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Cool Cats' Gaming Leap
Cool Cats hopes to attract a new audience through gaming
The Metadata
July 20, 2023
Welcome to The Metadata, the only NFT newsletter that you’ll ever need. We explain the latest trends in NFTs & Gaming in simple words.
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Today we cover:
🐸 Opepen Mania continues in NFT land. Everything else is just chilling
🐱 Cool Cats attempts to revitalize itself through gaming. Will it work?
💰How a teenager turned $1k into $450k trading NFTs
🏉 Two prominent rugpulls in the space: Buyers beware. Don’t fall into these traps
Look, it’s OpepenSea
Opepens are pretty much the only NFTs moving in the market, with a floor price of 0.77 ETH and up 53% on the week. What sparked this frenzy, you ask? Well, it all started when Threadguy decided to switch up his profile pic to an Opepen. This set off a domino effect, with everyone and their dog creating their own Opepens to flaunt.
Our favorite one? OpepenSea, hands down.
bc they switched back can we acknowledge opepensea is crazy lmaooo major opensea W (rare) twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— ThreadGuy 👑 (@notthreadguy)
5:15 AM • Jul 19, 2023
Floor Prices today:
Azuki: 5.5 ETH
BAYC: 33 ETH
MAYC: 6 ETH
DeGods: 8.6 ETH
The Captainz: 6.4 ETH
Cool Cats’ Gaming Leap
Cool Cats, once the darling of the PFP space in 2021 and now forgotten by most, has been flying under the radar recently.
Let’s summarize some of the key recent developments:
Firstly, it’s shutting down its Cooltopia game and $MILK token generation. But don't cry over spilt milk, folks. All $MILK tokens will burned to redeem for Cool Cats merch.
And you’ll be able to burn 2 Cool Pets to upgrade to a new companion type, likely in Q3.
Now, let's get to the really exciting stuff. Cool Cats is going gaming! That's right, our favorite feline friends have teamed up with a trio of game publishers to bring us not one, not two, but THREE new games. All are set to be released within the next 9 months:
A competitive multiplayer arcade
A browser-based 2D endless runner game (like Dookey Dash)
A mobile, match-3 type puzzle game
It’s expected that at least one of the games will launch by October-November this year.
Cool Cats is also at Comic-Con this week. It’s the place where many great character brands were born and a great way to put the brand out into the public eye.
Comic Con attendees - our Milk Bar is open for business!
Come meet Blue and Chugs at Booth 1707 until July 23
NFT holders, swing by for a special surprise 💙
— Cool Cats (@coolcats)
1:26 AM • Jul 20, 2023
🤑 Why it matters: Cool Cats' entry into the gaming industry aims to capitalize on the popularity of NFTs and provide new experiences for its community. By expanding into gaming, Cool Cats hopes to engage its existing audience further and attract new users.
These developments have generated a sense of excitement and anticipation in the community, with members feeling that they are part of a journey and looking forward to what's next.
Cool Cats has had its share of hiccups in the past. Will it be able to claw its way back to the top? Only time will tell.
Notable News
Star Atlas, the Sci-Fi AAA game in development on Solana, is releasing a move-to-play mobile app
Futureverse, which includes the FLUF and Altered State Machine ecosystems, announces a $54M fund raise with participation by Ripple Labs
Notable sales: A hoodie CryptoPunk sold for 165 ETH, and a gold skin Pudgy Penguin sold for 69 ETH. The gold penguin was purchased by Rollbit and used as a spin giveaway.
Click Worthy Tweets
🐥 How this chad teenager made it in NFTs
How a teenager turned $1k into $450k trading NFTs ↓
— Herbie (@liamherbst_)
1:36 PM • Jul 18, 2023
🐥 How to get early alpha on NFT projects
Have you always wondered how other CMs get early project alpha?
I will reveal all the secrets 👇
(there is also a job opportunity for some of you... keep reading) twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— McTyasha (🌊,🌘) (@McTyasha)
5:41 PM • Jul 19, 2023
🐥 Luxury good providers need to cultivate an audience for people to flex to
Only 2.2% of Free-to-Play mobile video game players actually pay to play the game.
These "whales" do so mainly because they want to flex in front of the much larger crowd, the 97.8%.
The lesson here outside of video games: a luxury good generally cannot survive unless it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— BORED (@BoredElonMusk)
8:00 PM • Jul 18, 2023
🐥 Rugpull #1: Momoguro. Very disappointing
🚨 Investigation into Momoguro:
A Case of Incompetence or Something More?
🧵1/21
Bookmark and RT now!— Loki The Bird 😈 (@lokithebird)
8:28 AM • Jul 19, 2023
🐥 Rugpull #2: Neopets takes a U-turn and decided not to build a metaverse game after selling NFTs (??)
Neopets Metaverse Transition: A Message from The Neopets Team
Greetings, Neopians!
Change is in the air, and Neopets is entering a new era!
But what exactly does that mean?
Well, for one, Neopets has new leadership, which is working as a new, cohesive unit with TNT to ensure… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Neopets Metaverse (@NeopetsMeta)
2:07 PM • Jul 17, 2023
🐥 Are you watching Barbie this weekend? Lessons on growing IP
1/ Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen the mega marketing campaign around the upcoming Barbie movie coming out on July 21st.
Mattel spent 18 months creating over 100+ licensing deals & collaborations to promote the movie. Why & what can we learn about growing IP? https://
— WHIZWANG ☕️ (@whizwang)
6:51 PM • Jul 18, 2023
Upcoming Mints
🍿 Interesting open-edition NFT for anyone thinking of going to Hong Kong. Minting on 27 - 29 July at 0.00852 ETH ($15)
The wait is nearly over — Koi Pond will be minting at the end of July!
Got questions about what we're building, how we're executing it and who we are?
Here's everything you need to know:
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(1/10)
— Koi Pond (@0xKoiPond)
3:01 PM • Jul 18, 2023
🍿 Pentoshi Control Centre. Apparently, a Pudgy Penguin is going to space when the countdown time stops, in just about 6 hours time. We have no idea what’s going to happen, but looks like a new mint
Less than 48 hours to go.
At roughly t-41 hours a penguin will go to space. This is not a cryptic message, it will actually happen. 2 hrs before the end of the countdown.
You’ll want to be there in the control room.
pentoshicontrol.center
Like + RT 👀
— Pentoshi 🐧 euroPeng 🇪🇺 (@Pentosh1)
8:00 PM • Jul 18, 2023
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