 22
@NBAxNFT unlocks new Jen Stark background for Celtics Finals NFTs
Adidas Originals airdrops Capsule Collection
Mariah Carey releases first NFT that includes an opportunity to meet and fly with her to New York
Fortune Magazine showcases how to view NFTs in Museum Of Crypto Art
ApeMarketplace to feature BAYC, MAYC, BAYC & Otherdeeds
The ZORA API is now out
Binance raises $500 million fund to drive Web3 adoption
Doodles Duplicators are now on NFTfi
Coinbase NFT releases new features
gem.xyz releases Smart Collection Search
LAGO announces if you mint a LAGO pass you get a frame
Thenounmuseum first exhibition is now open
Deca announces art experiment Right Click Save by XCOPY
Cameo Pass announces partnership with Futureproof
The Sandbox distributed 5M mSAND tokens to LAND holders
Evaluate Market announces you can now build a cart & buy NFTs across LooksRare and OpenSea in 1 transaction
@ryder_ripps was #1 in Foundation weekly sales volume
Axie Infinity presents the first 12 projects accepted into the Axis Builders Program
MetaStreet announces alpha launch of MetaStreet Collateral Vault
Chimpers announces Chimpers Marketplace
SWAPS by Coldie is now available on MetaFactory
My Pet Hooligan launches Alpha V1 and Soft Staking
SuperRare announces Space Race 3 winners
Sales of the week
Where My Vans Go #35 resold for 43 ETH
Bored Ape #7725 sold for 189.9 ETH
Bored Ape #784 sold for 180 ETH
Axie Infinity Land Parcel (-30, 16) sold for 160 ETH
Otherdeed for Otherside #95607 sold for 135 ETH
Noun #326 sold for 117.93 ETH
REACHBACK by XCOPYART sold for 82,500 XTZ ($165K)
Proofxyz #368 sold for 78 ETH
Azuki #5167 sold for 55 ETH
rektguy #7091 sold for 31ETH
Articles & Threads
Brycent releases The Best NFT Games Right Now on 137pm
Coopahtroopa releases new This Week in Music NFTs
William Peaster releases 74th Bankless Metaversal
Redline News releases Gazette Issue 90
Bankless DAO releases new This Week in Decentralized Arts
NFT Innovation releases NFT Innovation Digest #37
Pastry releases How to create your own NFT collection from scratching with no coding experience
Twitter Spaces of the week
ONE37pm NFTs in Gaming with Brycent
GM NFTs on Rug Radio with gmoney
Deca Radio Episode 3
GratefulApe hosts Grateful Show #17
The OpenDAO AMA with MetaFactory
Podcasts of the week
Delphi Digital - Collecting with DCinvestor
a16z launches new web3 podcast
Overpriced JPEGs Episode #34 The Next Big Market Trend
Unchained Ep #359 - The Department of Justice Goes After Its First NFT Insider Trading Case
Proof of Beauty Proving Beauty Episode #2
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