💊 Matrix and Pulp Fiction NFTs, Nike has Metaverse on its mind
Claim your $ENS governance tokens today, a Punk sells for $0.99🤔
Dear NFTimer,
According to a study conducted by LinkedIn and published on Bloomberg, the leading crypto job hubs in 2021 are in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Miami and Chicago follow them. These cities consist of almost half of the workforce in crypto. However, as we know, many people work remotely in most companies, which is even more prominent in crypto. Also, the study focused on roles with keywords such as “blockchain,” “bitcoin,” and “crypto,” which is likely to focus on the development side, and perhaps miss roles such as community managers, marketing, and HR people.
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🎨 NFTs
Nifty’s is launching “The Matrix Avatars,” a series of 100,000 NFTs representing characters living in The Matrix. The sale will be on November 30th, and on December 16th, owners will have to decide to take the blue pill or the red pill. 💊
Hyype finished its Alpha Race #1. The first winner was MetaHero, and the second was Avastars. A new community was selected every 72 hours, and now you can see all 13 nominated series on their website.
Cybourgeoisie created NFT Floor Market, a zero-fee marketplace that allows buyers to put offers on ERC-721 tokens. UI could use some work.🤷🏼♀️
SuperRare is presenting “Reloading” in partnership with Art X Lagos, featuring artworks from different artists from African countries.
SuperRare is introducing Series: everybody can bring artworks under the same contract. This will give more customization and enable artists to tell the full story of their artworks.
International Chess Federation will launch its own marketplace on Free TON blockchain. The marketplace will feature NFTs of iconic moments in chess. ♟
The creator of Jungle Freaks (which is #4 on OpenSea’s Top NFTs list and has a trading volume of 2466 ETH in the last 7 days - and 15,373 ETH in the last 30 days) is under fire for the racist drawings he did in the 1970s. Some investors have pulled, while others said this is cancel culture. I have to agree that we shouldn’t be celebrating people who act in such a way and don’t take responsibility for their actions.
Nifty Gateway is expanding to include more types of NFTs as it was known for its curated drops.
Brain Drops is a new platform for AI-generated artworks, with the first drop coming on November 15th.
VP of Product at Coinbase shared a sneak peek of the Coinbase NFT platform.
Fast food chain Jack in the Box sues FTX over their new mascot, Moon Man.
🔮 Metaverse News
Cryptovoxels saw a 300% increase in web traffic as well as $250,000 of parcel sales in 3 days.
Nike filed for virtual goods trademarks for its shoes and apparel. We might see some Nike shoes in the metaverse soon.
Microsoft gives news of its own about the metaverse after Facebook’s huge announcement.
Meebits in metaverse:
Investment firm Sfermion raised $100 million to help build the open metaverse. Is there an open vs. close / web3 vs. Facebook metaverse race that we will see? Would be fun.
So cute! I do love Nouns, and check out this collaboration they did with Brave web browser.
Sandbox’s native token SAND increased 26% following its $93 million Series B fundraise and Meta’s announcement. Decentraland’s native token MANA is up 100% as well. 📈
One of the first games to use NFTs, MegaCryptoPolis is now turning into Mega World and will be a vast player-driven metaverse.
Sandbox will migrate to Polygon soon.
🎶 Music
Music NFTs are not having their moment yet, but it’s coming slowly but surely. Catalog Works monthly volume skyrocketed in October.
Upbit’s parent company Dunamu partnered with the South Korean music label Hybe to launch an NFT business, focusing on the artists managed by Hybe.
👾 NFT Games
Loopring’s token price skyrockets after the rumors say they will power GameStop’s NFT marketplace.
Esports game company Andbox announced a partnership with Moonwalk, a startup that creates utility for NFTs to launch a collection of NFTs that will unlock various contents and perks for fans.
EA called NFTs and blockchain games “the future of [gaming] industry,” but that it is still early during an earnings call.
Creator of Final Fantasy, Square Enix, is planning to release more NFT-driven projects. They previously launched NFT digital trading cards in Japan minted on Immutable X.
Monster Strike game publisher Mixi is also planning on creating more crypto games on the Flow blockchain.
Mythical Games raised $150 million at a $1.25 billion valuation at its Series C funding round. 🦄
Faraway raised nearly $30M to build browser games on Solana.
⚽️ Sports
Trading broker Voyager Digital got a sponsorship deal with Mark Cuban’s basketball team Dallas Mavericks in which both will work on educating people about crypto.
🎥 Movies
WOWOW! I read a LOT of NFT news… but this is pretty crazy. Quentin Tarantino will release 7 NFTs of uncut scenes from his iconic movie, Pulp Fiction. 🤯🤯 They will launch on Secret Network, be auctioned on OpenSea, and only be visible to see by the owners. NFTs will come with original handwritten script pages and new commentary from Tarantino. He took the stage at NFT.NYC to announce this news.
Director David Sandberg released a series of NFTs of new original characters that might appear later in his movies. The first drop is sold out, but a second one will come as well.
🔥 What else is hot?
MetaMask now supports NFTs with IPFS-linked images, so NFT images can survive after the original creator stops hosting them.
ENS is decentralizing governance and is accepting applications for DAO delegates. ENS holders can claim their $ENS governance tokens.
A crazy, sad, weird story. Somebody accidentally put their Punk #7557 to sale for 4.44 ETH instead of 4444 ETH. A bot jumped in and bought it. As you probably know by now, extremely cheap price for a Punk. Its last sale was $135,215, and the Punk owner did receive an offer of $1 million in August.
Oculus’s Chief Technology Officer John Carmack said that “it’s unlikely we’re going to be in the completely open crypto world of things” during a keynote about Facebook’s new metaverse.
Burger King will give away one Dogecoin to everybody who spends $5 at its stores or in its app through November 21. A lucky few will get one of the 20 Bitcoin or 200 Ethereum. Prizes will be delivered via Robinhood. 🍔
BSC token based the Netflix show "Squid Game," $SQUID reached an all-time high of $2,856 before its website, social media accounts, and money abruptly disappeared. ~rug pull~
Decentraland DAO voted unanimously to join the Blender Development Fund.
The new mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, who vowed to make New York a crypto center, will take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin.
📖 Reading List
“Crypto Cities” by Vitalik Buterin
“Crypto is Cool. Now Get on the Yacht” by Kevin Roose
LA Blockchain Summit streams on YouTube
🤪 Cool fun beans
“A Coin for the Ferryman” by XCOPY is sold to jpeggy for 1330 ETH. ($6,032,986)
Punk #2890 has a new bid of 2300 ETH ($10,412,997).
Punk #8424 bought for 0 ETH ($0.99). Is there anything shady going on here, or did someone want to do the opposite of the half-billion Punk sale last week and wanted to make the cheapest Punk sale. History is history.
Of course we can’t know for sure if this is real - it seems to be- but Kylie Jenner asked if she could buy Willy Bullish’s Bored Ape. He said he blocked her, and some people disagreed with his decision. I think I’ll agree - there is no reason to shut off a billionaire interested in crypto and give a rude response. It just reflects bad vibes from the community.
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