🆘 $SOS token craze: Good, or a game to make rich people richer?
Happy New Year🎄❤️ Meta is working towards “deep compatibility” with blockchain⛓
Dear NFTimer,
I’ll be having a day off next week, so here is the last NFTimes of the year! Thank you to all who joined the NFTimes family, read it every Monday, and shared it with your friends. I spend a lot of time surfing through the news to bring you the best news of the week, so I appreciate it so much. Merry late Christmas and Happy early New Year to you all. ❤️
We have seen so much happening in 2021, an NFT craze boom that started in March, and still is going strong🚀 Who knows what is in the stores for us in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣…
Dive in👇🏼
🎨 NFTs
Niftify partnered with Polygon and Bittrex Global and is launching an NFT collection with Ice-T.
The Weeknd launched a series of NFTs via Autograph platform, and the 7 NFTs were auctioned on OpenSea.
Larva Labs announced an open-source, community-driven interface to the Cryptopunks market.
Bored Apes flipped CryptoPunks for a minute on Wednesday. The cheapest CryptoPunk listed for sale was 52.69 ETH, cheapest Bored Ape was 53.9 ETH.
DegenData is listing CryptoPunk #5671, but it’s no ordinary sale. The buyer will have the right to claim DegenData’s NFT analytics site and assets.
Manifold Studio is now open to all creators.
🔮 Metaverse News
Steve Aoki had a concert on Cryptovoxels.
Find Santa in Decentraland & take a photo to join the photo contest!
PwC China bought LAND on Sandbox.
👾 NFT Games
Gaming company Ubisoft will continue its NFT initiative with the launch of its Tezos-based Quartz platform despite backlash from fans.
🎥 Movies
The Infinite Machine Collection’s first mint of 2,100 NFTs at 0.08 ETH sold out in 28 hours, raising $670K. The movie is based on Camila Russo’s book on the story of Ethereum. The raise will go towards funding the movie.
🔥 What else is hot?
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri (also an alum of my school from college) said, “Nothing to announce yet but we are definitely actively exploring NFTs and how we can make them more accessible to a wider audience.”
Render Network, which Beeple is an advisor for, raised $30M.
Binance announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority (DWTCA) to establish a crypto industry hub in Dubai. Dubai, which gained its wealth from oil, is looking to diversify its industries.
Elon vs. Elizabeth Warren Feud on Twitter about taxes.
Terra’s native token $LUNA hit an all-time high of $95.42.
Gwyneth Paltrow is working with Cash App to give away $500,000.
27% of Bitcoin supply is held in 10,000 whale wallets (0.01% of bitcoin holders). Bro that’s way too much. That’s so much money. Sharing is caring, come on.
Facebook ~now Meta~ spent $60M to buy “Meta” trademarks from a South Dakota bank.
Electronics retailer RadioShack is moving to DeFi, with the announcement reading that they “will be the bridge between the CEOs who control the world’s corporations and the new world of cryptocurrencies.”
According to an internal post reported by NYTimes, Meta is working towards “deep compatibility” with blockchain.
Genie.xyz is the first NFT marketplace aggregator. You can batch buy NFTs across all major marketplaces in a single transaction.
OpenSea is partnering with Alchemy Platform to launch Web3 University, which will build a library of the best web3 educational resources.
Some people created the OpenDAO and airdropped $SOS tokens according to how much you spent on OpenSea.
📖 Reading List
Just chill and enjoy the end of the year. Instead of reading about crypto, write your reflections about the year, and what you are grateful for. Make plans for 2022, and enter the year with intentions. ❤️
🤪 Cool fun beans
Twitter feuds featuring Jack, Elon Musk, A16Z, and crypto peeps.
Jack said we don’t own web3, but VCs do. Elon sarcastically asked if anyone has seen web3, jack said it’s somewhere between A and Z. Jack also responded to @Cdixon from a16z here & also Marc Andreessen blocked Jack. Jack responded to this too👇🏼
People are saying Jack left Twitter so he could be on Twitter more😂
Donald Trump calls crypto “a very dangerous thing” while Melania is dropping NFTs on Solana.
Snoop aped into BAYC.
🧵 Threads
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