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This week, Opepen holders were faced with an interesting question: to burn or not to burn?
The choice emerged with the release of Consensus Met, a new collection from Visualize Value's Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh. The drop introduced an intriguing mechanic: burning an Opepen to mint a Consensus Met token.
The catch, though?
Burned Opepens can no longer be used in Opepen consensus votes. If you're hazy here, Opepen is like an open art protocol crossed with a digital museum. Holders vote on new Opepen art sets to be released, with the community now up to 55 unique releases completed out of 200 planned.
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That said, this new burning process offers a form of scarcity that’s chosen, deliberate, and irreversible, contrasting sharply with the often artificial scarcity designed into many NFTs.
As more Opepens are burned, the landscape of the collection can and likely will shift, leading to new experiments and potentially altering the dynamics of Opepen art votes.
The act of burning becomes a statement, then, a choice that reflects the holder's belief in the future value of Consensus Met or a deeper philosophical stance on the nature of participating in the wider Opepen project itself.
My take? It's precisely these kinds of iterative community experiments that make me love the many possibilities around NFTs—and they're why I know the impact of NFTs is, in fact, just getting started.
📰 General news
- Ordinals Protocol transitioned from alpha to beta status
- Surreal introduced its new Camera feature
🎨 Cryptoart & music
- Cooper Turley unveiled the new Coop Records platform
- Moshicam added support for Zora's Sparks denomination
Zora launched onchain NFT secondary markets via Uniswap
🏆 Digital collectibles
- Chimpers unveiled its Amulet Card collection
- PleasrDAO released Shaolin Zorb on Zora
Uniswap announced its KidSuper collab merch collection and an associated NFT drop
🎮 Decentralized gaming
- Axie Infinity launched Origins S10 Preaseason gameplay and Homeland Avatar mode
- Base reintroduced the Atari Breakout game mint
- Cartridge, Starknet's leading onchain gaming infra team, raised $7.5 million in its Series A round
- Duper launched its Season 1 gameplay on Arbitrum
- Fren Pet kicked off its pet training camp
- Kamigotchi released its Scavenging system
- Lumiterra started its closed beta test on Ronin
- MUD, a framework for onchain apps and games, released its latest version
- Parallel unveiled a free deck giveaway campaign
Ronin recovered millions of dollars worth of ETH and USDC taken in a whitehat bridge exploit- Star Atlas tapped
Tensor as its official secondary marketplace - Treasure is rolling out its Season 3 rewards next week
📱 Onchain social
- Bonsai, the most popular token project on Lens, published its $BONSAI distribution roadmap
- Firefly, the crypto social aggregator app, added support for
Solana Blinks 
Lens reached 500k profiles created- Warpcast removed Power Badges from its UI
🪙 NFTfi
🌐 Virtual worlds
- Decentraland started testing its new Alpha Client
- Otherside is hosting an Otherside Poker event later this month
Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.
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- ⛓️ Bringing Secondary Markets Onchain - Jacob from Zora
- 💥 The Peak-End Rule and How to Launch Your NFT - Backseats
