NiftyNoon: A Great Day for the Crypto (NFT) Community

SBF was arrested and Blur sees all-time high (13 DEC)

Nifty Thought

• Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (@SBF FTX) has been jailed in the Bahamas, and his extradition is imminent: US securities regulators have charged Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors in his recently bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the first move in an expected onslaught of criminal and civil charges following his arrest in the Bahamas late on Monday.

• Blur handled a record-breaking $34.3 million in NFT volume, outpacing OS (OpenSea) volume by 4.6x: With the new ATH, a decline in the average number of trades per user, now at 3.5 (from other 5), as well as a fall in the number of unique buyers and sellers, 50% and 54%, respectively, since the start of December were also noted.

Project News

• Blur handled $34.3m in NFT volume, a record high, outpacing OS (OpenSea) traffic by 4.6x:

Blur @blur_io

This weekend Blur processed an all time high of $34.3m in NFT volume, surpassing OS volume by 4.6x. This is a huge win for the Blur community which will receive the majority of $BLUR. Reminder that you can bid on Blur to earn points for Airdrop 3, our final and biggest airdrop https://t.co/xQVYkaC5uw

• Moonbirds Xcopy tease:

Moonbirds (🦉, 🥃) @moonbirds

Set phasers to max.

• Momoguru (NFT) has launched 12daysofmomo.com, an immersive holiday experience that enables you to obtain WL positions:

  Momoguro @MomoguroNFT

  🎄 Introducing: 12 Days of Momo 🎄 An immersive holiday experience to earn allowlist spots, powered by @conceptlabsxyz ✅ Connect your Twitter 📆 Enter to win tickets EVERY day 🧬 Earn bonus entries 🍄 12daysofmomo.com 💎

  12daysofmomo.com12 Days of Momo

• Reddit Collectibles achieve a major milestone with more than 5 million Avatar NFTs minted:

  NFTgators 🐊 @NFTgators

  Polygon-based Reddit Collective avatars to surpass 5M avatars. 306K users (7.7% of holders) are holding an average of 3.4 avatars per user. @DuneAnalytics dashboard by polygon_analytics.

  

• RTFKT made an announcement that Lace Engine NFT holders can mint and forge Cyrptokicks IRL NFTs until December 14, 8 a.m. ET:

RTFKT @RTFKT

Private Mint + Forging Event ⚒️ for Cryptokicks iRL 👟⚡️ now open for Lace Engine Holders at RTFKT.com

Community News

• Sam Bankman-Fried (@SBF FTX) former CEO of FTX was detained in the Bahamas, and his extradition is imminent:

  Latrae L. Rahming (DOC)🇧🇸 @latraelrahming

  On 12 December 2022, the Office of the Attorney General of The Bahamas is announcing the arrest by The Royal Bahamas Police Force of Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”), former CEO of FTX.

  

• Tyler Hobbes goes offline until March:

Tyler Hobbs @tylerxhobbs

Hey everyone, starting today I’m going into deep art-focused mode until March. For me, that means no email, no meetings, and no social media. My team will still be here to keep the ship running- it’ll be a little while before you hear from me personally. 🧵 with some thoughts.

• Apecoin staking rewards (which went live yesterday) analysis from community member Cool Matt:

cool matt @coolmatteth

Max staking a BAYC has gotten you ~40 $APE in rewards worth ~$150. The 10,094 $APE required to max stake was worth ~$44k when staking began and is currently worth ~$39.9k. So just to recap: -earned $150 -lost $4k Fun first day 💀

• Playboy is honoring its 69th Birthday in @TheSandboxGame:

  The Sandbox @TheSandboxGame

  👯‍♀️ @Playboy is celebrating its 69th Birthday and you're invited! 👯‍♀️ 100,000 SAND and exclusive memorabilia are on the table! 🐇 Dec 12-19

  

• ChatGPT reached over 1 million users in 5 days and becomes the fastest internet service ever to reach that amount of users:

  Hiren M. Patel 🍌 🦍 @QualityNames_

  ChatGPT becomes fastest ever to reach 1 Million users. ChatGPT is a tool. Time it took to reach 1 million users: Netflix - 3.5 years Twitter- 2 years Facebook - 10 months Spotify - 5 months Instagram - 3 months ChatGPT - 5 days

• Twitter now offers a gold verification checkmark for companies:

Dexerto @Dexerto

Twitter has now added gold verification checkmarks for businesses

• Elon Musk said that previous Twitter management lied about bots in order to artificially inflate user numbers:

The New York Times @nytimes

Elon Musk publicly attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci and Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, over the weekend. His jabs may resonate with far-right audiences, but are likely to deter wary advertisers.

nyti.msElon Musk’s Latest Jab from the RightThe Twitter owner has taken shots at targets like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s chief immunologist, in moves that may appeal to the right, but not advertisers.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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Quick Stats:

• OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 2,980 ETH (▼ 47.92%)

• Blur ETH Daily Volume: 7,436 ETH (▼ 36.72%)

• BTC: $17,776.16 (▲ 4.34%)

• ETH: $1,327.74 (▲ 5.99%)

• Solana: $13.77 (▲ 4.81%)

• Polygon: $0.93 (▲ 5.08%)

NFT Daily Winners:

• DigiDaigaku: 8.50 ETH (▲ 6.79%)

• Moonbirds: 8.77 ETH (▲ 6.68%)

• Mutant Ape Yacht Club: 14.00 ETH (▲ 3.02%)

• Azuki: 11.50 ETH (▲ 2.0%)

• Doodles: 6.90 ETH (▲ 0.44%)

• Clone X: 6.60 ETH (▲ 0.33%)

• VeeFriends: 4.70 ETH (►0.00%)

• Proof Collective: 31.00 ETH (►0.00%)

NFT Daily Losers:

• Bored Ape Yacht Club: 67.80 ETH (▼ 0.13%)

• Chromie Squiggles: 11.9 ETH (▼ 0.42%)

• CryptoPunks: 64.50 ETH  (▼ 0.46%)

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