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Ethereum’s outperformance this week has turned heads. While BTC is down 2% and SOL is down 4.6% over the past 7 days, ETH is up 8.9%. What’s driving the rally?
One big factor is renewed excitement around Base, where L2 apps like Clanker and Anoncast on 
Farcaster have been capturing tons of attention. Yet this surging isn’t limited to ETH itself—top ETH NFTs have notably been seeing revivals too.
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For instance, consider the weekly floor price performances of the top 5 NFT collections by market cap:
- CryptoPunks: +7.5%
- Bored Apes: +32%
- Pudgy Penguins: +15.5%
- Miladies: +6%
- Mutant Apes: +44%
That said, after months of quiet, these 
Ethereum NFTs are gaining momentum again, indicating buyers are feeling renewed optimism about the ETH ecosystem. Digital collectibles are coming back in focus as interest and activity clearly pick up around Ethereum once more.
The grand question, will this trend continue? I personally like the chances of that for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on NFT markets in the weeks ahead—things can pick up rapidly here!
📰 General news
- Takens Theorem released Collective Filter, an Ethereum NFT recommender
🎨 Cryptoart & music
Zora🏆 Digital collectibles
- Deadfellaz sold outs its 4th Infected collection on ApeChain
- Pudgy Toys are returning to Walmart in 2025
🎮 Decentralized gaming
Virtuals🪙 Memes & NFTfi
- Anoncast unveiled Anonfun, a platform for deploying Clanker memecoins anonymously
- Dreamcoins released a tweet-to-deploy feature
- Ethervista deployed Etherfun on Base
- GONDI reached $35M in active NFT loans and facilitated a 2.75M USDC CryptoPunk loan
- Rainbow is now auto-verifying Clanker tokens every 5 minutes
📱 Onchain social
Cartesi has announced the addition of a Validator Marketplace to its roadmap—a decentralized platform connecting dApp developers with validators. This marketplace aligns incentives within the ecosystem, boosts CTSI token utility, and offers a solution for unlocking the full potential of appchains, even beyond Cartesi.
- 🔐 Nouns for Privacy - Nounsletter
- 😳 Chill Out, It's Just IP - in-transit.eth
- 🍌 The Artist as Comedian - Mitchell F. Chan
- 👱 A Few Blondes Broke Base - Cheryl Douglass
- 🌻 World Computer Sculpture Garden - María Paula
