# Pretty Nifty! 💎

*Author: William M. Peaster*
*Published: Aug 6, 2021*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/pretty-nifty-*

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Dear Bankless Nation,

Remember earlier this summer when naysayers were celebrating the “death” of NFTs?

Talk about missing the mark!

The rub? These folks set themselves up for failure by taking a misconstrued snapshot of an unprecedented technology they didn’t understand, as if everything’s been settled about NFTs already!

In fact little has been settled around NFTs yet, but *what has been* *settled* *so far *— e.g. the ERC-721 standard — has proven incredibly empowering for people from all walks of life. Naysayers are ignoring these realities at their own expense, so let’s hope they come around sooner or later 😉

-WMP

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# 🏆 Digital Collectibles
- March of the** Zombie Punks**: [CryptoPunk #2066](https://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/2066), [CryptoPunk #7252](https://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/7252), and [Crypto Punk #6649](https://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/6649) sold for 1,201.725 ETH, 1,000 ETH, and 810 ETH respectively this week 🧟‍♀

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/public/images/bbcdc2ae-c4f6-4217-8f0b-8055e04cb81f_594x370.png)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fbbcdc2ae-c4f6-4217-8f0b-8055e04cb81f_594x370.jpg)**Image via NonFungible.com**

- Speaking of Punks, **7-day CryptoPunks trade volume** just surpassed $200 million according to [CryptoSlam](https://cryptoslam.io/)! On the week, we also saw plenty of trading around **Bored Ape Yacht Club** (~$49$M), **Meebits** (~$24M), **Cool Cats** (~$7M), and **VeeFriends **(~$6.5M). 

- NFT auction protocol **Zora **unveiled [PUNKS.HOUSE](https://punks.house/), a permissionless auction house for CryptoPunks featuring [PartyBid](https://twitter.com/prtyDAO/status/1422997198812467202) support. 

> [](https://twitter.com/ourZORA/status/1422995903582031880)

## 🎨 Cryptoart
- Cryptoart platform **KnownOrigin** released a new [counter offer feature](https://twitter.com/KnownOrigin_io/status/1423382048916520968), which notably lets artists “send counter offers to bidders.”
- **XCOPY’s** new *[summer.jpg](https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/summer.jpg-26722)* piece was acquired on SuperRare for +336.5 ETH 🤳

> [](https://twitter.com/SuperRareBot/status/1422631923051114498)

- Artist **Darien Brito’s** Art Blocks series *[Pigments](https://artblocks.io/project/129)*, another Dutch Auction drop, sold out today within 25 minutes!

> [](https://twitter.com/artblocks_io/status/1423373162087993349)

## 🕹️ NFT Games
- Leading NFT game **Axie Infinity** is currently pulling in ~1M daily active users!

> [](https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity/status/1422837585156591616)

- **Axie Infinity** also just became the first NFT project to [reach $1 billion](https://twitter.com/Psycheout86/status/1423719170315800581) in all-time trading volume 🎉
- Play-to-earn guild **Yield Guild Games** (YGG) is [on the hunt](https://twitter.com/YieldGuild/status/1422607244437463042) for an Esports Team Manager + a Creative Art Director.
- **Very Nifty**, the team behind NFT20, released a [new update](https://medium.com/cudl-finance/cudl-game-v0-1-update-8b3757d1ccfc) on its Mooncats-centric [Cudl.finance](https://cudl.finance/) game 🐱

## 🌐 Virtual Worlds
- **Cryptovoxels** started Dutch Auctions for the [remaining 50 parcels](https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1422772182665469956) in the virtual world’s upstart Satoshi district.
- **Decentraland **introduced its new [In-World Builder](https://decentraland.org/blog/project-updates/introducing-the-in-world-builder/) system, which will let LAND owners edit their scenes in real-time from within Decentraland.

## 🛒 NFT News & Platforms
- With **EIP-1559** now activated, a portion of all ETH transactions get permanently burned. Guess which Ethereum project has burned the most ETH so far? NFT marketplace **OpenSea**, with +735 ETH burned at the time of this post’s writing! 🔥

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/public/images/02ac6b70-1598-479d-b8af-508f4574b587_1782x772.png)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f02ac6b70-1598-479d-b8af-508f4574b587_1782x772.png)**Image via ultrasound.money**

## 💎 DeFi x NFTs
- Interested in being able to sweep an NFT floor in one swoop? Keep your eyes on **GenieSwap,** a “programmable 1inch for NFTs and ERC20s.”

> [](https://twitter.com/vasa_develop/status/1423602799053475841)

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### **Action steps**
- 👀 Check out BanklessDAO’s “**[Ultra Sound Bat](https://rarible.com/token/0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:656296?tab=owners)**” NFT collab — *25% of the proceeds will be donated to crypto advocacy organization Coin Center!*
- 📰 Read “**[Rhizomatic NFTs 🌺](https://bankless.ghost.io/rhizomatic-nfts-)**” in Metaversal
- 📰 Read “**[EIP-1559 + NFTs = 🔥](https://bankless.ghost.io/eip-1559-nfts-)**” in Metaversal