Weekly Recap By Crypto Gucci #104

Top NFT News of the Week

LG to allow users to buy, sell, and display NFTs on their TVs

Ford files 19 NFT and metaverse related trademark applications

Sorare announces partnership with the NBA to launch the 1st NFT-based fantasy basketball game on Ethereum Layer 2 Starkware 

GameStop announces partnership with FTX

ENS Domains tops Bored Ape Yacht Club on OpenSea’s weekly chart

Stats

Almost 24 million NFTs have been sold on Ethereum

Blockchain gaming sees all time high in games funded in Q2

NFT News

The Chicago Bullls are collabing with 23 artists to recreate the Bulls logo as an NFT

• PUMA Black Station goes live
• Pixel Vault announces new marketplace
• Lonzo Ball uses NFT sale to build a community basketball court
• Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS, partners with The Sandbox
• Sony Music files trademark application for NFT-authenticated music
• Yuga Labs announces the first CryptoPunks grant to support the creation & maintenance of a Punks centric newsletter

Merriam-Webster Dictionary adds metaverse to their dictionary

• Parallel Pack Drop 5 goes live
• Foundation shows off new home page
• LooksRare adds NFT Quicklook feature
• DrifterShoots Where My Vans Go piece (Token 0) goes live
• y00ts mint goes live and art reveal postponed to later in September
• Draft Kings launch ReignMakers NFT Based Fantasy Football Program

Deadfellaz & Wrangler announce partnership

• AOI announces XCOPY CC0 competition
• Coopahtroopa announces Coop Records Fund I
• Autograph drops Tom Brady Signature Experience
• Johhnie Walker announces NFT drops with BlockBar & Vayner3
• @songadaymann has now written 5000 songs in 5000 days
• Sotheby’s announces first IRL exhibition dedicated to a single owner NFT sale

The Gutter Cat Gang DNA-2 Gutter Juice sale goes live

• Axie Infinity releases app.axie
• Web3 wallet Omni raises $11 million in seed funding
• The Stoics NFT announces official collab with Cool Cats
• DappRadar announces GameStopNFT Marketplace integration
• Quentin Tarantino settles with Miramax over Pulp Fiction NFT
• Forever Apes makes playing card decks with notable BAYC members Apes

Google Cloud will be running a Ronin Network validator to bolster security of Ronin and advanced their vision of building a gaming universe

• Syndicate launches Collectives
• RTFKT Clonex Forging SZN 1 opens
• @Misshattan drops UPTOWN on SuperRare
• @jenkinsthevalet announces partnership with TokenProof
• @DeezeFi buys Christ The Redeemer in Times Sq for 1.5 ETH
• @ZullupFromSpace releases cool 3D derivative of @scds_now’s Ape

FIFA launches NFT platform on Algorand

• The Stoics mint goes live and sells out
• The Sandbox Instagram was compromised
• @DillonFrancis shows off dope Doodles figurine
• @cloncast does a live drawing session with NFT artists
• Steve Aoki breaks down the impact NFTs will have on the music industry
• vEmpire DDAO announces live party in the Sandbox on September 29

Meta to open 10 Metaverse Campuses as part of $150 million immersive learning project

• NFTrade announces version 2.0 is coming soon
• @girl_intheverse releases what’s trending in crypto
• @EM1T_ releases CDMX Pinnacle on SuperRare
• @polly_kole creates custom painted apes for @tropoFarmer
• @fabioseva shows off unboxing video of Nouns Vision glasses
• @claire_salvo paints @cryptoseneca’s Noun on a dollar
• @saadiq joins the PROOF Product Team
• @toadswiback was spotted on the Times Square billboard
• @jakob_lr drops Kickback on Foundation
• @theharveydean drops Blueberry Nebula on SuperRare
• @jennifer_sutto releases Weekly NFT News
• @ryankoopmans announces collab with @cathsimard_ coming soon
• @NathanHeadPhoto releases Palette on SuperRare
• NFTfi users have now unlocked over $10 million liquidity using World of Women NFTs

Sales of the Week

Otherdeed #12 sold for 279 ETH

Night Market District by @Seerlight sold for 100 ETH

Noun #433 sold for 78.69 ETH

BLeU by @0xTjo sold for 69.42 ETH

Where My Vans Go #5 by @DrifterShoots sold for 46.69 ETH

MoonCat #1105 sold for 35 ETH

Articles and Threads

@NTmoney releases ENS is the perfect NFT collection

@redion_news releases Redlion Gazette #104

CoinDesk releases NFTs Can and Will Be So Much More

@forefront__ releases Newsletter Edition 104

@gldncrypt0 releases GM NFTs thread

@NFTInnovation releases NFT Innovation Digest #51

@TheSpartanLabs releases Dutch Auctions are Great for NFT Pricing, Here’s Why

@WPeaster releases 87th Bankless Metaversal

@espressoinsight releases How will EIP-4883 shape the 3D internet of the future

@getpuddle releases roundup of Web2 brands taking the leap into Web3

@Cooopahtroopa releases This Week in Music NFTs

@lexology releases Intellectual Property Implications in the Metaverse

@_Dave__White_ releases Gradual Ownership Optimization

Coolhunting.com releases interview w/ @mattmedved @samhysell & @LuisANavia of @nftnow

Twitter Spaces

Rug Radio Women in Web 3

Grateful Show #42 w/ @GabrielJWeis & The Stoics

NFT Pirate Radio

Podcasts

The First Mint Why NFTs Will Be So Much Bigger Than We Think

Overpriced JPEGS Episode 51 with Ledger CXO

We Do A Little Episode 2 ZORA

NFT Catcher Podcast Episode #87

Mint Coop Records Just Raised $10 million

Proof A Conversation with @frankdegods and y00ts

32 Dreams NFT World #16