☞ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒊𝒏 #𝑵𝑭𝑻𝒔 Vol. 15

‣ SODIUM to start whitelisting users for Alpha Access to its Fair Price Engine™, the protocol’s ML-powered NFT price estimation system.

NFT trading activity in period 04/11-04/17:
‣ OpenSea of $538.8 million / ~175.29k ETH (-5.2%)
‣ Looksrare of $54.5 million / ~10.74k ETH (-8.7%)
‣ X2Y2 of $23.5 million / ~7.49k ETH (-34.8%)

‣ Moonbirds NFT with higher trading volume in the last 24 hours than Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Azuki, Doodles, and CloneX together.

‣ Coinbase will produce a three-part film trilogy to celebrate and amplify the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs and Apecoin community.

‣ Cryptopunk #7756 was purchased for 1,050ETH ($3.2 million USD).

‣ Azuki’s Bobu NFT to join the Space Mission with SpaceX and NASA to the International Space Station on April 23rd via hardware wallet.

‣ China’s authorities of Sichuan Province are working to develop an NFT marketplace.

‣ Fortnite creator Epic Games has raised $2 billion from Sony & Lego, to build the metaverse.

‣ Three collectors who lost their Bored Ape #NFTs due to a security breach have sued Opensea for $1.7 million USD.

‣ Meta (Facebook) has announced plans to charge 47.5% on each #NFT sale on its platform once NFTs are available.

‣ Sony has partnered with Sun Asterisk to launch an NFT platform in Singapore.

‣ Middle East's largest airline, Emirates, is launching its own NFT and metaverse.

‣ Marvel launched “The Death of Captain America” collection, including 30,000 items, on VeVe.

‣ @punk6529 soft-launched “The 6529 Museum of Art” with the goal to build a decentralized open metaverse that can scale to 100,000,000 people.

‣ Improbable has raised $150 million in its latest funding round to develop M², a metaverse network to enable and grow rich, high-density, large-scale virtual worlds.

‣ Japan’s number one messaging app @Line, has launched its own NFT marketplace

‣ UPS has filed 5 trademark applications for NFTs and the metaverse.

‣ Wendy’s has filed 6 trademark applications for NFTs and the metaverse.

‣ Mastercard has filed 15 trademark applications indicating plans for NFT backed media, Payment processing in the Metaverse, Marketplaces for digital goods + NFTs, E-commerce transactions in the Metaverse.

‣ #China's banking, internet finance and securities associations are targeting NFTs over potential financial risks.

‣ Chinese People’s Daily newspaper is set to develop NFTs as a part of its strategic cooperation with China International Culture Group.

‣ Superplastic X BAYC’ collaboration launched five 13-inch ‘SUPERBORED’ art toys, sold only in US dollars for $222.

‣ Forbes launched a preview of its 100 items #VirtualBillionairesNFT collection on FTX.

‣ China’s #XpengMotors to sell NFT on Alibaba’s Jingtan. The car-model-themed NFTs will be available for 19.9 yuan (US$3.12)

‣ Web3 avatar technology company Genies has announced a $150 million Series C fundraise led by technology investment firm Silver Lake.

‣ Tony Hawk is planning a new NFT collection based on the skateboards he used in his "Last Trick" #NFT collection.

‣ 9,000 digital art #NFTs are being released to raise funds in #GeorgeFloyd's memory to support charities.

‣ Cricket Australia, in collaboration with Rario and BlockTrust, will introduce #NFTs to cricket fans, and building an Australian cricket metaverse.

‣ RTFKT Studios started final quest of its #MNLTH NFT to be unlocked

‣ Top 5 NFT collections on Opensea by trading volume:

‣ Top 5 NFT sales by price on Ethereum:
1) CryptoPunk #7756 sold for 1,050 ETH ($3,253,735 USD)
2)Bored Ape Yacht Club #8537 sold for 200.69 ETH ($604,854 USD)
3)Azuki #9759 sold for 195.3 ETH ($579,214 USD)
4)Bored Ape Yacht Club #9138 sold for 169 ETH ($505,669 USD)
5)Bored Ape Yacht Club #7545 sold for 150 ETH ($465,069 USD)

‣ ApeCoin price chart ($APE) 7 days: