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NFT Weekly Report: Christie’s auctioned Bored Ape, LV launched metaverse game

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Author: 0x13, Rhythm BlockBeats

Rhythm NFT weekly report will include the previous week (Monday to Sunday) two Top 5 items in the secondary market turnover, Top 5 NFTs in the secondary market turnover, related information summary, and recommended reading articles from four perspectives. The relevant information includes market news, art NFT information, collection NFT information, game NFT information, Metaverse NFT information and others, present readers with a comprehensive presentation of the exciting developments in the NFT field of the past week.

Top 5 projects in the secondary market turnover

According to the statistics of CryptoSlam, the top five secondary market transactions in the past week are as follows:

Top 5 NFT in secondary market turnover

1, No. 2338 CryptoPunk

The transaction price is 1500ETH, which is about 4.3829 million US dollars;

2. CryptoPunk No. 7252

The transaction price is 1000ETH, which is about 2.5157 million US dollars;

3, CryptoPunk No. 8805

The transaction price was 420.69ETH, or about 1.2925 million US dollars;

4. Meebits No. 18574

The transaction price is 469ETH, which is about 1.2925 million US dollars;

5. CryptoPunk No. 561

The transaction price is 375ETH, which is about 1.0411 million US dollars;

Information Summary

Market News

Okeyun Chain Master: NFT on Ethereum in the past week The transaction volume increased by 338% month-on-month

According to the data from the masters on the Okeyun Chain, the Ethereum The transaction volume of NFT on the platform reached 171 million US dollars, a month-on-month increase of 338%. The trading volume of leading NFT works including CryptoPunks, Art Blocks Curated, Bored Ape Yacht Club, etc. has increased significantly. In the past two days, the trading volume of CyrptoPunks reached 78.39 million US dollars.

RPG game Nine Chronicles completes $2.6 million financing, led by Animoca Brands

Open source RPG Blockchain game Nine Chronicles announced the completion of $2.6 million in financing, led by Animoca Brands, followed by Divergence Ventures, IDEO CoLab, Sfermion, Hypersphere Ventures, SkyVision Capital, and Axie Infinity co-founder Jeffrey Zirlin and Aave CEO Stani Kulechov.

NFT platform Mynft announced that it has completed the seed round of financing, Dapper Labs and others participated in the investment

NFT platform Mynft announced that it has completed the seed round of financing, this round of financing is led by HashKey Dapper Labs, Everest Ventures Group, SevenX Ventures, and Yuanyuzhou Ventures participated.

This round of financing will be mainly used for team building and product development. As the first project of the Flow Ecology in China, Mynft has received Grants support from the Flow Foundation in March this year. The platform aims to connect the eastern and western markets and provide users with high-quality distribution, transaction and social experience.

NFT platform MakersPlace has completed the A round of financing of 30 million US dollars, Pantera Capital and others lead the investment

NFT platform MakersPlace completes $30 million in Series A financing, Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital led the round, with participation from Uncork Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Sony Music Entertainment. This financing will be used for team and market expansion.

MakersPlace was founded in 2018 by former Pinterest employees, after the NFT masterpiece "EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000" by the famous encryption artist Beeple DAYS" was cast at MakersPlace and auctioned at Christie's for $69 million.

NFT creation and distribution platform Cent completes $3 million seed Round of financing, Galaxy Interactive and others participated

According to Variety, NFT creation and distribution platform Cent completed 300 $10,000 seed round financing, Galaxy Interactive, In/Visible Ventures, former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, music artist will.i.am, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Mask Network participated.

The funds raised in this round will continue to be used to develop and build the NFT platform, so that users can create NFT more easily, and Build a creator-centric social network, so that every creative user can earn income by making NFT.

Three Arrows Capital CEO: Has purchased CryptoPunk and other NFT

Three Arrows Capital (Three Arrows Capital) CEO Su Zhu tweeted that his (Three Arrows Capital) purchased NFTs such as CryptoPunk, and at the same time believed that due to factors such as scarcity and metaverse, the story of NFTs will be more grand.

