Dear Nation, HackerNoon . I’m revamping my weekly Friday news recaps No worries — you’ll still be able to track the biggest NFT happenings in this column per usual. What’s changed is that these reorganized, new-look recaps will now go beyond just covering the news and will provide a range of notable info like alpha reads, mint opps, stats, tools, tips, and more. I’m excited to start going wider and deeper with these roundups, so dive in below to see the first run of this new format, and feel free to give me feedback on it in the comments section at the bottom of this post! As always thanks for reading everyone, and have a great weekend ✌️ -WMP 🧠 The Big Picture: The cumulative market cap of the NFT space is currently , or ~$13.4B USD. Unique NFT users and NFT sale counts as an atmosphere of bullishness seems to be returning to the cryptoeconomy once more. around 8.6 million ETH continue to uptrend 📊 This Week by the Numbers: 🔝 7D top collections by volume Yuga Labs just launched its new , so it’s no surprise the associated Sewer Pass access NFTs have surged to the top of this week’s volume charts. Amid the buzz, Yuga’s MAYC, BAYC, and BAKC collections round out the top 4 projects in that order. Azuki, riding high on the and news, is currently the only non-Yuga project in the top 5. Dookey Dash game Hilumia Bilibili 🛒 7D NFT Marketplace Stats At the moment it’s OpenSea’s and Blur’s world, and we’re all just living in it. The volume stats between the two leading NFT marketplaces continue to be fairly neck and neck ahead of the , which is now slated to go live on Feb. 14th, 2022. $BLUR airdrop 🛍️ 3 Biggest Buys This Week CryptoPunks and BAYC remain the crème de la crème in the PFP world, so we’ve had yet another week where most of the largest NFT transactions therein were for ‘Punks and Apes. Expect more of the same for the foreseeable future as Yuga Labs, which stewards both collections, keeps pushing forward. 📰 General News , a specialized ENS hub and marketplace, is . ENS Vision dominating ENS sales lately is now . Nouns Comic! available for preordering launched its community NFT marketplace builder tool . Rarible on Polygon introduced a to its Nounlets product. Tessera Nouns tribute mechanism and colleagues on how to improve the Gradual Dutch Auction model employed by Art Gobblers. Tarun Chitra published a paper Digital Collectibles 🏆 are seeing an . Hoodie CryptoPunks uptick in sales this month 🎨 Cryptoart & Music unveiled its . Catalog Cycle 3 contributing curators held its latest Meme Card drops: “ ” by Michael Sidofsky and “ ” by Oveck. 6529 Collections GM to the PM We The Creators classic “N” resold for . XCOPY Ξ206.9 on SuperRare 🎮 Decentralized Gaming kicked off the for Axie Origins. Axie Infinity Season 2 Epic Era 🌐 Virtual Worlds published , a post on its plans for the year. Decentraland 2023 Manifesto: Year of the Creators , the legendary NFT trader, purchased . Pranksy 50 Worldwide Webb parcels NFTfi started its gas rebate program by to anyone who purchased an on Uniswap between Nov. 30th and Dec. 14th last year. Uniswap refunding Ξ0.01 NFT 🎆 Fresh Mint Spotlight: Checks Launched on Jan. 3rd, 2023, as a timed open edition by , the Checks have since exploded in popularity and inspired . With a starting mint price of Ξ0.0066 and a current valuation of Ξ0.268 in secondary markets, these NFTs have shown that rapid ~4,000% increases in floor prices aren’t just a remnant of the 2021 bull market but are, indeed, still very possible in the here and now. Jack Butcher dozens of derivatives https://twitter.com/ourZORA/status/1616112702572875777?s=20&embedable=true 🔭 Other New Mints to Watch: — Before You Exist Everywhere by Amber Vittoria an unlimited open edition for Ξ0.008 a piece, could be a cool 1st mint for NFT newcomers — BAYC Sewer Pass a free claim started this week for BAYC, MAYC, and BAKC holders that provides access to Yuga Labs’s Dookey Dash gaming challenge; the passes are tradeable so keep an eye on secondary markets — Rug Radio PFPs designed by artist Cory Van Lew, the new PFPs for the Rug Radio ecosystem are slated to start minting on Feb. 6th 🙇 3 insightful threads weekly to level up your NFT knowledge on NFT gaming investments beyond ERC20s and NFTs: 0xKepler https://twitter.com/0xKepler/status/1615365589920546817?s=20&embedable=true on PROOF Collective’s new Grails Season III mechanics: crisgarner.eth https://twitter.com/crisgarner/status/1614759392540327943?s=20&embedable=true on the Polygon NFT + biz dev boom: Jack Inabinet https://twitter.com/JackInabinet/status/1616215565303173136?s=20&embedable=true ✨ My NFT tool of the week: Agora A suite for Nouns DAO governance participants, Agora streamlines the Nouns voting process. The project recently introduced a delegation auction system, so you can bid on the temporary right to vote with a Noun without having to purchase a Noun outright. If you’re interested in Nounish governance, keep an eye on Agora! https://twitter.com/nounsagora/status/1614698889931821057?s=20&embedable=true 💥 You might have ETH you forgot about! Did you happen to try and when I first wrote about them for Bankless back in 2021? If so, you might be like me and other NFTers who lost track of the fact that we had ETH we could claim from these projects’ vaults. You can use this created by 0xRob to see if your address has any ETH ready to claim. I personally recovered almost Ξ1 this way! Fractional PartyBid Dune dashboard https://twitter.com/rob_0x/status/1615382683760136193?s=20&embedable=true 😜 The recently released ? Let’s just say it’s not great... Game of Thrones NFT art Accordingly, Alan Carroll offered this meme interpretation of how the art got off the drawing board: https://twitter.com/alancarroII/status/1613300930212167682?s=20&embedable=true Weekly action steps 🆕 Review in Bankless The State of Ethereum Report - Q4 2022 🌱 Watch on Green Pill The Gitcoin Alpha Round 🙇 Catch up on my other write-ups from this week: ✧ Bid for BLUR ✧ A New Way to Launch NFTs ✧ How to Become a DeFiLlama Pro Author Bio is a professional writer and creator of —a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, JPG, and beyond! William M. Peaster Metaversal Also published here.

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