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Blue-chip projects are advancing steadily, and traditional brands are accelerating their entry into Web3

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Yuga Labs released a new promotional video and hinted that the Q4 plan will be announced soon

The co-founder of Yuga Labs denied the rumor that "a new NFT project called Mecha Apes will be released"

Yuga Labs announced the hiring of a large game company president as the company's first chief game officer

It is reported that Chiru Labs, the Azuki development team, will complete 3000 at a valuation of 300 to 400 million US dollars $10,000 A round of financing

Azuki hinted that its story line has entered the new stage of "RUINS" from the first stage of "ALLEY", and is unfolding a grand world view

"disappeared" a A month later, Doodles announced the completion of $54 million in financing at a valuation of $704 million

RTFKT is developing the INVNTRY app, which allows customizing NFT wearables and creating content for Clone X

RTFKT It has changed its CloneX #7968 NFT work to "James Features", implying follow-up cooperation

Cool Cats has hired a new CEO who has worked for Disney, Warner Bros., RECUR

The SudoSwap airdrop plan caused dissatisfaction, and DAU subsequently dropped sharply

Dust Labs completed a financing of 7 million US dollars, and the second-generation project of DeGods y00ts reached the top of OpenSea

KaijuKingz’s store KaijuMart is online, and physical prizes can be purchased , you can also buy similar monkey mutation potions

Art Gobblers, a new NFT project developed by top institutions Paradigm and Rick and Morty artists

Apple charges all NFT transactions through iOS apps The commission of up to 30% has attracted controversy

OpenSea has added support for Layer2, introduced new functions such as rarity, and steadily promoted new cooperation

Starbucks has launched the Web3 platform Starbucks Odyssey

Uniswap COO reveals that it will launch a one-stop NFT trading product this fall

Pixelmon "resurrection", announces new team and new roadmap

Invisible Friends, a dynamic NFT project Hinting at possible launch of 3D series

Goblintown’s parent company Truth Labs has partnered with NFT market Snag Solutions to build a trading platform Truth Labs Marketplace

Disney, Hermes, McLaren and other well-known brands and IP Actively embracing NFT and Web3 fields

Overview

Image source: Dune @rchen8

According to Dune Analytics data, the monthly trading volume of NFTs on OpenSea was only 348.9 million US dollars, the lowest month since about August last year.

Image source: CRYPTOSLAM

Observing the monthly ranking list of NFT transaction volume, we can see:

Ethereum is still the most popular public chain for NFT project parties, ranking top in total transaction volume Among the 20 NFT projects, 15 projects are published on Ethereum, and 2 projects are published on Solana.

Yuga Labs is firmly in the leading position in the NFT field, and 4 of the 5 best-selling projects belong to Yuga Labs.

ENS trading volume has increased by 133.89% from the previous month, and the momentum is strong.

There are 3 items on the leaderboard that belong to the RENGA series, thanks to its new release in September.

Highlights

Yuga Labs hints at Q4 plans

On September 2, Yuga Labs metaverse project Otherside released on its social platformnew promo about Koda's journey into the boring ape universe where it lost a mysterious A vial of glowing liquid (the same vial the monkey was holding in the original trailer). It seems to hint at where Koda came from and how the monkeys got into their world. At the same time, it also hinted that the project will announce a new plan in Q4.

On September 10th, Yuga Labs officially posted a post on social media announcing the launch of the first CryptoPunks A grant award program to support the creation and maintenance of CryptoPunks-centric news and factual reports. Winners will have the opportunity to report more important events and gain more opportunities to communicate with Yuga Labs officials. Yuga Labs says it is building a more formal program around this type of bounty and looks forward to rolling out this type of bounty program for BAYC/MAYC, Punks, Meebits, and Otherside community members soon as well.

September 15, according to protos reported, according to an outflow document, Yuga Labs plans to launch a new NFT series before the end of this year "Mecha Apes" raised $50 million through the project, after Yuga Labs successfully raised $600 million through its "Otherdeeds for Otherside" NFT series sales.

On September 16, Yuga Labs co-founder Greg Solano posted on social media post denied the above news about "Yuga Labs plans to launch a new NFT project called Mecha Apes before the end of this year", calling it a fake news.

