NiftyNoon: In Real Life

For October 5, 2022

Nifty Analysis

• VeeFriends collaborating with Macy’s, a huge retailer, and Toys R Us, an iconic children’s brand, represents the execution of Gary Vaynerchuk’s vision. Although the intellectual property is controversially centralized in his hands, collaborations such as these likely would not be possible if the intellectual property were instead kept in the hands of holders (i.e. Bored Ape Yacht Club). Only time will reveal if the VeeFriends approach is ultimately correct.

• Tobias Lütke’s public endorsement of Fidenza and generative art is a huge boon for the industry. The Shopify CEO’s fondness for NFTs has not been a secret as his profile picture is a CryptoPunk and Shopify has worked with NFT projects in the past. However, his public reaffirmation for generative art NFTs suggests a shift in fine art. Traditionally, fine art has been collected by the high finance elites such as Steven Cohen. Perhaps NFT fine art will be collected by the tech elites such as Tobias Lütke.

Project News

• VeeFriends announces collaboration creating physical collectible toys with Macy’s and Toys R Us:

  VeeFriends @veefriends

  We brought NFTs to life. Introducing VeeFriends x @Macys @ToysRUs Learn more: blog.veefriends.com/veefriends-par…

• OpenSea announces bulk listing and bulk buying (up to 30 items):

  OpenSea @opensea

  We’re officially live with bulk listing and buying! 🛒 You can now list and buy up to 30 items in a single flow on OpenSea. Let’s walk through what this experience looks like in this 🧵

• Jenkins The Valet shares reflections on azurabla profile picture criticism:

  Jenkins The Valet 🍌 Is Exploring Azurbala @jenkinsthevalet

  By now, many of you have seen the PFP previews for @azurbala. Needless to say, we missed. However, it doesn't end here. The below Medium post outlines where we went wrong, what we're doing to fix it, and how we'll avoid the same mistakes. More here👉: bit.ly/azurian-avatars

  

Community News

• JpegPrez, AxuETH, and AKAStevey host CryptoPunks and Moonbirds community spaces:

  prez @jpegprez

  It’s happening. Today at 1PM EST. Please join @AxuETH, @akastevey_, @punk9059 & myself. We will be talking @cryptopunksnfts , @moonbirds and everything else in between! Can’t wait to see everyone there! https://t.co/gCm9TzPrhv

  

  Axu.eth (ThinkingHotels) @AxuETH

  @jpegprez @moonbirds @kevinrose @JustinMezzell @akastevey_ @proof_xyz Let’s do a Punks x Moonbirds spaces!

• Tobias Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, displayed his framed Fidenza:

  tobi lutke @tobi

  Fidenza by @tylerxhobbs. Looking great in the living room. Really, one of my favorite side effects of NFTs is that generative art got the attention it deserved. We dreamed about this in the 90s demo scene.

  

• ZachXBT investigates $450K+ Beeple Twitter hack:

  ZachXBT @zachxbt

  1/ Time for an investigation into the @beeple Twitter hack which resulted in $450k+ stolen, where those funds are now, and tracking down the three people responsible. Let’s jump in.

• Azuki’s Bobu character runs BEANZ giveaway for person that creates the best banner using custom Azuki BEANZ banner tool:

  Bobu the Bean Farmer @BobuBeanFarmer

  I’m giving away 1 BEANZ! Anyone can enter—just help me create a new Twitter banner: - Make a BEANZ banner at alleysnapz.com - Post your work in the comments - RT this tweet The Azuki team will pick 4 finalists in 24hrs, and Bobu Token holders will vote for the winner!

  

  alleysnapz.com#AlleySnapzBeanz have stormed the alley! Grab yo custom banner!

Quick Stats:

• Opensea USD Daily Volume: $11.31M (▼ 14.19%)

• Opensea ETH Daily Volume: 8,508 ETH (▼ 14.15%)

• BTC: $19,905.58 (▼ 1.01%)

• ETH: $1,324.66 (▼ 1.85%)

• Solana: $33.43 (▼ 2.32%)

NFT Daily Winners:

• DigiDaigaku: 13.00 ETH (▲ 30.00%)

• Clone X: 7.20 ETH (▲ 12.85%)

• Mutant Ape Yacht Club: 14.80 ETH (▲ 9.63%)

• Moonbirds: 10.30 ETH (▲ 6.19%)

• CryptoPunks: 66.69 ETH (▲ 1.20%)

• Chromie Squiggles: 11.20 ETH (◀► 0.00%)

• VeeFriends: 5.15 ETH (◀► 0.00%)

NFT Daily Losers:

• Bored Ape Yacht Club: 77.77 ETH (▼ 0.49%)

• Doodles: 7.88 ETH (▼ 1.38%)

• Azuki: 9.81 ETH (▼ 1.99%)

• Proof Collective: 42.00 ETH (▼ 2.33%)

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