Art

Black astronaut "Aku" becomes the first NFT artwork to go into space

Former Major League Baseball player and artist Micah Johnson debuted the black astronaut "Aku" NFT in February. On July 28, Micah Johnson, in collaboration with Artemis Music and Nanorocks, sent the NFT to a server on the International Space Station (ISS), the first NFT artwork to go to space. According to Artemis Music, the video source file behind the new Aku NFT was transmitted to a server on the International Space Station on July 28 from Nanoracks Mission Control in Houston, Texas. The file was kept on the server while the ISS was operating on Earth, before being sent back to Earth less than two hours later. Telemetry and transmission data are retained to verify the process and incorporated into NFT smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. It is reported that the NFT work will be sold through the NFT market Notables on August 10. All net proceeds from Aku NFT sales will go to Students Exploring and Developing Space (SEDS), with 50% of donations earmarked for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the organization’s minority outreach efforts.

The transaction volume of Art Blocks, an NFT platform for generating artworks, exceeded 1

Data from the data tracking company DappRadar shows that the transaction volume of Art Blocks, an NFT platform for generating artworks, has exceeded $100 million, the number of traders exceeded 9,000. In the past 7 days, the transaction volume of Art Blocks smart contracts has surged by 500%, user interaction has increased by nearly 50%, and the number of transactions has increased by more than 60%. Generating artwork is a hot topic in the NFT community right now, and Art Blocks has become the go-to platform for creating, collecting, and curating such NFTs. Fidenza, Eternal Pump and Chromie Squiggles are its most popular and highest-selling collection lines.

Digital Art Asia 2021: All Payments in Digital RMB

The recently held 2021 Asian Digital Art Exhibition showed the power of digital art in many works, except Let citizens have the most intuitive experience of digital art, understand the current development frontier of digital art, and hope to integrate culture and art into the city and people's lives through technological means. It is reported that digital renminbi is a highlight of this Asia Digital Art Exhibition. In order to further increase the frequency of use of digital renminbi and encourage more users to join the ranks of using digital renminbi, all items that need to be paid in this exhibition support the use of digital renminbi. Digital RMB payment.

Japanese artist Haroshi presents the first NFT SERIES

LGND Corporation announces the debut of a digital art collection titled RECYCLED PIXELS by Tokyo-based artist Haroshi. A skateboarder and self-taught woodworker, Haroshi's work ranges from detailed sculptures to large-scale installations featuring mostly recycled skateboard decks, with this unique collection Haroshi explores the medium of digital art for the first time.

Favorites

MAO DAO’s first batch of NFT blind boxes went on sale and sold out within 3 minutes

MAO DAO issued the first batch of NFT Ready PlayerCat (RPC) at 23:30 on August 8th. The first batch of RPCNFT was limited to 1,000 pieces, and they were snapped up within 3 minutes. MAO DAO stated that it will launch the second batch of 3,000 NFT sales within two weeks.

Tencent NFT platform "Magic Core" first phase 300 pieces NFT sold out in seconds

Tencent NFT platform "Magic Core" first phase 300 pieces "Sound" Thirteen Invitations "Digital Art Collection NFT" has been sold at 20:00 on August 3. The unit price of NFT is 18 yuan, sold out in a few seconds

Hong Kong The media on the news media side will add virtual currency payment channels, and plan to issue corresponding news instant NFT

Hong Kong The news media (Initium Media) issued an article stating that a virtual currency payment channel will be added next to provide members with diversified payment options. At the same time, it also plans to issue NFT to save precious news moments and make them into users’ collections. Taste.

Coca-Cola NFT loot box completed the auction at a price of 217.4ETH

The Coca-Cola NFT loot box has been auctioned on the OpenSea platform, and the auction price was as high as 217.4541 ETH (about 550,000 Dollar).

Ethernity Chain will launch the first officially certified NFT series of well-known star Messi

NFT The foundry and authentication platform Ethernity Chain announced that the well-known star Lionel Messi (Lionel Messi) has released the first Messi series NFT through the platform. According to the released promotional video, the NFT is composed of several wonderful moments of Messi. It is reported that the series "The Messiverse" will be available on the NFT platform Etherity Chain starting at 5:00 on August 21.