September 18, Yuga Labs announced the hiring of Spencer Tucker as the company's first Chief Gaming Officer, He will be responsible for overseeing all of the company's game initiatives and the interoperable metaverse project Otherside, driving community growth. Spencer Tucker used to be the game president of mobile game studio Scopely. He has about two decades of experience in the game industry, specializing in game development, design, UGC, Web3, and creative community engagement.

Azuki financing news released, opening a new chapter of "RUINS"

September 22, according to The Block quoted sources to report that Chiru Labs, the Azuki development team, will complete a $30 million Series A round of financing at a valuation of $300 to $400 million. Financing details have yet to be finalized. In fact, relevant financing news was released on September 17. The floor price of Azuki rose from 7.6 ETH to 10 ETH in a short period of time on the same day, and is now maintained at around 11 ETH.

Previously at the end of August there was Report, the anonymous "giant whale" of 101 Azuki is Zheng Zhigang, the eldest grandson of Zheng Yutong, the founder of Chow Tai Fook.

On September 24th, Azuki officially released Tweets, with pictures implying that the first stage of "ALLEY" has entered the second stage of "RUINS". It seems to be building a grand world view and story line, but the official has not yet made any relevant announcements explain.

Doodles has completed a huge financing, recruiting is in progress

Doodles' official Twitter did not have any tweets or interactions throughout August, which once made many people question "the team is on vacation." Finally, the big news was released on September 13, according to Forbes report, Doodles completed a financing of 54 million US dollars at a valuation of 704 million US dollars, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's venture capital Seven Seven Six (776) led the investment, Acrew Capital, FTX Ventures and 10T Holdings participated in the investment. Doodles officials say they are using the funding to rapidly acquire a world-class team of engineers, creatives, marketers and business executives, and to fund product development, acquisitions, proprietary technology, media and collector experience. Member teams will expand from 11 to 30.

Doodles previously appointed former Billboard president Julian Holguin in May and June The new CEO hired star music producer Pharrell Williams as its chief brand officer. Together with the founding team, they will expand Doodles IP to music, games and entertainment, while deeply integrating culture into the product. Fei Dong will also produce an NFT-inspired album called Doodles Records: Volume 1, which will be released in cooperation with Columbia Records.

On September 24, Doodles officially released "Recruitment post", on its recruitment official website, you can see ten creative directors, product managers, illustrators, etc. The remaining positions are being recruited.

Even in the cold winter of encryption, Doodles has successfully completed a huge amount of financing, and at the same time recruiting elite soldiers, the future can be expected.

RTFKT develops new applications, James appears in CLONE X

On September 6th, RTFKT, an encrypted fashion brand owned by Nike, released tweet indicating that an INVNTRY app is being developed to allow users to customize drip and create content for their Clone X using NFT wearables.

On September 9th, according to OpenSea data, RTFKT, the parent company of CLONE X - X TAKASHI MURAKAMI series NFT creation, has transferred its CloneX #7968 The mouth feature of the NFT work is changed to "LBJ Beard", and the head feature is changed to "CHOSEN 1 CRWN". Both new features are unique attributes (1 of 1). Note: The mouth feature "LBJ Beard" is clearly indicated as "James Beard", and the head feature "CHOSEN 1 CRWN" is taken from James' personal "Crown" Logo and his back tattoo "CHOSEN 1". The encrypted fashion brand RTFKT was acquired by Nike in December 2021, and Nike signed a lifetime contract with James in 2015, so the market speculates that this change is related to subsequent related cooperation.

Cool Cats has a new CEO

On September 22, Cool Cats Group LLC, the parent company of Cool Cats, announced that Stephen Teglas has joined the company as CEO. Teglas will use his extensive experience to lead Cool Cats to achieve its mission. Become the world's largest NFT brand and a powerful media and content company.

It is reported that Stephen Teglas had previously worked for Disney, Warner Bros., and RECUR, and was responsible for the brand management and commercialization of their consumer products. Other brands have established partnerships and granted franchise rights, responsible for projects including Mickey and Minnie, Frozen, Cars, Toy Story, etc., and partner brands include NBA, Marc Jacobs, and Vans. During his tenure at Warner Bros., Teglas was responsible for the commercialization of projects such as DC Comics and Harry Potter.

