# NFT maximalists 🧙 *Author: William M. Peaster* *Published: Nov 18, 2022* *Source: https://www.bankless.com/nft-maximalists* --- Dear Bankless Nation, Anecdotally speaking, it seems like a lot of NFT power users escaped direct exposure to FTX’s collapse. Why’s that? > NFT maximalists:- never use leverage- can’t inflate supply- only do self custody- never look at USD value- don’t suck up to regulatorsDamn… They might actually make it — Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer) [ 11:05 AM ∙ Nov 17, 2022 ](https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1593198518541369346)[](https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1593198518541369346) Well, a lot of people doubled down in crypto the past couple years *through *NFTs. That matters because many of these same folks didn’t care about complex financial stuff like trading derivatives or trading with leverage on a centralized exchange — they just wanted to play around with digital items. That said, you need your *own *wallet to trade on NFT marketplaces, so the recent NFT boom has served as a pipeline for immediately getting many people into self-custodying their ETH and other digital assets onchain and *not *holding them in a CEX’s offchain database. Of course, self-custodying comes with significant responsibilities. Your keys, your crypto right — but the buck stops with you. We’ve seen the ugly side of this with all the stolen Bored Apes and so forth. Yet we can get better about educating and building guardrails here, and we will. In the meantime, it’s heartening to see there really is a new wave of settlers making their ways around the onchain frontiers. That’s worth applauding. As for the task at hand, let’s now get caught up on the major headlines of the week. Thanks for reading everyone ✌️ -WMP --- ## 📣 General NFT News - **Bankless **introduced [Bankless Collectibles](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/collect-bankless-collectibles-web3-crypto): > [SBF was working behind our backs to kill DeFi in DC. Let’s undo some damage. We’re minting the legendary @SBF_FTX vs. @ErikVoorhees debate as a collectible podcast ✨ 100% of ALL proceeds go to @coincenter Actual effective altruism. TOMORROW ⬇️](https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1593368638089838592)[collectibles.bankless.com](https://collectibles.bankless.com/) — Bankmanless (@BanklessHQ) [ 10:21 PM ∙ Nov 17, 2022 ](https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1593368638089838592)[](https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1593368638089838592) - **Blur**, the marketplace aggregator, announced plans to [enforce and incentivize](https://twitter.com/blur_io/status/1592203711354261504) creator royalties. - **Builder DAO**, which will oversee the [Nouns Builder](https://nouns.build/) ecosystem, is [now live](https://nouns.build/dao/0xdf9b7d26c8fc806b1ae6273684556761ff02d422/0): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/02/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fab6217a9-d069-4032-88c2-0f60be82b0ec_949x479.png)- **Daylight**, the wallet discovery service [I recently covered](https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/daylight-for-your-nft-wallet), exited its beta and is [now open to anyone](https://www.daylight.xyz/) with an Ethereum address. - **EthFS**, an Ethereum file system for on-chain assets, [deployed to mainnet](https://ethfs.xyz/). - **Flipside Crypto **launched [Badger](https://www.trybadger.com/), an on-chain organization management suite. - **X2Y2 **announced plans to enforce royalties on [all NFT collections](https://twitter.com/the_x2y2/status/1593631419561304067). ## 🏆 Digital Collectibles - **Bored Ape Yacht Club **trading activity this week pushed the BAYC floor price [below 50Ξ](https://dune.com/hildobby/BAYC-vs-CryptoPunks) for the first time since Dec. 2021.  - **Wassies **wrote off 60% of the [creator team’s treasury](https://medium.com/@bywassies/project-ann-regarding-ftx-and-whats-next-bfad2c6ea37a) as a result of the FTX collapse.  - **Yuga Labs **donated CryptoPunk #305 to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami as [the first initiative](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221115005630/en/Yuga-Labs-Kicks-Off-First-of-Its-Kind-NFT-Museum-Donation-Initiative-Gifts-CryptoPunk-to-the-Institute-of-Contemporary-Art-Miami) of the Punks Legacy Project.  **Yuga Labs **also [acquired WENEW](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221110006225/en/Yuga-Labs-Welcomes-Beeple%E2%80%99s-10KTF-and-WENEW-to-Their-Growing-NFT-and-Web3-Ecosystem), the NFT content company behind the 10KTF collection, and gained Beeple as an advisor as part of the deal.** ** ## 🎨 Cryptoart - **Gallery**, an NFT curation project, [opened to everyone](https://gallery.so/). - **SuperRare **sold out all 250 editions of its new [RarePass: Genesis NFTs](https://rarepass.superrare.com/). ## 🎮 Decentralized Gaming - **Defifa**, a [pop-up NFT game](https://info.juicebox.money/blog/2022-11-14-defifa/) for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, is kicking off next week. - **Sony**, creator of the popular PlayStation consoles, filed a patent for an [in-game NFT assets system](https://decrypt.co/114754/sony-patent-gaming-digital-assets-nfts-blockchain). ## 💽 Music NFTs - **Sound **had another full week of [collectible music drops](https://www.sound.xyz/): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/02/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fdbc5ce2a-a4f4-4fee-83bb-141552f31bfe_1600x991-jpeg.jpg) ## 🌐 Virtual Worlds - **Nike **unveiled [.SWOOSH](https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/nike-unveils-dot-swoosh-platform-to-house-web3-projects), a platform for the athletic apparel giant’s virtual creations. - **NonFungible.com **launched its [virtual HQ](https://nonfungible.com/news/corporate/nonfungible-hq-decentraland) in Decentraland. ## 💎 DeFi x NFTs - **Uniswap **introduced [Permit2 and the Universal Router](https://uniswap.org/blog/permit2-and-universal-router), new smart contracts that can efficiently aggregate NFT and ERC20 token swaps. - **UpShot**, an appraisal platform for NFT financial markets, [opened to the public](https://upshot.xyz/post/upshot-is-now-open-to-the-public).