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πŸ’ŽπŸ•΅ Zima Red NFT Roundup - May 14, 2021

Andrew Steinwold
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Say hello to theΒ Zima Red NFT Roundup, your weekly pulse on the biggest news around NFTs. Sit back, relax, and kick your weekend off right by catching up on the latest major NFT developments. Thanks for reading! πŸ™


πŸ’₯ This week in NFTs …

  • 🌟 Meebits, the newest NFT project from CryptoPunks creators Larva Labs, was at the center of several headlines this week. First, an attacker launched aΒ β€œrerolling” ployΒ that allowed them to make off with a rare and thus extremely lucrative Meebit. On the bright side, we also just saw a person who minted a single CryptoPunk in 2017 fairly claim aΒ Dissected Meebit, potentially worth ~700 ETH. Nice! Lastly, something you won’t want to sleep on is the arrival ofΒ MeebitsDAO, a decentralized community aimed at fostering the new avatar project.Β 

  • πŸ’Έ Axie Infinity developers Sky Mavis raised $7.5 million USD in theirΒ Series A fundraise. The funds will go toward helping Sky Mavis continue to expand and improve the Axie Infinity NFT gaming franchise. Of course, Axie Infinity is already one of the ecosystem’s most popular apps, so this new funding will help Sky Mavis be able to take the game to new and even more impressive heights.Β 

  • πŸ’Έ Speaking of big new raises, this week we also just saw NFT startupΒ RTFKTΒ raise $8 million USD and…

  • πŸ’ΈΒ Animoca Brands, the NFT gaming firm behind projects like The Sandbox and F1 Delta Time, raises an incredible $88 million USD.Β 

  • πŸ–₯ eBay is an e-commerce powerhouse whose name is essentially synonymous with β€œonline marketplace,” so the company turned a lot of heads this week in announcingΒ support for NFT salesΒ on its platform. How this integration plays out from here remains to be seen, but the very development shows just how decisively NFTs have entered into the mainstream limelight.Β 

  • πŸ–Ό A group ofΒ 9 rare CryptoPunksΒ sold for nearly $17 million USD at Christie’s. The sale proved controversial with some in the NFT space for a range of reasons, but however you feel there’s no question that the auction was a historical advance for CryptoPunks and NFTs in general. In recent days we’ve also seen Punks lore growing, too. For example, PunkΒ #5528Β is now a rapper and Beanie.eth publish the first edition of theΒ PUNKS comic.Β 

  • πŸš€Β Upshot, a new platform for crowdsourced NFT appraisals, rolled out its open beta this week. As such, the project allows anyone to get paid for appraising NFTs.Β 

  • πŸš€ With the help ofΒ nft42, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk launchedΒ VeeFriends, a project based on access NFTs. The varying tokens available grant holders different opportunities, as well as access to the upcoming VeeCon conference.Β 

  • πŸ”₯Β Jenny Metaverse DAOΒ arrived, a new NFT collector group whose DAO is the first to be built atop the NFT protocol unicly. On the point of unicly, the project’s team also justΒ partnered with Enjin.Β 


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