Daily News - April 17, 2022
TLDR:
MoonBirds have minted out. CoolCats disappoint their community and dip < 6 ETH for the first time in months. Ether Orcs allies have all minted out.
Treasure:
Uncle Pennybags is a long-term supporter of the TreasureDAO ecosystem. Roughly 3 months ago he purchased ClockSnatcher (1/1 Legion Genesis) for 400,000 $MAGIC ($1.2M USD). As of today, he’s entered into a partnership with Battlefly to rent out his ClockSnatcher NFT. (Source)
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Ethereum closes the day at $3,040.58 (-0.2%)! More importantly, OpenSea trading volume sets a record high for this month at $177.53M in daily volume! Most of this volume stemmed from the MoonBirds release
News:
The highly anticipated MoonBirds collection by PROOF Collective has finally been minted! The floor price of the project has settled at ~ 8 ETH (+220% from mint price). (Source)
Cool Cats temporarily dip to 5.35 ETH - setting a local bottom for the project. There has been increasing scrutiny surrounding the project following the botched release of CoolPets and CoolTopia. Unfortunately, the team’s decision to increase royalties from 2.5% to 5% without consulting the community brought tensions to a breaking point causing many long-time supporters to exit the project. (Source)
If you’ve managed to mint or purchase a MoonBird, remember to join the exclusive PROOF Collective discord! (Source)
Despite the success, measured by floor price appreciation, of the MoonBirds there has been criticism towards the collection. Punk6529, a thought leader in this space, voiced concerns regarding the high price (2.5 ETH) required to mint a MoonBird. (Source)
The Rogues, the final EtherOrcs allies, have been completely minted out! This means the project will move on to the next phase of its roadmap - dungeon crawling. (Source)
Ethernal Elves, a P2E project inspired by EtherOrcs, documents the technical details underlying their gasless gameplay! To provide a high-level overview, the NFTs remain on Ethereum Mainnet while the gameplay takes place on Polygon with all gas fees being paid by the dev team. (Source)
ArkDev teases the release of World Naming Service (WNS)! To claim a .wrld name users will be required to pay using $WRLD. (Source)
Notable Sales:
MoonBird #7473 was purchased by 938245 for 30 ETH! Within three minutes 938245 re-sold the MoonBird for 90 ETH, thereby making an instant profit of 53.25 ETH ($159,750). (Source)