Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & beyond

Dear Bankless Nation,

Daily and weekly NFT volume levels have been uptrending over the past month.

Haven’t seen that in a while!

A volume snapshot is far from a comprehensive measure of the pulse of the NFT space right now, sure, but it does show some strength returning to the ecosystem here. 

We’ll see if this renewed strength prefaces an even bigger year-end rally over the coming weeks. In the meantime thanks as always for reading everyone, here’s your latest weekly NFT roundup! ✌️

-WMP

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This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• Atrium released Pt. 2 of the Nouns Movie.

• ENS launched the EVM Gateway.

• ENS, via lead dev Nick Johnson, also published an open letter calling out the patent strategy of Unstoppable Domains.

• Johnny Mack announced hypersub, a new NFT subscription platform.

• Liquid Delegate, a new marketplace for tradable delegated NFTs, arrived.

• LooksRare is waiving its protocol fees for 30 days.

• Party added direct support for collective Zora mints.

• ZachXBT highlighted a fake “OpenSea exploit” scam wave. 

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Highlight hired Jake Allen as its new head of growth.

• Nouns DAO approved a multi-day paint party on BasePaint.

• SuperRare is debuting its new lazy minting auction system via Pindar Van Arman’s “The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity” collection.

• TITLES is crowdfunding ETH to commission a community-owned AI art model.

• Zora added support for batched uploading.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Disney unveiled a new “Digital Pins” project in collaboration with Dapper Labs.

• Fini revealed Poppy, a Fini claimable at Devconnect Istanbul events that responds to your Lens Protocol activity.

• Nate Alex explained the creation of ChainFaces.

• Pudgy Penguins has arcade machines in the works.

• Taproot Wizards, an NFT collection on Bitcoin, raised a $7.5M seed round.

📱 Crypto social

• Archetype published The Future of Social Is Onchain by Katie Chiou.

• Aave Companies, the parent entity of Lens, rebranded to Avara.

• Lens intro’d Embeddable Posts.

• Sound added support for sharing to Lens and Warpcast.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Axie Infinity launched its Season 6: Finale. 

• FrenPets, a mobile Tamagotchi-style game on Base, launched its V2.

• Lattice announced Redstone, a new OP Stack L2 purpose-built for onchain gaming and beyond.

• ParagonsDAO launched the public beta of Priming, an asset management platform for Web3 gamers.

• Parallel was approved for the Epic Games Store and announced higher PRIME rewards for ranked wins.

• Pixels intro’d the Pixels Reputation system.

• Ronin launched the RNS public sale.

• Ubisoft is holding a free mint for Warlords, a PFP collection connected to the company’s upcoming Champions Tactics RPG.

🪙 NFTfi

• BendDAO unveiled a new roadmap.

• Flooring Protocol launched its latest FLC/ETH liquidity provider incentives.

• Uniswap is now available on Android devices.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland kicked off its Decentraland Music Festival ’23 festivities.

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

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Author bio

William M. Peaster is the creator of Metaversal — a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He also serves as a senior writer for the main Bankless newsletter.

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