Marvel has partnered with digital collectibles platform VeVe to launch five different versions of Spider-Man NFT collectibles

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Marvel announced plans to launch a Spider-Man version NFT through a partnership with digital collectibles platform VeVe. Starting on August 7th, five different types of Spider-Man collectibles will be available for purchase in the marketplace.

Prices range from $40 to $400 for each Spider-Man digital collectible, with higher prices for total editions The fewer the number. For example, the "Common Rare" "Amazing Spider-Man" NFT product will be available in 32,000 units, while the "Mysterious Rare" "Amazing Spider-Man" Ultimate Animation NFT product will be limited to 1,000.

Christie’s announced that it will start the NFT auction on September 17, including CryptoPunk, Bored Ape Yacht Club and Meebits

According to official news, Christie’s will open an NFT auction with the theme "No Time Like Present" at 14:00 on September 17, Beijing time. Participating works include CryptoPunk, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Larva Labs' latest creation, Meebits. The auction will last until 14:00 on September 28, and more participating works will be announced later.

Audi announced that it will release NFT in cooperation with xNFT and others on August 10

Audi (FAW-Volkswagen Co., Ltd.) posted on Weibo: "The perspective is changing, and the exploration of the future has never changed. Technology and art are connected, and freedom of expression and Ahead. Connecting the present and the future, presenting a pioneering attitude here. On August 10, NFT is about to welcome new players, guess what surprises it will bring?"

The trailer shows that Audi will cooperate with xNFT and others to release NFT.

Games

FTX reached an agreement with YGG to sponsor Axie Infinity players

The encrypted trading platform FTX signed a sponsorship agreement with the blockchain game community YieldGuildGames (YGG), and will sponsor 137 gamers from developing countries to participate in Ethereum games AxieInfinity and YGG provided FTX with lifetime naming rights. It is reported that FTX will provide sponsorship funds to pay for players to "cultivate" Axies in AxieInfinity. Players from developing countries can use NFT characters to fight monsters to make a living (play-to-earn). FTX said: "We were inspired by seeing NFT games provide people with opportunities to escape poverty. However, the high cost of NFTs creates a very real barrier to those who can benefit most from these games. And YGG We are solving this problem by lending NFTs to new players with no upfront fees, so we want to support their mission and help them scale their reach faster."

Louis Vuitton launches NFT game "Louis: The Game" featuring Beeple artwork

To celebrate its 200th anniversary, Louis Vuitton (LV) launched the NFT game "Louis: The Game", including the history and life of the founder As an anecdote from , the game also includes artwork by NFT artist Mike 'Beeple' Winkelmann. It is reported that there will be as many as 30 NFTs that players can collect during the game, of which Beeple provides 10 unique NFT works for the game.

NBA Top Shot to Release Exclusive During NBA Summer League NFT

The NFT game NBA Top Shot developed by Dapper Labs will be held in Las Vegas next week Exclusive NFT released during NBA Summer League. These are the first Top Shot "moments" NFTs available for purchase at physical venues, and the first time NFTs in the series will be sold at an NBA game.

This series of NFTs will commemorate the highlights of each game on August 8th, 9th and 10th. At least 1,000 copies of each edition will be minted, and the total number of minted "moments" NFTs will be determined based on demand. Fans can purchase up to 10 copies per person per day. Contest participants can purchase NFTs for a presale price of $5 per NFT from the Top Shop kiosk at the Thomas & Mark Center in Las Vegas.

Luxury fashion brand Burberry will participate in the blockchain game Blankos Block Party

Luxury fashion brand Burberry has partnered with Mythical Games to launch its first NFT collection "Series B". Burberry will be showcasing its products through the blockchain game Blankos Block Party, which will open for in-game purchases on August 11 through the Blankos Block Party marketplace.

Solana Ecosystem launches NFT game SOLifeNFT

Solana ecosystem launched SOLifeNFT, SolifeNFT is a Play-to-Earn NFT strategy game based on Solana, supporting Phantom and Sollet wallet.