The SudoSwap airdrop plan was dissatisfied, and DAU subsequently dropped sharply

September 2, sudoswap Issue an overview of the sudoAMM protocol governance Token SUDO distribution plan: the initial supply of SUDO is 60 million, of which 25.12 million (41.9%) are allocated to XMON holders; 900,000 (1.5%) are allocated to 0xmons NFT holders ; 900,000 tokens (1.5%) allocated to retrospective LP airdrops; 15.08 million tokens (25.1%) allocated to Treasury; 9 million tokens allocated to the initial team (1-year full lock-up and 3-year vesting); 9 million tokens allocated to SudoRandom Labs (1-year full lock-up, 3-year vesting).

sudoswap indicates that SUDO Token has not been deployed yet. XMON holders can participate in the lockdrop event to obtain SUDO. During this period, XMON will be locked for 3 months and can be withdrawn later. The allocated SUDO is proportional to the number of locked XMON. For every XMON locked, 10,000 SUDO can be obtained. In addition, in terms of retrospective LP airdrops, the snapshot block is 15455555 (06:42 on September 2, Beijing time).

Since most of the airdrops will be allocated to XMON holders and 0xmons NFT holders, and will be allocated to retrospective LP airdrop conditions Harsh, causing user dissatisfaction. On September 5, Dune Analytics data showed that sudoswap daily activity dropped to 352, a drop of more than 80% from the August high.

Dust Labs completed financing, DeGods second-generation project y00ts topped OpenSea

On September 6, NFT SaaS startup Dust Labs announced the completion of a US$7 million seed round of financing. This round of financing was led by Chapter One, Foundation Capital, Magic Eden, Hello Moon, Big Brain Holdings, Unlock Venture Partners, Metaplex, FTX Ventures, Jump Capital, Jupiter, Hyperspace, Solana Ventures, Mysten Labs, and Cymbal participated in the investment.

DUST Labs is led by DeGods, the NFT project with the highest market value in the Solana ecosystem Co-founded by Frank, the founder, and Kevin, who is the CEO of the company, to provide management tools for NFT projects on Ethereum and Solana. The company's first product is a "scholarship" whitelist tool, which has been targeted at the DeGods second-generation project y00ts Casting was tested.

At the same time as this financing news was released, DeGods second-generation project y00ts was on sale, according to report, y00ts reached the top of OpenSea's 24-hour ranking with 62656 SOL (approximately $2.042 million) in just 2 hours after its release list. It has made innovations in whitelist distribution methods, copyright licensing, Token use cases, etc. For details, please refer to NFT upstart y00ts: New Yuga Labs with $7 million in funding.

It is worth mentioning that DeGods is nothing compared to NFT brands on Ethereum Not so good, according to report, DeGods’ floor price keeps hitting new highs , the total market value of all NFTs ranks among the top five, second only to Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Moonbirds and Mutant Ape Yacht Club.

KaijuKingz store KaijuMart is online

On September 1st, KaijuKingz's store, KaijuMart, officially opened and went online.

According to Official introduction, KaijuMart is only open to Kaiju and Scientist holders, and within the first 24 hours of opening, the Essentials series of products are only available to day one holders and those who have more than 5 Kaijuz (Genesis or Baby) are open.

By spending $RWASTE or $SCALES Token, you can buy Kaiju Augmints (new Trait ), whitelist slots, apparel like hat shirts and hoodies, merchandise like the KaijuKingz x RamaWorks keyboard, and the team at Augmint Labs plans to continue offering new merchandise over time.

It is worth introducing the Kaiju Augmints in the product, which allows the holder to change the Kaiju's appearance and metadata characteristics (similar to BAYC's mutation potion). Most Augmints releases are limited and can only be won through auction bidding on KaijuMart. Each Augmint has its own rarity (from Common to Legendary) and corresponding quantity, and drops every two weeks.

Paradigm and Rick and Morty jointly created a new NFT paradigm

On September 7th, Paradigm proposed the ownership of NFT project Token gradually Optimization scheme GOO. It aims to strengthen the control of NFT holders on Token and suppress the differences between NFT and its Token holders. GOO’s specific plan is that the more Tokens an NFT holder has, the faster Tokens will be generated. Non-NFT holders who hoard Token will quickly reduce their shares to zero due to the large number of Token issuance. On the other hand, NFT holders own a small amount of Token, then compared to other players, Token production will still lag behind. However, NFT holders can obtain a certain minimum percentage of the total supply.

