# OpenSea Seaport nears

*Author: William M. Peaster*
*Published: May 20, 2022*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/opensea-seaport-nears*

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Dear Bankless Nation,

This week was *full *of big NFT developments. The one I’m watching closest right now? OpenSea’s deployment of a new “Seaport” marketplace system on Ethereum:

> [](https://twitter.com/shegenerates/status/1527685988839038979)

Details are scarce currently, though a two-week [Code4rena audit contest that starts today](https://twitter.com/BowTiedPickle/status/1527694606049153024) notes the marketplace will be focused on “safely and efficiently creating and fulfilling orders for ERC721 and ERC1155 items.”

I’m not a developer, but a quick review of the Seaport smart contract suggests to me it’ll allow for the creation of zones, or seaports if you will, for fostering customized NFT markets.

We’ll know more soon, but with OpenSea at the helm it’s likely Seaport will prove to be very consequential to the NFT ecosystem going forward. In the meantime, get caught up on the rest of this week’s action below, thanks kindly for reading, and have a great weekend!

-WMP

*P.S. A few minutes after this post went live, [OpenSea officially announced Seaport](https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1527705996549685248). So now we know more!*

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## 🛒 NFT News & Platforms
- **Coinbase **unveiled a new[ dapp wallet and dapp browser](https://blog.coinbase.com/access-web3-with-the-coinbase-app-2b804c0aee8a) system.
- **The Bueno Generator**, a no-code tool for creating PFP collections, is now available to everyone; an associated no-code smart contract deployer is [on the way](https://twitter.com/pablostanley/status/1527001671787847686), too.

> [](https://twitter.com/buenonft/status/1526984072228110337)

- **Foundation **is now [open to all creators](https://twitter.com/foundation/status/1526963563285209089).
- **Lens Protocol**, a decentralized social graph, [launched on Polygon](https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097?t=c_sgTE0akg7h1ADRpUkM5A&s=09).
- **Linktree **adds [NFT features](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/147396/linktree-launches-new-nft-features-in-partnership-with-opeansea) in collaboration with OpenSea.
- **MEE6**, a Discord moderation bot, was [temporarily compromised](https://twitter.com/mee6bot/status/1526901242521432065?s=20&t=U55um20CPEPu9xEQ8dRm7Q) by an employee account, which led to [multiple major NFT projects](https://twitter.com/Serpent/status/1526766412773347330?t=q0t5FOGvninEUy-y7FxkfA&s=09) having their Discord servers hacked.
- **Zora** introduced Editions to its creator toolkit:

> [](https://twitter.com/ourZORA/status/1527371187046580224)

## 🏆 Digital Collectibles
- **Chimpers (**allowlist) minting [begins today](https://twitter.com/ChimpersNFT/status/1526986787897413633).
- **ChainFaces HD **minting also [kicked off this week](https://twitter.com/NateAlexNFT/status/1527082362848399366).
- **Nouns DAO **unveiled [Prop House V2](https://nouni.sh/8t35zq839c), which extends funding auctions to other NFT communities:

> [](https://twitter.com/cryptoseneca/status/1527311318272778240)

## 🎨 NFT art
- **Cory Van Lew **and other artists [reveal difficulties they’ve faced](https://twitter.com/DrifterShoots/status/1527302724374519808) in receiving payments from Sotheby’s for NFT auctions they participated in last year.
- **jmw327**, a popular pixel artist, made [x4 their annual salary](https://bankless.ghost.io/gonna-try-out-nfts?s=w) by auctioning *Corner *on Foundation:

> [](https://twitter.com/jmw327/status/1526638999913254914)

- **Shunsuke Takawo** began his *Tiny Sketches* NFT collection:

> [](https://twitter.com/neort_io/status/1526201053062234112)

## 🎮 NFT Gaming
- **a16z **announced a new [$600M GameFi fund](https://twitter.com/Tocelot/status/1526944031363637249).
- **Axie Infinity **announced AxieCon: Barcelona, which will run from September 7th through September 10th later this year:

> [](https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity/status/1526914313792856065)

## 💽 Music
- **Coopahtroopa.eth** published [This Week in Music NFTs - May 16th](https://thisweekinmusicnfts.substack.com/p/this-week-in-music-nfts-may-16?s=r).

## 🌐 Virtual Worlds
- **Voxels **(formerly Cryptovoxels) started rolling out its [$FOLKS airdrop](https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1527142149674123265).
- **Decentraland** is stabilizing its wearable publication fee at [$500 USD](https://twitter.com/decentraland/status/1527325907488493568) rather than 500 $MANA.
- **Justin McAfee**, a researcher with 1kx, published “[Virtual Beings: a New Internative-Native Medium for Storytelling.](https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/virtual-beings-51606c041acf)”
- **Wassieverse **will arrive [next month](https://twitter.com/ncerovac/status/1527336161655795714?t=sI1TJD16yvTiV8yeuQE3aw&s=09).
- **Webaverse **kicked off a partnership [with Tubby Cats](https://twitter.com/tubbycatsnft/status/1526309181657174016?t=fUDzs9m9PkvosO5rrhAs9g&s=09).

## 💎 DeFi x NFTs
- **Slingshot**, a web3 trading platform, unveiled [a mobile app](https://twitter.com/SlingshotCrypto/status/1526254036168560640) with a referral program that offers NFT rewards.
- **Argent **added [L2 support](https://twitter.com/argentHQ/status/1526204177613041669?t=HpoOXnPJrGLzzwhWEzzutg&s=09) for the $JPG index token.

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