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Bored Ape Investor Burns an NFT Valued at $169K

Its unlikely for NFT owners to face controversies. However, this Bored Ape investor recently became famous for barbequing an NFT worth $169K This weekend, a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) investor withdrew BAYC #1626 from circulation on purpose. He symbolically transitioned the asset’s underlying blockchain from Ethereum to Bitcoin following a new trend. Quick Take:

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Limit Break To Give Away Thousands Of NFTs On Feb 12th During Super Bowl Ad

Limit Break, a Web 3.0 company utilizing blockchain technology, announces a giveaway of thousands of its Dragon NFTs during Super Bowl LVII. The giveaway stands out in the NFT industry, where digital collectibles usually come with high prices. Quick Take: Limit Break Distributes Thousands of NFTs DigiDaigaku, Limit Break’s NFT token series, offers tens of

Anvi Saini

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NFT Market Rebounds: Sales Surge to $945M in January

NFT sales have hit an all-time high since the bear market of June 2022, with a remarkable 42% surge in the past month The NFT market has started strong in 2023. Last month, sales of such digital assets totaled more than $945 million in January alone — a 42% increase from December 2022. Quick Take:

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Web3

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Takes Over Iconic Landmarks With AR

Louis Vuitton is no stranger to spectacular pop-ups, and now there’s a new Tokyo retrospective to add to the list. Quick Take: Louis Vuitton X Yayoi Kusama’s Collaboration The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Tower Bridge, the Arc de Triomphe, the Natural History Museum, and London’s National Gallery are just a few of

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Steve Aoki x Stoopid Buddy To Launch Web3 Stop-Motion Series

In their next web3 video, the two A-list celebrities announced a partnership with Pplpleasr’s Shibuya platform, which gives NFT holders a chance to help make the video scene by scene. Quick Take: Steve Aoki and Seth Green’s NFT Series: What’s It About? Stoopid Buddy Studios, run by Steve Aoki and Seth Green, prepares to launch

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BAYC Artist Builds Fresh NFT Collection, Wen Sandwich

Collectors can soon savor BAYC artist Migwashere’s ”Wen Sandwich” NFTs — soon available for blockchain ownership with over 200 fillings Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC’s) celebrated artist, Migwashere, is indulging in his own solo NFT collection dubbed Wen Sandwich. As a result, collectors can soon ”own a customizable sandwich stored on the blockchain for life.” Quick Tack:

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Doodles Launches ’Dooplicator’ Customization Tool Today

Doodles today launches its innovative, customization ’Dooplicator’ tool: collectors’ keys to the private beta of Doodles 2 Doodles is on a roll this year, acquiring award-winning animation studio Golden Wolf and onboarding new talents to its leadership team. Today, the blue-chip NFT project also launched its Dooplicator tool — a ”super-powered device” reward with ”perpetual

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Doodles Welcome New Crown Jewel to Community Treasury

Doodlebank to soar with visionary Meebits Founder, Kai Turner, at the helm, ensuring optimal utilization of project funds for maximum success Meebits Founder, Kai Turner, is joining Doodles. He will be working as an advisor for the flagship project’s community treasury, ’Doodlebank’. A wealth of experience and innovative ideas position Turner to take Doodels to

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After Dookey Dash, What’s Next for BAYC Holders?

With Dookey Dash ending shortly, BAYC members can’t help but wonder what’s next: it’s time to prepare for The Summoning Dookey Dash — Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC’s) hot new game revolutionizing play-to-earn games — has taken the industry by storm. Within days after the launch, the sales of the Sewer Pass mints (which gain access to the game)

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Pudgy Penguins Can Now Waddle Across Chains

By adding cross-chain technology to its colony, Pudgy Penguins can get the best of both worlds: provenance and user experience Pudgy Penguins — an Ethereum-based NFT collection of 8,888 hand-drawn penguins — officially became cross-chain today. Quick Take: Unwrapping Pudgy Penguins Expansion Although Ethereum is a fantastic platform for maintaining the authenticity and history of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the network

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Doodles 2 to Launch on Flow Instead of Ethereum

Doodles, known for its success on the Ethereum blockchain, is getting ready to launch its follow-up series, Doodles 2, on the Flow network Doodles has been on a mission recently — acquiring reward-winning animation studio Golden Wolf and onboarding three new talents to its leadership team. Now, the team behind the cute PFP characters aims to ascend to

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More Than $4.6B Worth Of Ethereum Burned Since EIP-1559

Ethereum’s price has risen in the last week. Today, only the crypto market saw a rise of 3.51% in the price of ETH. It was moving around between $1,591 and $1,656. Ethereum’s trade volume increased by 65.94 per cent. Plus, the trading volume of ETH was $10.65 billion. Quick Take: As part of EIP-1559, issued

