Daily News - April 30, 2022
TLDR:
OpenSea integrates $APE payments. MoonBirds issues an update on nesting.
Treasure:
Delphi Digital publishes a piece on TreasureDAO discussing their bullish outlook on the project (e.g. recent hires, strong community, upcoming games, and potential for a $MAGIC sidechain). (Source)
Samuel Bjorn provides insight regarding the upcoming $MAGIC unlock. There will be roughly 1M $MAGIC unlocked per day leading up to May 9, 2022. (Source)
TreasureDAO teases V2 for BridgeWorld - the flagship product by TreasureDAO. (Source)
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Ethereum drops by 3.2% and closes the day at $2,826.08. OpenSea trading volume breaks its downtrends and closes the day with $140.7M in trading volume (+28.37%).
News:
With the upcoming OpenDeed drop, OpenSea integrates $APE payments. This caused $APE to pump back to $22.51 (+7.71%). (Source)
The Business of Fashion publishes an article on RTKFT - the metaverse-native fashion house that was recently acquired by Nike. Of particular interest, the article highlights the $17.7B in sales RTFKT did in 2021. (Source)
Tired of being rugged by overallocated mints? Breden Mulligan, the creator behind PreMint, enables project creators to create allow lists + waitlists - thereby preventing the pervasive overallocation issue. This feature will only be available to those with a PreMint collectors pass. (Source)
Kevin Rose, the founder of Proof Collective, provides an update regarding MoonBirds. Specifically, the team has gotten rid of nesting streaks in favour of nesting duration. A vocal minority was upset with this decision as the duration counter wouldn’t reset if a MoonBird is sold, thereby, minimizing the benefits conferred to long-term holders. (Source)
Notable Sales:
3 and 4 digits ENS domains continue to run hot! A newly funded wallet purchased 5555.eth for 12 ETH ($33,873). (Source)