Daily News - January 1, 2022
Treasure:
It’s a $MAGIC-al start to the year as $MAGIC continues on its parabolic rally touching its ATH of $2.75 (+27.05% 24H).
https://dexscreener.com/arbitrum/0xb7e50106a5bd3cf21af210a755f9c8740890a8c9
Following his brother’s lead, the iconic Gary Vee bridges ETH over to Arbitrum. The only action Gary has taken thus far is to swap $0.75 of ETH into $MAGIC.
https://arbiscan.io/address/0x5ea9681c3ab9b5739810f8b91ae65ec47de62119
Duke, a concept artist for TreasureDAO, completes his portrait of SmolBrains. The collage will be auctioned off with all proceeds being donated to a charity the community decides upon. https://twitter.com/SmolBrainsNFT/status/1477058421807620107
Airdrops:
Fees.wft, the site created to display the amount of gas a user on Ethereum has spent, has announced the conclusion of their snapshot. There are rumours circulating regarding a potential airdrop, for which, people responded by donating 131 ETH ($485,989.65) in hopes of securing a larger airdrop.
https://twitter.com/feeswtf/status/1477067060790247425
News:
Emergence of many different successful play-to-earn economies that find creative ways to attract non-crypto users to the world of digital assets and financial sovereignty - Ansem
It’s substack season! Following the recent publications by Cobie, Ansem releases his outlook on the general markets for 2022.
https://blknoiz06.substack.com/p/quarter-i-2022
To address these changes in our business environment, the medium-term business strategy that we unveiled in May 2020 identified AI, the cloud, and blockchain games as new domains on which we should focus our investments, and we have subsequently been aggressive in our R&D efforts and investments in those areas. - Square Enix
Square Enix, the highly respected Japanese gaming studio responsible for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, publishes a post discussing the trends emerging within the gaming sector. In specific, the article highlights the growing importance of play-to-earn, NFTs, and blockchain gaming within the industry.
https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/2022/html/a_new_years_letter_from_the_president_2.html
Jonathan Mann officially sells out his Song A Day collection. The success of Jonathan’s collection speaks to the growing importance of music-based NFTs - a sector of the space that has historically been overlooked.
https://twitter.com/songadaymann/status/1476902100315643914
Notable Purchases:
My name is what? My name is who? Slim Shady, otherwise known as Eminem, officially joins the BAYC community with the acquisition of BAYC #9055 for 123.45 ETH ($461,868.42).
https://twitter.com/Gee__Gazza/status/1477005759359733771
The Wolf Game project is gathering steam with Wolf #3361 being sold for 50 ETH ($184,885.50).
https://opensea.io/assets/0x7f36182dee28c45de6072a34d29855bae76dbe2f/3361
Stevie.eth, often referred to as the “t-shirt dude”, swept the floor for NFT Worlds using GenieSwap. The project is experiencing rapid price appreciation following the airdrop of $WRLD tokens and the possibilities enabled through Minecraft integration. https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc02bd9342c39b52a6fa5cdacad9dcf675fefca8346d598d4ca654d366a53ea70