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BAYC Reveals Sketch of the NFT Project’s ”Future”

”Gary the Dog Prophet” drops hints about BAYC’s future by creating an intriguing sketch and posting it on Twitter As more Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) members enter the NFT project’s sewers for an interactive minting event for Dookey Dash, BAYC’s ”Dog Prophet”, Gary, teases the community with a sketch of ”the future”. Quick Take:

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Bored Ape NFT Game Dookey Dash Is Now Available To Play For $2,300

The infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection provides access to Dookey Dash for free. Exclusive club members earn thousands of dollars from the secondary market sale of time-limited gaming passes. Quick Take: What is Dookey Dash? According to the OpenSea exchange listings, there is a ”Sewer Pass” NFT that costs 1.49 ETH (equivalent to

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BAYC Sewer Pass Mint Hits High Sales of Over $10M

MAYC and BAYC Sewer Pass NFTs generate more than $10M in trading volume on secondary marketplaces in less than 48 hours It’s undoubtably a proud moment for Yuga Labs. The OG collectible’s new NFTs, Sewer Pass, has generated more than $10M in trading volume on secondary marketplaces. Quick Take: Yuga Labs’ New NFTs – What’s

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Moonbirds Grails Season III Is Now Minting

Moonbirds Grails Season III is mint-ready, featuring some of the top-selling NFT artists of all time Today has been a hot day in the NFT world as two OG NFT collections share the same minting calendar. First, BAYC — after a little blip — launched its Dookey Dash NFT collectibles a day late. Immediately after,

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ESPN World Salsa Championships Enters the NFT World

On January 12, 2023, the ESPN World Salsa Championships celebrated their 15th anniversary by releasing an NFT collection. Quick Take: While many of us do not often equate NFTs with dancing, the competition’s organizers and Noel Roque, CEO of World Dance Group, took the risk of linking the two. As a result, the WSC Golden

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Yuga Labs’ NFT Sales Soar Following Dookey Dash Game Teaser

Owners of BAYC and MAYC NFTs can gain a free NFT to access Yuga Labs’ new ”skill game”, Dookey Dash, launching next week The sales of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) NFTs are surging this week following BAYC teasing about Yuga Labs’ new game, Dookey Dash, on Twitter. Quick

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Edward Snowden Teams Up With Pentagon Papers Whistleblower For a Live NFT Auction

Edward Snowden and political activist Daniel Ellsberg have collaborated on a piece of Ethereum-based NFT artwork. The artwork will be auctioned off to raise money for their respective causes via a new live-streamed interactive show called PleasrHouse from the Web3 collective PleasrDAO. Quick Take: What’s the Purpose? Edward Snowden and the Web3 community have become

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NFT Marketplace, SuperRare Reduces Staff by 30%

NFT marketplace and OpenSea competitor, SuperRare, which is mostly known for high-quality NFT artwork, have let go of around 30% of their staff. The reasoning, overhiring in the bull run, and struggling during the ongoing bear run that’s affecting the entire industry, according to ’SuperRare John’ on Twitter. Quick Take: A History of SuperRare SuperRare

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Mutant Ape Planet Arrested for Alleged $2.9M NFT Rug Pull

Mutant Ape Planet was falsely offering tokens with staking capabilities, merch and other giveaways via its ape collectibles The curator of Mutant Ape Yacht Club’s knock-off collection — Mutant Ape Planet — confesses to defrauding investors of $2.9M. Quick Take: An In-Depth Look at Mutant Ape Monkeying Around The developer of Mutant Ape Planet—Aurelien Michel—faced arrest on

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Seth Green’s Nouns Ethereum NFTs To Run in the 2023 Rose Parade

The Nouns NFT project has announced its participation in the iconic Rose Parade on January 2, 2023. Quick Take: What’s the Project all about? The Nouns NFT project has already been in a Super Bowl ad and an indie movie. The next step is for the pixel characters and their boxy glasses (called ”Noggles”) to jump

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Kia’s NFT Sale Helps in the Adoption of 22,000 Shelter Animals

Kia revealed that 22,422 shelter animals were adopted worldwide as a result of its $500,000 donation to The Petfinder Foundation, which was partially funded by the sale of NFTs. In the last year, the Petfinder organization has been working diligently to find suitable homes. Quick Take: Taking Inspiration from an Advertisement In the Super Bowl

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The Most Memorable NFT Moments of 2022

As we come to the end of the year, there have been several memorable NFT moments of 2022 that have left a lasting impression As the year comes to a close, what better way to reflect than to look back on notable NFT moments of 2022? From the rise of pop culture-inspired apes and gas

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