Other

Mark Cuban's NFT platform Lazy launched the Ethereum expansion solution Polygon

billion Lazy, the NFT digital art gallery built by millionaire Mark Cuban, launched the Ethereum expansion solution Polygon. Users can now connect their Polygon wallets to Lazy, display their NFTs and put them on their social media accounts by generating Lazy links.

Math Wallet joined the Flow ecosystem and reached a strategic cooperation

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According to Flow Official's official news, Math Wallet has joined the Flow ecosystem and reached a strategic cooperation, and has supported the Flow main Net tokens and related applications will provide wallet provider services for the Flow ecology and users, lower the threshold for user participation, and jointly build a prosperous ecology in the NFT field. With this integration, Math Wallet will support transactions and transfers of Flow tokens. Functions such as transfer, transaction and display storage of NFT products on the Flow chain will also be supported in succession.

FTX reaches deal with entertainment company Dolphin Entertainment Cooperate to launch NFT trading market

Encrypted trading platform FTX announces partnership with entertainment company Dolphin Entertainment Reached a cooperation to jointly launch a new NFT trading market. Dolphin's subsidiaries include a number of well-known public relations firms in a variety of industries, including 42West, Shore Fire Media and The Door.

FTX tweeted that the market will focus on movies, TV, music, games, e-sports, Brands in the culinary, lifestyle and philanthropy industries.

TRON and NFT social platform DeFine reached a strategic cooperation

TRON officially tweeted that TRON has reached a strategic cooperation with NFT social platform DeFine and incorporated it into the TRON ecosystem. With the integration of DeFine on TRON, users and creators around the world will be able to use the platform for transactions and creations.

At the same time, DeFine will cooperate with TRON and the APENFT Foundation to purchase valuable NFTs in the global market. Build an NFT ecosystem.

NFT trading platform GhostMarket integrates Polygon network

According to the official news of NFT trading platform GhostMarket , GhostMarket is now fully integrated into the Polygon network. The main features of this integration include:

-Easy login, fully compatible with MetaMask, WalletConnect and WalletLink

- Summarize all wallets and NFT works at one time

-Trade ERC721 or ERC1155 NFT works

-Cast in GhostMarket’s "GHOST" collection that belongs to Own ERC721 or ERC1155 NFT works

- Quotation for NFT works (on sale or sold), the quotation is currently only Limited to USDC/DAI/WETH

-NFT works auction (current transactions are limited to MATIC)

In addition, the development team also said that by enabling the MetaMask wallet, a wider range of users will be expanded and it will be easier for users to purchase goods.

NFT social platform DeFine will launch Polygon soon

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NFT social platform DeFine announced that Polygon will be launched soon. After the launch, DeFine will deploy its social profile system to the Polygon ecosystem.

It is reported that the DeFine social profile system is an NFT-based society built on the basis of users' contributions and achievements in the digital world Identity, after deploying to Polygon, users will earn badges representing their activities in the ecosystem, such as crossing asset bridges, providing liquidity, participating in governance, buying art, etc.

Korea's largest NFT multi-chain decentralized wallet Talken Announcing support for the Avalanche protocol

South Korea's NFT multi-chain decentralized wallet Talken announced support for the Avalanche avalanche protocol. Through this cooperation with the Avalanche protocol (Avalanche), Talken will be deployed on the Avalanche protocol, making full use of the characteristics of the Avalanche protocol chain, such as the fastest transaction completion speed, the largest number of validators, and the ability to ensure the security of all PoS protocol activities. , its X-Chain's support for NFT will greatly improve the efficiency and experience of NFT one-stop creation, auction, collection and transaction in the Talken wallet.

Talken is well-known in the Korean encryption industry and has a strong user base and community influence. Within the Talken ecosystem, K-pop stars, celebrities and artists can complete one-stop creation, auction, collection and trading. After Talken acquired CoinManager in 2019, the total number of users exceeds one million. At present, a million-dollar private equity round of financing has been completed. As a cross-chain wallet, Talken currently supports ETH, Klaytn, HECO and BSC, and is opening Optimism, xDAI and Polygon.