Weekly Recap By Crypto Gucci #105

Top NFT News of the Week

Starbucks unveils Odyssey NFT rewards program on Polygon

Doodles raises $54M at a $704M valuation

$70 million of art from MoMA will be sold this fall to fund the museum’s new push into digital

Yuga Labs rumored to launch a new NFT collection called Mecha Apes

Epic Games launches first NFT game, Blankos Block Party

Stats

Gaming VC funding is up 66% the last month

Weekly OpenSea trading volumes continue downtrend while Sudoswap rises

NFT News

Yuga Labs trademarks MetaRPG

• NFT mints on Solana surge to ATH
• Rarible is now live on Immutable X
• TIME releases their first NFT Issue in Full
• Bored Ape Metaverse Band taps Beyonce and Bruno Mars producers
• RELICS announces a $1.1M round co-led by Coop Records and Palm Tree Crypto
• OpenSea says they believe in a future where people can engage with NFTs across more chains, geographies, and verticals

Magic Eden introduces MetaShield

• PROOF revamps their website
• Chimpers announces CHIMP RUN
• Doodles and Floor announce partnership
• Stateful Works New Home of the Heart Merge NFTs drop
• Mutant Cartel releases new information about The Hideout
• Cool Cats pre-orders for 2022 limited edition Cool Cats sweaters go live

OpenSea announces collab with Curio Tools, Icy Tools, and PROOF to develop OpenRarity

• Cool Cats Cool Comics are coming 9/21
• OpenSea releases update to their homepage
• @Jen_Stark’s art was spotted at the Miami International Airport
• @Raskalov announces the first ever edition by Ontheroofs goes live
• Tyler Hobbs does Twitter takeover of IN OUR CODE’s account about Fidenzas
• Curated welcomes XCOPY’s The Death of Cash to their Curated Collection

XCOPY’s Departed sold for $500,000 at the Sothebys Max Stealth Auction

• Mona introduces Mona Explore
• @GuidoDisalle drops Love to Hate PoW
• ZORA introduces Allowlist for Creator Toolkit
• Polygon partners with Web 3 Game Studio Revolving Games
• MUMBOT will be releasing 100 GHOSTS on Coinbase NFT 10/28
• @jenkinsthevalet open sources 2 licenses used to license 4075 Apes/Mutants for Bored & Dangerous

Tessera announces Nounlets

• Nansen introduces the Nansen Research Portal
• @amber_vittoria announces pre-order of These Are My Big Girl Pants Book
• @thehateart announces The Kiss of Styx Cocktail will be released soon
• Flash Minting is now available for the JPG NFT Index
• Mint Square announces Stark Monsterz will be minting on their launchpad
• Decentral Games introduces the ICE Poker Loyalty Rewards Program
• @RaviVora releases Emergence Of Nowhere on SuperRare
• BoredJobs announces PLAN, the free Product Licensing Agreement for NFTs

Sales of the Week

CryptoPunk #4713 sold for 240 ETH

Otherdeed for Otherside #90295 sold for 190 ETH

Bored Ape #8893 sold for 101 ETH

CLONEX #8259 sold for 100.69 ETH

Articles and Threads

@alpha_pls releases The Starbucks Odyssey & Polygon announcement is quite significant

• OpenSea releases Why We Don’t Mind the Dip(s)
• @redlion_news releases Gazette 105
• @WPeaster releases the 89th Bankless Metaversal
• @BCheque1 releases Paper 34: Insider Trading
• @forefront__ releases Newsletter Edition 105

Decrypt releases Pplpleasr, UnicornDAO, and TIME’s presidents weight in on NFTs

• @punk6529 releases thread about 6529 Meme Cards
• @collectivexyz releases The Future of Moonbirds and PROOF
• @GuildOfGuardian releases How To Build A Sustainable Game Economy
• @FastCompany releases Doodles Domination: How a 1 year old NFT project turned into the next big thing
• @jubbishjay releases My art on Superrare so far, and a short little thread about what it means to me

Twitter Spaces

Grateful Show #45 w/ @GratefulApe_eth @beast_eth @Ape4249 @tinoforbidden @TimpersHD @NFT1nsight & PunkHot10

Podcasts

Overpriced JPEGs NFT Toy Universe w/ @carlypreilly & @wilweinraub

Rug Radio NFTs Beyond The Floor Episode 10 w/ @TheNFT101

NFT Catcher Episode 89 Art, Basketball, & NFTs w/ @jennifer_sutto @NFTicket & @ROSGO21

32 Dreams NFT World #17 w/ @Bcheque1 & @Legendary_NFT