On September 13, Paradigm released the Green Paper, which details information about this NFT. Art Gobblers by artist Justin Roiland Co-produced with the encryption investment organization Paradigm, it is a project party, official artist, external artist, token system, curator system Big ecology, it mainly consists of three parts: Gobblers NFT, Blank Pages NFT, $Goo Token. It has brought comprehensive innovations from the way of NFT issuance, the release of supporting Tokens, the form of artist participation, the form of curation, and the mechanism of gameplay. For details, please refer to Art Gobblers: the most avant-garde release, "NFT version of Biosphere 2" created by the top organization Paradigm< /a>One article.

Apple’s high commission has caused controversy

September 24, according to The Information reports that Apple charges a commission of up to 30% on all NFT transactions through iOS apps, but since Apple does not currently process any cryptocurrency transactions, the App Store Purchases must be made in U.S. dollars, and converting them to U.S. dollars is very difficult, which will eventually lead NFT traders away from the Apple ecosystem, because the high fees make it almost impossible for NFT projects to be profitable. Magic Eden co-founder and CTO Sidney Zhang said they never tried to offer buy and sell functionality on their app because of Apple’s commission issues.

In response to this news, on September 24, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney posted on social media that Apple is "killing" all NFT application businesses that cannot be taxed, destroying another possible Emerging technology to rival its overpriced in-app payment service. Apple must stop continuing to do this.

OpenSea adds support, introduces new features and new cooperation

[1] OpenSea: After the merger of Ethereum, it will only support the PoS chain

[2] NFT casting platform Fair. xyz cooperates with OpenSea to launch soul binding Token Minter Token

[2] OpenSea officially launches NFT Rare OpenRarity

[3] OpenSea will add support for Ethereum Layer2 expansion network Arbitrum

[4] OpenSea adds support for Ethereum Layer 2 expansion network Optimism

[5] OpenSea launched the NFT Drops function, which can mint NFT directly from the OpenSea page

[6] OpenSea has added Solana public chain automatic index listing function

[7] Data: OpenSea transaction volume exceeds 40 billion US dollars

Other

[1]< /a> Starbucks launched the Web3 platform Starbucks Odyssey

[2] Solana Labs joint creation: NFT will Give birth to "the next Marvel or Disney"

[3] Uniswap COO: Will launch this fall One-stop NFT trading product

[4] RPG NFT game Pixelmon announces new team and roadmap , the former team’s income was as high as 70 million US dollars and was accused of being an NFT project for misappropriating money

[5] Dynamic NFT project Invisible Friends hints at possible 3D series

[6] Goblintown's parent company, Truth Labs, has partnered with NFT market Snag Solutions to build a trading platform, Truth Labs Marketplace

Summary of Financing Information

[1] NFT project Doodles completed a financing of 54 million US dollars at a valuation of 704 million US dollars

[2] Azuki development team Chiru Labs will complete A round of financing of 30 million US dollars at a valuation of 300 to 400 million US dollars p>

[3] NFT loyalty startup Hang completed $16 million in Series A financing, led by Paradigm Vote

[4] NFT fine wine platform Winechain.co completes a new round of 6 million euros round of financing

[5] Web3 music fund Coop Records completed $10 million in financing and will Direct investment in musicians and NFT

[6] Web3 games and NFT discovery platform Playground completed Pre-seed round of financing led by East Ventures and Mirana Ventures

[7] NFT Game company BRAVO READY completes USD 3.5 million in financing, with participation from Sino Global Capital

[8] ;NFT SaaS start-up company Dust Labs completed a $7 million seed round of financing, with participation from Chapter One and Magic Eden

[9] NFT investment application Sintra completed a $2 million seed round of financing, led by Lemniscap and participated by FTX Ventures and others

[10] Spencer Ventures completed a fundraising of US$4.5 million, which will be used to invest in NFT

[11] TwitterScan completed $4.56 million in seed round financing, led by Redpoint Ventures

[12] NFT video platform Glass completes $5 million in seed round financing, led by TCG Crypto and 1kx

[13] Latin American NFT trading platform Minteo completes $4.3 million seed round financing, OpenSea Ventures participates

[14] NFT trading platform Niftify is seeking to complete a seed round of financing at a valuation of US$40 million, led by Moonchain Capital and Audacia Capital

[15] NFT game company Vulcan Forged completed $8 million in Series A financing

[16] Solana ecological art market exchange art completed a seed round of financing of 3.2 million US dollars, CozomoMedici and others participated

Web2-Web3

[1] Hermès has filed trademark applications for cryptocurrency, NFT and Metaverse

[2] The NFT launched by comedian Bill Murray on Coinbase was traded for nearly 120 Ethereum

[3] The NFT series released by Doja Cat and JBL headphones has been launched on OneOf

[4] Johnnie Walker released two new limited edition NFTs, with physical whiskey and NFT bottles

[5] British rock band Muse's NFT album topped the sales chart

[6] The music NFT platform Music Infinity announced that the international superstar AKon brought his unreleased new EP to Music Infinity, becoming Music-Infinity's first music star KOL

[7] Sorare will cooperate with the NBA to launch the NBA Fantasy League NFT game based on Ethereum

[8] The international superstar AKon brought a new EP to Music Infinity, a music NFT platform, and has launched related music proposals And participate in the DAO copyright review

[9] Funko and Warner Bros. have cooperated to launch DC comics-themed entities and NFT Comics

[10] MoonPay builds NFT-based Treasure Hunt

[11] Disney intends to hire lawyers to explore emerging opportunities including NFT

[12] "Game of Thrones" will enter the metaverse through the Funko Digital Pop NFT collection

[13] The American car brand Ford has submitted trademark applications for Metaverse and NFT

[14] Post Malaysia issued the first NFT stamp

[15] The Chicago Bulls will launch their iconic LOGO NFT series "The Aurochs" on Coinbase

[16] PUMA launches metaverse website experience at New York Fashion Week, including NFT that can be redeemed for physical shoes

[21] Foreign media: Comedy star Jim Carrey used a pseudonym to secretly issue NFT

[22] Ubisoft CEO: its NFT project is in the research stage of Web3-related technology integration

[23] The Museum of Modern Art in New York is considering spending $70 million to purchase NFT-related artwork

[24] Sotheby's will hold its first offline NFT auction on September 15

[25] Guns N' Roses members may launch the NFT music platform GoodNoise on Polygon

[26] The first NFT game on the Epic Games store

[27] American bag brand Vera Bradley released the 40th anniversary NFT of the brand

[28] The NFT market "FIFA+ Collect" launched by FIFA has been launched

[29] AC Milan will cooperate with Solana ecological game MonkeyLeague to launch NFT series

[30] Liverpool: Upgrade NFT sports game developer Sorare to official global partner

[31] Fist Tyson Wang launched "Iron Pigeons" NFT on Solana and wants to know how the merger will affect NFT

[32]< /a> Argentinian airline Flybondi will issue NFT tickets and introduce Binance Pay for payment

[33] Fashion lingerie brand 6IXTY8IGHT celebrates its 20th anniversary with BoldBunnyNFT

[34] Jack Dan Whiskey has submitted metaverse and NFT related trademark applications

[35] NBA star Tony Parker Launch of Charity NFT Series

[36] Japan's top team Hiroshima Dragonflies will be listed on the Binance NFT marketplace The first NFT series

[37] MasterCard launched a customizable NFT-themed debit card that supports BAYC and other blue-chip projects

[38] Christie's launched the NFT platform "Christie's 3.0"

[39] Father of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: My next game will use NFT, Metaverse and District Block chain

[40] South Korean game giant WeMade will launch the WEMIX3.0 ecology in October, Including chain game platform, NFT platform and Stablecoin

[41] Web3 infrastructure company Fortress and Google Cloud cooperation launched the NFT database solution The Fortress Vault

[42] OneOf jointly launched with eBay and Polygon The anti-superhero character NFT "Slam-Girl" written by "Father of Marvel"

[43] McLaren to launch 7-page comic NFT on Tezos during Singapore and Japan Grand Prix

[44 ] OpenSea announces partnership with Warner Music Group

[45] Sony Music is Columbia Records filed a Metaverse-related trademark application

[46] Sony PS point system "PlayStation Stars "discloses examples of digital collections and will be launched later this month

[47] LG releases based on Hedera Network NFT marketplace LG Art Lab supports NFT purchases via TV

[48] Japanese local government issues NFT certificates to winners of national digitization competition

Policy Update

[1] US FASB: Crypto Accounting Review Excludes NFTs and Certain Stablecoins

[2] Pennsylvania and Washington will tax NFT

[3] The National Copyright Administration and other four departments: Strengthen the copyright supervision of new online formats such as NFT digital collections

[4] Source: The EU Encryption Act has been finalized and is not applicable to NFT

[5] Amendments to EU anti-money laundering regulations cover DeFi, DAOs and NFTs