Daily News - March 13, 2022
Treasure:
Treasure Hub, a community lead project, officially releases! One of the unique features introduced by Treasure Hub is the ability to track your portfolio’s performance - a feature many platforms have struggled to include because the marketplace is built on Arbitrum. (Source)
Welcome the newest member of the SmolBrain family! Gus, previously the Product lead at AmericanExpress, purchased SmolBrain #2277 (2,490 $MAGIC) and SmolBrain #8676 (2195 $MAGIC) alongside 2 SmolPets. (Source)
SmolBrains officially unveil their whitepaper! For those looking for a concise breakdown of the whitepaper, check out this thread by a1rport (Source)
Alerts:
bobaepicure.eth lost his Cool Cat, BAYC, and Doodles due to a fraudulent transaction initiated by punkstoc on Swapstr, a peer-to-peer NFT trading platform. (Source)
The registration form for Gangster All-Star is available! This is a highly anticipated project with large names such as 0xInuarashi - a prominent smart contract developer. (Source)
OpenSea Volume:
Ethereum continues to trend sideways - currently at $2,590.33 (+0.09%). OpenSea trading volume trends downwards from yesterday’s peak to 62.26M USD.
News:
punk6529, a prominent thinker in the NFT space, documents his thoughts surrounding the recent acquisition of CryptoPunks by Yuga Labs. In particular, he examines the cultural differences between the projects, evaluation model for BAYC, business opportunities for LarvaLabs, and greater implications for CC0 (creative commons license) for the NFT space. (Source)
Gas price hit a record low of 9 GWEI! This has caused many to question the demand for block space within the Ethereum blockchain, seeing as lower gas prices refer to reduced demand, which reciprocally should reduce the value of ETH. (Source)
Yuga Labs, the creators of BAYC, continue to build! Following their acquisition of LarvaLabs, they followed up with a series of patents and trademarks for BAYC including jewelry, night clubs, physical collectibles, merchandise, and much more. (Source)
Doodles release their highly anticipated Mascot Figure for $350 USD! Just a reminder, this collectible is only available to holders of the Doodles collection. (Source)
The Dudes collaborate with Vinnie Hager to release 2 1/1 pieces titled “Time is Memory” and “A Balance Of.” Both pieces remain true to The Dudes collection by being interactive pieces of artwork. (Source)
NFTWorlds introduces their latest API which supports $WRLD transactions across any device (computers, gaming consoles, mobile). This should significant reduce the friction associated with onboarding new players to the NFT Worlds ecosystem. (Source)
Notable Sales:
The Gift Goat is verifiable for an exclusive gifting experience curated by Gary Vaynerchuk and the VeeFriends team. Gift Goat is currently on Gift #4.
The Gift Goat token comes with a total of 18 gifts, or 36 items (18 physical and 18 NFTs).
VeeFriends Gift Goat is sold to JBTheCryptoKing for 52.8 ETH ($136,222.42 USD). For those curious as to why someone would pay six figures for the NFT, I've included a description of the benefits offered by holding the Gift Goat NFT above. (Source)