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🎙Zima Pink Podcast

Two superior episodes this week:

Metastreet: The Billion Greenback NFT Credit score Market Alternative. We chat with Conor and David, the co-founders of Metastreet. On this episode we speak:

Artwork & actual property credit score markets
How the NFT lending markets are largely untapped
How Metastreet features
Why gamification is the way forward for work
How DAOs are utilities

Digital Influencers Are The Future Of Leisure. We dive into –

How the music trade is damaged –
How web3 can empower the creators + artists –
The primary metastar @angelbaby
Ramifications of open IP

📈 Market

Deutsche Financial institution calculated a $1T+ Complete Addressable Market for NFTs

The agency launched a report that predicts Instagram’s upcoming NFT integration will convey the trade and expertise elevated legitimacy.

They imagine Instagram will decrease the barrier to entry by simplifying the shopping for and promoting course of.
Deutsche estimates a broad rollout of an NFT market on prime of Instagram might drive upwards of $8B in annual income for Meta.

The report states that the NFT Market is in “hyper-growth mode” with its transaction quantity skyrocketing 250x from $95M in 2020 to $25B final yr.

New NFT progress section

Though Google searches for NFTs are down near ~33% from mid-Jan and OpenSea’s day by day quantity is down 65% because the begin of February, new information exhibits that the NFT market could also be shifting into a brand new progress section.

The variety of “useless” initiatives (< 10 gross sales in 30 days) now makes up solely a fifth of the NFT market.

📰 Mainstream

Time profiled Vitalik Buterin after which launched the quilt as an NFT

He has a number of crypto considerations:

Buyers aping into crypto and investing greater than they’ll afford to lose
Crypto’s general public notion being broken by public wealth flaunting
Excessive transaction charges restrict ETH’s use instances to solely finance & hypothesis

[Read the full article]

Two rug pullers truly received charged by the DoJ

The 2 people behind the Frosties NFT mission have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering.

They offered out the Frosties NFTs then deactivated the web site and peaced out with $1.1M in crypto.

Rug pulls, sadly, occur on a regular basis however that is the primary one on the report that resulted in any actual authorized motion
The people concerned have been reportedly each solely 20

Skilled athletes, celebrities, and influencers are completely shaking proper now.

Luxurious watchmaker Jacob & Co. is again with one other NFT drop

The corporate is releasing eight bodily watches impressed by the metaverse
They’re additionally dropping 30 digital-only watch NFTs
Jacob & Co. offered its first NFT timepiece again in April 2021 for $100,000 at public sale

Test all of it out at UNXD.com

👤 Social

World of Ladies drops its second assortment

Phrase of Ladies’s second assortment, World of Ladies Galaxy, offered out with 17Ok+ ETH in buying and selling quantity up to now.

The World of Ladies Galaxy NFTs used a Dutch public sale, which can provide artists and builders extra potential income.

Solana MBS NFTs see their gross sales quantity and flooring surge

Solana MBS gross sales

VCs personal ~14% of Yuga Lab’s ApeCoin

Aaron Brown, a crypto investor writing for Bloomberg, in contrast ApeCoin to a SPAC.

ApeCoin DAO is “a placeholder try and seize future potential enterprise underneath the Bored Ape model title.”

🎮 Gaming

Yuga Labs’ pitch deck was leaked to the world.

In the event you missed it, listed below are the takeaways:

Yuga believes everybody’s strategy to the metaverse isn’t new, it’s boring.
They’re constructing an interoperable gaming metaverse.
You need to use your NFT as your character and Yuga’s SDK will flip it right into a 3D playable character.
They’ll promote 200Ok plots of digital land at ~1ETH every
- For the 100okay genesis drop, ~30okay will go to BAYC and MAYC holders leaving ~70Ok for the general public.
- Land gross sales will account for ~62% of projected 2022 income.

Yuga additionally launched its 2021 financials and its anticipated 2022 financials.

[Read the full deck]

Axie Infinity (AXS) is up +30% the final week for 3 causes.

