Weekly Recap By Crypto Gucci #101

Top NFT News of the Week

Spotify adds NFT functionality

Spotify has added NFT functionality

If you go to an artist’s page like @steveaoki, you’ll see links to his NFT collection right on his profile page. pic.twitter.com/K1xm2akyBV
— The NFT SoapBox (@NFTSoapBox) August 18, 2022

Anthony Hopkins launches first NFT collection

To Anthony Hopkins, 'NFTs are a blank canvas to create art."

Get ready. It's coming. @AnthonyHopkins https://t.co/mJdDHzf75N
— nft now 💭 (@nftnow) August 17, 2022

Bored Ape #5383 sold for 777 ETH

sold for 777 ETH

Immutable X jumps Solana in daily NFT sales volume

ImmutableX has jumped Solana in daily NFT dollar sales volume, ranking second only to Ethereum.

The volume increase has been led by Gods Unchained, DC Comics, and Illuvium Land. pic.twitter.com/CHjsg7DWmX
— Blockworks Research (@blockworksres) August 18, 2022

The first federally chartered digital asset bank, Anchorage, is now the first U.S. bank to custody CryptoPunks, Bored Apes, & World of Women NFTs

The first federally chartered digital asset bank, @Anchorage is also the first U.S. bank to custody #NFTs: @cryptopunksnfts, #MutantApes, @BoredApeYC & now @worldofwomennft's $WOW.

Watch this video & click to learn about our institutional NFT custody⬇️: https://t.co/jLPL8GdIWc pic.twitter.com/zw5zA4Fw5t
— Anchorage Digital (@Anchorage) August 19, 2022

Stats

OpenSea has done $355 million volume so far in August

Weekly Polygon NFT volume was over $902 million

SudoSwap goes over 10K ETH volume

NFT News

Bored Ape Yacht Club goes over 1 million Twitter followers

SuperPlastic drops vinyl Mutant Apes
Phantom launches NFT burning feature
NFL ALL DAY drops first pack and goes live
@DrifterShoots Bridging The Gap drops on Nifty Gateway
Nifty Gateway has big announcement coming September 1
Native listings are now live on the Pudgy Penguins Marketplace
Paradigm leads $20M round for Fractional as it rebrands to Tessera

The Hundreds drops Cool Cats merch

We're up to something @coolcatsnft 💣🐱👀 pic.twitter.com/07iNRppMVa
— The Hundreds (@thehundreds) August 15, 2022

Pixel Vault introduces PRISM
emoji & RECUR announce NFT drop
@DrifterShoots drops Foreshadowing on SuperRare
World of Women shows off the WoWverse
The Sandbox Alpha Season 3 begins August 24
Gordon Ramsey announces Hells Kitchen is coming to The Sandbox
PROOF announces FuturePROOF Meetup in LA coming August 30

Boss Beauties signs with WME to go into film, TV, digital, and gaming

JUST IN! ⚡️

Boss Beauties signs with world renowned @WME to push BB and Super BB out into film, TV, digital and gaming. 😍 Exclusive story on @Variety https://t.co/VmLf2ydH3O pic.twitter.com/krewii3wDB
— Boss Beauties (@BossBeautiesNFT) August 17, 2022

Blame Farokh trends on Twitter
Meditation on GM by @aylaelmoussa goes live
LooksRare is looking to hire 5 positions
Velatura by @ClaireSilver12 drops on Nifty Gateway
Tycho launches the Tycho Open Source Community
We Do A Little Podcast by Teressera releases open edition NFT
LooksRare has helped distribute over $65M in royalities to artists and creators to date

CryptoPunks IP rights agreement is now live

Punks, the IP rights agreement for the CryptoPunks collection is now live and can be found at https://t.co/MMIlA0sp5W. This moment is something we’ve promised from day one and we’re looking forward to seeing what the community builds, using the terms as guidance. More details 🧵
— CryptoPunks (@cryptopunksnfts) August 15, 2022

C0C0DAO goes live
Showtime releases new Free NFT view
ZAAP releases sneak peak of their first NFT collections
Gods Unchained Refer and Earn Program goes live
@rachstewart_nz drops Enchanted Visions on SuperRare
GameStopNFT releases wallet version 0.7.0
The NFT Finance Hackathon goes live
@0x_catherine releases XCOPY Dune Dashboard
NFTfi announces partnership with BootNode and Gnosis Safe

Sales of the Week

Bored Ape Kennel Club #8234 sold for 499,998 USDC

Otherdeed for Otherside #25415 w/ Koda #9919 sold for 183 ETH

w/ Koda #9919 sold for 183 ETH

Noun #411 sold for 76.28 ETH

sold for 76.28 ETH

Mutant Ape #11057 sold for 60 ETH

Where My Vans Go #44 by DrifterShoots sold for 46 ETH

External Gratification by Pop Wonder sold for 10.69 ETH

1/ On Royalties
tl;dr

✅Royalties are a social convention, not a technical convention
✅They are not perfect as structured
✅They will behave differently for different types of art
✅No-royalty people are mostly self-serving
✅Artists need a backup plan in any case
— 6529 (@punk6529) August 14, 2022

@Zeneca_33 releases Letter 30: Creator Royalties in NFTs
Redlion News releases Redlion Gazette #101
@WPeaster releases 85th Bankless Metaversal
The Milk Road releases deep dive on Decentral Games
@TheMetaFactory releases The State of Digital to Physical
@Cooopahtroopa releases This Week in Music NFTs

Vogue releases article on @gmoneyNFT’s experimental luxury label launch

The #Web3 influencer and investor, @gmoneyNFT’s experimental luxury brand is starting with an NFC-connected black T-shirt that is acquired through an intricate series of #NFTs as the use of digital twins and physical signalling expands. https://t.co/drrgKYvkEr
— Vogue Business (@voguebusiness) August 15, 2022

@artblocks_io releases Meet the Art Blocks Curation Board
@andr3w releases Punk 7987 has landed. A thread on the journey
@corleonescrypto releases Everything you need to know about SudoSwap
Ocavu releases What are NFTs and why are they becoming a big part of NIL deals
@wardaddycapital releases deep dive on music NFTs and the web3 music eco for PROOF

Twitter Spaces

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