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How Photography Changed Art
Each new medium transforms & liberates the one before
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April 17, 2023
GM. Happy Monday! Instead of a single topic spotlight, today we have a mega edition of articles, tweets research findings. Let's get right into it!
Today we cover:
Pixelmon, the big weekend winner
Our favourite takes of the week! (New)
A monk turns into an NFT degen
A new upcoming NFT project by the Marvel Studios founder. Don't miss this 👀👀
Market Update: Pixelmon Goes Ham
Remember we were telling you about Pixelmon and how it was going to be a great comeback story exactly a week ago? Looks like the market caught on a few days after we released our newsletter. Floor prices have gone >2X since we talked about it (it was 0.6 ETH then, now at 1.2 ETH).
Don't worry if you missed Pixelmon, and don't FOMO. We'll continue to identify cool projects for you in our research, there'll be lots of them. 🤝
The Forkast 500 NFT index is slightly higher over the weekend, breaching the psychological 4000 mark. It's also up 2.8% on the week.
Crypto has been having a good run this year, with BTC and ETH prices nearly doubling since its lows. Will profits flow into NFTs? We think so: not immediately but over the next few months. Time to pay attention!
Our Favourite Takes Of The Week
🐼 How each new artistic medium transforms and liberates the ones before it.
Art → photography → digital art/photography → generative art → AI art
How photography changed art:
(will AI do the same to writing?)
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor)
2:01 AM • Apr 14, 2023
🐼 Core technologies to pay attention to, if you believe the Metaverse is here.
Every business is screaming for someone to keep them in the loop of innovation.
There has NEVER been a better time to offer innovaton/tech solutions to businesses.
Below are 8 Core technologies that will play a pivotal role in the future, specifically the Metaverse.
1/ Thread
— 🍞 Matty (@DCLBlogger)
1:26 AM • Apr 14, 2023
🐼 Many ways to capture MEV in NFTs. Hint: it's not through sandwich attacks
🐼 Why classic gaming studios are building for web3 despite lukewarm interest
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Today's News & Coolest Tweets
Cool Cats enters a strategic partnership with Futureverse to build out a 3D metaverse
Azuki announces Beanz partnership with Line Labs, one of the largest social mobile apps
Kampai Pandas partners with First Round Management, expands heavily into sports
Aptos unveils its $20M artist grants program. Apply if keen.
Mastercard announces its Music accelerator program and NFT
🐥 The promise of NFTs attracts everyone... even monks.
Me to a successful Web 3 founder:
"What were you doing before?"
"I was a monk."
"Wait. What?"
"Yeah, I was a Zen Buddhist monk living in a monastery. But then I discovered NFTs and got on a plane to Miami."
Best crypto origin story I've heard. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm)
7:55 PM • Apr 14, 2023
🐥 Franklin gets rugpulled
I got rug pulled on an investment I put almost 2000 ETH into, thinking it was credible due to who else invested (not naming anyone for privacy reasons). Someone used our $$ as a casino gambling Ponzi and flushed it down the drain. Please learn any lessons possible from this.
— Franklin (@franklinisbored)
4:40 PM • Apr 13, 2023
🐥 India will be the next huge Web3 gaming market, with 500M+ gamers
This demographic has 507M gamers, 120M are paying users (~24%)
I have not seen many talk about this demographic
I believe web 3 gaming projects should be looking at India as a target audience
A thread on a VERY important and emerging player base🧵 👇
— itzBolt.eth (@itzBoltNFT)
9:51 PM • Feb 24, 2023
🐥 Caviar, an NFT AMM, announces its v2 testnet with new features
🚨 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the development of our revolutionary NFT AMM with the release of Caviar V2 Testnet.
1/3
— Caviar (@caviarAMM)
5:00 PM • Apr 11, 2023
🐥 Yes we know Bitcoin NFTs are fully on-chain.
You don’t truly own your Ethereum NFTs
Even if you bury them underground in a cold wallet
The creator can just change the image. That’s what the creators of goblin town did, because they wanted more royalties
On bitcoin, the ordinals are truly yours and no one can change them
— Udi Wertheimer 🧙♂️ (@udiWertheimer)
9:05 PM • Apr 13, 2023
🐥 We've paid $3B in royalties and fees on NFTs. Imagine what happens in the next 10 years
Pretty wild: in just the past two years, NFT collectors have paid nearly $3,000,000,000 ($3 billion) in royalties and platform fees.
— NFTstatistics.eth (@punk9059)
4:31 PM • Apr 15, 2023
🐥 BAYC liquidations, the same old story again
If the BAYC floor drops another couple ETH the founder of BendDAO will have his ape put up for liquidation by his own protocol again
Apes don't bottom till he's scrambling to pay it off during the auction
History repeats itself I don't make the rules
— Cirrus (@CirrusNFT)
4:37 PM • Apr 13, 2023
🐥 Nakamigos and what's going on with NFTs
Daily update on @Nakamigos
Let's start with the obvious, Nakamigos have been going down for a bit now. Why is that and is it just Nakamigos? No, it's the whole NFT market. But why?
Well it's something that has happened many times since NFTs have been around. When $ETH starts… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— MoonCat2878 (@mooncat2878)
5:15 AM • Apr 14, 2023
🐥 Yogapetz vs Memeland, what's the diff?
Some like to say @Yogapetz is the next @Memeland
No, @Yogapetz is the next @Yogapetz .
Presenting:
Yogapetz and Memeland: A 2 minute comparison… and why I’m
bullish on both 🔥@keung@9gagceo
— Teacher Kevz (@teacherkevz_nft)
4:13 PM • Apr 15, 2023
🐥 If you're keen to learn some technical analysis for trading NFTs:
Are you tired of playing the guessing game when trading NFTs, wondering when to buy/sell or hold?
Then this is the right thread for you, welcome to
Trading NFTs feat. PARSEC [1/8🧵]
— charles1.eth (@learn_charles)
5:34 PM • Sep 10, 2022
🐥 The Solana mobile phone launches
Become legendary. Watch the official @solanamobile Saga Launch Event Livestream 🌱
— Solana (@solana)
4:35 PM • Apr 13, 2023
🐥 ETH Shanghai was the biggest event of last week. Here's all you need to know about what people are doing with their ETH
1/ A brief intro on Ethereum withdrawal mechanisms, how to make sense of withdrawal data, key metrics to look into, and misconceptions to avoid.
Primarily referencing @nansen_ai data but will share alternative sources whenever appropriate as well.
— Martin Lee | Nansen 🧭 (@themlpx)
1:10 PM • Apr 16, 2023
New Projects Corner
🍿 (Game) New game minting on April 18. It has some similarities to Among Us.
Social deduction games have always been a popular genre amongst friends
Popular games like Mafia and Among Us
Giveaway at the end!
Let's dive into an upcoming social deduction game taking advantage of blockchain technology, but not forcing it🧵
— itzBolt.eth (@itzBoltNFT)
11:56 PM • Apr 16, 2023
🍿 (???) An early project by the founder of Marvel Studios. Twitter account says something will happen on April 24, mark your calendars.
Reply and tell me you're going to follow @EkosGenesis
What? You're not? This is literally the best alpha I've ever given.
From the founder of Marvel Studios...
👀🔥
— Sillytuna x Soulcast (@sillytuna)
12:24 AM • Apr 15, 2023
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