🎬 David Lynch auction, Disney finally joins NFT space
Facebook goes Meta and metaversal coins go up🚀
Dear NFTimer,
Happy all-time highs! Ethereum did an all-time high price of $4,455 this week. NFT.NYC is also happening this week in New York between November 1-4th. From a squiggle on Nasdaq to Cool Cats in Times Square, from AR 3D art floating to Foundation posters mocking right-click savers this is bound to be good! Bored Ape Yacht Club threw a yacht party with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem playing, and they have an ape-only party at Brooklyn Steel.
I couldn’t make it to New York unfortunately, but tag me to cool stuff happening in NYC! I’d love to see it and skyrocket my fomo🙃
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🎨 NFTs
You can trade Loot, Genesis Loot, More Loot, and more at loot.exchange.
Meebits have a DAO! You can purchase your general membership token for 0.05 ETH.
The project Avastars tweeted saying ‘replicants’ are coming.
Adobe shared a video titled “NFT - A Digital Art Revolution: Adobe MAX 2021” explaining NFTs and featuring digital artists. They are introducing a photoshop feature where people can make NFTs that include ‘Content Credentials’. NFT artists will link the Adobe ID with their crypto wallet as Adobe is partnering with OpenSea, KnownOrigin, Rarible, and SuperRare.
Hyype launched “The Alpha Race” for people to decide which project out of the 13 they chose should go live first on their platform. Every 72 hours, the top-ranked project (based on some actions the community needs to take) will go live.
The marketplace SuperRare had its best month of total sales, about $31 million in October. The average sale is 12.1 ETH ($50K).
You can check out each Nouns’ profiles from here.
You can now mint NFTs on Universe.xyz.
XCOPY launched 25 editions of Pump King on Kolectiv, an NFT platform.
Disney is launching NFTs of its characters with the Veve platform on November 12th (the Disney+ day). The collection is called “Golden Moments,” and consists of golden statues of the characters as NFTs.
Alt Nouns are infinite derivative artwork based on Nouns. By the way, NounsDAO will fund your Nouns tattoo. 😂 Also, Nounify your other PFP NFTs via this new fun project!
🔮 Metaverse News
A VR film festival FIVAR (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories), happened on VR in Cryptovoxels.
PixelVault integrated Chainlink to distribute “MetaHero Core Identity NFTs” to MintPass holders. These NFTs will serve as avatars in the MetaHero metaverse.
Shōyu is coming next week! I’m so damn excited to experience a beautiful metaverse.
🎶 Music
Timbaland is releasing music NFT collectibles for people to mix and match to create their own versions. The NFTs are based on his upcoming EP “Opera Noir,” where each song is split into elements to be auctioned individually. Collectors will be able to access and use the web-based mixing app coming soon.
💃🏼 Fashion
The virtual fashion collective RTFKT Studios is partnering with Takashi Murakami to launch a series of 20,000 Avatars.
👾 NFT Games
Yield Guild Games is co-presenting YGG Managers Cup with Binance Charity Foundation where guilds will battle for a cause.
The largest digital marketplace for PC games, Valve, has banned web3 games from its platform. Blockchain game developers wrote an open letter asking for the reversal of the ban. However, Epic Games said that they welcome and embrace web3 games.
The new drop of Parallel packs sold out in less than 45 seconds.
⚽️ Sports
Fox Entertainment Blockchain Creative Labs division made a deal with WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) to launch NFTs.
Tom Brady threw his 600th touchdown pass where the ball went to a spectator. The Bucks fan gave the ball (which is estimated to be worth half a million) back, but Brady is giving him jerseys, season tickets, and one bitcoin, worth around $60,000 instead.
E-sports company ESL Gaming is partnering with Immutable X to build ESL Pro Tour NFTs.
🎥 Movies
David Lynch is auctioning the film that he made for Interpol in 7 pieces on SuperRare.
🖼 Exhibitions
Check out Coin Alchemist’s Art Blocks gallery curated on JPG.
🔥 What else is hot?
New scam alert! Don’t screen share your Discord.
Convex Labs has been tracking NFT activity for months. They created a post where they outline how insiders exploit NFT drops.
Fractional.art allows NFT holders to transform illiquid NFTs into fungible ERC20 tokens, and Dune Analytics shared a thread with analysis on the topic.
Enter NFT Tax Guide. Jacob Martin prepared “the ultimate crypto tax guide” where 25% of proceeds will go towards a grant for tax preparation fees for artists. Of course, the document itself is an NFT. You can mint one for 0.08 ETH.
A list of on-chain artworks compiled by Emre Colak. (on-chain: is the artwork and metadata stored on the network?)
Shiba Inu surged in value up 45%, making its market cap greater than Dogecoin’s, putting Shiba in 9th spot on CoinGecko’s list.
British police seized $2.7 million worth of Bitcoin from a 17-year old who set up a fake website of an actual gift card shop.
Tesla might start accepting Bitcoin again (as disclosed in an SEC filing - with 13 mentions of bitcoin).
Artnome raised $3 million for the “protection, discovery, and sharing of NFTs” under the name ClubNFT.
Check out NFT auction plugin for WordPress with zero fees.
📖 Reading List
🤪 Cool fun beans
Axie Infinity is looking to hire a senior multimedia designer for their merchandise.
“Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility” by Mitchell F Chan sells for $1,532,500 on Sotheby’s Metaverse. “In 1962, Yves Klein sold fresh air for 14 gold ingots. The buyers received a receipt for a “Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility” Klein severed the connection between artistic object and the world around it. His receipt, like NFTs, proves ownership of something that no one can exclusively possess.” This work is one of the first NFTs to draw a parallel between technology, conceptual art and dematerialization history.
Bored Ape #8817 bought for $3.4 million by rhincodon on Sotheby’s Metaverse. This is an all-time high for BAYC. The collector also bought the NFT above as well as “The Rare Pepe NFT” for $3.65 million.
Someone made everyone go crazy for a couple of minutes with a flash loan purchase of CryptoPunk #9998 from themselves for 124.46K ETH. ($532,414,877.01 USD) That would’ve been the highest-selling artwork of all time.
“K-Meanearest Neighbors” bought for 118 ETH. ($506,819)
🧵 Threads
Zuck is rebranding Facebook as Meta. I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some opinions about the Metaverse:
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