They’re releasing a reimagined strategy to Axie Battles referred to as Axie Origins
- Origins will embrace new recreation mechanics designed to enhance the general participant expertise
- Free starter Axies to assist entice new gamers to the sport.
- Energy-ups for Axies that require customers to burn AXS
Energetic customers and AXS staking is growing
- The Axie Infinity userbase is at an all-time excessive of 207,000+ customers
- The present staking reward is 73%
The Ronin Community is steadily rising

NFT Worlds is releasing their very own NFT Avatars.

15,000 whole
10,000 whitelisted for NFT Worlds holders
5,000 reserved for a public mint

NFT Worlds will even provide renting and staking

World holders can now stake their world within the sensible contract to earn WRLD tokens
The staff is engaged on a market that may permit holders to monetize their worlds by renting them out

🎨 Artwork

XCOPY's Max Pain NFT sold $23 million worth of open editions. Image: XCOPY

Crypto Artist XCOPY offered $23M price of open version NFTs in minutes

XCOPY has change into one of the profitable artists within the NFT market. The pseudonymous crypto artist historically makes a speciality of 1/1 single editions which go for hundreds of thousands every.

This time round, XCOPY launched a extra inexpensive open version NFT for simply 10 minutes at 1ETH every.

In these 10 minutes:

7,394 items have been offered
~$23M was made

“Effectively that was fairly intense”

– XCOPY

🎶 Music

Common Music’s Web3 label, 10:22 PM, spent $360,000 on a Bored Ape

The ape, often called “Supervisor Noët All” will lead its digital band, Kingship.

In line with Common Music, Kingship will finally produce music and carry out digital live shows.

Spotify’s job posting hints at an eventual NFT integration

A job itemizing asks for the candidate to have:

”Professional familiarity with rising developments, applied sciences, platforms, and ecosystems, particularly because it pertains to the content material, creator, media, web3, and rising expertise industries”

A bull case for music NFTs by Delphi Digital

💸 Funding

Yuga Labs ($450M) – The NFT holding firm and creator of BAYC & MAYC. The spherical provides Yuga a $4B valuation and was led by Andreesen Horowitz with participation from Animoca Manufacturers, LionTree, Sound Ventures, Thrive Capital, FTX, and MoonPay.

metaENGINE ($4M) – A decentralized platform for the event and publishing of Fi / Metaverse video games and apps. Participation got here from Bounce Crypto, Lemniscap, Polygon Studios, Blockwall, Blufolio, DCX Ventures, Environment friendly Frontier, Insignius Capital, Block Manufacturers, Future Fund, and Maelstrom Interactive.

LifeForce Video games ($5M) – A metaverse-as-a-service community. The spherical included participation from Lemniscap, CMT Digital, Sfermion, Hartmann Capital, Sterling.VC, Prepared Participant DAO, and NeonDao.

C2X ($25M) – C2X is a blockchain gaming platform. The spherical included participation from with participation from FTX, Bounce Crypto, Animoca Manufacturers, Hashed, DeFiance Capital, Terra, Transcend Fund, Galaxy Interactive, Huobi Capital, Skybound Leisure, Blockchain Co-investors, Play Ventures, Idea Artwork Home, Crypto.com Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Unanimous Capital, Bowei, Xsolla, Purpose Ventures, Agnitio Capital, and Formless Capital.

Ultiverse ($4.5M) – Web3 mixed with a VR-compatible digital world. Participation from Binance Labs, DeFiance Capital, Three Arrows Capital, and SkyVision Capital.

LiveArtX ($4.5M) – A NFT platform that connects the artwork world with web3. The spherical included from Animoca Manufacturers, KuCoin Labs, Everest Ventures, ArkStream Capital, APENFT, Alameda Analysis, Appworks, BlackPine, Gate.io, Hashkey Capital, Head & Shoulder X, OKX, SNZ Holding, Shima Capital, TPS Capital, and BNB Chain.

Crypto Unicorns ($26M) – A blockchain-based digital pet accumulating and farming Recreation. The spherical included participation from TCG, Backed, Acme Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Delphi Digital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Polygon Studios, CoinFund, BreederDAO, and Emfarsis.