Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs and the onchain frontier

Dear Bankless Nation,

This week, Electric Capital open-sourced NFT Pulse.

It’s an awesome new multichain NFT market stats dashboard, and it’s much needed, because with NFT activity starting to spread out across so many chains, it’s been hard to find good, solid data aggregated in one place until now. 

My take? The platform shines in helping you track which marketplaces on which chains are having the biggest activity flows at any given time so you can target your focus to the hottest spots if you’re actively trading NFTs right now. 

Anyways, that’s my latest tool tip! For now, it’s that time again—let’s get you up to speed on the past week’s biggest NFT news highlights 👇

-WMP

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This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• Google added support for ENS name searches.

• Juicebox helped raise 410 ETH for Tornado’s legal defense, partly from NFT mints.

• Magic Eden added SPL-404 support.

• meme.market opened memecoin creation to everyone. 

• Noggles launched its $NOGS website.

• OpenSea unveiled Seaport v1.6.

• Pods added Collector Feeds.

• Sinjun intro’d HERE, an onchain clothing brand. 

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• BottoDAO announced a $1.67M raise, led by 1kx.

• Fingerprints is hosting Miragenesi’s The Queue drop next week.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Achi, the dog wif hat meme, auctioned for +1,210 ETH on Foundation.

• CryptoPunk 7804, an alien Punk, sold for 4,850 ETH.

• UMA DAO migrated to Base.

📱 Onchain social

• AdWorld is launching an $APEIN adventure game on Farcaster.

• Bracket Game, powered by $DEGEN, launched on Farcaster.

• Daylight added support for Farcaster.

• Hey, a Lens app, intro’d creator-licensed posts.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Aavegotchi announced Base as the Gotchichain settlement layer.

• Axie Infinity started its Origins Season 8 preseason.

• Baratie, an onchain gaming restaurant, launched on Base.

• Coinbase added support for Ronin’s $RON token.

• Crypto: The Game will maintain spots via NFTs in S2.

• Crypto Valleys announced it’s distributing 100% of its Blast Gold to its players.

• Fren Pet is unveiling a new version next week.

• Immutable announced a partnership with OKX on a GameFi launchpad.

• NIM Network, a new AI gaming chain, launched its token claim.

• ParagonsDAO partnered with Yield Guild Games.

• Parallel added Open Beta referrals.

• STP launched Clique, an AI-powered L3 built on Base.

• Sup previewed blit.net, an online side-scroller creator.

🪙 NFTfi 

• 0xmons previewed a fully onchain NFT orderbook built on sudoswap.

• NFTfi.com announced the NFTfi Foundation.

• nftperp intro’d Degen Draw on Blast.

• Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile drew a $400k loan against Beeple’s “Crypto Is Bullshit” using Gondi.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland rolled out World Categories.

• Chimpers unveiled Chimpers Island in Nifty Island.

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Thanks for reading this week’s roundup! For more catching up:

• 🆕 See my other latest write-ups: 

  • 🔥 Dropping a Free NFT with Farcaster Frames

  • 🤖 What’s New with Parallely Colony

  • 🔵 Getting Started with Bountycaster

  • 💫 Spark: Maker’s Rising Star

Author Bio

William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time. He lives in Washington.

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