Daily News - August 18, 2022
TLDR:
MoonBird Oddities surge on the teaser of a burning mechanism
Google Chrome patches exploit via update
Pudgy Penguin launch their marketplace
2M ENS registrations
Phantom Wallet introduces the ability to burn NFTs
Fractional/Tessera raises $20M USD
Claire Silver launching open edition mint on NiftyGateway
SuperRare turns 1!
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Ethereum: $1,856.83 (-1.7%)
OpenSea Daily Trading Volume: $17.55M USD (+0.07%)
Top NFT Collection: BAYC ($2.69M USD daily trading volume)
News:
MoonBirds Oddities jump from 0.65 ETH to 1.22 ETH following Proof’s Town Hall meeting, in which Kevin Rose hinted at the possibility of burning Oddities! (Source)
Pudgy Penguin open up their native marketplace with lower trading fees! (Source)
Phantom Wallet introduces the ability to safely burn NFTs - enabling collectors to remove unwanted NFTs and receive some SOL in exchange. (Source)
SuperRare celebrates its first anniversary! SuperRare is offering $RARE holders 25% off their RARE collection in celebration of the monumental feat. (Source)
ENS celebrates 2 million ENS domain registrations! (Source)
Google Chrome users are highly encouraged to update Chrome due to a zero-day exploit! (Source)
Passytea shows off in-game footage of his upcoming kart racing game. Many in the community have credited passytea for being a leader in blockchain gaming. (Source)
Claire Silver, a prominent female AI artist, is launching an open edition mint on August 20 at 3:30 EST! The collection will be on NiftyGateway for 0.2 ETH, however, the mint window will only be open for 10 minutes. (Source)
Tessera, formerly called Fractional, raises $20M USD from its latest funding round led by Paradigm. (Source)
BigBrotherMachi and ShiLLin_ViLLian threaten to doxx ZachXBT during their Twitter Spaces! The animosity stems from ZachXBT’s previous investigation into BigBrotherMachi that unveiled 22,000 ETH of stolen funds. (Source)
Saudietheran.eth offers 235 ETH ($433,993.30 USD) for Pudgy Penguin #6873! (Source)
Notable Sales:
Coco.eth sweeps 16 CyberKongz for 285.9 ETH ($529,921.37 USD)! The buyer has a $3.28M USD portfolio of NFTs consisting of 62 MeeBits, 40 Otherdeeds for Otherside, 86 Deadfellaz, and 72 TreeVerse! (Source)
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