Bullish NFTs 🔥

Dear Bankless Nation,

Many top crypto and NFT projects rallied hard this week, prompting many people to proclaim the start of a new bull cycle!

We’ll see, but I do think it’s true this time.

If nothing else, it’s a welcome surge of excitement after the long, cold crypto winter these past couple of years. And if we’re really turning a corner now, all of us here still in the trenches are well positioned for what craziness may come next.

For now though, just have a great weekend everyone and thanks as always for reading. Here’s your latest NFT roundup! ✌️

-WMP

This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• Dune added support for Zora Network analytics.
• Frame, a new NFT L2, launched its V1 public testnet.
• Holograph added a “Buy on Secondary” functionality.
• Nouns DAO will see its The Rise of Blus movie premiere next week.
• Reservoir activated cross-chain NFT buys and mints.
• Warpcast, a Farcaster app, added support for minting NFTs directly in-feed.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Ad Age highlighted Cool Cats upcoming Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance.
• Courtyard is launching free Pokémon drops for its Web3 Week of Thanks campaign.
• CryptoPunks saw its collection floor price return to +$100k USD.
• Gordon Goner bought a zombie CryptoPunk for 600 ETH along with many other high-end NFT PFPs.
• Pudgy Penguins is prepping a Nounish Pudgy Penguin toy collection per the passing of Nouns DAO Proposal 325 earlier this year.

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Gallery launched support for Zora Network.
• JPG is winding down. (My two gwei)
• Optimism announced the We ❤️ The Art contest, featuring 1M OP tokens in prizes.
• Manifold intro’d GET-PHYSICAL, i.e. digital pop-up shops for physical goods, with the first drop in collaboration with FVCKRENDER.
• numo.eth, one of cryptoart’s foremost pixel specialists, announced Teddies on Vacation, a new PFP collection.
• Sound rolled out free music uploads and added listening parties.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Axie Infinity started its Origins Season 6 Final Era gameplay.
• Gods Unchained intro’d improvements to its crafting system.
• Illuvium is beginning its Beta 3: PVP later this month.
• Immutable and Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab are partnering up on a new Web3 gaming experience.
• Pixels just launched a big infra update, new items, and more.
• Primodium released its latest gameplay update.
• Roblox CEO David Baszucki noted the possibility of adding NFTs to Roblox.
• Ronin Name Service (RNS) is hosting a public sale for Ronin domains next week.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland announced the 1st-ever Decentraland Community Summit.
• VIPE intro’d VIPE Rooms, i.e. personalized virtual spaces.

🪙 NFTfi

• Arcade launch support for transferring NFTfi.com loans to Arcade.
• NFTfi.com has experienced a flurry of recent ‘Punks activity.